Commons 1386-1421

Custos bonorum, Dover Sept. 1372–3; jurat 1372 – 73, 1382 – 83, 1385 – 86, 1398 – 99, 1410–12;Add. 29615, ff. 23, 25; Egerton 2088, ff. 108, 157, 2091, ff. 14, 18, 65. dep. bailiff by Mar. 1380–1385, Jan. 1386;CCR, 1377–81, p. 289; Egerton 2091, ff. 33, 53, 70. mayor Sept. ?1386 – 87, 1387 – 88, 1395 – 96, 1403–4.Egerton 2088, ff. 3, 75, 2091, f. 17; Arch. Cant. xxv. 86; Dover Chs. ed. Statham, 107, 111, 133, 149; S.P.H. Statham, Hist. Dover, 165.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept. – Nov. 1373, 1375, 1411.Add. 29615, ff. 29, 36; Reg. Daniel Rough (Kent Rec. Ser. xvi), 186, 190; Romney assmt. bk. 2, f. 72.

Jt. warden of St. George’s fraternity, Dover by July 1394.Egerton 2088, f. 60.

Commr. to assemble vessels to attack pirates, Dover May 1398.

Jurat, Canterbury Mich. 1410–11, 1417–19.Canterbury Cathedral, City and Diocesan RO, city accts. FA1, ff. 93, 128, 133d.

Commr. to make arrests, Derbys., Notts. Jan. 1414 (lollards at large); of array, Derbys. Mar. 1419, Rouen Aug., Oct. 1420, Jan. 1421,DKR, xlii. 406, 431, 433. Derbys. Mar. 1427; to hold an inquisition Dec. 1427 (lands of Hugh Halle); raise a royal loan, Staffs. Mar. 1430, Mar. 1431.

Constable of the duchy of Lancaster castle of Tutbury, Staffs. 15 Feb. 1414 – d.; master forester of Needwood chase, Staffs. 15 Feb. 1414 – d.; steward of the lordship of Tutbury 24 Nov. 1416 – Oct. 1422, the duchy manors of Melbourne by 28 June 1420 and Wirksworth, Derbys. by 28 Jan. 1428.Somerville, Duchy, i. 539, 542, 546; Derbys. Chs. ed. Jeayes, no. 2673. As DL29/402/6451 shows, it was this MP, not his father (as Somerville states) who occupied the stewardship of Tutbury. He was, moreover, granted the constableship at an earlier date than that given by Somerville (DL42/16 f. 1).

J.p. Derbys. 8 July 1419–23.

Sheriff, Staffs. 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431, Notts. and Derbys. 26 Nov. 1431–5 Nov. 1432.PRO List ‘Sheriffs’, 103, 127. He was first appointed sheriff of Notts. and Derbys. on 6 Nov. 1424, but Sir Richard Vernon* actually served that term (ibid. 103; CFR, xv. 88).

Commr. of inquiry, Derbys. Jan. 1377 (robbery at Glossop), Staffs. Apr. 1388 (murder at Newcastle-under-Lyme), Derbys. June 1406 (concealments), Nov. 1406 (estates of the late Henry Herville); to suppress the rebels Dec. 1381, Mar., Dec. 1382; make arrests, Derbys., Cheshire July 1384, Derbys. Feb. 1388, Derbys., Notts. Feb. 1394, Derbys., Leics., Staffs. July 1394, Derbys., Staffs. Feb. 1409 (Hugh Erdeswyk and other enemies of the duchy of Lancaster); enforce the statute of weirs, Derbys. June 1398; of array Dec. 1399, Sept. 1403, Derbys., Notts. May 1405, Derbys. May 1415, Oct. 1417, Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419; oyer and terminer Mar. 1401 (poaching on Sir Walter Blount’s fishery at Willington), July 1401 (a murder), Staffs. Dec. 1405, Mar. 1406 (assault on the abbey of Burton-upon-Trent), Derbys. May 1416 (assault on Repton priory); to proclaim the King’s intention of ruling justly, Derbys. May 1402; raise a royal loan, Notts., Derbys. June 1406, Nov. 1419.

J.p. Derbys. 24 Dec. 1390 – Jan. 1406, 13 Feb. 1407–10, July 1418–24.

Sheriff, Notts. and Derbys. 22 Mar. – 21 Oct. 1391, 27 Jan. – 5 Nov. 1406, 29 Nov. 1409 – 10 Dec. 1411, 6 Nov. 1413-Mich 1414.

Constable of Tutbury castle, master forester of Tutbury and Needwood chase, parker of Agardsley and Rowley, Staffs. for the duchy of Lancaster 23 July 1403–16 Dec. 1408.Somerville, Duchy, i. 539, 541, 546. DL29/402/6451 makes clear that it was not Montgomery (as Somerville states) but his son and namesake who became steward of Tutbury in 1416.

Keeper of the royal castle of Eardisley by 8 Sept. 1403.C47/2/49, f. 6.

Assessor of a tax, Derbys. Mar. 1404; collector of a royal loan Jan. 1420.

Mayor, Salisbury 1 Nov. 1388 – 89, 1391 – 92, 1397 – 98; alderman 1412–13.R. Benson and H. Hatcher, Old and New Sarum, 695; Tropenell Cart. ed. Davies, i. 255; Salisbury RO, ‘Domesday bk.’ 2, ff. 16, 21; ledger bk. A, f. 43.

Commr. of inquiry, Salisbury Mar. 1398 (death of a chaplain).