A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



probably the manor-house, a carucate of land and 

 lOO/. rent in Barley were let for life to Bartholomew 

 de Enfield. 23 The courts were probably reserved by 

 the abbot as they were in the i6th centurj'.-^ When 

 each successive abbot entered upon his office he 

 claimed ' palfrey money ' from the tenants of this 

 manor." In 1533 William Grevill and his son John 

 acquired a thirty-one years' lease of the manorial lands 

 and agreed to entertain the abbot and his servants 

 once yearly for two days and two nights, when they 

 came to hold courts and to view the manor. -^ 



The abbey was suppressed in I 539,-' and in April 

 1544 Edward Elrington and Humphrey Metcalf re- 

 ceived its possessions in Barley in exchange for certain 

 estates surrendered to the Crown.'* They were 

 evidently speculating in land. A court was held in 

 Elrington's name in May 1544,^' and on I July he 

 joined with Metcalf in a sale to Sir Ralph Rowlatt, kt.,'" 

 who had recently inherited the manors of Mincingbury 

 and Hoares (q.v.). In 1556 he settled his estates on 

 himself and his heirs by his wife Dorothy," and 

 afterwards he made a second settlement,^- doubtless 

 in favour of his second wife .Margaret^' ; but he died 

 childless in I 571.'' He had bequeathed his estate in 

 Barley to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Keeper of the Great 

 Seal, ' whose second wife Ann was sister to Rowl.itt's 

 second wife Margaret. '° The nephews of Rowl.ut, 

 who were his heirs-at-law, released their rights in 

 fivoiir of Bacon before 1576.^' The Lord Keeper 

 died on zo February 1578-9,'' and was succeeded 

 in the Barley estate by Anthony Bacon, the elder of 

 his two sons by his wife Ann.'' He sold it to Sir 

 John Spencer, ' the rich Spencer, Lord Mayor of 

 London,' ^'' probably about the year 1593, when he 

 was seriously embarrassed by his own debts and those 

 of his brother Francis.'" 



At Spencer's death in March 1609-10 the estate 

 passed to his daughter Elizabeth wife of WUliam Lord 

 Compton,''- afterwards created Earl of Northampton.'" 

 It was settled on theirdaughter Anne upon her marriage 

 with Ulick Lord Dunkellin, son of Richard Earl of Clan- 

 ricardeandSt. Albans, in December 1622.^ Ulick Earl 

 of St. Albans and his wife were both active supporters 

 of the royal cause in Ireland.'" Their estates were 

 sequestrated and the manors in Barley were granted 



to the Earl of Essex in September 1645 in considera- 

 tion of his ' heroic valour, prudent conduct and un- 

 spotted fidelity' as captain-lgeneral of the Parliamentary 

 forces.^* He died on 14 September 1646,'" and by 

 an order of 1649 Barley was sold to satisfy the claims 

 of Sir Robert Fye, who with the Earl of Northum- 

 berland had long had a mortgage on the estates of the 

 Earl of St. Albans.'*' It was acquired by Sir Richard 

 Lucy, bart., of Broxbourne, and Sir Edward Atkins, 

 kt., afterwards chief baron of the Exchequer.'" Lucy 

 died at Broxbourne on 6 April 1667."" His son 

 Sir Kingsmill Lucy, bart., and Sir Edward Atkins were 

 dealing with Abbotsbury and other lands in Barley 

 in the spring of 1 67 1." Atkins afterwards sold to 

 Thomas Kensey, citizen of London, ^^ from whom 

 the estate was purchased before 1682 by Sir Thomas 

 Byde^' of Ware Park. He gave it to his son Ralph, 

 whose son John Byde of Hunsdon inherited." John 

 Byde bequeathed it to John youngest son of Thomas 



Byde. Or a pile en- 

 grailed azure ivith three 

 anchors or thereon. 



Brand. A%ure tvjo 

 crossed sivords argent 

 ivith their hilts or be- 

 tween three scallops or. 



Byde of Ware Park,*^ who sold it to his eldest 

 brother Thomas Plumer Byde.^' It was purchased 

 about 1 770 by Thomas Brand of the Hoo." His son 

 Thomas Brand married Getrude Roper, who in 1 794 

 became Lady Dacre, and their son Thomas Brand 

 succeeded to the title on his mother's death in 18 19. 

 The manor descended with the successive Lords Dacre 

 until 1 90 1, when Henry Robert Viscount Hampden 

 and Lord Dacre sold it to Mr. Alexander Grossman, 

 the present lord of the manor.** 



" Cat. Pat. 1313-17, p. 289. 



« Mins. Accts. Hen. VIII, 00. 976. 



» Ct. R. (Geo. Ser.), portf. 17-, no. 5, 

 4 J cf. the fine for recognition called 

 * sadelsilver ' levied from the customary 

 tenants of the manor of Bishop's Stort- 

 ford at the first court held after the 

 vacancy of the bishopric of London. 



»' .Mins. Accts. Hen. 'VIII, no. 976. 



-' y.C.H. Essex, i, 100. 



•9 L. and P. Hen. VIII, lix (l), g. 442 

 (,6). 



"* Ct. R. (Gen. Ser.), portf. 177, no. 5. 



» L. and P. Hen. yill, xii (ij, g. 812 

 (114, p. 508); Close, 36 Hen. VIII, 

 pt, T, no. 3 ; Ct. R. (Gen. Set.), portf. 

 17-, no. 2. 



^' Pat. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary, pt. *, 

 m. 22. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. {Ser. 2), ccvi, 3. 



» Ibid. 



" Ibid. 



** Ibid. ; Bacon obtained pardon for 

 the alienation in 1580 (Pat. 22 Eliz. 

 pt. i, m. 13). 



** Diet. i^'J/. Biog. under ' Ann Bacon.' 



'" Feet of r. Div. Co. Mich. 13 & 14 



Eliz.; Mich. 17 & 18 Eliz.; Hil. l8 

 Eliz. 



^ Dicr. Nat. Biog. ; F.C.H. Herts, ii, 

 396. 



^ Feetof F. Herts. Trin. 34Eliz.;Recov. 

 R. East. 35 Eliz. rot 42 ; cf. Chauncy, 

 op. cit. 9 5. Chauncy'sdate for the court held 

 at Barley in Anthony's name must be incor- 

 rect, unless he was holding it for his father. 



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

 165 ; cf. Diet. Nat, Biog. ; G.E.C. Peerage, 

 vi, 72. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. ; cf. Feet of F. 

 Herts. Trin. 34 Eliz.; Div. Co. Trin. 

 34 Eliz. ; Recov. R. East. 3 5 Eliz. rot. 42. 



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

 165. " G.E.C. loc. cit. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclixxi, 

 60 ; Recov. R. Hil. 20 Jas. I, rot. 74. 



« G.E.C. Peerage, ii, 259 ; Cat. S. P. 

 Dom. 1658-9, pp. 237, 238. 



« Add. MS. 5497, fol. 143. 



<■ Diet. Nat. Biog. 



*' Cal. Com. for Comp. 146, 147 ; Cal. 

 S. P. Dom. 1658-9, pp. 237, 238 ; Feet 

 of F. Div. Co. Mich. 10 Jas. I ; cf. ibid. 

 East. 8 Jas. I. 



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*' Chauncy, op. cit. 96. In 1658 a 

 court was held by James Earl of North- 

 ampton and Hon. Francis Compton 

 (Court Bk. in possession of Messrs. Croas- 

 man and Prichard). Chauncy dates the 

 conveyance to Lucy and Atkins at 'about 

 1657.' Later a connexion is found be- 

 tween the Compton and Lucy families, 

 when Mary Luc)-, daughter and heir of 

 Sir Berkeley Lucy, married the Hon. 

 Charles Compton (G.E.C. Baronetage, i, 

 1 14). *" G.E.C. Baronetage, i, 113. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 22 & 23 

 Chas. II. 



" Chauncy, op. cit. 96 ; cf. Feet of F. 

 Herts. Trin. 33 Chas. II ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Misc. Bks. Ixxii, fol. 59. 



" Chauncy, loc. cit. Sir Thomas Byde 

 held a court in 1682. 



'* Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 382 ; Feet 

 of F. Herts. HiL 12 Anne. 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



*« Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 32 Geo. II. 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



** Inform, from Messrs. Grossman and 

 Prichard ; cf. Recov. R. Trin. 35 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 354. 



