Henry Hawkins

Personal and Family Information

Henry was born about 1405, the son of John Hawkins but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7441378

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

Division within C - Records of Equity Side: the Six Clerks

C 1 - Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Pleadings and Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary

C 1/24 - Chancery pleadings addressed to Richard Neville Earl of Salisbury as Lord Chancellor. Detailed description at item level

Catalogue description Short title: Hawkyn v Davy. Plaintiffs: Henry Hawkyn alias Clerk, husbandman, of Little...

Reference: C 1/24/135

Description:

Short title: Hawkyn v Davy.

Plaintiffs: Henry Hawkyn alias Clerk, husbandman, of Little Panton , co. Lincoln.

Defendants: Robert Davy, clerk, and Oliver Bromley, feoffees of Richard Haukyn, vicar of Madeley Mawdley).

Subject: `Places,' lands, etc in Madeley. Staffordshire

Date: 1454-1455

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record

Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7450422

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

Division within C - Records of Equity Side: the Six Clerks

C 1 - Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Pleadings and Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary

C 1/64 - Chancery pleadings addressed to the Bishop of Lincoln as Lord Chancellor. Detailed descriptions at item level.

Catalogue description Short title: Rabas v The Sheriff of Coventry. Plaintiffs: John Rabas. Defendants: The...

Reference: C 1/64/63

Description:

Short title: Rabas v The Sheriff of Coventry.

Plaintiffs: John Rabas.

Defendants: The sheriff of Coventry.

Subject: Action of trespass brought by Henry Haukyn. Corpus cum causa. Warwickshire

Date: 1475-1480, or 1483-1485

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record

Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Note: So, what actually happened?

1. Henry sues someone for trespass. Classic early tangle: someone damaged his goods, land, or rights.

2. The sheriff arrests the defendant — or someone connected.

3. The sheriff is ordered to bring the prisoner + paperwork to court. [corpus cum causa]**

4. The sheriff botches it: Doesn’t show up. Or doesn’t produce the “cause.” Or holds the person unlawfully. Or interferes with Henry’s process.

5. Rabas files a Chancery complaint against the sheriff Because Henry’s original action is now being obstructed.

Rabas is almost certainly: Henry’s surety, or Henry’s legal proxy, or Henry’s bond-holder, or the clerk holding the writ for Henry, or the one financially injured by the sheriff’s failure.