biography text
After being admitted to the freedom of the borough in 1380, Houghton owned land both in the town and its suburbs. He was still alive in 1403.3Leicester Bor. Recs. ed. Bateson, ii. 196, 412; Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. ed. Thompson, no. 570; CCR, 1402-5, p. 164.