More can be added to the earlier biography.3 The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 142.
The lands and wardship of Agnes, grand-daughter and heir of John Levesham† of Salisbury had been granted to Fruysthorp in 1420, incidentally providing him with a residential qualification to represent Old Sarum in Parliament. A writ sent to the escheator of Wiltshire on 28 May 1427 instructed him to inform Fruysthorp of his intention to hold an inquisition to confirm that Agnes had now come of age. The writ was returned to Chancery endorsed with the statement that Fruysthorp had died ‘long before the date of the inqusition’ (11 June). His widow and executors (who included Henry Man*, the former mayor of Salisbury who had accompanied him to the Parliament of 1422), appeared at Marlborough on 18 Oct. to confirm that there was no reason why Agnes’s inheritance should not be delivered to her.4 CIPM, xxiii. 143, 828. The date of Fruysthorp’s death is not known, but the fact that the Crown had not assigned Agnes’s wardship to someone else may suggest that it was a more recent event than the escheator’s return implied.