MONE (MOHUN), John (c.1403-79), of Hammoon and Wolfeton, Dorset and Salisbury, Wilts.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Dorset 1429, 1431, 1435, 1442, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1450, 1453, 1455, 1467, 1472, 1478, Wilts. 1442.

Commr. of inquiry, Dorset Apr. 1428 (contributors to a subsidy), Hants, Surr., Suss., Wilts. Apr. 1468 (piracy), Dorset Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dorset, Wilts. Dec. 1475 (treasons, heresies); array, Dorset Oct. 1469, June 1470, Apr. 1471; arrest July 1473; gaol delivery, Dorchester Mar. 1475, Dorchester, Old Sarum, Salisbury Dec. 1475; C66/535, m. 20d, 537, m. 10d. to take musters, Weymouth June 1475.

Member of the council of 48, Salisbury by 6 June 1444–?aft. 1471; First General Entry Bk. nos. 389–90, 405, 417, 420–1, 423–35, 337–9, 442–5, 450–3, 455, 458; Wilts. Hist. Centre, Salisbury city recs., ledger bk. 2, G23/1/2, ff.4v, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16v, 18v, 19, 25v-39, 41, 49v, 52v, 55, 59v, 64, 69, 71, 73, 74, 103. He was usually called ‘gentleman’ to distinguish him from his fellow member, John Mone the fuller. The latter had been a member of the 48 since 1440 or earlier, and in 1445 paid a fine of £4 to be excused the offices of alderman or reeve: First General Entry Bk. nos. 358, 401. The fuller is not specifically referred to aft. 1455: ledger bk. 2, f. 15. Another John Mone was active as a member of the 48 in the late 1470s and in 1480: ibid. ff. 138–140v. auditor 26 June 1444–5, 1446 – 47, 19 Oct. 1454, Jan. 1465; First General Entry Bk. nos. 390, 393, 405; Salisbury ledger bk. 2, ff. 9v, 73v. alderman 2 Nov. 1461–2. Salisbury ledger bk. 2, ff. 54v, 55.

J.p. Dorset 7 Dec. 1470–d. Calendars of the commissions of Apr. 1478 and Jan. 1479 wrongly call him John More: C66/542, mm. 26d, 29d; CPR, 1476–85, p. 559.

Steward, Dorchester prob. by Apr. 1474–d. Dorchester Recs. ed. Mayo, 296–8, 308, 442–3; Dorset RO, Bloxworth mss, D/BLX/T51/12.