Bailiff, Wallingford Mich. 1384–5.
BRUGGE, Richard
Commr. of inquiry, Herefs. May 1401 (lands late of Sir Simon Burley), Oct. 1404 (persons trading with Welsh rebels), Jan. 1414 (lollards), May 1414 (shoemakers and tanners), Dec. 1417 (lands of Sir John Oldcastle), Glos. Nov. 1421 (novel disseisin at Nailsworth); array, Herefs. Mar. 1419.
Escheator, Herefs. and adjacent march 9 Nov. 1406–30 Nov. 1407.
Sheriff, Herefs. 4 Nov. 1409 – 29 Nov. 1410, 30 Nov. 1416–10 Nov. 1417.
J.p. Herefs. 9 July 1419 – July 1423.
Steward of Kington and Huntington, Herefs. by Feb. 1421.
He is to be distinguished from John Brugge of Ross-on-Wye, who in 1415 acted as Bp. Mascall of Hereford’s bailiff at Ross, was a juror (with John Brugge of Staunton), in 1431, a Herefordshire elector in 1432 and a tax collector in 1436: Reg. Mascall (Canterbury and York Soc. xxi), 88; Reg. Lacy (ibid. xxii), 25-26; Feudal Aids, ii. 416; C219/14/3. It is less easy to disentangle his career from that of John Brugge of the Lea by Bishop’s Castle, Salop (MP for Salop in 1426), who was apparently a close relation (Herefs. RO, B56/1, f. 98; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 233). The Salop man was, by 1401, a King’s serjeant and yeoman of the chamber, escheator in Salop 1404-5, captain of Ludlow castle 1408, sheriff of Salop 1412-13, and a member of the Shrewsbury guild merchant: Salop Peace Roll ed. Kimball, 86, 90, 112; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), v. 35-54. John of Bishop’s Castle served under John Talbot, Lord Furnival, against Glendower in 1404-8; and in 1414, when Furnival became lieutenant of Ireland, he acted as jt. admiral of his fleet there. He d. 1443, leaving a widow, Joan, and an eldest s. John. Richard Legatt, Talbot’s receiver-general, was an executor of his will, and Talbot himself a supervisor: E101/43/28; Rot. Pat. et Claus. Hib. ed. Tresham, i. 206; CCR, 1429-35 p. 258; CFR, xvii. 234; PCC 16 Rous; A.J. Pollard, ‘The Talbots’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 232-3, 417.
BRUGGE, John (-d.1436)
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery bef. Oct. 1377 – aft.Feb. 1385.
Commr. of oyer and terminer, Bucks. Sept. 1383, Bucks., Herts. July 1403; gaol delivery, Wallingford Sept. 1385, Aylesbury Aug. 1391, Berkhampstead castle May 1394, July 1395, Aylesbury Oct. 1397; inquiry, Bucks. Feb. 1387 (restitution of sums levied to pay archers), Surr. Oct. 1390 (robbery of goods of Geoffrey Chaucer), Bucks. May 1395 (estates late of John, Lord Devereux), Herts. Feb. 1403 (poaching in King’s Langley park), Bucks. Feb. 1404 (extortions, oppressions, conspiracies), Beds., Bucks. June 1404 (concealments); weirs, Bucks. June 1398; array Dec. 1399, Oct. 1403; to collect an aid for the marriage of Princess Blanche Dec. 1401; suppress sedition May 1402; raise royal loans, Beds., Bucks. June 1406.
Surveyor of portage, Aylesbury 16 Feb. 1384–7, 15 May 1388–9.
J.p. Bucks. 18 Sept. 1385 – July 1389, June 1394 – Nov. 1399, May 1401 – d.
King’s coroner and attorney in KB 21 Sept. 1385–27 Nov. 1398.
Steward of King’s Langley 30 Jan. 1395 – aft.Dec. 1399.
Parl. cttee. to oversee the engrossment of the Parliament roll 22 Dec. 1406.
Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 9 Feb.-30 Nov. 1407.
BRUDENELL, Edmund (-d.1425/6)
Mayor, Totnes Nov. 1396 – 98, 1399 – 1400, 1401–3.
BROWNING, Walter
Sheriff, Glos. 17 Nov. 1398–3 Nov. 1399.
Commr. of array, Glos. Nov. 1403; inquiry May 1404 (felonies), Feb. 1405 (forfeited goods), Mar. 1411 (value of Kingswood abbey estates).
Tax collector, Glos. Mar. 1404.
Escheator, Dorset 4 Nov. 1404–1 Dec. 1405.
Usually spelt Brounyng.
BROWNING, John (c.1369-1416)
