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The History of Parliament states, [1]

Quartermaine (Quatremayns), Richard (1393-1477); of Rycote and North Weston, esq; customer and controller of London 1422-45; steward of Woodstock 1467-77; P.C. 1474. M.P. Oxfordshire 1432 1433, 1472-75.
3rd and yst. s. of Thomas Quartermaine (d. 6 May 1399) of North Weston, by Jane, da. of Sir Robert FitzEllis of Waterperry, Oxon. (she rem. John Creedie); m. Sibyl (1400-83) eld. da. and coh. of Nicholas Englefied (d. 1 April 1415) by Jane Rycote of Rycote; by whom he had a s. who d. v.p. Richard Fowler (q.v.), Chancellor of the Duchy, was his wife's sister's son. [ftn.: F. G. Lee, Hist., &c., of Thame Church, 291 et seq. Quartermaine's 1st bro. was John (d.s.p. 1408), the 2nd was Guy (d.s.p. 1414).]

D. 6 Sept. 1477; Thomas Danvers (40) gt. nephew (q.v.), Richard Boteler (30) gt. nephew (q.v.), Alice (57) (Walrond) (niece), Richard Rous (30) gt. nephew; Margaret (53) (Fettyplace) (niece),and Sibyl (50), wife of Humphrey Forster (q.v.) (niece), were his heirs [ftn.: Inq p.m., 17 Edw. IV, no. 44; Lee Thame Church, 299, n. 9. Lands--Bucks., London, Oxon. and Wilts. Alice was the wife of Thomas Walrond, and Sibyl the wife of Humphrey Forster (qq.v.)]; bur. in his chantry in Thame Church--M.I. Sibyl Quartermaine d. 22 May 1483, her h. being her gt nephew, Richard Fowlerm], aged 17, s. and h. of Richard Fowler (q.v.).
He was the oldest commoner to sit in Parliament in the 15th century.

Frederick George Lee in his history of the Thame church provides a pedigree of the Quartermain family of Weston and Rycott. [2]


Footnotes:

[1] Anne D. Holt and Josiah Clement Wedgwood, History of Parliament. Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, 1439–1509, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1936-1938), 73-705, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Frederick George Lee, The History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1883), 291-295, [GoogleBooks].