PULHAM, Godard, of Winchelsea, Suss.

Collector, customs and subsidies, Chichester 8 May 1429 – 20 May 1432, 23 Feb. 1435–20 June 1447. E356/18 rots. 40–41d; 19, rots. 43–44d; 20, rot. 54.

Dep. butler (to Thomas Chaucer*), Winchelsea, Rye and Hastings 12 June 1429–6 Nov. 1435. CPR, 1422–9, p. 540; 1429–36, p. 490.

Churchwarden, St. Thomas’s church, Winchelsea by Mar. 1431-Nov. 1432. Cott. Julius BIV, ff. 42–43v, 46–47.

Jurat, Winchelsea Easter 1431 – 35, 1442–6; Ibid. ff. 40, 41, 50v, 51v, 65v, 71v-72v. dep. mayor 8 Nov. 1432; Ibid. f. 47v. mayor Easter 1440 – 42, 1446–8. Ibid. ff. 47v, 64, 73v; White and Black Bks. of Cinque Ports (Kent Rec. Ser. xix), 13–14, 21–23.

Commr. to commandeer vessels to convey forces to France, Chichester Mar. 1436, Portsmouth, Winchelsea Sept. 1437, May, Oct. 1439; conscript mariners for five ships to resist the King’s enemies, Winchelsea June 1436, for two royal balingers July 1436; of arrest Dec. 1450 (pirates).

Cinque Ports’ bailiff to Yarmouth Sept.-Nov. 1443. White and Black Bks. 17; Cott. Julius BIV, f. 72.