Osbern Hawkins

Personal and Family Information

Osbern was born about 1325 in Norfolk, England, the son of Peter Hawkins but his mother is unknown.

He died about 1373. The place is not known.

His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were Roger (c1352-?) and Adam (c1354-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9736629

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SC 8 - Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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Catalogue description Petitioners: Richard Spynk of Norwich. Name[s]: Spynk, Richard Addressees: …

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Reference: SC 8/342/16148

Description:

Petitioners: Richard Spynk of Norwich.

Name[s]: Spynk, Richard

Addressees: King.

Nature of request: Spynk requests remedy and that the king will command by his grace to his justices that they will proceed in his complaint against the bishop of Ely according to law and reason, and notwithstanding certain writs or letters purchased or to be purchased by the bishop against this by certain allegations. Spynk complains that he has pursued diverse pleas by diverse writs of oyer and terminer in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire against the bishop and others named in the writs, and he has been taken into the king's special protection, but notwithstanding this, the bishop ordered his commission to Haukere and to a great number of malefactors to seek the petitioner against the crown and royal dignity and have made affray around Norwich so that Spynk cannot pursue his trade to his great damage, and has prevented his oyer and terminers by obtaining writs to the justices to surcease so that Spynk has been delayed for 2 years. In addition, the bishop has claimed that Spynk is a villein of his manor of Doddington to his great damage and seized his goods, and Spynk cannot have justice on this as all those in Cambridgeshire are his tenants and wear his robes, and he cannot go to Thetford before the justices to pursue his business because of the power of the bishop. He complains of the bishop's continued menaces.

Nature of endorsement: [None].

Places mentioned: Norwich, [Norfolk]; Norfolk; Cambridgeshire; Doddington, [Cambridgeshire]; Thetford, [Norfolk].

People mentioned: Thomas [de Lisle], Bishop of Ely; >>> Osbern le Haukere <<<.

Note: The petition is dated to 1348 as a copy of the petition with lengthy responses was edited in the rolls of parliament from a manuscript of Matthew Hale and dated to a parliament in 21 Edw. III. This would indicate that the petition was presented either at the parliament held in March 1347, or that of January 1348, but the petition has been ascribed to the January parliament of 1348 by the editors of the more recent PROME project [Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp. 192a-193b [no. 73]; PROME, Parliament of January 1348, Appendix nos. 73-5].

Date: [1348]

Related material:

For a contemporary counter petition by the bishop of Ely, see SC 8/162/8059

For a contemporary counter petition by the bishop of Ely, see SC 8/45/2212

For responses in the process of the petitioner against the bishop, see C 49/46/18

For a privy seal warrant concerning the superseding of a writ of oyer and terminer, see no. 17851 in C 81/314

For a further warrant of the privy seal delaying commissions of oyer and terminers against the bishop and his brother, see no. 17968 in C 81/315

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Former reference in its original department: Chancery Miscellaneous Roll 22/5/42 [transferred 7/10/1924].

Legal status: Public Record[s]

Language: French

Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1345-1348, [Public Record Office, 1903], p.237 [commission of oyer and terminer on part of the complaint made in the petition]

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, [Record Commission, 1783], p.192a-b [nos.71-2] [full editions of later copies of original counter petitions by the bishop of Ely & pp.192a-193b [no.73] [full edition of later copy of original petition]

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue

C - Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions

Division within C - Records of the Chancery as central secretariat

C 135 - Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III

C 135/235 - Detailed descriptions at item level. Items are dated by the date of the writ, but some inquests were held in succeeding regnal years. This is...

Catalogue description Roger Haukere of Radenhale : Norfolk

Reference: C 135/235/19

Description:

Roger Haukere of Radenhale : Norfolk

Date: 47 Edw III <<<< 25 Jan 1373 - 24 jan 1374 = 47 Edward III

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record

Language: English

Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Note: Most likely death of Osborn with son inheriting.