HERVY, Nicholas (d.1471), of Lostwithiel, Cornw. and Eastbury in Godalming, Surr. and Brockley, Som. and Bristol.

Family and Education

s. of Richard Hervy*. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 360; C1/71/132. m. by Oct. 1459, Reg. Bekynton, i (Som. Rec. Soc. xlix), 1251. Elizabeth da. and coh. of John Scoville of Brockley, 1s. Humphrey†. CCR, 1461-8, p. 158; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 47. Kntd. Tewkesbury 3/4 May 1471. Vis. Som. 47; J. Warkworth, Chron. Reign Edw. IV, 18.

Offices Held

?Attestor, parlty. election, Surr. 1449 (Nov.). Named as ‘Hevy’. The MP must be distinguished from the man who attested the Mdx. elections of 1460. That Nicholas Hervy came from Staines and d. in the spring of 1467: PCC 17 Godyn (PROB11/5, f. 133).

Commr. of gaol delivery, Guildford June 1454, Southampton June 1466 (q.); C66/478, m. 12d; 515, m. 6d. array, Surr. Sept. 1458, Dec. 1459; inquiry, Apr. 1460 (escapes of prisoners), Devon, Som. Dec. 1464 (Hungerford estates), Bristol Nov. 1468 (offences of Lewis John of Bristol), Aug. 1469 (offences of John Swancote and Walter Holder); to take an assize of novel disseisin, Cornw. Feb. 1465. C66/509, m. 7d.

J.p.q. Surr. 4 July 1458 – Dec. 1460.

Justiciar, bp. of Winchester’s ct. of pavilion, Winchester Sept. 1461, 1465, 1470. V.G. Davis, ‘Bp. Waynflete of Winchester’ (Trin. Coll. Dublin Ph.D. thesis, 1985), 201; C1/30/67; Hants RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls, 11M59/B1/197, 200 (formerly 155832, 155835).

Recorder, Bristol by May 1469–d. CCR, 1468–76, no. 310.

Steward, estates of Chertsey abbey by June 1470. Chertsey Carts. ed. Jenkinson, i. 144; S. Hervey, Dictionary of Herveys, no. 345.

Parlimentarian

HERVY, Nicholas (d.1471), of Lostwithiel, Cornw. and Eastbury in Godalming, Surr. and Brockley, Som. and Bristol.

Main residences: Lostwithiel, Cornw.; Eastbury in Godalming, Surr.; Brockley, Som.; Bristol.

Harvy, Hervey, Hervye

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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