Commons 1509-1558

Principal, Greek Hall, Oxf. 1521; royal proctor and excusator at Rome 1530 – 34; chancellor, diocese of Salisbury 1531 – 37; ambassador to the Netherlands 1538 – 39, 1541, 1544 – 50, to the Holy See 1555 – 59; commr. for suppression of monasteries 1538, oyer and terminer, Calais 1541, subsidy, Glam. 1543, relief, Carm., Glam., Glos., Mon., Salop 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Glam. 1553; master of requests 1540 – 54; sheriff, Glam. 1542 – 43, 1554 – 55; j.p. Cheshire 1547, Glos., Herefs., Salop, Worcs. 1547 – 54; member, council in the marches of Wales in 1551; master, St. Thomas’s hospital, Rome Apr. 1559-Apr. 1560.Emden, 103; LP Hen. VIII, iv, vi, vii, xiii-xvi, xix-xxi; Sel. Cases Ct. of Requests (Selden Soc. xii), Sel. Cases Ct. of Requests (Selden Soc. xii), pp. cvii, cix, 98, 205; CSP For. 1547–53, pp. 1–8, 9–14, 25; 1558–9, pp. 219, 584; APC, vii. 50; E179/221/236; CPR, 1553, pp. 354, 358, 360, 364, 419; 1553–4, pp. 19, 20, 23, 25, 75–76, 121, 263; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, ii(2), 162.

Reeve, Lostwithiel, Cornw. 1552 – 53; commr. relief Cornw. 1550, piracy 1565, grain 1576; j.p. 1552 – 54, q. 1569 – d.; sheriff 1558–9.Duchy Cornw. RO, 226, m. 1; CPR, 1553, p. 351; 1553–4, p. 17; APC, iii. 504.

J.p. Devon 1547 – d.; commr. chantries, Devon and Cornw. 1548, relief, Devon 1550, to try maritime cases 1578; other commissions 1554 – 65; sheriff, Devon 1555 – 56; recorder, Barnstaple aft. 1560.CPR, 1547–8, p. 82; 1548–9, p. 135; 1553, p. 352; 1554–5, pp. 108, 243; 1563–6, pp. 42, 334; J. Hoker, The description of the citie of Excester (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. xi), 584–97; APC, vii. 283; N. Devon Athenaeum, ‘MPs Barnstaple’, 24; 2518; 2520.

In the King’s household by May 1545; carver, the privy chamber by 1553–8 or later; master of the hawks 31 Oct. 1560; gov. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb. 25 Aug. 1568–87; warden, east marches 23 Oct. 1571; keeper, Somerset House 31 July 1574 – d.; PC 1577 – d.; capt. gent. pens. 1583; ld. chamberlain, the Household July 1585 – d.; c.j. in eyre south of Trent 1589 – d., itinerant of royal forests 20 Dec. 1591 – d.; recorder, Cambridge 1590; high steward, Doncaster and Ipswich 1590, Oxf. 2 Mar. 1592–d.Fac. Off. Reg. 1534–49, ed. Chambers, 257; Stowe 571, f. 30v; LC2/4/1–3; VCH Cambs. iii. 59; information from W. J. Tighe.

Dep. receiver-gen., duchy of Cornw. by 1529 – 47; commr. assessionable manors, duchy of Cornw. 1532, 1535, chantries Mdx., London and Westminster 1546, 1548; j.p. Cornw. 1536 – d., Devon 1536 – d., Mdx. 1547 – d.; receiver-gen. lands of Jane Seymour by 1537, Anne of Cleves 1540 – 43, Catherine Parr by May 1544 – Sept. 1545; treasurer, household of Catherine Parr by May 1544–8, ct. first fruits and tenths 21 Apr. 1545–d.Duchy Cornw. RO, 114, m. 16, 127, m.2a, 497, m.1a, 498, m.1a; LP Hen. VIII, x-xxi; CPR, 1548–9, p. 137; E101/423/12, f. 12; W. C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Admin. 489.