SALISBURY, William

There is very little evidence for Salisbury, a butcher by trade.2 It is impossible to prove that Edward Salisbury, who became prior of St. Neots in 1405, was a relative: CPR, 1405-8, p. 95; VCH Hunts. i. 387-8. First heard of in February 1426, when he attested Huntingdon’s parliamentary election of that year, he was one of the town’s bailiffs when he himself entered the Commons. Nearly two years after the dissolution of the Parliament of 1432, he and Thomas Glademan of London received a grant of a messuage in the Huntingdon parish of the Holy Trinity. Salisbury was still alive in late 1453 when, as ‘lately of Huntingdon’, he conveyed a few acres in the town fields to a couple of other burgesses.3 Add. Chs. 33540, 33557-8.