CRATHORNE, Thomas, of York. | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

m. Katherine, 1s. J. Kermode, ‘Merchants of York, Hull and Beverley’ (Sheffield Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1990), app. 4. Katherine has generally been thought to have been a da. of the York mercer Thomas Kirkham, but a codicil to Kirkham’s will names the husband of this Katherine as John Crathorne, while conversely Thomas Crathorne, Kirkham’s executor, is at no point described as his son-in-law: Borthwick Inst., Univ. of York, York registry will, prob. reg. 3, ff. 485v-486.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, York 1435, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.).

Constable of the Mercers’ Co., York 25 Mar. 1436–42; master 1447–8. York Mercers (Surtees Soc. cxxix), 46, 48–50, 52.

Chamberlain, York 3 Feb. 1440–1; sheriff Mich. 1441–2; member of the council of 24 by 10 Dec. 1442 – bef.Nov. 1443; of the council of 12 prob. by 10 Nov. 1443 – d.; mayor 3 Feb. 1445–6. York City Chamberlains’ Acct. Rolls, 1396–1500 (Surtees Soc. cxcii), 210; York Memoranda Bk. iii (ibid. clxxxvi), 131, 161.

Commr. of sewers, York May 1442, Mar. 1443; to treat for loans May, Aug. 1442.

Parlimentarian

CRATHORNE, Thomas, of York.

Main residence: York.

Author

D.I.G.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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