Background
The illegitimate son of a gentleman, he was a commoner at Winchester College until 1406-1407 and became rector of Stockton, Wiltshire, in 1413.
The illegitimate son of a gentleman, he was a commoner at Winchester College until 1406-1407 and became rector of Stockton, Wiltshire, in 1413.
His name appears occasionally in the Royal Household Chapel accounts between 1413 and 1430-1431. Nine works by him - six mass movements (including a Gloria-Credo pair based on a Square) and three motets (one isorhythmic) - survive in the Old Hall Manuscript and may be autographs. He was also Prebendary of Rugmere in Street Paul"s Cathedral 1418 - 1436, and was appointed to the fifth stall in Street George"s Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1431 and held the canonry until 1436.