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Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins

Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins (b. ??ca. 1600 – 1664), Inner Temple, serjeant at law, was a good friend of both Elizabeth Dalyson and Sir George Oxenden. Hoskins provided legal counsel to Elizabeth on one of Oxenden’s suits (in 1662 and 1663), and consistently refused to accept any fees for his services.

Hoskins was the second son of Sir Thomas Hoskins (b. ca.1570 – d.1605) (TBC), of Oxted, Surrey, and of Dorothy Aldersley, who was of a Cheshire family. In his will he bequeathed “to the poore of the Parish of Oxted where I received my first breath fifty shillings to be distributed by my cozen William Hoskins.” His eldest sibling was his sister, Dorothy Hoskins (??ca. 1600 - ??1694). His elder brother, Charles Hoskins, XXXX. His younger brother, John Hoskins, is reported to have died in 1645 at the battle of Naseby. The Hoskins family one generation back was from Monmouthshire, with Charles Hoskins, the father of Sir Thomas Hoskins, was “of Trefynwy, Monmouthshire”, and married to Anne Engler, of “Reigate, Surrey.” He does not appear to be related, or at least closely related, to an earlier serjeant-at-law, John Hoskins (1566-1638), born in Herefordshire and appointed serjeant-at-law in 1623, or to John Hoskin’s grandson, Sir John Hoskins, who was a master in Chancery

The manor of Oxted appears to have been purchased in 1597 by a Charles Hoskins, merchant taylor of London, who was most probably the younger brother of Sir Thomas Hoskins, and thus Sir Edmund Hoskins’ uncle. Just possibly this Charles Hoskins was Sir Edmond Hoskins’ older brother. Charles, Sir Edmund’s elder brother, is reported to have married Anne Hales of King’s Walden, Hertfordshire, and to have had nine children.

Sir Edmund Hoskins married Elizabeth Harby (ca.1620 – XXXX), daughter of Sir Job Harby, in 1637. They had four known children – Thomas, Job, Nathaniel, and William. Elizabeth outlived him, and subsequently married Francis Coventry.

In 1655 Edmund Hoskins purchased a mansion house in Carshalton, Surrey, called Mascalls. It was later renamed Carshalton Park House. The mansion had already been in existence in 1543 and survived probably heavily modified until 1927. A watercolour of "Carshalton park, seat of George Taylor, Esq." by John Hassell dated 1822 is in the Surrey History centre archives, but there is no prior image of Mascalls. Elizabeth Dalyson wrote in a letter to her brother Sir George Oxenden that she had been invited by Elizabeth and Sir Edmund to spend a month at their Carshalton house with them. Edmund Hoskins also had a house in Chancery Lane. Supposedly Edmund Hoskins lived in East Grinstead prior to his purchase of a house at Carshalton park in 1655.

He died at the age of 58 in 1664. In the parish church of Carshalton, according to Malden, “On the south wall of the south aisle is a black and white marble monument to Edmund Hoskins, second son of Sir Thomas Hoskins of Oxted.”

In a twist of family fate Hoskins and Master family records were united by the marriage in the late eighteenth century of Legh Master, a grandson of Streynsham Master, who had been a favourite nephew of Sir George Oxenden, and Katherine Hoskins, heiress of Barrow Green house in Oxted, Surrey, and relative of Sir Edmund Hoskins, serjeant-at-law. A substantial holding of the combined family records have been preserved at the Surrey History Centre.

Sources

Malden, H.E., History of the County of Surrey, vol. 4 (London, 1912)
Master, George Streynsham, Some notices of the family of Master, of ... Kent ... Lancashire and ... Surrey (London, 1874)
[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924021673466#page/n273/mode/2up - ‘John Hoskins’, in Humphrey William Woolrych, Lives of eminent serjeants-at-law of teh English bar (London, 1869), pp.242-248

Hassell, John, 'Carshalton Park the seat of George Taylor Esqr, J Hassell 1822' in pencil at foot of page, watercolour, held at Surrey History Centre archives

Potential sources

C 142/255/132 Hoskins, Charles: Surrey 40 Elizabeth
C 142/352/128 Hoskins, Thomas, knight: Surrey 13 James I.
C 5/81/81 Coventry v. Hoskins: Surrey 1689
C 9/36/16 Harby, bart. v. Harby and Hoskins, knt. 1664
C 9/31/70 Harby, v. Hoskins, knt. 1664
C 9/31/72 Harby, knt. v. Hoskins, knt. 1664
C 9/18/87 Hoskins v. Harby 1655
C 9/235/102 Harby, bart. v. Throgmorton 1664
C 9/422/162 Hoskins v. Wiseman, knt. 1669
?? C 10/89/82 Hoskins v. Hoskins, Wiseman, Whitaker: Surrey 1669
? C 10/151/69 Marshall v Coventry, Hoskins and Watere 1684
??? C 22/980/12 Hoskins v. Hoskins Between 1558 and 1714
PROB 20/1332 Hoskins, Edmund: Oxted, Suss., gent. 1673 (PROB 20 = Supplementary Wills Series I)
???PROB 18/8/72 Probate lawsuit Hoskins v Hoskyns, concerning the deceased Edmund Hoskins, [gent of Godstone, Surrey]. Allegation 1676
??? WARD 2/59A/228/49 Acquittance of Charles Hoskyns of London, merchant tailor, to Robert Gavell of Cobham, Surrey, gentleman, of the 65 deeds and evidences relating to the property sold to him by an indenture dated 25 May 1586. Witnessed, sealed and delivered in the presence of John Browne, Robert Banckworth senior and Charles Hoskins, son of Charles Hoskyns. 1586 June 18
WARD 7/54/130 Hoskins, Thomas, knight: Surrey 13 Jas I.
C 10/465/162 Jesson v. Harby, Erasmus, Hoskins, Throgmorton, Job, Royden and Barrett: Herts 1657