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PEYTO, Sir William (c.1394-1464), of Chesterton, Warws.

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b. c.1394, s. and h. of William Peyto (d.1407) of Chesterton by Joan (d.1418), da. of Sir John Thornbury† of Little Munden, Herts. m. (1) c. May 1415, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Robert Francis† (d.1419/20) of Foremark, Derbys.; (2) between 1425 and Mich. 1429, Katherine (fl.1467), da. of Sir John Gresley* by his 1st w.; wid. of Thomas Stafford† (d.1425) of Baginton, Warws., at least 1s. Kntd. by July 1423.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Warws. 1421 (May).

Sheriff, Warws. and Leics. Mich. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430, 8 Nov. 1436 – 7 Nov. 1437.

Commr. Dieppe, Plymouth, Warws. Aug. 1443 – July 1453; to take assize of novel disseisin, Warws. Dec. 1437; of gaol delivery, Warwick castle Nov. 1438, Warwick Jan. 1439. C260/143/27, m. 5; C66/443, mm. 26d, 27d.

Lt. of Aumale under Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, c. 1433; Neufchâtel-en-Bray under John Talbot, Lord Talbot (and later earl of Shrewsbury), 16 May 1434 – bef.Mar. 1436; town and walls of Rouen under the same c. 1441 – 43; capt. of the ‘bastille’ by Dieppe c. June- 15 Aug. 1443; St. Lô by Sept. 1449. A.J. Pollard, John Talbot, 80; A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), ii. pp. cv, cxxvii, cxxxvi.

Lt. general to John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, as marshal of France c.1443. Pollard, 80.

Keeper of the household of Edmund Beaufort, marquess of Dorset, in Normandy c. 1447 – c.49.

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PEYTO, Sir William (c.1394-1464), of Chesterton, Warws.
Main residence: Chesterton, Warws.
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LEE, William, of Framlingham, Suff. and London.

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m. Elizabeth, da. of John Harleston II* by his 1st w. Alice (d.1440), da. of William Clopton (d.1446) of Long Melford, Suff. Add. 19134, ff. 170v-171; PCC 26 Stokton (PROB11/4, f. 203v).
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Suff. 1437, 1467.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Bury St. Edmunds Oct. 1452; C66/476, m. 21d. arrest, Suff. May 1473.

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LEE, William, of Framlingham, Suff. and London.
Main residences: Framlingham, Suff.; London.
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GYMBER, Henry (d.1467), of Diddington, Hunts.

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m. c.1455, Elizabeth (fl.1488), ?da. of – Helwell, Elizabeth had a ‘brother’, John Helwell: C1/15/342. wid. of Robert Flore (d. aft. Oct. 1450), C219/16/1. of Oakham, Rutland, s.p. C1/16/124; PCC 16 Godyn (PROB11/5, f. 127).
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Commr. of gaol delivery, Bedford castle Nov. 1454, Oakham Jan. 1456 (q.), Ramsey Aug. 1457 (q.), May 1462, July 1463 (q.), Nov. 1464, Feb. 1467, Huntingdon Dec. 1461 (q.), Aug. 1465 (q.), Jan. 1467 (q.); C66/479, m. 13d; 481, m. 20d; 483, m. 7d; 499, m. 19d; 506, m. 14d; 509, m. 26d; 515, m. 1d; 492, m. 7d; 513, m. 23d; 516, m. 11d. arrest, Hunts. July 1456, July, Sept. 1458; to assign archers Dec. 1457; of array, Rutland, Hunts. Dec. 1459.

J.p. Hunts. 12 Feb. 1455–d. (q.), Rutland 4 Nov. 1456-Jan. 1459, Cambs. 28 May 1463 – Jan. 1464.

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GYMBER, Henry (d.1467), of Diddington, Hunts.
Main residence: Diddington, Hunts.
Gimber, Kymber
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CULPEPPER, Richard (d.1484), of West Peckham and Ditton, Kent.

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s. and h. of Sir William Culpepper (d.1457) of West Peckham and Aylesford, by Elizabeth, ?da. of William Ferrers, 5th Lord Ferrers of Groby (d.1445). C1/84/2; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 11. m. (1) prob. bef. 1450, Sybil, 3da.; (2) by May 1480, Isabel (d.1527), da. of Otwell Worsley (d.1470), of Southwark, Surr., 1s. 2da. CIPM Hen. VII, i. 820; William Worsley ed. Kleineke and Hovland (London Rec. Soc. xl), 175-6. Dist. Kent 1465. As ‘senior’.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Kent 1453, 1467, 1472.

Commr. of array, Kent Jan. 1460, May 1461, Feb. 1462, Oct. 1469, Feb., Apr. 1470, Mar. 1472, May 1484; to set up beacons Aug. 1461; of oyer and terminer, Kent, Mdx., Surr. July 1463; to supervise the river Medway, Kent Mar. 1483.

Sheriff, Kent 11 Apr. – 9 Nov. 1471.

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CULPEPPER, Richard (d.1484), of West Peckham and Ditton, Kent.
Main residences: West Peckham; Ditton, Kent.
Colepepir, Culpepir, Culpepyr
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Winchelsea

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The surviving records provide a patchy and sometimes contradictory view of the state of Winchelsea’s economy in the period which followed soon after Henry V had decreed that the Port should be reduced in size. Winchelsea had ceased to be a head port for the collection of customs over 40 years earlier, and the two customers appointed for Chichester, in the west of Sussex, were held jointly responsible by the Exchequer for the entire coastline of the county. In practice, however, the two men divided the area between them, with one of the customers having Winchelsea as his base in the east.

Sandwich

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The largest of the Cinque Ports in Kent, Sandwich had a population of some 3,000 in the late fourteenth century. It was also the most prosperous of the confederation’s Ports in the county – notwithstanding exaggerated claims made in the 1380s and again in the first decade of the fifteenth century that the effects of the Hundred Years’ War and the ravages of plague had left Sandwich desolate and ‘so empty and weak that the inhabitants are not able to defend it’.

Rye

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The effects of the attack on Rye by the French in 1377 were still being felt in Henry VI’s reign. Attempts had been made to erect fortifications to prevent such an assault succeeding again, and new building had taken place, albeit outside the walls in preference to restoring the burnt and ruined houses within. Those assessed for a scot in Rye in 1414-15 numbered 138 persons altogether, with the mayor, John Shelley, Robert Onewyn alias Taylor† and one other Portsman taxed at the highest amount of one mark each.

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