A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Staller, in the time of Edward the Confessor.*' In 

 1086 it had become part of the large possessions of 

 Count Eustace of Boulogne, and was held of him by 

 Rumold.*' Count Eustace appears to have granted 

 this fee with other lands either to his illegitimate son 

 Geoffrey or to Geoffrey's son William of Boulogne,*' 

 who appears as overlord of Beauchamps shortly before 

 his death in 1130.^ He was succeeded by his son 

 Faramus of Boulogne,*^ whose daughter and heir 

 Sybil married Ingelram de Fiennes.^^ Ingelram de 

 Fiennes was killed in battle in 1189. His son 

 William de Fiennes was his heir *^ and appears as 

 overlord of Beauchamps early in the 13 th century.^ 

 After this date there is no further record of this family 

 holding any rights in Beauchamps. They had appa- 

 rently granted the services from this fee to one of the 

 Vere family," for Aubrey de Vere Earl of Oxford 

 was returned as holding a fee in Alfladewick of the 

 honour of Boulogne in 1210^° and his successors are 

 found as overlords of the manor." 



In 1 1 29 Alfladewick was held in demesne by 

 Rumold, either the Rumold of 1086 or his son.'* 

 This Rumold had two sons, Payn and Bernard, one 

 of whom, apparently Bernard," married the sister of 

 Hugh son of Wulfgar, and half Alfladewick and half 

 the mill with the land attached to it were granted to 

 Hugh by Rumold and his sons as his sister's dower.''" 

 The manor appears to have remained in Rumold's 

 family for some time, though the descent is difficult 

 to tr.ice. In 1 191 Robert Rumold was holding one 

 knight's fee in Alfladewick,'' and in the 13 th century 

 reference is made to the mill of Rumold,"^ but there 

 is no evidence to show if this family ^' was then hold- 

 ing the manor, the history of which cannot be traced 

 until the end of the i 3th century, when it was held 

 by the family of Beauchamp. Henry de Beauchamp 

 styled of Alfladewick was living in 1278,** and 

 in 1303 the manor was held by Peter de Beau- 

 champ.^^ His son John de Beauchamp was assessed 

 at iSi^. for his goods in Alfladewick in 1307-8,'' but 

 the greater part of the Beauchamps' lands appear by 

 this time to have been conveyed to William de Foley, 

 who was assessed at 3/. at the same date." In 1325 

 Margery widow of Peter de Beauchamp quitclaimed 

 to William Foley of Buntingford all right in the lands 

 which he held in Alfladewick of the gift of Peter de 

 Beauchamp and his son John.'* By 1420 the 



' tenement called Beauchamps ' had come to Joan 

 Waleys, widow of John Waleys of Glynde. She died 

 seised of it in that year and her lands descended to 

 her four daughters and co-heirs, Beatrice, Joan, Agnes 

 and Joan." Beauchamps was inherited by Agnes, 

 who was holding it with her husband John Burgh in 

 1434 '"and with her second husband John Patington 

 in 145 2. '1 Agnes died in that year and the manor 

 descended to her daughter Joan the wife of Ralph 

 Grey, jun.,'^ of Brent Pelham.'' Joan was left a 

 widow and became the wife of Edward Goldes- 

 borough.'* She died in 1496 and Beauchamps 

 passed to her granddaughter by her first marriage, 

 Elizabeth Grey."* Elizabeth married Anthony the 

 third son of Sir William Walgrave, kt., of Smallbridge, 

 in Bures St. Mary co. Suffolk." She died before 

 1552, in which year her husband and her second 

 son Julian were holding the manor,'' the reversion 

 of which was settled on Julian." 



In 1567 Anthony Walgrave conveyed the manor 

 to William Naylor for the purpose of a grant to 

 Edward Baesh,'' William Wal- 

 grave, eldest son of Anthony 

 and Elizabeth, quitclaiming 

 his right to Edward Baesh and 

 Thomasine his wife.'" Edward 

 with his second wife Jane, the 

 daughter of Ralph Sadleir,*' 

 settled the manor in 1579 on 

 their second son William, with 

 remainder to their eldest son 

 Ralph.''^ Edward Baesh died 

 in 1587.*^ His son William 

 probably predeceased him, as 

 he was succeeded by Ralph,** 

 who held Beauchamps until 

 his death in 1598, when it 

 descended to his son Edward Baesh.*' The latter 

 died without issue in 1653, and the manor apparendy 

 passed to his cousin Ralph Baesh *' and was sold by 

 him to John Taylor, afterwards rector of Westmill,*' 

 who was holding it in 1 669.** A conveyance of that 

 date to Edward Smith may have been in trust for 

 Bernard Turner, who is said to have bought it from 

 Taylor.*' At Turner's death in 1696 Beauchamps 

 descended to his son John, who gave it to his 

 daughter Anne on her marriage with Thomas Crouch 



Baesh. Party chevt' 

 rontuhe argent and gulei 

 tu'tth tvjo moorcocki table 

 in the chief and a taltire 

 argent in the foot. 



" y.CH. Herti. i, jziA. Godid was 

 a woman. 



« Ibid. 



" Gen. (New Ser.), xii, 145 et seq. 



"> Add. Chart. 28346 ; see Gen. (New 

 Ser.), xii, 151. 



'1 Gen. loc cit ; Add. Chart. 28345 ; 

 see Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 576. 



" Gen. loc. cit. 



53 Ibid. 



" Red Bk. of Exch. (RoUsSer.), ii, 576 ; 

 Testa de Nemil (Rec. Com.), 273. 



55 Aubrey de Vere appears as witness to 

 a settlement of the manor about 11 30 

 (Add. Chart. 28344). 



^ Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 502. 



" See Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 

 270 ; Feud. Aids, ii, 431 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 34 £dw. Ill, no. 84 ; 45 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 45 ; I Hen. IV, no. 52 ; 3 Hen. VI, 

 no. 35 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xii, 

 70a; cccclxxiii, 15; G.E.C. Complete 

 Peerage, s.T. Oxford. 



5« Add. Chart. 28346, 28345, 28344. 



« Ibid. 



« Ibid. 



"Pipe R. 3 Ric I, m. 12 d., Essex 

 and Herts. 



^ Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 5232, 5233. 



^^ In 1285 an inquisition was held on 

 a Robert Rumold who died seised of lands 

 in Springfield, co. Essex, which he held 

 in right of his wife Sybil de BoseviUe 

 (Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. 1, no. 118). 

 He left no male heirs. His widow 

 married as her second husband Geoffrey 

 de Beauchamp, but this connexion of the 

 two families appears to be a coincidence 

 and does not explain the descent of the 

 manor of Alfladewick. 



" Assize R. 323, m. 44. 



55 Feud. Aids, ii, 43 1. 



'^ Lay Subs. R. bdle. 120, no. 8 

 (i Edw. II). 



" Ibid. 



^ Anct D. (P.R.O.), A 991 i see 

 A 1170. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. VI, no. 35. 



™ Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 13 Hen. VI, 

 no. 74. 



82 



" See ibid. 31 Hen. VI, no. 161. 



™ Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Hen. VI, no. 17. 



" Visit, of Essex (Harl. Soc), i, 122. 



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

 70a. 



'5 Ibid. 



" Visit, of Essex (Harl. Soc), i, 122, 

 309. 



" Feet of F. Herts. East. 6 Edw. VI. 



" See Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 9 & 

 10 Eliz. m. 23. 



^^ Ibid, Julian's intereBt disappears. 



*> Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 9 & 10 Elii. 



W Visit, of Herts. (Harl. Soc), 125. 



" Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 2i Elii. 

 m, yd. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxt, 269. 



»*lbid. 



85 Ct. of Wards, Feod. Surr. 17. 



^ For descent of the family of Baesh 

 see the manor of Stanstead Abbots, 

 Braughing Hundred. 



" Chauncy, Hist. Antiq. of Herts. 133. 



^ Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 21 Chis. II. 



" Chauncy, loc cic 



