Family and Education
s. of John Ralegh of Fardel (d. bef. 1422), by Elizabeth, ?da. of John Copplestone*. M.J.G. Stanford, ‘Hist. Ralegh Fam.’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1955), 30, 32; J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 638 erroneously gives Peter as the father’s name, for whom there is however no contemporary evidence. Stanford’s identification of Walter’s mother is based on the close association of the two families in the 15th cent. m. by Mich. 1435, Joan, CP40/699, rot. 310; CPL, ix. 588. 2s. Dist. 1457. E159/240, fines Easter rot. 1; recorda Easter rot. 41.
Offices Held
Attestor, parlty. election, Devon 1455.
Commr. to distribute tax allowances, Devon June 1453; of arrest July, Nov. 1460, Apr. 1461; inquiry, Cornw., Devon Oct. 1460 (piracy), Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Som. Jan. 1461 (armaments of Thomas Courtenay, earl of Devon), Devon Nov. 1462 (cargo of wine wrongly confiscated at Plymouth), Som. Mar. 1463, Som., Devon Aug. 1463, Mar. 1464 (Hungerford estates); to take the earl of Devon’s lands into the King’s hands, Eng. May 1461; urge the people to provide ships for defence, Devon July 1461; of array Aug. 1461, Jan. 1463; to enter the lands of (Sir) Baldwin Fulford* Aug. 1461.
J.p.q. Devon 18 Aug. 1460 – d.
Main residences: Fardel; Smalridge; Widdecombe Raleigh, Devon.
Raleigh, Reylegh
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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