CORVE, John (d.1437), of Salop and Culworth, Northants. and Southwark and Merstham, Surr.

Family and Education

s. of John Corve (d.c.1414) by his w. Margery. m. between July 1414 and Oct. 1416, Alice, da. and h. of John Wantley (d.1425) of Amberley, Suss., wid. of Thomas Swift, Add. Chs. 18710, 38832, 38838; CP25(1)/291/65/46; Suss. Arch. Collns. lxxvi. 49-50. s.p.

Offices Held

Clerk of the King’s bench by Hil. 1414; filacer Mich. 1418-Hil. 1423. Sel. Cases King’s Bench (Selden Soc. lxxxviii), pp. xvii, lxx; KB27/630–47.

Commr. of weirs, river Lea in Essex, Herts., Mdx. Feb. 1415, July 1416; gaol delivery, Bridgnorth June 1416 (q), June 1417, Guildford castle Jan. 1418 (q), Jan. 1421, C66/399, m. 19d; 400, mm. 5d, 23d; 403, m. 19d. Mar. 1434; sewers, Surr. Dec. 1417, Suss. May 1428, Nov. 1433; inquiry, Surr. Feb. 1419 (escaped felons, treasons etc.), Northants. May 1425 (failure of bondmen of Richard Knightley* to perform services); to treat for loans, Surr. Jan. 1420; assess a grant Apr. 1431.

J.p.q. Surr. 28 Oct. 1417 – d.

Steward of the priory of St. John of Jerusalem by Trin. 1425. KB9/221/1/12.

Parlimentarian

CORVE, John (d.1437), of Salop and Culworth, Northants. and Southwark and Merstham, Surr.

Main residences: Salop; Culworth, Northants.; Southwark; Merstham, Surr.

Ceve, Corfe, Corffe

Author

M.P.D.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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