FULFORD, Baldwin (exec.1461), of Towstock and Great Fulford, Devon.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Henry Fulford (d.1420), CFR, xiv. 331; CP40/712, rot. 339d. of Great Fulford by his 2nd w. Willelma, da. and h. of Nicholas Morton. JUST1/1540, rot. 80; C140/3/31, m. 5. J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 378, wrongly assumed Willelma to be da. and h. of Philip Brian. m. by 1436, Elizabeth, da. of John Bosom† (d.1440), of Bosomzeal in Dittisham, Devon, 2s. 2da. Vivian, 378; W.H. Hamilton Rogers, Sep. Effigies Devon, 175; C1/44/159; C140/3/31, m. 5; The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 299. Vivian calls Fulford’s wife Jennet. Dist. Devon 1439; Kntd. by Nov. 1453. C60/261, m. 26. He was still an esquire in the summer of 1450: CP40/758, rot. 251.

Offices Held

Escheator, Devon and Cornw. 5 Nov. 1432–3. C254/141/135, 136.

Commr. of inquiry, Devon July, Sept. 1435, Devon, Cornw. Nov. 1445 (piracy), Devon, Cornw., Som., Dorset, Wilts. Aug. 1455 (insurrections), Devon Dec. 1456 (concealments of customs), E159/233, commissiones Mich. rot. 1. June 1458 (tax collectors); E159/234, commissiones Easter rot. 1. arrest, Cornw. July 1435, Devon, Cornw. July 1456; array, Cornw. Jan. 1436, Devon June 1454, Feb. 1459; to assign archers Dec. 1457; arrest ships Feb. 1460; arrest boats going to Ire., Eng. Apr. 1460.

J.p. Cornw. 28 Nov. 1439 – Apr. 1442, Devon 12 Dec. 1459 – Aug. 1460.

Sheriff, Devon 7 Nov. 1459–60.

Parlimentarian

FULFORD, Baldwin (exec.1461), of Towstock and Great Fulford, Devon.

Main residences: Towstock; Great Fulford, Devon.

Foleford, Folyford

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

Image