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Participant


First name	William
Last name	Osbern
Gender	Male
Domicile	Ingatestone,Essex
Source	TNA CP 40/490 m. 257d

Incidents

ID	Summary	Description	Location	Role	Charges	Comments on role	View incident
3618	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone.	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone. Timber and other goods worth £20 taken and carried away, and charters, deeds rolls and rentals burnt.	Ingatestone,Essex	Accused			View Incident page
3675	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone.	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone. Timber and other goods worth £20 taken and carried away, and charters, deeds, rolls and rentals burnt.	Ingatestone,Essex	Accused			View Incident page
3683	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone.	Attack on the manor of the Hospitallers at Ingatestone. Timber and other goods worth £20 taken and carried away, and charters, deeds, rolls and rentals burnt.	Ingatestone,Essex	Accused			View Incident page

Biographical Information

Date	Location	Info	Source	Comment	Image
19/12/1379	Ingatestone,Essex	William Oseborn does not appear in a suit of debt against Christian Smyth. It is ordered to raise 6s 8d from William to the benefit of Christian.	ERO, D/DP M22
08/12/1383	Ingatestone,Essex	The lady (abbess of Barking) grants William Osebern, her native tenant, a croft and 2 acres of land which was held by the rector of the church of Ingatestone. William pays 2d entry fine and does fealty.	ERO, D/DP M23
06/06/1384	Ingatestone,Essex	William Oseberne to be distrained in a plea of trespass against Richard Paty.	ERO, D/DP M23
16/10/1385	Ingatestone,Essex	William Osbourne and another bond tenant have their tenements in ruins and are ordered to repair the waste until next Easter under pain of forfeiture. William also fined 12d because he sold ash trees without licence.	ERO, D/DP M24
31/03/1386	Ingatestone,Essex	Agreement between Alice Berwyk and John Osborn, her son, that the same William pays annually to the said Alice for life for lands and tenements called 'Osbornestenement' which the same Alice surrenders into the hand of the lady to the benefit of the said William, 3 quarters of wheat and 2 quarters of oats between Michaelmas and Easter. And if he defaults on his obligation by 1 month after Easter, the tenement will reverse to Alice.	ERO, D/DP M24
18/06/1386	Ingatestone,Essex	William Osborn serves as chief pledge.	ERO, D/DP M24
18/06/1386	Ingatestone,Essex	Note at the end of the court that William Osborn holds a croft land for which 11d were due, but which have not been levied by Thomas atte Thelmore, rent collector.	ERO, D/DP M24
18/06/1386	Ingatestone,Essex	William still hasn't repaired his tenement; he is ordered to do so under pain of 20s until next Whitsun; he provides John Spencer and John Estfeld as surety.	ERO, D/DP M24	This order is repeated in a court dated 2 October 1386.
22/01/1387	Ingatestone,Essex	William Osborn still hasn't repaired his tenement. William does not come in a plea of trespass by John Peper junior.	ERO, D/DP M24
03/06/1387	Ingatestone,Essex	William Osborne serves as chief pledge.	ERO, D/DP M24
03/06/1387	Ingatestone,Essex	William Osborne surrenders 12 acres of land and meadow which lies in 'Haulestrete' up to 'Arnoldesbregge', called 'Longredene' to the benefit of Richard Paty. Afterwards Alice Berwyke [William's mother] surrenders all her rights in the said land.	ERO, D/DP M24
25/05/1388	Ingatestone,Essex	Four neighbours are elected to measure and apportion land and services between William Osbarn and John Lavare; both pay 12d to the lady.	ERO, D/DP M24
10/03/1390	Ingatestone,Essex	Laurence, son of William Osborn, distrained again to be put into tithing of the king.	ERO, D/DP M25	In a court and leet, dated 10 June 1392, William son of William Osborn is distrained to be put into the tithing.
10/03/1390	Ingatestone,Essex	The bailiff John Bete presents, that William Osborn is infirm and on his deathbed and that he surrendered in the presence of William Dawe, John Baker, Thomas Morice and William Smyth his tenement, called 'Osbarnes' comprising 50 acres of land to the benefit of Margaret, his wife, for life and after her death to William's heirs. The heriot is a grey bullock ('i stottum grey'). The lady grants the said tenement to Margaret who pays 10s entry fine and does fealty.	ERO, D/DP M25	In court and leet, dated 30 May 1390 William Osbern is still in the list of chief pledges although he had died two months earlier.
30/05/1390	Ingatestone,Essex	Order to distrain Walter, son of William Osborn, a bond tenant of the lady who stays in 'Sablesford'.	ERO, D/DP M25

Relationships

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Other Cases of the Same Person

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