DORE, William, of Cambridge.

Unusually for a Cambridge MP of this period, Dore appears never to have held public office in the borough. In May 1417, the King granted him a 50-year lease of five and a half acres of land beside the chapel of St. Edmund in Cambridge, at a rent of 5s. p.a., CFR, xiv. 199. but he then disappears from view until he attested the borough’s parliamentary election of 1429. In the following year, he was among those nominated, but not pricked, for jury service at gaol delivery sessions in Cambridge. JUST3/8/14, rot. 21. Upon entering the Commons in 1433, he received wages of 12d. per day for the 74 days which Parliament took up of his time. Cambs. Archs., Cambridge bor. recs., treasurers’ acct., 1433-4, City/PB Box X/70/8.

By the mid 1430s, he was renting an enclosed lane that formerly had belonged to Roger Kycche* from the corporation of Cambridge, Treasurers’ acct., 1435-6, City/PB Box X/70/10. and for the subsidy of 1436 his lands were valued at £6 p.a. E179/240/268.