WINNESLEY, Richard (d.c.1443), of Winsley and Stoke Lacy, Herefs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Hugh Winnesley (d.1408) of Leominster. m. (1) by Nov. 1417, Agnes; (2) by July 1426, Katherine, da. of Sir John Cheyne (d. by 1417) of Cheyney Longville, Salop, and coh. of her mother, Margaret, da. of Sir John Devereux of Stoke Lacy, wid. of Sir Thomas Bowet (fl.1419), 1s.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Herefs. 1413 (May), 1432, 1433, 1435, 1442, Leominster 1420, 1421 (May), 1422, 1425, 1431, 1435. This list includes those elections in which Winnesley, as bailiff of the abbot’s liberty, appears with the attestors in an indenture drawn up with the sheriff, not those in which, as the abbot’s bailiff, he was one party to the indenture and the attestors the other.

Bailiff, abbot of Reading’s liberty of Leominster, by 14 Nov. 1420 – d., abbot of Reading’s lands in Herefs. by Easter 1424-c.1439. E368/196, rot. 7d; 211, rot. 2d; 213, rot. 2d.

Under sheriff, Herefs. Jan. 1421 – May 1422, Nov. 1431–2. C219/12/5; E5/497.

Tax collector, Herefs. May 1437.

Parlimentarian

WINNESLEY, Richard (d.c.1443), of Winsley and Stoke Lacy, Herefs.

Main residences: Winsley; Stoke Lacy, Herefs.

Wyndesley, Wynnesley

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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