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Roger Hawkenshaw or Hakenshawe (died 1434) was an Irish judge and Privy Councillor.Ball p.173 He was Irish by birth. He was possibly the son, but more likely the grandson, of an earlier Roger Hawkenshaw, or Hackenshawe, a senior
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official who was
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of Ireland in the 1370s. The elder Roger Hawkenshaw died in 1375.''Close Roll 49 Edward III'' The younger Roger is first heard of in 1409, when Richard Petir, who was mentioned in the
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in 1400 as a clerk in the royal service, appointed him as one of his attorneys to manage his Irish affairs during his absence abroad.''Patent Roll 10 Henry IV'' In the same year, as a mark of the Crown's favour, he was granted jointly with Henry Stanyhurst the lands of Robert Bernevall, a
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, so long as they were in royal hands. In 1415 he was appointed a temporary judge on a panel of five (which included
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) to hear an action for
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against Alice Brown of Brownstown, County Kildare.''Patent Roll 2 Henry V'' He was appointed second justice of the
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in 1416, on the death of John Bermyngham, at a salary of £20 a year. In the same year he acted as Deputy to the
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,
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, who was an old man even by modern standards and was frequently too infirm to carry out his duties (he died the following year). Roger also acted from time to time as Deputy to Cranley's successor, Sir
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. Soon after his appointment as Deputy he and Richard Ashwell, a senior clerk in Chancery and future
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, were ordered to prepare and enrol all the Chancery
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, as the Chancellor's frequent absences on royal business meant that he could not perform such tasks in person.''Patent Roll 3 Henry V'' They were also commissioned to administer justice in several parts of the kingdom to such of the King's liege subjects as could not repair to the
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to
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their just causes "by reason of the distance and danger of the way". In 1418, he was one of those given permission by the Crown to found a new
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, called St. John's Chapel, near
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, as was his future colleague Reginald de Snyterby. Whether the chapel was ever built is uncertain.''Patent Roll 6 Henry V'' In the same year he was granted property in
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, formerly owned by Richard Burgess. In 1420, the Crown, having received numerous complaints from the citizens of County Meath of illegal seizure of foodstuffs and other property by the troops and purveyors of the
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, appointed Roger and his colleague
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to inquire into the matter.''Patent Roll 8 Henry VI'' Roger was reappointed to the King's Bench in 1422, at the start of the
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of Henry VI.''Patent Roll 1 Henry VI'' He received the same salary of £20, plus a small daily payment called "wages".Smyth ''Chronicle of the Law Officers'' In 1425 the Council ordered that the arrears of his salary be paid.''Close Roll 5 Henry VI'' In 1427 he complained again that his
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were in arrears. The Crown ordered the Treasury to investigate, and it was found that the fees were indeed in arrears to the sum of £127. The Crown duly ordered that he be paid the arrears. In the same year he was appointed one of the justices and Keepers of the Peace for
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. He was ex-officio a member of the
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. He attended an important meeting of the Council in December 1428, which debated the question of whether the
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could act through a Deputy while he was absent in England.''Patent Roll 7 Henry VI'' Roger is thought to have died in 1434.


Sources

*Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 *Haydn, Joseph ''The Book of Dignities'' London Longman Green Brown and Longmans 1851 *Smyth, Constantine Joseph ''Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland'' London Butterworths 1839


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkenshaw, Roger Justices of the Irish King's Bench Members of the Privy Council of Ireland 1434 deaths