OVERTON, Clement (d.c.1439), of New Romney and the Isle of Thanet, Kent.

Family and Education

m. (1) 2s.; (2) Christine, wid. of Thomas Salesbury (fl.1434) of St. Lawrence’s parish in the Isle of Thanet. C1/9/27; CPR, 1429-36, p. 389.

Offices Held

Bailiff, New Romney ?bef. Feb.- 31 July 1414, 7 Dec. 1414–15, 1421, bef. 30 Apr. 1431, bef. 23 Jan. 1436-aft. 15 Feb. 1438. Reg. Chichele, i. 110–11; East Kent Archs., New Romney recs., assmt. bk. 1384–1446, NR/FAc 2, f. 140v; list of bailiffs and mayors, NR/Z 27; feet of fines, NR/JBr 8/14–19.

Capt. of Montivilliers, Normandy 12 Apr. 1420-c.1435. A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), app. p. ciii; Letters and Pprs. Illust. Wars of English ed. Stevenson, ii. 545–6; DKR, xlii. 367.

Commr. to take musters, Winchelsea Mar. 1436; of inquiry, Kent May 1438 (wastes, rectory of Newington by Hythe).

Parlimentarian

OVERTON, Clement (d.c.1439), of New Romney and the Isle of Thanet, Kent.

Main residences: New Romney; the Isle of Thanet, Kent.

Author

D.I.G.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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