More may be added to the earlier biography.The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386.
Last recorded as a jurat in July 1430, Hythe recs., hundred ct. pprs., 1398-1445, H 1059. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386, wrongly states that he was still a jurat in 1432. Skinner died soon afterwards, for it was as his widow that Margaret Skinner was exempted from parliamentary taxation in Worth hundred (probably for property in West Hythe) in the following September. E179/225/48/61. In August 1431 Margaret took action in the bailiff’s court at Hythe against Richard Rye*, her late husband’s fellow MP in 1427, claiming that he had thrown dung on to her property in Middle Ward. H 1018, f. 105.
