Commons 1386-1421

Tax collector, Herefs. Mar. 1404.

Commr. of oyer and terminer, Herefs., Glos. Nov. 1405; inquiry, Herefs. June 1406 (concealments), Jan. 1414 (lollards); to raise royal loans June 1406, Jan. 1420; of array Apr. 1418.

J.p. Herefs. 8 Feb. 1406 – July 1419.

Escheator, Herefs. and adjacent march 30 Nov. 1407 – 9 Nov. 1408, 12 Nov. 1414–14 Dec 1415.

Justice itinerant, S. Wales 1415.T.B. Pugh, Marcher Ldships S. Wales, 50.

Sheriff, Herefs. 4 Nov. 1418–23 Nov. 1419.

Commr. of array, Herefs. July 1377, Mar. 1380; to put down rebellions Mar., Dec. 1382; of inquiry Feb. 1389 (lands of Roger Nash), S. Wales Sept. 1394 (appeal against a judgement), Herefs. July, Sept. 1400 (lands of Alice de la Mare), Sept. 1400 (extortions and oppressions at Hereford), Aug. 1402 (trade with Welsh rebels), Jan. 1403 (murder); oyer and terminer, Surr. Feb. 1390, Herefs. Feb. 1398.

J.p. Herefs. 26 May 1380 – d.

Steward and constable of Denbigh and Bridgwater castles, and steward of Mortimer estates in N. Wales, Salop, Herefs., Worcs., Staffs. and Som. 16 Jan. 1382–6 Feb. 1384.

Escheator, Herefs. and adjacent march 24 Nov. 1400–8 Nov. 1401.

King’s pleader and attorney, Wales 27 Oct. 1377-aft. 1382.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Conway July 1378; inquiry, N. Wales July 1378 (concealments), Salop Feb. 1399 (government of Shrewsbury), Bromfield and Yale June 1399 (income of Richard, late earl of Arundel),DKR, xxxvi. 258. Salop Nov. 1400 (estates of John, late Lord Strange), Staffs., Salop June 1406 (concealments), Salop May 1407 (heretics), Sept. 1408, Nov. 1409, Mar. 1410, Jan. 1412 (land ownership and feudal incidents), July, Oct. 1410 (administration of the lordship of Caus), Aug. 1412 (murder), Feb., June, Nov. 1413 (franchises in Morfe forest), Jan. 1414 (lollards); to raise royal loans, Staffs., Salop June 1406; of oyer and terminer, Shrewsbury castle June 1408, Salop Feb. 1409; to collect sums due from the former Fitzalan lordships of Bromfield, Yale and Oswestry Feb. 1416.Ibid. xxxvii (pt. 2), 12–13.

Jt. justiciar, S. Wales 25 May 1389-c.1390.Griffiths, 119–21.

Auditor, clerical tenths, diocese of St. Asaph Mar. 1397, accts. of the treasurers of the wars 16 Dec. 1406, of murage, Shrewsbury July 1407, Nov. 1409.

Dep. justiciar of the former Arundel lordships in the marches by May 1398 – Sept. 1399; steward of Oswestry and other former Fitzalan lordships by Dec. 1415-c.1422.Shrewsbury Lib. deeds 3650, 7300, 7312, 7355, 7392, 7480, 7483–4, 9043, 9045.

Parlty. cttee. to engross the Parliament roll Dec. 1406.

J.p. Salop 20 Feb. 1407 – Dec. 1420.

Escheator, Salop and the adjacent march 7 Nov. 1409 – 29 Nov. 1410, 10 Nov. 1413–14 Dec, 1415.

Bailiff, Shrewsbury Sept. 1412–13.Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 1), iii. 243.

Tax collector, Cambs. Mar. 1401, Dec. 1407, June 1410, July 1413.

Coroner, Cambs. until 8 Feb. 1425.