PASSHELE, John (c.1432-68), of Rye and Pashley, Suss. and Evegate in Smeeth, Kent.

b. c.1432, C139/149/26. This accords with his defence in a lawsuit of 1457, when he claimed that a bond he was alleged to have entered on 4 Aug. 1451 was invalid as he was then under age: CP40/786, rot. 323d. s. and h. of Sir John Passhele (1398-1453), of Pashley and Evegate, by Elizabeth, da. of Richard Wydeville*. C1/24/6-8. For peds. of the Passhele fam. see Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxiv. 12-13. m. (1) prob. by 1449, Lowys, da. of Thomas Gower I*, 1s. 1da.; PCC 14 Stokton (PROB11/4, ff. 104v-105). (2) by June 1455, Alice, Centre for Kentish Studies, Scott mss, U1115/T19/4. ? sis. and h. of William Bonefey and gdda. of John Olney, alderman of London. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, ser. 5, v. 38, 40. Dist. Suss. 1458.