FORSTER, Henry, of Leicester and Hessle, Yorks.

Family and Education

s. of John Arnewey, retainer of Henry of Bolingbroke 1390-3.In 1410 Forster was paid £25 6s.8d. owed to Arnewey, ‘son pier qui mort est’, for service with Bolingbroke. Forster appears also to have been acting as attorney for a number of other former servants of Bolingbroke: E404/26/335, 27/210. m. bef. 1418, Elizabeth.

Offices Held

Serjeant of the buttery by 26 Oct. 1400; yeoman of the Kings private cellar 1 Apr. 1408 – ?; serjeant of the pantry by 20 Nov. 1411 – aft.Jan. 1413.

Butler of Calais by 20 Apr. 1401-aft. Feb. 1402.DL42/15, f. 89; E404/16/509, 17/417.

Bailiff, Sandwich, Kent 1 Apr. 1408–26 Mar. 1413.

Feodary of duchy of Lancaster in Leics., Warws. and Northants. 10 Dec. 1408 – 3 Dec. 1410; duchy bailiff of Leicester 15 Jan. 1413-c. Nov. 1423.DL42/16, ff. 10, 85, 121; 17, f. 43; Somerville, Duchy, i. 569–70.

Mayor, Leicester Mich. 1423–4.Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. ed. Thompson, no. 589.

Parlimentarian

FORSTER, Henry, of Leicester and Hessle, Yorks.

Main residences: Leicester; Hessle, Yorks.

Author

C.K.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

FORSTER, Henry

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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