Family and Education

m. Eleanor, 1s. 1da.

Offices Held

Reeve, Salisbury 1 Nov. 1413-14; constable 1418-19.1

Biography

Boner presented 15 woollen cloths for alnage in the financial year 1397-8. By 1412 he was a member of the convocation of Salisbury. He stood surety for the attendance of Walter Shirley at the Leicester Parliament of April 1414, and did the like service for Henry Man regarding his appearance in the Commons in March 1416. In 1418 he paid £2 towards the present of £40 offered by the city to John Chandler, the new bishop of Salisbury, and in 1420 and 1421 he contributed to parliamentary subsidies levied on the city.2

Boner died at an unknown date between 25 Sept. and 14 Nov. 1422. His will requested burial close to his own pew in St. Edmund’s parish church, Salisbury. Boner provided for his widow Eleanor to have a life interest in four of his six tenements in the city, stipulating that after her death some of them should be sold for charitable purposes and the remainder divided between his son Edward and his daughter Margaret. His executors were his widow and John Noble*.3

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: Charles Kightly

Notes

• 1. Salisbury RO, ‘Domesday bk.’ III, f. 4; ledger bk. A, f. 67.
• 2. E101/345/2; Ledger bk. A, ff. 43, 50, 56, 62, 68, 77, 79; C219/11/3, 8.
• 3. ‘Domesday bk.’ III, f. 74.