BURLEY, William I (d.1458), of Broncroft in Corvedale, Salop.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Salop 1421 (Dec.), 1423, 1447, 1453.

Commr. Card., Carm., Chester, Derbys., Flint., Glos., Herefs., N. Wales, Pemb., Salop, Shrewsbury castle, Staffs., Worcs. Feb. 1416 – July 1458; to take assize of novel disseisin, Salop June 1423, Worcs. July 1448; C66/410, m. 17d; 465, m. 11d. of gaol delivery, Shrewsbury castle Feb. 1437, Aug., Sept. 1439 (q.), Oct. 1440 (q.), June, Oct. 1446 (q.), Feb. 1450 (q.), Feb. 1451 (q.), Dec. 1456 (q.), Shrewsbury town Sept. 1439 (q.), Apr. 1446 (q.), Feb. 1450 (q.), Bridgnorth Oct. 1447 (q.); C66/440, m. 33d; 444, m. 13d; 445, m. 19d; 448, m. 33d; 461, m. 21d; 462, m. 28d; 463, m. 26d; 465, m. 26d; 470, m. 3d; 472, m. 18d; 482, m. 11d. inquiry, Salop c. Sept. 1433 (treasons); KB27/733, rex rot. 23d. to treat for loans, Salop May, Aug. 1442.

J.p.q. Salop 10 Feb. 1416 – Mar. 1419, 29 Dec. 1420 – July 1453, 7 Dec. 1453 – d.

Escheator, Salop 8 Dec. 1416 – 30 Nov. 1417, 5 Nov. 1432–3, 7 Nov. 1435 – 23 Nov. 1436.

Steward, Beatrice, countess of Arundel’s manor of Ruyton-of-the-Eleven-Towns, Salop, by 18 Jan. 1422-aft. 2 Sept. 1423; Salop Archs., deeds 6000/7313, 7421. ldships. of Montgomery, Kerry and Kedewyn during the minority of Richard, duke of York, 18 Jan. 1425–?; He was probably appointed to this stewardship when the ldships., along with other Mortimer lands, were in royal hands for the discharge of the fine of 10,000 marks imposed on Edmund Mortimer, earl of March (d.1425), by Hen. V for his unlicensed marriage: SC6/1113/1, m. 4. If, however, he was appointed by the earl himself then Mortimer is to be added to his list of early patrons, as too is Hen. V’s bro. Thomas, duke of Clarence, who retained him as apprentice-at-law in the late 1410s: Household Accts. ed. Woolgar, ii. 655. borough of Shrewsbury by Mich. 1426–d.; ldship. of Bromfield, Denb., for dukes of Norfolk by 29 Nov. 1431-aft. 10 June 1455; Oakley Park mss, 20/1/24–40. John, Lord Talbot’s ldship. of Blackmere and Doddington, Salop, by Mich. 1433-aft. Mich. 1437; Salop Archs., Bridgwater pprs. 212/box 76/7–10. John, earl of Arundel’s Salop lands bef. 12 June 1435, same lands during the minority of Humphrey, earl of Arundel, 12 June 1435–24 Apr. 1438; CPR, 1429–36, p. 454. Richard, Lord Strange of Knockin’s manor of Ellesmere, Salop by 15 May-aft. 6 Oct. 1439; Salop Archs., Lloyd of Leaton Knolls mss, 103/1/5/24, 26. Humphrey, earl of Stafford’s ldship. of Caus, Salop, by July 1441-c.1446; C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 208. Richard, duke of York’s ldships. of Denbigh and Montgomery by 1442. SC11/818.

Sheriff, Salop 15 Jan.-12 Dec. 1426. In 1443 he was on the pricked list: C47/34/2/2.

Jt. porter of Blackmere for John, Lord Talbot, 1 June 1427–? A.J. Pollard, ‘The Talbots’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 230.

Dep. justiciar, Chester and N. Wales 20 Feb. 1428-c. June 1430, 4 Nov. 1438-aft. 8 July 1449. E28/78/130.

Parlty. proxy for abbot of Shrewsbury 1429, 1431.

Speaker 19- 27 Mar. 1437, 1445.

Justice itinerant, Humphrey, earl of Stafford’s ldships. of Brecon, Hay and Huntingdon, Brec. Jan. 1440, Jan. 1443. NLW, Peniarth mss, 280, pp. 3–4, 24.

Master forester of Denbigh for Richard, duke of York, by 1442. SC11/818.