More may be added to the earlier biography.
Sutton’s final term as mayor of the Calais staple ended in unhappy circumstances. In December 1446 his fellow staplers accused him to the royal council of ‘outragiously and immesurably’ wasting their goods to the value of in excess of 5,000 marks, the most part of which was money he had received from the Crown in repayment of the loans made by the company of the Staple. What precisely lay behind this complaint is unknown, but it is not surprising that he was replaced by Robert White* at the mayoral elections of the following April.
Sutton had protracted financial dealings with the indebted Lincolnshire knight, Sir John Gra* (not Sir John ‘Good’ as in the earlier biography). These culminated in the early 1450s when Gra brought a petition against him in Chancery, claiming that Sutton, having been satisfied of £60 advanced on the security of Gra’s property in Kingston-upon-Hull, had refused to reconvey the property to him.
Sutton’s wealth enabled him to marry his daughters into leading Lincolnshire families. As remarked in the earlier biography he spent 260 marks to marry his daughter Agnes to John Bussy of Hougham, and in the late 1450s he invested 300 marks in the marriage of his daughter Alice to William Copledyke of Harrington.
Sutton died shortly before 16 Sept. 1461. His widow married one of his fellow Calais staplers, John Thirsk*, and was alive as late as June 1476.