ONGAR HUNDRED 



LAMBOURNE 



from the family of John Patche of Lambourne, a wood- 

 ward of the bailiwick of Ongar in Waltham forest in 

 1498.50 The estate or at least the farm-house was still 

 known as Hunts as late as 1714.S' 



In 1525 Hunts was held along with Arneways (see 

 above) by Sir William Fitzwilliam.s^ It passed with 

 Arneways to Robert Taverner, who was holding it in 

 1556.53 In 1716 'a parcel of pasture or marsh known 

 as Patch Park', comprising about 60 acres, belonged to 

 Thomas Luther, lord of Suttons in Stapleford Tawney 

 (q.v.) and the farm subsequently descended along with 

 Suttons.S't After Pryors (see below) had been added to 

 the Suttons estate Patch Park and Pryors were worked 

 as a single farm. 



The present farm-house of Patch Park was originally 

 timber-framed and may be of 17th-century date or 

 earlier. It probably consisted of a central block with 

 cross-wings projecting to the south and oversailing at 

 first floor level. The house has been much altered, par- 

 ticularly in the mid-igth century when most of the 

 lower story was faced with gault brick. 



The manor of PRT'ORS took its name from the 

 priory of Dunmow, to which it belonged in the Middle 

 Ages. In 1273 Roger Bishop and Alice his wife and 

 Geoffrey Sleybrond and Rose his wife conveyed to 

 Hugh, Prior of Dunmow, 43 acres of land and 2 acres 

 of meadow in Lambourne. 55 In 1291 the property of 

 the prior in Lambourne was valued at 18/. 21^.5* In 

 1 3 1 1 the priory was granted licence to acquire a further 

 small property in the parish.s' 



In 1536, after the dissolution of the priory, the lands 

 in Lambourne formerly belonging to it were granted to 

 Robert, Earl of Sussex (d. i542).58 In 1554 Henry, 

 Earl of Sussex (d. 1557), sold Pryors to Robert Taver- 

 ner.5' The manor subsequently descended with Arne- 

 ways (see above) until 1681. In that year Arneways 

 was sold by John Broomfield to John Todd, but Pryors 

 remained in the possession of Broomfield, who left it by 

 his will (1687) to his sister Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas 

 Staphurst, M.D.*" Nicholas Staphurst, son of Eliza- 

 beth, sold the estate in 17 13 to Dr. Thomas Tooke, 

 Rector of Lambourne.*" A sketch map of Pryors and 

 the glebe land made in 1714 is a little difficult to follow 

 but appears to show that Pryors proper consisted of 3 5 

 acres and that an additional 1 1 acres belonging to the 

 glebe were farmed as part of Pryors. '^ Tooke died in 

 1 72 1, leaving Pryors to his wife for life with remainder 

 to his brother John Tooke (d. 1764) who also suc- 

 ceeded him as rector.*^ John Tooke was succeeded as 

 rector and owner of Pryors by his son Robert Tooke 

 (d. 1776).*'* Robert left Pryors to his sister Mrs. Cal- 

 vert, who held it until her death about I794.*5 She 

 was succeeded by her daughter Mary, wife of John 

 Martin, who sold the farm about 1798 to Charles Smith 

 of Suttons in Stapleford Tawney (q.v.). Pryors was 



thus merged in the Suttons estate.** In 1841 Pryors 

 and Patch Park (see above) together contained 136 

 acres.*' 



A small timber-framed and weather-boarded house, 

 now known as Patch Park Cottage, is thought to repre- 

 sent the former manor house of Priors. Until recently 

 it was divided into two tenements. Externally it appears 

 to be of the i8th or early 19th century, but two ground- 

 floor rooms have stop-chamfered beams, probably of 

 the 17th century and it is possible that at one time the 

 building was of greater extent. 



The priory of Stratford Bow (Mdx.) owned 6 acres 

 of land in Lambourne called MrNCHTNL^NDS, 

 which were granted after the Dissolution to Sir Ralph 

 Sadler, who in 1 546 received licence to grant the pro- 

 perty to John Lowe.** It may have been in connexion 

 with these lands that the Abbot of Waltham was paying 

 I mark a year to Stratford priory in about i254.*9 



The advowson of the church of Lambourne was 

 originally appurtenant to the manor of 

 CHURCH Lambourne. It was given by Robert of 

 Lambourne to Waltham Abbey. This 

 grant was confirmed by the Bishop of London in 1 2 1 8." 

 The confirmation appears to have included the per- 

 mission required for the ordination of a vicarage, but 

 there is no evidence that this ever took place.'" 



The first presentation to the rectory after the Dissolu- 

 tion was made in 1546 by Sir Anthony Cook.'^ In 

 1553 the king granted the advowson to Lord Francis 

 Russell and James Bridges.'^ Robert Taverner of 

 Arneways (see above) who died in 1556 was said to 

 own the advowson.''' In 1557, however. Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon and George Medley presented.'s Katherine 

 Barfoot, widow of Robert Barfoot (see above. Manor), 

 presented in 1569.'* She is stated to have done so by 

 reason of a grant of the advowson for one turn, made by 

 Waltham Abbey. It is not unlikely that the presenta- 

 tions of 1 546 and 1557 also derived from grants made 

 before the dissolution of the abbey. 



The advowson appears to have been held for some 

 time by the Taverners, although the presentation was 

 made by a member of the family on one occasion only 

 (1608)." The advowson was sold with Arneways to 

 Robert Draper in 1625.'* In 1641 William Draper 

 conveyed it to William and Thomas Overman." The 

 presentation of 1642 was made by the king; it had pre- 

 viously been granted for this turn by Robert Taverner 

 to Thomas Winnifl^e, Rector of Lambourne. 80 Winniffe 

 was Dean of Gloucester (1624) and later of St. Paul's 

 (163 1 ). He was chaplain to Charles I and became 

 Bishop of Lincoln in 1642.*' No doubt the king pre- 

 sented on his behalf In 1646, after the revenues of his 

 see had been confiscated by Parliament, Winniife re- 

 tired to Lambourne where he died in 1654. He bought 

 the next presentation and evidently intended to give the 



5° E.R. XIV, 200. 



5' E.R.O., D/DSd Pi; Chapman and 

 Andre, Map of Essex, 7777, sheet xvi, give 

 Hunts as name of present Great Downs 

 farm. This was probably an error. 



52 Earl Fitzwilliam (Milton) Deeds, 

 1725, 1726. 



53 C142/109/54. 



54 E.R.O., D/DSd T2. 



55 Feet of F. Essex, \\, I. 



5<> Tax Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 25*. 

 5' Cal. Pat. R. 1307-13, 395. 



58 L. &■ P. Hen. f^HI, xi, p. 87. 



59 CP25(2)/7o/579 Mich, i & 2 Ph. & 

 Mary. 



'o Morant, Essex, i, 174; E.R.O., 



ES. IV 



D/DSd T42. 

 6' Ibid. 



62 E.R.O., D/DSd Pi. 



63 Morant, Essex, i, 174-5. 

 <>* Ibid. 



65 T. Wright, Hist. Essex, ii, 402; 

 E.R.O., Q/RPl 686-99; ibid. D/DSd 

 T42. '' I'''''- 



" E.R.O., D/CT 202. The name of this 

 Pryors is not now used locally. Priors 

 near Bishops Hall is a modern house with 

 no known connexion with the Dunmow 

 priory estate. 



68 L. & P. Hen. nil, xiv (i), p. 161; 

 ibid, xxi (2), p. 348. 



'9 E.A.T. N.s. xviii, 18. 



81 



'" Newcourt, Repert. ii, 691. 



" There was a rector in 1297 : Cal. Pal. 

 1292-1301, 296. 



" Newcourt, Repert. ii, 360. 



'3 Cal. Pat. 1553, 76. Russell was the 

 eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Bedford, 

 whom he succeeded in 1555. 



'4 C142/109/S4. 



'S Newcourt, Repert. ii, 360. 



'6 Ibid. 



" Ibid.; CP25(2)/i35/i72i; C60/457. 

 The king presented in 1606. 



'8 CP25(2)/4i5 Mich. I Chas. I. . 



" CP2S(2)/4i8 Mich. 17 Chas. I. 



80 C142/S2S/130. 



8' D.N.B. 



