FETTE, John (d.c.1433), of Huntingdon.

A butcher by trade, Fette played a leading part in the affairs of the borough of Huntingdon, and put in a fairly regular attendance at the parliamentary elections held there between 1411 and 1429. He is described on the last of these occasions as ‘senior’, which suggests that he left a son or other kinsman of the same name to succeed him. Fette was involved in a number of local property transactions, although it is now hard to tell when he was acting on his own behalf or when he was discharging the duties of a trustee. He witnessed deeds for such influential neighbours as John Abbotsley, John Bickley and John Colles, being last mentioned when, in July 1432, he attested one of the latter’s many conveyances of land. He was dead by March 1434, the date of a sale of a messuage in the parish of Holy Trinity, Huntingdon, which had once been in his joint possession.2C219/14/1; Hunts. Feet of Fines (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxvii), 102; Add. Chs. 33532, 33539-40.