Roger Hawkenshaw
[3] The younger Roger is first heard of in 1409, when Richard Petir, who was mentioned in the Patent Roll 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.[4] 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 minor, so long as they were in royal hands.[4] In 1415 he was appointed a temporary judge on a panel of five (which included James Uriell) to hear an action for novel disseisin against Alice Brown of Brownstown, County Kildare.[7] 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 Court of Chancery to prosecute their just causes "by reason of the distance and danger of the way".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 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, appointed Roger and his colleague Richard Sydgrave to inquire into the matter.