SAMPSON, Richard

Constituency	Dates
Maldon	[], 1427

Offices Held

Wardman, Maldon Jan. 1405–6, 1407 – 09, 1412 – 13, 1414 – 15, 1416 – 22, 1423 – 25, 1426 – 29, 1431 – 32, 1435 – 37, 1438 – 45; constable 1409 – 10; chamberlain 1416 – 17, 1432 – 33, 1440 – 44; clerk of the market 1433 – 34, 1438 – 39.

Address

Main residence: Maldon, Essex.

biography text

More may be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 298.

Before entering Parliament, Sampson quarrelled violently with a fellow burgess, Roger Bawde*. In 1416 a borough court found that he had attacked Bawde, from whom he drawn blood with a broken bolt (petulione), and that Bawde had assaulted him with a knife. It appears that the court held Sampson mainly to blame for the fracas, since it amerced him 12d. and Bawde only 3d.2 Essex RO, Maldon bor. recs., ct. roll, 1415-17, D/B 3/3/10, m. 7.

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Notes

1. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 298.
2. Essex RO, Maldon bor. recs., ct. roll, 1415-17, D/B 3/3/10, m. 7.