1425 WILLIAM NEWBY.
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Parentage and ancestry uncertain. He was again mayor 1433 and 1444, and four times M.P. for the borough, the last occasion being in 1449. During his first mayoralty, on Monday 18 February 1425-6, Parliament again assembled at Leic., this time in the great hall of the castle. This was known as the "Parliament of Bats." The young king, Henry VI, during this assembly, was knighted in the church of St. Mary de Castro, Leic.
According to Billson, William Newby was, in 1448 or 1449, greviously assaulted and wounded in an affray, for which offence Lord Ferrers was ordered to pay him, as compensation, one hundred marks (Medieval Leicester, p. 162). He was living in 1452.
1433 WILLIAM NEWBY. (2)
1444 WILLIAM NEWBY. (3)
