HORDE, William (d.1435), of Shrewsbury, Salop.

Family and Education

s. of Richard Horde of Walford and Shrewsbury by his w. Margaret. Richard, admitted as a burgess of Shrewsbury in 1372, appears to have lived to a great age, that is, if he was the same man who served several terms as assessor and coroner there between 1396 and 1420: Salop Archs., Shrewsbury recs., assembly bk. 3365/67, ff. 10v-14. If this identification is correct, it is curious that our MP should have exceeded his father in importance so many years before the latter’s death. All that is certain is that William’s father was a Richard ‘of Shrewsbury’: C67/30, m. 28; 37, m. 30. m. (1) 1 John*; (2) bef. Nov. 1430, Katherine, si of Robert Coyne of Jay, Salop.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Salop 1423.

Assessor, Shrewsbury Sept. 1410–11; bailiff 1411 – 12, 1418 – 19, 1427 – 28, 1431 – 32; coroner 1412 – 13.

Escheator, Salop and adjacent march 14 Dec. 1415 – 8 Dec. 1416, 16 Nov. 1420 – 13 Nov. 1423.

Steward of Ruyton-of-the-Eleven-Towns, Salop by 19 June 1421 – bef.18 Jan. 1422, of Melverley and Kinnerley, Salop by 24 Oct. 1421-bef. 20 June 1422, These three manors were in royal hands due to the minority of John Arundel, heir male to the earl of Arundel, and our MP was serving as steward in his capacity as escheator: Salop Archs., deeds 6000/7132, 7355. of the lordship of Wigmore, Herefs. by Mich. 1424–? He was probably appointed to the stewardship when the lordship, along with other Mortimer lands, was in royal hands for the discharge of the fine of 10,000 marks imposed on Edmund Mortimer, earl of March (d.1425), by Hen. V for his unlicensed marriage: SC6/1113/1, m. 4.

Parlimentarian

HORDE, William (d.1435), of Shrewsbury, Salop.

Main residence: Shrewsbury, Salop.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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