Commons 1386-1421

Sheriff, Cumb. 7 Nov. 1373 – 12 Dec. 1374, 4 Oct. 1375 – 26 Oct. 1376, 18 Oct. 1380–1 Nov. 1381.

Commr. of oyer and terminer, Cumb. July 1376 (disorder at Penrith); array Feb. 1379, Dec. 1383, Aug. 1384, Mar. 1386, Westmld. June, Aug. 1388,Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc. ii. 58, 67, 95. Cumb. Mar. 1392; inquiry, Cumb., Westmld. July 1379 (possessions of alien priories), Cumb. Feb. 1383 (shipwreck at Workington), June 1383 (illicit fishing in the river Eden), May 1385 (case of insanity), Cumb., Westmld. May 1389 (devastation by the Scots); to suppress the insurgents of 1381, Cumb. Mar., Dec. 1382.

Collector of taxes, Westmld. Nov. 1377, Aug. 1379, Cumb. May 1384, Westmld. Dec. 1385.

Escheator, Cumb., Northumb. and Westmld. 26 Nov. 1378 – 18 Oct. 1380, 3 Apr.-1 Dec. 1383.

J.p. Cumb. 15 July 1389 – May 1395.

Steward, Southampton Mich. 1396–7; bailiff 1400–1.Stewards’ Bks. (Soton Rec. Soc. xxxv), i. p. vii; J.S. Davies, Hist. Southampton, 173.

Commr. of inquiry, Southampton May 1398, Oct. 1399 (withholding of rent from Queen’s Hall, Oxford).

Commr. of inquiry, Norf., Suff., Cambs. Feb. 1401, Apr. 1402, June 1406 (concealments of royal rights), Dec. 1401 (trespasses against the townspeople of Lynn by the bishop of Norwich), May 1407 (attacks on foreign merchants), Norf. Nov. 1408 (insurrections at Thetford), Feb. 1410 (a complaint by the prior of Wymondham), Norf., Suff. Apr. 1410 (the regrating of corn), Norf. July 1410 (misprisions), Dec. 1415 (unrest in Lynn), Jan. 1423 (the claim of Joan, Lady Cobham, to the manor of Burnham), Dec. 1433 (misgovernance at Norwich), Bucks. Mar. 1439 (escapes of felons); oyer and terminer, Suff. July 1402, Norf. Mar. 1411; to raise loans, Norf., Suff. June 1406; of sewers, Norf. June 1407, Cambs., Hunts., Northants., Lincs., Norf. May 1418, Norf. Nov. 1424, Mar. 1430 (q.), Cambs. Dec. 1435; array, Norf. 18 Mar. 1419; gaol delivery, Norwich castle Feb.1428, Nov. 1428 (q.);Norwich Recs. ed. Hudson and Tingey, i. 303–4. to assess a parliamentary tax, Norf. Apr. 1431.

J.p. Norf. 20 Mar. 1406 – Feb. 1407, 12 Dec. 1414 – Nov. 1423, 20 July 1424 – Nov. 1430, Lynn 26 Feb. 1407 – Nov. 1412, 16 Aug. 1414 – Apr. 1429, 28 Feb. 1437 – July 1444, Suff. 20 Feb. 1410-Dec. 1417.

King’s attorney, ct. c.p. 13 July-7 Aug. 1408.

Steward of Bacton, Suff. by appointment of Michael de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, Mich. 1410–11, of Gaywood, Norf. for Bp. Wakering of Norwich by Mich. 1420.SC6/996/20; Recs. King’s Lynn ed. Harrod, 105.

Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 12 Nov. 1414–14 Dec. 1415.