MASTER, William, of Ipswich, Suff.

Collector of tunnage and poundage, Ipswich 29 Oct. 1371–2, customs and subsidies 12 Oct. – 22 Nov. 1389; controller of customs 24 Dec. 1383 – 12 Oct. 1389, tunnage and poundage 22 Nov. 1389 – 8 Dec. 1391, 18 May 1393–18 Oct. 1395.

Bailiff, Ipswich Sept. 1372–3, 1379 – 80; coroner 1397–9.N. Bacon, Annalls of Ipswiche ed. Richardson, 77, 80, 86.

Commr. to conscript carpenters to build barges at Ipswich, Colchester and Hadleigh Nov. 1372.

Tax collector, Ipswich Mar. 1377, May 1379.

Jt. attorney for the Crown, Ipswich Sept. 1379–80.

Dep. butler, Ipswich 7 May-7 Oct. 1395.