HERT, John, of Lewes, Suss.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
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Constituency

Dates

Nov. 1414

Family and Education

Offices Held

Biography

John was perhaps descended from Henry le Hert, who had been assessed to pay taxes at Lewes in the 1330s.1 He himself served as a juror at a coroner’s inquest held at Lewes in September 1417, and on the jury providing information to the assessors of the parliamentary tax on parishes in the town in May 1428. He witnessed a deed in Lewes in June 1432. In association with Andrew Maffey he brought an action in 1445 against a carpenter from Barcombe for recovery of a debt of ten marks.2

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: A. P.M. Wright

Notes

  • 1. Suss. Rec. Soc. x. 229.
  • 2. Suss. Arch. Colls. xcv. 54; Feudal Aids, v. 163; Add. Ch. 30564; CPR, 1441-6, p. 302. It may have been the same John Hert, who, as the brother-in-law of William Middleton, dean of Chichester and executor of the will of Archbishop Arundel, received from Middleton in 1424 bequests of land at Cheltenham, Glos., the sum of £10 and his bed ‘cum signo cervi’, and was asked to act as Middleton’s executor. That John acquired a messuage in Chichester in 1427. Reg. Chichele, ii. 287-8, 401; CP25(1)240/85/37.