BRUGGE, John (d.1436), of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs.

He is to be distinguished from John Brugge of Ross-on-Wye, who in 1415 acted as Bp. Mascall of Hereford’s bailiff at Ross, was a juror (with John Brugge of Staunton), in 1431, a Herefordshire elector in 1432 and a tax collector in 1436: Reg. Mascall (Canterbury and York Soc. xxi), 88; Reg. Lacy (ibid. xxii), 25-26; Feudal Aids, ii. 416; C219/14/3. It is less easy to disentangle his career from that of John Brugge of the Lea by Bishop’s Castle, Salop (MP for Salop in 1426), who was apparently a close relation (Herefs. RO, B56/1, f. 98; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 233). The Salop man was, by 1401, a King’s serjeant and yeoman of the chamber, escheator in Salop 1404-5, captain of Ludlow castle 1408, sheriff of Salop 1412-13, and a member of the Shrewsbury guild merchant: Salop Peace Roll ed. Kimball, 86, 90, 112; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), v. 35-54. John of Bishop’s Castle served under John Talbot, Lord Furnival, against Glendower in 1404-8; and in 1414, when Furnival became lieutenant of Ireland, he acted as jt. admiral of his fleet there. He d. 1443, leaving a widow, Joan, and an eldest s. John. Richard Legatt, Talbot’s receiver-general, was an executor of his will, and Talbot himself a supervisor: E101/43/28; Rot. Pat. et Claus. Hib. ed. Tresham, i. 206; CCR, 1429-35 p. 258; CFR, xvii. 234; PCC 16 Rous; A.J. Pollard, ‘The Talbots’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 232-3, 417.