LEOMYSTRE, John

Aside from his election to Parliament, only two references to Leomynstre have been traced. In Michaelmas term 1433, as ‘of Warwick, gentleman’, he stood mainpernor in the court of common pleas for a merchant of Winchester, William Fromond*; and, on 18 Oct. 1437, with the same designation, he appeared personally in the court of King’s bench to offer surety in £20 that two clerics and a scholar of Bampton in Oxfordshire would not contravene the Statutes of Provisors and Praemunire.1 CP40/691, rot. 117; KB29/71, rot. 4d. These references show that he was a minor lawyer and it may be that premature death explains the lack of references to him. His family’s Warwick origins are confirmed by the appearance of William Leomystre among the attestors to his election in 1435. Interestingly, in May 1440, William was a juror in the inquisition held on the death of Isabel, dowager-countess of Warwick, implying that the family was connected with the Beauchamp lords of the borough.2 C219/14/5; CIPM, xxv. 315.