Constituency Dates
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1413 (May), 1414 (Nov.), 1415, 1422, 1423
Family and Education
m. Margaret (fl.1451).1 E179/158/54, m. 3.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1414 (Apr.), 1417, 1421 (Dec.), 1425, 1426, 1427, 1429, 1431, 1432, 1435, 1437, 1442, Northumb. 1423, 1429, 1431, 1437.

Commr. co. Dur., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb. May 1414 – Dec. 1446; of gaol delivery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne June 1428, June 1429, July 1430, July 1431, July 1432, July 1433, June 1434, June 1435, July 1438, May, June 1440 (q.), June 1441 (q.), June, Aug. 1443 (q.); inquiry May 1438 (value of The Christopher of Aberdeen), Mar. 1445 (concealments of customs).2 C66/423, m. 8d; 424, m. 6d; 427, m. 14d; 430, m. 9d; 431, m. 4d; 434, m. 16d; 435, m. 2d; 437, m. 10d; 442, m. 27d; 446, m. 5d; 450, m. 32d; 456, m. 25d; JUST3/54/4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 21, 23, 27; R. Welford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, i. 300; CIMisc. viii. 191.

Controller of customs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 10 Nov. 1418 – 28 Nov. 1419.

Sheriff, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Mich. 1420–1; alderman and j.p. 1427 – 30, 1431 – 32, 1434 – 35, 1436 – 37, 1442–3;3 JUST3/54/4, 6, 9, 11, 17, 27; C219/15/1. mayor 1435 – 36, 1438 – 39.

J.p. Northumb. 20 July 1424 – May 1433, 16 May 1433-July 1437 (q.), 18 July 1437-Mar. 1439, 1 Mar. 1439-July 1442 (q.), 18 July 1442-Nov. 1447, Thomas Langley, bp. of Durham’s liberty of Norhamshire and Islandshire 1 Sept. 1431 – 8 Jan. 1438.

Steward of the prior of Tynemouth’s liberty of Tynemouth 1426 – 34.

Justice of assize and gaol delivery, bp. of Durham’s liberty of Norhamshire and Islandshire 1 Sept. 1431–8 Jan. 1438.4 DURH3/36, mm. 4–5; 42, m. 1.

Escheator, Northumb. 5 Nov. 1432–3.

Envoy for the ratification of the truce with Scotland May 1438.

Address
Main residence: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.
biography text

Although Whelpington was a prominent local lawyer, there is little else to be added to the earlier biography.5 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 826-7. His career was a long one for he was active as an attorney in the court of common pleas as early as 1402. From 1427 to 1444 he was retained as a councillor by John Wessington, prior of Durham; and in 1431 he was named as an executor by Sir William Claxton of Claxton (county Durham) but declined to act. 6 CP40/567, rot. 126; B. Dobson, Durham Priory, 131; B.A. Barker, ‘The Claxtons’ (Univ. of Teeside Ph.D. thesis, 2003), 27, 134-5. His widow was alive as late as 1451, when she was assessed in Newcastle to a subsidy at an annual income of £5.7 E179/158/54, m. 3.

Author
D.I.G.
S.J.P.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. E179/158/54, m. 3.
  • 2. C66/423, m. 8d; 424, m. 6d; 427, m. 14d; 430, m. 9d; 431, m. 4d; 434, m. 16d; 435, m. 2d; 437, m. 10d; 442, m. 27d; 446, m. 5d; 450, m. 32d; 456, m. 25d; JUST3/54/4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 21, 23, 27; R. Welford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, i. 300; CIMisc. viii. 191.
  • 3. JUST3/54/4, 6, 9, 11, 17, 27; C219/15/1.
  • 4. DURH3/36, mm. 4–5; 42, m. 1.
  • 5. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 826-7.
  • 6. CP40/567, rot. 126; B. Dobson, Durham Priory, 131; B.A. Barker, ‘The Claxtons’ (Univ. of Teeside Ph.D. thesis, 2003), 27, 134-5.
  • 7. E179/158/54, m. 3.