MAUNSER, Michael

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 704-5.

Maunser appeared in person in the court of common pleas in Michaelmas term 1423 and the following Hilary term to bring a plea against John Segrave, a wool merchant of Billingshurst in Sussex for a debt of £10, and against a butcher from his home town of Midhurst who together with a carpenter and tanner from Arundel owed him 50s. CP40/651, rot. 454; 652, rot. 234. He was still suing Segrave in 1432, by which time the defendant had moved to Colchester in Essex. In the later stages of the suit Maunser employed an attorney, the Sussex lawyer William Fenningham*, rather than troubling to attend the court himself. CP40/687, rot. 13. However, it is likely that he again appeared in the common pleas during the Michaelmas term of 1435, when required to serve as a juror in a suit brought by Eleanor, widow of John, Lord Mautravers and de jure earl of Arundel, against Robert Mousehole* of Midhurst, for when the writ was issued on 17 Oct. to make distraint on the jurors he was presumably already up at Westminster, attending the Parliament which had assembled a week earlier. CP40/699, rot. 128d.