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Edward Guildford (MP for Kent)

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and he was appointed a third time to the bench of magistrates, sitting for life. That year he was on a commission to raise royal loans in Kent, followed by other commissions in 1441 and 1443. In that year he began legal proceedings against members of the Brenchley family for possession of a holding
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on behalf of William Bertin of Canterbury, who had married his daughter Elizabeth, and that year was appointed Sheriff of Kent. In 1434 he was among Kent gentry required to take an oath not to maintain malefactors and he served on two royal commissions of inquiry, one into a Kent manor and the other
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In 1444 he founded a chapel in Rolvenden church in honour of St Anne and St Katherine and in his will, made on 16 October 1448, asked to be buried there. Probate was on 21 September 1449, his executors including his son John and his son-in-law, William Darell. His widow was alive in December 1455,
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alleging that he had forcibly deprived John Hicks of his property in Rolvenden, dragging him out of his house by his legs, and stealing goods worth 20 pounds. The injured man claimed that it was impossible to get justice in the local Kent courts.
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After re-appointment as a JP for Kent in 1437, he was added to the commission of oyer and terminer in 1438 and chosen as sheriff. followed in 1439 by a commission on defences in Sussex. In 1440 he and his wife joined the religious fraternity of
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His father having died when he was young, how he was brought up and how his inheritance was kept secure are unknown. By the time he reached majority, however, he was in trouble with the law. In 1412 he was bound over in the sum of 200 pounds to
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as one of the dozen men from the county they considered most capable of doing military service in defence of the kingdom (though there is no record of him serving as a soldier). Later that year he attended the parliamentary elections held at
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into theft of a ship's cargo. In 1435 he sat for the third time as MP for Kent, was on a commission of array, and for the first time was appointed a JP for the county. In 1436 the Privy Council asked him to loan 40 pounds towards the
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in Benenden, eventually ending the disagreement with a settlement out of court. Not long afterwards it was alleged in the Court of Chancery that he had refused to return the manor of Dane Court near Eythorne to its rightful owner.
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of Eythorne rectory. According to the Visitation of Kent in 1619, his first wife had predeceased him and it was a second wife with the same first name, Juliana Markle, who survived him.
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to ensure that he would do no harm to Patrick St Owen. In 1413 the Sheriff of Kent was ordered to arrest him and eight others and to bring them immediately before the
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in Kent, and in that year was elected MP for Kent. In 1420, shortly after the dissolution of his first Parliament, his name was included by the local
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At an early age he married Juliana Pittlesden or Picklesden (sources differ), who probably came from
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Having entered national politics, his circle of acquaintance widened. He became an associate of the
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and for a second time was elected MP for Kent. In 1428 he had dealings with the Privy Councillor
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Despite this record of offences, in 1419 he received his first public appointment, to a royal
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and Kent, he would have been in contact with his two co-trustees,
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Some sources call him Edmund, but that is probably a misreading.
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landowner, administrator, and politician from the county of
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In 1431 he was involved in transactions regarding land in
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421
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Index

English
Kent
MP
Sheriff
William Guildford
Benenden
Rolvenden
King Henry IV
Court of Chancery
Lord Chancellor
commission of array
JPs
Privy Council
Rochester
Canterbury
Surrey
Nicholas Carew
escheator
Middlesex
Sir Walter Hungerford
Eythorne
King Henry VI
Sudeley
Bodiam
Sussex
Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
Humphrey Stafford, 6th Earl of Stafford
Stone
Duke of York
Christ Church Priory

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