Mayor Of Cambridge

Cambridge. 6 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Guy le Spicer 1316 ×2
   • 1316-02-13 — Richard de Bradeshagh acknowledges that he owes to Sigreda, late the wife of Richard de Urmeston, 40/.; to be levied, in default of payment, of lis lands and ch…
   • 1316-02-20 — The like to all the sheriffs of England. [ Jbid.] Richard de Bradeshagh acknowledges that he owes to Sigreda, late the wife of Richard de Urmeston, 40/.; to be …
2. John Pittuk 1335
3. William de Horwode 1351
   • 1351-05-20 — Commission of the peace to William Basset, Hugh de Berwyk, Adam de Everyngham of Rokley, Nicholas de Wortley, William de Notton, William de Fyncheden, the young…
4. Edmund Lytstere 1380
   • 1380-03-20 — The like to Roger Harleston, Edmund Lytstere, mayor of Cambridge, John Payne, John Morice and John de Cotton, to array men in Cambridge. By C. 12.
5. John de Wygeton 1478
   • 1478-07-06 — Commission to Thomas, bishop of Lincoln, chancellor of England and of the University of Cambridge, and his vice-chancellor there, William, abbot of the monaster…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “mayor of Cambridge”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/mayor-of-cambridge, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.