1447 RALPH FURNEYS alias FISHER

1447 RALPH FURNEYS alias FISHER,

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(Draper).

Probably a son of John Furneys of Leic. 1425. In a Hastings deed of 1449 he is described as a draper. He rented a dwelling house for several years in the "Swines' Market," the thoroughfare now known as High Street. According to the Wyggeston Hospital Records he died leaving issue about 1470.

In some rolls of the mayors this man is called Ralph Fisher. Thompson and Bateson both call him Furneys. The two names Fisher and Furneys, both Ralphs, are frequently met with in the local records of this period. Whether the above mayor was in any way connected with Ralph Fisher, mayor in 1397, is not certain.