Hawkins

Family: England · Role: accuser · First appears: Edward IV 6

Life events

c. 1468 · Hawkins accused Thomas Cooke of treason, leading to Cooke's imprisonment and seizure of his London property.(Edward IV 6 · 📍 the Tower)
- With: Thomas Cooke
- “Sir Thomas Cooke late maior of London, was by one named Hawkins appeached of treason, for the which he was sent to the Tower, and his place within London seized by the lord Riuers, and his wife and seruants cleerelie put out therof.”
c. 1468 · Hawkins confessed his accusation against Thomas Cooke and was put to death.(Edward IV 6)
- “till the said Hawkins was cast in the Tower, and at length brought to the brake, called the duke of Excesters daughter, by meanes of which paine he shewed manie things, amongst the which the motion was one that he had made to sir Thomas Cooke, and accused himselfe so farre, that he was put to death.”

enemies with Thomas Cooke “Sir Thomas Cooke late maior of London, was by one named Hawkins appeached of treason”
patron: Margaret of York “yet the said Hawkins exhorted him to remember, what benefits he had receiued by hir when she was in prosperitie, as by making him hir wardrober, and customer of Hampton, &c.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.