GREENFORD, John (d.1474), of Swanton in Lydden, Kent and Winchelsea, Suss.

Family and Education

?s. and h. of John Greenford (d.c.1441), of Lydden. m. by Apr. 1444, Margaret (fl.1474), da. and coh. of Roger atte Gate*, Cat. Rye Recs. ed. Dell, 123. 2da. Dist. Kent 1465.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Kent 1429, 1432, 1453, 1460.

Commr. of inquiry, Kent Feb. 1428 (wastes by farmers of land belonging to Newington rectory), Oct. 1428 (complaint of Portguese merchants of theft of merchandise from a wrecked ship), Cinque Ports, Kent (q.) Nov. 1434 (piracy), Kent July 1439 (evasion of customs, concealments), Oct. 1439 (breach of statutes against forestallers and regrators), Winchelsea Apr. 1451 (capture of a Portuguese vessel), Cinque Ports May 1458 (piracy), Dec. 1459 (treasons committed by prisoners in Sandwich castle gaol); to assess liability to contribute to parlty. grant, Kent Apr. 1431; treat for payment of subsidies Feb. 1441; of oyer and terminer Nov. 1457; arrest Feb. 1463; gaol delivery, Canterbury castle May 1473 (q.). C66/531, m. 14d.

Steward of Dover castle and of the admiralty ct. by Sept. 1433-aft. Sept. 1464. Add. 29615, f. 201v; Recs. Lydd ed. Finn, 122; HMC 5th Rep. 542; White and Black Bks. of Cinque Ports (Kent Rec. Ser. xix), 51.

Jurat, Winchelsea Easter 1441–3. Cott. Julius BIV, ff. 64v, 65v.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff to Yarmouth Sept.-Nov. 1441. Ibid. f. 65; White and Black Bks. 14.

J.p.q. Kent 18 July 1471 – Nov. 1473.

Parlimentarian

GREENFORD, John (d.1474), of Swanton in Lydden, Kent and Winchelsea, Suss.

Main residences: Swanton in Lydden, Kent; Winchelsea, Suss.

Greneford, Greneforthe, Grenforde, Grynforde

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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