Family and Education
s. of William Bamburgh by his w. Alice. m. (1) prob. bef. Mich. 1425, When he was among Guildford’s sureties fined in King’s bench: KB27/658, fines rot. 1. Thomasina, da. of Edward Guildford*; Archaeologia Cantiana, xiv. 4-5. Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 76 errs in calling Bamburgh’s first wife Margaret. (2) Agnes, 2da. Centre for Kentish Studies, Rochester consist. ct. wills, 1440-53, DRb/PWr 1, f. 87.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Kent 1422, 1435, 1437, 1441, 1447.

J.p.q. Kent, 12 Feb. 1428 – Dec. 1450.

Commr. of sewers, Kent July 1428, July 1437, July 1439, Jan., June 1447, Nov. 1449; gaol delivery, Canterbury castle July 1430, July 1431, Feb. 1433 (q.), June 1437 (q.), July, Oct., Nov. 1437 (q.), June 1444, Maidstone Apr. 1434 (q.), Feb. 1437 (q.), Feb., June 1438 (q.), Feb. 1442 (q.); C66/427, m. 25d; 430, m. 9d; 433, m. 15d; 435, m. 10d; 440, mm. 16d, 33d; 441, mm. 9d, 28d, 33d; 442, m. 27d; 451, m. 5d; 458, m. 17d. oyer and terminer, Kent Feb. 1433, Feb. 1434, June 1438, Dec. 1445; inquiry June 1434 (ownership of the manor of Maplehurst), June 1435 (escapes of prisoners), Feb. 1436, Nov. 1437, Feb. 1438 (goods exported uncustomed), Oct. 1439 (enforcement of statutes regarding regrating and forestalling), Feb. 1443 (concealments); array Dec. 1435; to take assizes of novel disseisin May, July 1440; C66/445, m. 21d; 447, m. 22d. treat for loans Mar., May, Aug. 1442, June 1446; search Spanish and Italian ships and examine merchants’ books for customable merchandise, London, Sandwich, Southampton June 1444.

Steward of the Kent estates of Humphrey, earl of Stafford and duke of Buckingham, bef. Mich. 1442–1 Jan. 1450. C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 212.

Main residences: Trottescliffe; Paddlesworth, Kent.
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Commons 1422-1461
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