More can be added to the earlier biography.
Early in Henry VI’s reign Dengaine and Richard Ellis†, his associate as a customs collector at Yarmouth, submitted a petition to the Commons in Parliament, probably that of 1423. They complained that the Exchequer was overcharging them in by as much as £41 13s. 4d., a sum for which they should not be liable in their account. The Commons referred the petition although with what result is unknown.
It is possible that Dengaine had a connexion with Brumstead, a parish in east Norfolk lying some miles north of Yarmouth. In January 1437, Thomas ‘Dengayne’ of Brumstead, esquire, gave a bond to Richard Gegge, esquire, and Henry Sturmer of Norwich. He did so as a security that he would pay Gegge and Sturmer £30 in the following March, an undertaking he appears to have failed to honour since the other two men afterwards took action against him on the strength of the bond.
It is likely that Dengaine had a good relationship with the Paston family, for in April 1442 he witnessed an important settlement made in the wake of the marriage between John Paston* and Margaret Mautby.
Dengaine may have moved to Norwich later in his career, for Thomas Dengaine esquire was among the residents of that city assessed for the purposes of a royal subsidy in 1451, when the commissioners for this tax determined that he possessed lands worth £10 p.a. John Dengaine, possibly his son, was buried at Norwich in 1488.