Family and Education
s. and h. of Robert Stonham (d.1397) of Stonham Aspall by Katherine (d. aft. 1436), da. and coh. of Sir William Burgate. m. by Trin. 1415, Mary (c.1403-1464), da. and coh. of Sir John Bernak (d.1408) of Saxlingham, Norf. by Anne, da. of Sir Edmund Noon, 1da.C138/18/10, 56/23; C139/156/2; C140/12/9; CP25(1)244/113/22; Norf. and Norwich RO, Reg. Harsyk, f. 238; CP, v. 80; HP ed. Wedgwood, 1439-1509, Biogs. 814. The genealogies of the Bernak and Stonham families given in VCH Hunts. ii. 361, 366, and Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 14, and that of the Burgates essayed by J. Copinger in Suff. Manors, iii. 244-5, are inaccurate in many respects, and present an essentially misleading picture of this Member’s background and connexions.
Offices Held
Collector of a tax, Hunts. Dec. 1429.
Sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 5 Nov. 1432–3, 8 Nov. 1436–7 Nov. 1437.
Commr. to raise royal loans, Hunts. Feb. 1434, Mar. 1439, Nov. 1440, Mar. 1442, June 1446; distribute tax allowances Jan. 1436, Apr. 1440, Mar. 1442, June 1445, July 1446, June 1453; supervise the felling of trees in the forest of Weybridge Mar. 1439; of inquiry, Hunts., Cambs., Norf., Suff. July 1439 (wastes and evasions), Hunts. Feb. 1447 (wastes and concealments); to treat for the payment of a subsidy Feb. 1441; of oyer and terminer Mar. 1450 (attack on the abbot of Ramsey’s property at St. Ives); to deliver Huntingdon gaol Sept. 1452.
J.p. Hunts. 18 May 1437 – June 1443, 30 Jan. 1450 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Stonhams in Rattlesden, Suff.; Dillington, Hunts.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
STONHAM, Robert (-d.1455)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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