CHAPMAN, John, of Norwich.

It appears that John never held office in Huntingdon and there is no definite evidence for him. A John Chapman, clerk, resided in the town in the mid 1430s, CPR, 1436-41, p. 3. This was possibly the man licensed to practise as a notary in 1422: CPL, vii. 215. but is not possible to connect the MP with him or with two namesakes from Fen Stanton (probably father and son) who took part in an attack on the abbey of Ramsey’s properties in that parish and St. Ives in 1450. CPR, 1446-52, p. 379. HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, 173, makes the groundless assumption that the MP was John Chapman of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, a yeoman of the Crown of Hen. VI attainted after Towton (see PROME, xiii. 42-51).