KENDALE, Robert, of Treworgey and Lostwithiel, Cornw.

The identification of the man who represented Bletchingley in the Parliament of 1432 presents some problems, for the assembly was summoned at a period when the borough’s representation was in flux, moving away from the return of local men towards a choice of retainers of the borough’s lords, the earls of Stafford. No obvious candidate has been discovered, although there were Robert Kendales in Westmorland, CCR, 1413-19, p. 514; E159/199, brevia Trin. rot. 16. London (an armourer), CCR, 1413-19, p. 80. and Lancashire, Lancs. RO, Molyneux mss, DDM48/24. as well as in Kent, CIPM, xxiii. 400; CP25(1)/115/314/503. from where the other Bletchingley MP of 1432, Hugh Godwin*, hailed. He was not the servant of this name of Sir John Cornwall, created Lord Fanhope during the Parliament of 1432, for this man had died by June 1428: CCR, 1413-19, p. 403; 1422-9, p. 430; CFR, xiv. 235; CPR, 1416-22, p. 68; 1422-9, pp. 482, 531; 1429-36, p. 334; CP25(1)/6/78/4; CIPM, xxiii. 253.