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2nd s. and event. h. of James Arblaster (fl.1409) of Longdon by his w. Margaret. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. (1925), 3-5. m. Alice (fl.1449), da. and coh. of Leonard Worthyn of Mancetter, Warws., at least 1s.
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Constable, Caldicot castle, Mon. for Anne, dowager-countess of Stafford c. 1405.

Commr. to array men of Sir John Baskerville, capt. of Arques, Aug. 1420, men of James Fiennes*, lt. of Caudebec, Feb., Oct. 1421; DKR, xlii. 390, 406, 433. distribute allowance on tax, Staffs. Dec. 1433, Jan. 1436, Apr. 1440; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; of array Aug. 1436, Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459; gaol delivery, Stafford castle Oct. 1439, Stafford 26 Oct. 1443, Stafford castle Oct. 1447; C66/445, m. 33d; 457, m. 23d; 465, m. 26d. to treat for loans, Staffs. Nov. 1440, June 1446, Sept. 1449; for speedy payment of fifteenth and tenth Feb. 1441; of inquiry Feb. 1448 (concealments); to govern temporalities of the bpric. of Coventry and Lichfield during vacancy Apr. 1459. E159/235, commissiones Easter.

Capt. of Dieppe 28 Jan. 1421–bef. 8 Oct. 1422. A. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), ii. p. lxix.

Parker, William Heyworth, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield’s park at Beaudesert, Staffs. by 18 June 1426 – ?

Sheriff, lordships of Newport, Wentloog and Machen for Humphrey, earl of Stafford (and later duke of Buckingham) by Mich. 1428–22 July 1450; T.B. Pugh, Marcher Ldships. S. Wales, 165, 185; C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 214. justice itinerant of same Feb. 1432, Mar. 1445, lordships of Brecon, Hay and Huntingdon Jan. 1440 (q.), Jan. 1443 (q.), ?Mar. 1446. Pugh, 76, 225; NLW, Peniarth mss, 280, pp. 3–4, 24, 34, 40.

Steward, Stafford lordship of Machen by Mich. 1434–22 July 1450, This stewardship appears to have been appurtenant to the office of sheriff of the ldship. of Newport, of which Machen was a part. of Atherstone, Warws. 15 May 1438 – Mar. 1451, Maxstoke, Warws. Feb. 1439–? Rawcliffe, 205; Staffs. RO, Stafford fam. mss, D641/1/2/269.

J.p. Staffs. 21 Feb. 1439 – July 1461.

Surveyor, duchy of Lancaster chase of Needwood, Staffs. 21 Mar. 1439 – Oct. 1461.

Parlimentarian
ARBLASTER, Thomas (d.c.1463), of Longdon, Staffs.
Main residence: Longdon, Staffs.
Alabaster, Arblastier, Arblester
Author
S.J.P.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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