YOUNG, Thomas II, of Winchelsea, 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

May 1413

Family and Education

prob. s. of Walter Young of Winchelsea.

Offices Held

Biography

Thomas’s presumed father, Walter, was a shipmaster who served as mayor of Winchelsea in 1403-4.1 The two men sat together on juries which in May 1411 indicted William Long II* of Rye for piracy. Thomas witnessed deeds at Winchelsea between 1409 and 1421, having in the meantime, in 1415, provided information to the royal commissioners surveying the town in order that walls might be built within its original perimeter. Elsewhere he held land at Icklesham, on which, as a Portsman, he claimed exemption from parliamentary fifteenths.2

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: A. P.M. Wright

Notes

  • 1. E101/67/23 no. 45.
  • 2. Cat. Rye Recs. ed. Dell, 136/161, 146/2; Add. Ch. 20206; E101/67/18 no. 6; E179/225/34, 40, 42.