MIDDLETON, John (d.1477), of London.

Family and Education

b. Barlborough, Derbys. educ. appr. mercer, London, ?1436-7. Med. Acct. Bks. of the Mercers ed. Jefferson, 500-1. m. (1) bef. 1446, Margaret, 1s.; Corp. London RO, hr 175/1. (2) Elizabeth (fl.1488), ?da. of Thomas Wolseley (d.1478) of Wolseley, Staffs., by Margery, da. of Thomas Broughton of Longdon, Staffs., and sis. of Ralph Wolseley*, 4s. 1da. HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, 590; Staffs. Parl. Hist. i. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 234, 244; S. Erdeswyk, Staffs. 205.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, London 1449 (Nov.), 1455.

Warden, Mercers’ Co. London July 1444–5; master 1451 – 52, 1457 – 58, 1466 – 67, 1474–5. A.F. Sutton, Mercery of London, 556–7.

Chamberlain, London 21 Sept. 1449–50; sheriff of London and Mdx. 1450 – 51; alderman, Farringdon Without Ward 17 Mar. 1456 – 20 Feb. 1458, Bread Street Ward 20 Feb. 1458 – 10 Sept. 1462; auditor 21 Sept. 1458–60. Cal. Letter Bk. London, K, 329, 332, 395, 399; Corp. London RO, jnl. 5, ff. 15, 46v; jnl. 6, ff. 26v, 64, 193; jnl. 7, f. 10.

Commr. for the ‘multiplication of the coinage’ May 1456.

Collector of tunnage and poundage, London 20 July 1463–19 Nov. 1465. CFR, xx. 97; E356/21, rot. 13 (he accounted from 6 Aug. 1463).

Envoy to Burgundy May 1469. C76/153, mm. 17, 18.

Parlimentarian

MIDDLETON, John (d.1477), of London.

Main residence: London.

Author

M.P.D.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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