Commons 1386-1421

Receiver of the Leics., Northants. and Warws. estates of Henry IV’s queen, Joan of Navarre, by July 1410 – aft.Sept. 1411; treasurer and receiver-general to the queen by Mich. 1415.SC6/1093/1.

Commr. to raise royal loans, Lincs. Nov. 1419, Jan. 1420, Mar. 1431, Feb. 1436; of inquiry Nov. 1424 (claim by Sir John Scrope to the manor of Carlton-le-Moorland); to ascertain the names of persons liable to contribute to a grant Apr. 1431; of kiddles Nov. 1432; array Jan. 1436.

J.p. Lincs (Kesteven) 12 Feb. 1422 – July 1424, 16 Feb. 1430 – d.

Assessor of a tax, Lincs. Jan. 1436.

Bailiff, Weymouth Mich. 1411–12, 1421–2.E364/184, 194. Were it not for this bailiffship of 1421 and the fact that a William Payn witnessed a conveyance at Weymouth in 1430 it might have been assumed that the man returned was William Payn† (1358–1426) of West Lulworth, esquire (s. of William Payn (d.1388) of the same), who m. (1) Margaret da. and coh. of Nicholas Poyntz and wid. of John Newburgh; and (2) Agnes (d.1429), by which marriages he acquired substantial estates in the shire. He had sat for Wareham in the Parliaments of 1383 (Feb.) and 1385, and continued to be active in the administration of Dorset, as a j.p., coroner and commissioner, right up to his death in 1426. He was also sometime steward of Corfe. He attended the meetings of the county court for nearly all the parliamentary elections between 1407 and 1425 including that of 1421 (Dec.).

Collector of customs and subsidies, Melcombe Regis 28 Feb. 1416-July 1417.

King’s bailiff, Shaftesbury 1372–3.Egerton 3135, ff. 73, 74v.

Mayor, Shaftesbury Mich. 1383–4.J. Hutchins, Hist. Dorset, iii. 15.

Butler of the household of Henry, earl of Derby, by May 1390-Aug. 1399.

Chief butler of England 21 Aug. 1399 – d.

Constable of Norwich castle 14 Sept. 1399 – d.

J.p. Norf. and Suff. 26 May 1401 – d.

Commr. to make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well, Norf. May 1402.