BERMONDSPIT HUNDRED 



HERRIARD 



Fitz Peter ' in the reign of Edward III, and Herbert 

 Fitz Peter' in 1526. 



It must have been very early in the thirteenth 

 century when John de Heryerd was lord of this land. 

 His son Richard de Heryerd died in 1221 leaving as 

 his heiress his sister Maud, 9 who married Richard de 

 Sifrewast. By this marriage the latter acquired 

 Herriard and held it for the service of a knight's fee 

 and a half of Herbert Fitz Peter in 1235. " Maud de 

 Heryerd and Richard Sifrewast had sons Nicholas and 

 Roger, and Richard Sifrewast, son of the latter, 

 married the mother of Fulk de Coudray. 11 To this 

 Fulk de Coudray (the stepson of her grandson Richard), 

 Maud de Heryerd, then a widow, and Nicholas her 

 son agreed to give in perpetuity the manor of Her- 

 riard in exchange for the manors of Sherborne in 

 Hampshire and Padworth in Berkshire." Fulk de 

 Coudray died in possession of the manor in 1251 

 leaving a son and heir, Peter de Coudray, aged four- 

 teen." Upon Sir Thomas de Coudray " the manor 

 settled in 1 297, he being succeeded by his son Sir 

 Thomas, who died in 1349.'* Sir Ful^j son of tne 

 latter, died childless and was 

 succeeded by his cousin, Sir 

 Henry 16 (holding in 1354), 

 who in turn dying without 

 issue, was succeeded by his 

 nephew Edward Coudray in 

 1365." The manor then 

 passed from father to son, 

 Peter, Edward, and again Peter 

 de Coudray, holding during 

 the fifteenth century. 19 On 

 the death of the last Peter 

 the male line of the family 



ended. He predeceased his wife, Dorothy Coudray, 

 who died in 1528 without male issue. Her 

 heiresses were her three daughters, Joan, Elizabeth, 

 and Margery. 19 Of these Joan became wife of 

 Peter Kydwelly," and Margery wife of William 

 Riche," while Elizabeth married Richard Paulet." 

 Joan and Margery and their husbands granted their 

 thirds of the manor to Elizabeth and Richard Paulet, 

 who thus became possessed of the whole." Their 

 son, John Paulet, died in September, 1579, during 

 the lifetime of his mother, who had by that time 

 married her third husband George Puttenham" ; 



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 D D D 



COUDRAY. Sakle tin 

 billets or. 



PAULET. Sable thru 

 fwords set pilevaiie with 

 their hilts or. 



he left a son, Richard Paulet, who held Herriard 

 manor some few years later. 15 With the death of 

 this son, Sir Richard Paulet, Herriard passed from 

 the male line of the family, 

 and was settled upon his 

 daughter Lucy, wife of Sir 

 Thomas Jervoise, who followed 

 Sir Richard in the reign of 

 James I. Sir Thomas Jervoise 

 received his knighthood from 

 James I. He represented 

 Whitchurch (Hants) in the 

 Short and Long Parliaments 

 of Charles I, and was a staunch 

 supporter of the Parliament 

 during the Civil War." The 

 family of Jervoise held in suc- 

 cession in the male line as follows : three lords of the 

 manor of the name of Thomas Jervoise, the son, 

 grandson, and great-grandson of the husband of Lucy 

 Paulet, during the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries. The 

 first of these followed in his 

 father's footsteps in his ad- 

 herence to the Parliament, 

 and he and Captain John 

 Jephson were described by 

 Clarendon as ' the two eldest 

 sons of two of the greatest 

 rebells.' Tristram Huddle- 

 stone Jervoise held in 1776, 

 and George Purefoy Jervoise 

 in 1792. Here the male 

 line terminated. From Mary 



Purefoy Ellis Jervoise, sister of the last male heir, 

 the manor passed to her son Francis Jervoise Ellis 

 Jervoise, who held it in 1 849. From his son Francis 

 Michael Ellis Jervoise the manor passed to his son 

 and heir, Francis Henry Tristram Jervoise, the 

 present owner." 



The present house was built in 1704, and is a 

 large brick building covered with plaster, containing 

 some good eighteenth-century panelling, and later work 

 of the Adams period ; there is also a little early 

 seventeenth-century panelling from a former house. 

 There is a good deal of excellent seventeenth and 

 eighteenth-century furniture, some inlaid cabinets 



JBRVOISK. Sable A 

 cheveron between three 

 eaglet close argent. 



I Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill, No. 67. 



8 Ibid. 20 Hen. VIII (Ser. 2), vol. 48, 

 No. 168. 



9 From copies of Ct. R. lent by Mr. 

 F. H. T. Jervoise. Entries upon the 

 Pipe R. concerning the de Heryerds occur 

 as follows ' Henricus de Heriet reddit 

 compotum de xl solidis ' (Pipe R. 13 

 Hen. II [Pipe R. Soc.],i87),and Henricus 

 de Heriet reddit compotum de xx solidis,' 

 (Pipe R. 14 Hen. II [Pipe R. Soc.], 179). 



10 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 20 Hen. III. 

 The usual quarrel occurred between the 

 underlord and his intermediate lord ; 

 Richard de Sifrewast complaining that 

 William de St. John had demanded service 

 from him which Fitz Peter should have 

 rendered. The Sifrewasts were demesne 

 lords of Herriard and overlords of Ellis- 

 field, q.v. 



II From copies of the Ct. R. lent by 

 Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise. 



13 Ibid. ; Maud de Heryerd died in 

 124.5. A" inquisition which was proba- 

 bly taken on her death shows that Richard 



son of Robert Sifrewast was her heir. 

 Robert probably represents Roger. 



18 Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. Ill (42-2). The 

 grant made by ' the dame Maud de Her- 

 yerd ' to Fulk de Coudray was confirmed 

 by Reginald son of Peter, of whom Fulk 

 held Hcrriard (ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. 

 Jervoise). The grant was also confirmed 

 by Richard de Sifrewast grandson of Maud 

 de Heryerd ; ibid. To a Lewis de Heryerd 

 and Matilda his wife, Peter de Coudray, 

 at the end of the reign of Henry III, 

 granted one virgate and a half of land 

 and some woodland in Herriard. From 

 this land a rent was due to the prior of 

 Hamele (Hamble) under a grant of Richard 

 de Heryerd (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 56 

 Hen. III). 



14 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 26 Edw. I. 



15 Ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise. 

 The manor was alienated before 1 346 to 

 Sir Robert Achard and Agnes his wife, for 

 term of their lives with reversion to Sir 

 Thomas de Coudray(Fcet of F. Hants,East. 

 22 Edw. Ill 5 De Banco R. 354, m. 321). 



367 



In 1346 Robert Achard held a knight's 

 fee in Herriard (Feud. Aids, ii, 330). 



18 Of whom mention occurs in Assize 

 R. No. 1476, m. 4. 



W Ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise. 



" Ibid. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Hen. VIII (Ser. 

 2), vol. 48, No. 1 68. 



20 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 32 Hen. VIII. 



81 Ibid. East. 34 Hen. VIII. Ibid. 



* Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 32 

 Hen. VIII ; ibid. East. 34 Hen. VIII. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Eliz. pt. 2 (Ser. 

 2), No. 79. Her second husband was 

 William, Lord Windsor. Feet of F. 

 Hants, Hast, i Mary. 



84 Recov. R. Hil. 29 Eliz. rot. 36 ; 

 Feet, of F. Hants, Hil. 30 Eliz. 



W. and L. Inq. 21 Jas. I, bdle. 38, 

 1993 ; Ancestor, No. 3, pp. 2, 3. 



W Ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 16 Jas. I ; 

 ibid. East. 13 Chas. I ; ibid. Trin. 22 

 Chas. I ; Recov. R. Hil. 17 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 245 ; Ancestor, No. 3, p. 5. 



