A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



Robert Jones of Babraham (Cambs.).s' Jones died in 

 1774, leaving an only daughter Anne who married 

 General J. W. Adeane, who inherited all Jones's 

 property." The general died in 1782 and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Robert Jones Adeane. 53 On Robert's 

 death in 1 8 10 King's Place passed to Henry J. Adeane, 

 who died in 1847. '« In 1839 the property consisted 

 of 1 56 acres.55 In 1853 the executors of H. J. Adeane 

 sold it to the National Freehold Land Society who 

 shortly after broke it up for building development.'* 

 The name of this ancient manor is retained in King's 

 Place and King's Avenue, Buckhurst Hill. 



The manor of L UXBORO UGH probably took its 

 name from the family of Loughteborough which lived 

 in Chigwell in the 14th century. William de Loughte- 

 borough was named in a Forest Roll in 1324 and in 

 1 3 16 Henry Doule and Eve his wife quitclaimed to 

 William de Loughteborough a messuage and 132 acres 

 in Chigwell.57 Robert de Loughteborough and 

 Margaret his wife were assessed to the subsidy of 

 1390.58 In 1559 Francis Saunders and Margaret 

 Valentyne, widow, sold the manor of 'Loughbroughes' 

 to John Stoner, who built himself a house there.s' 

 Stoner died in 1 579, leaving the manor and the house 

 to his wife Anne with reversion to his only daughter 

 Susan, wife of Sir Robert Wroth, lord of Chigwell Hall 

 (see above).*" In 1580 Anne conveyed her interest to 

 Robert and Susan,*' and Luxborough passed along 

 with Chigwell Hall until 1642, when the estates of 

 John Wroth were divided. Luxborough then passed 

 to John, elder son of Henry Wroth and nephew of the 

 above John Wroth, by virtue of a settlement made in 

 1640 on the marriage of John the nephew with Anne 

 Gallard, widow.*^ Anne's will, dated 1675, was cited 

 in legal proceedings in i676.*3 She left Luxborough 

 for life to her son by her first marriage, John Gallard, 

 with successive remainders to her son John Wroth for 

 life and her grandson John Wroth for ever.** Her 

 husband John Wroth had died in i662.*5 John Wroth 

 her son died in 1708.** In 17 16 her grandson John 

 Wroth sold Luxborough, then heavily mortgaged, to 

 Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company.*' 

 After the failure of the company in 1720 Knight's 

 Estates, with those of the governors and directors, were 

 vested in trustees and in 1724 the manor of Lux- 

 borough was bought from these by Sir Joseph Eyles, 

 Kt.** Eyles died in 1740 and in 1743 his trustees con- 

 tracted to sell the property to Knight, who had 

 returned from abroad on receiving a royal pardon for 

 his activities in the South Sea Company.*' Knight 

 died in 1744, before the completion of the sale. Before 

 his death he had settled his estates on his son, Robert 



Knight later created Baron Luxborough, and the 

 manor passed to the son on completion of the sale.'" 

 In 1746 Eyies's trustees also sold Buckhurst to Lord 

 Luxborough, and the two manors subsequently 

 descended together, becoming part of the Chigwell 

 Hall estate in 1799.'' 



The 16th-century manor house at Luxborough built 

 by John Stoner was rebuilt, probably in 1716—20, by 

 Robert Knight.'^ Prints of 1787 and 1788 show 

 respectively the south and east fronts of the house.'' 

 It was of two stories and appears to have been of brick 

 with stone or plaster dressings. To the north and east 

 were lower two-story ranges of stables and outbuildings. 

 The south or garden front had a central doorway with 

 a small classical porch. The entrance front on the east 

 side was more impressive. Between two projecting 

 wings was a recessed portico of five bays. Corinthian 

 columns the full height of the building supported an 

 entablature and pediment. Flanking this the parapet 

 was balustraded. The house was demolished about 

 1 800 by James Hatch.'* 



The small manor of STOCKTONS alias SER- 

 JEANTS lay in Gravel Lane. John Stokton was 

 mentioned in the Woolston court rolls in I462.'5 He 

 was later knighted and became Lord Mayor of London 

 in 1470.'* He died about 1473, leaving his Chigwell 

 property to his younger son William, who died in 

 1483." In 1 543 Edward Brockett conveyed Stocktons 

 to John Potter.'* Potter died about 1 546, leaving all 

 his lands in Chigwell to his son Thomas, who jointly 

 with his wife Margaret conveyed Stocktons in 1567 to 

 John Watson and Elizabeth his wife.'" In 1 1;90 Henry 

 Fuller of North Weald Bassett left Serjeants to his son 

 Richard.*" Henry Fuller of Serjeants was mentioned 

 several times in the Woolston court rolls between 16 14 

 and 1 62 1 *' and the property seems to have remained in 

 the Fuller family until the end of the 17th century. 

 About 1700 John Fuller sold it to Edward Green who 

 died in 1707, leaving his 'farm in Gravel Lane' to his 

 son John.*^ John Green died soon after, leaving it to 

 his mother Ann Green.*' In 1 709 she left her freehold 

 estate called Serjeants to her son Charles Green.** By 

 1763 it had passed into the hands of the Harveys, 

 owners of the manor of Barringtons: in that year it was 

 let by Emma Harvey, as guardian of her son William 

 Harvey. *5 The lease described the property as fields, 

 barns, &c., containing 21 acres. After the i6th century 

 the farm was never termed a manor. In 1687 it was 

 even questioned whether it was a freehold.** 



In 1066 the manor of WOOLSTON was held by 

 Earl Harold. It was then taken by King William and 

 in 1086 was held by him in demesne.*' During the 



5» Lysons, ibid. '^ Ibid. 



" Burke's L.G. (15th edn.), p. 1 1. 



5* Ibid. 



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



5' E.R.O., D/P 166/11/17-20. 



5' E32/16; Feet of F. Essex, ii, 165. 



5' E179/147/60. 



5' CP25(2)/i26/i6o7; for the house see 

 below. 



'» P.C.C. 50 Arundell. 



" E.R. xiv, 2. 



*= £.y*.r.N.8.viii, 347-8. 



«> C10/181. 



♦* Ibid. '5 Ibid. 



«' E.A.T.-n.i.v'm, 181. 



«' E.R.O., D/DDa T37. For the 

 Knights see Complete Peerage., iii, 1 10. 



'* Ibid. For Eyles see Burke's Extinct 

 and Dormant Baronetcies, 190. He was 

 Sheriff of London 1726. His brother Sir 



John Eyles, Bt., was a governor of the 

 South Sea Co. Sir Joseph bought Buck- 

 hurst (see above) in 1735. 



<"> E.R.O., D/DDa T37. 



'» E.R.O., D/DDa T37. 



'^ See Buckhurst. 



'^ Hist, Essex by Gent, iv, II. 



'3 E.R.O., Prints, Chigwell. They are 

 from Harrison's Picturesque Views of the 

 Principal Seats (c. 1790) which states, 

 probably in error, that Lord Luxborough 

 built the house. And see plate facing p. 30. 



'* Ogborne, Hist. Essex, 245-6. The 

 house is shown on the O.S. i in. Map (ist 

 edn.) for which surveys were made about 

 1797. Hatch died in 1806, having ac- 

 quired the house in 1799. 



'5 E.R.O., T/P 17. No mention has 

 been found of tenants in Chigwell named 

 Serjeant from whom the alternative name 



may have come. A Roger le Serjaunt is 

 thought to have given his name to 

 Sergeants' Green in Waltham Holy Cross, 

 which is not far from Chigwell: P.N. 

 Essex (E.P.N.S.), 32. 

 '^ Strype, Sto%u's Survey of London, i, 



" P.C.C. 9 Wattys; E.R.O., T/P 17. 

 '8 CP25(2)/i3/73. 



'9 Archd. Essex 55 Bastwyck; CP25(2)/ 

 127/1631. 

 80 P.C.C. 76 Nevell. 

 8' E.R.O., D/DEs M99-100. 



82 P.C.C. 57 Lane. 



83 E.R.O., D/DEs M104. 

 8* Archd. Essex 51 Luck. 



85 Nat. Libr. of Wales : MSS. of Andrew 

 Lloyd. 

 8' C8/394/25. 

 87 F.C.H. Essex, i, 432A. 



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