Family and Education
s. of John Durham (d.1368) of London and South Mimms by his w. Joan. m. (1) Joan, 1da.; (2) by Feb. 1389, Agnes (d. aft. May 1415), da. and event. h. of Richard Hall (d. by 1369) of London and Hoddesdon, Herts., wid. of Sir Thomas Boys (d. aft. 1385); (3) Margery or Margaret, da. of Sir John Lee (d.1370) of Albury, steward of the household of Ed. III, and sis. and coh. of Sir Walter Lee, wid. of Robert Newport (d.1416/17) of Brent Pelham, Herts.Corporation of London RO, hr 97/3, 144/42; PCC 49 Marche; London Rec. Soc. i. no. 266; Cal. Letter Bk. London, G, 239; Cal. P. and M. London, 1364-81, pp. 170-1; CCR, 1385-9, p. 652; CCR, 1385-9, p. 67; VCH Herts. iv. 101.
Offices Held
Commr. to make proclamations for the arrest of the rebels, Mdx. July 1381; make an arrest July 1381; of oyer and terminer July 1381 (treasons and felonies); to suppress the rebels, Dec. 1381, Mar., Dec. 1382; of inquiry, Herts. June 1397, May 1402 (into treasonous rumours), Mdx. Jan. 1412 (persons liable for taxation); array, Herts., Mdx. Dec. 1399, Sept., Nov. 1403; to raise a royal loan, Herts. Nov. 1419.
Tax collector, Mdx. Dec. 1384, Mar. 1404; collector of a royal loan, Herts. Jan. 1420.
J.p. Mdx. 20 Dec. 1397 – Nov. 1399.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: London; South Mimms, Mdx.
(de) Derham, Dunelm, Duram, Duresme and Durum
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
DURHAM, John (-d.1420)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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