Submitted by legacy on
Family and Education
m. (1) by Oct. 1382, Margaret ?da. of Sir William Clopton, 4s. 1da. (all d.v.p.); (2) Katherine; (3) between July 1395 and May 1396, Joan (c.1351-1415), cousin and h. of Sir William Fifhide of Sherborne ‘Coudray’, and wid. of Giles Norman of Tidworth, Hants, Peter Bridges of Andover and Sir John Sandys, s.p. Kntd. by Nov. 1394.
Offices Held

Commr. to put down rebellions, Westmld. Mar., Dec. 1382; of gaol delivery, Cambridge Mar. 1384, Bury St. Edmunds Nov. 1391, Nov. 1395 (q.), Jan. 1397 (q.), East Dereham July 1394 (q.), Sept. 1395 (q.), Ely Aug. 1394 (q.), Norwich Nov. 1396 (q.), Great Yarmouth May 1397 (q.); array, Cambs. Apr. 1385, Hants Dec. 1399, July 1402, Wilts., Hants Sept. 1403, Hants May 1406; inquiry, Cambs. July 1386 (repairs to the bridge at Cambridge), Cambs., Essex Sept. 1388 (custody of a park), Suff. May 1391 (treasons and felonies), Cambs. Jan. 1393 (de Vere estates), Feb. 1394 (repairs to the bridge at Cambridge), Norf. Dec. 1402 (crown rights to an advowson), Hants Nov. 1405, Mar. 1406 (rents due to God’s House, Southampton), Surr. June 1406 (concealments), Hants Dec. 1406 (piracy), Apr. 1407 (breach of the peace), May 1407 (relocation of the wool-beam, Southampton), Jan. 1414 (lollards), Sept. 1414 (robbery), Jan. 1415 (services at Southampton castle); sewers, river Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich Jan. 1388, Norf. June 1406, Cambs. Mar. 1407, Norf. June 1407, Nov. 1408; weirs, Herts., London May 1388, Hants June 1398; oyer and terminer, Norf., Suff. Nov. 1391, Hants, Wilts., Som., Dorset July 1401, Cambs. July 1404, Norf. Oct. 1404; to carry out a Chancery award, Cambs. Aug. 1395; determine appeals in the admiral’s ct. Jan. 1401, Jan. 1403; make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well, Hants, Cambs. May 1402; hold assizes, Herefs. July 1402; take custody of Lord West’s estates, Suss. July 1405; raise royal loans, Surr., Hants June 1406.

J.p. Cambs. 20 Dec. 1382-c.1385, 28 June – Dec. 1390, 18 June 1394 – Feb. 1397, 22 July 1397 – June 1412, Hants 13 May 1396 – d.

Justice, S. Wales 17 Oct. 1390-c.1391.R.A. Griffiths, Principality of Wales, i. 122–3.

Chief steward of the southern and Welsh parts of the duchy of Lancaster by 1393–5 Dec. 1405.Somerville, Duchy, i. 155, 427.

Tax collector, Hants Mar. 1404.

Parlty. cttees. to treat with the Council about the safe-keeping of the seas 3 Apr. 1406, to supervise the engrossment of the rolls of Parliament 22 Dec. 1406.RP, iii. 569, 585.

Controller of customs, Southampton 1 Mar. 1407–8 Oct. 1409.

Parlimentarian
SKELTON, Sir Thomas (d.1416), of Hixton, Cambs. and Sherborne ’Coudray’, Hants.
Main residences: Hixton, Cambs.; Sherborne 'Coudray', Hants.
Author
L.S.W.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title

SKELTON, Sir Thomas (-d.1416)

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