Family and Education
b. between 1336 and 1340, s. of Sir John Colville (d.1360) of Newton by Sibyl, da. of William Weston of Thorpe, Norf. m. bef. 1365, Alice (c.1340-bef. 1394), da. and h. of John Lisle (d.1361), of Fulbourn, Cambs. and Street in Lympne, Kent by his w. Millicent, 2s. 1da. Kntd. bef. Dec. 1360.
Offices Held
Commr. of sewers, coast between Tydd St. Giles and Chatteris, Cambs. Oct. 1367, Cambs. May 1373, marshland, Norf. Feb. 1377, Mar. 1378, Mar. 1388, July 1391, Isle of Ely Apr., Oct. 1377, Nov. 1382, June 1391, Elm, Cambs. Apr., May 1392; array, Cambs. Apr., July 1377, Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392; to put down rebellion, Cambs., Norf. July 1381; make proclamation prohibiting price rises in the sale of arms and armour, Cambs. Sept. 1386; of arrest, Norf. 1393.
J.p. Cambs. 6 Dec. 1375 – May 1380.
Tax collector, Cambs. Nov. 1377, Dec. 1384.
Tax surveyor, Cambs. Mar. 1381.
Main residences: Newton, Cambs.; Walsoken, Norf.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
COLVILLE, Sir John (c.1337-1394)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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