Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
educ. Oxford university early 1400s, Cambridge university, fellow of Pembroke College by 1410; B.A. and B. in medicine by 1418; Dr. by 1428. m. (1) by May 1441, Agnes; CPR, 1435-41, p. 479. The erroneous assumption that Agnes was the wid. of John le Burser of Colman Street, London (HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, 780), is probably the result of a misreading of letters patent of 1448 concerning the endowment of a chantry where prayers were to be said, among others, ‘for the soul of Agnes, late the wife of John [Somerset] and for Roger le Bourser of Colman Street’, who had set up the chantry in 1318, but left no heirs: CPR, 1446-52, pp. 176-9. (2) by Aug. 1446, Alice, da. of Adam Cawood of Cawood, Yorks., wid. of John Cerf*, DURH3/49, m. 2. s.p.
Offices Held

Master of grammar, Bury St. Edmunds school 28 July 1418–?. Cott. Tiberius B IX, f. 180.

Physician to Hen. VI Easter 1427–d. PPC, iii. 282–3, 287–8.

Commr. of inquiry, London and nationwide Jan. 1440 (evasion of customs on shipments of wool), Mdx. Sept. 1444 (title to lands of Edmund Flambard); This comm. was revoked almost immediately: CPR, 1441–6, p. 296. to assess goods of the alien priories in Eng. Sept. 1440; arrest robbers Oct. 1442; search Spanish and Italian ships for customable merchandise, London, Sandwich, Southampton June 1444; keep the temporalities of the priory of Holy Trinity, London June 1445; treat for loans, Mdx. Sept. 1449.

J.p. Mdx. 28 Nov. 1439 – d.

Chancellor of the Exchequer 18 Dec. 1439–d. PRO List ‘Exchequer Officers’, 37; CPR, 1436–41, p. 418.

Warden of the exchange and mint in the Tower of London 18 Dec. 1439–29 May 1447. CPR, 1436–41, p. 418; 1446–52, p. 54.

Jt. custodian of alien priories and their possessions 3 Sept. 1440–24 Feb. 1441. CPR, 1436–41, pp. 454, 471, 493–6.

Surveyor of works at Eton, the Tower and palaces of Sheen and Westminster 23 May 1442. CPR, 1441–6, p. 82. The appointment came to nothing: Hist. King’s Works ed. Brown, Colvin and Taylor, i. 191, n. 8.

Parlimentarian
SOMERSET, John (d.1454), of Isleworth, Mdx.
Main residence: Isleworth, Mdx.
Somerseth
Author
C.R.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image