Family and Education
b. 1346, s. of William Browe (d. by 1384) of Tushingham by his w. Alice, da. of Kenrick Rathbone of Tushingham. m. (1) by 1363, at least 1s. d.v.p.; (2) by Jan. 1390, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Christopher Folville of Teigh by his w. Margaret, da. and coh. of Roger Cheyne of Salop, at least 2s. inc. Robert; (3) by 1392, Blanche. Kntd. by Mar. 1376.CP25(1)/192/7/10; Scrope v. Grosvenor, i. 82, 256-7; ii. 266; G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, ii (2), 655-6; VCH Rutland, ii. 153, 232-3; Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc. xi. 463-4; CCR, 1374-7, p. 331; Cheshire RO, Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley mss, DCHC/863, 873-4, 882.
Offices Held
J.p. Rutland 15 July 1389 – Nov. 1397, 28 Nov. 1399 – d.
Commr. of inquiry, Norf., Suff. Oct. 1390 (concealments), Rutland Aug. 1392 (value of the manor of Market Overton), Northants., Lincs. Mar. 1400 (allegations against John Pay), Rutland Feb. 1402 (countess of Oxford’s title to the manor of Market Overton); array Mar. 1392, Dec. 1399; to raise archers for Richard lI’s Irish expedition, Cheshire Apr. 1399; keep the peace in the hundred of Broxton Nov. 1399; value the Cheshire estates of the dowager countess of Salisbury and deliver them to her attorneys Dec. 1399; prevent the spread of treasonous rumours, Rutland May 1402.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Teigh and Woodhead, Rutland and Tushingham, Cheshire.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
BROWE, Sir Hugh (1346-1403)
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