Family and Education
s. of Richard Esthope of Easthope, Salop. m. c.1465, Alice, da. and h. of Richard Forster of Shrewsbury, wid. of John Knight (d.1464/5) of Shrewsbury. CP40/820, rot. 67. Knight died between Apr. 1464, when he was still master of the drapers’s guild in Shrewsbury, and Mich. 1466, when his son Roger was elected bailiff: D.R. Walker, ‘Shrewsbury in the 15th Cent.’ (Univ. of Wales, Swansea Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 310; Salop Archs., Shrewsbury recs., assembly bk. 3365/67, f. 22.
Offices Held
Attestor, parlty. election, Shrewsbury 1478.
King’s serjeant by 28 Jan. 1446 – bef.24 Nov. 1451; serjeant of the buttery by 24 Nov. 1451 – ?60.
Commr. of arrest, Salop Feb. 1457 (defaulting collectors of fifteenth and tenth).
Auditor to hear the accts. of the bailiffs, Shrewsbury Mich. 1460–1; coroner 1463 – 64; bailiff 1466 – 67; alderman c.1468–d.
Master of drapers’ guild, Shrewsbury by Easter 1479–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Shrewsbury, Salop.
Esthop, Estoppe
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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