EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



who died before 1276, when his widow Joan was hold- 

 ing a third of the manor in dower.*'' John de 

 Patmore had married the daughter of William Baud 

 of Hadham, and had enfeoffed William of the other 

 two parts of the manor, but after William's death 

 an action to recover them was brought against his 

 widow Philippa by William Monchensey (who is 

 said to have had a life grant of the manor from 

 John de Patmore) *^ on the plea that the grant to 

 William Baud had not been in fee.*' William 

 Monchensey forfeited before 1291, when the custody 

 of Patmore was granted to Stephen Fitz Walter/' 

 and on his death it w.as granted to Robert Fitz Walter 

 in 1295.** Philip de Patmore recovered seisin of 

 the manor against William Monchensey in 1297,*' 

 and was holding the manor in 1303.'"' He died 

 before 1 3 1 3 when his son John and Sarah his wife 

 were holding the manor. ^^ In 1 32 1-2 the tenants 

 of Patmore petitioned Parliament against Sir John de 

 Patmore, whom they accused of imprisoning them at 

 will and extorting sums of money for their redemp- 

 tion.'' There is no evidence of their obtaining 

 redress ; but as Sir John was an adherent of the Earl 

 of Lancaster he was obliged soon after to flee the 

 kingdom, and in 13 24 the manor was granted by the 

 king to Simon de Mountbreton.^' In 1327 it was 

 restored to Sarah wife of John de Patmore at her 

 ' suggestion ' that her husband's lands had been seized 

 owing to the enmity between himself and Hugh le 

 Despenser the younger.^ 



John de Patmore died before 1 3 6 1 , when the manor 

 was held by his son John de Patmore,'* whose widow 

 Parnel was holding in 1366.'' She was wife succes- 

 sively of John atte Barre and William Rokesburgh." 

 The reversion of the manor was divided between 

 Margaret wife of Ralph Jocelin, the daughter of John 

 de Patmore,'* and Alice wife of Richard Plantyng, 

 probably another daughter. In 1366 Alice, with her 

 husband Richard Plantyng, sold the reversion of her 

 half to John de la Lee and Joan his wife,'' and in 

 Hilary term 1385-6 Thomas Jocelin, son and heir of 

 Margaret Jocelin,^*''' sold the reversion of the other 

 half of the manor to Sir Walter de la Lee, kt.,i son 

 and heir of Sir John de la Lee, who had died in 

 1370.' In 1387 Sir Walter received a quitclaim 

 from William and Parnel de Rokesburgh,' and he 



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died seised in 1395, when his three sisters were his 

 co-heirs.* In Hilary term 1406-7 Margery Newport 

 and Joan Barley conveyed the manor to Robert Sewale 

 and Margery his wife,^ who seem, however, later to 

 have released their right in favour of Joan Barley,^ 

 for in 1428 the manor of Patmore was held by her 

 son John Barley.' 



On the death of Henry Barley in January 1475-6 * 

 the manor passed to Thomas Barley (probably a 

 younger son), whose daughter and heir Katherine 

 married John Harleston. On her death the manor 

 descended to her daughter and heir Agnes, who 

 married Thomas Scroggs. Agnes died before her 

 husband, who held Patmore until his death in 1538.' 

 His heir was his son Francis, i" from whom the manor 

 descended in 1585 to his son John Scroggs,!' who 

 died seised in 1592.'' Edward his son was aged six 

 at his father's death, and during his minority the 

 manor was held by his mother Mary, who married as 

 her second husband Sir Thomas Stanley.^' John son 

 of Edward Scroggs'* died in 1692 '^ ; his son John 

 was holding in 1700,'^ and from him Patmore 

 descended to his son Thomas Scroggs, barrister-at- 

 law of the Middle Temple, who died unmarried in 

 1 7 10,'' when his two sisters Mary '* and Judith were 

 his heirs. Mary married Charles Dartequenewe, who 

 purchased the other half of the manor from Judith 

 and her husband John Lance.'' Charles Darte- 

 quenewe died in 1737.^" Patmore was sold by his 

 grandson Charles Peter Dartequenewe '' to Samuel 

 Cockett in 1775.^^ Cockett mortgaged the estate to 

 Sir Abraham Hume, bart., and finally conveyed it in 

 1780 to Paul Caldwell, who paid off the mortgage.^' 

 Lands included in this sale are Oxlays, the Bowling 

 Green, the Dovehouse, the Broome, Dyersfield, Stock- 

 field, Dobin Hall Pasture, Hornbeams, Daniel Meadow, 

 Onefoin Close, Shawes Reads. 



The sale led to disputes,^* and in 1 78 1 Caldwell 

 conveyed Patmore to John Calvert,^* lord of the 

 manor of Albury. It descended with the manor of 

 Albury until 1848, when it was purchased from the 

 trustees of John Calvert's will by Hugh Parnell of 

 Much Hadham and Clapton. Hugh Parnell died 

 in 1 86 1, and Patmore descended to his sons Hugh 

 and John, barristers-at-law.^' On the death of Hugh 

 in 1906 the manor passed to his cousm Mr. Franklyn 



" See De Banco R. 15, m. 9 d. 



** Chan. Itiq. p.m. 14 Edw. I, no. 27. 



** Aisire R. 323, rot. 5 d. ; De Banco 

 R. 17, m. 6z. William Moncheniey also 

 claimed Joan Patmore'« third by grant of 

 her second husband Ralph de Polej, but 

 Joan was able to prove a divorce between 

 herself and Ralph (De Banco R. 15, 

 m. 9 d.). 



«' Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 416 ; Cal. 

 Fine R, 1272-1307, p. 288. 



^ Cal. Fine R. 1272-1307, p. 362; 

 Abbrev, Rot, Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 90. 



" Assize R. 1 3 1 1, m. 1 1 1 d. 



"> Feud. Aids, ii, 43 1. 



" Feet of F. Herts. 7 Edw. II, no. 143. 



"Par/. fi.i, 389a. 



'»C«/. Pat, 1324-7, p. 4i Cal. Close, 



'323-7. P- 291- 



'* Cal. Close, 1327-30, pp. 38, 153. 

 One-third of the manor was still held by 

 Alice widow of Philip de Patmore. 



'5 Ibid. 1360-4, p. 275. 



» See Feet of F. Herts. 40 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 571 ; 9 Ric. II, no. 79 ; Lond. Epis. 

 Reg. Brajrbrook, fol. 394. 



" Ibid. 



98 yisit. of Essex (Harl. Soc), 228. 



^ Feet of F. Herts. 40 Edw. Ill, no. 



571- 



1" See Visit, of Essex, loc. cit. 



' Feet of F. Herts. 9 Ric. II, no. 79. 



'Chan. Inq. p.m. 44 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 37. 



8 Feet of F. Herts, n Ric. II, no. 92. 



* See above under Albury. 



' Feet of F. Herts. 8 Hen. IV, no. 42. 



' See ibid. no. 53 ; Close, 9 Hen. V, 

 m. 5 d. 



' Feud. Aids, ii, 446. The manor is 

 said to have been formerly held by John 

 Sherborn, who appears to have been a 

 trustee of Sir Walter Lee's estates. See 

 Salmon, Hist, of Herts. 284. 



8 See above. 



9 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ix, 147. 



'» Ibid. ; see Feet of F. Herts. East. 

 33 Hen. VIII. 



'1 Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edtvimtree 

 Hund. 162 ; see Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 

 31 & 32 Eliz. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccl, 69. 



7 



" Exch. Dep. Mich. 5 Jas. I, no. 2i ; 

 see Salmon, Hist, of Herts. 284. 



" Chauncy, Hist. Antij, of Herts. 

 151. 



" M. I. 



'^ Chauncy and Salmon, loc. cit. 

 Cussans says, however, that the younger 

 John died before his father and was 

 buried at Albury in 1685. Cussans, loc. 

 cit. 



" Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Herts, iii, 338 (M. I.). 



"Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 12 Anne; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 13 Anne, rot. 31. 



'9 Salmon, Hist, of Herts. 284. 



»" Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Herts, iii, 338 (M. I.). 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 336 ; see 

 Recov. R. Mich. 9 Geo. Ill, rot. 254. 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 336. 



'» Com. Pleas D.Enr. East. 20 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 201. 



'* Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



** Feet of F. Herts. East. 2i Geo. III. 



26 Cussans, op. cit. Edivinstree Hund. 

 162. 



