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GOSSELYN, John II, of Lewes, Suss.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
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Family and Education
?s. of Walter Gosselyn*.
Offices Held
Tax collector, Suss. Dec. 1421, Oct. 1422.
Biography
John witnessed a deed at Lewes in March 1421, and served as a juror there not only for the assessment of the tax on parishes in May 1428, but also at inquiries held in 1424 and 1431 about the goods of a fugitive thief. As executor of Robert Bynt* of Lewes, in 1431 he was suing one of his debtors, a woolman from Hampshire.
Add. Ch. 30562; Feudal Aids, v. 163; E368/199, Mich. rot. 2, Hil. rot. 10; CPR, 1429-36, p. 161.