FLEMING, John (d.1455), of Southampton.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Benedict Fleming of Southampton. educ. ? adm. L. Inn bef. 1420. L. Inn Adm. i. 2. m. bef. 1433, Katherine, CP40/691, rot. 595d; CP25(1)/207/32/41. Fleming referred in his will to his ‘wives’, but did not name them: PCC 7 Stokton (PROB11/4, f. 51). 1s. 1da.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Hants 1431, Southampton 1449 (Feb.), 1453, 1455.

Clerk of the statute merchant, Southampton by Apr. 1415-Mich. 1445, by 23 Jan. 1449–?d.; C241/209/52, 215/22, 232/16, 233/6, 235/110. He was still in office in Jan. 1453: C241/236/21. town clerk by Dec. 1426-aft. Dec. 1439; Queen’s Coll. Oxf., God’s House deeds, 434; Black Bk. Southampton, i (Soton. Rec. Soc. 1912), 42; Winchester Coll. muns. 17767. mayor Mich. 1445–7; J.S. Davies, Hist. Southampton, 174; Remembrance Bk. i (Soton. Rec. Soc. 1927), 40; SC1/57/100. recorder c. 1447 – d.

Tax collector, Hants Sept. 1431, Jan. 1436.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Southampton Feb. 1448, Mar. 1450; C66/465, m. 15d; 470, m. 3d. inquiry June 1449 (piracy), Hants Feb. 1451 (assaults on Genoese merchants and mariners), Southampton Oct. 1451 (treasons of Arnold Hert), Dec. 1451 (concealments of customs and misdoings of port officials).

Parlimentarian

FLEMING, John (d.1455), of Southampton.

Main residence: Southampton.

Flemang, Flemmyng, Flemyng

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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