A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



subsidy at the then large sum of ;^3 1 6/. ^y.^ He 

 seems to have been a life tenant only.^ The lands 

 which he held of Ralph son of Fulk in 1294. "ere 

 evidently a part of the 4 hides and 10 acres held of 

 Harduin de Scales in 1086 by Ralph's ancestor 

 Theobald.' Walter the Clerk may be identical with 

 the ' Walter de Barley ' « ho with his tenants held 

 one-quarter of a knight's fee in Barley in 1303.^ 

 The overlord recorded in this case is Edward Lord 

 Burnell, son and heir of Philip Buruell.* Before his 

 death in I 3 1 5 Edward Lord Burnell gave a life interest 

 in a messuage and I 20 acres of land in Barley to a 

 certain Walter de Filby.« \\'alter de Filby was still 

 holding in 1336 when a settlement of the reversionar}- 

 title to this ' manor of Barley ' \\ as made upon Maud 

 wife of Sir John Handlo/ kt., sister and heir of Lord 

 BurneU.* Consequently Sir John Handlo entered 

 upon the manor and granted a lease for life to Walter 

 de Thorp and his wife Avice and to William their 

 son.' Walter de Thorp of Barley was indicted with 

 Richard le Mare;chal and other robbers of Royston 

 in 1342'"; but he was apparently still in possession 

 of this holding in 1345 when Sir John Handlo settled 

 his interest in the hinds in Darxy upon his son 

 Nicholas in tail." Nicholas succeeded his father in 

 1346 '- and .issamed the name of Burnell." 



William Martin is said to have held a court for 

 this manor about i 399,'^ and to have been succeeded 

 hv Thomas Hore." A Thomas Hore was styled 'of 

 Barley' in I 391, when he received exemption from 

 sitting on juries or holding any office under the king.''' 

 In 1428 Gilbert Hore is returned as holding the 

 quarter-fee which had formerly been held by Walter 

 de Thorp." He is said to have been son of Thomas 

 and to have been succeeded by his son-in-law John 

 Ayland.** Probably both Thomas and Gilbert Hore, 

 and possibly also John Ayland, had life interests in the 

 manor similar to those of Walter de Thorp, his wife 

 and son. Nicholas Bunnell's son and heir Hugh Lord 

 Burnell died without surviving male issue on 27 No- 

 vember 1420,''' and in 1455 the 'manor in Barley 

 called Burnells ' was in the possession of Sir William 

 Lovel, kt.,^ great-great-grandson of M.iud HanJlo by 

 a former husband, John Lord Lovel, ^^ to whom it had 

 evidently reverted in accordance with the settlement 

 of 1336.^' William Lord Lovel died on 13 June 

 1455." His younger son William had married 

 Eleanor Lady Morley, and held the manor of 



Walkern in her right.^" At his death in 1476 he 

 was said to hold a messuage with 200 acres of land 

 and certain pasture and woodland in Barley as parcel 

 of Walkern Manor.^' It is obviously identical with 

 the tenement held by Walter the Clerk in 1294,"^ 

 and had probably been settled by Lord Lovel upon 

 his younger son. It descended to Henry Lord 

 Morley, son of William (Lovel) and Eleanor Lady 

 Morley, and at his death passed to his sister Alice," 

 who m.irried as her second husband Sir Edward 

 Howard, second son of Thomas, afterwards Duke of 

 Norfolk and Admiral of the Fleet.^s He died with- 

 out legitimate children in April 1513,^° and in the 

 following February the ' manor of Barley ' together 

 with Acton Burnell and other manors was granted to 

 his father Thomas upon his 

 creation as Duke of Norfolk 

 after his victory at Flodden 

 Field. 30 The duke's eldest 

 son, Thomas third Duke of 

 Norfolk, sold ' the manor of 

 Barley otherwise Hoares ' to 

 Ralph Rowlatt in 1539." 

 Rowlatt afterwards purchased 

 Mincingbury, and was suc- 

 ceeded in March 1542-3 by 

 his son Ralph Rowlatt,'^ who 

 acquired Abbotsbury. The 

 whole estate has descended 

 with Abbotsbury (q.v.) to Mr. 

 A. Crossman of Cockenach, 



the present owner. It is said that in this manor, as 

 at Cheshunt, the custom of Borough English prevails 

 below a certain line called the Bank.'^ 



MINCINGBVRT or BARLEY CHATTERIS 

 Manor was acquired before the Conquest by the 

 Benedictine nuns of Chatteris, co. Camb. In 1 086 

 their ' manor ' in Barley was held in demesne and 

 was extended at 3^ hides.^'* In 1268 there were 

 added by the gift of Ralph son of Ralph son of 

 Fulk (of Broadfield) the advowson of Barley Church 

 and 3 acres of land there.'^ The land and rents of 

 the abbey in Barley were valued at ^^lo is. \od. in 

 1 29 1 .3' Courts baron with view of frankpledge were 

 held in the name of the abbess in 1506," and the 

 courts, royalties and advowson were reserved in a 

 thirty years' lease of the manor to John Chapman on 

 20 May 1 53 1.'* The abbey surrendered to the 



Rowlatt. Gules a 

 chcveron coupUdoied ar- 

 gent 'with three lions 

 gules on the cheveron. 



^ Lay Subs. R. bdle, 120, no. 2. 



' Sec below. 



' I'.C.H. Herts. 1, 339* ; iii, 210 ; cf. 

 the accounts of Mincingbury and Grccr- 

 bury as to the early descent of this manor. 



' FeuJ. Aids, ii,430 ; Walter de Barley 

 may, however, be the ' Walter de Filby ' 

 mentioned below. 



* Ibid. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. I, 45 ; 

 G.E.C. Peerage, ii, 82. In a return of 1 ^46 

 the service due to the lord of Broadfield 

 Manor (descendant of Theobald) is re- 

 corded, but nothing further is found con- 

 cerning the overlordship of this manor 

 beyond the fact that it was held of others 

 than the king by diverse services (Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill, 51 ; Cal. Clo:c, 

 1346-9, p. 110). The statement made 

 m 1477 that this land was parcel of 

 Walkern Manor was evidently an error 

 arising out of the recent acquisition of 

 Walkern by the tenant of the Barley 

 holding (Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. IV, 

 no. 73 ; cf. y.C.H. Herts, iii, 154). 



^ De Banco R. 274, m. 106. 



' Feet of F. Herts. 4 Edw. Ill, no. 

 65 ; De Banco R. 285, m. 257 ; Feet of 

 F. Hert>. 11 Edw. Ill, no. 185. 



' De Banco R. 274, m. 106. 



* Add. Chart. 47541. 



•1 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, p. 555. 



'^ Add. Chart. 47541. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill, no, 

 51 ; Cal. Close, 1346-9, p. 110. 



" G.E.C. Peerage, ii, 82. 



** Chauncy, op. cit. 95. 



'» Ibid. 



'« Cal. Pat. 1388-92, p. 485. 



" Feud. Aids, ii, 445. This return 

 tends to prove that Burnells is identical 

 with Hoares, rather than a distinct hold- 

 ing, as is suggested by some authorities. 



'* Chauncy, loc cit. 



» G.E.C. Peerage, ii, 83. 



*> Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Hen. VI, no. 28, 

 m, 10. 



" G.E.C. Peerage, v, 1O4. 



" Feetof F.Hrrts. iiEdw. III,no.i85. 



40 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Hen. VI, no. 28, 

 m. 10. 



i" F.C.H. Herts, iii, 154. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. IV, 

 no. 73, 



^^ This was extended at 200 acres 

 (Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. I, no. 45). 



^ Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. Vll, \, 213. 



28 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 372. 



" Nicolas, Test. Vetusta, 533. 



'" L. and P. Hen. fill, i, 4694. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 3 1 Hen.VIII ; 

 RecoT. R. Trin. 31 Hen. VIII, rot. 147. 



'2 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), liviii, 40. 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 382. In 

 Mincingbury also the custom of Borough 

 Engliih obtains in certain tenements (Ct. 

 K. penes Messrs. Crossman and Prichard). 



" KC.H. Herts, i, 316A. 



'* Feet of F. Herts. 52 Hen. Ill, no. 

 594 ; Cott. MS. Jul. A i, fol. 140. 



« Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 15. 



" Ct. R. (Gen. Ser.), portf. 177, no. 1. 



" Mins. Acctf. Hen. VIII, no. 266. 



