Family and Education
s. of John Respryn by his w. Clarissa. m. (1) by 1402, Joan; (2) by 1428, Margaret,Cornw. Feet of Fines (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1950), 746; CCR, 1389-92, p. 353; Reg. Stafford ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 279; Feudal Aids, i. 227. 1da.
Offices Held

Commr. of inquiry, Cornw., Devon Mar. 1401 (title to Trelaske), Nov. 1410, Sept. 1413 (ransoms of prisoners in Brittany), July, Nov. 1412, Dec. 1431 (q. piracy), Cornw. Feb. 1416 (free estate of William Facheler), Feb. 1417 (suit of mills at Liskeard), Cornw., Devon Feb., July 1419 (treasons, escapes of felons, concealed crown income), Cornw. Aug. 1426 (q. necromancy), Cornw., Devon July 1429 (complaint by merchants of restrictions on trade), Aug. 1431 (wastes at Helston-in-Kerrier), Nov. 1432 (suspected suicide of Edward Burnebury); to raise crown loans, Cornw. Jan. 1420; of gaol delivery, Launceston Nov. 1428; to assess a parliamentary grant, Cornw. Apr. 1431; of oyer and terminer Oct. 1431; arrest July 1435.

J.p. Cornw. 8 Mar. 1410 – Nov. 1438.

Steward of the estates of Bp. Stafford of Exeter in Cornw. by June 1410; of the borough of Launceston (Dunheved) by Nov. 1414.Reg. Stafford, 237; R. and O.B. Peter, Hist. Launceston, 120.

Justice to take assizes, Cornw. July 1414.

Main residence: Respryn in St. Winnow, Cornw.
Reprenna, Repryn, Resprena, Respreve
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Commons 1386-1421
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RESPRYN, Richard

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