EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



LITTLE HADHAM 



Richard Jeny died in 14.81,^" when his widow 

 Elizabeth paid a fine for the custody of his lands. ^^ 

 His heirs were his daughters Margaret wife of 

 Randal Lyttelore and Emma wife of Richard Drax 

 or Drakes.^^ Margaret and Randal Lyttelore claimed 

 the manor as Margaret's property by settlement,'^ 

 but the manor remained with Emma and Richard 

 Drakes, and on their death descended to their 

 son Lambert Drakes.'* He probably conveyed it 

 to Henry Patmore (to whom he sold the manor of 

 Joyces (q.v.) in 15 13), for in 1520 Henry Patmore 

 died seised of the manor.^' His heir was his son 

 Thomas, but Clintons .ippears to have been settled 

 on his widow Julian for life, for she joined with 

 her second husband Sir Piers Dutton '^ and her son 

 William Patmore in leasing it to Thomas Brett of 

 Little Hadham to hold during her life. After the 

 death of Sir Piers Dutton and William Patmore Dame 

 Julian Dutton and her son Thomas Patmore entered 

 into a part of the farm called Exnjnges and threatened 

 to expel Thomas Brett from the rest of the farm 

 called Clintons Hall.'^ In I 550 Dame Julian was 

 holding the manors of Clintons and Joyces jointly 

 with her son Thomas, and they received a quitclaim 

 from Edmund Harre and his wife Joan of all Joan's 

 right in the manors.'^ From this date Clintons 

 descended with Joyces (q.v.). In 1612 Roland 

 Baugh died seised of the capital messuage called 

 Clintons alias Drax, and it passed to his son Edward 

 Baugh.^' No further record of the manor has been 

 found. 



Of the manor of JOJ'CES (Jewel, Jeweys, Jowcys) 

 no early records remain, but in the 14th century there 

 was a family called Joce living in Hadham,^" and it 

 possibly represents their lands. William Rokesburgh, 

 in his will proved 1387, left to his son his goods in 

 the manor of Newgates in Stanstead Abbots and his 

 'chest at Joces,''i which may be this manor.'' In 

 15 13 Lambert Drax and Cecily his wife were 

 holding Joyces in Cecily's right and sold it to Henry 

 Patmore.'^ Henry Patmore died in 1520,^* and his 

 son Thomas with Dame Julian Dutton, widow, his 

 mother, were holding Joyces in 1550 and received 

 a quitclaim from Edmund Harre and Joan his wife '* 

 (whose interest has not been ascertained) of all Joan's 

 right in the manor. The family of Patmore after- 

 wards took the name of Grimsditch.'' In 1560'^ 

 and 1566'^ Joyces appears in the tenure of John 

 Grimsditch and Elizabeth his wife. In 1 576 Thomas 

 Grimsditch made a conveyance to Sir Ralph Sadleir,'' 

 kt., and another to Henry Sadleir and Richard Bankes 

 in I578.**' These were probably only for the 



purposes of settlement, for in 1 5 8 5 Thomas Grimsditch 

 sometime Patmore leased his mansion-house with the 

 malt-houses and dove-houses to Augustine Steward of 

 London,''^ and in 1588 he and his wife Margaret 

 conveyed Joyces to Roland Baugh.*' In 1595 John 

 Haynes and Mary his wife conveyed all right in the 

 manor of Joyces to Thomas Manastye,*^ but their 

 interest was probably only a limited one, for in 161 2 

 it was the subject of a fine levied by John Grimsditch 

 to Edward Baugh." After this date no further 

 record of the manor has been found. 



The manor of the CJSTLE OF CJILES (Caylys, 

 Caldwynes, xvi cent. ; Callis, Calwines, xviii cent.) was 

 held of the Bishop of Ely as of his manor of Little 

 Hadham.*" No record of it has been found before 

 the 1 6th century, when with the manor of Gatesbury 

 in Braughing (q.v.) it was divided between the heirs 

 of Adam de Gatesbury. Land in Hadham was held 

 by the lord of the manor of Gatesbury in 1320, when 

 he received a grant of free warren in his demesne 

 lands of Much and Little Hadham.*^ In 1498 

 Henry Elveden, kinsman and heir of Adam de 

 Gatesbury,*' died seised of half the castle or manor 

 of Cailes, and it descended to his granddaughter 

 Denise, who married Humphrey Fitz Herbert of 

 Uphall in Braughing.** The Castle of Cailes together 

 with a grange called Caldwyns (from which it took its 

 alternative name) descended with the manor of Gates- 

 bury *' until 1 559.^° After this date no further record 

 of it has been found until 17 1 8, when it was held 

 with the manor of Bromley Hall in Standon by 

 Edward Elderton and Elizabeth his wife and was sold 

 by them to Charles Cotton. '^ The manor appears to 

 have been afterwards absorbed in the Bromley Hall 

 estate in Standon, which is now held by Mr. Grosvenor 

 Berry. 



The church of ST. CECILU "" con- 

 CHURCH sists of chancel 26 ft. by 2 3 ft. 6 in., nave 

 48 ft. by 2 3 ft. 6 in., north transept 2 5 ft. 

 by 23 ft. 6 in., west tower 1 1 ft. 6 in. square, timber 

 south porch 1 2 ft. 6 in. by 1 1 ft., and modern vestry 

 north of the chancel ; all the dimensions are internal. 

 The chancel, nave and tower are of flint rubble 

 with stone dressings, the walls of the nave and tower 

 are cement covered, the north transept and vestry 

 are of brick, the south porch is of wood, the roofs 

 are slated except the transept and south porch, which 

 are tiled. 



The nave walls may be of 12th-century date, as 

 the north doorway appears to be of that period. The 

 semicircular inner arch of this remains, but the outer 

 opening is filled with a brick window of probably 



*> P.CC. 3 Logge. 



'' Gibbons, Ely Epis. Records, 433. 

 Her aame is given as Alice in Early 

 Chan. Proc. bdle. 100, no. 29 and in 

 Richard's will dated 1480 (P.CC. 3 Logge). 

 In his will he desired to be buried in the 

 church of Little Hadham. 



^ Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100, no. 29 ; 

 Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, xiii, fol. 77. 



''^ Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100, no. 29. 



2* Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, 

 xiii, foL 77. 



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



^' yisitation of Chesh. (Harl. Soc), 260. 



"^ Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, vi, 

 fol. 296. 



28 Feet of F. Herts. East. 4 Edw. VI. 

 It is not clear what their interest was. 



'^^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser, 2), cccxxvii, 126. 



^ See Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B 4014 ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1 301-7, p. 176. 



" Lond. Epis. Reg. Braybrook, fol. 394. 



^2 There were, however, lands called 

 Joyces at Stanstead Abbots. 



33 Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 5 Hen. VIII. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxix, 

 225. 



" Feet of F. Herts. East. 4 Edw. VI. 



3^ See Egerton MS. 2599, fol. loi. 



" Ibid. fol. 87. 



38 Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 8 & 9 Eliz. 



3' Recov. R. Trin. 1576, rot. 415. 



*° Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 20 & 21 Eliz. 



" Egerton MS. 2599, foL loi. 



« Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 30 Eliz. 



« Ibid. Hil. 37 Eliz. 



*^ Ibid. Mich. 10 Jas. I. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxx, 47. 



ss 



*8 Cal, Chart. R. 1300-26, p. 431. 



*' See manor of Gatesbury in Braugh- 

 ing for descent. In 1513 'land of the 

 manor of Gaddesbury called Cayle land * is 

 mentioned as lying in Westfield (Extent 

 of that year communicated by Mr. W. 

 Minet). 



*8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxx, 47. 



*' See ibid, c, 79 ; Feet of F. Herts. 

 Hil. 32 Hen. VIII. 



5" Recov. R. Trin. 3 1 Eliz. rot. 547. 



51 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 5 Geo. I, 

 m. 27 d. 



"^ The invocation of this church is 

 given on the ordnance map as St. Edmund, 

 but is proved to be St. Cecilia by wills of the 

 14th and 15th centuries (will of Thomas 

 Potyn, 1349, in Ct. of Husting ; will of 

 Thos. Baud, 1449, P.CC. 18 Rous). 



