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In 1330 Robert Parning was appointed Serjeant at Law.
Patent Rolls. 22nd February 1331. Croydon. The said Thomas [de Burgh] has letters nominating Hugh de Burgh, clerk, and Robert Parnyng his attorneys in England for the same period.
Patent Rolls. 12th April 1331. Eltham. Anthony de Lucy, going to Ireland on the king's service, has letters nominating Robert Parnyng and Thomas de Hardegill the elder, his attorneys in England for three years. Witness; John de Eltham.
Before 24th June 1333 Robert Parning was appointed King's Serjeant.
Patent Rolls. 24th June 1333. Pardon to Robert Parnyng, king's serjeant, for acquiring in fee from John Gernoun and Margaret his wife two parts of the manor of Staynton, co. Cumberland, held in chief, and the reversion of the third part on the death of Dionisia late the wife of John de Wyggeton who holds it as dower of the inheritance of the said Margaret, without licence, and licence for him to retain the same. By K.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. In the year of our Lord 1340, and the fifteenth year of his reign over England, the king celebrated Christmas at Guildford, and afterward held a tournament at Reading. Again, on the feast of the Purification1 [2nd Feb], at Langley of the Boys [King's Langley Priory], on account of the honour of the nobles from Gascony whom he there knighted, he held solemn tournaments. Also in this year, he appointed Sir Robert de Bourchier as Chancellor of England, and Sir Robert de Sadyngton and Sir Robert de Parnynk successively to the office of Treasurer.
Anno Domini MCCCXLJ, regni vero sui Anglie quintodecimo, rex celebravit Christi Natale apud Guldeford, et postea apud Reding hastiludiavit. Iterum in festo Purificacionis, apud Langeley puerorum, propter honourem nobilium de Vasconia quos ibidem cinxit ad ordinem militarem, habuit solempnia hastiludia. Item, hoc anno fecit Robertum de Boursier, militem, cancellarium Anglie, et Robertum de Sadyntone et Robertum de Parnynk, milites, ad officium tesaurarie sucessive ordinavit.
Note 1. Stow Annales 371.
Sir Robert Bourchier was chief justice of the King's Bench in Ireland in 1334. He fought at Cadzand in 1337, and at Crécy in 1346. He was chancellor from the 14th December 1340 to the 27th October 1341. He was summoned to parliament in 1342, and died of the plague in 1349. Robert Parning was a sergeant-at-law only at the beginning of Edward's reign, but in 1340 was rapidly promoted to be justice of the Common Pleas, 23rd May; chief justice of the King's Bench, 24th July; and treasurer, 15th December. On Bourchier's resignation he became chancellor, 27th October 1341; and died 26th August 1343. Robert Sadington was chief baron of the Exchequer in 1337, and treasurer for a brief period, 2nd May to 21st June 1340. He became chancellor in 1343, on the death of Parning, resigned in 1345, and died in 1350. Foss, Judges, 3.
On 23rd May 1340 Robert Parning was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 24th July 1340 Robert Parning was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 15th December 1340 Robert Parning was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 26th August 1343 Robert Parning died.