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Graundfote was elected to the
Parliaments of 1460, 1461, and 1463, serving in the House of Commons until retiring in 1465 along with fellow Rye Member of Parliament John Hamond. During the eighty-year period from 1439 to 1509, Graundfote was recorded as being the only man of the 2,600 who served in
113:"for riding up to London whence he was sent up to the King and the Lords, for the town, with excuse, what time it was not as it is now, blessed be God of the grace of amendment and so continue". From this in can be inferred that Graundfote was elected to the Parliament of the Devils convened at
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Graundfote. In 1475, he was recorded as having been a shipowner, and having in his possession several workshops in the market and the strand, for which he is noted as having paid a rent of
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Beginning from 1474, Graundfote would steadily retire from his various positions. That year he was recorded as handing over, sole, the bailivy of Rye to his son John, who by this point was a
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for the hire of two horses to go to London in 1450, before later appearing on the list of Jurats for the year 1456/7, and being noted as having sold salt to the town of Rye at
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Rye". Despite this he was to serve as a King's bailiff of Rye from 1459 to 1461. In the year between 1459 and 1460, he was paid for 40 days at
Parliament with an extra
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