A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Arden Crallan, who sold the estate in 191 2 to Mr. 

 Frank B. Debenham, the present lord of the manor." 



The manor of UPWICK alias UPH'ICK HALL 

 (Uppewyk, XV cent.) probably formed part of the 

 Bishop of London's holding in 1 086, for it was 

 always held of the Bishop of London's fee.^ At the 

 beginning of the 1 3th century Osbert Masculus was 

 holding half a knight's fee of the bishop,^ which may 

 probably be identified with the manor of Upwick, as 

 it was afterwards held by Richard Masculus.'" It 

 descended on his death to his son and heir William 

 Mascului, aged nineteen in 1244." In 1303 

 William le Madle was holding half a knight's fee in 

 Albury,^^ which probably represents this manor. 

 Upwick afterwards came into the possession of the 

 Lees, lords of the manor of Albury. In 1370 

 Sir John de la Lee, kt., died seised of it. His heir 

 was his son Walter," but in 1386 the manor was 

 held by Nicholas Fitz Richard and Alice his wife in 

 the right of Alice.** They conveyed it to Roger 

 Lambourn and others,'' possibly in trust for Walter 

 Baud. In 1420 Walter Baud settled Upwick on him- 

 self for life with reversion to his wife Katherine for life 

 and successive remainders to the sons of Walter and 

 Katherine, and in default to Walter son of his brother 

 John Baud, to whom he had recently stood god- 

 father, to Johnson of John Baud, and to Williamson 

 of another brother, Thomas Baud, in tail-male.'^ 

 Walter Baud died without issue in that year,^' and his 

 nephews also appear to have died without issue, as 

 his brother Thomas Baud became his heir.'* Walter's 

 widow Katherine appears to have married as her 

 second husband Wil.iam Godcred, for in 1428 

 William Godered and Katherine conveyed the manor 

 of Upwick to Thomas Baud the elder, Thomas Baud 

 the younger and Margery his wife.'^ 



Thomas Baud died in 1430 and his son Thomas in 

 1449, when Upwickdescendedto thelatter'sson Ralph, 

 who died seised of it in 1483.*" His son Thomas 

 Baud inherited the manor,'" and mortgaged it with 

 his other estates in 1503. These were sold in 1504 

 to Lord Darcy, who redeemed the mortgage.*- He 

 probably conveyed the manor to the Elliots. In 

 I 5 I 9 Thomas Baud's widow Anne, then the wife of 

 John Blenarhassett, quitclaimed her right to John 

 Aleyn and others,*' probably in trust. In 1558 

 the m,iinor was held by Magnus Elliot, who quit- 

 claimed all right in it to John Elliot.** It descended 

 to George Elliot, who iv ith his wife Joan conveyed it 

 in I 574 to William Parker, citizen and linendraper of 



London.*' Three years later William Parker con- 

 veyed it to Humphrey Corbett,*' who died seised of 

 it in 1609.''' Humphrey's kinsman and heir Roland 

 Corbett made a settlement of the manor in 1624 on 

 the occasion of the marriage of his son Richard with 

 Jane daughter of Sir Thomas Fowler, kt.*' In 

 1636 he sold Upwick to William Stacey,*' who died 

 seised of it in 1660, when it descended to his son 

 Edward, living in 1695."* It passed to his son 

 Edward Stacey,'' and has since remained with this 

 family,'^ Mr. Frank Stacey of Wickham Hall, Bishop's 

 Stortford, being the present owner. 



The manor of DJRCIES (Dacres, xvi cent. ; 

 Dorses, xvii cent.) in Albury was held of the Bishop 

 of London." The earliest record of this manor 

 seems to be in 1376, when it was held by Sir Walter 

 de la Lee, kt., with the manor of Albury." On the 

 division of Sir Walter's property among his sisters 

 and co-heirs " Darcies descended with Patmore "^ 

 (q.v.), but on coming into the hands of the Barleys 

 it was again united with Albury (q.v.), and from that 

 time always descended with it. The last reference 

 found to it as a separate manor is in I 71 3. 



The /J^CrO/J/'A/^iVO^of Albury was originally 

 held by the Bishop of London, and was said to have 

 been one of the manors which were attached to his 

 table." In the reign of Stephen, Robert de 

 Sigillo, Bishop of London, gave it to Godfrey, the 

 first treasurer of St. Paul's." There were 6 acres 

 of demesne land, for which the treasurer had to find 

 a light in the church every night.'^ These appear to 

 be the lands which in the 1 6th century were called 

 Lampland and Torchland.*" There were also i o acres 

 in demesne held of the sheriff, to whom an annual 

 payment was due."' As ecclesiastical property the 

 manor was quit of the king's purveyors.''^ The 

 treasurer was accustomed to lease out the parsonage, 

 reserving to himself the manorial rights and also the 

 right to have a stable there for his horses. By a 16th- 

 century lease the treasurer was bound to repair the 

 parsonage-house with timber and to keep in repair all 

 tiled houses, while the lessee was to repair the thatched 

 houses." In the 17th century the rectory manor 

 was leased to the Levcnthorpes and afterwards to the 

 Brograves, lords of the manor of Albury ** (q.v.). 

 During the Commonwealth the rectory was seques- 

 trated as part of the possessions of St. Paul's Cathedral," 

 but it was afterwards restored to the treasurer, who 

 held it until the middle of the 19th century, when 

 the Venerable Archdeacon Jones, the treasurer, sold it 



^ Information from Mr. F. A. Crallaa. 

 »» See Cal. Inj. p.m. Hen. ///, 9 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxiv, 129. 



» Red Bk. cf Exch. (Roils Ser.), ii, 



*> Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. HI, 9. 

 " Ibid. 



..,+3:. 



p.m. 44 Edw. Ill (ist 



Diy. Co. 9 Ric. II, no. 



^ FeuJ. AiJs, 

 ^ Chan. Inq. 

 DOS.), no. 37. 

 ^ Feet of F. 



55- 



" Ibid. 



w Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 11498. 



^ Chauncy, op. cit, 159 (M. I.). 



'^ For an account of this family see 

 the manor of Little Hadham. 



»» Feet of F. Herts. 6 Hen. VI, no. 33. 



*^' Chan. Inq. pjn. i Ric III, no. 6. 



*' Ibid. 



** Minet, * The Bauds of Coryngham 



and Hadham Parva,' Essex Arch. Soc. 

 Trans. [New Ser.), i, 14.5. 



« FeetofF. Herts. Mich. 1 1 Hen. VIII. 



** Ibid. East. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary ; 

 RecoT. R. Mich. 1558, rot. 515. 



** Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 16 & 17 

 Eliz. 



<* Recov. R. Hil. 1577, rot. 752. 



'" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxiv, 

 129. 



'8 Ibid, ccccboivi, 108 ; Feet of F. 

 DiT. Co. Trin. 22 Jas. I ; Recov. R. 

 Trin. 22 Jas. I, rot. 37. 



^ Inform, from Mr. F. Stacey. 

 Chauno-, op. cit. 150, gives 1633 ; 

 Salmon, Hist, of Herts. 283. 



M Eich. Dep. Trin. 7 WilL III, no. 5 ; 

 see Chauncy, loc. cit. 



*^ Salmon, loc. cit. 



" cf. Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 4 1 Geo. III. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), li, 5. 



" Close, 50 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 1 3, 

 12, 9. 



" See manors of Albury and Patmore. 



" See Feet of F. Herts. 8 Hen. IV, 

 no. 42, 53. 



" Chauncy, op. cit. 147 ; Dugdale, 

 Hist, of St. PauPs, fol. g ; Newcourt, 

 Repertorium, i, 791. 



" Newcourt, loc. cit. quoting register 

 of Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. 



*® Newcourt, loc. cit. 



^ Pat. 14 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 17. 



*' Newcourt, Repertorium, i, 791. 



«' See Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 190; 

 '3^1-4. PP- i^, 221. 



^ Lond. Epis. Reg. Stokesley, fol. 50. 



" See Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 421, 

 no. 45 ; Close, 1651, pt. xxvi, no. 25 ; 

 7 Will. HI, pt. vii, no. 23 ; Feet of F. 

 Herts. Trin. 4 Anne. 



" Close, 1651, pt. xxvi, no. 25. 



