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John Shipward

· active 1429-10-03 – 1484-12-21 · Shipward family →

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Shipward, John sheriff of Bristol pp. 277
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  1. 1429-10-03 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment of the county of Bristol to John Shipward for year, so that he answer at the Exchequer as sheriff; the and commonalty having submitted to the king his name the names of Thomas Fisshe and Clement Bagot as candi…

  2. 1430-10-04 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to John Shipward, late sheriff, to deliver the county to by indenture. . 9…

  3. 1441-10-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment of the county of Bristol to John Shipward, the younger, for one year, so that he answer at the Exchequer as sheriff ; the mayor and commonalty having submitted to the king his name and the names of John Troyt …

  4. 1441-10-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to the mayor, burgesses and whole commonalty of the town and suburbs of Bristol to be intendant to John Shipward as sheriff.…

  5. 1441-10-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to John Stanley, late sheriff, to deliver the county to John Shipward by indenture.…

  6. 1453-06-08 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commissions in like terms to the following, to distribute the sums in the counties, cities and boroughs John viscount Beaumont, Thomas Everyngham, John Boyvile; 1781. 13s. 7;d.; in the county of Leicester. John lord de D…

  7. 1453-06-12 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission in like terms [p. 45 above] to Thomas Watkyns, bruer, Geoffrey Griffith, marchaunt, Alexander Newe, dyer, John Elyot, brasyer, Lewis Bruer, Thomas Asshe the elder, baker, John Seynt, bruer, and John Laynell, d…

  8. 1464-01-08 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Shipward, mayor of Bristol, Richard Chook, Thomas Yong, William Canyngez, William Coder, Philip Mede, William Howell, John Bagot, Thomas Kempson, and William Spencer within the tow…

  9. 1468-04-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Licence for the alienation in mortmain by William Canyngis, merchant of Bristol, to Thomas Hankefot, chaplain of the chantry founded by him at the altar of St. George in the parish church of St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, i…

  10. 1471-09-11 date: inferred auto-linked

    General pardon to John Shipward alias Shepard alias Sheppard the elder of Bristol, merchant, of all offences committed by him before 7 September. By p.s.…

  11. 1481-04-19 date: inferred auto-linked

    to John Shipward, whom the king lately by letters patent one of the customers or collectors in the port of Bristol and ports places adjacent, that he may buy or sell merchandise and take the to or from foreign parts, not…

  12. 1484-12-21 date: inferred auto-linked

    Grant for life, from Michaelmas last, to Avice the wife of John Shipward of Bristol, marchaunt, of an annuity of 40l. from the issues of the feefarm of the hundred or lordship of Barton by Bristol, co. Gloucester, and tu…

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