HAMPTON, John I, of Stoke Charity, Hants.

Family and Education

s. and h. of John Hampton† of Stoke Charity. m. a sis. of Master Gilbert Hallum, canon of Salisbury cathedral, Tropenell Cart. ed. Davies, ii. 236, 252. This narrative calls him ‘olde’ John Hampton of Hants, but as Thomas Tropenell* was compiling it in the 1460s and named ‘olde’ John’s s. and h. as Thomas, there can be little doubt that he meant our MP rather than his father. 1s.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Hants [?1414 (Nov.), 1415, 1419, 1420, 1421 (May), 1421 (Dec.)], 1425, 1426, 1427, 1429, 1431, 1435, 1437, 1442, 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1450.

Bailiff, bp. of Winchester’s estates at Ecchinswell, Overton, Bishops Sutton, Beauworth, Cheriton, Alresford, Woodhay and Burghclere, Hants c. Mich. 1428-c.1460. Hants RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls, 11M59/B1/172, 173, 178, 182, 187, 190, 193 (formerly 155828, 159428, 159429, 159433, 159437, 159441, 159444).

Verderer, New Forest ? by 1437–28 Apr. 1447, VCH Hants, ii. 443. forest of Woolmer and Alice Holt, Hants to 14 Oct. 1447.

Commr. of inquiry, Hants Jan. 1440 (wool smuggling), July 1448 (extortions by John Fleming*), Dorset, Hants, Suss. Apr. 1453 (smuggling along coast from Weymouth to Seaford); array, Hants Sept. 1449, hundreds of Buddlesgate, Wherwell and Andover Sept. 1457.

Parlimentarian

HAMPTON, John I, of Stoke Charity, Hants.

Main residence: Stoke Charity, Hants.

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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