BARREL, John, of Worcester.

He has been distinguished from the Oxford graduate of the same name who, a B.C.L. and Lic. C.L. by 1384, became commissary and sequestrator-general to Bishop Wakefield of Worcester some four years later, acted as proxy for the abbot of Evesham in the Parliament of 1401, and on 14 July that year was appointed a royal envoy to the courts of Holland and Cleves. In 1403-4 that John Barrel was in receipt of an annual pension of pound;2 for legal services to Pershore abbey, Worcs., and he was still acting for the abbey three years later. Biog. Reg. Univ. of Oxf. ed. Emden, 107; Trans. Birmingham Arch. Soc. lvii. 40, 43, 44, 46; C76/85 m. 6; CAD, i. A868; E101/320/27; E364/45 m. D; Letters Hen. IV ed. Hingeston, 51.