A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



grand serjeanty early in the 1 2th century. This would 

 have had the effect of dissolving the mesne lordship. 



Juliane wife of William Fitz Audelin died in or 

 before 1199, without sons. Her heirs were William 

 de Warblington and Enguerrand de Monceux, possibly 

 the sons of two of her daughters. 82 In 1204 William 

 de Warblington paid a fine to the king for having 

 Ongar, but in the following year there was a partition 

 of Juliane's land as the result of which Ongar came to 

 Waleran de Monceux, who was probably brother and 

 successor of Enguerrand. *3 Waleran was succeeded by 

 his son William de Monceux, the tenant of 1 2 1 2. The 

 marshalship ultimately passed to William de Warbling- 

 ton and his heirs and it is not surprising that there was 

 confusion over the tenure by which Ongar was held. 

 In 1375 the manor was said to be held of the Earl of 

 Stafford in socage and by suit at the hundred court.** 



In 1220 William de Monceux owed a palfrey for 

 having an annual fair at his town of 'Old Ongar'. 85 

 He died in 1243.** There is a curious absence of 

 references to this manor for the rest of the 1 3th century, 

 and when it reappears again it is under the new name 

 of Ashhall. In 1332 John de Fiennes and his wife 

 Maud made a conveyance of Ashhall. *7 Maud was 

 sister and heir of John de Monceux, great-great- 

 grandson of William de Monceux. ** From this it is 

 clear that the descent of the manor was the same as 

 that of Herstmonceux (Sussex) and Compton Monceux 

 (in King's Sombourne, Hants). *« Nash Hall con- 

 tinued to descend with Herstmonceux until 1600, 

 when it was conveyed to Thomas Mildmay by Samson 

 Leonard and Margaret Lady Dacre his wife. «" Thomas, 

 who was also lord of the manor of Barnes in Spring- 

 field, was later knighted and died in 1612." He was 

 succeeded at Nash Hall by one of his younger sons, 

 Walter Mildmay.'^ 



Walter Mildmay held courts as lord of the manor 

 from 161 3 to 1 6 54. '3 By 1661 he had been succeeded 

 by his eldest son Ambrose who held court in that year 

 and later up to 1 681.9* Ambrose probably died with- 

 out children soon after 168 1, for in 1696 and 1698 the 

 manor was the subject of conveyances by Walter 

 Wallinger, Anthony Wallinger, and Judith Wallinger, 

 spinster.'s Walter and Judith were the children of 

 Benjamin Wallinger, who had married Judith, 

 daughter of Walter Mildmay.'* Anthony was possibly 

 their brother; they were probably making a division of 

 the manors as heirs of their uncle Ambrose. 



Anthony Wallinger was lord of the manor in 1 714," 

 but by 1728 it had passed to Peter Champion.'* Peter 

 or a namesake was lord in 1757 and about 1770." By 

 1780 Anthony Champion was lord.' He continued to 

 hold it until about 1 800-1 ? Henry Partridge was lord 

 in 1803.3 About 181 3-14 Nash Hall was acquired by 



the Revd. J. Bramston Stane, and thus became part of 

 the Forest Hall estate (see below).* In 1849 the Nash 

 Hall section of the estate consisted of 204 acres oc- 

 cupied by James Palmer.s In 1862 Nash Hall farm 

 contained 195 acres and was occupied by Mrs. Palmer 

 on an eight-year lease at an annual rental of ;£30o.* In 

 1919 the farm was 268 acres.' 



The present farm-house is timber-framed and 

 plastered. It shows no obvious signs of antiquity, and 

 if it formed part of the medieval manor house it was 

 probably largely reconstructed in the 1 8th century. 



The manor of ONGAR PARK alias BATELLS 

 was originally part of that of Stanford Rivers (q.v.), 

 and was known late in the 1 3th century as the manor of 

 Stanford Park. In the 14th century and later it lay on 

 the boundary of the parishes of High Ongar and 

 Stanford Rivers. Before this, although part of the 

 manor of Stanford Rivers, it may have been wholly in 

 the parish of High Ongar (see below. Church, c. 1280). 



Humphrey de Walden, to whom the manor was 

 granted in 1300, died in 1331, seised of 'the park of 

 Stanford, held of the king as parcel of the manor of 

 Stanford Rivers'. The manor was then said to consist 

 of 270 acres of arable, worth '^d. an acre, land at farm 

 worth 2/. ( ?) %d., and pasture worth iios. beyond the 

 fees of Thomas Tracy, Thomas de Caune, and John de 

 Rychyng ( .').* John de Cantebrigg was granted custody 

 of Humphrey's heir Andrew, son of Roger de Walden.' 

 In 1336 a royal licence was granted to Andrew de 

 Walden to enfeoff trustees with a messuage, a carucate 

 of land, and 800 acres of wood in Stanford Rivers, 

 Ongar, and (North) Weald, held of the king in chief.'" 

 The purpose of this conveyance was to settle the pro- 

 perty on Andrew, with remainder to Humphrey and 

 Thomas de Walden his brothers. 



Andrew de Walden died in 1352 and his estate was 

 then held in dower by his widow Joan." She died in 

 1 361. '2 Thomas de Walden, son and heir of Andrew, 

 was still a minor, and in 1 362 the king granted custody 

 of Ongar Park to John de Bampton in return for an 

 annual payment of 10 marks. '3 



Thomas de Walden made proof of age in 1367.'* 

 In 1367 and 1368 he settled Ongar Park upon him- 

 self and his wife Margaret. '5 In 1404 Thomas and 

 Margaret settled the reversion of the manor after their 

 deaths upon Thomas Bataille, son of Thomas de 

 Walden's sister Alice, and Eleanor his wife, daughter of 

 Thomas Oudeby.'* In 141 2 Thomas de Walden's 

 manor of 'Park Hall' was valued for taxation purposes 

 at ;^I2 a year." He died in 1420. The manor was 

 then said to contain 200 acres of land worth \d. an 

 acre and 800 acres of wood worth 3^/. an acre, held of 

 the king in chief. It was held after Thomas's death 

 by his widow Margaret.'* In 1422 it was settled upon 



'* J. H. Round, King's Serjeants, 93. 



M Ibid.; y.C.H. Sussex, W, 133; Sussex 

 Arch. Coll. iv, 134. 84 Ci36/File 5. 



8s E372/64 m. jd. The fair was on 7—8 

 Sept. and was later granted to the Rector 

 of High Ongar : see Church, below. 



8' F.C.H. Sussex, \x, 133. 



8' Feet of F. Essex, iii, 27. 



88 f^.C.H. Sussex, ix, 133; F.C.If. 

 Hants, iv, 475. 89 Ibid. 



«» CP25(2)/i 39/1758; E.R.O., D/DM 

 T62. 



9" Visits, of Essex (Harl. Soc), i, 453; 

 Morant, Essex, i, 131. 



«i E.R.O., D/DGe M242. 



" Ibid. M242, 246. 



»♦ Ibid. M243-6; Visits, of Essex (Harl. 



Soc), i, 453. 



95 CP25(2)/829 Mich. 8 Wm. Ill, 

 Trin. 10 Wm. III. 



9' Visits, of Essex, \, 516. 



97 E.R.O., D/DGe M244. 



98 CP25(2)/ii20 Mich. 2 Geo. II; 

 E.R.O., D/DGe M245. 



99 E.R.O., D/DGe 277 ; Hist. Essex by 

 Gent, iii, 326. 



' E.R.O., G/RPl 685. 



2 Ibid. 705, 706. 



3 E.R.O., Q/RSg 4. 



* E.R.O., Q/RPI718, 7I9- 



5 E.R.O., D/CT 263. 



' Forest Hall Sale Cat. 1862. 



' Forest Hall Sale Cat. 19 19. 



8 Ci 35/File 26. For Tracy see Traceys 



in Stanford Rivers; for Caune see Canes 

 in North Weald. 



9 Cal. Fine R. 1327-37, 256. 



■0 Cal. Pat. 1334-8, 236. 



■' Cal. Inq.p.m. x, p. 5 ; Cal. Pat. 1354- 

 8,216. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. xi, p. 184. 



" Cal. Fine R. 1356-68, 206. 



^* Cal. Inq. p.m. xii, p. 164. He was 

 said to have been born at Magdalen Laver. 



■5 Cal. Close, 1364-8, 405; Cal. Pat. 

 1367-70,99. 



" Cal. Pat. 1 40 1-5, 354; Feet of F. 

 Essex, iii, 241. 



" Feud. Aids, vi, 443. 



'8 Ci3i/File 50 Ca. Close, 1419-22, 

 78. 



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