William Jenney

Notes:

Judge of the King's Bench.

From Biographia Juridica (citation details below):

JENNEY, William, whose name was sometimes spelled Gyney, and more frequently Genney, was the son of John Jenney, of Knodishall in Suffolk, and Maud, daughter and heir of John Bokill, of Friston. He became one of the governors of Lincoln's Inn in 1446. His practice at the bar began at least as early as Michaelmas 1439, 18 Henry VI., that being the date of his first appearance in the Year Books. The Paston Collection contains many proofs of the enmity which existed between him and the Paston family, and which led to those contests recorded in the Year Books in the next reign. (Paston Letters, i. 140, 196.)

He took the degree of the coif in November 1463, and in the next year are long arguments relative to the legality of an outlawry awarded against John Paston at the suit of Jenney. Another discussion arose in 1471, the principal question being whether Sir John Paston should proceed against the serjeant by bill or by original writ. (Y. B. 4 and 11 Edward IV.) In these cases he shows himself an acute lawyer, and his practice in the courts was consequently very extensive. Although it is clear that at one time (Paston Letters, i. 182) the king was favourable to the Pastons, this did not prevent the advance to which the serjeant's legal attainments evidently entitled him, and he was accordingly constituted a judge of the King's Bench. The date of his elevation, though Dugdale states it to have taken place in Trinity Term 1477, 17 Edward IV., could not, according to the Year Book and other evidences, have been before Easter Term 1481. He was re-appointed at the commencement of the reigns of Edward V. and Richard III., and sat in the court during the first six months of the latter reign, dying on December 23, 1483. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cawse, Esq., and his second was Eleanor, daughter of John Sampson, Esq., and widow of Robert Ingleys, Esq. His eldest son, Sir Edmund, was the father of the undermentioned Sir Christopher Jenney.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Cawse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Christopher Willoughby before 28 Mar 1482. Christopher (son of Robert Willoughby and Cecily Welles) was born about 1453 in of Parham, Suffolk, England; died between 1 Nov 1498 and 13 Jul 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Tyrrell. Thomas (son of James Tyrrell and Anne Arundell) was born in of Gipping, Suffolk, England; died between 12 Jun 1551 and 25 Aug 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Eure about 1503. William (son of Ralph Eure and Muriel Hastings) was born about 1483 in of Witton in Weardale, Durham, England; died on 15 Mar 1548 in Eresby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Clere before 19 Aug 1529. John (son of Robert Clere and Alice Boleyn) was born about 1511 in of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England; died on 21 Aug 1557 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]