Sir Thomas Tresham
TRESHAM, Sir THOMAS (d. 1471), speaker of the House of Commons, was the eldest son of William Tresham (d. 1450) [q. v.] by his wife Isabel, daughter of Sir William Vaux of Harrowden, Northamptonshire. He…
Sir Humphrey Starkey
STARKEY, Sir HUMPHREY (d. 1486), chief baron of the exchequer, was descended from the Starkeys of Oulton and Wrenbury, Cheshire. He was a member of the Inner Temple, and is first mentioned as a lawyer…
Sir James Hobart
HOBART, Sir JAMES (d. 1507), attorney-general, the youngest son of Thomas Hobart of Leyham in Norfolk, was entered at Lincoln’s Inn early in the reign of Edward IV. He is frequently referred to in the…
William Hatteclyffe
HATTECLYFFE, WILLIAM (d. 1480), physician and secretary to Edward IV, was one of the original scholars of King’s College, Cambridge, appointed by Henry VI on 12 Feb. 1440 (Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, i. 189; cf.…
Henry Yelverton
YELVERTON, Sir WILLIAM (1400?–1472?), judge, born probably about 1400, was son of John Yelverton of Rackheath, Norfolk, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Rede or Read of Rougham in the same…
William Worcester, Chronicler
WORCESTER or Botoner, WILLIAM (1415–1482?), chronicler and traveller, was son of William de Worcester, a substantial burgess of Bristol, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Botoner by his wife Matilda, who died on 20 July 1402,…
William Paston
PASTON, WILLIAM (1378–1444), judge, was born in 1378 at Paston on the coast of Norfolk, four miles from North Walsham, and close to the small Cluniac priory of Bromholm (Norfolk Archæology, vol. iv.; Paston Letters,…
John Paston (1421-66)
PASTON, JOHN (1421–1466), letter-writer and country gentleman, the eldest son of William Paston [q. v.] the judge, born in 1421, was brought up to the law in the Inner Temple, and by 1440 was married…
Sir William Oldhall
OLDHALL, Sir WILLIAM (1390?–1466?), soldier, son and heor of Sir Edmund Oldhall of Narford, Bodney, and East Dereham, Norfolk, by Alice, daughter of Geoffrey de Fransham of the same county, was born about 1390. As…
John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
MOWBRAY, JOHN (VI), third Duke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl Marshal of England, and fifth Earl of Nottingham (1415–1461), was the only son of John Mowbray V [q. v.] and his wife, Catherine Nevill. He was…