Family and Education

?s. of William Mate*.

Offices Held

Councillor, Colchester Sept. 1422-3, 1425-6; coroner 1425-6; bailiff 1427-8 , 1434-5; mace-bearer 1428-30, 1435-6; alderman 1428-30, 1432-3, 1435-6.1

Biography

In 1411 Simon Mate ‘of Colchester’ was a feoffee of land in the district of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. With Henry Boss^†, son of the MP of 1406, he held a tenement in East Street, Colchester, from 1426, and in 1434 he obtained part of a meadow in nearby Lexden.2 Mate died in 1449.3

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: K.N. Houghton

Notes

• 1. Colchester Moot Hall, ct. rolls 43, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54; Cal. Colchester Ct. rolls ed. Harrod, 2.
• 2. Suff. Feet of Fines, 281; ct. rolls 46 m. 14, 53 mm. 7, 12v.
• 3. Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 118.