William of Wykeham but he was pardoned by the new king Richard II in July 1377, weeks after Edward III died. (Richard was the son of Edward, the Black Prince, who had died in June 1376, a year before his father.) Under Richard II, William resumed his position as a royal councillor. Although he took the side of the Lords Appellant in their disputes with the king in 1388, he also managed to maintain good relations with the king, and served as Chancellor again from May 1389 to September 1391. After years of supporting poor scholars at Oxford University, he founded New College,
John Monyn in 1419. He was Mayor of Canterbury in September ?1386–87, 1387–88, 1395–96 and 1403–04. John Monyn John Monyn (before 1376 – 1419 or after) of Dover, Buckland and Canterbury, Kent, was an English politician. At some point before 1380, Monyn married a woman whose name is unrecorded. Together they had two children, Isabel and Thomas, who also represented Dover in Parliament. Before April 1405, Monyn's first wife had died and he married again. His second wife's name is also unrecorded, but they had one daughter, Alice. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dover in ?1376,