DUREM, John (d.1474), of Great Kimble, Bucks.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks. [1429], 1435, 1442, ?1447, ?Mdx. 1449 (Feb.). The attestor of 1447 was simply ‘Durem’. A John Derham attested the election of the knights of the shire for Mdx. to the first Parl. of 1449. The MP must have spent much of his time in that county as an employee of the Exchequer, but it is not clear if he was the attestor.

Commr. of inquiry, Bucks. Nov. 1435 (concealments), Mar. 1439 (wards and escapes of felons), Essex, Suff., Norf. July 1466 (illegal shipment of merchandise), Bucks. Oct. 1470 (felonies, murders and other offences); to treat for loans Dec. 1452; assign archers Dec. 1457; of gaol delivery, Aylesbury Aug. 1461; oyer and terminer, Bucks. Oct. 1470. Yet the last of these ad hoc commissions was vacated and never came into effect.

Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 4 Nov. 1441 – 5 Nov. 1442.

Fifth baron of the Exchequer 16 May 1449 – 9 Oct. 1470, 3rd baron 14 Oct. 1470-Apr. 1471. Judges of Eng. comp. Sainty (Selden Soc. supp. ser. x), 117; CPR, 1446–52, pp. 235, 254; 1467–77, pp. 161, 229; E.W. Ives, Common Lawyers: Thomas Kebell, 482–6.

J.p. Bucks. 30 Oct. 1449 (q.)-July 1459, 20 July 1461 – Mar. 1463, 19 Mar. 1463 (q.)-July 1470, 28 Dec. 1470 (q.)-June 1471.