MASTER, John (by 1490-1558), of Sandwich, Kent.

Auditor, Sandwich 1517, 1521 – 25, 1531, 1532, 1535, 1538, 1542, 1546 – 48, 1550, 1551, 1556, treasurer 1517 – 18, common councilman (St. Clement’s parish) 1517 – 18, (St. Mary’s parish) 1518 – 23, jurat 1523 – 58, mayor 1527 – 28, 1543 – 44, 1552 – 53, 1557 – d., keeper of the common chest when mayor and 1544 – 48, 1551 – 52, of the orphans when mayor (except 1552–3) and 1538–41, 1544 – 48; bailiff to Yarmouth 1529; commr. gaol delivery, Kent 1543, sewers 1554.Sandwich white bk., old red bk. passim; B. Winchester, Tudor Fam. Portrait, 222–3; Cinque Ports White and Black Bks. (Kent Arch. Soc. recs. br. xix), 209; LP Hen. VIII, xx; CPR, 1553–4, p. 36.