CROFT, Sir John (d.1419/20), of Dalton, Lancs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of John Croft (d.c.1371) of Dalton. m. (1) by 1377, Maud, 3s. 2da.; (2) Joan. Kntd. by 8 Nov. 1384.VCH Lancs. viii. 184; DKR, xxxii. 349; CPR, 1381-5, p. 482; Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. v. 195.

Offices Held

Collector of a tax, Lancs. Mar., June 1371, Dec. 1373, Dec. 1382.DKR, xl. 522.

Commr. to make an arrest, Lancs. July 1375; of array Feb. 1384;Ibid. 526. to raise archers for John of Gaunt’s expedition to Spain Mar. 1386;Ibid. 525. of inquiry Feb. 1382, Mar. 1387 (loss of a Genoese ship), Lancs., Yorks., Westmld. Feb. 1398 (concealments), Lancs. Aug. 1398 (concealments); to muster men to resist the northern rebels Aug. 1405.

Collector of pontage, Lancs. 20 Nov. 1379–85, 12 Mar. 1386.

Steward of the hundreds of Lonsdale, Leyland and Amounderness, Lancs. for John of Gaunt 28 Jan. 1383 – aft.16 Mar. 1387; verderer of Gaunt’s forests of Quernmore and Wyresdale, Lancs. to 16 Mar. 1387.DKR, xxxii. 360; Somerville, Duchy, i. 374.

J.p. Lancs. 18 Mar. 1384.DKR, xl. 523.

Capt. of the castle of Marck in the march of Calais by 18 Oct. 1402 – 7 Feb. 1405.

Ambassador to treat for a truce with Flanders 4 Dec. 1403 – 17 Oct. 1404, 12 Nov. 1404.Letters Hen. IV ed. Hingeston, i. 174, 392; PPC, i. 238.

Parlimentarian

CROFT, Sir John (d.1419/20), of Dalton, Lancs.

Main residence: Dalton, Lancs.

Author

C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

CROFT, Sir John (-d.1419/20)

Will

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Oxford 1644

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