BOTTENHAM, John (d.1412), of Wilton, Wilts.

Bottenham is first heard of in 1394, as presenting four woollen cloths for levy of alnage. In July 1403 he received a grant of property in Wilton, to be held jointly with William Chitterne, John Hardy and other fellow burgesses; and four years later he acted as a surety for Robert Frye II, clerk of the royal council, when the latter was elected for the borough to the Gloucester Parliament of 1407.E101/345/2; Wilton Corporation deeds S6; C219/10/4. He was dead by 28 June 1412, when the sheriff of Wiltshire was ordered to elect a new coroner in his placed.CCR, 1409-13, p. 287.

John Bottenham junior (who bought land in Salisbury in 1406, served as reeve there in 1408-9, and was still alive in 1429) and

Henry Bottenham

† (MP for Calne in 1422 and Chippenham in 1423) were doubtless kinsmen of his, perhaps even sons.Tropenell Cart. ed. Davies, i. 235, 259; Wilts. Feet of Fines (Wilts. Rec. Soc. xli), 265, 443.