Constituency Dates
Suffolk 1407, 1410, 1411, 1413 (May)
Norfolk 1419, 1421 (May), 1421 (Dec.), 1422
Family and Education
prob. s. of William Lancaster of Bressingham. m. (1) bef. Sept. 1398, Margery, da. and h. of Sir John Boyland of Boyland Hall in Bressingham, 1s.; (2) between Oct. 1417 and May 1421, Ellen, wid. of Gilbert Debenham† (d.1417), of Alburgh, Norf. and Little Wenham, Suff. Dist. 1411.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Norf. 1414 (Nov.), 1416 (Mar.), Suff. 1423.

Chamberlain of Berwick-upon-Tweed 14 Sept. 1389 – 7 Oct. 1391; and chancellor there 14 Mar. 1390 – 7 Oct. 1391.

Capt. of Marck 10 Oct. 1391-c. Sept. 1399.

Constable of Framlingham castle, Suff. and keeper of the park, by appointment of Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal, c.1404- 6 Oct. 1405.

Commr. Suff., Norf. July 1414 – Jan. 1423; to take assize of novel disseisin, Norf. July 1414; C66/394, m. 13d. of gaol delivery, Norwich castle June 1416, Nov. 1418, Bury St. Edmunds June 1416. C66/399, m. 19d; 401, m. 16d.

Sheriff, Norf. and Suff. 1 Dec. 1415 – 20 Feb. 1416, 30 Nov. 1416 – 10 Nov. 1417, 13 Nov. 1423 – 22 May 1424.

J.p. Norf. 8 Apr. 1416 – July 1423, Suff. 7 July 1423 – d.

Escheator, Norf. and Suff. 4 Nov. 1418 – 23 Nov. 1419.

Steward of estates of John Mowbray, Earl Marshal, at Framlingham prob. bef. 1423 – d.

Address
Main residence: Bressingham, Norf.
biography text

A little more may be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 548-51.

In Michaelmas term 1419 Lancaster was a plaintiff in the court of common pleas, in a suit in which he and several other Mowbray retainers alleged that William Lede*, the town clerk of Chichester, had unjustly detained £40 belonging to them.2 CP40/635, rot. 49. An account of Mowbray’s receiver-general provides further evidence of the trust in which Lancaster was held by his patron. Covering the accounting year 1420-1, it shows that the earl’s young son and several Mowbray wards (including John Bellers*) were then living in the MP’s household, presumably at Bressingham.3 L.E. Moye, ‘Estates and Finances of the Mowbray Fam.’ (Duke Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1985), 337-9.

Author
C.E.M.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 548-51.
  • 2. CP40/635, rot. 49.
  • 3. L.E. Moye, ‘Estates and Finances of the Mowbray Fam.’ (Duke Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1985), 337-9.