BOTELER, Henry II (d.1489), of Coventry, Warws.

Recorder, Coventry 4 Oct. 1455 – d.

J.p. Coventry 25 Jan. 1456 – d., Warws. 20 Nov. 1457 – Nov. 1458, 22 Nov. 1458-Dec. 1460 (q.), 14 July 1461-Dec. 1470 (q.), 6 Dec. 1471–d. (q.), Glos. 24 Sept. 1474-May 1475, Worcs. 24 Sept. 1474 – Nov. 1475, Devon 24 Sept. 1474 – Nov. 1475, Som. 24 Sept. 1474 – Nov. 1475.

Commr. of inquiry, Coventry Feb. 1456 (treasure trove), Oct. 1461 (treasons etc.), Warws. Nov. 1465 (crimes of a chaplain), Sept. 1471 (lands of (Sir) John Burgh III*), May 1473 (lands of Ralph, Lord Sudeley), Aug. 1473 (concealed farms), Warws., Worcs. July 1477 (lands of Thomas Burdet*), Leics., Warws. Mar., Apr. 1478 (lands of George, duke of Clarence), Dec. 1483 (traitors and their lands); gaol delivery, Coventry Sept., Dec. 1456, Feb., Nov. 1459, July 1461, Sept. 1471, Apr. 1475 (q.), 1479 (q.), Sept. 1483, Sept. 1487, Warwick Apr. 1460, July 1461, Apr. 1462 (q.), Nov. 1463, Sept. (q.), Nov. 1464 (q.), Sept. 1465, July 1466 (q.), June, July 1470, Oct. 1471 (q.), Feb. (q.), Oct. 1472 (q.), Aug. 1473 (q.), Oct. 1475 (q.), Jan. 1476 (q.), Sept. (q.), Oct. 1476 (q.), Oct. 1477 (q.), Aug. 1479 (q.), Oct. 1480, Oct. 1481 (q.), Sept. (q.), Dec. 1483 (q.), Oct. 1485, Feb. 1486, July 1487, Oct. 1488, Aug., Oct. 1489, Nottingham Aug. 1476 (q.), Warwick castle Sept. (q.), Oct. 1478; C66/482–556. to assign archers, Coventry Dec. 1457; of array, Warws. Mar. 1470, Mar. 1472, May, Dec. 1484; oyer and terminer, Glos., Warws. Sept. 1474, Coventry May 1485; to raise benevolence Dec. 1474; Coventry Leet Bk. ed. Harris, 409–11. examine accts. of auditors of lands of the duke of Clarence, Eng. Feb. 1478; assess subsidy, Warws. Apr. (on aliens), Aug. 1483, Jan. 1488; raise and muster archers for expedition to Brittany Dec. 1488.

Steward, William, Lord Zouche’s manor of Weston-in-Arden, Warws. 20 May 1461–?25 Dec. 1462, the priory of Nuneaton’s town of Nuneaton, Warws. 25 May 1461–d.; J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), i. 409; CP40/905, rot. 337. dep. steward to (Sir) Henry Ferrers†, manor of Cheylesmore, Warws. by 10 Dec. 1469 – ?; steward of Caludon, Warws., for William, Lord Berkeley, c. 1471, and for Sir Humphrey Talbot† by 24 Apr. 1484–? C. Carpenter, Locality and Polity, 701; Coventry Hist. Centre, Coventry bor. archs. BA/G/6/26/13; BA/B/16/424/3.

Parlty. cttee. investigating corruption at the Mint May 1468. PROME, xiii. 386–9.