Richard Hotchkiss / Hoskins

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Richard was born about 1480 in Shropshire, England, the son of Thomas Hotchkiss / Hoskins and UNKNOWN1.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Note 1

Stylename: Hotchkiss, Richard, Chaplain of the perpetual chantry of Margaret, mother of King Henry VII [~1480 - ?]

!Source: Somerset Medieval Will Abstracts, 1385-1558 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=OR%2FSOMMED%2FWILLS%2F00000349&tab=this

First name[s] Richard

Volume number 2

Last name Howchins <<<< Variant of Hotchkiss, but could also be an attempt at a church alias similar to Hopton for his great uncle David..

Page number 39

Year 1502

Dataset title Somerset, Medieval Wills Abstracts, 1385-1558

Date 1502

Record set Somerset Medieval Will Abstracts, 1385-1558

Place -

Category Birth, Marriage & Death [Parish Registers]

County Somerset

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Source Somerset Record Society, vols XIX & XVI

Collections from England, Great Britain

Note: This is likely a registration only and not an indication of death. This may be a will to account for his inheritance if both Richard and his father should die while Richard is a priest. This might be necessary since it appears that he was the heir apparent of Hawkeswood, prior to the enfeoffment of his uncle Roger Hotchkiss.

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3408271

E - Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations

Division within E - Records of the King's Remembrancer

E 135 - Exchequer: Miscellaneous Ecclesiastical Documents

Catalogue description Cartulary of a chantry in the secular college of at Wimborne [Dorset]. [f. 1] Grant of...

Reference: E 135/3/21

Description:

Cartulary of a chantry in the secular college of at Wimborne [Dorset].

[f. 1] Grant of Henry VII, king of England, to Margaret, countess of Richmond, his mother, of a licence to found a chantry chapel dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary in the collegiate church of Wimborne [Dorset], 1 March [1497], extracted by William de Darham and Richard Skipton, clerks.

[f. 2r] Letter patent of Margaret, countess of Richmond, mother of King Henry VII, confirming her enfeoffment to William Knyvet, knight, Hugh Oldham, clerk, Roger Ormeston, knight, Robert Brudenell, William Cutlerd, serjeants-at-law, Hugh Assheton, clerk, Robert Bekynsall, clerk, William Elmes and John Chymowe, clerk, of four messuages, 58 acres of land, 24 acres of meadow, 22 acres of pasture, three acres of woodland with appurtenances in Bourton, Curry Rivel [Coryryvell] and Langport Weston [Somerset] to the use of the countess and her heirs and for the execution of her last will. Powers of attorney granted to Richard Felaunt and Roger Heton [3 February 1504]; with a note confirming delivery of seisin on 16 March 1504 before William Lang, steward there, Sir John Reynold, clerk, Cuthbert Clawsey, Thomas Paterwyn, Robert Compton, John Applyn, Thomas Pyper, John Halperton, Robert Norrys, Richard Stephyns, William Robyns, John Bryan, Thomas Williams, Thomas Mason, William Squer, John Wodde, Stephen Sade, Thomas Woodbourne, John Borowgh, John Hall, John Jeyn, William Pirom and William Keele and others.

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[ff. 2v-3r, 3v-4r] Indenture confirming that Hugh [Oldham], bishop of Exeter, Robert Brudenell, king's justice, William Knyvet, knight, Hugh Assheton, clerk, and Robert Bekynsall, clerk, at the request of Richard [Fox], bishop of Winchester, John [Fisher], bishop of Rochester, Charles Somerset, the Lord de Herbert, knight, Thomas Lovell, knight, Henry Marney, knight, John Sayntiohan, knight, Henry Horneby, clerk, and Hugh Assheton, executors of the testament of Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII, have demised and granted to Richard Hogekynnes BA, chantry chaplain at Wimborne, four messuages, 58 acres of land, 24 acres of meadow, 22 acres of pasture, three acres of woodland with appurtenances in Bourton, Curry Rivel [Coryryvell] and Langport Weston [Somerset], as per the provisions of the last will of the countess. Powers of attorney granted to John Whitcome, gent., and Robert Compton [20 May 1511]; with a note confirming delivery of seisin on 24 March 1512 before Cuthbert Clausey, Robert Norrys, John Bryan, John Pyper, John Jeyn', John Cote senior, John Cote junior, Henry Beke and others.

[f. 3r] Letters of attorney for Richard Chernok, clerk, Christopher Peper and Henry Dey to act for Richard Hogekynnes BA, chaplain of the perpetual chantry of Margaret, mother of King Henry VII, founded in the college at Wimborne, to receive seisin of four messuages, 58 acres of land, 24 acres of meadow, 22 acres of pasture and three acres of woodland with appurtenances in Bourton, Curry Rivel and Langport Weston [Somerset] [20 May 1511].

[ff. 4r-9r] Copy of the tripartite indenture made between Richard [Fox], bishop of Winchester, John [Fisher], bishop of Rochester, Charles Somerset, the Lord de Herbert, knight, Thomas Lovell, knight, Henry Marney, knight, John Sayntiohan, knight, Henry Horneby, clerk, and Hugh Assheton, executors of the testament of Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby, grandmother of King Henry VIII, mother of King Henry VII, the dean and chapter of the king's free chapel of the collegiate church of Wimborne Minster, and the sacrist or keeper of the chantry of Thomas Brember founded in the same chapel and the chaplains thereof, reciting the previous grants towards the foundation of Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby's chantry and the license granted by King Henry VIII for the endowment of the chantry by the executors or other persons, and the statutes for the chantry established, on 12 March 1511, at the altar adjoining to the south the tomb of John, formerly duke of Somerset, Margaret, his wife, and of the father and mother of the countess, and ordaining Richard Hodgekynnes BA as the first chaplain.

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[ff. 9r-10r] Inspeximus of King Henry VIII reciting the letters patent of his father, of 1 March 1497, granting license to Margaret, countess of Richmond, his mother, to found a chantry chapel dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary in the collegiate church of Wimborne, confirming that license and granting her executors freedom to act in the execution of her last will in this matter [7 August 1509].

[ff. 10v-11v] Indenture, made on 28 June [1526], between James Morice of Roydon [Essex], gent., and Richard [Fox], bishop of Winchester, witnessing the bargain and sale by Morice of the sixth part of the manor and lordship of Tarnock [Turnorke] in the parish of Badgworth [Bageworthe, Somerset] with all other appurtenances there and elsewhere in Somerset, and all muniments relating to the property, and agreeing to make a good, sure, sufficient and indefeasible state in the law in the sixth part before All Saints next [1 November] to William Paulett, knight, John Incent, Roger Stokley, clerk, William Dysney, Lewis Wynkefeld, esquires, Richard Dysney and John Coke, gents., to the use of the bishop, his heirs and assigns and at his costs. The bishop pays £140 for this purchase and will void a bond of £200 bearing the names of James Morice and William, his son.

[ff. 12r-v] Letters patent of James Morice of Roydon, attesting to the sale, in return for a sum of money paid to him by Richard [Fox], bishop of Winchester, to William Paulett, knight, John Incent, Roger Stokley, clerk, William Dysney, Lewis Wynkefeld, esquires, Richard Dysney and John Coke, gents., to the use of the bishop, his heirs and assigns, of the sixth part of the manor and lordship of Tarnock in the parish of Badgworth [Somerset] with all other appurtenances there and elsewhere in Somerset. Letters of attorney in favour of William Fleccher and John Hardy [2 July 1526]. Witnesses to the livery of seisin: Thomas Bowyer, Thomas Lynen', Nicholas Nicoll', James Golde, John Golde, Thomas Kyng and William Stoner, with many others.

[f. 12v] Letters of attorney in favour of John Kyng, John Gelyng, William Westover and Philip Say to act for William Paulett, knight, John Incent, Roger Stokley, clerk, William Dysney, Lewis Wynkefeld, esquires, Richard Dysney and John Coke, gents., in the receipt of seisin from James Morice of a sixth part of the manor and lordship of Tarnock in the parish of Badgworth [Somerset] [23 July 1526].

Date: 1497-1526

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record[s]

Language: English and Latin

Physical description: papers and volumes

Dimensions: 12 ff.

Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Note: Date: 20 May 1511. Location: Bourton, Curry Rivel and Langport Weston, Somerset. Curry Rivel is 15.72 miles from Beaminster. The use of Hodgekynnes confirms we are using a version of Hotchkiss with a soft g sound.

His great uncles may have influenced his decision to join the church:

1. Rector Thomas Hotchkiss of Monks' Foriet, Salop [~1426 - ?] was keeper of the church of Holy Cross and the chapel of St. Giles in the Foriet and graduate of Exeter College Oxford.

2. Archdeacon David Hotchkiss / Hopton of Exeter [abt 1430 - abt 1492] was Canon of Windsor, Archdeacon of Exeter, Prebendary at Salisbury, and Prebendary of Beaminster Prima. The Wimborne chantry where Richard served

sits only about 30 miles from Beaminster, where his great-uncle David held a prebend. The mention of Hugh Oldham, bishop of Exeter may indicate the influence of his deceased great-uncle David, the Archdeacon of Exeter.