POPE, Thomas (d.1460), of Rye and Little Horsted, Suss.

King’s serjeant by Oct. 1418; serjeant-at-arms 14 Oct. 1429–d. CPR, 1422–9, p. 46; 1429–36, p. 1.

King’s bailiff, Rye 25 Jan. 1420–?d. CPR, 1422–9, p. 93. But Babylon Grantford was apparently serving as bailiff in 1459: White and Black Bks. of Cinque Ports (Kent Rec. Ser. xix), 40; E. Suss. RO, Rye mss, acct. bk. 60/2, f. 64.

Porter and keeper of the keys of the new work and keeper of the little park, Windsor castle 20 May 1423–7. CPR, 1422–9, pp. 96, 412.

Collector, customs and subsidies Chichester 18 Aug. 1433–21 Nov. 1438, E403/733, m. 6; E356/19, rot. 43. Sandwich 20 Nov. 1438–9 Mar. 1443; E356/19, rots. 22–23. controller, Chichester 28 May 1443–5 July 1447. E356/19, rots. 44, 44d.

Commr. to take musters, Winchelsea June, Dec. 1435, Mar. 1436, Sandwich July 1442; to arrest vessels in ports from Southampton to Sandwich for service at Winchelsea Feb. 1436, Chichester Mar. 1436, Portsmouth, Winchelsea Sept. 1437 (to transport the earl of Warwick’s force), Sandwich, Dover May 1439 (the earl of Huntingdon’s force), Sandwich June 1440 (to transport materials for works at Calais); Wrongly called William Pope in DKR, xlviii. 336 and CPR, 1436–41, p. 450, although described as customer of Sandwich, and acting with his fellow customer, Richard Veer. conscript mariners for two royal balingers July 1436.

Dep. butler, Seaford, Winchelsea and Rye 6 Nov. 1435 – ?

Victualler, Le Crotoy from 28 Oct. 1437.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept.-Nov. 1440. White and Black Bks. 13.

Mayor, Rye Aug. 1444 – 47; dep. Nov. 1456; Ibid. 19–23, 36; Cat Rye Recs. ed. Dell, deed 122/11. jurat Dec. 1448 – Aug. 1450, 1451–2. Rye mss, 60/2, ff. 2, 7, 26.