BRABAN, John

Constituency	Dates
Dover	[]1He also represented New Romney for 16 days: Rommey assmt. bk. 2, f. 88d., [], [], [], [], 1422, [1423], 1431, 1435

Family and Education

prob. s. of Robert Braban of Dover.

Offices Held

Dep. mayor, Dover July 1418, Aug. 1421, Oct. 1423, Aug. 1425; jurat Sept. 1421–2, 1424 – 25, 1426 – 27, 1428 – 30, 1432 – 33, 1437 – 38, 1439 – 42; dep. bailiff Aug. 1423; mayor Sept. 1425–6, 1427 – 28, 1433 – 36.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept. – Nov. 1413, 1419.

Address

Main residence: Dover, Kent.

biography text

A little more may be added to the earlier biography.2 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 324. In 1433, as one of the keepers of the passage between Dover and Calais, Braban was rewarded for organizing the transport of the duke of Gloucester and other lords of the king’s council to France.3 E403/709, m. 7. As a freeman of the Cinque Ports he was able to claim exemption from parliamentary subsidies on property in Bewsborough hundred in 1416 and in Newchurch hundred in 1434.4 E179/124/88, rot. 7; 234/2.

Author

D.I.G.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Notes

1. He also represented New Romney for 16 days: Rommey assmt. bk. 2, f. 88d.
2. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 324.
3. E403/709, m. 7.
4. E179/124/88, rot. 7; 234/2.