Constituency Dates
Maldon [1404 (Jan.)], [1411], [1413 (May)], [1414 (Nov.)], [1420], 1427, 1429, 1432
Family and Education
m. by June 1395, Joan.
Offices Held

?Attestor, parlty. election, Essex 1432.

Constable, Maldon Jan. 1394–5, 1399 – 1400, 1412 – 13; bailiff 1400 – 01, 1402 – 03, 1406 – 07, 1409 – 10, 1428 – 29, 1431 – 32, 1433 – 34.

Address
Main residence: Maldon, Essex.
biography text

More can be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 417.

Burgess was farming the Bourgchier manor of Little Maldon by Michaelmas 1405, although he had relinquished the farm by Michaelmas 1410 when John Brodeheed held it, at a lease of £17 6s. 8d. p.a.2 Essex RO, accts. collector of rents and farms at Little Maldon, 1405-6, 1410-11, D/DMb/M19, 20.

In November 1408 Burgess entered into a bond in statute staple for 100 marks with the prominent Essex esquire, John Tyrell*, and William Spenser of London, but the reason for the bond, over which he faced legal action in the following summer, is unknown.3 C131/222/27; C241/200/11.

Author
C.E.M.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 417.
  • 2. Essex RO, accts. collector of rents and farms at Little Maldon, 1405-6, 1410-11, D/DMb/M19, 20.
  • 3. C131/222/27; C241/200/11.