QUATERMAYNS, Richard (c.1392-1477), of Rycote in Great Haseley, Oxon and London.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks. 1427, Oxon. 1450.

Commr. of inquiry, Essex, Kent Apr. 1421 (shipwreck), Berks., Oxon. June 1435 (escapes of prisoners), Cornw. July 1441 (seizure of Breton ship), Oxon. June 1451 (lands of late Sir John Drayton†), Sept. 1452 (escapes of prisoners), Mar. 1454 (lands of Elizabeth Strange), Mar. 1463 (breaches of statutes regarding sale of wool), Cambs., Herts., Lincs., Norf., Oxon., Suff. July 1463 (lands of William, Viscount Beaumont), Oxon. Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms); to assess tax Apr. 1431, Jan. 1436, Aug. 1450, July 1463; distribute tax allowance Dec. 1433; administer oath to keep the peace May 1434; of array Jan. 1436, Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459, May 1471, Mar. 1472; arrest ships, London Mar. 1436; determine an appeal from the ct. of admiralty Mar. 1442; treat for loans, Oxon. Aug. 1442, Berks., Oxon. June 1446; of gaol delivery, Oxford castle Mar. 1448, Jan. 1451, Dec. 1461, Feb. 1466 (q.), Apr. 1473 (q.), Wallingford castle Nov. 1450, Nov. 1456, Apr. 1466, May 1474, May 1475; C66/465, m. 7d; 472, mm. 18d, 20d; 482, m. 16d; 494, m. 11d; 512, m. 8d; 513, m. 12d; 515, m. 3d; 531, m. 9d; 533, m. 22d; 535, m. 9d. oyer and terminer, Oxon. May 1450, Berks., Oxon. Apr. 1464, Berks. Dec. 1464; to assess subsidy, Oxon. Aug. 1450, July 1463; assign archers Dec. 1457; of sewers, Bucks., Oxon. July 1468; to take an assize of novel disseisin,, Bucks. July 1469; C66/524, m. 16d. of arrest, ?Oxon. June 1471. A letter from Quatermayns to Thomas Stonor II and Humphrey Forster indicates that he also served on a tax comm. for Oxon. – perhaps in the later 1460s – of which there is no trace in the Chancery rolls: Stonor Letters, i. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xxix), 99–100; C. Carpenter, ‘Stonor Circle’, in Rulers and Ruled ed. Archer and Walker, 192n.

Controller of tunnage and poundage, London 6 Feb. 1422–?Mar. 1426; CPR, 1416–22, p. 410; 1422–9, pp. 58, 323. collector 16 Aug. 1433–?Mich. 1448; CFR, xvi. 163, 179, 329; xvii. 237; xviii. 55; E403/773, mm. 8, 11. controller of the petty custom 6 Dec. 1448–30 Sept. 1449. CPR, 1446–52, pp. 221, 304.

Steward of the household of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, bef. Mich. 1429, of Beauchamp manors of Quarrendon, Bucks., Flamstead, Herts. and Cosgrove, Northants. Mich. 1429–41, Spelsbury, Oxon. Mich. 1438–40. Oxon. RO, Dillon mss, X/d/36, 37; II/b/2, 3; A.F.J. Sinclair, ‘Beauchamp Earls of Warwick’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1988), 331.

J.p. Oxon. 10 Nov. 1432–6, 23 Nov. 1437 – July 1461, 17 July 1461 (q.)-Nov. 1470, 12 June 1471 (q.)-d., Berks. 24 June 1449 – Mar. 1452, Oxford 30 Nov. 1472 (q.)-d., Oxford University 5 Apr. 1475 (q.)-d.

Escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 3 Nov. 1434 – 7 Nov. 1435.

Sheriff, Oxon. and Berks. 8 Nov. 1436 – 6 Nov. 1437, 4 Nov. 1454 – 3 Nov. 1455.

Verderer, forests of Stowood and Shotover, Oxon. by Nov. 1437. CCR, 1435–41, p. 143.

Surveyor of pontage, Oxon. Apr. 1444–9 (Chiselhampton), Feb. 1451–3 (Hareford Bridge). CPR, 1441–6, p. 267; 1446–52, p. 413.

Jt. provost of Bayonne (with Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley) 13 Apr. 1448–? CCR, 1447–54, p. 73.

Surveyor, estates of Cecily, duchess of York, 29 June 1461–?d. SC6/764/10; 850/29, m. 2.

Jt. steward (with Richard Fowler†) of manor of Woodstock and hundred of Wootton, Oxon. by 1467, Woodstock, Hanborough, Stonesfield and Wootton 16 Feb. 1474–?d. PROME, xiii. 290; CPR, 1467–77, pp. 422–3.

Member of Edw. IV’s Council by 1467.

Surveyor, Windsor castle, Woodstock and other royal lordships, Berks., Herts., Oxon. 22 Dec. 1475–?d., Windsor castle, Woodstock and other royal lordships, Berks., Oxon. 24 Feb. 1476–?d. CPR, 1467–77, pp. 573–4.