Constituency Dates
Shaftesbury [1386]
Family and Education
1Egerton 3135, f. 81v; Harl. Ch. 76B 15; Shaftesbury Recs. ed. Mayo, 43.">Egerton 3135, f. 81v; Harl. Ch. 76B 15; Shaftesbury Recs. ed. Mayo, 43.">
Offices Held

Mayor, Shaftesbury Mich. 1374–5, 1379–80.2Egerton 3135, f. 81v; Harl. Ch. 76B 15; Shaftesbury Recs. ed. Mayo, 43.

Tax collector, Dorset Dec. 1384, Dec. 1985.

Address
Main residence: Shaftesbury, Dorset.
biography text

Edward’s kinsman, John Leante, sat for Shaftesbury in the second Parliament of 1383. Although he himself was twice mayor of Shaftesbury, twice a royal commissioner for the collection of parliamentary subsidies in Dorset, and on several occasions a witness to local deeds,3Egerton 3135, ff. 73, 77v, 83. no personal details about his family or means of livelihood have been discovered.

Author
L.S.W.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Alternative Surnames
Lawte, Lente
Notes
  • 1. Egerton 3135, f. 81v; Harl. Ch. 76B 15; Shaftesbury Recs. ed. Mayo, 43.">
  • 2. Egerton 3135, f. 81v; Harl. Ch. 76B 15; Shaftesbury Recs. ed. Mayo, 43.
  • 3. Egerton 3135, ff. 73, 77v, 83.