Constituency Dates
Norwich [1407], [1410], [1415], [1417], [1420], [1421 (May)], [1421 (Dec.)], 1422
Family and Education
s. of William Dunston of Norwich by Cecily, da. of Cecily Lopham of Norwich. m. (1) bef. Apr. 1396, Christine, 1s.; (2) Margaret.
Offices Held

Treasurer, Norwich Mich. 1396–7; bailiff 1399 – 1400; overseer of the revenues 4 July 1406–7.

Tax collector, Norwich May 1416.

Address
Main residence: Norwich.
biography text

More can be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 809-10.

It was in relation to the ongoing jurisdictional dispute between their city and Norwich priory that Dunston and his fellow MP of 1422, Richard Moneslee*, paid a fee to the coroner of the court of King’s bench, Thomas Greswold, in London.2 Norf. RO, Norwich city recs., treasurers’ acct. 1422-3, NCR 7d.

Dunston’s son and heir, Nicholas, entered the service of the wealthy mercer, Robert Toppe*, whom a Norwich jury indicted at sessions of oyer and terminer in the summer of 1441. The jurors alleged that in the previous March Toppe, then mayor of Norwich, had abused his powers by ordering Nicholas to arrest the mason, John Everard, within St. Martin’s church in the city.3 KB9/240/26.

Author
C.E.M.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 809-10.
  • 2. Norf. RO, Norwich city recs., treasurers’ acct. 1422-3, NCR 7d.
  • 3. KB9/240/26.