SKINNER, John I

Constituency	Dates
Hythe	[]1The return lists the Members for Hythe as Henry Philpot and Henry Tropham (OR, i. 293), but local records show it was Skinner, not Tropham, who received payment with Philpot for attending the Parliament: Hythe jurats’ bk. D, ff. 10, 41. Tropham, a fishmonger, had served as jurat of Hythe in 1407-9 and 1412-14; Hythe Reg. 1, f. 23; jurats’ bks. C, ff. 1, 4, 46, 50, D, f. 9., [1423], 1425, 1427

Constituency

Dates

Family and Education

Offices Held

Address

Main residence: Hythe, Kent.

biography text

More may be added to the earlier biography.4 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386.

Last recorded as a jurat in July 1430,5 Hythe recs., hundred ct. pprs., 1398-1445, H 1059. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386, wrongly states that he was still a jurat in 1432. Skinner died soon afterwards, for it was as his widow that Margaret Skinner was exempted from parliamentary taxation in Worth hundred (probably for property in West Hythe) in the following September.6 E179/225/48/61. In August 1431 Margaret took action in the bailiff’s court at Hythe against Richard Rye*, her late husband’s fellow MP in 1427, claiming that he had thrown dung on to her property in Middle Ward.7 H 1018, f. 105.

Author

Volume

Notes

1. The return lists the Members for Hythe as Henry Philpot and Henry Tropham (OR, i. 293), but local records show it was Skinner, not Tropham, who received payment with Philpot for attending the Parliament: Hythe jurats’ bk. D, ff. 10, 41. Tropham, a fishmonger, had served as jurat of Hythe in 1407-9 and 1412-14; Hythe Reg. 1, f. 23; jurats’ bks. C, ff. 1, 4, 46, 50, D, f. 9.
2. E179/225/48/61.
3. E. Kent Archs., Hythe recs., jurats’ ct. bk. 1421–41, H 1018, ff. 13, 15, 38, 46, 50v, 51, 62, 73v, 83, 90v.
4. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386.
5. Hythe recs., hundred ct. pprs., 1398-1445, H 1059. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 386, wrongly states that he was still a jurat in 1432.
6. E179/225/48/61.
7. H 1018, f. 105.