The first reference to our MP in connexion with Rochester was when he attended the shire court to attest the parliamentary election in December 1430. Two years later he sat on a local jury, and in 1439 he gave evidence at an inquisition post mortem. Thus Doget was already a man of some local standing in the 1430s.
This accusation was presumably made shortly after Doget sat in his only Parliament, which assembled at Westminster on 25 Jan. 1442 and was dissolved on the following 27 Mar. No details survive of the manner of his election or his activities while at Parliament. At Michaelmas 1447 he was chosen bailiff of the city. During his official year he received a subpoena to answer a charge by one William Harry. The details of this accusation are not known but Doget again went sine die, this time with the assent of the plaintiff.
Doget made his will on 10 Apr. 1470. He asked to be buried in the east end of his parish church of St. Nicholas next to his unnamed first wife, and left money for ten obits to be performed. Other small bequests were made to several of his servants. Doget’s property in Rochester and elsewhere was left to his widow, Agnes. The couple were evidently childless because on her death these holdings were to descend to John Durkynghole, citizen and tailor of London, although the nature of their relationship is not explained. Certain lands in nearby Eastgate and Great Delse were to be sold on Agnes’s death and the proceeds employed towards the marriage of Durkynghole’s daughter, Joan, and to purchase ‘a competent payr off organs to do devyne servyce’ in St. Nicholas’s church. Any remaining profits were to ‘be dysposid to fowle wayes, maydens mariages [and] in almes to power and nedy pepill’ in Rochester. The execution of the will was left to the widow, Durkynghole and a local man, John Wode, while John Soneman* was named as supervisor.