PERKINS, William (d.c.1448), of Ufton Robert, Berks.

Attestor, parlty. election, Berks. 1414 (Nov.).

Escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 17 Dec. 1426 – 18 Nov. 1427, 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431.

Commr. Berks., Bucks., Oxon., Carm., Card., Pemb. Feb. 1428 – Mar. 1442; of gaol delivery, Reading June 1435, Sept. 1441, Marlborough castle Aug. 1441; C66/437, m. 8d; 450, m. 14d; 451, m. 39d. to treat for loans, Berks. May, Aug. 1442.

Steward, lordships of Cookham and Bray for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, 1432–?Feb. 1447, J.M. Mattingly, ‘Cookham, Bray and Isleworth’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1994), 111; C. Kerry, Hist. Hundred Bray, 6. He is also said to have been bailiff of these ldships. in 1446 (Mattingly, 111), but if so he did not hold the office long, for his name does not occur among the bailiffs listed on the memoranda rolls between 1427 and Mich. 1446: E368/199, rot. 6d; 205, rot. 2d; 209, rot. 7d; 215, rot. 8d; 216, rot. 2d; 217, rots. 1d, 7d; 219, rot. 2d. of estates of Humphrey, earl of Stafford, in Bucks. by Dec. 1443. C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 202.

Dep. to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, as chief keeper of forests south of the Trent by Aug. 1434. E328/26/viii.

J.p. Berks. 29 Nov. 1436 – Jan. 1444, q. 26 Jan. 1444 – d.