EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



fireplace in the east wall ; this has been reduced by 

 the insertion of a modern stove, leaving the ends 

 with their seats inclosed in cupboards. The hall was 

 originally open to the roof, but in the 1 7th century 

 a floor was inserted, forming it into two stories. 

 This floor rests on two heavy moulded beams dividing 

 the ceiling into four equal plastered squares ; in the 

 centre of each is a square flush-bead panel placed 

 diagonally containing a plaster escarbunclc of the 

 usual type. In the bedroom above is one of the 

 original roof principals. The tie-beam is moulded on 

 the east side only, the west side having a splay on 

 its under edge ; this may be due to a later mutilation, 

 or the truss may formerly have been against an end 

 wall. At the south end is a heavy curved brace, about 

 1 5 in. by 4 in., with hollow-chamfered edges ; the 

 spandrel is filled with tracery in three panels, each 

 having a cinquefoiled arch with tracery under the 

 tie-beam. The brace at the other end has been 

 removed, but the mortise and pin-holes are visible. 

 The internal span of the roof is 1 7 ft. ; it is ceiled a 

 little above the tie-beam. The east end of the block 

 is of 17th-century work, and is built of thin red 

 bricks ; the east gable has a large cross and a diaper 

 pattern, all executed in black bricks. The chimney 

 stack at the east end over the kitchen is rectangular ; 

 the central shaft has two square shafts set diagonally. 

 In the kitchen, at the east end, is a wide fireplace in 

 which is a modern range ; the old seated ends are 

 inclosed in cupboards. 



Lower Farm is a little to the east of the Green ; 

 it is of two stories with attics. The plan was origi- 

 nally L-shaped, but a modern addition on the 

 south side has made it T-shaped. The north wing 

 is timber-framed and plastered, with tiled roof, and 

 has a chimney stack with a row of four engaged 

 octagonal shafts ; it is probably of early 1 7th-century 

 work. The west wing is entirely of brick, and appears 

 to be a rebuilding of later 1 7th-century date, although 

 perhaps not so late as 1665, which is painted in 

 modern figures on the gable. On the south side is a 

 projecting chimney built chiefly of thin bricks, but 

 the rest of the brickwork is later in character ; round 

 the wing, at the level of the first floor, is a heavy 

 moulded brick string-course, and in the gable is a 

 blocked attic window with square brick label over. 

 The chimney stack has two detached octagonal shafts 

 without bases, having their capitals united. Two of 

 the rooms in the west wing have panelled ceilings, with 

 squares containing plaster escarbuncles (some crowned 

 as on the house by Albury churchyard), double- 

 headed eagles and other devices. Bury Green Farm, 

 on the west side of the Green, now belonging to 

 Mr. Samuel Betts, J.P., is an early 17th-century 

 house of two stories, built of timber-framing and 

 plastered ; the roof is tiled. The chimney stack has a 

 row of three square shafts set diagonally. In one of 

 the rooms is a wide fireplace with the seated ends 

 inclosed in modern cupboards. 



Green Street is a small hamlet about i mile east 

 from Hadham Ford. There is a homestead moat 

 at Green Street Farm. Between Bury Green and 



LITTLE HADHAM 



Hadham on Ash lay Mill Field,* which probably 

 took its name from the mill of Bauds' Manor, now 

 no longer standing. North and north-east of Green 

 Street lay Hadham Park. After the additions made 

 by Sir Arthur Capell in 1635 the park extended into 

 the neighbouring parishes of Albury, Bishop's Stort- 

 ford and Farnham.^ The disparking began after the 

 removal of the Capells from Hadham at the end of 

 the 17th century and there are now no traces of the 

 park left. 



On the west of the parish Caley Wood, Castle 

 Field and Castles preserve the name of the manor 

 known as the Castle of Cailes. To the north of Caley 

 Wood is Pig's Green, one of the small rectangular 

 greens common in Hertfordshire. There is a hamlet 

 of a few houses at Westland Green, a little further 

 north. 



An inclosure award was made for Little Hadham 

 in 1859.1° In 1277 Southfield, Clude (now Clouds), 

 Westfield, Stocking, Wholmstede, Limstede and 

 Halmstede (Hempstead ?) are given as names of fields 

 belonging to the Ely manor and containing appa- 

 rently both demesne and copyhold lands.^^ Later 

 Shirland (Shelland, Shetland), Bugwood, Taskfield 

 (Tassfield) and Nashfield are found as commons 

 shared by both manors (as was also Westfield). 

 Nashfield, adjoining the demesne of Bauds' Manor, 

 had one holding only of the Ely manor. Among 

 other field-names found in the parish are Aury Neck 

 Mead, Troopers, Foxes Field, Gladdings, Readings, 

 The Harp, Market Thorns, Oyster End, Juddle, 

 Great and Little Corny (Conyngery, Conyvers, xvi 

 cent. ; Conigree, xviii cent.), Hoowaters (Woowaters, 

 xvi cent.), and Jerveylesfeld (xiv cent., found as 

 Jerdebill's Grove, xv cent., Jarveldes, Jardfeyldes, 

 xvi cent.).^^ 



The manor of HADHAM HALL or 

 MANORS BAUDS' MANOR was divided between 

 three sokemen in the reign of Edward 

 the Confessor. Of these one, a man of Archbishop 

 Stigand, held a hide all but half a virgate, another, a 

 man of Robert Fitz Wimarc, held 3^ virgates, while 

 the third, a man of King Edward, held only I virgate 

 and paid iJ. to the sheriff.^' In 1086 Little Had- 

 ham was held by the Bishop of London,!^ and it is 

 afterwards found forming part of the bishop's barony, 

 of which the head was Bishop's Stortford.^^ In the 

 1 6th century the manor was said to owe ^s. castle- 

 guard rent to Stortford, which was still payable, 

 although the castle was ruinous.^* 



A certain William was tenant in fee of the manor 

 of Little Hadham in 1086.^' The tenants next 

 found in the manor are the family of Baud, who were 

 possibly William's descendants, as they succeeded also 

 to a William's lands in Corringham, co. Essex. In 

 1 1 66 Simon Baud was holding three knights' fees 

 of the Bishop of London,'* and these probably in- 

 cluded Little Hadham. In 1 2 10 Philip Baud was 

 holding Corringham and 4 hides which are not 

 located but again probably include Hadham.'*^ 

 Nicholas Baud was holding the manor at the begin- 

 ning of the 13th century, and by 1242 it had 



* See Salmon, op. cit. 281. 



* See below under manor. 



'" Blue Bk. Incl. Awards, 63. 



" Cott. MS. Claud. C xi (Reg. of Ely), 

 m. i6^i. 



'2 Names from tithe map of 1844 and 

 deeds communicated by Mr. W. Minet. 



" V.C.H. Herts, i, 306. 



" Ibid. 



's Cal. Close, 1237-42, p. 468 ; Plac. 

 de Quo tVarr. (Rec. Com.), 290 ; Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 431, 444; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 I Ric. II, no. 6 ; (Ser. 2), xxx, 25. 



'^ Chauncy, op. cit. 154. 



51 



" V.C.H. Herts, i, 306a. 



18 Red Bk. oJExch. (Rolls Ser.), i, 1 86 ; 

 see J. H. Round, ' Baud Family,' Essex 

 Arch. Soc. Tram. (New Ser.), x, 347. 



ISa Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 541. 



