SETTER, Richard

Constituency Dates
Wells [], []
Family and Education
m. 1410, Christine Plomer, wid. of John Blithe† of Wells.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Som. 1419, Wells 1419, 1421 (May), 1421 (Dec.), 1425, 1426, 1427, 1429, 1431, 1432.

Constable of the peace, Wells Mich. 1414–15; master 1417 – 19, 1425 – 26; auditor 1422 – 23, 1426–7.1 Som. Archs., Wells recs., convocation act bk. 1378–1450, pp. 206, 214, 218, 250, 254.

Tax collector, Som. Nov. 1416.

Address
Main residence: Wells, Som.
biography text

More may be added to the earlier biography.2 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 338-9.

Setter alias Milers practised the craft of a jeweller. He traded across the south-western region, and may indeed have specialized in ecclesiastical ornaments. In 1448 he was one of the men named by the Exeter mayor, John Shillingford*, in the course of that city’s dispute with the cathedral authorities, as having been unlawfully charged toll by the dean and chapter on the goods he had brought to sell.3 Letters and Pprs. Shillingford (Cam. Soc. ser. 2, ii), 93.

It was probably in connexion with the tangled affairs of his wife’s first husband, John Blithe, that he was in 1425 sued by one Edmund Martyn and his wife Joan for return of a box of deeds and muniments.4 CP40/657, rot. 186.

Author
Alternative Surnames
Milers
Notes
  • 1. Som. Archs., Wells recs., convocation act bk. 1378–1450, pp. 206, 214, 218, 250, 254.
  • 2. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 338-9.
  • 3. Letters and Pprs. Shillingford (Cam. Soc. ser. 2, ii), 93.
  • 4. CP40/657, rot. 186.