Edmund Hawes in Chancery

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Edmund Hawes in Chancery

Legg inn av John Brandon » 19 feb 2005 16:50:49

James W. Hawes, in his article on the Hawes ancestry (NEHGR,
65:160-61), provides the following details of a lawsuit initiated by
the Edmund Haweses, senior and junior, in 1622--

The records of the Cutlers' Company of London, recently rendered
accessible, revealed that the emigrant was the son of Edmond Hawes of
Solihull (a parish about seven miles southeast of Birmingham),
Warwickshire, gentleman; that he bound himself, 14 February 1626-7, to
Edmond Warnett,[footnote d] a citizen and cutler of London, for the
term of eight years from 2 February preceding, and that he was sworn
free cutler 9 December 1634. The will of Francis Hawes (a relative,
degree not known) of Belchamp St. Paul, county of Essex, dated 21
November 1621, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 2
April 1622, gives all his freehold and copyhold estates, subject to an
annuity of £5 a year to the testator's sister, Anne Morris, to Edmond
Hawes, youngest son of Edmond Hawes, of Solihull, gentleman.
The testator's sister and William Rastall having entered upon
the lands devised and attempted to suppress the will, Edmond Hawes the
younger (then 14 years of age), by Edmond Hawes the elder, his father
and guardian, brought a suit in Chancery, 15 May 1622, against Anne
Morris and William Rastall (an executor of the will), to establish his
right, which evidently resulted in his favor. By deed, dated 12
February 1633-4, he sold his right in these estates to Sir Leventhorpe
Franche, Knight, for the consideration of £250.[footnote
e]

Footnote d = Probably a relative or connection by marriage. See
Waters's Gleanings, pp. 1345-7, wills of Robert and John Baker.

Footnote e = Close Rolls in Public Record Office.

Unfortunately, James Hawes did not provide the exact reference for the
lawsuit he discusses. He may have been more explicit in the 200+ page
book he published a few years later (in 1914), but since I ran across
the reference in one of the volumes of the Lists & Indexes series,
I'll note it here:

Lists & Indexes, vol. 47 [_Index of Chancery Proceedings (Series I.),
Preserved in the Public Record Office, James I. Vol. I._], p. 406:

[H. 8/28]
--Edmond Hawes (an infant, by his guardian).
--Ann Morrice and William Rastall.
--Messuage and land in Belchampe St. Paul (Essex).

The Solihull parish registers, extracted in the IGI, show that Edmund
Hawes the younger was baptized in 1612, so he would have been aged ten
when the lawsuit was initiated, rather than 14, as claimed in the suit
(at least according to James Hawes). I suspect his father (the
guardian) may have advanced his age by a few years in order to make
sure the matter was taken seriously.

This particular volume of Lists & Indexes contains some remarkably
interesting and detailed entries. One example is given below:

p. 40:

--Stephen Bucke and George Bucke.
--Robert Bucke (brother of testator).
--Claim under will of Sir George Bucke to manors of Skidbrooke and
Greenpooles in Skidbrook, Boston, South Somercotes, Saltfleet Haven,
Wiverton, Long Weekferry, and elsewhere, devised to plaintiffs on
account of their having the same name and being born near to his
estates.

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