TOKE, Ralph (d.1450), of Dover, Kent.

Family and Education

s. of John Toke of Bere in Westcliffe, Kent, by his w. Joyce, prob. da. of Sir Thomas Hoo (d.1420) of Luton Hoo, Beds., and Wartling, Suss.; bro. of John*. m. Elizabeth, 3s. 1da. Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 153; C1/27/302-10.

Offices Held

Jurat, Dover 8 Sept. 1441–4; mayor 1444–9. Add. 29810, ff. 39, 45, 51v, 62v, 64v, 65v.

Collector, customs and subsidies, Sandwich 9 Mar. 1443–d. CFR, xvii. 234–7, 314, 317; xviii. 12, 13, 43, 51–56; E403/785, m. 6; E356/19, rots. 23–25d.

Commr. to arrest ships and mariners, Kent Aug. 1443.

Dep. butler to Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley, Sandwich 13 Feb. 1446–?d. CPR, 1441–6, p. 412; 1446–52, p. 407.

Steward and marshal of Dover castle c.Feb. 1447–d. J.B. Jones, Annals of Dover, 290.

Parlimentarian

TOKE, Ralph (d.1450), of Dover, Kent.

Main residence: Dover, Kent.

Author

D.I.G.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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