EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



YoRKE, Earl of Hard- 

 wicke. Argent a saltire 

 azure charged ivith a 

 bezant. 



by Ralph Freeman of Hamells in Braughing. It 



descended with that estate (q.v.) to Phihp (Yorke) 



second Earl of Hardwicke. He 



was succeeded at Buckland by 



his nephew Philip, the third 



earl,** whose daughter Anne 



Countess of Mexborough was 



his heir.^ The estate is at 



present in the possession of 



her grandson the Hon. John 



Henry Savile of Arden Hall, 



CO. York. 



The reputed manor of 



HORNE evidently originated 



in a messuage or mansion- 

 house called 'The Home,' 



which was held as of Buckland 



Manor.^^ Possibly it belonged 



to the Home family during the 14th and 15 th cen- 

 turies,*^ as it was in the possession of John Shuck- 

 burgh about 1 5 1 9,*' who was heir of Thomas son of 



John Shuckburgh who married Clemency daughter of 

 John Home, great-grandson of Eleanor de Buckland.** 

 John Shuckburgh sold it to Robert Dormer, gentle- 

 man, about 1519,*' and in February 1527-8 he 

 alienated to Edward Watson,^" who purchased the 

 main manor of Buckland shortly afterwards.^i The 

 two estates were thus amalgamated, and by 1700 the 

 manor of Buckland was sometimes known as the 

 ' manor of Home.' '^ 



* The manor of POPE'S HALL (Popleshall, Popes- 

 hal or Poppeshal, xlii cent. ; Little Popeleshale,'* 

 xiv cent. ; Popsale, xv cent. ; Popesall or Popleshey, 

 xvii cent.) was probably included in the holding of 

 Odo of Bayeux in 1086.'* The fees held of Adam 

 de Port in the early part of the 1 3 th century included 

 a quarter-fee in Pope's Hall in addition to the main 

 manor of Buckland.^' In 1 1 66 a whole fee was held 

 of John de Port, Adam's father,^^ by William de 

 Popleshall (Pope's Hall)." This fee doubtless in- 

 cluded lands at Pope's Hall in Boughton Malherbe, 

 CO. Kent, held by the Popeshall family.'* Moreover, 

 it seems possible that Osbern, who held under Bishop 

 Odo in Buckland in 1086, was identical with the 

 Osbern son of Letard who held Pope's Hall in Kent 

 of the bishop.'' The Port barony was one of those 

 which owed castle-ward service to Dover, and ward 

 was due from Pope's Hall in Buckland to this castle.^"" 

 Knight's service due, as in the case of Buckland, to the 

 Ports and St. Johns was not apparently attached to 

 Tonge Castle, but was assigned in dower to Mirabel 

 widow of Hugh second Lord St. John,i and afterwards 



BUCKLAND 



formed part of the share of one of his daughters, 

 Isabel wife of Luke de Poynings.^ The service to 

 Dover Castle was still recorded in 1427.* 



In 1 249 William de Orleston was holding Pope's 

 Hall in right of his wife Joan.'' It is not clear who 

 she was, but she seems to have been heiress of the 

 family of Popeshall, since the Kentish manor of Pope's 

 Hall also descended to the Orleston family.^ The 

 connexion between the Popeshall family and this 

 manor is otherwise lacking in definite evidence. 

 William de Popeshall was among those who viewed 

 the royal works at Dover Castle in 1 170-1.' Richard 

 de Popeshall, who appointed Geoffrey son of Anger 

 his essoin before the king's justices at Hertford in 

 1 198,' was probably lord of Pope's Hall, co. Herts. 

 Robert son of Richard de Popeshall was hostage to 

 the king for Adam de Port in 12 12-13.* 



Joan wife of William de Orleston joined her 

 husband in a subfeoffment of Pope's Hall Manor to 

 Bertram de CrioU in 1249.' He was to hold by 

 service of half a knight's fee, by the ward due from 

 the manor to Dover Castle, and by a rent of 6d., 

 to be rendered at Pope's Hall, co. Kent. Free 

 warren, a market and fair were granted to Bertram 

 de CrioU in 1252.1" He subenfeoffed his son 

 Nicholas de Crioll,!^ who sold the manor to Philip 

 de Buckland.i^ Richard (de Clare) Earl of Gloucester 

 took possession apparently without any just claim. ^^ 

 Nevertheless it remained with his descendants. His 

 son Gilbert seventh Earl of Gloucester was in pos- 

 session in 12781*' and died seised in 1295.I' After 

 the death of Gilbert, son of the last-named earl, at 



Clare. Or threi 

 che'uerons gules. 



Mortimer. Barry or 

 and a%ure a chief or zvith 

 tivo pales between tiuo 

 gyrons azure therein and a 

 scutcheon argent o'uer all. 



Bannockburn in 1314,'^ the custody of Pope's Hall 

 was granted to Ralph de Heron. ^'^ 



The manor evidently descended to Elizabeth de 

 Burgh, one of the sisters and co-heirs of the eighth 



83 Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Herts. Hi, 393. 



8* Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edwinstree 

 Hund. 47. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Set. 2), li, 13. 



^ See above, 



^ Close, II Hen. VIII, no. 2. 



88 See the account of Chamberlains in 

 Reed ; cf. Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. IV, 

 no. 60. 



89 Close, II Hen. VIII, no. 2. 



» Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), M, 13. 



'1 See above. 



9' cf. Chauncy, op. cit. 113. 



M Col. Close, I $$7-9, P- 20. Evidently 

 to distinguish it from Pope's Hall, co. 

 Kent. '* See above. 



9* Testa de Neirill (Rec. Com.), 270. 



^ y.C.H. Hants, iv, 116. 



f Red Si. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 208. 



98 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 208 ; 

 cf. Feud. Aids, iii, 24, 25 j Cal. Close, 



1337-9. P- 20- 



99 Dom. Bk. Fac. Kent, 18. 



iio Feet of F. Herts. 34 Hen. Ill, no. 

 401 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 

 34 ; Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 418. 



1 Cal. Close, 1337-9, p. 20. 



2 Ibid. 1349-54, p. 72; cf. V.C.H. 

 Hants, iv, 116. 



s Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 418. 



* Feet of F. Herts. 34 Hen. Ill, no. 

 401 ; Hund. R. (Rec. Com.}, i, 193. 



* Feud. Aids, iii, 24-5. 



^ Pipe R. 17 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc), 

 137, 138. 



4; 



' Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), i, 172. 



^ Cal. Rot. Chart. 1199-1216 (Rcc. 

 Com.), 191. 



9 Feet of F. Herts. 34 Hen. Ill, no. 

 401. 



19 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, p. 404. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. case 283, file 1 3, 

 no. 291. 



12 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 193. 



'' Ibid. In the inquisition on Richard 

 de Clare Earl of Gloucester he is said to 

 have bought the property of Nicholas de 

 CrioU {Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, 153). 



" Assize R. 323, m. 45. 



15 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 107. 



i« Ibid. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



1' Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 216. 



