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STANLEY, Thomas II (1406-59), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancs. and lord of the Isle of Man.

Family and Education
b. 2 Aug. 1406, CHES3/39, 16 Hen. VI, no. 9. s. and h. of Sir John Stanley† (d.1437) of Lathom and Knowsley, lord of the Isle of Man, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Haryngton† (d.c.1404) of Farleton in Lonsdale, Lancs. Plantagenet Ancestry ed. Richardson and Everingham, 678. Elizabeth is wrongly described as the da. of Sir John Haryngton in The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 455. m. by Sept. 1422, Joan (c.1401-fl.1460), da. and coh. of Sir Robert Goushill (d.1403) of Hoveringham, Notts., by Elizabeth (d.1425), sis. and event. coh. of Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel (d.1415), wid. of Sir William Montagu, s. of William, earl of Salisbury (d.1397), and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk (d.1399), 4s. 3da. Kntd. by 29 Apr. 1431; KG 14 May 1457; summ. as Lord Stanley 15 Jan. 1456.
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Lt. of Ire. 29 Jan. 1431 – Apr. 1437.

Commr. to distribute allowance on tax, Lancs. Dec. 1433, Apr., Aug. 1440, Mar. 1442, Aug. 1449, June 1453; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; assess subsidy Jan., Mar. 1436; DKR, xl. 533. treat for loans Feb. 1436; of arrest Oct. 1436, Mar. 1452; E28/82, 16 Mar. 1452. to hold hundred courts after the eyre, Macclesfield, Cheshire Oct. 1437, Sept. 1439, Sept. 1440, June 1441, Jan. 1442, June 1443, June, Dec. 1444, ?Mar. 1453; CHES2/125, m. 3d. negotiate for subsidy and aid, Hawarden, Mold, Flint Oct. 1441; CHES2/115, m. 1. of inquiry, Cheshire Apr. 1442 (King’s right to property in Clutton), Berks. May, EHR, xc. 333–4. June 1444 (treasons etc.), Cheshire Jan. 1449 (rents due from land in Flint), CHES2/122, rot. 4. N. Wales July 1452 (unpaid royal revenues), Sept. 1453 (trespasses and concealments); to take muster of retinue of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset, Portsmouth June 1443; of oyer and terminer, Berks. July 1444 (treasons etc.), London Mar. 1450 (treasons of John Frammesley, vintner), N. Riding July 1453 (felonies), London Apr. 1455 (treasons), Glos., Herefs., Worcs. Mar. 1457 (treasons); to keep the temporalities of the priory of Holy Trinity, London June 1445; of gaol delivery, Lancs. Jan. 1446; DKR, xl. 538. to compel payment of debts and rents, N. Wales Aug. 1453; assign archers, Lancs. Dec. 1457.

Constable, Chester castle 6 Dec. 1437 – d.

Jt. steward (with Ralph, Lord Cromwell), ldship. of Macclesfield 21 Feb. 1439 – 4 Jan. 1456; steward 4 Jan. 1456 – d.; jt. chief steward (with William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk), enfeoffed lands of the duchy of Lancaster 11 Dec. 1447 – ?; south parts of the duchy c. Nov. 1449 – 2 May 1450; chief steward 2 May 1450 – 16 Apr. 1451, 4 Jan. 1456 – d.; jt. (with Cromwell) 15 June 1452 – 4 Jan. 1456.

Master forester and surveyor, forests of Macclesfield, Delamere and Mondrem, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1439 – d.; jt. (with his son John) of Amounderness, Quernmore and Wyresdale in the duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 10 Nov. 1443 – d.

Controller, Hen. VI’s household by 26 Apr. 1439-c. Jan. 1451; chamberlain c. Aug. 1455 – d.

Chamberlain, N. Wales 26 Apr. 1439 – 15 Apr. 1451, by Feb. 1452 – d.

Jt. dep. justice (of the earl of Suffolk), Chester and N. Wales 23 Feb. 1440 – 1 Dec. 1443; jt. justice (with Suffolk) 1 Dec. 1443 – 2 May 1450; justice 2 May 1450 – d.

Gauger, all ports in N. Wales and Cheshire 9 May 1440 – d.

Jt. parker, Ightenhill, Lancs. 5 Dec. 1440–?d., Toxteth, Lancs. 12 Aug. 1441–d.; parker, Northwood, Cheshire 22 Mar. 1446 – 27 July 1447, jt. (with Roger Legh) 27 July 1447–?d.; DL37/13, m. 2d; 15/30. parker, Queen Margaret’s parks of Barton and Sherholt in chace of Needwood, Staffs. by 1 July 1456; jt. 1 July 1456–d. DL37/24/6.

Jt. escheator, Lancs. 14 Feb. 1441–d. DL37/8/45.

J.p. Lancs. 16 Mar. 1446–?d. DKR, xl. 538. There is no record of appointments to the Lancs. bench from 1450 to 1485 because of the loss of the palatinate’s patent rolls, but there is every reason to suppose that Stanley remained as a j.p. to his death.

Member of council of Hen. VI c. 1448 – d., of Edward, prince of Wales 27 Jan. 1457 – d.

Jt. bailiff and beadle, hundreds of Eddisbury and Wirral, Cheshire aft. 1 June 1448–? CHES2/119, rot. 6.

Envoy to negotiate with Scots. July, Oct. 1449, with James, earl of Douglas, June 1452, with Scots. May 1453. Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc. ii. 334–7, 358, 361.

Conservator of truces with Scotland Oct. 1449, July 1451, May 1453, June 1457. Ibid. 340, 353, 366, 383.

Jt. warden, castle and town of Calais and the tower of Rysbank 2 Apr. 1450–21 Sept. 1451. Cat. des Rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois ed. Carte, ii. 323; G.L. Harriss, ‘The Struggle for Calais’, EHR, lxxv. 31.

Jt. surveyor of lordship of Fulbrook, Warws. aft. July 1453–d. CPR, 1452–61, p. 478. The grant to Stanley and John Brome II* came shortly after the death in July 1453 of the previous grantee, John Talbot, Lord Lisle: CPR, 1446–52, p. 376.

Parlty. cttee. to review the royal household July 1455. PROME, xii. 337.

Jt. auditor, accts. of Richard Merston, treasurer of the chamber July 1456. CPR, 1452–61, p. 293.

Main residences: Lathom; Knowsley, Lancs.; lord of the Isle of Man.
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STANLEY, Thomas I (d.1463), of Pipe and Elford, Staffs.

Family and Education
2nd s. of Sir John Stanley (d.1414) of the Isle of Man by Isabel, da. of Sir Thomas Lathom of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancs.; yr. bro. of Sir John Stanley† (d.1437). m. (1) Maud (15 July 1396-bef. 16 Sept. 1432), da. and h. of Sir John Arderne (1369-1408) of Elford by Margaret (d.1423), da. of Sir Roger Pilkington of Pilkington, Lancs., G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, iii (2), 566. at least 2s. inc. John II*; (2) by Trin. 1434, Elizabeth, 1s. Her fam. has not been established. She had an interest in property at Shenstone, not far from Elford: Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. (1910), 316; xvii. 149. Dist. 1430, 1439.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Staffs. 1423, 1425, 1429.

Commr. of inquiry, Staffs. Feb. 1422 (falsifiers of weights), Dec. 1422 (wastes in resources of the collegiate church of Tamworth), Feb. 1443 (withholding of rent from church of Shenstone), Derbys., Notts. July 1445 (alienations without licence), Derbys. ?July 1445 (dispute over manor of Stretton-en-le-Field); This comm. is only partially enrolled and may not have been issued: CPR, 1441–6, p. 370. to assess subsidy, Staffs. Apr. 1431; of array Aug. 1436; gaol delivery, Stafford castle Nov. 1439, Stafford Oct. 1445, Stafford castle Oct. 1451; C66/445, m. 19d; 461, m. 36d; 474, m. 25d. to treat for speedy payment of fifteenth and tenth, Staffs. Feb. 1441; for loans Mar., May, Aug. 1442, Sept. 1449.

Sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 7 Nov. 1427 – 4 Nov. 1428, Staffs. 5 Nov. 1433 – 3 Nov. 1434, 3 Nov. 1438 – 5 Nov. 1439.

Master, guild of St. Mary, Lichfield Dec. 1429–30. T. Harwood, Lichfield, 402.

Main residences: Pipe; Elford, Staffs.
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STANLEY, John II (by 1414-76), of Clifton Campville and Pipe and Elford, Staffs.

Family and Education
b. by 1414, On 13 July 1414 his father secured a papal indult for himself, his wife and their children to have a portable altar, and thus it is fair to assume our MP was then born: CPL, vi. 355. s. and h. of Thomas Stanley I*. m. (1) c. 1428, Cecily Arderne, at least 2s.; (2) by 12 Feb. 1454, Elizabeth (fl.1471), She was alive in Aug. 1471: Birmingham Archs., Elford Hall mss, 3878/45. da. of Sir Richard Vernon*, wid. of John Vampage*, at least 1s. Humphrey†; (3) by 1474, Anne (d. 12 July 1505), wid. of Sir William Harcourt† (d.1472) of Maxstoke, Warws., and Braunstone, Leics., Her family is uncertain, but her first name is provided by her admission in 1474 to the guild of St. Mary in Lichfield as our MP’s wife: T. Harwood, Lichfield, 406. Ormerod says that after our MP’s death she married (Sir) William Norris*: G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, iii (2), 566. If so, she was the wid. of Sir William Harcourt, whose nephew, John Harcourt, our MP sued in Mich. term 1474 for close-breaking in respect of property at Market Bosworth and elsewhere in Leics., which Anne Norris is known to have held at her death in 1505: CP40/852, rot. 370d; CIPM Hen. VII, iii. 178. s.p. Dist. 1458; Kntd. Blore Heath 23 Sept. 1459; kt. banneret Tewkesbury 4 May 1471.
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?Parlty. proxy, prior of Coventry 1442. SC10/50/2459.

Lt. of Humphrey, duke of Buckingham, as master of the chace of Needwood, Staffs. 9 Dec. 1446-aft. Trin. 1456; collector of rents at Whittington, Staffs., for William Booth, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, Mich. 1448–9; steward of liberty of John Hals, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, in Staffs. and Salop by Mich. 1464–d.; of George, duke of Clarence, at Needwood by 30 Apr. 1472–? NLW, Peniarth mss, 280, p. 42; I. Rowney, ‘Staffs. Political Community’ (Keele Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 437, 442; DL30/111/1678, m. 3d.

Sheriff, Staffs. 3 Dec. 1450 – 8 Nov. 1451, 7 Nov. 1459–60, 5 Nov. 1464–5, 5 Nov. 1468–9, 7 Nov. 1474 – 5 Nov. 1475.

Master, guild of St. Mary, Lichfield Dec. 1451–5. Harwood, 403.

Commr. to treat for loans, Staffs. Dec. 1452; of arrest, July 1453 (collectors of fifteenth and tenth); E159/233, commissiones Trin. to assign archers Dec. 1457; of oyer and terminer, Glos., Herefs., Salop, Staffs., Worcs., Wales Feb. 1460, Wales Mar. 1460; gaol delivery, Stafford Mar. 1467; to distribute allowance on tax, Staffs. June 1468; of array Mar. 1470, Mar. 1472; inquiry Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms).

Jt. ranger (with his s. Humphrey), forest of Cannock 1 June 1468–20 Dec. 1470. CPR, 1467–77, p. 82; CCR, 1468–76, no. 4.

J.p. Staffs. 16 Nov. 1468 – d.

Main residences: Clifton Campville; Pipe; Elford, Staffs.
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STANLEY, John I, of Wirral, Cheshire and Battersea, Surr.

Family and Education
yr. s. of Sir William Stanley (d.1428) of Wirral by Margery, da. and h. of Sir William Hooton of Hooton, Cheshire. G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, ii (2), 415-16; C67/38, m. 11. m. bef. Aug. 1441, Katherine, Apostolic Penitentiary, i. (Canterbury and York Soc. ciii), 313; CPL, ix. 244. He was then called ‘lord of the place of Hoean’ in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, but ‘Hoean’ has not been identified. 2s.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Surr. 1449 (Feb.).

Sheriff, Anglesey (by appointment of Queen Katherine) Feb. 1425-c. Mar. 1461, SC6/1153/2, m. 7. [Merioneth 15 May 1433], This appointment seems to have been an error: John Hampton II* was given the office nine days later: CPR, 1429–36, p. 266. Surr. and Suss. 6 Nov. 1442 – 4 Nov. 1443.

Constable of Carnarvon castle 18 May 1427-c. Mar. 1461; capt. of the town of Carnarvon 12 Jan. 1439-c. Mar. 1461.

Serj. of the armoury in the Tower of London 14 Nov. 1431 – July 1457, jt. (with his son John), July 1457 – Mar. 1461.

Usher of the King’s chamber by July 1438 – Nov. 1454; esquire for the body 13 Nov. 1454-c. Aug. 1460.

Commr. of array, Surr. Mar. 1443; to distribute tax allowance June 1445, July 1446; treat for loans Sept. 1449; investigate arrears of revenues, Merioneth Aug. 1451.

Steward of the commote of Menai, Anglesey 11 Mar. 1444 – ?

J.p. Surr. 14 Jan. 1448 – Jan. 1459, 24 Dec. 1460 – July 1461.

Main residences: Wirral, Cheshire; Battersea, Surr.
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STANLAWE, Thomas (d.1463), of Carlisle, Cumb.

Family and Education
?s. and h. of Thomas Stanlawe (fl.1467) of Dalegarth, Cumb., by his w. Anne. Cumbria RO, Whitehaven, Stanley of Dalegarth mss, DSTAN/1/19, 22. m. Cecily (fl. 1465).
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Clerk of Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland’s mines in Cumb. 16 Feb. 1454 – ?

Main residence: Carlisle, Cumb.
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STANHOPE, Sir Richard (c.1374-1436), of Rampton, Notts.

Family and Education
b. by 1374, 2nd s. and h. of John Stanhope (d.c.1381), CAD, v. A13549. of Haughton, Notts. by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Stephen Malovell of Rampton. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Robert Staveley of Stayley, Cheshire, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.; In 1403 his eldest daughter Agnes was contracted in marriage to Staveley’s stepson and ward, Henry Trafford (d.1408) of Trafford, Lancs.: S.J. Payling, Political Society in Lancastrian Eng. 81. (2) 1411, R. Thoroton, Notts. ed. Throsby, iii. 245; Sheffield Archs., Copley mss, CD403. Maud (d. Dec. 1454), da. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell (1368-1416), Cromwell’s death is misdated to 1417 in CP, iii. 552. He died between 3 Feb. and 7 Aug. 1416: Copley mss, CD 412; CFR, xiv. 143. by his w. Joan (d.1434), and in her issue h. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell (1393-1456), Cromwell was born in c.1393, not c. 1403 as implied in CP, iii. 552: C138/42/72. 1s. 2da. Kntd. 12 Oct. 1399. Stanhope was one of the 46 esquires knighted on the eve of Hen. IV’s coronation: Chrons. London ed. Kingsford, 48.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Notts. 1420, 1432.

Commr. Derbys., Leics., Lincs., Northants., Notts., Rutland, Warws., Yorks. Dec. 1399 – July 1434.

Sheriff, Notts. and Derbys. 22 Oct. 1404 – 22 Nov. 1405.

J.p. Notts. 12 Nov. 1404 – Feb. 1407, 28 Nov. 1417 – July 1423, 20 July 1424–32, 24 Nov. 1432–5.

Verderer, Sherwood forest, Notts. to 3 Dec. 1421.

Main residence: Rampton, Notts.
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STANHOPE, John (c.1413-93), of Rampton, Notts.

Family and Education
b. c.1413, CIPM, xxiv. 465-6. s. and h. of Richard Stanhope (d.v.p. 1432), by Elizabeth (d.1437), da. of Sir John Markham (d.1409), j.c.p., of East Markham, Notts.; gds. of Sir Richard Stanhope*. m. (1) 1427, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall in Bowland, Lancs., 4s. (1 d.v.p.), 5da.; (2) Katherine (fl. Nov. 1504), sis. of Sir Richard Molyneux (d.1459) of Sefton, Lancs., wid. of Sir Ralph Radcliffe (d.1460) of Smithills, Lancs., s.p. Dist. 1439, 1465.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Notts. 1449 (Nov.), 1460.

Commr. of inquiry, Derbys., Leics., Notts., Staffs. May 1450 (concealed deodands), Derbys., Notts. July 1454 (illegal fishing), Notts. Oct. 1470 (felonies etc.), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Derbys., Notts. Dec. 1483 (treasons); to distribute allowance on tax, Notts. June 1453, June 1468; of kiddles July 1454; to assign archers Dec. 1457; of array Dec. 1459, May 1484, Dec. 1484; gaol delivery, Nottingham castle July 1461, Nottingham Dec. 1463, Aug. 1476; C66/492, m. 2d; 506, m. 11d; 538, m. 8d. arrest, Notts. Feb. 1462; oyer and terminer, waters of R. Trent July 1466; sewers, Notts. Apr. 1474, Nov. 1482; to assess subsidies Aug. 1483, Jan. 1488.

J.p. Notts. 20 Apr. 1454 – Nov. 1458, 10 July 1461 – May 1470, 16 Feb. 1472-June 1473 (q.), 10 Nov. 1475-Sept. 1485, 25 June 1486 – d.

Sheriff, Notts. and Derbys. 4 Nov. 1454 – 21 Jan. 1456, 7 Nov. 1461 – 5 Nov. 1463, 6 Nov. 1470 – 11 Apr. 1471.

Parlty. cttee. investigating corruption at the Mint May 1468. PROME, xiii. 386–9.

Main residence: Rampton, Notts.
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STANFORD, Hugh, of Hextells, Staffs. and Wheathill, Salop.

Family and Education
?; educ. L. Inn. m. (1) Joyce; (2) Isabel (fl.1458), mother of William* and Thomas Hextall*.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Staffs. 1419, 1421 (May), 1423, 1426, 1427, 1431.

Receiver of the Staffs. estates of Edmund Stafford, earl of Stafford, by Mich. 1399-July 1403, of the earl’s feoffees July 1403 – Feb. 1423, of Humphrey Stafford, earl of Stafford, Feb. 1423-Mich. 1428. C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 215.

Escheator, Staffs. 12 Nov. 1403 – 10 Nov. 1404, 2 Nov. 1407 – 9 Dec. 1408.

Under sheriff, Staffs. Nov. 1413–14 (to Sir John Bagot†), Nov. 1420-May 1422 (to John Delves*).

Commr. Glos., Herefs., Salop, Staffs., Worcs. July 1427.

Main residences: Hextells, Staffs.; Wheathill, Salop.
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STAFFORD, William (d.1450), of Stinsford, Dorset and Southwick in North Bradley, Wilts.

Family and Education
yr. s. of Sir Humphrey Stafford* and bro. of Sir Richard*. m. 1437, Cornw. RO, Arundell mss, AR36/4. Katherine (1427-9 Apr. 1479), er. da. and coh. of Sir John Chideock*, 1s. Humphrey IV*. C140/41/27. ?; ?summ. as Lord Stafford of Southwick by June 1449. A.R. Myers, Crown, Household and Parl. 75-76; Speculum, xvii. 403, 407.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Dorset 1447.

Sheriff, Som. and Dorset 7 Nov. 1437 – 3 Nov. 1438, Glos. 3 Nov. 1438 – 5 Nov. 1439, Som. and Dorset 4 Nov. 1441 – 6 Nov. 1442, Wilts. 4 Nov. 1446 – 9 Nov. 1447.

Commr. to take musters, Poole May 1438, Dec. 1439, Feb. 1440; of inquiry, Dorset July 1439, Som. July 1440 (concealments), Dorset Jan. 1441 (wastes), Dorset, Som., Bristol Feb. 1448, Beds., Berks., Bucks., Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hants, Herts., Oxon., Som., Wilts., Bristol July 1448 (concealments); to distribute tax allowances, Dorset Apr. 1440; treat for loans Nov. 1440, Dorset, Som. June 1446, Sept. 1449; treat for payment of parlty. subsidies Feb. 1441; of gaol delivery, Dorchester Sept. 1441, May 1443, Mar. 1444, Feb. 1446, Oct. 1447, Mar. 1449; C66/451, m. 39d; 456, m. 32d; 458, m. 23d; 461, m. 21d; 465, m. 26d; 467, m. 9d. array, Dorset Mar. 1443, Som. May 1450.

J.p. Som. 23 Mar. 1439–40, 1 June 1443 – d., Dorset 26 Apr. 1442 – d.

Steward of the estates of Bp. Stafford of Bath and Wells in Som. 10 Sept. 1439 – 4 Nov. 1440, Som. and Glos. 4 Nov. 1440–13 May 1443. Reg. Stafford, ii (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxii), 238, 259; KB145/6/23.

Constable of Taunton castle for the bp. of Winchester bef. 1450. Hants RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls, 11M59/B1/195 (formerly 155830), f. 3.

Main residences: Stinsford, Dorset; Southwick in North Bradley, Wilts.
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STAFFORD, Sir Richard (d.c.1427), of Hooke, Dorset.

Family and Education
1st s. of Sir Humphrey Stafford*; er. bro. of William*. m. by Apr. 1423, The date of the marriage is inferred from the date of birth of the sole child of the match: C139/89/68. Maud (d. 19 May 1436), da. and h. of Robert Lovell* of Rampisham, Dorset, by Elizabeth (c.1383-1437), gdda. and coh. of Guy, Lord Bryan, The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 632; CP, i. 248. 1da. C139/105/9; 164/16. Kntd. by Mar. 1419. DKR, xli. 740.
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Sheriff, Som. and Dorset 13 Nov. 1423–6 Nov. 1424. E13/136, rot. 9d.

Main residence: Hooke, Dorset.
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