JOCE, John I, of Maldon, Essex.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Constituency

Dates

Jan. 1390
Jan. 1397
1399

Family and Education

Offices Held

Wardman, Maldon Jan. 1386-7; bailiff 1396-7.1

Biography

In June 1386 a John Joce was ordered to be arrested with other men of Maldon after they had imprisoned certain servants of Walter, Lord Fitzwalter, and held them to ransom. The Joce concerned in this affair, however, may have been the MP’s father, for that same month John Joce ‘junior’ acquired a messuage and garden in the town from Henry Hales*.2

Joce was engaged in the local cloth trade. In January 1389 he was appointed as an overseer of repairs to Hey bridge, and five years later he was elected as an assistant to the bailiff. In December 1397, at the end of his only known bailiffship, he witnessed a deed of property in All Saints’ parish. He was party to the grant of privileges made to the townsmen by the bishop of London in October 1403.3

Until February 1404 Joce held the manor of Great Wendon, Essex, by enfeoffment of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, then conveying it to William Loveney*, keeper of the King’s wardrobe.4

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: K.N. Houghton

Notes

  • 1. Essex RO, Maldon ct. bk. i. ff. 3, 7v.
  • 2. CPR, 1385-9, p. 179; Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 207.
  • 3. E101/342/14; Maldon ct. bk. i. ff. 5-6, 11; CCR, 1396-9, p. 231; CPR, 1401-5, p. 307.
  • 4. CCR, 1402-5, pp. 314, 319.