COTTERSTOCK, William, of Bedford.

Commr. to take assizes, Beds., Bucks., Cambs., Hunts., Norf., Suff. Feb. 1392, July 1393, Hunts. Oct. 1397; of inquiry, Beds. Aug. 1405, Norf., Suff., Cambs., Hunts., Beds., Bucks., Norwich June 1414 (escapes of felons); oyer and terminer, Norf. July 1406, Bucks. Feb. 1407, Northants. May 1410, Beds. Aug. 1416 (treasons), Aug. 1416 (raid on Roger Hunt’s manor of Chawston).

Mayor, Bedford 1399, 1404, 1408 – 09, 1410.C.F. Farrar, Old Bedford, 111; Ancient Chs. and Muns. Bedford (1895), no. 18; Beds. RO, DDW 18, 19.

J.p. Beds. 27 Feb. 1406–22.