Commons 1509-1558

Page of the chamber by 1517, gent. by 1540; groom of the robes by 1528, yeoman by 1539; jt. (with fa.) keeper, Kings Cliffe park, Northants. 1517; bailiff, Bourne 1525, Whittlesea Mere, Cambs., Hunts., Lincs. and Northants. 1536; porter, Warwick castle 1548, keeper 1532; steward, Nassington, Upton and Yarwell, Northants. 1542; steward for Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, unknown property by 1548; sheriff, Rutland 1539 – 40; j.p. Northants. 1539 – d., Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven and Lindsey) and Rutland 1547; commr. chantries, Northants., Oxon., Rutland and Oxford 1548, relief, Lincs. (Holland and Kesteven), Northants. and Rutland 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Lincs. (Kesteven) and Northants. 1553.LP Hen. VIII, ii-v, x, xiv, xvi, xvii, xx; E163/12/17, nos. 38, 51, 54; NRA 5870, p. 729; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 78, 85–88, 1548–9, p. 137; 1550–3, p. 395; 1553, pp. 355–7, 414.

Commr. grain, Rutland 1496, tenths of spiritualities 1535, to survey monasteries 1536; member of the second Twelve, Stamford by 1500, of the first Twelve by 1503 – d., alderman 1504 – 05, 1515 – 16, 1526 – 27; yeoman of the chamber by 1506 – d.; jt. (with Sir David Philip) keeper Kings Cliffe park, Northants. 1506; bailiff, Whittlesea Mere Northants. 1506, manors of Skellingthorpe, Lincs., Essendine, Preston and Uppingham, Northants. 1509; serjeant-at-arms 17 Nov. 1513 – d.; steward, manor of Collyweston, Northants. 1523, Nassington, Upton, and Yarwell, Northants. by 1534; escheator, Northants. and Rutland 1514 – 15, Lincs. 1529 – 30; j.p. Rutland 1532 – d.; sheriff, Northants. June 1532-Nov. 1533.CPR, 1494–1509, pp. 92, 358, 409, 467, 498; CCR, 1500–9, p. 250; LP Hen. VIII, i, iii-v, vii, viii, x; Stamford hall bk. 1461–1657, ff. 56, 76; R. Butcher, Stamford (1646), 41–42.

Gent. privy chamber by 1540; various keeperships and stewardships inc. manors of Bletchingley 1540, Donnington, Berks. 1541, Nonsuch, Surr. 1544, Hampton Court 1550; master of revels and tents 1544 – d.; commr. benevolence, Surr. and Southwark 1544/45, chantries, Surr., Suss. and Southwark 1547, Surr., Suss. and Chichester 1548, relief, Surr. 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; other commissions 1548 – d.; j.p. Surr. 1547, 1558/59; sheriff, Surr. and Suss. 1547 – 48; jt. (with Sir Edward Warner) lt. of Tower 17 Nov.-10 Dec. 1558.LP Hen. VIII, xv, xvi, xix, xx; CPR, 1547–8, p. 90; 1548–9, p. 135; 1550–3, pp. 142, 395; 1553, pp. 316, 357, 415; HMC 7th Rep. 607, 614; E. Straker, Wealden Iron, 114; Guildford mus. Loseley 1075; Lansd. 2(10), f. 32.

Clerk to Cromwell by 1532; auditor and receiver for monastic lands by 3 Dec. 1533; commr. tenths of spiritualities, Herts. 1535, for monastic lands in Ireland 16 Aug. 1540–2; auditor, ct. of augmentations 24 Apr. 1536–46; j.p. liberty of St. Albans 1540, Herts. 1547, Herts. and Derbys. 1554; treasurer, the chamber 19 Feb. 1546–57, and ct. of gen. surveyors 19 Feb. 1546 – 2 Jan. 1547; sewer by 1547; steward for William, Lord Paget, unknown property. LP Hen. VIII, v, vi, viii, xiii, xv, xxi; W. C. Richardson, Ct. Augmentations, 155–6; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), xxi, 114; Stowe 571, f. 9; LC2/2, f. 37; CPR 1547–8 p. 84; 1553–4, pp. 18, 20; Staffs, RO, E. P. C. 2/2, no. 20, f. 1.

Reeve, Fowey 1544 – 45; coroner, Cornw. by 1545.Duchy Cornw. RO, 126, m. 13v; St.Ch.2/30/40.