A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 6, the Borough and Liberties of Beverley. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989.
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A P Baggs, L M Brown, G C F Forster, I Hall, R E Horrox, G H R Kent, D Neave. "Lists of Officers". A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 6, the Borough and Liberties of Beverley. Ed. K J Allison(London, 1989), , British History Online. Web. 8 October 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol6/pp198-205.
In this section
LISTS OF OFFICERS TO 1835
There is no known list of keepers or governors before 1573. Existing lists, both manuscript (fn. 1) and printed, (fn. 2) of governors, later aldermen, from 1573, and of mayors, recorders, town or common clerks, and chamber or corporation clerks, are incomplete or inaccurate. Abbreviations used below are: app., appointed; d., died; dis., displaced; off., office; reapp., reappointed; res., resigned.
Keepers or Governors until 1573
The sparsity of surviving records makes it impossible to compile a complete list. (fn. 3) Governors were elected for one year and their eligibility for re-election was controlled by rules which were changed more than once in the 15th century. (fn. 4) In the following list those who were reelected are named only once, the dates of their later terms being in brackets after their names. The 12 men in office in 1573 were replaced by the charter of that year.
1320-1 Nicholas of Allerton, John of Bristol, William of Burton, Thomas Coke, John Jordan, John Young, Hugh of Leconfield, Thomas of Lund, William of Reedness, John of Routh, Thomas of Sutton, William of Thornton
1344-5 Robert of Brune, Robert of Driffield, Thomas of Frismarsh, Robert Joliff, Robert of Leconfield, Richard of Lissett, Thomas Loante, Amand of Routh, Robert of Sherburn, John Spicer (1359), Walter Taverner, Adam of Tirwhit
1345-6 Walter Barker, John Clerk, Thomas Coppandale, John of Cottingham, William of Dalton, Thomas Harold, Robert of Humbleton, William of Kelstern, Richard of Louth (1359), John of Walton, John of Warton, Robert of Watton
1347-8 John of Barton (1366-7), Robert of Burton, Adam Coke, William Coppandale, John of Cottam, Thomas Frost (1354), Richard of Holme (1354), Thomas Joliff, Thomas Ladychapman, Thomas Laute, William Tirwhit (1377-8)(? two of that name), John of Walcot
1359-60 Robert Beeford, Adam Coppandale, son of William Coppandale the elder, Alexander Cras, Thomas Gervays (1366-7), William Lockington, Peter Lumbard, Thomas Scroton (1377-8), Peter Stainton, John Tirwhit (13667), John Wragby
1366-7 Paul Bittby, John Carlton, Stephen Coppandale, John Humbleton, William Lumbard, William Scorborough, Roger Winkton, Thomas Yole, Richard York
1377-8 Thomas Catour, Adam Coppandale the younger, Thomas Etton, Thomas Manby, Richard Middleton, William Rolleston (1393-4, 1399-1400, 1405-6, 1409-10), John Scoreby, Thomas Snaith, Adam Tondew, Richard Vescy
1379-80 John of Aike, John Bewholme (13991400, 1406-7), Peter Catwick, William Dodhill, John Gervays, goldsmith, John Gervays, vintner, William Hollym, Thomas Joliff (1400-1, 1419-20), John Kelk (1392-3, 1400-1, 14045), John Trippok (1394-5), John Walkington (1399-1400, 1405-6), Richard Walkington (1407-8)
1392-3 Richard Aglion (1405-6, 1415-16)
1393-4 Nicholas Rise (1399-1400, 1415-16)
1394-5 William Carlton, John Doynour, Robert Hougham, William Ithum, John Lindlow, William Maylard (1406-7, 1427-8, 1431-2, 1439-40), John Mayre, William Melbourne (1406-7), John Stalker, John Tone (1406-7, 1414, 1418-19), Thomas Yole (1416-17, 14245, 1428-9)
1399-1400 William Blacomour, John Chamberlain, William Leeds (1407-8), John Melton, William Potyger, Thomas Scorborough (1407-8), William Sleaford (1407-8), Nicholas Warren
1400-1 Roger Aylce, Adam Barker (1405-6, 1409-10), William Bird (1404-5), Stephen Coppandale (1404-5), Nicholas Falconer (1416-17), John Harpham, Stephen Leconfield, Richard Lockington, Thomas Swanland (1419-20, 1425-6, 1433-4, 1437-8), John Thurstan
1405-6 John Almot (1409-10), Richard Cokerham (1409-10, 1422-3, 1428-9, 1432-3, 14367), Thomas Coldbeck (1409-10, 1419-20, 1425-6, 1433-4, 1437-8, 1441-2), John Holme (1409-10, 1419-20), William Holme (1409-10, 1419-20, 1425-6, 1433-4), William Southwell (1409-10), John Stephenson, William Wilton (1409-10, 1429-30, 1433-4, 1437-8, 1441-2) 1406-7 Nicholas Chamberlain (1414), William Collume, Thomas Coppandale (1414, 141819, 1422-3), William Dalton, John Spenser, barker (1416-17), John Spenser, butcher (1419-20), Thomas White, Thomas White (1424-5, 1428-9, 1432-3, 1436-7, 1440-1, 1444-5, 1448-9, 1452-3)
1407-8 John Brompton (1416-17, 1424-5, 14289, 1432-3, 1436-7, 1440-1, 1453-4), William Burley, William Coke, William Green, John Hawden, William Mighell, William Scott, Adam Tirwhit (1416-17, 1419-20, 1425-6) 1409-10 John Atwell (1419-20, 1425-6, 142930, 1433-4), Walter Barbour (1433-4, 14378, 1441-2, 1445-6), Richard Beverley
1414 John Bewholme (1418-19, 1422-3, 14301, 1434-5, 1436-7, 1438-9, 1440-1, 1442-3, 1448-9) (?two of that name), Robert Manby, Walter Middleton (1422-3, 1430-1, 1438-9), Richard Seaton, Robert Swanland
1415-16 William Cockerill (1423-4, 1427-8, 1431-2, 1435-6, 1439-40, 1443-4)
1416-17 John Brian, Thomas Dean (1424-5, 1428-9, 1433-4), William Iwardeby, John Lorimer, Roger Ruston, Thomas Skipwith (1424-5, 1428-9, 1432-3, 1436-7, 1440-1, 1444-5), John Sleaford (1424-5, 1428-9, 1432-3, 1436-7, 1440-1)
1418-19 William Aglion, Thomas Arkleby (1422-3), Robert Easingwold (1423-4), Thomas Mayne (1422-3, 1430-1, 1434-5, 1438-9, 1442-3, 1447-8, 1451-2, 1455-6)
1422-3 William Askleby, Robert Bossall, Thomas Bugg, William Doynour, Ralph Ebberston (1430-1, 1441-2), Richard Hornsea
1423-4 Richard Alkbarrow (1427-8), William Bean (1432-3, 1437-8), Richard Beeford (1427-8, 1431-2), Roger Cokerham (1427-8, 1431-2, 1435-6, 1439-40, 1443-4, 1447-8, 1451-2), Thomas Footit, Guy Litster, William Poppleton (1431-2), Christopher Potter, John Tondith, William Wells (1431-2)
1424-5 Robert Bewholme (1428-9), Thomas Loversall, Thomas Lyndelow (1428-9), Roger Rolleston (1428-9, 1432-3, 1436-7, 1440-1, 1444-5, 1448-9, 1452-3, 1456-7), William Sixhill (1430-1), Robert Warter (1428-9)
1425-6 William Spenser (1433-4, 1437-8, 14412, 1445-6, 1449-50, 1453-4), William Trentham (1433-4, 1437-8, 1442-3, 1446-7)
1427-8 Thomas Brompton (1431-2), John Condith
1428-9 William Kirkby (1432-3, 1436-7, 14434, 1447-8, 1451-2, 1455-6, 1459-60)
1430-1 Robert Allerton, Walter Brigg, Laurence Carr, William Lincoln (1438-9)
1430-1 William Lorimer (1438-9, 1442-3, 14478, 1465-6, 1469-70)(? two of that name), John Skipwith (1438-9, 1442-3, 1446-7, 1450-1, 1454-5, 1458-9), Thomas Wayt (1438-9, 1442-3, 1446-7, 1450-1, 1454-5)
1431-2 Guy Bridekirk (1435-6, 1439-40, 14434), John Morethwaite (1435-6, 1440-1), Richard Patrington (1439-40, 1445-6, 1449-50), Thomas Wilton (1435-6, 1439-40, 1443-4, 1447-8, 1451-2)
1432-3 John Cowton (1436-7, 1440-1, 1448-9, 1452-3, 1458-9), John Noure
1433-4 Walter Dunham, Adam Oughtibrig (1437-8), William Wensley (1437-8, 1441-2, 1446-7, 1460-1, 1464-5)
1436-7 John Coke, William Northorpe (14412, 1445-6, 1449-50, 1453-4)
1437-8 Thomas Constable (1441-2), John Coppandale (1441-2, 1445-6, 1449-50, 1453-4, 1457-8, 1465-6, 1469-70, 1477-8), Stephen Tilson (1441-2, 1445-6, 1449-50, 1453-4)
1438-9 Nicholas Brompton (1442-3, 1446-7, 1450-1, 1454-5, 1458-9), Richard Cousin (1443-4, 1447-8, 1451-2), Richard Hallytreeholme (1442-3, 1446-7, 1451-2), Robert Jackson (1442-3, 1446-7, 1450-1, 1460-1, 14645, 1468-9), William Pennycook (1442-3, 14467)
1439-40 Thomas Driffield (1445-6), John Gildyn (1443-4, 1447-8), John Redesham (14434, 1447-8, 1451-2, 1454-5, 1458-9, 1462-3, 1466-7, 1470-1, 1482-3), John Sixhill, John Ulceby (1443-4, 1447-8, 1451-2, 1455-6, 1459-60), Ralph Ward (1443-4, 1447-8, 14512, 1455-6)
1440-1 Ralph Abraham (1448-9, 1452-3), Edmund Brackenborough (1448-9), John Davison, William Pierson (1448-9)
1441-2 Thomas Everingham (1445-6), William Morethwaite (1445-6, 1449-50, 1453-4)
1442-3 Thomas Penrith, Edmund Portington (1446-7, 1450-1, 1454-5, 1458-9, 1462-3)
1443-4 Thomas Bevington, Richard James (1448-9)
1445-6 Hugh Carlisle (1449-50), John Gargrave (1449-50, 1453-4), Simon Sproatley (1450-1, 1454-5)
1446-7 Alexander Crayke (1458-9, 1462-3), William Harding (1456-7), John Newton
1447-8 William Roos, John Wells (1451-2, 1455-6, 1459-60, 1463-4, 1467-8, 1475-6, 1479-80)
1448-9 Walter Frost (1453-4, 1457-8), William Hundesworth (1452-3, 1456-7, 1460-1), John Middleton (1452-3, 1457-8, 1465-6, 1469-70)
1449-50 William Atkinson (1453-4, 1465-6, 1469-70), Thomas Haddlesey (1453-4, 14656, 1470-1), William Sleaford (1453-4, 145960, 1463-4, 1467-8), Robert Stones (1453-4, 1465-6, 1469-70)
1450-1 John Ashton (1456-7, 1460-1, 1464-5, 1468-9), John Copy (1454-5, 1458-9, 1462-3, 1466-7, 1470-1, 1482-3), Thomas Darlington (1454-5, 1458-9, 1462-3, 1466-7, 1470-1), John Grayburn (1454-5, 1458-9), William Mayne (1454-5, 1459-60, 1469-70), Henry Tasker (1454-5)
1451-2 John Sproatley (1455-6), Thomas Wiche (1455-6, 1459-60, 1463-4, 1467-8, 1475-6)
1452-3 James Conpis, William Heseham (145960), John Potter, John Quail, John Wilforth, John Williamson
1454-5 Robert Coke (1458-9, 1470-1)
1455-6 Thomas Belott (1459-60, 1463-4, 14678), Richard Byall, Richard Dawson (1459-60, 1463-4), William Hewitt (1459-60, 1463-4, 1467-8)
1456-7 Robert Bird (1460-1, 1464-5, 1468-9), John Gunnyswell, William Johnson, Richard Ling (1460-1), Henry Pollington (1466-7, 1470-1), William Rudd (1460-1), Robert Thomson (1460-1, 1464-5, 1468-9), John Wilkinson (1460-1)
1457-8 John Disney, John Wilton
1458-9 Thomas Minskip (1462-3, 1467-8, 147980), Richard Thorpe (1462-3)
1459-60 Richard Cowton (1463-4, 1467-8), Henry Warwick (1463-4, 1467-8)
1460-1 John Lorimer (1464-5, 1468-9), John Pierson (1464-5, 1468-9), Thomas Tone (1464-5, 1468-9)
1462-3 Richard Burdale (1466-7, 1470-1), Roger Kelk (1466-7, 1470-1, 1482-3, 14923, 1495-6, 1501-2, 1502-3), Roger Sothern (1466-7, 1470-1), Robert Tuke (1466-7), William Wheatley (1466-7, 1470-1)
1463-4 John Barton (1467-8, 1475-6, 1479-80), Stephen Guildhouse (1467-8), Robert Toft (1467-8, 1475-6, 1479-80), John Wither (1467-8)
1464-5 John Barrow (1468-9), Robert Johnson (1468-9), John Sigglesthorne (1468-9, 1484-5, 1488-9, 1491-2, 1494-5), John Wood (1468-9)
1465-6 William Agas (1469-70), Robert Brian (1469-70), Thomas Bulmer (1469-70, 14778, 1481-2), Thomas Clerk (1477-8, 14812), Robert Hallytreeholme, William Morsell (1469-70)
1466-7 Richard Bedale, William Gartham, Christopher Shafts (1470-1)
1468-9 William Webster
1469-70 Robert Vicars, Robert Walker
1470-1 William Newbald (1482-3)
1475-6 Andrew Fryston, Richard Hobson (1479-80), John Horn (1491-2), William Horn, Adam Newcombe (1490-1, 1493-4), Thomas Slater, John Walker (1520-1)
1477-8 Edmund Booth, Thomas Bossall (14812), Robert Fisher, Nicholas Gedney (1481-2), William Grimston (1481-2), John Spalding (1481-2, 1490-1), Thomas Taverner (1481-2, 1491-2, 1494-5), Robert Tomlinson (1481-2)
1479-80 Richard Cockerill, Robert White (1492-3, 1495-6, 1498-9, 1501-2, 1502-3, 1504-5, 1513-14, 1521-2)
1481-2 Robert Alwood, Stephen Coppandale, Robert Garnet, William Pierson (1491-2, 1494-5, 1500-1)
1482-3 John Armstrong (1489-90, 1492-3, 1495-6, 1498-9), Elias Cass (1489-90, 1498-9, 1501-2), Stephen Chamber (1491-2), Robert Dacres (1489-90, 1496-7), William Hesslewood, Roger Moyses (1491-2, 1494-5, 14978), Robert Pollington, Stephen Tickhill, Richard Wilmot
1484-5 Guy Maylard
1488-9 Thomas Atkinson (1502-3), Thomas Bawde (1494-5, 1497-8), Alexander Bossall (1491-2, 1494-5, 1497-8, 1500-1, 1501-2), Thomas Bullock (1489-90, 1498-9), Thomas Frost (1492-3, 1495-6), Henry Puckering (1491-2), Robert Rider
1489-90 Nicholas Davison, John Johnson (15023), Richard Melton (1504-5, 1506-7), Thomas Pierson (1494-5, 1503-4, 1504-5), John Wilmot (1493-4, 1496-7, 1505-6, 1507-8, 151314, 1515-16, 1519-20, 1522-3)
1490-1 Richard Bellasise, William Blackden (1493-4), Richard Booth (1493-4, 1496-7, 1500-1, 1501-2, 1502-3, 1505-6, 1507-8, 1514-15, 1518-19, 1522-3), Thomas Collinson, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Jackson (14934, 1496-7, 1502-3), Hugh Loversall (1493-4), John Loversall, John Nuttall (1493-4, 14967)
1491-2 Richard Atkinson, Thomas Elsdale (1494-5), John Northend (1494-5, 1497-8), John Thomson (1498-9)
1493-4 John Coke (1496-7), Robert Ellis (14967, 1500-1, 1501-2, 1502-3), John Kirkby, John Roomthwaite (1496-7, 1505-6, 1507-8), Henry Sanderson (1496-7, 1501-2, 1502-3, 1504-5, 1508-9, 1514-15, 1518-19, 1520-1)
1494-5 Robert Burton (1497-8, 1500-1, 15023, 1507-8, 1512-13, 1514-15, 1518-19, 15212, 1523-4, 1529), John Stephenson (1497-8, 1500-1, 1502-3), Adam Thomson (1497-8)
1496-7 Edward Dawson, Richard Pattoner (1507-8, 1513-14, 1515-16, 1519-20, 1521-2, 1523-4)
1497-8 William Booth, William Sergeantson (1506-7), Richard Wilson
1498-9 William Curtis (1503-4, 1504-5, 1510, 1513-14), William Greves, Edward Johnson, John Owsby, Robert Smith, Henry Watts, John Wright (1536-7, 1537-8, 1545-6, 15478)
1500-1 Christopher Atkinson (1503-4, 15067), William Hunter, John Lightfoot (1503-4, 1504-5), Richard Mullett (1503-4, 1507-8, 1513-14), John Norman (1503-4, 1508-9, 1512-13, 1514-15), Henry Robinson (1503-4)
1502-3 Robert Lerefax (1506-7, 1508-9), John Ulceby
1503-4 Robert Booth (1510), William Dendron (1504-5), William Esteby (1508-9, 1518-19, 1521-2, 1530), Richard Laxton (1510), James Taylor
1506-7 Edward Middleton
1507-8 Edmund Coppandale, Thomas Ellesden, Edward Settrington (1512-13, 1514-15, 15201)
1508-9 John Brown (1514-15, 1518-19, 15212, 1523-4, 1529), Brian Falconer (1512-13, 1514-15, 1518-19, 1520-1, 1522-3), Christopher Hudson (1513-14, 1515-16, 1519-20, 1521-2, 1535-6, 1537-8, 1539-40), Marmaduke Patson, Richard Sanderson (1512-13, 1515-16, 1520-1, 1529, 1539-40), John Wensley (1518-19, 1522-3)
1510 Thomas Bell (1513-14, 1522-3, 1536-7, 1539-40, 1541-2), John Blathwaite, Richard Brodding (1513-14), Stephen Garth, John Manners (1512-13), Richard Townend
1512-13 Peter Craw (1519-20, 1521-2), Christopher Robert, Robert Spalding (1520-1), John Waller, Robert Well (1514-15, 1520-1), William Wharf (1520-1)
1513-14 John Crossley (1515-16, 1518-19, 1519-20, 1522-3, 1530), Stephen Gates, Robert Raffles (1519-20, 1522-3, 1530, 1540-1, 1544-5), John Wilkinson (1514-15, 1518-19, 1519-20, 1520-1, 1521-2)
1514-15 Perceval Robson, Henry Stephenson (1519-20, 1521-2), William Witty (1522-3)
1518-19 Robert Cawton, William Peterson, John White (1520-1, 1522-3, 1536-7, 1539-40, 1541-2), William Wyatt
1519-20 Robert Brompton, Richard Dalby (1541-2), William Lerefax, Christopher Sanderson (1521-2, 1537-8, 1539-40, 1541-2)
1520-1 Henry Scott (1529), Matthew Sowerby
1521-2 William Abbott, John Raffles (1529, 1537-8)
1522-3 John Bullock, William Cooper, Robert Guy
1529 William Dent (1540-1, 1544-5), John Doss, Lancelot Forster, John Garbrey (1544-5)
1534-5 Sir Ralph Ellerker (1535), Robert Grey (1535, 1545-6, 1547-8, 1549-50, 1554-5, 1556-7)
1535-6 Roger Laundes (1540-1, 1544-5, 15545, 1562-3, 1564-5, 1566-7)
1536-7 James Barnby (1537-8, 1544-5), John Cawton (1537-8), William Hall (1540-1), John Smoothing (1540-1), Richard Taylor (15378, 1541-2, 1545-6, 1547-8), Robert Towry (1541-2), Richard Wilson
1537-8 Edward Brown, John Cartwright, John Newcombe (1541-2), John Spence (1541-2, 1545-6), John Westow (1541-2, 1545-6)
1540-1 William Brodding (1544-5), Edward Farrer, John Horncliffe, John Northorpe, William Punderson (1545-6, 1547-8, 1555-6), William Wilton
1541-2 William Sands (1545-6, 1547-8, 15534, 1555-6, 1557-8), Robert Thomson (15456, 1547-8, 1549-50, 1553-4, 1555-6, 1558-9), William Young (1555-6)
1544-5 Robert Brown, Richard Craven (1547-8, 1553-4, 1555-6, 1557-8), Christopher Farrer (1547-8, 1553-4, 1555-6, 1557-8, 1559-60), Robert Harrison (1547-8, 1553-4, 1555-6, 1557-8, 1559-60, 1561-2), Robert Sparrow (1547-8, 1553-4, 1555-6, 1557-8, 1559-60, 1561-2, 1566-7)
1545-6 William Brownbeard, Richard Greenhope (1547-8, 1554-5, 1556-7, 1558-9, 15601, 1563-4), Richard Hogg (1553-4), Hugh White
1547-8 John Thirsk, Thomas Thomson
1548-9 Thomas Hardy (1559-60, 1561-2, 15634, 1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70, 1571-2)
1550-1 Thomas Settrington (1554-5, 1556-7, 1558-9, 1560-1, 1562-3, 1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9, 1570-1, 1572-3)
1551-2 William Fletcher (1554-5, 1557-8, 155960, 1561-2, 1563-4, 1565-6, 1573)
1552-3 Arkenwold Shepherd (1556-7, 1558-9)
1553-4 Lancelot Alford, William Farley (15556, 1557-8, 1559-60, 1561-2, 1563-4, 1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70, 1571-2, 1573), Alexander Guy (1555-6, 1557-8, 1559-60, 1561-2), Henry Power (1555-6, 1557-8)
1554-5 Richard Bell (1556-7, 1558-9, 15601), Thomas Dry (1556-7, 1558-9, 1560-1), Richard Fewle (1556-7, 1558-9, 1560-1, 1562-3), John Jackson (1556-7), Rowland Stockall (1557-8), Edward Stout (1560-1, 1562-3, 1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9, 1570-1), John Wardell (1556-7)
1556-7 John Adamson (1558-9, 1560-1, 15623), Matthew Garbrey (1558-9, 1560-1, 15623, 1564-5), Adam Spence (1558-9, 1560-1)
1557-8 Richard Bullock (1559-60, 1561-2, 1563-4, 1565-6, 1568-9, 1570-1, 1572-3), Richard Wilson (1559-60, 1561-2, 1567-8, 1569-70)
1558-9 Robert Farrer (1560-1, 1562-3, 1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9, 1570-1, 1572-3), William Grey
1559-60 Robert Brown (1561-2, 1563-4, 1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70, 1571-2, 1573), John Raffles (1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70, 1571-2, 1573), Christopher Thornaby (1561-2, 1563-4, 1565-6, 1568-9, 1570-1, 1572-3)
1560-1 Thomas Green (1563-4, 1566-7), Robert Holmes (1562-3, 1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9, 1570-1)
1561-2 Henry Hodgeness (1563-4, 1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70), John Webster (1563-4)
1562-3 Nicholas Ardington (1564-5), William Gossop (1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9), Richard Jackson (1564-5, 1566-7, 1568-9), Christopher Mayne
1563-4 Robert Gossop (1565-6, 1567-8, 156970, 1571-2, 1573), John Simpson (1565-6, 1567-8, 1569-70, 1571-2, 1573)
1564-5 Anthony Curtis, John Johnson (1566-7, 1568-9, 1570-1, 1572-3), Giles Spence (15667, 1569-70, 1571-2, 1573)
1565-6 Roger Catton (1567-8), Thomas Wilberforce (1568-9, 1570-1, 1573)
1566-7 Christopher Rosdell (1570-1, 1572-3)
1567-8 Robert Grey (1569-70, 1571-2), David Robinson, Thomas Walker (1570-1, 1572-3)
1568-9 Thomas Davison, Rowland Herington
1569-70 William Chapman (1571-2, 1573), Robert Ingleton (1571-2, 1573)
1570-1 William Colson, Richard Garbrey (15723)
1571-2 Robert Clarke, Edward Ellerker (1573)
1572-3 Thomas Cowling, John Fletcher, George Guy, Ralph Knaggs
1573 Adam Johnson, Stephen Smales
Governors, later Aldermen, from 1573
The names are preceded by the year of appointment (single dates) or the first year when the man is known to have been in office (double dates). They are followed by the date of death, replacement being dead, resignation, or displacement. (fn. 5) The first 12 were those named in the charter of 1573. A systematic search for dates of death has not been made.
1573 Robert Brown, Richard Bullock, William Cox, Henry Curdaikes (dis. 1578 but restored, d. 1608), William Farley (d. 1591), Robert Farrer (d. 1586), William Fletcher (d. 1575), Richard Garbrey (d. 1595), John Johnson, John Simpson, Giles Spence (d. 1583), Richard Wilson
1573-4 Edward Ellerker (d. 1586)
1575-6 John Raffles (d. 1583)
1578 John Truslove (dis. 1595)
1582-3 Robert Ingleton (dis. 1593)
1585-6 Martin Atmar (d. 1588), Peter Harpham (d. 1597), Christopher Thornton, Edward Truslove (dis. 1595), Michael Warton (d. 1590)
1586-7 Ralph Freeman (d. 1604)
1587-8 George Barthorpe (d. 1593), William Maxey (res. 1597), Philip Wade (res. 1608)
1591-2 John Elley (res. 1595), John Hotham (res. 1596), William Johnson (d. 1593), Thomas Laundes (d. 1593)
1592-3 Lancelot Alford (res. 1598)
1594-5 Peter Artes, Thomas Metcalfe (d. 1601), Peter Pape (d. 1598), Thomas Thornaby (dis. 1595, reapp. 1598, res. 1602)
1595 Robert Clarke, Robert Grey (d. 1603), Christopher Ridley (res. 1602), Robert Robinson, Thomas Waller
1596 Edward Grey (dis. 1631)
1597 John Fotherby, William Parkinson (d. 1628)
1602 William Barrett (dis. 1610, reapp. 1612, d. 1640), Robert Cartwright, Henry Farrer
1603 Christopher Farrer (res. 1616)
1604 John Johnson (d. 1608)
1605 Edward Nelthorpe (d. 1623)
1608 John Dent
1609 Thomas Smales
1610 Roger Barton, Thomas Clarke (dis. 1644), Peter Lickbarrow (d. 1633)
1613 John Smales, John Warter (dis. 1619)
1616 George Cockerill
1618 John Chappelow (res. 1652), William Legard (d. 1650)
1619 Arthur Fish (d. 1635)
1621 William Johnson (d. 1646), Nicholas Waller (d. 1634)
1623 Robert Manby (dis. 1644)
1627 Richard Wade (d. 1631)
1628 Edward Trippe (res. 1628), Thwaites Fox (d. 1636)
1629 William Clarke (d. 1632)
1631 John Fotherby (dis. 1642), Edward Grey (dis. 1644, reapp. 1660, d. 1668)
1632 William Johnson (d. 1657)
1633 Christopher Billips (d. 1660)
1634 John Brown (d. 1637)
1636 William Coulson (dis. 1662), George Witty (d. 1649)
1638 William Elrington (dis. 1644)
1640 Lawrence Booth (refused), James Nelthorpe (res. 1654)
1642 William Wilberforce (d. 1655)
1644 John Johnson (d. 1657)
1645 William Forge (dis. 1662), William Newcombe (res. 1665), William Wade (dis. 1662)
1646 Robert Fotherby (d. 1665)
1649 William Dunn (d. 1683)
1650 Thomas Hudson (dis. 1662)
1652 John Chappelow (d. 1654)
1654 William Dales (d. 1658), Timothy Grey (dis. 1662)
1655 John Stancliffe (d. 1661)
1657 Josias Acklam (d. 1661), Thomas Milner (dis. 1662)
1658 Edward Grey (dis. 1685)
1662 Thomas Clarke (d. 1679), George Davies (d. 1669), Thomas Davison (d. 1664), Stephen Goakman (d. 1668), Thomas Gossop (d. 1664), Thomas Johnson (d. 1683), William Nelson (dis. 1685), John Todd (res. 1674)
1664 Robert Norman (d. 1672)
1665 Thomas Johnson (d. 1696)
1666 Edmund Howson (dis. 1685), Robert Richardson (d. 1669)
1668 Christopher Chappelow (dis. 1688), Henry Ringrose (d. 1669)
1669 William Coulson (dis. 1685)
1670 Bartholomew Towers (res. 1671), William Wilberforce (dis. 1685, reapp. 1700, d. 1703)
1671 John Dymoke (d. 1687), John Fotherby (dis. 1688)
1674 John Sugden (dis. 1685, reapp. 1688, d. 1708)
1680 William Coulson (dead 1711)
1683 Matthew Ashmole (d. 1727)
1685 John Acklam (d. 1699), Thomas Clarke (refused), William Clarke (dis. 1688), John Gunby (d. 1723), Samuel Johnston (refused), Benjamin Lambert (d. 1731), Joshua Naylor (dis. 1688), Thomas Statter (d. 1706), Edward Wilbert (d. 1728)
1687 Robert Appleton
1688 Richard Bethell (refused), Thomas Dunn (d. 1700), Thomas Hassell (res. 1698), Roger Mason (d. 1700), Thomas Milner (res. 1688), Samuel Wilberforce (refused)
1696 Christopher Thompson (d. 1724)
1698 Robert Wride (d. 1742)
1700 George Davies (d. 1752), James Grayburn (refused), Thomas Holmes (res. 1718), Marmaduke Nelson (refused), Sir Michael Warton (refused), Sir Ralph Warton (refused)
1703 John Greaves (dead 1709)
1707 Humphrey Robinson (dead 1708)
1708 Benjamin Beilby (refused), Marmaduke Nelson (d. 1714), Richard Wilson (res. 1710)
1709 Thomas Wilberforce (res. 1720)
1710 William Grayburn (d. 1731)
1711 John Wressell (d. 1732)
1714 Christopher Northend (d. 1731)
1718 John Johnson (d. 1741), Thomas Riby (refused), Robert Walker (refused)
1720 Robert Leadam (refused), Jonathan Midgley (d. 1746)
1723 John Cogdell (d. 1732), Henry Jarratt (refused)
1725 Joseph Beilby (d. 1745)
1727 Sir Michael Newton, later Bt. (d. 1743)
1728 John Bowman (d. 1746)
1731 Ramsden Barnard (dead 1749), Richard Philipson (d. 1757), William Rutter (d. 1744)
1732 George Cowart (d. 1749)
1733 Jonathan Garton (d. 1760)
1741 William Nelson (dead 1770)
1742 John Ellinor (d. 1750), Suckling Spendlove (d. 1777)
1743 William Muncaster (d. 1748)
1744 Christopher Nelson (dead 1774)
1745 Thomas Philip Hoggard (d. 1749)
1746 John Bowman (res. 1784)
1747 John Hoggard (d. 1790)
1748 William Waines (res. 1788)
1749 John Constable (res. 1750), Jonathan Midgley (d. 1778), Walter Wride (d. 1772)
1750 William Leake (d. 1777)
1751 Joseph Bell (d. 1782), William Strickland (refused)
1752 Peter Atkinson (res. 1770)
1757 John Johnston (refused), Thomas Waldby (dead 1767)
1761 Robert Blanshard (d. 1774)
1767 Thomas Waldby (dead 1773)
1770 Teavil Appleton (d. 1800)
1770 Marmaduke Nelson (d. 1776)
1772 Sir James Pennyman, Bt. (res. 1802)
1773 John Ramsey (dead 1802)
1774 Elliner Garton (d. 1783), Christopher Keld (d. 1806)
1776 Roger Gee (d. 1778)
1777 Samuel Spendlove (res. 1785)
1778 Robert Burton (refused), Thomas Dickons (d. 1811), John Mackley (d. 1787), William Middleton (d. 1815)
1783 William Hall (d. 1816), Timothy Lundy (dead 1814)
1784 Hassell Moor (dead 1795)
1785 Joshua Sampson (d. 1792)
1787 John Arden (res. 1828)
1788 Thomas Clubley (in off. 1835)
1790 Marmaduke Hewitt (d. 1831)
1793 Joseph Armitstead (d. 1794)
1794 John Batty Tuke (res. 1822)
1795 Richard Fox (d. 1823)
1800 Thomas Duesbery (in off. 1835)
1802 John Lockwood (d. 1827), Robert Rigby (d. 1823)
1806 William Beverley (res. 1835)
1811 Samuel Hall (in off. 1835)
1814 Robert Ramsey (d. 1822)
1816 John Hall (d. 1832), Richard Vyse (dead 1825)
1822 Thomas Hull (in off. 1835), Henry William Maister (in off. 1835)
1823 Henry John Shepherd (res. 1834), John Williams (in off. 1835)
1825 Frederick Robertson (res. 1832)
1827 Francis Iveson (res. 1834)
1828 John Barker Arden (in off. 1835)
1831 Frederick Campbell (d. 1833)
1832 Charles Brereton (in off. 1835), Robert Wylie (res. 1834)
1833 John Myers (in off. 1835)
1834 Cornelius Collett (in off. 1835), William Robinson Gilby (mayor 1835), John Jackson (in off. 1835)
1835 James Baker Bainton (in off. 1835)
Mayors
The office was established in 1573. The names for 1583, 1588-9, 1614-15, 1618-19, 1619-20, 1620-1, 1621-2, 1627-8, 1633-4, 1634-5, and 1635-6 have not been found in primary sources (fn. 6) and they have been taken from a printed list. (fn. 7)
1573 Edward Ellerker
1573-4 Richard Bullock
1574-5 Richard Wilson
1575-6 William Farley
1576-7 Robert Farrer
1577-8 Robert Brown
1578-9 Giles Spence
1579-80 John Johnson
1580-1 Richard Garbrey
1581-2 Robert Ingleton
1582-3 John Raffles (d. 1583)
1583 Robert Farrer
1583-4 Stephen Smales
1584-5 Peter Harpham
1585-6 John Truslove
1586-7 Ralph Freeman
1587-8 William Farley
1588-9 George Barthorpe
1589-90 Edward Truslove
1590-1 John Truslove
1591-2 Lancelot Alford
1592-3 John Truslove
1593-4 Philip Wade
1594-5 Peter Harpham
1595-6 William Maxey
1596-7 Peter Pape
1597-8 Robert Clarke
1598-9 Robert Robinson
1599-1600 Christopher Ridley
1600-1 William Parkinson
1601-2 Robert Grey
1602-3 Edward Grey
1603-4 John Fotherby
1604-5 Henry Farrer
1605-6 Thomas Waller
1606-7 Peter Artes
1607-8 William Barrett
1608-9 Christopher Farrer
1609-10 Edward Nelthorpe
1610-11 Christopher Farrer
1611-12 John Dent
1612-13 Thomas Smales
1613-14 Thomas Clarke
1614-15 Peter Lickbarrow
1615-16 John Smales
1616-17 William Parkinson
1617-18 John Warter
1618-19 George Cockerill
1619-20 John Chappelow
1620-1 Edward Grey
1621-2 William Legard
1622-3 Arthur Fish
1623-4 Nicholas Waller
1624-5 William Johnson
1625-6 Robert Manby
1626-7 John Fotherby
1627-8 William Barrett
1628-9 Thomas Clarke
1629-30 Richard Wade
1630-1 Thwaites Fox
1631-2 William Clarke (d. 1632)
1632 Thwaites Fox
1632-3 John Fotherby
1633-4 Edward Grey
1634-5 William Johnson
1635-6 Christopher Billips
1636-7 John Brown
1637-8 William Coulson
1638-9 George Witty
1639-40 William Elrington
1640-1 John Chappelow
1641-2 James Nelthorpe
1642-3 Robert Manby
1643-4 Robert Manby (dis. 1644)
1644-5 William Wilberforce
1645-6 John Johnson
1646-7 William Wade
1647-8 William Forge
1648-9 William Newcombe
1649-50 Robert Fotherby
1650-1 William Dunn
1651-2 Thomas Hudson
1652-3 John Chappelow
1653-4 William Johnson
1654-5 Christopher Billips
1655-6 William Dales
1656-7 John Johnson (d. 1657)
1657 William Coulson
1657-8 William Wade
1658-9 William Forge
1659-60 Edward Grey the younger
1660-1 Edward Grey the elder
1661-2 Thomas Johnson
1662-3 William Dunn
1663-4 Thomas Davison (d. 1664)
1664 Edward Grey the elder
1664-5 Robert Norman
1665-6 Edward Grey the younger
1666-7 William Nelson
1667-8 Stephen Goakman (d. 1668)
1668 Robert Norman
1668-9 Robert Richardson
1669-70 Edmund Howson
1670-1 Christopher Chappelow
1671-2 Thomas Johnson the younger
1672-3 Thomas Clarke
1673-4 William Coulson
1674-5 William Wilberforce
1675-6 John Dymoke
1676-7 John Fotherby
1677-8 John Sugden
1678-9 William Dunn
1679-80 Thomas Johnson
1680-1 William Coulson
1681-2 Edward Grey the younger
1682-3 William Nelson
1683-4 Matthew Ashmole
1684-5 Christopher Chappelow
1685-6 Thomas Statter
1686-7 John Acklam
1687-8 John Gunby
1688-9 Thomas Johnson
1689-90 Edward Wilbert
1690-1 Matthew Ashmole
1691-2 Thomas Dunn
1692-3 Benjamin Lambert
1693-4 Robert Appleton
1694-5 Roger Mason
1695-6 John Sugden
1696-7 Thomas Statter
1697-8 John Acklam
1698-9 John Gunby
1699-1700 Christopher Thompson
1700-1 Robert Wride
1701-2 George Davies
1702-3 Thomas Holmes
1703-4 John Greaves
1704-5 Edward Wilbert
1705-6 Thomas Statter
1706-7 Benjamin Lambert
1707-8 John Gunby
1708-9 Marmaduke Nelson
1709-10 Thomas Wilberforce
1710-11 William Grayburn
1711-12 Matthew Ashmole
1712-13 Thomas Wilberforce
1713-14 Christopher Thompson
1714-15 Christopher Northend
1715-16 Robert Wride
1716-17 John Wressell
1717-18 Robert Appleton
1718-19 John Johnson
1719-20 Christopher Northend
1720-1 Jonathan Midgley
1721-2 George Davies
1722-3 Robert Appleton
1723-4 John Cogdell
1724-5 Edward Wilbert
1725-6 Joseph Beilby
1726-7 John Johnson
1727-8 Joseph Beilby
1728-9 Robert Appleton
1729-30 Joseph Beilby
1730-1 Robert Wride
1731-2 John Johnson
1732-3 George Cowart
1733-4 William Rutter
1734-5 Jonathan Garton
1735-6 Richard Philipson
1736-7 William Rutter
1737-8 George Cowart
1738-9 Richard Philipson
1739-40 George Cowart
1740-1 William Rutter
1741-2 William Nelson
1742-3 Ramsden Barnard
1743-4 John Bowman
1744-5 William Muncaster
1745-6 Suckling Spendlove
1746-7 Thomas Philip Hoggard
1747-8 John Ellinor
1748-9 John Bowman
1749-50 William Waines
1750-1 Walter Wride
1751-2 Christopher Nelson
1752-3 Jonathan Midgley
1753-4 Joseph Bell
1754-5 John Hoggard
1755-6 William Leake
1756-7 Peter Atkinson
1757-8 Thomas Waldby
1758-9 Jonathan Garton
1759-60 William Nelson
1760-1 Suckling Spendlove
1761-2 Robert Blanshard
1762-3 Christopher Nelson
1763-4 John Bowman
1764-5 John Hoggard
1765-6 William Waines
1766-7 Jonathan Midgley
1767-8 Walter Wride
1768-9 Thomas Waldby the younger
1769-70 William Leake
1770-1 Teavil Appleton
1771-2 Marmaduke Nelson
1772-3 Sir James Pennyman, Bt.
1773-4 Joseph Bell
1774-5 Jonathan Midgley
1775-6 John Ramsey
1776-7 Elliner Garton
1777-8 Roger Gee (d. 1778)
1778 John Hoggard
1778-9 John Mackley
1779-80 William Middleton
1780-1 Christopher Keld
1781-2 Thomas Dickons
1782-3 Sir James Pennyman, Bt.
1783-4 Timothy Lundy
1784-5 Hassell Moor
1785-6 Joshua Sampson
1786-7 William Hall
1787-8 John Arden
1788-9 Teavil Appleton
1789-90 William Middleton
1790-1 Marmaduke Hewitt
1791-2 Thomas Clubley
1792-3 John Ramsey
1793-4 Joseph Armitstead (d. 1794)
1794 William Hall
1794-5 William Middleton
1795-6 John Batty Tuke
1796-7 John Arden
1797-8 Richard Fox
1798-9 John Batty Tuke
1799-1800 Timothy Lundy
1800-1 Thomas Duesbery
1801-2 John Batty Tuke
1802-3 William Middleton
1803-4 John Arden
1804-5 Christopher Keld
1805-6 John Lockwood
1806-7 William Beverley
1807-8 John Arden
1808-9 Richard Fox
1809-10 John Arden
1810-11 Thomas Duesbery
1811-12 Samuel Hall
1812-13 John Lockwood
1813-14 John Arden
1814-15 John Lockwood
1815-16 Robert Ramsey
1816-17 John Hall
1817-18 John Arden
1818-19 John Lockwood
1819-20 Robert Ramsey
1820-1 Samuel Hall
1821-2 Marmaduke Hewitt
1822-3 Thomas Hull
1823-4 John Arden
1824-5 John Williams
1825-6 Henry John Shepherd
1826-7 John Arden
1827-8 Frederick Robertson
1828-9 John Williams
1829-30 Samuel Hall
1830-1 John Williams
1831-2 Frederick Campbell
1832-3 Charles Brereton
1833-4 John Myers
1834-5 William Robinson Gilby
Recorders
The office was established in 1573. (fn. 8)
William Paler (probably app. 1573, in off. 15745, d. 1597)
William, later Sir William, Gee (app. 1597, res. 1609)
Thomas Pearson (app. 1609, in off. 1613-14)
Francis Thorpe (app. 1624, in off. 1649)
William, later Sir William, Wise (app. 1650, dis. 1652, reapp. 1653, res. 1675)
Robert Stapleton (app. 1675, d. 1675)
Richard Weston (app. 1675, res. 1678)
Sir Edward Barnard (app. 1678, dis. 1685)
James Moyser (app. 1685, dis. 1688)
Thomas Alured (app. 1688, ? d. 1708)
Edward Barnard (app. 1708, d. 1714)
Sir Charles Hotham, Bt. (app. 1714, d. 1723)
Francis, later Sir Francis, Boynton (app. 1723, d. 1739)
Charles Pelham (app. 1739, res. 1758)
Michael Newton (app. 1758, res. 1779)
Richard Beatniffe (app. 1779, res. 1791)
Robert Osborne (app. 1791, res. 1819)
Thomas Coltman (app. 1819, res. 1827)
John Thompson (app. 1827)
Town or Common Clerks
The 13th- and 14th-century clerks are discussed above. (fn. 9)
Walkelin (in off. mid 13th cent.)
? John Jordan (in off. 1267)
? Thomas of Wakefield (in off. 1344-5)
? Robert of Scorborough (in off. 1366-7, 1386-7)
William Spene (in off. 1398, 1405-6)
Walter Dunham (in off. 1405-6, 1422)
John Thorn (in off. 1423-4, reapp. 1453)
John Boswell (in off. 1454, reapp. 1458)
Richard Dalkyn (app. 1459, in off. 1460-1)
Robert Melton (in off. 1494-5)
John Harrison (in off. 1502-3)
John Anderson (in off. 1519-20, 1522-3)
John Thurland (in off. 1541-2, 1545-6)
Michael Harrison (in off. 1556-7, 1557-8)
John Harrison (in off. 1558-9, 1573-4)
John Stable (in off. 1574-5, reapp. 1579)
Marmaduke Todd (in off. 1584-5, 1590-1)
William Wintringham (in off. 1596-7)
Thomas Clarke (in off. 1604-5, 1609-10)
Richard Harwood (in off. 1610-11, 1613-14)
Christopher Jenkinson (in off. 1625-6, dis. 1646)
Edward Trippe (app. 1646, res. 1660)
Christopher Tadman (app. 1660, d. 1704)
Francis Tadman (app. 1704, d. 1712)
Henry Spendlove (app. 1712, d. 1719)
William Nelson (app. 1719, res. 1730)
Henry Bean (app. 1730, reapp. 1752)
William Nelson the younger (app. 1753)
Robert Appleton (app. 1754, reapp. 1778)
William Ellis (app. 1779, d. 1785)
Robert Ramsey (app. 1785, reapp. 1796)
Thomas Duesbery (app. 1797, res. 1800)
John Hewitt (app. 1800, res. 1804)
Robert Norris (app. 1804, d. 1816)
Frederick Campbell (app. 1816, res. 1823)
William Bower (app. 1823, reapp. 1828)
Thomas Shepherd (app. 1829, reapp. 1834)
Chamber or Corporation Clerks
Trippe was appointed as 'town's clerk or chamber clerk' and the offices were separated on his resignation. (fn. 10)
Edward Trippe (app. 1646, res. 1660)
John Jackson (app. 1660, res. 1707)
Daniel Carver (app. 1707, d. 1713)
James Mihill (app. 1713, dis. 1736)
William Burrow (app. 1736, d. 1772)
Richard Judson (app. 1772, res. or dis. 1802)
Francis Tadman (app. 1802, dis. 1807)
Thomas Austin (app. 1807, res. 1808)
John Willis (app. 1808, in off. 1835)