LEWESTON, Philip, of Stratton and Dorchester, Dorset and Wimbledon, Surr.

Family and Education

educ. ?Strand Inn. J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), ii. 1015. m. (1) by Oct. 1441, Joan (d.1449), wid. of Ivo Etton of Gilling in Ryedale, Yorks.; CP40/775, rot. 543. (2) by June 1453, Margaret. CPL, ix. 236-7; CP25(1)/232/74/5.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Dorset 1427, Surr. 1442.

Filacer, ct. of c.p. Mich. 1431-Easter 1451. CP40/683–762. First appearance, CP40/683, rot. 35, last 761, rot. 16. Attachment of privilege as ‘unus clericorum de Banco’: CP40/757, rot. 124.

Under sheriff, London by 30 Nov. 1437. CP40/707, rot. 307d.

J.p.q. Surr. 8 Feb. – Nov. 1439, 16 Oct. 1440 – Jan. 1457.

Commr. of inquiry, Surr. May 1442, Nov. 1457 (escapes of felons); sewers, R. Thames in Surr. and Kent Jan. 1447, Oct. 1452, Apr. 1453; to take an assize of novel disseisin, Kent Feb. 1454; C66/478, m. 18d; CP40/779, rot. 515. of gaol delivery, Guildford June 1454 (q.); C66/478, m. 12d. to assign archers, Surr. Dec. 1457.

Parlimentarian

LEWESTON, Philip, of Stratton and Dorchester, Dorset and Wimbledon, Surr.

Main residences: Stratton; Dorchester, Dorset; Wimbledon, Surr.

Lewestone, Lewston, Lewyston

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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