Family and Education

Offices Held

Reeve, Salisbury 1 Nov. 1416-17; mayor 1418-19.1

Biography

Little else is known of Poynaunt save that he contributed £1 towards the city of Salisbury’s share of a parliamentary subsidy levied in 1417, and 10s.to one raised in 1427; and in October 1419 he was named an executor of the will of John Milbourne, nephew and esquire of John Chitterne, archdeacon of Salisbury.2

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: Charles Kightly

Notes

• 1. Salisbury RO, ‘Domesday bk.’ 3, ff. 27, 38; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxvi. 380.
• 2. Salisbury RO, ledger bk. ff. A, 60, 68; Reg. Chichele ii. 177-8.