EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



MUCH HADHAM 



Perry Green is a hamlet about 2 miles south-east 

 of the village of Much Hadham. The church of 

 St. Thomas was built in 1853 and is a chapel 

 of ease to the parish church. The school stands 

 to the south of it. Hoglands at Perry Green is 

 a small early 1 7th-century farm-house of timber, partly 

 weather-boarded and partly plastered ; the roofs 

 are tiled. The house is of two stories and attics, and 

 at the end is a projecting chimney stack of thin red 

 bricks, with two square engaged shafts set diagonally. 

 The house is gabled, one gable having an original 

 moulded oak barge-board. 



About one-third of a mile north-east is Buckler's 

 Farm, a timber-framed house covered with plaster, 

 a part of it weather-boarded ; the roofs are tiled. 

 The house was originally L-shaped with a staircase 

 projection in the angle, but modern additions have 

 been made to it. The upper story of the east wing 

 projects on the north and east, and the east gable is 



There is a homestead moat at Exnells on the 

 north-east of the parish and others at Sherrards and 

 Mingers Farm. 



Anthony Allen, lawyer and antiquary (ob. 1754), 

 was born in the parish of Much Hadham.^' Of a 

 branch of the Stopes family settled at Much Hadham 

 was Leonard Stopes, one of the four original scholars 

 at St. John's College, Oxford, and one of the four 

 first fellows there. He was ejected from his fellow- 

 ship on his refusal to conform in 1559 and afterwards 

 suffered imprisonment as a seminary priest. ^^ Among 

 the incumbents of Much Hadham have been several 

 distinguished divines. Biographical notices of Alexander 

 Nowell, Peter Hansted, Daniel Dyke, Thomas Paske, 

 and William Stanley, all rectors of this parish, are 

 given by Clutterbuck ^^ and also by Cussans, who 

 adds a notice of Thomas Patmore, instituted rector 

 in 1515.^1 Stanley Leathes, the Hebraist, held the 

 living from 1889 to 1900. 



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Buckler's Farm, Perry Green, Much Hadham 



hipped ; on the main roof is a chimney stack of thin 

 bricks consisting of a row of square engaged shafts 

 set diagonally on a sloping base ; the other chimney 

 is plain. The north gable of the main block has a 

 moulded barge-board with moulded pendant at the 

 apex. One of the first-floor rooms has plaster deco- 

 rations on the ceiling, consisting of escarbuncles, 

 fleurs de lis and other stock patterns of the dis- 

 trict. In another room is some early 17th-century 

 panelling. 



Green Tye is another hamlet about ij miles 

 south-east of the village. On the north side of 

 Green Tye is an early 17th-century timber-framed 

 and plastered farm-house, with a plain chimney of 

 thin bricks. A fair which used to be held at Green 

 Tye on 23 June was abolished in 1878.^' 



The manor of MUCH HADHAM 

 MANORS belonged to the Bishops of London 

 before the Conquest,^^ but there is no 

 record at what time they acquired it. In 1086 it 

 was assessed at 7^ hides. There was a priest among 

 the tenants of the manor and there was a mill there 

 worth 4/.^' The manor subsequently formed part of 

 the Bishop of London's liberty of Stortford (q.v.). The 

 bishop's tenants were quit of suit of hundred court ^* 

 and the king's ministers were not allowed to enter 

 the bishop's liberty ' in the valley of Hadham ' unless 

 the bishop's bailiffs accompanied them.^^ Other 

 privileges claimed by the bishop in Much Hadham 

 at the end of the i 3 th century were free warren,^' 

 gallows and assize of bread and ale,^' view of frank- 

 pledge and waifs.^* 



^ Lond. Gax, 9 July 1878, p. 4043. 



'8 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



»9 Ibid, 



™ Op. cit. iii, 399. 



" Cussatu, op. cil. Edwimtree Hund. 

 185. »» F.C.H. Herts, i, 305*. 



23 Ibid. 

 ^ Plac.de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 290. 



61 



« Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 193. 



26 Ibid. 



M Ibid. 



" Assize R. 323 



" Ibid. 325 



