Under clerk of the Receipt of the Exchequer 12 Dec. 1390–1404; clerk of the Receipt 2 Mar. 1405 – 9 Dec. 1410; under treasurer to Henry, Lord Scrope of Masham, 30 Sept. 1410 – 16 Dec. 1411, to Thomas, earl of Arundel, 21 Mar. 1413–19 Dec. 1416.
Commr. to requisition horses for Queen Isabella’s return to France, London area May 1401; audit the accounts of Calais July 1414;
J.p. Surr. 1 July 1411–23.
Escheator, Surr. and Suss. 8 Dec. 1416 – 30 Nov. 1417, 26 Feb.-6 Nov. 1424.
Bailiff, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, for Queen Joan bef. 1419.
Sheriff, Kent 23 Nov. 1419–16 Nov. 1420.
Keeper of the King’s council house at Westminster to d.
There is at present no evidence to connect our MP with John Burgh III, who sat with him in the Parliaments of 1413 (May) and 1415 as representative for Rutland, and who was later returned for Leicestershire. Nor does he appear to have belonged to the Yorkshire family of Burgh (Yorks. Arch. Jnl. xxx. 334-43), although it is easy to confuse him with the John Burgh whose name appears regularly on royal commissions in the North Riding during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. The problem of identification is further compounded by the activities of John Burgh, citizen and vintner of London, who, again, cannot always be distinguished from the subject of this biography.
BURGH, John II (-d.1434)