WYLNE, Robert, of Melbourne, Derbys.

Bailiff of New Liberty of the duchy of Lancaster in Derbys. 29 July 1433 – 15 Feb. 1445; jt. 15 Feb. 1445 – 5 Aug. 1461; parker of Stockley in Needwood Forest, Staffs. 27 Dec. 1437 – ?; jt. parker of Castle Donington, Leics. 28 Sept. 1438–? R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 549; DL29/402/6456.

Yeoman of the Crown by 29 July 1433–31 Aug. 1460; DL42/18, f. 8v; PPC, vi. 224; E361/6, rot. 51v. While the Household ordinances of 1454 show that the yeoman of the Crown and those of the chamber were distinct, our MP is described interchangeably as both, e.g. as ‘of the Crown’ in a duchy of Lancaster lease of June 1444 and as ‘of the chamber’ in an inspeximus of three months earlier: DL37/53/26; DL42/18, f. 112v. Moreover, while he was named as one of the yeoman of the Crown in the Household ordinances, he appears ‘as of the chamber’ in the great wardrobe accts. of 1455–6: E361/6, rot. 50. usher of the chamber by 12 Feb. – 31 Aug. 1460.

Commr. of arrest June 1452 (a chapman of Worstead, Norfolk).

Keeper, Sheriff Hutton park, Yorks. 12 Feb.-c. July 1460. CPR, 1452–61, p. 546.