Commons 1422-1461

Attestor, parlty. election, Westmld. 1427.

Member of council of 24, Bishop’s Lynn 1412–d.; Norf. RO, King’s Lynn bor. recs., hall roll, 1412–13, KL/C 6/3; hall bk., 1431–50, KL/C 7/3, ff. 15, 28. mayor Mich. 1413–14. KL/C 6/3, m. 16.

Scabin, Holy Trinity guild, Bishop’s Lynn bef. 1416. M.D. Myers, ‘Violence in King’s Lynn 1380–1420’ (Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana, D.Phil. thesis, 1996), 173.

Attestor, parlty. election, Bridgnorth 1459.

Bailiff, Bridgnorth Sept. 1450–1, 1461–2. Salop Archs., Bridgnorth bor. recs., ct. leet bk. BB/F/1/1/1, ff. 56–57.

Attestor, parlty. elections, Reading 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1453.

Cofferer, Reading 2 Feb. – 29 Dec. 1447; constable Mich. 1448 – aft.24 Oct. 1449, Mich. 1452–3; Reading Recs. ed. Guilding, i. 27, 29, 30; C219/15/7; 16/2. mayor 1455 – 56, 1459 – 60, 1474–5. Reading Recs. i. 47, 49, 69. Pernecote is named as mayor in a deed dated 5 Oct. 1455 (CAD, i. A561), and received the mayor’s fee for 1455–6 (Berks. RO, Reading recs., cofferers’ accts. R/FA/2, no. 38), so the references to William Rede holding the office in that term (Reading Recs. i. 43) must be incorrectly dated.

Assessor, Shrewsbury Sept. 1393–4, Salop Archs., Shrewsbury recs., assembly bk. 3365/67, f. 10. His first term as assessor is misdated to 1392–3 in The Commons 1386–1421, iv. 55. 1402 – 03, 1414 – 15; bailiff 16 Nov. 1405 – Sept. 1407, 1410 – 11, 1416 – 18, 1422 – 23; coroner 1418 – 19, 1426 – 27.

Commr. to take assize of novel disseisin, Salop Feb. 1409.

Attestor, parlty. election, Berks. 1414 (Nov.).

Escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 17 Dec. 1426 – 18 Nov. 1427, 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431.

Commr. Berks., Bucks., Oxon., Carm., Card., Pemb. Feb. 1428 – Mar. 1442; of gaol delivery, Reading June 1435, Sept. 1441, Marlborough castle Aug. 1441; C66/437, m. 8d; 450, m. 14d; 451, m. 39d. to treat for loans, Berks. May, Aug. 1442.

Steward, lordships of Cookham and Bray for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, 1432–?Feb. 1447, J.M. Mattingly, ‘Cookham, Bray and Isleworth’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1994), 111; C. Kerry, Hist. Hundred Bray, 6. He is also said to have been bailiff of these ldships. in 1446 (Mattingly, 111), but if so he did not hold the office long, for his name does not occur among the bailiffs listed on the memoranda rolls between 1427 and Mich. 1446: E368/199, rot. 6d; 205, rot. 2d; 209, rot. 7d; 215, rot. 8d; 216, rot. 2d; 217, rots. 1d, 7d; 219, rot. 2d. of estates of Humphrey, earl of Stafford, in Bucks. by Dec. 1443. C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 202.

Dep. to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, as chief keeper of forests south of the Trent by Aug. 1434. E328/26/viii.

J.p. Berks. 29 Nov. 1436 – Jan. 1444, q. 26 Jan. 1444 – d.