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MONESLEE, Richard (d.1441), of Norwich.

Family and Education
m. (1) by Mar. 1413, Isabel; (2) by Sept. 1429, Margaret. CPL, vi. 345; Norf. RO, Norwich city recs., ct. roll, 1424-35, NCR 1/18, m. 17.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Norwich 1420, 1421 (Dec.), 1435.

Treasurer, Norwich Mich. 1406–7, 1415–16; Norwich chamberlains’ accts., 1384–1448, NCR 18a, f. 47d; treasurers’ acct., 1415–16, NCR 7c. sheriff 1415 – 16; alderman by 1424–?d.; CPR, 1429–36, p. 32. mayor June 1428–9; B. Cozens-Hardy and E.A. Kent, Mayors of Norwich, 22. supervisor Mich. 1433–4; Chamberlains’ accts. NCR 18a, f. 94v. auditor 1436–8. Norwich assembly bk., 1434–91, NCR 16d, ff. 1v, 5v.

Tax collector, Norwich Nov. 1419, Sept. 1432.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Norwich Dec. 1433.

Main residence: Norwich.
Monesle, Monesley, Mozeley, Muslee
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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MONE (MOHUN), John (c.1403-79), of Hammoon and Wolfeton, Dorset and Salisbury, Wilts.

Family and Education
b. c.1403, Honour of Dunster (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxiii), 114, 130-1. s. and h. of John Mone of Hammoon by Sibyl, ?da. of William Fillol† of Langton Matravers, Dorset. Dorset Feet of Fines (Dorset Recs. x), ii. 270-1. J. Hutchins, Dorset, i. 273 is the source for Sibyl being a da. of William Filiol, and thus aunt of the William Filoll† who died in 1416: The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 73-74. m. Joan, da. of John Jordan*, 1da. d.v.p. Dist. Dorset 1430, 1439, 1457, 1458.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Dorset 1429, 1431, 1435, 1442, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1450, 1453, 1455, 1467, 1472, 1478, Wilts. 1442.

Commr. of inquiry, Dorset Apr. 1428 (contributors to a subsidy), Hants, Surr., Suss., Wilts. Apr. 1468 (piracy), Dorset Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dorset, Wilts. Dec. 1475 (treasons, heresies); array, Dorset Oct. 1469, June 1470, Apr. 1471; arrest July 1473; gaol delivery, Dorchester Mar. 1475, Dorchester, Old Sarum, Salisbury Dec. 1475; C66/535, m. 20d, 537, m. 10d. to take musters, Weymouth June 1475.

Member of the council of 48, Salisbury by 6 June 1444–?aft. 1471; First General Entry Bk. nos. 389–90, 405, 417, 420–1, 423–35, 337–9, 442–5, 450–3, 455, 458; Wilts. Hist. Centre, Salisbury city recs., ledger bk. 2, G23/1/2, ff.4v, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16v, 18v, 19, 25v-39, 41, 49v, 52v, 55, 59v, 64, 69, 71, 73, 74, 103. He was usually called ‘gentleman’ to distinguish him from his fellow member, John Mone the fuller. The latter had been a member of the 48 since 1440 or earlier, and in 1445 paid a fine of £4 to be excused the offices of alderman or reeve: First General Entry Bk. nos. 358, 401. The fuller is not specifically referred to aft. 1455: ledger bk. 2, f. 15. Another John Mone was active as a member of the 48 in the late 1470s and in 1480: ibid. ff. 138–140v. auditor 26 June 1444–5, 1446 – 47, 19 Oct. 1454, Jan. 1465; First General Entry Bk. nos. 390, 393, 405; Salisbury ledger bk. 2, ff. 9v, 73v. alderman 2 Nov. 1461–2. Salisbury ledger bk. 2, ff. 54v, 55.

J.p. Dorset 7 Dec. 1470–d. Calendars of the commissions of Apr. 1478 and Jan. 1479 wrongly call him John More: C66/542, mm. 26d, 29d; CPR, 1476–85, p. 559.

Steward, Dorchester prob. by Apr. 1474–d. Dorchester Recs. ed. Mayo, 296–8, 308, 442–3; Dorset RO, Bloxworth mss, D/BLX/T51/12.

Main residences: Hammoon; Wolfeton, Dorset; Salisbury, Wilts.
Mohun, Mawne, Mawyn, Mohune, Moigne, Moone, Moun, Mowene
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Commons 1422-1461
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MONE, Geoffrey (d.1448), of London and ?Corscombe, Som.

Family and Education
m. Alice, ?at least 1ch. Lambeth Palace Lib., Reg. Stafford, f. 162v.
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Apparitor-general to the bp. of Bath and Wells 24 Aug. 1438-Apr. 1444. Reg. Stafford, ii (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxii), 688; Reg. Bekynton, i (Som. Rec. Soc. xlix), 39.

Main residences: London; ?Corscombe, Som.
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MOMPESON, John (d.1500), of Bathampton ‘Wylye’, Wilts.

Family and Education
s. and h. of Robert Mompeson of Bathampton, by Alice, gdda. and h. of Katherine, da. and h. of John Knottingley of Bathampton. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 280-1. Alice was da. and h. of William Godewyn of Gillingham, Dorset, by Elizabeth Bonham: G.J. Kidston, Bonhams of Wilts. and Essex, 34. m. (1) Isabel, da. and coh. of Thomas Drew*, 4s. (1 d.v.p.); (2) Anne; 3 da. Dist. 1458, 1465.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Wilts. 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1455, 1467.

Verderer, Clarendon forest, Wilts. bef. Apr. 1461. CCR, 1461–7, p. 44.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Old Sarum castle Sept. 1464, Sept. 1473, C66/508, m. 15d; 531, m. 5d. Oct. 1495; arrest, Som. July 1472; to take assize of novel disseisin, Wilts. Aug. 1472; C66/530, m. 31d. of inquiry, June 1473 (lands of Philip Beaumont), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Sept., Dec. 1473 (concealments), June 1474 (felons and concealment of their goods), Hants, Wilts. Mar. 1478 (estates of George, duke of Clarence), Wilts. Aug. 1483 (treasons, insurrections, rebellions), May 1485 (riots), Aug. 1486, Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts. Nov. 1492 (concealments); to assess alien subsidies, Wilts. Apr. 1483; of array May, Dec. 1484; to assess and appoint collectors of the parlty. subsidy Jan. 1488; take musters Dec. 1488, Feb. 1489.

Controller, customs and subsidies, Poole 25 Oct. 1470–29 June 1471. CPR, 1467–77, pp. 230, 268.

J.p. Wilts. 17 Dec. 1470 – June 1471, 4 Apr. 1472 – Nov. 1475, 23 Nov. 1478 – d.

Sheriff, Wilts. 5 Nov. 1477–8, 5 Nov. 1481–2.

Main residence: Bathampton ‘Wylye’, Wilts.
Mompenson, Mompesson, Mompynson, Monpesson, Monpysson, Mounpesson, Mounpisson, Mountpesson, Munpesson
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Commons 1422-1461
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MOLYNEUX, Thomas, of London.

Family and Education
educ. G. Inn.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Surr. 1447, Essex 1453.

Steward, city of London in Southwark by June 1453 – ?; the priory and hospital of St. John of Jerusalem’s manor of Newington Barrow (now Highbury), Mdx. by May 1460-aft. 3 May 1477. KB27/766, rot. 27; London Metropolitan Archs., Newington Barrow mss, ACC/2844/4, m. 9; 5, m. 18.

J.p. liberty of abbot of St. Albans by 9 Jan. 1456. KB9/283/82.

Main residence: London.
Moleneux, Molinaux
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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MOIGNE, Thomas (d.c.1485), of Clee and North Willingham, Lincs.

Family and Education
s. and h. of Thomas Moigne of Clee. educ. G. Inn. m. (1) Beatrice, da. of John Thoresby of Croxby, Lincs.; (2) Joan (d.1496), da. of Robert Sheffeld*; ?8s. inc. John†.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Lincs. 1442, 1449 (Feb.), 1453, 1467, 1472.

Feodary of duchy of Lancaster in Lincs. 19 July 1443 – 4 Feb. 1452; coroner, feodary, clerk of the market and bailiff of John Kemp, archbishop of York’s liberty of Benniworth, Lincs. 17 June 1445–? Borthwick Inst., Univ. of York, Abps. Reg. 19 (Kemp), f. 171.

Sheriff, Lincs. 9 May 1444 – 4 Nov. 1445.

Commr. of sewers, Lindsey Mar. 1446, Lincs., Notts., Yorks. Feb. 1452, May 1465, Lindsey July 1472, Sept. 1482; of gaol delivery, Grimsby Feb. 1448 (q.), Lincoln castle July 1483; C66/465, m. 15d; 552, m. 8d. inquiry, Lincs. Feb. 1448 (concealments), Notts. Feb. 1450 (riots of William Mering*), Jan. 1453 (offences against priory of Newstead-on-Ancholme), Feb. 1470 (on complaint of wid. of John, Viscount Beaumont); oyer and terminer, Yorks. Feb. 1453 (offences against Joan, wid. of Sir Henry Beaumont); array, Lindsey Sept. 1457, Sept. 1458, Lincs. Dec. 1459, Lindsey May, Dec. 1484; to assign archers, Lincs. Dec. 1457; of weirs, Hunts. June 1460; to assess subsidy, Lindsey July 1463, Apr. 1483 (on aliens), Lincs. Aug. 1483 (on aliens); of arrest May 1472.

J.p.q. Lindsey 12 Nov. 1448 – May 1461, 20 Nov. 1463–70, 21 Aug. 1471 – d.

Controller of customs, Kingston-upon-Hull 10 Feb. 1459 – 31 July 1460.

Main residences: Clee; North Willingham, Lincs.
Moygne, Moynge, Moyngne
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Commons 1422-1461
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MOHUN (MOUN), William, of Bodmin and Bodinnick in Lanteglos-by-Fowey and Trewolsick, Cornw.

Family and Education
s. and h. of Thomas Mohun by Isabel, da. and h. of Richard Eyr (d.1383). J.S. Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 324; CIPM, xviii. 322; JUST1/129/8; H.C. Maxwell Lyte, Hist. Dunster and Fams. Mohun and Luttrell, ii. 480. m. Joan Cavell, Vivian, 324; Maxwell Lyte, ii. 480. 1s. E306/9/5.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cornw. ?1421 (May), ?1427, 1442, 1467.

Main residences: Bodmin; Bodinnick in Lanteglos-by-Fowey; Trewolsick, Cornw.
Mone, Mounce, Mouns
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Commons 1422-1461
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MITFORD, Robert (d.c.1464), of Seghill, Northumb.

Family and Education
prob. 2nd s. of William Mitford† (d.1423) of Molesden in Mitford, Northumb. by Margery (d. aft. 1452), da. of Sir Robert Lisle† (d.1425) of Woodburn, Northumb. m. 1s. 1da. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 746-8; Hist. Northumb. ix. 65.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Northumb. 1429, 1437, 1442, 1447, 1449 (Nov.)

Under sheriff, Northumb. 4 Nov. 1441–6 Nov. 1442 (to John Heron of Crawley); JUST3/54/25. sheriff 8 Nov. 1452 – 5 Nov. 1453.

J.p.q. Northumb. 18 July 1442 – d.

Commr. of inquiry, Norhamshire and Islandshire, Jan. (concealments) Feb. 1453 (felonies), DURH3/44, m. 22. Northumb. Nov. 1454, Feb. 1459 (smuggling), Newcastle-upon-Tyne Feb. 1458 (statutes regulating the export of coal), Northumb. July 1458 (repairs at Roxburgh castle); to assign archers Dec. 1457; of array Dec. 1459.

Main residence: Seghill, Northumb.
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Commons 1422-1461
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MITCHELL, John II, of Oxford.

Family and Education
m. by May 1435, Alice. Bodl. D.D. Harcourt mss, c. 68/38, 39; CP25(1)/191/27/72.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Oxford 1426, 1432, 1433, Oxon. 1433.

Bailiff, Oxford Mich. 1427–8, 1432–3; Oxf. City Docs. (Oxf. Historical Soc. xviii), 180–1; Wood’s Surv. Antiqs. Oxf. iii (ibid. xxxvii), 21; Liber Albus Oxoniensis ed. Ellis, nos. 200, 210. surveyor of nuisances 1446–7. Bodl. Top. Oxon. c. 353, f. 200v.

Main residence: Oxford.
Michell
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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