HEWORTH, Robert (d.1461), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb. and London.

Pensioner, L. Inn ?Mich. 1433–4; He is known to have been pensioner at some date before Mar. 1437: L. Inn Black Bks. i. 7. That officer can be identified for most years but not for 1433–4. governor 1435 – 36, 1441 – 42, 1445 – 46, 1451 – 52, 1455 – 56, 1458 – 59; auditor of the pensioner’s acct. 1446–7. Ibid. i. 5, 8, 11, 16, 17, 21, 27, 33.

J.p. of Robert Neville, bp. of Durham’s liberty of Norhamshire and Islandshire May 1438–d. DURH3/42, m. 7.

Under sheriff, London by Oct. 1439-July 1441. CP40/718, rot. 323; N.L. Ramsey, ‘The English Legal Profession’ (Cambridge Univ. Ph. D. thesis, 1985, app. p. xliv.

Commr. of inquiry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dec. 1446 (evasions), Northumb., Newcastle-upon-Tyne Feb. 1448 (concealments), Mdx. Dec. 1458 (ravishment of a ward); gaol delivery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne July 1448 (q.), Oct. 1449 (q.), Jan. 1452 (q.), July 1454 (q.), Westminster July 1454 (q.); C66/466, m. 38d; 470, m. 10d; 474, m. 16d; 478, mm. 9d, 13d. oyer and terminer, Northumb. May 1449 (treasons), Eng. Feb. 1451 (soldiers’ complaints against Thomas Hoo I*, Lord Hoo); weirs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne July 1454; sewers, Essex Nov. 1454, Feb. 1456, June 1461.