ANDREW, John II

The only known evidence definitely relating to Andrew is a writ of expenses for his time in the Commons. This shows that he was paid a total of £7 for his expenses; that is, a per diem allowance of 2s. for the 70 days he spent in the Commons chamber and travelling to and from Westminster.1 C219/15/1. The Parliament sat for only 66 days, so he must have attended diligently.

Possibly the MP was John Andrew of the Huntingdonshire parish of King’s Ripton, since that John had a long connexion with Huntingdon. In 1403 the King’s Ripton man and others received a grant of lands situated in the borough and at nearby Brampton from the wool merchant, John Colles*;2 Add. Ch. 33533. and some 30 years later Colles sued him and John Chiksond* for failing to return property he had entrusted to them before going overseas.3 C1/11/179. In 1435 John Andrew, presumably the MP, attested the return of the burgesses for Huntingdon to the Parliament of that year, and in February 1437 John Andrew, ‘gentleman’, John Ansty* and others received various properties and a rent in the town’s parish of St. Benedict by grant of John Chiksond.4 Add. Ch. 33544. A later conveyance, of 1440, refers to a tenement in another Huntingdon parish, All Saints, which John Andrew had once owned.5 Add. Ch. 33570. During the early 1440s, Andrew pursued a baker and several other men from Huntingdon who owed him money through the court of common pleas,6 CP40/720, rot. 370d. and in 1443 Giles Chaunces, rector of Conington, received a pardon for the outlawry he had incurred for failing to answer him concerning a debt of 100s.7 CPR, 1441-6, p. 124. Nearly nine years later Chaunces received another pardon regarding an equivalent sum that he owed Andrew, although it is by no means certain that this was the same debt.8 CPR, 1446-52, pp. 488-9.