BURGESS, John I

More can be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 417.

Burgess was farming the Bourgchier manor of Little Maldon by Michaelmas 1405, although he had relinquished the farm by Michaelmas 1410 when John Brodeheed held it, at a lease of £17 6s. 8d. p.a. Essex RO, accts. collector of rents and farms at Little Maldon, 1405-6, 1410-11, D/DMb/M19, 20.

In November 1408 Burgess entered into a bond in statute staple for 100 marks with the prominent Essex esquire, John Tyrell*, and William Spenser of London, but the reason for the bond, over which he faced legal action in the following summer, is unknown. C131/222/27; C241/200/11.