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FRYS, Richard, of Marlborough, Wilts.
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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Probably a relation of John Frys, bailiff of Marlborough some time before 1385, and of Robert Frys, who was to be bailiff in 1425, Richard himself worked there as a weaver. He paid the small sum of 6d. to the town’s levy of the general poll tax of 1379.
CPR, 1381-5, p. 520; CAD, ii. C2603; E179/196/44.
