Commons 1386-1421

Collector, customs and subsidies, from Bridgwater to Exeter 10 May 1402 – Dec. 1404, Dartmouth Dec. 1404–5, Exeter and Dartmouth 1405 – June 1406, Nov. 1410–14, Fowey, Plymouth and Dartmouth May 1406–7.

Commr. to make war at sea on breakers of truces Aug. 1403; of inquiry, Devon Dec. 1404, May 1405, Dec. 1406, south coast Mar. 1411 (incidents at sea); to fortify Dartmouth Mar. 1406; confiscate vessels illegally seized at sea Apr. 1413; requisition ships for the transport overseas of Sir Edward Courtenay’s retinue May 1416.

Mayor, Dartmouth, Mich. 1404–8, 1414–15.H.R. Watkin, Dartmouth , 184.

Dep. to Sir Thomas Beaufort, admiral of England, from c. Jan. 1410.

Dep. butler, Kingsbridge, Dartmouth and Teignmouth 28 Mar. 1413-Nov. 1418.

Water-bailiff, Dartmouth by Feb. 1417 – d.

Coroner, Ipswich Sept. 1390–1, 1392 – 96; bailiff 1391 – 92, 1397–9.N. Bacon, Annalls of Ipswiche ed. Richardson, 83–86; E368/165–72.

Collector of customs and subsidies, Ipswich 20 Nov. 1396 – 1 May 1398, 21 Dec. 1398–10 Oct. 1399.

Alnager, Suff. 28 Apr. 1398 – 17 Oct. 1399, jt. alnager, Essex, Herts., Norf., Suff. 15 Apr. 1403–9 Mar. 1410.

Serjeant-at-arms 21 Nov. 1399 – d.

Commr. of arrest, Feb., May, Nov. 1400, Apr., Aug., Oct. 1401, July 1403, Jan., Mar., Apr., May, July, Oct. 1404, Mar. 1405, Jan. 1406; inquiry, Suff. Nov. 1400 (concealments), Essex, Herts., Norf., Suff. Nov. 1403 (evasion of alnage), Glos. July 1405, Jan. 1406 (sale of land pertaining to the Crown); to impress mariners for royal service, Norf., Suff. Oct. 1402, Mar. 1405; make restitution for acts of piracy July 1403, Devon, Bristol Nov. 1403, Sept. 1404, Norf. Dec. 1404, Feb. 1405, Oct. 1406; provide horses for King’s servants travelling from Pontefract to London, July 1404.

Commr. to raise royal loans, Devon Jan. 1420:

Alnager, Winchester (city and soke), 17 Oct. 1399-Jan. 1404.

Commons’ bailiff, Winchester Mich. 1404–5.Stowe 846, ff. 112, 114v, 128v.