Commons 1422-1461

Steward, Exeter Mich. 1430–1, 1432 – 33; member of the council of 12, 1433 – 34, 1435 – 52, 1453 – 55, of the council of 24, 1455–9; B. Wilkinson, Med. Council of Exeter (Hist. Exeter Research Group Mono. iv), 81–83, 87–89; Devon RO, Exeter city recs., mayors’ ct. rolls 11–38 Hen. VI. receiver 1434 – 35, mayor 1452–3; Mayors’ ct. rolls 9–10, 11–12, 13–14, 31–32 Hen. VI; Wilkinson, 85. lt. of the mayor 1455–6. Exeter receiver’s acct. 34–35 Hen. VI, m. 2.

Constable of the staple, Exeter 12 Feb. 1432 – 8 Feb. 1433, 4 Feb. 1434 – 12 May 1435, 17 Nov. 1439 – 19 Oct. 1443, 3 Nov. 1444 – 4 Nov. 1445, 16 Dec. 1450 – 6 Dec. 1451, 21 Nov. 1458–d. C67/25.

Warden of the Magdalen hospital, Exeter 1449 – 51, 1454–7. Mayors’ ct. rolls 28–30, 33–36 Hen. VI.

King’s serjeant by Oct. 1418; serjeant-at-arms 14 Oct. 1429–d. CPR, 1422–9, p. 46; 1429–36, p. 1.

King’s bailiff, Rye 25 Jan. 1420–?d. CPR, 1422–9, p. 93. But Babylon Grantford was apparently serving as bailiff in 1459: White and Black Bks. of Cinque Ports (Kent Rec. Ser. xix), 40; E. Suss. RO, Rye mss, acct. bk. 60/2, f. 64.

Porter and keeper of the keys of the new work and keeper of the little park, Windsor castle 20 May 1423–7. CPR, 1422–9, pp. 96, 412.

Collector, customs and subsidies Chichester 18 Aug. 1433–21 Nov. 1438, E403/733, m. 6; E356/19, rot. 43. Sandwich 20 Nov. 1438–9 Mar. 1443; E356/19, rots. 22–23. controller, Chichester 28 May 1443–5 July 1447. E356/19, rots. 44, 44d.

Commr. to take musters, Winchelsea June, Dec. 1435, Mar. 1436, Sandwich July 1442; to arrest vessels in ports from Southampton to Sandwich for service at Winchelsea Feb. 1436, Chichester Mar. 1436, Portsmouth, Winchelsea Sept. 1437 (to transport the earl of Warwick’s force), Sandwich, Dover May 1439 (the earl of Huntingdon’s force), Sandwich June 1440 (to transport materials for works at Calais); Wrongly called William Pope in DKR, xlviii. 336 and CPR, 1436–41, p. 450, although described as customer of Sandwich, and acting with his fellow customer, Richard Veer. conscript mariners for two royal balingers July 1436.

Dep. butler, Seaford, Winchelsea and Rye 6 Nov. 1435 – ?

Victualler, Le Crotoy from 28 Oct. 1437.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept.-Nov. 1440. White and Black Bks. 13.

Mayor, Rye Aug. 1444 – 47; dep. Nov. 1456; Ibid. 19–23, 36; Cat Rye Recs. ed. Dell, deed 122/11. jurat Dec. 1448 – Aug. 1450, 1451–2. Rye mss, 60/2, ff. 2, 7, 26.

Mayor, Leicester Mich. 1436–7.

Attestor, parlty. election, Wilts. 1435.

Attestor, parlty. election, Cornw. 1437.

Receiver of writs in the ct. of c.p. for the sheriff of Cornw. 1424 – 25, 1426–7; CP40/658, rot. 139; 664, rot. 433; 665, rots. 132d, 315. under sheriff, Cornw. 1430–1. CP40/679, rot. 521d.

Commr. of inquiry Cornw. Apr. 1434 (piracy).

Attestor, parlty. elections, Cornw. 1411, 1414 (Nov.), 1422.

Commr. of inquiry, Cornw. July 1397 (lands of John Frank), Devon, Cornw. July 1412 (piracy).

Tax collector, Cornw. Nov. 1404, Dec. 1414, Nov. 1415, Nov. 1416.

Sheriff, Cornw. (by appointment of Henry, prince of Wales) 29 Sept. 1406 – 10 Dec. 1407.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Worcs. 1429, 1432. Combined returns for Worcs. and Worcester.

Bailiff, Worcester Mich. 1433–4. T.R.Nash, Worcs. ii. app. p. cxi; W.R. Williams, Parlty. Hist. Worcs. 88.

Attestor, parlty. election, Cambs. 1425.

Constable of Ire. 10 June 1407-c. Mar. 1413.

Commr. Cambs. July 1413 – Apr. 1431; of gaol delivery, Cambridge castle Nov. 1418. C66/401, m. 16d.

J.p. Cambridge 18 May 1414 – Oct. 1415, Cambs. 24 Feb. 1419 – July 1423, 12 Feb. 1425–9, Dec. 1431 – d.

Sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 10 Nov. 1417 – 4 Nov. 1418, 13 Nov. 1423 – 6 Nov. 1424, 4 Nov. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430.

Envoy to Wladislas II, king of Poland, and the High Master of the Order of Teutonic Knights 19 June – 26 Sept. 1419, to Emperor Sigismund 24 July – 10 Nov. 1421, to the bps. of Treves, Cologne and Mayence, Ludwig, elector of Bavaria, Henry, duke of Bavaria, and Emperor Sigismund 3 Mar. – 25 Sept. 1422, to Alphonso V, king of Aragon, and Pope Martin V 20 July 1425 – 24 Feb. 1426, to the duke of Brittany 10- 24 May 1432, and to treat with Breton ambassadors 24 Mar. 1433.

Attestor, parlty. election, Chichester 1453.

Reeve, Chichester Mich. 1432–3. Suss. Arch. Collns. lxxxix. 133.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Derbys. 1414 (Apr.), 1414 (Nov.), 1421 (May), 1422, 1423, 1429, 1433, 1437.

Commr. Cheshire, Derbys., Staffs. Mar. 1406 – Aug. 1436.

J.p. Derbys. by June 1428-Apr. 1439. He was appointed as a j.p. before he first appears on the enrolled comms. He sat for two days between Oct. 1425 and June 1428, and thereafter, although never named to the quorum, became one of the more active j.p.s.: S.M. Wright, Derbys. Gentry (Derbys. Rec. Soc. viii), 252.