Family and Education

Offices Held

Supervisor of leather, Maldon Jan. 1416-17; weigher of bread 1419-20; constable 1421-2, 1428-9; wardman 1423-5, 1426-8;1 bailiff 1434-5.

Biography

Gore was fined 3d. in the borough court in 1414 for selling underweight bread. At the parliamentary elections of 1432 he was mainpernor for John Burgess* of Maldon. In May 1434, as bailiff, he was one of those from Essex who took the general oath not to maintain breakers of the peace.2

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: K.N. Houghton

Notes

• 1. Essex RO, Maldon ct. bk. i, ff. 18, 19v, 21-24.
• 2. Ct. roll 9 m. 4v; C219/14/3; CPR, 1429-36, p. 401.