YOUNG, William

Young lived in the borough he represented in Parliament, for he was described as ‘of New Shoreham’ when, on 1 Aug. 1432, the prior and convent of Sele leased to him the rectory of Old Shoreham and all the buildings and land pertaining to it for an annual rent of £26.1 Cal. Magdalen Coll. Deeds, Suss. ed. Macray, i. no. 246 (Shoreham 52). If he retained the lease until it ended, he would have been still alive in 1453. John Young, the reeve of Old Shoreham in 1466-7, was perhaps a descendant of his.2 SC6/816/8. It is possible, but unlikely, that the MP was the namesake instructed by the prior of Merton priory, Surr., in 1458 to take possession of property within the precincts of the priory on behalf of its steward Ralph Legh*: CCR, 1454-61, pp. 270-1. The same or another William Young was one of three kinsmen who married three sisters, the daughters and coheirs of John Brown of Hammersmith, Mdx. – himself the h. of Walter Sheryngton, a clerk who had allegedly been defrauded of his title to the manor of Crowthorn in Romney Marsh by James Fiennes*, Lord Saye and Sele. The three women and their husbands petitioned the chancellor in the early 1460s asking for Saye’s confessor to be summoned to testify about the matter: C1/27/419.