SHARP, John V (d.?1455), of Bristol.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bristol 1450, 1453, 1455. All as ‘junior’.

Bailiff, Bristol Mich. 1442–3, 1450–1. Recs. All Saints Bristol, iii (Bristol Rec. Soc. lvi), 406; Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. xxvi. 131.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Bristol Aug. 1449; assess tax Aug. 1450; of arrest Oct. 1452, Jan. 1455. But it is possible that the commr. of Aug. 1450 and Jan. 1455 was his fa.

?Dep. to Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley, chief butler of England, Bristol by June 1454. Little Red Bk. Bristol ed. Bickley, i. 236–8. Again, it is not clear whether this John Sharp was the MP or his fa. (or another man altogether).