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MYCHEL, John.
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
Sept. 1388
Family and Education
Offices Held
Biography
John Mychel was a common name in the late 14th century, and a satisfactory identification of the man who sat for Lostwithiel in 1388 is accordingly difficult to make.1 The most likely candidate is the person who occasionally brought large consignments of tin to be taxed and stamped at Lostwithiel (for example some 6,250 lbs. in April 1394 and 1,700 lbs. more only three months later). He may also have been the John Mychel who, with his wife, Joan, in 1399 lost his suit at the Launceston assizes over property at ‘Trebyghan’.2