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| Name |
John CHEYNEY |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Born |
of Shurland on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England  |
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Male |
| Died |
20 Jun 1487 |
| Person ID |
I15186 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
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10 Aug 2020 |
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- He lived at Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England
CHEYNE, Sir John (1410-1467); of Eastchurch in Sheppey. Victualler of Calais 1452-9. M.P. Kent 1449 (I). Lancastrian
Son and heir of William Cheyne (d. 1441) by Margaret daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Shurland;1 married circa 1439, Eleanor daughter of Sir Robert Shottesbroke (q.v.) of Faringdon, Berks, 2 and he left nine sons, of whom the third, Sir John Cheyne (q.v.) K.G., was summoned to Parlt. as Lord Cheyne in 1487.
King's Serjeant-at-Arms by Apr. 1445; kntd. 1445/7; J.P. Kent, 28 Dec. 1447 to 17 Nov. 1460; on Kentish comns. 1449 to 1452; sheriff of Kent 1454-5. Cheyne had licence to ship 28 sacks of Kentish wool from Queenborough to London 1448. Pardoned for being out with Cade; made Victualler of Calais, 13 Feb. 1452, for which office he accounted till 1459. With Gervase Clifton (q.v.) he accounted also for the expenditure on works at Calais 1453-7. Pardoned 1452, 1455, 1458 and again with other Lancastrian officials in Feb. 1462, when to the usual style "of Eastchurch" is added "of Wodehay, Berks." (m. 36)
D. 20 Jun 1467, when William, aged 27, was his son and heir; lands-Kent.
[Source: History Of Parliament (1439-1509). by Wedgwood Josiah C. Publication date 1936. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n809/mode/2up]
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[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 553. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
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