COPENDALE, Adam, of Portsmouth, Hants.

Town clerk, Portsmouth by Feb. 1435; C244/12, no. 24. bailiff Mich. 1446–7. E368/219, rots. 236, 243d.

Searcher of ships, Southampton 15 Oct. 1443–25 Apr. 1447. CFR, xvii. 277; xviii. 61.

Commr. of inquiry, Hants May 1450 (piracy), He was not then bailiff, as stated in HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, 220: John Versy* was: CPR, 1446–52, p. 380. Portsmouth Aug. 1451 (the breaking up of Le George of Sluys, taken contrary to truce).