SAMPSON, Richard

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 298.

Before entering Parliament, Sampson quarrelled violently with a fellow burgess, Roger Bawde*. In 1416 a borough court found that he had attacked Bawde, from whom he drawn blood with a broken bolt (petulione), and that Bawde had assaulted him with a knife. It appears that the court held Sampson mainly to blame for the fracas, since it amerced him 12d. and Bawde only 3d. Essex RO, Maldon bor. recs., ct. roll, 1415-17, D/B 3/3/10, m. 7.