PENVON, Simon, of Taunton, Som.

Few details of Penvon’s career have come to light, but he was evidently a local man. He served as one of Bishop Beaufort’s portreeves of his borough in 1421-2, and he was periodically empanelled on local juries, including those taking the inquisitions post mortem of Richard, Lord Saint Maur (d.1409), and John Arundell* of Bideford and the former chief justice, Sir William Hankford, in 1423 and 1424. CIPM, xxii. 248, 292, 315. He is last heard of in early 1440, when he was one of the executors of his neighbour John Bowe†, alongside Bowe’s widow, now the wife of John Bishop III*. CP40/716, rot. 367d.