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de Dauneey. Walter de Hereford was Sherifif of the County in 1155, and Thomas 

 de Hereford was Sheriff in 1225. Another Sir Henry was Knight of the Shire in 

 1352. After the purchase of the Manor by Henry de Hereford it was holden of 

 the Crown in capite by presenting the King with a pair of gold spurs when he 

 should ride over Mordiford Bridge, instead of by soccage tenure as theretofore it 

 had been. Nicolas de Hereford, bom in 1330, was a prominent supporter of 

 Wickliff, and assisted in the first translation of the Bible into the English tongue, 

 but eventually became a member of a Carthusian Monastery at Coventry, where 

 he died. Roger Hereford, who died in 1561, had increased his paternal inherit- 

 ance from 400 acres to 1,300 acres, as appears by the inquisition taken in the 

 fourth year of Elizabeth, after his decease, by the suppression of the Chantries of 

 Mordiford and at Newton, and the Chantry of Saint George in the Cathedral 

 Church of Hereford. His descendant, Eoger Hereford, lield possession during 

 the Civil Wars, siding with the Parliament. His father paid a fine of £10 to 

 escape knighthood at the Coronation of Charles I. Francis Hereford, son of 

 Roger Hereford, a merchant of Dunkirk, left several children. Roger Hereford, 

 a younger son, became naturalized in the Netherlands. These gentlemen are 

 credited with having procured in Flanders, for Lord Scudamore, the cattle from 

 which the celebrated herds of the county are descended. John Hereford was 

 Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1700, and died during his year of office. His son, 

 Roger Hereford, married Frances, granddaughter of Sir Edward Hopton, Knight, 

 of Canon Frome, and was succeeded by his eldest son James, who, when Sheriff of 

 Herefordshire, in 1761, presenting an address from his county on the Accession of 

 George III., received the honour of knighthood, and dying without issue, in 1786, 

 devised his estates to the eldest son of his eldest sister — James Caldecott, of 

 Holmer House, and to his heirs male, requiring them to assume and use the name 

 and arms of Hereford. The Manor and estates have been holden by this family 

 for more than 500 years, and in addition to many Sheriffs and several Knights of 

 of the Shire, it includes two names of more than local reputation. Roger de 

 Hereford, "an excellent astronomer," was "one of the prime promoters of 

 learning in the University of Cambridge, in 1170," and Nicolas de Hereford, the 

 coadjutor of Wickliff. 



The bridge over the Lugg at Mordiford village must have existed in the 

 14th century, although the precise date of its erection is unknown, for in the year 

 1515, the Bishop of Hereford granted his license to Thomas Parke, of Mordiford, 

 to collect alms towards the repairs of the bridge. At a later period of the same 

 reign, Leland states: — "There were seven bridges over Lug, one of stone, the 

 biggest of all was a littell above the confluence of Wye and Lug at Mordiford." 

 The present bridge, with its causeway, is 164 yards in length, the river being 

 crossed by two stone arches. 



The advowson of Mordiford Rectory was given to the Abbey of Gloucester 

 and to its Priory of St. Guthlac, by Henry de Hereford ; and, on the supression of 

 religious houses was granted to John ap Rice, a member of the Royal Household. 

 At the close of the 17th century it was purchased by Paul Foley, Esq., M.P., 

 with whose successors, at Stoke Edith, the patronage has since remained. 



