A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



In 1617 Simeon Brograve was granted free fishery 

 and free warren in Albury." He died in January 

 1638-9, and his half of the manor, with a messuage 

 called Albury Lodge, descended to his son John,*' 

 whose son Thomas Brograve was created a baronet 

 in March 1662-3.** He died in 1670 and was 

 succeeded by his son John.*' The other half of 

 the manor, on the death of Richard Frank in 1627, 

 descended to his son Leventhorpe Frank,*" who had 

 five daughters, Susan, Anne, Mary, Frances and 

 Dorothy.'' In 1640 he with his daughters Anne 

 and Frances levied a fine of two fifths of one half 

 of the manor of Albury, probably on the marriage 

 of his daughter Anne with Robert son of Richard 

 Hale of Tewin,'^ for Richard Hale appears as a 

 party to the settlement." In 1646 Robert Hale 

 and Anne his wife, Thomas Fix and Dorothy his 

 wife and Frances Frank held a court of the manor 

 with John Brograve.** Robert and Anne after- 

 wards became possessed of half of the manor by the 

 purchase of the shares of Thomas and Dorothy Fix 

 and of Frances Frank," and in 1 661 they sold 

 it, with the mansion-house called Albury Hall, to 

 Sir Edward Atkins, baron of the Exchequer." Sir 

 Edward Atkins was one of the most celebrated judges 

 during the Commonwealth. In 1640 he had been 

 appointed baron of the Exchequer by the king, but 

 as the order did not take effect he was created anew 

 by the Commons in 1645. He continued to hold 

 his office after the Restoration, and w.is one of the 

 judges who presided over the trial of the regicides, but 

 he took no active part in the proceedings." After the 

 purch.ise of Albury Baron Atkins resided at Albury 

 Hall," and died there in l66().^^ His half of the 

 manor descended to his son Edward, who sold it five 

 years later to Thomas Bowyer, from whom it passed 

 to Felix Calvert of Furneux Pelham.*"* In 1688 

 Felix Calvert sold the manorial rights pertaining to 

 this half to Sir John Brograve, bart.,"" who held the 

 other half, and the two halves of the manor thus 

 became united. On the death of Sir John Brogra\e 

 in 1691 AlLury passed to his brother Sir Thomas 

 Brograve, '2 who suffered a recovery of the manor 

 in order to bar the entail.''-' He died without issue 

 in 1707," when his heirs were his sisters Jemima 

 Brograve and Honora wife of John Stevenson. 

 Jemima died before 1 71 2, when many of her 

 brother's estates were sold to one of his creditors, 

 Ralph Freeman," and in 171 3 Honora, with her 

 husband John Stevenson, Ralph Freeman, jun., and 

 Robert Elwes, quitclaimed all right in the manor of 

 Albury to John Ward.^^ 



The manorial rights were afterwards acquired by 

 Felix Calvert, nephew of Felix Calvert who had 



Calv iRT. Paly or 

 and sable a bend counter- 

 coloured. 



formerly held half of the manor, but this purchase 

 did not include the lands of the Brograves' half." 

 Felix Calvert died in 1736,"* and was succeeded 

 by a son of the same name, 

 who held the manor ^' until 

 his death in 175 5,'" when it 

 descended to his son John 

 Calvert,"' who was member 

 of Parliament for Wendover 

 in 1754 and afterwards sat 

 several times for Hertford." 

 On his death in 1808 Albury 

 passed to his son John Calvert, 

 who was member successively 

 for the boroughs of Malmes- 

 bury, Tamworth, St. Albans 

 and Huntingdon, and also 

 secretary to the lord chamber- 

 lain. '' He died in 1 844 and the manor was sold by 

 his trustees in 1847 to Richard Dawson of Withcall, 

 CO. Lincoln, who died in 1 868, when Albury de- 

 scended to his daughter and heir Fanny, who married 

 the Rev. E. J. Rogers. The manor was purchased 

 in 1873 by John Stock Clark, a large copyholder 

 in it, who wished to enfranchise his holdings. He 

 died in 1884, when the manor passed to his four 

 children, three of whom conveyed their shares to 

 their brother Christopher James Clark in 1898. In 

 1899 he sold the manor to Mr. H. A. Hare of 

 Much Hadham, the present lord.'* 



In the reign of Edward the Confessor the manor 

 of PJTMORE or PJTMORE HALL (Patemere, 

 xi cent. ; Podmore, Patermere, xiii cent. ; Patesmere, 

 Padymere, xiv cent. ; Pattemerhall, xv cent. ; Patmer 

 Hall, xvii cent.) was part of the lands of Earl Algar 

 and was held of him by Alward. After the Conquest, 

 like Albury, it became a member of the barony of 

 Stortford,'' and was held of the Bishops of London '' 

 by a yearly payment of 6s. id. for sheriff's aid and 

 castle guard and by suit rendered at the bishop's 

 court at Stortford." The yearly rent of 5/. for castle 

 guard seems to be still paid to the lord of the castle 

 manor.'* 



Baldwin was tenant in fee of the manor of Patmore 

 in 1086," and it was afterwards held by a family 

 which derived their name from the manor. In 1 1 66 

 William de Patmore was holding one knight's fee and 

 a third of a fee of the Bishop of London,*" and at the 

 beginning of the 13th century these fees, which 

 evidently represent the manor of Patmore, had 

 descended to Walter de Patmore,*' who gave land in 

 Upwick and part of a feeding in Upwicksbroom to 

 the nuns of Holywell (St. Leonard's, Shoreditch).*^ 

 The manor was afterwards held by John de Patmore,*^ 



*^ Pat. 15 Jas. I, pt. XV. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxci, i8. 



*- G.E.C. Complete Baromcage, iii, 272. 



" Ibid. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), ccccilii, 

 'I. *' Chauncy, lot. cit. 



" Ibid. 



"Feet cf F. Div. Co. .Mich. 16 

 Chas. I. 



^ Chauncv, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. 



" Close, 13 Chas. II, pt. xiiii, no. i+. 



" Diet. A"jr. Bi:g. 



" See Cal. S. P. D.jk. 1663-4, p. 259 



» £>:.-.'. .Vjr. Bhg. 



*** Chauncy, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. Salmon says that this half 



descended from Felix Calyert to his son 

 William, who sold it to his cousin Felix 

 Calvert (Salmon, Hitt. of Hern. 283), but 

 this can only refer to the lands and not to 

 the manorial rights which he says the 

 Brograves purchased of Felix Calvert of 

 Fumeui Pelham. 



«2 G.E.C. loc. cit. 



^ Close, 3 Will, and Mary, pt. ix, no. 22. 



«* G.E.C. loc. cit. 



" See manor of HamelU in Braughing. 



« Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 12 Anne. 



^ Salmon^ loc. cit. 



^ V.C.H. Herts. Families, 65. 



® See Feet of F. Herts. East. 24 Geo. II ; 

 Recov. R. East. 24 Geo. II, rot. 53. 



" y.C.H. Herts. Families, 65. 



" See Recov. R. Trin. 30 & 3 1 Geo. II, 

 rot. 198 ; East. 44 Geo. Ill, rot. 2J. 



" V.C.H. Herts. Families, 67. 



"Ibid. 



'* Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edtiinstree 

 Hund. 158; information from Mr. W. 

 Minet. 



" V.C.H. Herts, i, 306*. 



''See Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Hen. VI, 

 no 29 ; (Ser. 2), Ix, 147. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. 1-19 Ed-w. I, ■t,-j\. 



'« East Hens. Arch. Soc. Trans, ii, 218. 



'' V.C.H. Herts, i, io6b. 



" Red Bk. ofExch. (Roll. Ser.), i, 186. 



" Ibid, ii, 541, 542. 



" Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- 201. 



" See De Banco R. 1 5, m. 6 d. 



