Bailiff of the duchy of Lancaster hundred of King’s Somborne, Hants c. June 1397–31 May 1408.
Commr. of arrest, Hants Nov. 1399; array Dec. 1399, May 1406, Apr. 1418; inquiry, Wilts. May 1403 (claim to land by Elizabeth, countess of Huntingdon), Hants Jan. 1416 (trade through Southampton); to take musters, Southampton June 1412, Nov. 1417, Mar. 1418, escort the prior of St. Swithin’s, Winchester, to the Tower of London, Aug. 1415.
Sheriff, Hants 18 Jan.-19 Feb. 1404.
Constable of Southampton castle 23 Mar. 1404 – d.
J.p. Hants 27 Jan. 1406 – Feb. 1407.
He is not to be confused with Sir John, s. of Sir Hugh and Hawise Popham, who held property in Somerset, including the manor of East Postridge, valued in 1377 at pound;30 a year. That Sir John died in about 1410, leaving as his heir his son, Thomas. (F. W. Popham, Pophams, 15; Hylle Cart. (Som. Rec. Soc. lxviii), 45-47; E159/156 recorda Hil.)
POPHAM, Sir John (-d.1418)
