CHAUNTERELL, Walter

It was shortly after the end of his second term as bailiff of Gloucester that Chaunterell was elected to his only known Parliament. A brewer, he owned a couple of tenements in the town’s Mercery and Butchery areas (one of which he leased out at 33s. 4d. p.a. in the mid 1450s) and holdings in the Newland. Apparently still alive in the mid 1460s, at some point in Edward IV’s reign the ‘place’ which he and his unnamed wife held in Gore Lane was assessed for the purposes of a local tax. He was almost certainly from the same family as John Chaunterell, a fellow brewer. John, who served as bailiff of Gloucester in 1464-5 and 1470-1, died within a few days of making his will in September 1485. In the will, which does not mention the MP, he requested burial in the chancel of the church of St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, and appointed his wife Margery and Master William Grafton, rector of the Gloucestershire parish of Buckland, as his executors. Margery did not long survive him since she herself died only a few weeks later. Her executors were the same William Grafton and her son by her late husband, another John Chaunterell.2 Gloucester Rental 1455 ed. Cole, 30; Gloucester Corporation Recs. ed. Stevenson, 405; VCH Glos. iv. 374; E13/158, rots. 10, 10d; PCC 18 Logge (PROB11/7, ff. 134v-135); Worcs. Archs., Dioc. of Worcester wills, Reg. 2, f. 20.