| Constituency | Dates |
|---|---|
| Bristol | [1421 (Dec.)], 1425, 1429 |
Attestor, parlty. elections, Bristol 1420, 1421 (May), 1422, 1423, 1426, 1427, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1435, 1442.
Searcher of ships, Bristol 1 June 1413 – Nov. 1417, Bridgwater and all ports between Bristol and Minehead, Som. 26 Oct. 1414 – Nov. 1417.
Bailiff, Bristol Mich. 1420–1; sheriff 12 Nov. 1422 – 30 Oct. 1423; mayor Mich. 1431–2.
Constable of the Bristol staple 23 Sept. 1423–4.
Commr. of oyer and terminer, Bristol Feb. 1432; gaol delivery May 1432.1 C66/431, m. 8d.
More may be added to the earlier biography.2 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 652-3.
In early 1416 Trenode obtained a royal pardon,3 C67/37, m. 16 (25 Jan.). possibly in connexion with his office of searcher of ships at Bristol and other ports and with the fine imposed on him ‘pro contemptu’ in February that year.
While in his last Parliament, Trenode quarrelled with two other Bristol townsmen. On 26 Nov. 1429, during the first session of that assembly, he appeared in person in the court of King’s bench to lodge a bill against John Spyne† and Thomas Hallewey, claiming that they had assaulted and wounded him at Westminster on the previous 7 Nov. His adversaries had yet to answer his suit in the following spring and the plea roll does not reveal how he had come to fall out with them.4 KB27/674, rot. 117.
The parish records of St. Leonard’s, Bristol, the MP’s burial place, reveal that at one stage Trenode and his friend John Sharp III* leased a cellar beneath that church from its parishioners.5 Bristol RO, St. Leonard’s Vestry recs., 40365/D/2/33.