Submitted by legacy on
Family and Education
m. by Trinity 1430, Eleanor, da. and h. of William Grobbere alias Rushall (d.1429) of Rushall by his 3rd w. Elizabeth Rolstow (d.1430), at least 2s.S. Shaw, Staffs. ii. 63-64; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. iii. 105; xvii. 129; n.s. (1913), 334; Staffs. Parl. Hist. i (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 194. inc. Richard.
Offices Held

Steward and receiver of the lordship of Stafford for Anne, dowager countess of Stafford 15 July 1428-prob. Oct. 1438; steward of the Staffs., Glos. and Northants. estates held by the feoffees of Thomas, earl of Stafford (d.1392), 15 Mar. 1437-prob. Oct. 1438, of the manor of Tyseo, Warws. for Humphrey, earl of Stafford (later duke of Buckingham), 15 Nov. 1438-c. July 1460; auditor-general for the earl c.1439-c. July 1460.Add. Chs. 19858–9; SC6/1040/15 m. 5d; Staffs. RO, D641/1/2/254 m. 6, 274 m. 4; NLW, Peniarth ms 280, f. 3.

Escheator, Staffs. 4 Nov. 1428 – 12 Feb. 1430, 5 Nov. 1432–3, 5 Nov 1439–4 Nov. 1440.

J.p. Staffs. 24 Mar. 1430 – d.

Commr. to raise royal loans, Staffs. Mar. 1431, Aug. 1442, Sept. 1449; array Aug. 1436, Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459; oyer and terminer Nov. 1436 (attack on Lichfield cathedral), Salop Jan. 1439 (enclosures); gaol delivery, Stafford Nov. 1439; inquiry, Warws. Nov. 1440 (ownership of the manor of Birmingham), Staffs. Feb. 1443 (rent strikes at Shenstone), Feb. 1448 (concealment of feudal dues), Herefs. July 1449 (estates of the duke of Warwick), Staffs., Salop, Worcs. June 1458 (murders and other crimes); kiddles, Mdx., London July 1448, Oct. 1455; to raise a subsidy, Staffs. Aug. 1450; assign payments for archers Dec. 1457; make an arrest Dec. 1461.

Justice itinerant (appointed by Humphrey, earl of Stafford) to hear the great sessions at Newport 12 Feb. 1432, Brecon 8 Jan. 1440, 13 Jan. 1443, 2 Jan. 1445, 28 Mar. 1446.NLW, Peniarth ms 280, ff. 3, 24, 34, 40; T.B. Pugh, Marcher Ldships S. Wales, 18, 291.

Custodian of the estates of the abbey of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs. 20 July 1433–40.

Auditor of the estates of John, earl of Shrewsbury by 1442-prob. July 1453.A.J. Pollard, ‘The Talbots’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 309–10, app. iii. 417–20.

Steward of the manor of Weston-upon-Trent, Staffs. for the abbot of St. Werburgh, Chester by 1444.Shaw, ii. 63.

Auditor of the estates confiscated from Richard, earl of Warwick, 9 Dec. 1459-prob. July 1460, the estates of the duchy of Lancaster in S. Wales and Glos. 10 Dec. 1461–d.,Somerville, Duchy, i. 445. the estates in Wales, Salop, Herefs. and Glos. held by the Crown during the minorities of Henry, duke of Buckingham, John, duke of Norfolk, and John, earl of Shrewsbury, and of all the ministers of the Crown in Wales, Chester, Flint and the forest of Dean 1 Jan. 1462 – d.

Parlimentarian
HARPER, John
Main residence: Rushall, Staffs.
Harpour, Harpur
Notes

This MP is not to be confused with the John Harper who became royal forester of Galtres in Yorkshire in 1438 and was dead by 1453 (CPR, 1436-41, p. 252; 1452-61, p. 37). Two adjacent entries in the close roll of 1420 distinguish clearly between our Member and another John Harper of Herefs. The latter appears among the list of Herefordshire gentry who, in 1434, were required to take the oath not to maintain persons disturbing the peace (CCR, 1419-22, p. 65 (bis); CPR, 1429-36, p. 376).

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C.R.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title

HARPER, John (-d.1464)

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