GARGRAVE, John (d.1457), of Snapethorpe near Wakefield, Yorks. and Southwark, Surr.

Receiver-general for Richard, duke of York, Mich. 1422–9; receiver 1429–48; Egerton rolls 8759, 8774; CP40/761, rot. 264. The surviving estate papers of the duke provide few clues as to the identity of his receivers. J.T. Rosenthal, ‘Estates and Finances of Richard, Duke of York’, in Studies in Med. and Renaissance Hist. ed. Bowsky, ii. 169, 176–7, lists the earliest known receiver-general as John Hurleston, for 1444–5, and does not mention Gargrave. SC11/818, the valor of the duke’s estates in Wales and the marches in 1442–3 has John Milewater as receiver-general of the earldom of March, with Thomas Whitgreve as one of his predecessors in office. receiver-general for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, 26 Sept. 1434-Mich. 1438. E159/211, recorda, Mich. rot. 1; 216, brevia Trin. rot. 13d; Add. Roll 26597; CP40/707, rot. 155.

Commr. of inquiry, Cumb., Lancs., Westmld., Yorks. July 1428 (withholding of dues to St. Leonard’s hospital, York), N. Wales Mar. 1432 (treasons); to search Spanish and Italian ships for customable merchandise, London, Sandwich, Southampton June 1444.

Jt. marshal of the Marshalsea (with his s. John) 15 Feb. 1439–28 Nov. 1450. KB27/711, rot. 72d; 763, rot. 26.

Bailiff of the liberty of the abbot of Bermondsey, Southwark by Apr. 1447. KB9/996/36.