A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



• 753; (iii) and (iv) marriages 1754. to 1783 and 

 1784 to 1812 respectively. 



A member of the Sanford family 

 jiDyOfVSON founded the priory of St. Laurence 

 of Blackmore in Essex before the 

 end of the 12th century, and it was probably by the 

 founder or one of his immediate descendants that the 

 church of Hormead was granted to the priory.*^ 

 After the priory had been suppressed under the bull 

 of 1524 the rectory and advowson of Hormead were 

 amongst its possessions '' which were granted for the 

 foundation of Wolsey's colleges,^' and in the same 

 year Wolsey received a mortmain licence to appropriate 

 the rectory for Cardinal's College, Oxford.*' In 

 1528 the Dean and canons of Cardinal's College 

 leased the rectory and advowson of Great Hormead 

 to Sir John Jenkinson, vicar of Hormead, and one of 

 his parishioners for twenty-one years, stipulation being 

 made that the dean or any canon sent to receive the 

 rent should have ' honszome honest lodging mete 

 and drynke good and sufficient with hey provender 

 and litter for their horses by the space of one daye 

 and one nyght in every yere.' '" In 1530, after the 

 attainder of Wolsey, the rectory of Hormead was 

 assigned by the Crown to the college at Windsor," 

 but in 1532 the Abbot and convent of Waltham 

 Holy Cross received a grant of the advowson of the 

 church with power to appropriate the rectory.*^ 



After the Dissolution the rectory and advowson 

 were granted in 1 543 to John Sewester,*' who in 1545 

 conveyed them to Thomas Brand, senior, and Thomas 

 Brand, junior.'* They remained with the family of 

 Brand for some years, but some arrangement seems to 

 have been made before 1593 with regard to a 

 division of the right of patronage. George Brand, 

 who died in 1593, held one-third of the rectory and 

 advowson,'* whilst in 1609 Thomas Brand settled 

 two-thirds of the rectory and advowson and all the 

 mansion-house of the rectory called ' le parsonage 

 house ' on his son Thomas on the marriage of the 

 latter.'' The younger Thomas Brand died in 1640, 

 leaving two-thirds of the patronage and of the rectory 

 to his son Thomas." The owner of the right of 



presentation for two turns app.irently sold his right 

 to Bernard Turner, lord of the manor, in 1 68 7.** 

 The right of the latter, according to Cussans, 

 descended to Thomas Turner, who sold it to Abraham 

 Houblon, from whom the right of presentation wai 

 bought by the Master and fellows of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, before 1728." The rectory 

 apparently remained with the lords of Redeswell, for 

 John Archer-Houblon suffered a recovery of it in 

 1828.'" The other third of the advowson was vested 

 in a branch of the Brand family as late as 1797, in 

 which year the Hon. Thomas Brand presented,^' but 

 it was apparently bought finally by St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, in the gift of which the living is at the 

 present day.'* 



In the reign of Henry III a grant was made by 

 John Fitz Warren, on behalf of Lora de Sanford, 

 of a lamp to burn day and night before the cross 

 in the church of Great Hormead and a wax candle 

 before the altar for a mass of the Blessed Mary for 

 the souls of Lady Loretta de Sanford and of her 

 predecessors and heirs." 



In 1694 William Delawood of 

 CHARITIES London, merchant, born at Hormead 

 Hall, the seat of his ancestors, gave 

 j^io a year for the poor, to be distributed at 

 Christmas by the lord of the manor of Hormead Hall 

 and the minister and churchwardens, as recorded on 

 a table in the church. The annuity is paid by 

 Mr. G. B. Oyler, owner of Hormead Hall. 



The Poor's Land consists of 5 acres in this parish and 

 5 acres in the parish of Layston. The rents, which 

 amount to about j(^lo a year, are applied in the 

 distribution of money. 



Unknown donors' charities. — It is stated in the 

 Parliamentary returns of 1 786 that a donor unknown 

 gave a rent-charge of £1 per annum for the poor ; 

 also that an annuity of £i was given to the poor 

 by a donor unknown. 



The annuity oi £i is paid out of the parsonage 

 by Mr. G. B. Oyler, owner of Parsonage Farm, 

 under the title of Brand's charity, but the annuity of 

 £z does not appear to be received. 



LITTLE HORMEAD 



Little Hormead is a thinly populated parish con- 

 sisting mainly of arable land ^ with little woodland. 

 It has an area of 1,065 acres. The parish lies at 

 an elevation of from 300 ft. to 400 ft. The soil is 

 mixed, the subsoil chiefly clay. The chief crops are 

 wheat, barley and beans. On the south-east of the 

 parish is a detached part of Great Hormead parish, 

 and again on the east of this is a small piece of Little 

 Hormead. 



The Cambridge Road passes through the western 



end of the parish, parallel with the River Quin. The 

 village lying at some distance from the river and 

 from the main road consists of a few houses scattered 

 along the road from Great Hormead which, after 

 winding through the parish, leads to Fumcux Pelham. 

 On the west side of this road, and about a third 

 of a mile south of Great Hormead Church, stands 

 St. Mary's Church, which by reason of its proximity 

 to the church of Great Hormead is used but occa- 

 sionally. Close to St. Mary's Church is the manor- 



^ See Dugdale, Mon. vi, 552. The 

 founder was either Jordan de Sanford or 

 John de Sanford. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxvi, i 

 (Cambridge) ; Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 

 file 309, no. II. 



'8 L. and P. Hen. VIII, IT (l), 1833. 



59 Ibid, iv (2), 2167. 



«» Aug. Off. Convent. Leases (P.R.O.), 

 Ozoo. bdle. 4.. 



61 L. and P. Hen. fill, iv (3), 

 6516. 



™ Ibid. V, g. 766 (2) ; Newcourt, 

 Rcpert. 835. 



63 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xviii (2), g. 327 



(19). 



" Com.PleasD.Enr.Hil.36 Hen. VIII, 



m. 2. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccbcxviii, 

 1 27. ^ Ibid, cccciixiv, 95. 



" Ibid, dcclxxxvi, 69. 



^ Salmon, Hiit. of Herts. 310. 



^ Cussans, op. cit Edtuimiree Hund. 

 70 ; Salmon, loc. cit, Charles Crowch, 



74 



grandson of Bernard Turner, appears as 

 vouchee in a recovery of two parts of 

 the advowson of the vicarage suffered in 

 1720 (Recov. R. Mich. 7 Geo. I, rot. 55). 

 He probably had a term of years, for he 

 presented in 1721 (Inst. Bki. P.R.O. ; 

 cf, advowson of Little Hormead). 



™ Recov. R. Hil. 8 i 9 Geo. IV, rot 

 289. " Ibid. 



^' See Cussans, loc. cit. 



" Harl. Chart. 50 C. 17. 



* Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (190;). 



