Constituency Dates
Maldon 1404 (Jan.), 1411, 1413 (May), 1414 (Nov.), 1420, 1427, 1429, 1432
Family and Education
m. by June 1395, Joan.
Offices Held

?Attestor, parlty. election, Essex 1432.

Constable, Maldon Jan. 1394–5, 1399 – 1400, 1412 – 13; bailiff 1400 – 01, 1402 – 03, 1406 – 07, 1409 – 10, 1428 – 29, 1431 – 32, 1433 – 34.

Address
Main residence: Maldon, Essex.
biography text

More can be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 417.

Burgess was farming the Bourgchier manor of Little Maldon by Michaelmas 1405, although he had relinquished the farm by Michaelmas 1410 when John Brodeheed held it, at a lease of £17 6s. 8d. p.a.2 Essex RO, accts. collector of rents and farms at Little Maldon, 1405-6, 1410-11, D/DMb/M19, 20.

In November 1408 Burgess entered into a bond in statute staple for 100 marks with the prominent Essex esquire, John Tyrell*, and William Spenser of London, but the reason for the bond, over which he faced legal action in the following summer, is unknown.3 C131/222/27; C241/200/11.

Author
C.E.M.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 417.
  • 2. Essex RO, accts. collector of rents and farms at Little Maldon, 1405-6, 1410-11, D/DMb/M19, 20.
  • 3. C131/222/27; C241/200/11.