Constituency Dates
Bridport 1421 (May)
Family and Education
m. by 1426, Joan (fl.1461), 2s. 2da.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bridport 1425, 1429, 1431, 1435.

Cofferer, Bridport Mich. 1422–3, 1429 – 30, 1431–2;1 Dorset Hist. Centre, Bridport bor. recs., ‘Domesday Bk.’, DC/BTB/M11, ff. 94, 113, 114, 117. bailiff 1430 – 31, 1436 – 37, 1438 – 39, 1443–4;2 Ibid. ff. 127, 132, 144; Bridport deeds, DC/BTB/S117; CAD, i. C14; ii. C2397; vi. C3879, 4605. constable 1441 – 42, 1444–5.3 Bridport ‘Domesday Bk.’, ff. 134, 143.

Warden of the fraternity of St. Katherine in St. Mary’s church, Bridport Dec. 1428–9, 1436 – 37, fraternity of the two torches Easter 1431–2.4 Bridport bor. recs., fraternities, DC/BTB/CD16, 22.

Tax collector, Dorset Jan. 1436, Mar. 1442.

Address
Main residence: Bridport, Dorset.
biography text

To add to the earlier biography,5 The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 418 (as Hore, John II). some evidence survives about Hore’s lawsuits. He appeared in the court of common pleas in person in Hilary term 1431 to bring several pleas for debt, including one against a Bristol chapman who owed him 64s., and another against a Sherborne dyer for £10. The defendant in a third, for a debt of £14, was Hildebrand Elwell*, the grocer of Wells and London then acting as executor of Robert Hore of Bridport, probably his kinsman. Further appearances in the same Westminster court in 1435 were to sue for debts of over £26, owed to him by Richard Snelling* of Weymouth, among others. 6 CP40/680, rots. 30, 366d; 699, rot. 597d.

Author
L.S.C.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Alternative Surnames
But
Notes
  • 1. Dorset Hist. Centre, Bridport bor. recs., ‘Domesday Bk.’, DC/BTB/M11, ff. 94, 113, 114, 117.
  • 2. Ibid. ff. 127, 132, 144; Bridport deeds, DC/BTB/S117; CAD, i. C14; ii. C2397; vi. C3879, 4605.
  • 3. Bridport ‘Domesday Bk.’, ff. 134, 143.
  • 4. Bridport bor. recs., fraternities, DC/BTB/CD16, 22.
  • 5. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 418 (as Hore, John II).
  • 6. CP40/680, rots. 30, 366d; 699, rot. 597d.