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b. 21 Sept. 1413, s. and h. of Edmund Rede (d.1430) of Checkendon by Christine (d.1435), da. and h. of Robert James*; gds. of John Rede† (d.1404) of Checkendon. Boarstall Cart. (Oxf. Historical Soc. lxxxviii), pp. ix, 167; CIPM, xxiii. 638-40; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 181. m. (1) 1434, Agnes, da. of John Cottesmore, c.j.c.p. (d.1439) of Baldwin Brightwell, Oxon. by Amice (d.c.1445), da. of William Bruley† of Waterstock, Oxon., Boarstall Cart. 49, 63; Oxf. DNB, ‘Cottesmore, John’; VCH Oxon. vii. 125. 4s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.; Boarstall Cart. pp. x, 286-95; R.E. Archer, ‘Piety, Chivalry and Family’, in Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen ed. Coss and Tyerman, 128, 142. (2) 29 Jan. 1461, Archer, 143. Katherine (d. Aug. 1498), CFR, xxii. nos. 594, 618; CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 237-8. da. of Walter Green*, wid. of William Stalworth (d.1446) of London, CP40/751, rot. 231. Stalworth had been the King’s surgeon and steward of Cheylesmore, Warws.: CPR, 1436-41, p. 280; 1446-52, pp. 6, 27. and John Gaynesford II*, Boarstall Cart. p. ix; VCH Oxon. vi. 161. s.p.m. CFR, xxii. nos. 634-5. Dist. 1439, 1458, Kntd. 23 May 1465. Letters and Pprs. Illust. Wars of English ed. Stevenson, ii. [784].
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Oxon. 1449 (Feb.), Bucks. 1478.

Keeper, royal forests of Bernwood, Stowood and Shotover, Bucks. and Oxon. 29 Mar. 1435–?d.

Sheriff, Oxon. and Berks. 3 Nov. 1438 – 4 Nov. 1439, 3 Dec. 1450 – 7 Nov. 1451, Beds. and Bucks. 6 Nov. 1442 – 3 Nov. 1443, 18 Nov. 1460 – 12 Dec. 1461.

J.p. Bucks. 28 Nov. 1439 – Dec. 1440, 1 Feb. 1441 – Mar. 1463, 19 Mar. 1463 (q.)-Oct. 1464, 13 May 1466–83, Oxon. 5 Dec. 1483 – Sept. 1485.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Wallingford castle Nov. 1440, June 1443, June 1445, July 1447, Feb. 1452, Feb. 1454, Nov. 1456, Mar., Sept. 1458, June 1465, Apr., May 1466, Jan. 1467, Wallingford Feb. 1442, Nov. 1450, Feb. 1462, May 1466, Oxford castle Mar. 1448, Dec. 1459, Nov. 1468, Aylesbury Mar. 1457, Oct. 1472, Oxford Aug. 1463; C66/448, m. 30d; 451, m. 15d; 456, m. 25d; 460, m. 14d; 464, m. 23d; 465, m. 7d; 472, m. 20d; 474, m. 12d; 478, m. 21d; 482, mm. 7d, 16d; 485, m. 17d; 486, m. 21d; 488, m. 12d; 494, m. 6d; 506, m. 15d; 513, mm. 23d, 30d; 515, m. 3d; 516, mm. 13d, 20d; 522, m. 13d; 530, m. 31d. to raise a subsidy, Bucks. Feb. 1441; of inquiry, Oxon. Mar. 1445 (goods of Elizabeth Barantyn), Mar. 1463 (illegal sales of wool), Bucks. Oct. 1470 (felonies, murders and other offences); to treat for loans Sept. 1449; assess subsidy, Oxon. Aug. 1450; of weirs, Berks., Bucks., Oxon. Apr. 1452 (river Thames); to levy issues of Beds. and Bucks. Nov. 1454; of arrest, Berks., Oxon. June 1457, somewhere Sept. 1462; CPR, 1461–7, p. 230. array, Bucks. Sept. 1457, Oxon. Dec. 1459, ?Apr. 1460 (against the Yorkists), Bucks. Oct. 1469, May 1471, Mar. 1472, Oxon. May 1484; oyer and terminer, Berks., Oxon. Apr. 1464, Bucks. Oct. 1470. Subsequently cancelled: CPR, 1467–77, p. 246.

Steward of Marsh Gibbon, Bucks. for the de la Pole fam. by 1463–1477 or later. J.-P. Genet, ‘Les comptes de l’hopital d’Ewelme’, Annales Économies Sociétés Civilisations, xxvii. 1455.

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REDE, Edmund (1413-89), of Boarstall, Bucks. and Checkendon, Oxon.
Main residences: Boarstall, Bucks.; Checkendon, Oxon.
Reade, Reed, Reede
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C.E.M.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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