Mayor Of Suthampton

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. John Frost 1341–1344 ×3
   • 1341-09-28 — of oyer and terminer to Richard de Kelleshull, Robert and John de Higham, on complaint by William Trussel, that John Frost, mayor of Suthampton, Nicholas Sampso…
   • 1344-09-28 — of oyer and terminer to Richard de Kelleshull, Robert and John de Higham, on complaint by William Trussel, elder, that John Frost, mayor of Suthampton, Nicholas…
2. John Polmoud 1384
   • 1384-06-03 — To the mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton and Robert de Bekerton serjeant at arms. Order upon their allegiance, at the petition of John Holbeche citizen and merch…
3. Philip Cake 1386 ×2
   • 1386-07-10 — the sheriff of Suthampton, Philip Cake mayor of Suthampton, Spircok, William Mapille and William Malmushille, appointed said mayor or Edmund being one) to make …
   • 1386-07-10 — the sheriff of Suthampton, Philip Cake mayor of Suthampton, Spircok, William Mapille and William Malmushille, appointed said mayor or Edmund being one) to make …
4. John de Doune 1461
   • 1461-11-14 — to John Audeley of Audeley, John Stourton of Stourton, John Done, mayor of Suthampton, Maurice Berkeley, Thomas John Ingoldesby, Walter Fetyplace, Robert Belhou…
5. Walter Fetplace 1464
   • 1464-01-02 — Commission to Geoffrey Gate, knight, Walter Fetyplace, mayor of Suthampton, Thomas Uvedale, esquire, Henry Trenchard, esquire, Thomas Welle, William Nedeham, Ph…
6. John de Ros 1470
   • 1470-04-25 — Commission to John William, mayor of Suthampton, William Overay John Chapman to take ships in the port of the said town for the of the armed force which the kin…

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 Suthampton”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/mayor-of-suthampton, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.