SAVILLE, Sir John (d.1482), of Thornhill, Yorks.

Attestor, parlty. election, Yorks. 1442.

Steward and master-forester, Richard, duke of York’s ldships. of Wakefield and Sowerby, Yorks. by Oct. 1442 – 9 Dec. 1459, ?July- 30 Dec. 1460, royal ldship. of Wakefield ? 4 Mar. 1461 – d.

Constable, Richard, duke of York’s castle of Sandal, Yorks. by Oct. 1442 – 9 Dec. 1459, ?July- 30 Dec. 1460, royal castle of Sandal 4 Mar. 1461–d. C.E. Arnold, ‘Political Study of the W. Riding 1437–1509’ (Manchester Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1984), ii. 43.

Commr. to take assize of novel disseisin, Yorks. July 1444; C66/458, m. 14d. suppress insurgents from Lancs., Yorks. (W. Riding) Sept. 1454; of arrest, Yorks. (N. Riding) July 1455 (defaulting collectors of fifteenth and tenth), E159/231, commissiones Trin. Yorks. Oct. 1460; array, Yorks. (W. Riding) May 1461, Yorks. Nov. 1461, Yorks. (W. Riding) Mar. 1470, Mar. 1472; to distribute allowance on tax, Yorks. June 1468; of inquiry, Yorks. (W. Riding) Aug. 1473; gaol delivery, Wakefield May 1479, Sandal castle, York castle July 1479, Wakefield July 1481. C66/544, mm. 23d, 24d, 29d; 548, m. 6d.

Sheriff, Yorks. 4 Nov. 1454–5, 6 Mar. – 7 Nov. 1461.

J.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 8 May 1467 – Nov. 1470, 24 Feb. 1472 – Nov. 1475.