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Family and Education

s. and h. of William Graa (d.c.1377) of York, merchant. m. (1) by 1369, Agnes (fl.1378), poss. da. of John Woodhall (d. by 1368) of Woodhall, Yorks.; (2) by 1381, Maud (d.1391/2), da. of John Multon of Ingleby, Lincs., 3s. 2da.; (3) by Nov. 1401, Alice, wid. of John Colthorpe (d.c.1394) of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks., merchant.C143/394/24; CP25(1)277/140/13; Borthwick Inst. York, York registry wills, i. ff. 42v, 86; iii. ff. 235v-6; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lii. 138; CIMisc. vii. no. 53; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 142; CPR, 1401-5, pp. 74, 111; Trans. E. Riding Antiq. Soc. xxx. 19.

Offices Held

Commr. of kiddles, Yorks. June 1371, May 1379, Mar. 1380, Nov. 1399; oyer and terminer July 1377 (disorder at Hutton), Mar. 1390 (disorder at Wilton); to repair the King’s fish-ponds and mills, York May 1379; hold a special assize July 1379;C66/305 m. 45v. of gaol delivery July 1379;Ibid. 43v. inquiry Feb. 1380 (alms to St. Leonard’s hospital), Yorks. Nov. 1384 (disorder at Oakwell), Aug. 1387, Mar. 1388 (lands of William Playce), York Oct., Nov. 1388 (escape of felons from gaol), Dec. 1391 (abuses at St. Leonard’s hospital), Apr. 1400, May 1401 (alienation of estates from St. Nicholas’s hospital); to take sureties from persons disturbing the peace Mar. 1382; collect money owed to the King Apr. 1398; deliver the temporalities of the abpric. of York to Richard Scrope June 1398; raise and collect royal loans July 1400.

Mayor, York 3 Feb. 1375 – 76, 1398 – 99; member of the council of 12 by Mar. 1376 – aft.Apr. 1397; chamberlain 3 Feb. 1397–8.Surtees Soc. cxvi. 72, 99; cxx. 23, 30–33, 173; cxxv. 6, 14, 29, 122.

Surveyor of a tax, York Apr. 1379; collector of an aid on the marriage of Princess Blanche Dec. 1401.

Parlty. cttee. for reform of the royal household 2 Mar. 1380.RP, iii. 73.

J.p. York 26 May 1380-c. Feb. 1393.Surtees Soc. cxx. 215. The appointment was briefly suspended in Mar. and May 1381 (no doubt as a result of Graa’s involvement in factional disputes in York), and in Oct. 1392 it was reported that his most recent commission had not yet arrived (CCR, 1377–81, pp. 505, 518; 1392–6, p. 84).

Escheator, Yorks. 1 Nov. 1383–11 Nov. 1384.

Ambassador to negotiate a commercial treaty with Prussia 12 June – aft.21 Aug. 1388.

Parlimentarian

GRAA, Thomas (d.1405), of York.

Main residence: York.

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C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

GRAA, Thomas (-d.1405)

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Oxford 1644

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