PURYER, John

A chapman or mercer by trade,1 C67/45, m. 17. Puryer was living in Horsham by the spring of 1430, and in April 1433 he served on the jury which gave evidence at the post mortem following the death of the lord of the borough, John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk.2 Cat. Wiston Archs. ed. Booker, 84; C139/60/43. After his only known return to Parliament he again acted as a juror, at the inquisitions held for the late John Weston I* (in 1441) and Sir Hugh Cokesey* (in 1446).3 C139/102/5; 122/36. At some point before November 1446 he sued another chapman, who came from Lingfield in Surrey, for a debt of 65s. The defendant was outlawed for failing to appear in court to answer the charge, but managed to obtain a royal pardon.4 CPR, 1446-52, p. 10.

Puryer died intestate at an unknown date before December 1462. By then his widow, who had taken on the administration of his estate, had married a local yeoman called Thomas Agas.5 C67/45, m. 17.