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KETE, John, of Melcombe Regis and Dorchester, Dorset.
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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Dates
1391
Family and Education
m. by 1398, Rose.
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Biography
Kete’s family came from Melcombe Regis, but no evidence has survived as to what property they held there. It was probably the MP who, described as ‘junior’, witnessed a conveyance in the town in April 1387. In 1398 William Ash* of Dorchester settled on him, his wife Rose and their heirs, a burgage in West Street, Dorchester, but seven years later, and after Rose’s death, Kete conveyed it to Robert Veel* and another man. Otherwise his career remains obscure.
HMC 5th Rep. 577; C146/5279; Recs. Dorchester ed. Mayo, 131, 161.
