LATIMER, Nicholas (c.1429-1505), of Duntish, Dorset.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Dorset 1450, 1460.

Commr. to distribute tax allowances, Dorset June 1453; of inquiry, Som. Apr. 1459 (felonies committed against the prior of Montacute and his servants), Dorset Oct. 1470 (felonies), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dec. 1483 (treasons and insurrections); array Apr. 1471, Mar. 1472; to take an assize of novel disseisin, Feb. 1474; of gaol delivery, Dorchester Oct. 1482; C66/532, m. 10d; 549, m. 5d. to assess subsidies granted in Edw. IV’s last Parl. Dorset Apr. 1483.

Sheriff, Som. and Dorset, 5 Nov. 1453 – 4 Nov. 1454, 6 Nov. 1470–9 Nov. 1471. A Nicholas Latimer served as sheriff of Glos. 7 Nov. 1458–9, but as there is nothing to connect the MP with this county, it seems likely that the sheriff was a different man. Indeed, a writ de diem clausit extremum for a Nicholas Latimer was sent to the escheator of Glos. on 17 June 1461, only to be cancelled subsequently: CFR, xx. 2.

Controller, tunnage and poundage, London 27 Mar. – 3 June 1455, customs and subsidies, Poole 12 June 1455-aft. May 1459. CPR, 1452–61, pp. 202, 459.

J.p. Dorset 8 Dec. 1471 – July 1474, 16 Apr. 1478 – Dec. 1483, 15 Nov. 1485 – Sept. 1499, 11 Feb. 1500 – d.

Chamberlain of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, by Mich. 1475–?Oct. 1483; C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 195, citing Staffs. RO, Stafford fam. mss, D641/1/2/26, m. 6. justice itinerant of the duke’s ldship. of Brecon 6 Apr. 1476. JUST1/754/3.