HETON (ETON), John (d.1469), of Newton Blossomville, Bucks. and Backnoe in Thurleigh, Beds.

Receiver-general of Stafford fam. 21 Apr. 1437-aft. Mich. 1467; C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 201. Heton was certainly no longer receiver-general in May 1468: CPR, 1467–77, p. 72. steward of Anne Stafford, dowager duchess of Buckingham, 31 Mar. 1463–d. Rawcliffe, 196; Acct. Gt. Household Humphrey, 1st Duke of Buckingham (Cam. Soc. ser. 4, xxix), 11. Rawcliffe states that he was Anne’s steward until ‘c. Mich. 1474’, but this is impossible since he was no longer alive at that date.

Escheator, Northants. and Rutland 5 Nov. 1439 – 3 Nov. 1440, Warws. and Leics. 4 Nov. 1455 – 3 Nov. 1456.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Bucks. Aug. 1449.

J.p. Bucks. 9 Oct. 1456 – July 1459.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 7 Nov. 1458–3 April 1460. His successor, John Broughton, accounted from Mich. 1459.