QUARAME, John, of Oxford.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
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Constituency

Dates

Dec. 1421

Family and Education

Offices Held

Bailiff, Oxford Mich. 1419-20, 1425-6, 1434-5; surveyor of nuisances 1426-7.1

Biography

Quarame attended the borough elections to the Parliaments of 1419, 1420, 1423, 1426, 1429, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1437 and 1442, twice in his capacity as bailiff.2 Little else is known about him, save that he acted as an executor for John Noble, a fellow burgess of Oxford in 1419, and for John Ledbury BCL, in 1432; and that in 1429 he served briefly as a trustee of property belonging to William Offord, his former companion in the Commons.3

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: Charles Kightly

Notes

  • 1. Oxf. Hist. Soc. xxxvii. 20-21; lxiv. no. 560; Univ. Coll. hustings roll, 2.
  • 2. C219/12/3, 4, 13/2, 4, 14/1-4, 15/1, 2.
  • 3. Oxf. Hist. Soc. xc. no. 834; Liber Albus Oxoniensis ed. Ellis, no. 209; Merton Coll. deeds 2605-6.