PITLESDEN, Vincent, of Bishop’s Tawton and Plymouth, Devon and Southampton, Hants.

Collector of customs and subsidies, Plymouth and Fowey 18 Nov. 1444 – 29 Aug. 1448, 17 Nov. 1449 – 26 Feb. 1453, 5 Aug. 1453–29 Sept. 1460; E102/2, rots. 17d, 23, 25–28, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45d; E122/113/57, 59–61; E159/235, recorda Hil. rot. 9d; E356/20, rots. 51–53d; 21, rot. 51. Southampton 1 Aug. 1460 – 24 July 1461, tunnage and poundage 19 July 1463–26 Dec. 1464; CFR, xx. 97; E122/142/3; E405/42, rot. 1; E403/823, m. 6; E405/42, rot. 1; E356/21, rots. 23, 23d, 25. He accounted as customer from 28 Aug. 1460. controller 30 July 1461–10 May 1462. CPR, 1461–7, p. 12; E356/21, rot. 24.

Commr. to arrest ships and mariners, Bristol, Som., Cornw., Devon, Dorset June 1452; of inquiry, Cornw. Jan. 1458, Eng. Sept. 1461 (the Grace Dieu), ?Southampton 1466 (wreck).

Mayor, Plymouth 1453 – 55, 1456–7. Plymouth Municipal Recs. ed. Worth, 15. But Pitlesden was still in office at the end of Dec. 1455: Cornw. RO, Edgcombe mss, ME1445.

Escheator, Devon and Cornw., 4 Nov. 1455–6.

Receiver of the estates of the late earl of Wiltshire in Devon, Dorset, Som., Wilts. 15 July 1461–?, of the late earl of Devon 22 Dec. 1461-Mar. 1464. CPR, 1461–7, pp. 94, 129, 323, 424.

Dep. butler, Southampton and district 30 July 1461–17 June 1471. CPR, 1461–7, p. 26; 1467–77, pp. 24, 262.

Sheriff, Southampton Mich. 1466–7. E326/3433; E13/157, Mich. rot. 35; Remembrance Bk. (Soton Rec. Soc. xxvii), i. 70.

Approver of the subsidy and alnage of cloths for sale, Hants, Winchester, I.o.W. 18 Aug. 1471–5 June 1478. CFR, xxi. nos. 33, 461.