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Some pre-Ireland Colclough information
COLCLOUGH, William (d.c.1414), of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. and
Calverhall, Salop.
Published in The
History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S.
Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Available from Boydell and Brewer
younger son of Richard
Colclough† (d.
by 1385), of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and brother of John*. m. Elizabeth.1
Offices Held
Escheator, Salop and the adjacent Welsh march, 9 Nov. 1406-30
Nov. 1407.
Biography
Colclough’s first election to Parliament in
1384 undoubtedly owed a great deal both to his father, who had himself sat for
Newcastle in 1360, and his elder brother, John, the mayor, with whom he was
then returned (and with whom he again represented the borough in January 1390).
As a close relative of two of Newcastle’s most distinguished residents and
office-holders, he could thus be sure of a seat in the Commons, although his
ensuing popularity with the electors may also have been due to the fact that he
was a lawyer. In March 1386 he stood surety in Chancery for the parson of the
neighbouring village of Wolstanton (where his family owned property), and he
again appears as a mainpernor in 1390 and 1391. During the Easter term of 1393
he acted as his brother’s attorney in a lawsuit over the manor of Hanley. Four
years later he was summoned to defend himself in an assize of novel
disseisin at Stafford, although the action, which was arraigned by
a local widow, may well have been collusive. At some point before 1411,
Colclough became either the owner or feoffee-to-uses of land in and around
Newcastle which was also the subject of litigation.2 We do not know when he went to live in the Shropshire village
of Calverhall, but it seems likely that he left Newcastle during the years
between his last return to Parliament (January 1397) and his appointment as
escheator of Shropshire (November 1406), perhaps as a result of a lucrative
marriage. He was dead well before the summer of 1415, when Sir
William Newport* sued his executors for a debt of 40s.
He left a widow, Elizabeth, who together with his brother, John, was
responsible for the administration of his estate.3
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: C.R.
Notes
The possibility that Colclough represented Newcastle in the
Parliament of 1372 (the return records the election of Thomas Colclough, but
the writ de expensis
refers to William) is very slight, on chronological grounds alone (Staffs. Parl. Hist. i
(Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 113-14).
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2.
CCR, 1385-9,
p. 152; 1389-92, p. 509; Wm.
Salt Arch. Soc. xv. 24, 55; xvi. 76; JUST 1/1504 m. 101.
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3.
Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.
xvii. 54. A William Colclough became bailiff of Newcastle in 1406, but since
the subject of this biography was then active as escheator of Shropshire, and
presumably living in Calverhall, we may assume that one of his many kinsmen
held this office (T. Pape, Med.
Newcastle-under-Lyme, 172).
The William Salt Archive is a fantastic source for east midlands history...
John
