Constituency Dates
Portsmouth 1442
Offices Held

Bailiff, Portsmouth Mich. 1440–1.1 E368/213, rot. 7d.

Address
Main residence: Portsmouth, Hants.
biography text

Bounde was among the leading men of Portsmouth assigned by the Exchequer in April 1437 to appraise a shipment of smuggled wool and hides discovered on a vessel in the harbour.2 E159/213, recorda Hil. rot. 7d. His election to Parliament for the borough followed just a few months after his term as bailiff. Otherwise, he appears in the surviving records as a witness to a transaction dated at Portsmouth in June 1450.3 Add. Ch. 15855. The rent-roll compiled in 1469 refers to property held by Margaret Bounde, who was possibly his widow, and also to some ten acres of land, two tenements and a garden held by John Bounde, presumably one of his kinsmen.4 Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 500-1.

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Notes
  • 1. E368/213, rot. 7d.
  • 2. E159/213, recorda Hil. rot. 7d.
  • 3. Add. Ch. 15855.
  • 4. Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 500-1.