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In 1413 John de Boynton's priest and chaplain was cited for not appearing before the justices of the bench of Henry IV to answer a debt of £10,^[1] and in 1419 was a Commission of Array to John Boynton and others for the East Riding for defence against the King of Castile and Leon, who had prepared a great armada of ships and vessels of Spain with no small number of the king's enemies, and purposed shortly to send it to do harm to the king and his, and burn and destroy the ships and shipping of the realm, and especially the king's ships and invade the realm.^[2]

John de Boynton married Elizabeth^[3] daughter of ⁠ and had issue, one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Newport.

1. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1 Hy. V, p. 83.
2. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 6 Hy. V, p. 211.
3. Feet of Fines, 16 Ric. II.