Commr. of array, Kent Apr., July 1377, Mar. 1380, Mar., May, July 1381, Jan., Apr. 1385, May 1386, Aug. 1388, Mar. 1392, Dec. 1399, Jan. 1400, July 1402, Aug. 1403, May 1406; inquiry Mar. 1378 (a death), Jan. 1380 (escape of a felon), Oct. 1381 (names of the principal insurgents), July 1388 (property of St. Stephen’s chapel, Westminster), Mar. 1390 (lands forfeited by Sir Simon Burley), Kent, Mdx. Dec. 1390 (defaults of a former escheator), Kent Feb. 1391 (trespasses), May, Aug. 1392, Suss. Feb. 1393 (de Vere estates), Kent June 1393 (salmon poaching), May 1394 (shipwreck), Feb. 1401 (petition from King’s tenants at Eltham), June 1406 (concealments); to survey ports and coast for defence Oct. 1380, Feb. 1381; of oyer and terminer July 1381, Sept. 1393, Dec. 1401; to put down rebellion July, Sept. 1381, Mar., Dec. 1382; of sewers Aug. 1382; to audit pontage, Rochester bridge Nov. 1384, June 1385; of arrest, Kent Nov. 1385; to remove obstructions in river Medway Sept. 1393; seize estates of the rebel earls, Kent, Suss. Jan. 1400; raise royal loans June 1406.
J.p. for the Lathes of Aylesford and Sutton-at-Hone and the Lowy of Tonbridge 1 Apr. 1378-c.1379, Kent 18 Oct. 1383 – d.
Sheriff, Kent 25 Nov. 1378 – 5 Nov. 1379, 7 Nov. 1393–11 Nov. 1394.
Tax surveyor, Kent May 1381.
Jt. keeper of the temporalities of the see of Canterbury 5 Sept. – 21 Oct. 1399.
Member of Henry IV’s council 1 Nov. 1399 – 10 Mar. 1401.
FRENINGHAM, John (1345-1410)