A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Ckcil, Marquess of 

 Salisburj'. Barry of ten 

 pieces argent and aaure 

 six scutcAeons sable 'with 

 a lion argent in each and 

 the difference oj a crescents 



beyond reprises.** In 1400 the tenants of this manor 

 were exonerated from p.^ying the expenses of the 

 knights of the shire in the 

 coming Parliame t.^' 



In 1600 Bishop Martin 

 Heton exchanged the manor 

 with Queen Elizabeth for 

 other lands,-'' and in January 

 1601-Z Elizabeth granted it 

 with suit of mill, warren, 

 court leet and view of frank- 

 pledge to Thomas Bellot and 

 Richard Langley''^ in trust for 

 Sir Robert Cecil,*" principal 

 Secretary of State, who in 

 1605 was created Earl of 

 Salisbury.'^ In 1 607 James I 

 confirmed the grant of Little 

 Hadham to him and hisheirs,'^ 



and from this time the manor has descended with the 

 Earls and Marqucs-es of Salisbury," the present lord 

 of the manor being James Edward Hubert Gascoyne 

 Marquess of Salisbury. 



There was a park attached to this manor of Little 

 Hadham, a reference t^ uhich occurs in ijoo.'*'' A 

 grant of free warren had been made in 1251." The 

 excessive shade caused by the large trees within the 

 park impoverished the pasturage there, which in 1356 

 was valued at only y. 4./.'* In the 1 6th cent.,r^ 

 the park was leased by the bishops.^' A house or 

 lodge in it is mentioned in 16th-century grants." 

 No traces of this park can now be found. 



The manor of IIICKHAM HALL lay partly in 

 the parish of Little Hadham. The estate appears to 

 have been divided in the i6th century, possibly after 

 the death of Sir William Say (see Bishop's Stortford 

 in Braughing Hundred). In 1573 a quitclaim of a 

 twentieth part of the manor lying in Bishop's Stort- 

 ford, Little Hadham and Albury was made by lohn 

 M.i>>ingberd and Dorothy his wife, one of the heir^ 

 cil Anne Lady Bourchier, to Anthony Crane." 

 The following year Crane acquired also the rights 

 of Th .mas Housman, another of the heirs, and con- 

 veyed two-fifths of one-fourth of the manor to 

 Andrew Malory,'*' who finally purchased the whole 

 of one moiety of the manor.' After the death of 

 M.ilory his widow Elizabeth sold this moiety in 

 1620 to Robert Symonds of Berden, co. Essex, 

 and Thomas Symonds his son and heir.^ In 1629 

 Thomas Symonds and his wife Philippa sold this half 

 of Wickham Hall to Edward Atkir.s,' who with his 

 wife Ursula conveyed it in 1633 to Arthur Capell,^ 



lord of the manor of Hadham Hall. Arthur Capell 

 had already purchased the other half of the Wickham 

 estate (see Bishop's Stortford), and he threw the whole 

 into his park at Hadham, which he was enlarging at 

 the time.' Wickham Hall he converted into a lodge 

 for the keeper of the park.* 



The manor of CLINTOi\S, called Clyntons afiai 

 Drax in the 1 7th century, was held of the Bishop 

 of Ely,' and appears to represent those lands which 

 in the 13th and 14th centuries were called Virly- 

 lands. 



At the beginning of the i 3th century Geoffrey de 

 \'erly was holding one-fourth of a fee in Hadham 

 of the Bishop of Ely,' and later in the century this 

 fee is returned as held by John de Verly.^ In 

 1274-5 ^^^ estate was held by Thomas de Verly, 

 who claimed free warren in Little Hadham.'" Thomas 

 was living as late as 1287." Virlyland was after- 

 wards held by Matilda wife of Augustine le Parker, 

 who was possibly an heiress of the Verlys. She 

 died seised of it in 1349, ^^^ ^^^' being her son 

 Thomas.'^ 



\'irl} lands afterwards came to Henry Clynton. In a 

 grant of his lands in 1401—2 his lands in Little Hadham 

 are described as being all lands 

 called Austyns, Virliez and 

 Scottes,'' and these lands 



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iyy^i 



Clinton, Argent six 

 crosilets Jitchy table and 

 a chief axure with tivo 

 motets or pierced gules 

 therein. 



formed the manor of Clin 

 tons. In I 396 Henry Clynton 

 enfeoffed John de Baryngton 

 and other trustees of his lands 

 in Little Hadham for a settle- 

 ment on his wife Margaret 

 for life, with remainder to his 

 cousin Henry de Fylongley in 

 fee, that he might find a chap- 

 Iain to celebrate for the souls 

 of Roger and Roger, priests and 

 late masters of Henry Clyn- 

 ton. If Henry de Fylongley 



died before Henry or Margaret the lands were to be 

 sold to the highest bidder and the profits expended 

 in masses.'* Henry de Fylongley appears to have 

 died before Henry and Margaret, for the trustees 

 enfeoffed John Pluknet. He forfeited before February 

 1407-8 and his lands were granted by the king to 

 John Rassh for life." In 141 3 the trustees claimed 

 the lands,'* and on the death of John Baryngton his 

 son Thomas Baryngton renewed the claim," but 

 without success. The king made a grant of the lands 

 to his surgeon and his usher in 1439," and in 1462 

 granted them to Richard Jeny for life." 



« Aid. MS. 6165, foL 231. 



■"■ Ibid. 5847, fol. 125. 



'" Close, +; Eliz. pt. xxx ; Add. MS. 

 5S4-, fol. 125 ; Gibbons, Ely Efts. 

 Re^.rJs^ 12. 



™ Pat. 44 Elii. pt. ii, m. 29. 



» Cal. S. P. Dom. 1601-5, p. 162. 



" G.E.C. Co-.tlit! Peerjg,, s.v. Salis- 

 bury. »2 Pat. 5 Jas. C F'- "ii- 



'-' See RecoT. R. M.ch. 20 Jas. I, 

 rot. 90; Hil. 7 Anne, rot. 115 ; East. 

 9 Geo. II, rot. 194; Mich. ■ Geo. I\', 

 rot. 2;; ; G.E.C. loc cit. 



** Newcourt, Repertorium^ i, 829. 



» Cal. Chart. R. 1226-;-, p. -,67. 



>« Add. MS. 6i6^, fol. 251. 



*' Cl of Rc(j. bdle. 44, no. 44. 



** Pat. 44 Eliz. pL ii, m. 29 ; 5 Jas. I, 

 pt. x\ ii. 



» FectofF. Herts. Mich. 15 &i6Eli2.; 

 Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 412. Anne 

 Lady Bourchier was one of the heirs of 

 Sir William Say. After the failure of 

 her issue she was represented by the heirs 

 of Thomas Say, brother of Sir William 

 Say, of whom Dorothy Massingberd was 

 one (see Berwick in Sundon, Braughing 

 Hundred). 



"* Clutterbuck, Hit. and Antij. oj 

 Herts, iii, 4 1 2. 



' I:id. ; Deeds in Evidence Room at 

 Cashiobu ry. 



» Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 18 Jas. I ; 

 Clutterbuck, loc cit. 



' Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 5 Chas. I. 



' Ibid. Hil. S Chas. I. 



' Deeds in Ewdcnce Room at Cash.o- 

 bury. 



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° Chauncy, op. cit. 158. 



' See Gibbons, Ely Epis. Records, 433 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxix, 225. 



" Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 526 



» Cott. MS. Claud. C xi, 20. 



^" Hund.R. (Rec. Com.), i, 193. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1013. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. Ill 

 nos.), no. 7, 



" Cal. Pat. 141 3-16, p. III. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 11508. 



" Cal. Pat. 1405-g, p. 389; 141 3 

 p. III. Sec Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Hen. VI, 

 no. 68 ; 17 Hen. VI, no. 1 1. 



" Cal. Pat. 1413-16, p. III. 



'Mbid. 1429-36, p. 276; 1461-7, 

 p. 338. 



'" Ibid. 1436-41, p. 2Sc. 



" Ibid. 1461-7, p. 107. 



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