SKELTON, John III (d.1473), of London and Lambeth, Surr.

Family and Education

m. (1) by May 1454, Susan, illegit. da. of John Pury*, 1s.; C1/60/115. However, the son, another John Skelton, may have been the child of an earlier undocumented marriage. (2) by June 1468, Agnes, da. and h. of Thomas Trussbut of Shouldham and Runcton Holme, Norf. C1/33/6, 330.

Offices Held

?Serjeant of the catery of the Household by July 1445. E403/757, m. 8.

Spigurnel in Chancery c.1452-aft. Mich. 1456, 4 Mar. 1461–?d. E361/6, rots. 50, 53, 54d, 56d; CPR, 1461–7, p. 39; C1/43/290.

Constable of Hadleigh castle, Essex 9 Aug. 1461-aft. July 1465. CPR, 1461–7, pp. 39, 138.

Surveyor of the search in the port of London 16 Oct. 1461-Easter 1467. CPR, 1461–7, p. 52; E122/186/4.

Dep. butler, Boston 6 July 1471-June 1473. CPR, 1467–77, pp. 263, 393.

Parlimentarian

SKELTON, John III (d.1473), of London and Lambeth, Surr.

Main residences: London; Lambeth, Surr.

Schelton, Skeleton, Skellton

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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