Keeper of Elham park, Kent 2 June 1391 – d.
Commr. of inquiry, Aug. 1391 (whereabouts of a royal ward), Kent Feb. 1397 (wastes, Lewisham priory); sewers Mar. 1397, June 1407, July 1409; to survey the forfeited estates of the principal Appellants of 1387–8 and seize the goods of Lord Cobham, Kent, Mdx. Oct. 1397; of array, Kent Nov. 1403, June 1407, Mar. 1410, May 1415, Apr. 1418; to supervise musters July 1410, Jan. 1415; determine an appeal in the constable’s ct. Apr. 1412; purchase wheat to provision Harfleur, Kent Apr. 1416; raise royal loans Nov. 1419, Jan. 1420.
Changer and assayer of money, Calais 20 July 1392–?1409.
Measurer of cloth and canvas, London 6 July 1395–27 Sept. 1399.
Alnager, London 16 Feb. 1397–28 June 1398.
Collector of tunnage and poundage, London 17 Feb. 1397 – 28 Nov. 1398, of customs and subsidies, Ipswich 21 May 1409–26 Feb. 1410.
Sheriff, Kent 5 Nov. 1403 – 22 Nov. 1404, 4 Nov. 1418–23 Nov. 1419.
Dep. treasurer, Calais 9 May 1405–5 Mar. 1406.
Adm. of the southern and western fleets 1 May – 23 Dec. 1406.
Controller of petty custom and subsidies, Sandwich 11 Mar. 1407–29 Sept. 1408.
Victualler, Calais 21 Feb. 1410–15 Apr. 1415.
Jt. keeper of the temporalities of the see of Canterbury 27 Feb.-12 Oct. 1414.
Jt. supervisor of Abp. Chichele’s estates from 24 June 1414.
J.p. Kent 3 Feb. 1416 – d.
He should not be confused with his namesake and probable kinsman who at different times in the years between 1400 and 1410 held office at Newcastle-upon-Tyne as deputy butler and controller and collector of customs and subsidies, and who from Aug. 1403 to July 1405 was escheator of Northumb. That Richard married bef. May 1400, Elizabeth, wid. of William Bishopdale* of Newcastle: CIMisc. vii. 9; CFR, xii. 59. The same or a third Richard Clitheroe married c. Feb. 1410, Margery, da. and coh. of Sir Alfred Sulney† of Pinxton, Derbys., wid. of Sir Nicholas Longford (d.1401) of Longford, Derbys. and Withington, Lancs. and of Sir Robert Leigh of Cheshire, only for his wife to be excommunicated by Abp. Chichele in 1419 for her persistent refusal to obey orders to restore conjugal rights. Five years later the wife sued for a divorce: DKR, xxxvi. 113; Reg. Chichele, i. 185; C1/6/195, 318; PPC, ii. 329.
CLITHEROE, Richard I (-d.1420)