CATESBY, John (d.1404/5), of Ashby St. Ledgers, Northants. and Ladbroke, Warws.

Commr. of inquiry, Warws. May 1363 (enforcement of statutes relating to cloth sales), Warws., Leics. Dec. 1367 (escheated land), Warws., Salop Nov. 1377 (alnage), Warws. Apr. 1380 (theft), June 1380 (escheats), Nov. 1380 (pollution of a river), July 1382 (wastes on estates of Monks Kirby priory), Dec. 1382, Aug. 1383 (poaching in the King’s park, Coventry), Dec. 1383 (concealments), July 1384 (administration of Coventry), Sept. 1384 (counterfeiting and trespass), Warws., Northants. Dec. 1384 (wastes on the earl of Nottingham’s estates), Northants. Nov. 1386 (murder), Warws. Nov. 1389 (wastes on estates of Monks Kirby priory), Northants., Warws., Leics., Rutland July 1393 (false weights), Warws. Apr. 1385 (lands of a tenant-in-chief), Oct. 1402 (escheats); arrest Jan. 1369; oyer and terminer, Worcs. Feb. 1380, July 1392, Feb. 1394, Feb. 1400; to put down rebellion, Warws., Worcs. June, Dec. 1381, Dec. 1382; of weirs, Northants. June 1398; to make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well May 1402.

Steward of Coventry, Warws. (by appointment of the Black Prince) by June 1375 – aft.Dec. 1383; of Cheylesmore by Sept. 1375-c. Oct. 1384.

J.p. Coventry 30 Jan. 1376 – Sept. 1377, 11 Feb. 1398-c.1399, Warws. 2 July 1377–89, 24 Dec. 1390 – July 1397, 13 Nov. 1398–d. , Worcs. 26 Oct. 1378-May 1380, Northants. 26 Nov. 1383-c. 1384, 12 Mar. 1393 – d.

Steward of the estates of Thomas, earl of Warwick, Northants. by Mich. 1396-July 1397.