GOSSE, Richard (d.c.1457), of Bridgwater and Kidsbury in Wembdon, Som.

Family and Education

s. of William Gosse† of Bridgwater by his w. Margery. CCR, 1441-7, pp. 472, 490-1. The relationship was not noted in the biography of William Gosse: The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 213-14. m. Margery (fl.1477), Som. Archs., Portman mss, DD\PM/5/2/13. at least 3ch. inc. William*.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bridgwater 1432, 1435, Som. 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1450.

Collector, customs and subsidies, Bridgwater 7 Nov. 1433–28 Dec. 1455. CFR, xvi. 168, 169, 171, 184, 329; xvii. 167, 169, 173; xix. 57; E356/19, rots. 51, 51d; 20, rots. 60, 60d; 21, rot. 56.

Commr. to requisition vessels for passage of the duke of York to France, Bridgwater Mar. 1436, for passage of the earl of Huntingdon, Plymouth May 1439; of gaol delivery, Ilchester May 1440; to confiscate the Seynt Antonye of Biscay and imprison the captain who seized her, Bridgwater June 1443.

Steward, merchant guild of Bridgwater by May 1441. Reg. Stafford, ii (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxii), 276.

Parlimentarian

GOSSE, Richard (d.c.1457), of Bridgwater and Kidsbury in Wembdon, Som.

Main residences: Bridgwater; Kidsbury in Wembdon, Som.

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Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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