Your group $H_n$ is (I believe) called the wicket group by Brendle and Hatcher in their paper Configuration spaces of rings and wickets. They provide a presentation in Proposition 3.6. They also provide two references that appear closely related; these are Hilden's 1975 paper and Tawn's 2008 paper.
Sam Nead
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