Family and Education
s. and h. of Hugh Wythom (d.c.1426) of Boston by his w. Margaret (fl.1436). m. by 1448, She was admitted, as his wife, to Boston’s Corpus Christi guild in 1448: Harl. 4795, f. 39v. Katherine (fl.1479), at least 1s. Kntd. by 12 Feb. 1453.
Offices Held
Chamberlain, Corpus Christi guild, Boston 1442; alderman 1445.
J.p. Holland 4 Feb. 1444-July 1452 (q.), 12 July 1452 – d., Kesteven 14 Mar. 1448 – d., Lindsey 14 Apr. 1448 – d.
Searcher of ships, Boston 6 May 1444 – 16 June 1452; tronager and pesager 22 Feb. 1445 – d.; gauger 16 July 1449 – d.
Commr. of inquiry, Lincs. July 1445 (evasion of customs), Grimsby May 1450 (spoliation of foreign merchants); to treat for loans, Holland Sept. 1449; of sewers, Holland, Kesteven Feb. 1453.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Boston, Lincs.
Withom, Withome, Wytham
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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