COLLES, John

More can be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 630-1.

Notwithstanding Colles’s long and acrimonious dispute with Henry Hart and John Multon, his fellow executors of the will of John Herries†, there were still occasions in the late 1420s when he was able to co-operate with these opponents. During early 1427, for example, a suit that all three men were jointly pursuing against a husbandman from Comberton near Cambridge, over bonds they had taken from him in 1419 – presumably in connexion with Herries’s will – reached pleadings in the court of common pleas at Westminster.2 CP40/664, rot. 421d.

With regard to another quarrel, the Chancery bill that Colles filed against two trustees (John Andrew II* and John Chiksond*) in about 1432 was for restitution of goods worth some 400 marks, not £400 as stated previously.3 C1/11/179.