Constituency Dates
Winchelsea [], [], [], [], [1386], [1388 (Feb.)], [1390 (Jan.)], [1391]
Family and Education
m. Isabel,1Cotton Julius BIV, f. 40. 1s. William II.
Offices Held

Mayor, Winchelsea Easter 1382 – 83, 1389 – 91, 1395–6.2E368/157, 164; Sale Cat. Battle Abbey Chs. (1835), 88; Add. Ch. 20200.

Address
Main residence: Winchelsea, Suss.
biography text

Between 1373 and 1410 Skele held land at Udimore and Icklesham, on which, as a Portsman, he claimed exemption from parliamentary fifteenths. He was paid 16s.8d. by Winchelsea for ten days’ attendance at the Merciless Parliament of 1388, during its second session, which assembled after Easter. Whether he was also present in the Commons at other times is not recorded. In the 1390s he was engaged in importing wine, salt and other goods, sometimes in ships from Winchelsea.3Add. Ch. 16431; E179/225/3, 31, 33, 34; E122/33/25, 28.

Author
A.P.M.W.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Notes
  • 1. Cotton Julius BIV, f. 40.
  • 2. E368/157, 164; Sale Cat. Battle Abbey Chs. (1835), 88; Add. Ch. 20200.
  • 3. Add. Ch. 16431; E179/225/3, 31, 33, 34; E122/33/25, 28.