ONGAR HUNDRED 



LAMBOURNE 



implies that Robert was the predecessor of the last- 

 named William. That the William Curzon who died 

 in 1485 was a young man and not identical with the 

 William Curzon of 1456-60 is also suggested by the 

 fact that he left an infant daughter, Mary, as his heir." 

 Mary apparently married a member of the Tey family, 

 of Ardleigh, probably Sir Thomas Tey (d. 1 540).^° 

 Sir Thomas made a conveyance of the manor in 1 520.^' 

 Lambourne was apparently not among his possessions 

 at his death. By 1 547 it had passed to Robert Barfoot, 

 who died in that year.^^ 



Robert's successor was his son Thomas. The manor 

 descended in the Barfoot family until 1733, when John 

 Barfoot, probably great-great-grandson of Thomas, sold 

 it to Sir John Fortescue-Aland.^3 Sir John was a dis- 

 tinguished lawyer and for many years a judge. In 1 746 

 he became Baron Fortescue of Credan.^'^ He died in 

 the same year and was succeeded by his son Dormer, 

 2nd Baron Fortescue.^s The latter died childless in 

 1780. He left his Essex property to his cousin Mary, 

 widow of Richard Barford, D.D., of Titchmarsh 

 (Northants.).26 



In 1782 Mary Barford sold Lambourne to the Revd. 

 Edward Lockwood, Rector of St. Peter's, Northamp- 

 ton.^' He died in 1802 and the manor of Lambourne 

 passed to his second son Edward Lockwood, who 

 assumed the additional surname of Percival.^* Edward 

 Lockwood Percival died in 1 804, leaving a son and heir 

 with the same names.^' 



Edward Lockwood Percival the younger died in 

 1 842 and was succeeded by his cousin William J. Lock- 

 wood, owner of Dews Hall (see below). 3° In 1841 

 Lambourne Hall farm consisted of 208 acres.^' It was 

 occupied by Charles Blewett. The manor subsequently 

 descended to Lt.-Gen. William M. Wood, son of W. J. 

 Lockwood who had assumed the surname of Wood in 

 1 8 3 8 on inheriting the property of an uncle.^^ Lt.-Gen. 

 Wood died in 1883 and was succeeded by his son 

 Amelius R. M. Lockwood, who had reassumed the 

 original family name in i876.-'3 The latter was Con- 

 servative M.P. for Epping for many years and achieved 

 distinction as chairman of the kitchen committee of the 

 House of Commons. He became ist Baron Lambourne 

 in 1917 and Lord-Lieutenant of Essex in 1919. He 

 died in 1928.34 



The Lockwood estate in Lambourne was latterly 

 known as that of Bishops Hall, from the family seat. In 

 addition to the manors of Lambourne and Bishops Hall 

 (see below) it included those of St. John's and Dews 

 Hall (see below). The estate was put up for sale in 

 1929. It then consisted of 1,61 5 acres. Some 500 acres 

 were in hand, including Lambourne Hall farm, whose 

 extent was 371 acres. 35 



Lambourne Hall is said to have been built by Thomas 

 Barfoot in 1571.36 This date and the initials t.b. are 

 carved on oak panelling formerly in the house and now 

 in the Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.3' The central 

 hall and the Oak Room adjoining it to the east are part 

 of the original timber-framed building. Oak paneUing 

 now at the west end of the hall was originally incor- 

 porated in a partition across it and may represent the 

 16th-century screens. The Oak Room has original 

 finely moulded ceiling beams, a fire-place with a four- 

 centred arch, and three doorways with four-centred 

 heads. The house was reroofed and much altered in the 

 1 8th century. In 1937 a new east wing was built, the 

 dated weathercock above it being brought from else- 

 where.38 PaneUing in the dining-room and the over- 

 mantel in the Oak Room came from Marks Hall, near 

 Coggeshall, which was demolished about 1950.39 



The manor of LAMBOURNE-AND-ABRIDGE, 

 later known as ST. JOHNS, originated in an estate in 

 the north and west of the parish acquired by the Knights 

 Hospitallers from various donors in the 13th century 

 and perhaps earlier.'") The estate remained in the hands 

 of the Hospitallers until the Dissolution. In 155311 was 

 granted, as the 'manors' of Lambourne and Abridge, to 

 Richard Morgan and Thomas Carpenter.*' Soon after 

 this it was acquired by Robert Taverner, who died 

 holding it in 1556.*^ Thomas Taverner his son and 

 heir was an infant and became a royal ward. In 1557 

 the manor was valued at ^^23 15/., and Elizabeth 

 Taverner, widow of Robert, was granted dower in it.*' 



Thomas Taverner sold the manor in 1 597-8 to Sir 

 Robert Wroth, Kt.** Sir Robert died in 1606 and was 

 succeeded by his eldest son, another Sir Robert.*' In 

 1608 the manor was said to include 4 messuages, 2 gar- 

 dens, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres 

 of pasture, 80 acres of wood, and 8/. rent.** Sir Robert 

 Wroth the younger died in 1614.*' James, infant son 

 of Sir Robert, died two years later and was succeeded 

 by John Wroth his uncle.** John Wroth still held the 

 manor in 162 1 .*' He apparently sold it before Septem- 

 ber 1630, when Richard Peacock received the royal 

 confirmation of all rights and privileges connected with 

 the manor. 50 Peacock died in 1634, leaving the manor 

 to his son Edward. si In 1641 Edward Peacock con- 

 veyed it to John Charles. 52 This was probably a lease, 

 for in 1645 Charles was occupying St. John's Wood, 

 which was part of the manor.53 In 1647 Charles 

 Peacock, John Charles, and others conveyed the manor 

 to George Bagstar.s* In 1648 Bagstar sold St. John's 

 farm, which formed the southern portion of the manor, 

 to William Browne the younger of Abridge. 5' The 

 northern portion, together with the manorial rights, did 

 not go to Browne but was sold by Bagstar in 1649 to 



'' It is perhaps significant that William 

 Curzon died on the day of the battle of 

 Bosworth. 



*" W. A. Coppinger, Manors of Suffolk, 

 iii, II i Morant, Essex, \, 432; Visits, of 

 Essex (Harl. Soc), 207. 



" CP25(2)/i 1/54 East. i2Hen. Vni. 



" C142/84/55. He was a member of 

 the Mercers' Co. 



" E.R.O.,D/DLoT56. For the Barfoot 

 pedigree see Morant, Essex, i, 172, and 

 E.R.O., T/G 30/5. 



^ Complete Peerage, v, 562, 



" Ibid. 563. 



" E.R.O., D/DLo T2. 



" Ibid. T56; T. Wright, Hist. Essex, ii, 



397- 

 i* Burke, Commoners (1833-8), iv, 82. 



29 Ibid.;E.R.O., D/DL0T54. 



30 E.R.O., D/DLo E2. 

 3> E.R.O., D/CT 202. 



32 E.R. xxxviii, 34; Burke, Land. Gent. 

 (1906), ii, 1035. 



33 J. Grant, Essex Historical, Bio- 

 graphical and Pictorial, Lockwood. 



3* E.R. xxxviii, 34—36. 



35 E.R.O. Sale Cat. A. 1046. 



36 T. Wright, Hist. Essex, ii, 396. 



37 Inf. from Mrs. S. Padfield, present 

 occupier, and from Mr. R. B. Pugh. 



38 Ibid. 



39 Ibid.; For a photo, of Lambourne 

 Hall, 1929, see E.R.O., Sale Cat. 1046. 

 For the demolition of Marks Hall see 

 E.R. lix, 164. 



40 Morant, Essex, i, 173; Feet of F. 



77 



Essex, i, 21$; P.N. Essex (E.P.N.S.), 60. 



■•' Cal. Pat. 1550-3, 309. 



« C142/109/54. 



" Cal. Pat. 1555-7,466. 



■M CP25(2)/i38/i750. FortheWroths 

 see also Loughton. 



" C142/294/87. 



••' CP43/103 rot. 34. 



47 See Manor of Loughton, in that 

 parish. -** Ibid. 



49 CP25(2)/296 East. 19 Jas. I. 



50 E.R.O., D/DLo Ml (copy from 

 Forest Roll). " C142/590/15. 



52 CP25(2)/4i8 Trin. 17 Chas. I. 



53 Hist. MSS. Com. 6M Rep. App. 61*. 

 5* CP25(2)/4I9 East. 23 Chas. I5 



E.R.O., D/DLo Ti. 

 55 E.R.O., D/DLo T56. 



