ONGAR HUNDRED 



CHIGWELL 



The manor of GRANGE, which gave its name to 

 Grange Hill, was originally part of Chigwell Hall (see 

 above). In 1258 William de Goldingham and Aline 

 his wife confirmed to Robert, Abbot of Tilty, gifts to 

 the abbey of 3 messuages and 2344 acres of land in 

 Chigwell. '5 The original donors were Herbert the 

 chaplain, John Fitz Gilbert, Margery de Chigwell, 

 and John the Miller and Agnes his wife, all of whom 

 were evidently tenants of Chigwell Hall. The land so 

 granted became a grange of Tilty Abbey and remained 

 in the possession of the abbey until the Dissolution.'* 

 In 1536 William Baker of Epping, carpenter, rendered 

 his first account to the king as lessee of Chigwell Grange. 

 He held the manor on a 3 1 -year lease from Michaelmas 

 1532, at an annual rent of ^^3 10/." In 1538 the 

 manor was bought from the Crown by Thomas 

 Addington of London, skinner, for j^6o.>8 Addington 

 died in 1543 and was succeeded by his son Thomas." 

 The younger Thomas conveyed the manor to James 

 Altham of London, clothworker, at a date not exactly 

 known, and in 1555 Altham granted it to Anthony 

 Browne of South Weald.^" In 1555 the manor was 

 said to consist of 4 messuages, 60 acres of land, 200 

 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and 10 acres of 

 wood: it would thus appear to have been reduced by 

 about 100 acres since the 13th century. Later in 1555 

 Browne sold 14J acres of land in Chigwell, of which 

 1 1 J acres were part of the manor of Grange, to John 

 Stonarde and others. This small holding later became 

 the endowment of a road charity founded by Joan 

 Sympson.2' 



In 1558 Browne endowed his newly founded gram- 

 mar school at Brentwood with this manor and other 

 property, confirming the grants by his will of 1565.^^ 

 The grammar school remained owners of this estate 

 until about 1900, since when various sales have taken 

 place, mostly for building. In 1839 the property con- 

 sisted of some 140 acres.^3 Grange farm-house was 

 about 300 yds. east of the junction between Hainault 

 Road and Manor Road.^'* 



The manor of KING'S PLACE alias LANG- 

 FORDS alias POTELLS, at Buckhurst Hill, prob- 

 ably originated in the purchase by Edward III (through 

 his son John of Gaunt) in 1360 of a messuage and 92 

 acres of land from Matthew de Torkeseye.^5 In 1372 

 Alexander de Goldingham, lord of Chigwell Hall, 

 released to the king all his rights in this property 'now 

 commonly called the Neweloggelands in Chigwell'.^' 

 From this release it is clear that Matthew de Torkeseye 

 had held the estate as a tenant of the manor of Chigwell 

 Hall. In 1378 Alan de Buxhull was granted custody 

 of the king's new lodge in Waltham Forest, free of rent 

 on condition that he kept the houses in repair.^' In 

 1476 Edward IV enlarged the estate by the purchase 



of a neighbouring estate from Robert Langford and 

 others.28 Soon after this Edward IV granted the custody 

 of the whole property for hfe to Sir John Risley and in 

 1485 Henry VII confirmed the grant.^' Risley ap- 

 pears to have later received a grant of the estate in tail 

 male, but he died without a male heir and in 1513 

 King's Place was granted in tail male to William 

 Compton.30 Compton was later knighted and died in 

 1528, leaving a son and heir Peter, who died in 1539." 

 Peter's son Henry was created Baron Compton in 1572 

 and died in 1589.3^ WiUiam, 2nd Baron Compton, 

 negotiated with the queen in 1596 for the reversion of 

 the manor of King's Place (in default of the issue of the 

 1st baron), but nothing appears to have come of this.^J 

 Early in 1597 the queen granted the reversion to 

 Thomas Spencer and Robert Atkinson. J-t During the 

 1 6th century the estate was leased to at least two dif- 

 ferent tenants. In his will dated 1 541 William Rolte, 

 tenant of Chigwell Hall, mentioned his lease of King's 

 Place.35 In 1576 Richard Hayle left his lease of the 

 property to his wife Agnes.'* 



Although there was no failure of the heirs male of 

 the I St Baron Compton King's Place seems to have 

 passed out of the hands of the 2nd baron soon after 

 1597. In 161 2 Thomas Covell described himself in 

 his will as of King's Place. 3' His daughter Elizabeth 

 had married Roger Forster in 1610.38 She died in or 

 before 1622, when Forster married Mary, eldest 

 daughter of John Penington.^' In 1624 King's Place 

 was settled on Forster and Mary.*" Forster died in 

 1633 and Mary married Michael Ernie, who died in 

 1645.'" Mary finally married Sir Thomas Perient and 

 lived at King's Place until her death.''^ 



The estate was, however, settled in 1657 on her 

 daughter Mary Ernie on the marriage of the latter 

 to Henry Goodricke of Grays Inn.''^ Mary and Henry 

 are said to have sold it a year later to William Livesaye,+* 

 whose son and namesake later sold it to Elizabeth 

 Colwall, widow, with successive remainders to her 

 sons John and Arnold. John Colvvall died without 

 issue before 1680, when his mother settled King's 

 Place upon Arnold Colwall-''^ By 1705 the manor had 

 passed to Arnold's son, Daniel Colwall of the Friary, 

 Guildford (Surr.)."** Arnold's widow Susanna married 

 Foot Onslow and appears to have had some interest in 

 King's Place in 1705 and 1708.''' 



In 1716 Thomas Gibson and John Jacob, trustees 

 under Daniel Colwall's will, sold the property to 

 Percival Chandler, who lived at the farm until about 

 I730.'t8 He is said to have sold King's Place in 1 741 

 to Oliver Marton, who died in 1744.'" Marton was 

 succeeded by his son Edward, who died in 1758, 

 leaving the property to his brother the Revd. Oliver 

 Marton. 50 A year later Oliver sold King's Place to 



" Feet of F, Essex, i, 225. 



" In 1 29 1 it was valued at ^4. lis. ^d.: 

 Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 25*. 



" E.R. xix, I. 



'8 C142/70/32. '0 Ibid. 



" Cal. Pat. 1554-5, 234., 255. Later in 

 1555 Anthony Browne was granted 

 custody of the person and lands of Ralph 

 Addington, son of the younger Thomas, 

 who was a congenital idiot: ibid. 73. 



" Cal. Pat. 1554.-5, 12; E.R. xix, i. 

 See above, p. 19; Charities. 



^2 P.C.C. 20 Stonarde. 



" E.R.O., D/CT 78. 



2* O.S. 6 in. Map (ist edn.), sheet Ixvi. 



" Feet of F. Essex, iii, 128; E.A.T. 



N.S. X, 313-14. 



^'£40/11027; Cal. Close, 1369-74, 

 470. " Cal. Pat. 1377-81, 199. 



28 E.A.T. M.S. X, 314. The Langfords 

 estate can probably be identified with 

 Potells, which got its name from the 

 family of Richard Potel (1285): P.N. 

 Essex, 54. 



2« Cal. Pat. 1485-94, 103. 



30 L. & P. Hen. Fill, i, p. 493. 



3' C142/47/58; Complete Peerage, iii, 



39°- 



32 Complete Peerage, 111, 390. 



" Cal. S.P. Dom. 1595-7, 308; F.C.H. 

 fVarivs. V, 65. 



3« Morant, Essex, l, 170. 



35 P.C.C. 9 Alenger. 



36 P.C.C. 6 Carew. 



29 



37 P.C.C. 2 Capell. 



38 Par. Reg. 35 Ibid, 

 ■f E.R.O., D/DBT271. 



*■ Mar. Lie, Bp. of Loniion (Harl. Soc. 

 xxvi), 224. 



■•2 Par. Reg. Holy Trin. Minories, 

 London. 



« E.R.O., D/DACT85, 86. 



*♦ Lysons, En-virons of London (18 10), i, 

 645. 



♦ 5 Guildford Museum, Onslow Deeds 

 865, 872-3. ♦<* Ibid. 



♦' Ibid., CP25(2)/923 East 7 Anne. 



*8 Lysons, Environs of London (18 to), i, 

 645;E.R.O., D/P 166/8/1. 



♦9 Lysons,'ibid. 



50 Burke's L.G. (15th edn.), p. 1544. 



