Anne Watkins

Not the daughter of Sir Lawrence Cheney, Escheator of Bedford & Buckingham or the same as Anne Appleyard

Biography

https://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4810...

John Watkins was born circa 1400 at England.1

He married Anne Cheney, daughter of Roger Cheney and Agnes Carleton, circa 1428.1,2

Family
Anne Cheney b. c 1405

Child

1. Margarie Watkins+1,2 b. c 1430. Married William Geddinge, Esq.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cheney-454

If her father is correctly identified as CHEYNE, Roger (1362-1414), of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. then her husband might be the same John Watkins who the parliamentary biography for her father identifies as an "accomplice" of what would be her two brothers, John Cheyne and Thomas Cheyne. In this case, Watkins was from "Stoke Hammond".[1]

References

1. https://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4810... cites
   1. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 506.GoogleBooks >
   2. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 349.
2. Gage, John and Rokewode, John Gage. "The History and Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred. "Lackford". Page 47. < GoogleBooks >William Gedding of Icklingham in Suffok; test. at. 2 Nov 1497; m. Margeria, daughter of John Watkins and Anna, who was the daughter of Roger Cheney of County Bucks.
3. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ch... It was not, however, until the justices of assize looked into the matter on 1 Mar. 1430 (a week after Parliament had been dissolved) that Cheyne and Strickland were formally declared illegally returned. By then, Cheyne’s activities elsewhere were also causing considerable concern. Four months later, in July, a commission of oyer and terminer was set up (headed by Chief Justice Babington) to investigate widespread complaints from Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire of ‘oppressions, extortions, assaults and injuries’ committed there by Cheyne and his brother Thomas and their chief accomplices, namely, John Watkins† of Stoke Hammond and Hugh Billingdon. It was said that they had driven people from their land by force, and ‘some they have beaten, imprisoned and tortured, refusing to release them until they made fine at the will of their oppressors’, and that they had broken into houses, seized goods, and beaten and ill-treated women and servants. In September local juries indicted the Cheynes for robbery, embracery and perverting the course of justice by threatening defendants. These alleged crimes all took place in and around the manor of ‘Maudeleyns’ in Northchurch, which bordered the Cheynes’ own property at Chesham, and included the accusation that in November 1426 they had made an armed raid on ‘Maudeleyns’ with over 40 men, ejecting tenants and plundering their possessions. As a consequence of this array of charges, the Cheynes were arrested, but during the Michaelmas term they and their associates were found not guilty by the court of King’s bench and acquitted. So far, they had not been subjected to renewed accusations of lollardy or of supporting heretics. However, on 19 June following (1431), a few weeks after ‘Jack Sharpe’s’ abortive lollard rising in Berkshire, the Buckinghamshire authorities were ordered to arrest Sir John Cheyne, to seize his manors of Drayton Beauchamp and Grove, confiscate all books, rolls, schedules, bills and any suspicious memoranda found there, and to certify the details of his armoury and library to the King’s Council. Cheyne’s brother Thomas was arrested at the same time, and both men were imprisoned in the Tower until the following 4 Aug., when they were allowed to go free. Their release from prison after less than two months can only mean that, on this occasion, their complicity in the rising had not been very serious.4