METLEY, Nicholas (c.1387-1437), of Wolston, Warws.

Family and Education

b. c.1387, s. and h. of Edward Metley (d. bef. 1426), C. Carpenter, Locality and Polity, 165; Derbys. RO, Coke-Steel mss, MTD/5/26. by Margaret (d.c.1440), da. and coh. of Simon Cresholme of Weston-under-Wetherley, Warws., and Margaret, da. and h. of Edmund Watford of Watford, Northants.; wid. of William Cotes of Hunningham, Warws. E40/15853; M. Jurkowski, ‘John Fynderne’ (Keele Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1998), 257-8. educ. M. Temple. m. between 3 Mar. and Mich. 1435, Joan (d.1473), For her lost monumental brass in the church at Wolston: W. Dugdale, Warws. i. 39. 1da. 1s. illegit.

Offices Held

Commr. of gaol delivery, Coventry June 1429; C66/424, m. 6d. to distribute allowance on tax, Warws. Dec. 1433, Jan. 1436; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; of inquiry, Derbys., Leics., Lincs., Northants., Notts., Rutland, Warws. July 1434 (concealments).

J.p.q. Warws. 26 Oct. 1433 – d.

Parlty. proxy for prior of Coventry 1435.

Common serjeant, London by 9 Feb. 1436 – 11 Nov. 1437.

Parlimentarian

METLEY, Nicholas (c.1387-1437), of Wolston, Warws.

Main residence: Wolston, Warws.

Metle, Metteley, Mettley

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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