STOKES, Sir Robert, of Little Gidding and Coppingford, Hunts.
Family and Education
m. by 1378, Amy (d. by 1408), da. of Richard Eye and — Dengaine of Little Gidding and Copingford, wid. of Adam Morewyk (d. bef. 1361) and Gilbert Haysard, s.p. Kntd. by 26 June 1376.Hunts. Feet of Fines (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxvii), 80, 93, 94; VCH Hunts. iii. 37, 54 (where it is mistakenly stated that Amy Stokes died in 1390); CPR, 1374-7, p. 281.
Offices Held
Assessor of a tax, Hunts. May 1379; collector Dec. 1385.
Commr. to enforce labour services, Cambs., Hunts. July 1381 (estates of Thorney abbey and Ramsey abbey); of oyer and terminer, Hunts. Nov. 1381 (robbery of the prior of St. Mary’s Huntingdon), Nov. 1385 (withdrawal of labour services at Leighton); to suppress the insurgents of 1381, Dec. 1381, Mar., Dec. 1382; of array Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392.
Main residences: Little Gidding; Coppingford, Hunts.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
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STOKES, Sir Robert
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Oxford 1644
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