Commr. to make an arrest Nov. 1404; of oyer and terminer, Staffs. Dec. 1405 (attack on the abbey of Burton-upon-Trent).
Keeper of the royal park at Bewbush, Suss. 26 Aug. 1405 – d.
Bailiff of Windsor forest and keeper of Cranborne chase, Wilts. 15 Oct. 1407 – d.
Porter and keeper of the keys of the ‘new work’ at Windsor castle, 21 June 1408 – d.; prob. groom of the pitcher house there by 10 Nov. 1443 – d.
Purveyor of victuals for Chancery (appointed by the chancellor, Sir Thomas Beaufort, later earl of Dorset and duke of Exeter) by 5 Nov. 1411-aft. 12 June 1413.
Bailiff, duchy of Lancaster, Rodman (altera pars), Staffs. by 1414-c.1417.
Purveyor of victuals for the royal household 31 Jan. – 31 July 1420.
Dep. to Thomas, duke of Exeter, admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine by 19 Feb. 1422, to Sir Henry Inglose, dep. admiral for the coast from the Thames to Berwick-upon-Tweed bef. Sept. 1428.
Collector of a tax, Staffs. Aug. 1430.
Although no evidence has survived to contradict J.C. Wedgwood’s assumption that this MP and the courtier, John Parker, were one and the same person (Staffs. Parl. Hist. i (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 192-3), it is not impossible to be absolutely certain in identifying the bearer of such a common name.
PARKER, John IV