AYSSHTON, Nicholas (d.1466), of Callington, Cornw.

Family and Education

?; educ. M. Temple. Men of Ct. comp. Baker (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), i. 234. m. bef. 1417, Margaret, da. and coh. of Thomas Paderda† of Paderda, Cornw., 11ch. inc. Edward* (9 d.v.p.). The earlier biography states that he was knighted c.1461, but this seems improbable. Only a single reference styles him a knight, and this was most likely the result of a scribal error. Unlike his contemporary and fellow justice Walter Moyle* he is not known to have been among the group of judges knighted at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in May 1465. Crucially, neither Aysshton’s will nor his tomb brass call him a knight: CPR, 1461-7, p. 573; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 134. Summ. as j.c.p. 1445-63.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Cornw. 1427, 1435.

Commr. of inquiry, Cornw. July 1429 (trade), Aug. 1431 (wastes at Helston, q.), Devon Dec. 1431 (piracy, q.), Cornw. Nov. 1432 (suicide of Edward Burnebury*, q.), Dec. 1432 (wastes at Helston, q.), Feb. 1434 (piracy, q.), Hants, Wilts., Som., Dorset, Devon, Cornw., Bristol July 1434 (concealments), Cornw. Sept. 1434 (offences of Richard Tregoose*, q.), Devon, Cornw. Mar. 1438 (desertion from the earl of Warwick’s fleet), Jan. 1439 (piracy), Cornw. Dec. 1439 (Burnebury suicide, concealments, piracy), Devon Mar. 1440 (piracy), Cornw. Apr. 1440 (descent of the manor of Bree), May 1440 (concealments), Aug., Nov. 1441, May, Aug. 1442 (piracy), Dorset [Jan.] 1444 (inheritance of Elizabeth Darell), Devon May 1444 (assault on the wife and kinswomen of Thomas Giffard*), Devon, Cornw., Wilts. Feb. 1448, Cornw. July 1448 (concealed Crown income, q.), C145/313/10. Essex Feb. 1450 (assault on the abbess of Barking), Hants Mar. 1450 (treasons), Eng. Feb. 1451 (non payment of wages of soldiers by Thomas Hoo I*, Lord Hoo), Cornw. Aug. 1451 (concealments), Dorset Dec. 1452 (murder of Henry Wareyn), Cornw. Feb., June 1453, Feb. 1454, Devon July 1454 (piracy), Cornw. Feb. 1455 (wastes), Devon, Cornw. [July], Vacated. Sept. 1455 (concealments), Aug. 1455 (breaches of truces), Devon, Cornw., Som., Dorset, Wilts. Aug. 1455 (insurrections), Devon Aug. 1455 (piracy), Cornw. Feb., Mar. 1456 (piracy), Mar. 1460 (goods of the attainted Yorkists), Oct. 1460 (piracy), July 1461 (treasons), Devon, Som. Dec. 1464 (Hungerford estates); to treat for loans, Cornw. Feb. 1441; hold an assession court, duchy of Cornw. Sept. 1441, July 1448, July 1455; E306/2/11, rot. 1; CPR, 1446–52, p. 190; 1452–61, p. 255; Duchy of Cornw. Off., assession rolls, DCO 477. confiscate a ship, Plymouth Aug. 1442; of array, Cornw. Mar. 1443; oyer and terminer, Devon July 1444 (offences of Baldwin Fulford* and Martin Boson), Som. Mar. 1445, Kent Dec. 1445, Devon, Cornw. Feb. 1448 (estates and heir of John Trenewith*), Cornw. July 1448 (offences of Peter Gerveys*), Devon July 1450 (Robert Wenyngton*’s assault on Walter Reynell*), London July, Dec. 1450, Kent Aug., Dec. 1450, Wilts. Oct. 1450, Suss., Mdx. Dec. 1450, Kent Mar. 1451 (offences of John Strelley of Derby), London Mar. 1451 (treason of John Say II*), Carm., Card. May 1451, Cornw. Sept. 1451 (offences of John Arundell of Tolverne), Wilts. Mar. 1452, Som. Apr. 1452, Bristol, Wilts., Dorset, Som., Devon, Cornw., Glos., Worcs., Herefs., Salop, Warws., Staffs., Wales July 1452, Bristol July 1452 (offences of Sir Theobald Gorges*), Cornw. July 1452 (offences of Richard Tregoose), E. Anglia, Midlands Sept. 1452, Jan. 1453, Cornw. Dec. 1452, Newcastle-upon-Tyne June 1454, London, Mdx. Feb. 1455, Cornw. July 1455, July 1456 (offences against the prior of Bodmin), Devon, Som., Dorset Mar. 1456, London Apr. 1456, Kent, Suss. June 1456, Devon, Som., Dorset July 1456, Glos., Herefs., Worcs. Mar. 1457, Kent Nov. 1457, Kent, Essex, Suff. Sept. 1458, Wilts. June 1459, Cornw. June 1459 (offences of John Trelawny*, William Trethewy*, Thomas Clemens* and others), London, Mdx. Feb. 1460, Wales Feb., Mar. 1460 (offences committed on the estates of the attainted Yorkist lords), Cornw., Kent Mar. 1460, s. Eng. June 1460, Midlands, n. Eng. Dec. 1460, Hants Aug. 1461 (bondmen of East Meon), Glos., Herefs., Som., Worcs., Staffs., Bristol Sept. 1461, Wilts., E. Anglia, Midlands, n. Eng. Feb. 1462, Hants. Mar. 1462, Wilts., Som. Dorset May 1462, Devon, Cornw. Feb. 1463, London, Mdx. June 1463, Glos., Worcs., Som., Wilts., Berks., Oxon., Warws., Leics. Jan. 1464, s. Eng., Cambs. Feb. 1464, Kent Mar. 1464, Oxon., Berks. Apr. 1464, Cornw. June 1465 (offences of Henry Bodrugan†), June 1465 C254/150/18. London, Mdx., Surr., Suss., London, Mdx. Nov. 1465 (offences of (Sir) Gervase Clifton*); gaol delivery, Newgate Mar. 1446, Oct. 1451, Exeter castle Sept. 1461; KB9/297/110. to examine proceedings of suits in the Guildhall, London Apr., Oct. 1451, July, Nov. 1455, in Chancery Dec. 1460; of arrest, Cornw. Sept. 1451; to assign a force of archers, Surr. Dec. 1457.

J.p.q. Cornw. 7 July 1431 – Nov. 1439, May 1441 – d., Devon 26 Mar. 1443 – d., Wilts. 22 May 1443 – d., Som. 1 June 1443 – d., Dorset 12 July 1443 – d., Hants 12 Nov. 1443 – d., Surr. 9 Aug. 1448 – June 1452, Dec. 1452 – d.

Steward and receiver of Caliland, Cornw. for Humphrey, earl of Stafford, by Mich. 1438-bef. Mich. 1447.

Serjeant-at-law by Apr. 1443; justice of assize, s.-w. circuit 13 May 1443–d.; KB27/736, rex rot. 9; 746, rex rots. 24, 91d; 748, rots. 33, 71; 752, rex rot. 8d; 753, rex rot. 22d; 758, rot. 73; 793, rot. 88d; 807, rot. 53b; E159/226, brevia Mich. rot. 27d; CP40/740, rot. 105; 745, rot. 424; 760, rot. 110; 761, rot. 350; JUST1/199/13, rot. 4; Cornw. RO, Liskeard bor. recs., B/Lis/134; Arundell mss, AR1/574, AR3/315. j.c.p. by July 1444 – d.

Trier of petitions, Gascon 1445, 1447, 1455, 1461, 1463.

Parlimentarian

AYSSHTON, Nicholas (d.1466), of Callington, Cornw.

Main residence: Callington, Cornw.

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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