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CHIKSOND, John, of Huntingdon.

Family and Education
m. by Oct. 1438, Alice; ?1s. CP25(1)/94/36/27.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Huntingdon 1429, 1437, 1442, 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1467, 1472, Hunts. 1450.

Bailiff, Huntingdon Mich. 1429–30, 1435 – 37, 1450 – 52, 1457–8; JUST3/219/5; 220/1; Add. Chs. 33544–5, 33566; C219/16/1; Hunts. Archs., H/1 (deed of 3 Oct. 1451). coroner 1436. JUST3/220/1; Add. Chs. 33542–3.

Main residence: Huntingdon.
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CHIDEOCK, Sir John (1402-50), of Chideock, Dorset.

Family and Education
b. Chideock, 1 Nov. 1402, C139/8/73. s. and h. of Sir John Chideock† (c.1375-1415) of Chideock by Eleanor (c.1387-1433), da. and h. of Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn† of Caundle Haddon, Dorset. m. by 25 Mar. 1425, C139/139/26. Katherine (d. 2 June 1461), ? da of Ralph, Lord Lumley (d.1400), CP, xii (1), 303; J. Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 257. 2da. Kntd. Leicester 19 May 1426. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 132.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Dorset 1423.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Dorset Dec. 1433; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; of array May 1435, Jan. 1436, Mar. 1443; to assess a tax Jan. 1436; of gaol delivery, Dorchester Sept. 1437, Aug. 1438, Sept. 1441, Feb. 1446; C66/441, m. 35d; 442, m. 15d; 451, m. 39d; 461, m. 8d. to treat for loans Dorset Mar. 1439, Nov. 1440, Called Thomas in error: CPR, 1436–41, p. 504. Mar., May, Aug. 1442, Sept. 1449; for payment of parlty. subsidies Feb. 1441; of inquiry, Bristol, Dorset, Som. Feb. 1448 (concealments).

J.p. Dorset 18 May 1435 – Oct. 1439, 17 Nov. 1439 – d.

Sheriff, Som. and Dorset 9 Nov. 1447–8.

Main residence: Chideock, Dorset.
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CHICHELE, William, of Bedford.

Family and Education
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Bedford 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1467, 1472.

Bailiff, Bedford 1449 – 50, 1451 – 52, 1459 – 60; mayor 1464 – 65, 1470 – 71, 1475–6. E368/222, rot. 9; 224, rot. 9; Add. Ch. 56683; C244/99/37; Beds. and Luton Archs., Bedford bor. recs., Bor. BY89.

Main residence: Bedford.
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CHEYNE, Laurence (c.1396-1461), of Fen Ditton, Cambs.

Family and Education
b. c.1396, He was 40 years and more in mid 1436: CIPM, xxiv. 671-3. 2nd s. and event. h. of Sir William Cheyne (d.c.1397) The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 87. of Fen Ditton by Katherine (c.1372-1436), CIPM, xxiv. 671-2. da. and event. coh. of Sir Laurence Pavenham† (c.1334-1399), of Pavenham, Beds. CP, v. 78-79; VCH Beds. iii. 77. m. by May 1422, CPR, 1416-22, p. 437. It is worth noting that Cheyne had become a j.p. in Herts., where he acquired interests in the right of his wife, in the previous Feb. Elizabeth, da. of John Cockayne (d.1429), PCC 12 Luffenham (PROB11/3, ff. 91-92); The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 609-10. j.c.p. of Bury Hatley, Beds., wid. of Sir Philip Butler (d.1420), of Watton, Herts., 1s. John Cheyne II*, 3da. VCH Cambs. ii. 345, 381; CIPM, xxi. 532-40; J.S. Roskell, Speakers, 284n; Add. 38123, f. 121v; Notts. Archs., Portland mss, DD/4P/4/21. Dist. 1439.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cambs. 1426, 1433, 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1450, 1455.

J.p. Herts. 12 Feb. 1422 – July 1424, Cambs. 20 July 1424 – Apr. 1429, 10 Mar. 1437 – July 1439, 6 July 1441 – Aug. 1460, Cambridge 21 Aug. 1437 – Oct. 1438.

Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 13 Nov. 1423 – 5 Nov. 1424.

Sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 10 Feb. – 4 Nov. 1430, 7 Nov. 1435–6.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Cambs. Jan. 1436, Mar. 1442; of array Jan. 1436, Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459; inquiry Jan. 1439 (forestallers and regrators of corn), June 1443 (behaviour of Henry Hatewronge), June 1444 (great bridge at Cambridge), bef. Sept. 1444 (dispute between members of Tyrell family), A comm. cancelled on 17 Sept. 1444: CPR, 1441–6, p. 296. Cambs., Hunts. Feb. 1448 (concealments); to treat for loans, Cambs. Mar. 1439, Mar., May, Aug. 1442, June 1446, Sept. 1449, Cambs., Hunts. Dec. 1452; of gaol delivery, Cambridge castle Mar. 1446, Mar. 1452, Dec. 1458, Cambridge, Dec. 1458; C66/462, m. 35d; 474, m. 3d; 486, m. 13d. to assess subsidy, Cambs. Aug. 1450; of oyer and terminer Sept. 1450 (treasons of Thomas Hylles of Fordham); to assign archers Dec. 1457.

Commr. of gaol delivery, for the bp. of Ely, Ely Apr. 1448. C66/465, m. 6d.

Main residence: Fen Ditton, Cambs.
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CHEYNE, Sir John II (d.1467), of Shurland in Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

Family and Education
s. of William Cheyne† (d.1441) of Shurland by Eleanor, da. and coh. of John Salerne† (d.1415) of Rye and Iden, Suss. m. c.1439, Eleanor (fl.1474), da. and h. of Sir Robert Shotesbrooke* by his 1st w., 8s. (1 d.v.p.) inc. John Cheyne†, 1da. Kntd. bef. Jan. 1446. CP40/740, rot. 129d.
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Attestor parlty. election, Kent 1429.

King’s serjeant-at-arms by Apr. 1445 – ?

Commr. of inquiry, Kent Apr. 1445 (piracy), Calais Feb. 1453 (judgement before the mayor and aldermen), Kent Apr. 1453 (theft of subsidies granted by the clergy), Feb. 1454 (concealments), Mar. 1457 (unlawful gatherings), Sept. 1458 (governance of the hospital of St. Mary, Ospringe), Mar. 1459 (piracy); to treat for loans Sept. 1449; array Apr. 1450, Feb. 1452, Aug. 1456, Aug., Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459, Jan., Feb. 1460, Canterbury Jan. 1460, Herts., Kent, Mdx., Surr., Suss. June 1460; to take musters, Dover Dec. 1451, Sandwich Dec. 1459, May 1460; of arrest, Kent Dec. 1452; sewers Apr. 1453, May 1455; oyer and terminer Nov. 1457 (treasons of Thomas Walter*), Essex, Kent, Suff. Sept. 1458, Kent Mar. 1460, Essex, Kent, Mdx., Suss. June 1460; to assign archers, Kent Dec. 1457; confiscate possessions of Yorkist rebels Oct. 1459.

J.p. Kent 28 Dec. 1447 – Nov. 1460.

Victualler of Calais 27 Oct. 1451–3 Dec. 1459. E101/194/10; 195/11; DKR, xlviii. 389.

Steward to Queen Margaret of the lordships of Milton and Marden, Kent by Mich. 1452. KB27/776, rex rot. 28d; DL29/75/1495, m. 1.

Sheriff, Kent 4 Nov. 1454–5.

Parlty. cttee. to investigate the finances of the garrison of Calais 1455. PROME, xii. 337–8.

Constable, Queenborough castle, Kent 4 Feb. 1458-Mar. 1461. CPR, 1452–61, p. 415; 1461–7, p. 148.

Main residence: Shurland in Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
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CHEYNE, Sir John I (c.1390-1468), of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.

Family and Education
b. c.1390, s. and h. of Roger Cheyne† of Drayton Beauchamp. m. (1) bef. Nov. 1445, Joan ?da. of Sir Robert Fitzmarmaduke, ?1s. d.v.p. ; (2) by May 1463, CP40/824, rot. 353d. Agnes (d.1494), da. of William Lexham, by Margaret, sis. of Sir William Oldhall*, s.p. Kntd. bef. Oct. 1420.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks. 1427, 1433, 1437, 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1467.

J.p. Bucks. 12 Feb. 1422 – July 1424, 8 Feb. 1457 – July 1459, Herts. 1 Dec. 1455-c.1459.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 13 Nov. 1423 – 6 Nov. 1424.

Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 6 Nov. 1424 – 26 Jan. 1426.

Commr. Bucks., Herts., Aylesbury Jan. 1436 – Oct. 1467.

Main residence: Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.
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CHEYNE, John II (c.1423-89), of Fen Ditton, Cambs.

Family and Education
b. c. 1423, C140/6/50. s. and h. of Laurence Cheyne*. m. (1) bef. 28 May 1449, CPR, 1446-52, pp. 258-9. Elizabeth (d. bef. July 1489), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Rempston† (d.1458) of Rempstone and Bingham, Notts., 2s. 1da.; (2) —. CIPM Hen. VII, i. 568-74; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 194; PCC 24 Milles (PROB11/8, f. 199). Dist. 1465; Kntd. 23 May 1465. Letters and Pprs. Illust. Wars of English ed. Stevenson, ii. [784]. He is erroneously listed in W.A. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 135 as ‘John Cheney of Canterbury’.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cambs. 1450, 1467, 1472, 1478.

Escheator, Cambs. and Hunts. 4 Nov. 1446 – 3 Nov. 1447.

Commr. of inquiry, Cambridge June 1461, July 1478 (the great bridge), Cambs., Herts. Oct. 1461 (alleged extortions of bailiffs of Litlington and ‘Stoneden’), Cambs. Mar. 1468 (escapes of felons from prisons), Oct. 1470 (felons, murderers and other offenders), Mar., Apr. 1478 (lands and possessions of George, duke of Clarence); oyer and terminer Dec. 1461, Aug. 1463, Oct. 1470; gaol delivery, Cambridge castle Dec. 1461, Mar. 1468, Nov. 1472, Mar., May, Oct. 1473, Jan. 1478, Sept. 1481, Apr. 1482; C66/493, m. 9d; 521, m. 20d; 530, m. 25d; 531, mm. 4d, 9d, 14d; 541, m. 18d; 548, m. 6d; 549, m. 13d. to assess subsidy, Cambs. July 1463, Apr. 1483; of array May 1471, Mar. 1472; sewers, Norf. July 1478, Hunts., Lincs., Norf. Aug. 1480, But vacated: CPR, 1476–85, p. 215. Cambs., Hunts., Lincs., Northants. July 1486.

J.p. Cambs. 4 July 1461 – Nov. 1480, 18 Feb. 1481 – Dec. 1483.

Ambassador to the Hanseatic League 11 June-Oct. 1465. C.L. Scofield, Edw. IV, i. 391–2.

Sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 7 Nov. 1474 – 4 Nov. 1475.

Main residence: Fen Ditton, Cambs.
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CHEYNE, John I (d.c.1447), of Chenies, Bucks. and Cogenhoe, Northants.

Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir John Cheyne† of Chenies. m. (1) bef. Mar. 1399, Agnes (b.c.1379), da. of William Cogenhoe (d.1389) of Cogenhoe by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir John Wolverton of Wolverton, Bucks., sis. and h. of William Cogenhoe (d.1399), 2s.; (2) by Dec. 1420, Isabel (c.1382-4 Sept. 1442), er da. and coh. of John Frome† (d.1404) of Buckingham, wid. of Bernard Missenden (d.1409) of Great Missenden, Bucks. and of Hugh Mortimer† (d.1416) of Weldon, Northants., 1s.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks., 1419, [1429], 1432, 1437.

Commr. Bucks., Herts., Mdx. Mar. 1392 – July 1440.

Tax collector, Bucks. Mar. 1404.

J.p. Bucks. 12 Feb. 1422 – July 1424.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 15 Jan. – 12 Dec. 1426, 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431.

Main residences: Chenies, Bucks.; Cogenhoe, Northants.
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CHEYNE, Edmund (1402-30), of Brooke, Wilts.

Family and Education
b. Salisbury, 21 Mar. 1402, CIPM, xxii. 64, 366. s. and h. of Sir William Cheyne† (c.1374-1420), of Brooke by Cecily (d.1430), yr. da. and coh. of Sir John Stretch† of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel, Devon. m. ? Feb. 1423, Alice (d. 11 Mar. 1448), CPR, 1446-52, p. 155. da. of Sir Humphrey Stafford*; sis. of Sir Richard* and William Stafford*, 3da. Kntd. Nov. 1429.
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Commr. to treat for loans, Dorset, Som., Wilts. Mar. 1430.

Main residence: Brooke, Wilts.
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CHEVERELL, Walter (d.1481), of Upper Sturthill and Chantmarle, Dorset.

Family and Education
s. and h. of John Cheverell† of Chilfrome and Upper Sturthill, by Joan, da. and coh. of John Chantmarle of East Stoke and Chantmarle. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 544-5; Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 44; J. Hutchins, Hist. Dorset, i. 414 (incorrectly naming his father as William Cheverell). educ. Winchester Coll. 1430-3. Winchester Coll. muns., typescript list of commoners, comp. Leach, 23; Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. ed. Emden, i. 409. m. bef. Apr. 1440, Christine (d. 20 Oct. 1499), da. of Henry Russell alias Gascoigne* by his 1st w., Recs. Dorchester ed. Mayo, 299-300 (wrongly ascribed to 18 Edw. IV instead of 18 Hen. VI); G. Scott Thomson, Two Cents. Fam. Hist. 315. 1s. Dist. Dorset 1457.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Dorset 1455.

Commr. of inquiry, Dorset Oct. 1470 (felonies, homicides), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dorset, Wilts. Dec. 1475 (treasons, heresies); gaol delivery, Old Sarum, Salisbury Dec. 1475. C66/537, m. 10d.

J.p.q. Dorset 7 Dec. 1470–1, j.p. 30 May 1473 – d.

Main residences: Upper Sturthill; Chantmarle, Dorset.
Chivarell, Sacheverell
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