| Constituency | Dates |
|---|---|
| Oxford | 1416 (Mar.), 1419, 1421 (May), 1425 |
Attestor, parlty. elections, Oxford 1420, 1421 (Dec.), 1422, 1423, 1426, 1427, 1429, 1431, 1432, 1433.
Tax collector, Oxford Mar. 1401, Oxon. Dec. 1429, Aug. 1430.
Bailiff, Oxford Mich. 1404–6; alderman 1415 – 20, 1423 – 25, 1426 – 30, 1432 – 36, 1437 – 38; mayor 1420 – 23, 1425 – 26, 1430 – 32, 1436 – 37, 1438 – 39.
J.p. Oxford 17 Apr. 1422 – May 1436, Mar. 1437 – d.
More can be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 334-5.
A few years after Brampton’s death, he and his executor and relative, Thomas Brampton of Burford, featured in a lawsuit heard in the court of common pleas at Westminster. The plaintiff was Thomas Send, vicar of Burford, whom the MP had appointed overseer of his will. When the case reached pleadings in Hilary term 1446, Send alleged that in May 1444 John Warre, a wool packer from London, along with a brazier and husbandman from Burford and a chapman from Lechlade, had conspired at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, to secure a false indictment against him. According to this indictment, he had taken £500 from Thomas Brampton at Southwark in October 1439, along with a chest containing documents belonging to the MP that Thomas then had in his custody. As a result, Send alleged, he had endured three days of imprisonment at Southwark before securing his acquittal in November 1444. The purpose of the suit was to win damages from Warre and his associates, who obtained licence to treat with the vicar out of court. Whatever the full circumstances of Send’s dispute with the defendants, the lawsuit appears to indicate that he had played a part in the MP’s business dealings and that some of these dealings occurred in London.2 CP40/740, rot. 462d.
It was perhaps in connexion with the long-running quarrel over the MP’s will that Thomas Brampton received a royal pardon in the autumn of 1455. Thomas was referred to as a ‘woolman alias esquire’ in the pardon, which also shows that he possessed an alternative surname, ‘Ruttour’, an alias which Brampton himself is not known to have used.3 C67/41, m. 14.