Constituency Dates
Colchester 1414 (Nov.), 1423
Family and Education
?s. of William Mate.
Offices Held

Councillor, Colchester Sept. 1422–3, 1425 – 26; coroner 1425 – 26; bailiff 1427–8 , 1434–5; mace-bearer 1428 – 30, 1435 – 36; alderman 1428 – 30, 1432 – 33, 1435–6.1Colchester Moot Hall, ct. rolls 43, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54; Cal. Colchester Ct. rolls ed. Harrod, 2.

Address
Main residence: Colchester, Essex.
biography text

In 1411 Simon Mate ‘of Colchester’ was a feoffee of land in the district of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. With Henry Boss, son of the MP of 1406, he held a tenement in East Street, Colchester, from 1426, and in 1434 he obtained part of a meadow in nearby Lexden.2Suff. Feet of Fines, 281; ct. rolls 46 m. 14, 53 mm. 7, 12v. Mate died in 1449.3Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 118.

Author
K.N.H.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Notes
  • 1. Colchester Moot Hall, ct. rolls 43, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54; Cal. Colchester Ct. rolls ed. Harrod, 2.
  • 2. Suff. Feet of Fines, 281; ct. rolls 46 m. 14, 53 mm. 7, 12v.
  • 3. Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 118.