WESTLOND, William

William was presumably related to Thomas Westlond* of Midhurst, who had sat for the borough in three earlier Parliaments and was still living when William was elected. Perhaps they were father and son. It seems unlikely that the MP was the same man as William Westlond of Westminster, bailiff of the liberty of the Savoy by 1428, who attested the Mdx. elections to the Parl. of 1420 and regularly served on local juries in that county in the late 1420s and 1430s: C219/12/4; KB9/223/2/30; CPR, 1429-36, p. 205; CIPM, xxii. 792; xxiv. 99, 506; J.L. Freeman, ‘Political Community in 15th-Cent. Mdx.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 2002), 300.