Yeovil's Virtual Museum

provosts & portreeves OF YEOVIL

From 1266 to 1854

 

The following list of Provosts and Portreeves of the old Corporation of Yeovil, with some gaps, was compiled by Goodchild from the Calendar of the Muniments of Woborn's Almshouse and other records.

For the list of later Mayors and Charter Mayors of Yeovil - see here.

 

1266   Robert le Provost 1270   Alured Clouth (?) 127?   William le Rede 127?   Richard de Luketon 1321   Robert Gillmore 1332   Ralphele Barstaple 1340   Thomas de Tolre 1344   John de Raules 1351   Robert de Bertone 1352   Thomas barstaple 1354   John Parke 1356   John Pryke 1357   John Joye 136?   John Latton 1361   John De Thorne 1362   John de Thorne 1363   William Jamys 1364   John de Thorne 1366   Thomas Skynner 1367   Richard de Sparkeford 1368   William Mountfort 1369   Robert Goule 1370   Richard Turk 1374   Richard Gilmin 1376   John le Wyse 1378   William Mountford 1380   Richard Welde 1383   Richard Turke 1384   William Mounford 1386   John Andrew 1387   Alexander Tyneham 1391   William Mountford 1392   William Manston 1393   Henry Segere 1394   William Manstone 1395   William Graunger

1396   Robert Alford 1397   William Graunger 1403   William Graunger 1404   John Bursey 1405   Walter Horsman 1408   William Graungere 1411   Robert Dougge 1412   William Langebroke 1414   John Carpenter 1416   Walter Horsman 1417   Ralph Manston 1418   William Lumbard 1419   William Sele 1429   William Lumbard 1431   John Langeford 1437   Ralph Manston 1438   William Lumbard 1445   John Wolryg 1447   Ralph Manston 1449   Thomas Holme 1450   John Pety 1452   Thomas Ryngman 1456   Richard Pepe 1462   Richard Pepe "then            Portreeve of the            Borough of Yevyl" 1463   John Tracey 1473   Thomas Gould 1477   John Tracey 1501   William Knolles 1554   John Hacker, the elder            (Portreeve) 1555   William Stone 1609   George Hayne 1615   Ambrose Locke 1616   John Hardyn 1627   Ambrose Lock

1628   Matthew Hacker 1630   John Traske 1635   Joseph Starr 1637   Robert Grabham 1638   Theophilus Collins 1669   Joseph Clarke 1679   William French 1733   Onesiphorus Penney 1734   Ambrose Seward 1735   Henry Penny 1736   William Donne 1737   Samuel Kitson 1738   Edward Perry 1739   John Dyer 1740   John Boucher 1741   Thomas Williams 1742   Philip Francis 1743   Onesiphorus Penny 1744-51  Henry Peddle 1752-7    William Donne 1758-67  No record 1768-70  William Peddle 1771-9    Thomas Hobbs 1780-8    Thomas Shortland 1789-96  John King 1797       John Greenham 1798-9    Thomas Andrews 1800-12  Gabriel Baker 1813-20  George Wellington 1821       William Edwards 1822-6    James Moore 1827-38  Robert Jennings 1840-4    James Curtis 1846-9    William V Matthews 1850       Josiah Hannam 1851-2    Henry M Custard 1853       Thomas Binford 1854       Benjamin Ryall