TAILOR, William I

William may have been the son of John and Joan Tailor who from 1409 occupied a tenement on the north side of Durnelane in Dorchester, by conveyance to them and their heirs. Ibid. 179. He himself purchased a house on the west side of South Street, in 1413, for the sum of £9, only to sell it at a loss of £1 13s. 4d. ten years later, shortly after he had acquired other property in the same street from the Jordan family. Ibid. 199, 245-6, 254. Before he entered the Commons Tailor had served a term as bailiff of Dorchester. Tailor witnessed deeds in the town up to the autumn of 1427, and attested the borough elections to Parliament held on 8 Sept. that year. Ibid. 254, 258, 260; C219/13/5. His tenement on the south side of High West Street was mentioned in transactions of 1432 and 1437. Dorchester Recs. 277, 286.