Family and Education
s. of Nicholas Drayton of ‘Draytons’ in Kempston, Beds. m. (1) Margery (d.1407); (2) between Feb. 1407 and Feb. 1409, Isabel (d. 2 May 1437), yr. da. and event. coh. of Sir Maurice Russell of Dyrham, Glos. and Kingston Russell, Dorset, wid. of William le Scrope, earl of Wiltshire (exec. 1399), and of Sir Thomas de la River of Tormarton, Glos., 2da. Kntd. bef. Apr. 1385.
Offices Held
Commr. ? to take custody of certain royal wards, July 1382; of array Oxon. Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392, Berks. Dec. 1399; inquiry, Oxon. Mar. 1391 (liberties at Warborough and Shillingford), Oxon., Berks. Dec. 1399 (lands of an idiot), Glos. July 1412, June 1414 (concealments); sewers, river Thames from Oxford to Reading July 1416.
Captain of Guînes 8 Nov. 1383 – bef.Mar. 1388.
J.p. Oxon. 28 Nov. 1399 – May 1403, Berks. 7 Feb. 1406–7.
Tax collector, Berks. Apr. 1404.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Nuneham, Oxon.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
DRAYTON, Sir John (-d.1417)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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