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Family and Education
prob. yr. s. of Sir Thomas Merbury of Marbury, Cheshire; yr. bro. of Nicholas Merbury† (d.1421), of Braybrooke, Northants. m. (1) by 1400, Alice (d.c. Apr. 1415), da. and h. of Sir John Pembridge of Pembridge, Herefs., wid. of Edmund de la Bere and Thomas Oldcastle† (d.1398/9) of Eyton, Herefs., 1da.; (2) by 1417, Agnes (1371-3 Feb. 1436), da. and h. of Thomas Crophill, wid. of Sir Walter Devereux† (d.1402) of Weobley and John Parr (d.1408) of Kirkby Kendal, Westmld., 1da. Dist. 1411, 1430.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Herefs. 1410, 1413 (May), 1417, 1429, 1431.

Chamberlain and receiver, S. Wales 18 Mar. 1400 – 10 June 1421.

Commr. Carm., Herefs., Pemb., w. Midlands June 1403 – Feb. 1436; of gaol delivery, Hereford castle Oct. 1418; inquiry, Herefs. Dec. 1418 (suspected adherents of Sir John Oldcastle†); EHR, lv. 432–8. to raise troops or subsidy, duchy of Lancaster lordships, Wales, Herefs. Jan. 1420; to muster and produce troops Feb. 1420. C66/401, m. 18d; DL42/17, ff. 238–9.

J.p. Herefs. 27 Apr. 1404 – d.

Sheriff, Herefs. 22 Nov. 1405 – 5 Nov. 1406, 10 Nov. 1414 – 1 Dec. 1415, 23 Nov. 1419 – 7 Jan. 1421, 1 May 1422 – 14 Feb. 1423, 15 Jan. – 12 Dec. 1426, 10 Feb. – 5 Nov. 1430, 3 Nov. 1434 – 7 Nov. 1435.

Steward, temporalities of Robert Mascall, bp. of Hereford, in Herefs. and Glos. June 1409 – ?Dec. 1416; episcopal lands of Stephen Patrington, bp. of St. David’s, Aug. 1415-Dec. 1417. Reg. Mascall (Canterbury and York Soc. xxi), 70; R.A. Griffiths, Principality of Wales, i. 133.

Dep. justiciar, S. Wales Mich. 1411–13; justiciar 10 June 1421 – 17 Nov. 1423.

Steward of duchy of Lancaster in Brecon Feb. 1414–20, Kidwelly 15 Feb. 1417 – June 1423.

Escheator, Herefs. and adjacent march 8 Dec. 1416 – 30 Nov. 1417.

Justice itinerant, duchy of Lancaster ldships. in S. Wales June 1425. DL42/18, ff. 198v-99.

Forester of Cantref Selyf, Brec. bef. July 1426.

Parlimentarian
MERBURY, John (d.1438), of Weobley, Herefs.
Main residence: Weobley, Herefs.
Author
S.J.P.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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