Detailed Results for John * Aubrey

Name	Guild	Held Office
Aubrey, John * ¹	Grocer ²	1373-74 Sheriff (mayor's choice)
Notes Son of Andrew Aubrey sheriff 1331--32 mayor 1339--41 and 1351--52 (Beaven I.384, 389, 407). Grocer: Beaven I.225, though not in his chronological listing I.389. A John Aubrey is listed in the Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 45, as a company member in 1373; his name has subsequently been crossed out, as have others in the same list (largely marked as dead), but the deletion date is unknown. Beaven I.389 records the sheriff Aubrey as alderman 1370-77 and as dying c. Dec. 1380. The next list of company members in the Black Book is dated 1383 and no Aubrey is included. Nightingale (see, e.g., pp. 231-32) discusses a Grocer John Aubrey who sought election as an alderman in 1370, though she does not mention any term for him as sheriff. CPMR 2 (1364-81) lists both a John Aubrey, Pepperer p. 71 (1367), and a John Aubrey, Cordwainer p. 200 (1375). Note Sources CPMR: Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls, ed. A.H. Thomas, vols. 1-4; ed. Philip E. Jones, vols. 5-6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1924-61. Beaven: Alfred B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London. 2 vols. London: Corporation of London, 1908-13. : Nightingale: Pamela Nightingale, A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers Company and the Politics and Trade of London 1000-1485. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.

Name

Guild

Held Office

Aubrey, John * ¹

Grocer ²

1373-74 Sheriff (mayor's choice)

Notes

Son of Andrew Aubrey sheriff 1331--32 mayor 1339--41 and 1351--52 (Beaven I.384, 389, 407).
Grocer: Beaven I.225, though not in his chronological listing I.389. A John Aubrey is listed in the Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 45, as a company member in 1373; his name has subsequently been crossed out, as have others in the same list (largely marked as dead), but the deletion date is unknown. Beaven I.389 records the sheriff Aubrey as alderman 1370-77 and as dying c. Dec. 1380. The next list of company members in the Black Book is dated 1383 and no Aubrey is included. Nightingale (see, e.g., pp. 231-32) discusses a Grocer John Aubrey who sought election as an alderman in 1370, though she does not mention any term for him as sheriff. CPMR 2 (1364-81) lists both a John Aubrey, Pepperer p. 71 (1367), and a John Aubrey, Cordwainer p. 200 (1375).

Note Sources

CPMR: Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls, ed. A.H. Thomas, vols. 1-4; ed. Philip E. Jones, vols. 5-6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1924-61.
Beaven: Alfred B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London. 2 vols. London: Corporation of London, 1908-13.
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Nightingale: Pamela Nightingale, A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers Company and the Politics and Trade of London 1000-1485. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.

Notes About Company Names

Grocers were originally called Pepperers; the company appears to have emerged as Grocers in 1372; and the Merchant Taylors were until 6 January 1503 the Tailors and Linen Armourers. For both companies the original name is used until the year of the change, and then the new name, regardless of whether the sources consulted use the old or the new designation. The Fishmongers and the Stockfishmongers were originally different companies which, after one union which did not succeed, were finally united on a permanent basis in 1536. The two different names are here reproduced until 1536, from which year only the Fishmonger designation is used, regardless of the readings of the sources. The Barbers and the Surgeons, two separate companies, were combined from 1540 to 1745; the combined name Barbers and Surgeons is accordingly used here for those years. The Armourers in 1708 became the Armourers and Brasiers, and the longer name is used here from 1708 on; but otherwise companies which through mergers and additions lengthened their original names are cited throughout by their original names only, for ease of database company searches. (For reference sources for the dates above, see Companies / Occupations on the site menu bar.) Note that a search for, e.g., all mayors and sheriffs from a company with a database name change has to be made separately for each company name.

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