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Family and Education
m. c.1420, St. Andrew’s church, Holborn, Mdx. Joan (fl.1454), da. of Robert Kirkham of Blagdon, Devon, by a da. of Sir William Hankford, c.j.KB, C1/21/42. 5s. Guildhall Lib. London, commissary ct. wills, 9171/5, f. 124v; C140/28/31. He also left daughters, but their names and number are not known. Dist. Essex 1439.
Offices Held

Associate justice of assize Essex, Herts., Kent, Surr., Suss. Feb. 1414, Feb., Dec. 1416, Jan., May 1422, Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts. Feb., July 1422, Dorset, Hants, Wilts. Feb. 1423, Feb. 1424, Feb. 1430, Feb. 1432, Essex, Herts., Kent May 1423, Nov. 1424, Apr. 1426, Cornw. Devon, Som. Feb. 1428, Feb. 1429. C66/393, m. 24d; 398, m. 11d; 399, m. 7d; 405, mm. 7d, 10d; 406, mm. 10d, 11d; 409, m. 25d; 410, m. 31d; 413, m. 24d; 416, m. 12d; 419, m. 19d; 422, m. 3d; 424, m. 15d; 427, m. 32d; 431, m. 7d.

Second prothonotary, ct. of c.p. Hil. 1418-Easter 1454. CP40/628–773.

Commr. of oyer and terminer, Worcs. Feb. 1418, Devon July 1422 (complaint by Thomas Gille I* against Henry Fortescue†); gaol delivery, Dorchester, Exeter, Ilchester, Launceston, Southampton, Old Sarum Feb. 1420, Guildford Jan. 1421, Dorchester, Exeter, Ilchester, Launceston, Old Sarum, Winchester Feb. 1422, Exeter May 1422, Dorchester, Exeter, Ilchester, Launceston, Old Sarum, Winchester Jan. 1423, July 1424, July 1430, Ely Feb. 1424, Feb. 1427, July 1434, Feb. 1440, Ilchester June 1428, Canterbury June, July, Oct. 1437, East Dereham Feb. 1440, Colchester Apr. 1441, June 1442, Apr., May 1444, Apr. 1448; C66/402, m. 8d; 403, m. 19d; 405, m. 17d; 406, m. 16d; 407, m. 1d; 413, m. 33d; 414, m. 23d; 420, m. 15d; 423, m. 8d; 427, m. 14d; 436, m. 30d; 440, mm. 16d, 33d; 441, m. 28d; 445, m. 3d; 449, m. 7d; 452, m. 29d; 457, m. 22d; 458, m. 28d; 465, m. 12d. inquiry, Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts. Feb. 1422; to take assizes of novel disseisin, Salop Dec. 1422 (Richard Hankford* v. Sir Richard Lacon*), Devon May 1423, Herts. June 1424, Devon, Som. July 1424, Devon July 1426, Herts. Nov. 1429, Essex Feb. 1439, July 1447. C66/407, 29d; 410, m. 35d; 412, m. 16d; 414, mm. 9d, 33d; 419, m. 10d; 426, m. 8d; 443, m. 30d; 464, m. 28d.

Under sheriff, Mdx. 1428 – 30, 1447–8. N.L. Ramsay, ‘The English Legal Profession’ (Cambridge Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1985), app. 6 (from Westminster Abbey muns.); CP40/750, rot. 320d.

Parlimentarian
BROWN, Thomas III (d.1454), of Abbess Roding, Essex and Westminster, Mdx.
Main residences: Abbess Roding, Essex; Westminster, Mdx.
Author
L.S.C.
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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