EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



their daughters Elizabeth and Margaret for their 

 lives.S8 Katherine after the death of William married 

 John Brooke, with whom she held the manor.'' In 

 1563 it was conveyed by Katherine, William Wal- 

 grave her son, and Margaret her daughter to Henry 

 Parker Lord Morley.'"^ Brent Pelham Manor after- 

 wards passed for some years with that of Furneux 

 Pelham*! (^cj^.v.), being acquired by Edward Newport 

 in 1597.*' 



By Newport's son and heir John the manor was sold 

 to Francis Floyer,*' a Turkey merchant, who, being 

 elected Sheriff and Alderman of London, submitted 

 to a fine that he might retire to this property. Here 

 he occupied himself with the improvement of the 

 manor-house until ' nothing was wanting to make it 

 pleasant and delightful.' ** He was High Sheriff of 

 Hertfordshire in 1648 ^^ and died in 1678. 'He 

 was very grave in his Deportment, reserved in his 

 Discourse, excellent at accounts in Merchandise, 

 punctual to his Word 

 and just in his Deal- 

 ings, which gave him 

 a great Reputation. 

 He loved Hospi- 

 tality, was noble in 

 Entertainments, 

 bountiful to Stran- 

 gers, and liberal to 

 the Poor. He was 

 very strict in all his 

 Acts of Religion, 

 always valuing a 

 clergyman by the 

 severity of his Duty 

 and the rules of his 

 Life. He observed 

 an excellent Method 

 for the Government 

 of his Family, and 

 kept great order in 

 this parish.'**" His 

 grandson Francis, son 

 of Thomas Floyer, 

 succeeded him and 

 became a captain of 

 the militia in 1685- 

 6, sheriff of the 

 county in the follow- 

 ing year and a justice of the peace in idSS-g.*' At 

 his death in 1722 the manor passed to his second son 

 Thomas, who died iu 1743*' and left a daughter 

 and heiress Mary. The sisters of Thomas, Elizabeth 

 wife of John Gibbs, grocer of London, Anne wife of 

 Angel Chauncy, clerk, and Judith and Katherine 

 Floyer, settled the manor in 1 746.** Mary Floyer 

 married Thomas Halden,*' with whom she held 

 the manor in ij6j.^ She died in 1773." The 



BRENT PELHAM 

 manor was held by her descendants «2 until 1839. 

 when after the death of John Halden it was sold to 

 George Hallam of Whitebarns 

 in Furneux Pelham. On the 

 death in 1859 °f 'he latter's 

 son and heir, George Walsh 

 Hallam, it was bought by 

 William Heygate, who sold it 

 in 1865 to Joseph Gurney 

 Barclay of Leyton in Essex," 

 whose son Mr. Edward Exton 

 Barclay, M.A., J.P., M.F.H., 

 is the present lord. 



CHAMBERLETNS. — In 

 1 1 8 1 Brent Pelham parish is 

 called Pelham of W. de Sar- 

 neriis," and between 1210 



and 12 12 Robert le Sarneres held of the bishop with 

 Richard le Grey one knight's fee, in which it is 



F L o Y K R . Sable a 

 che'veron ermine bet^ween 

 three arrows argent. 



Brent Pelham Hall : West Front 



evident that the two manors of Brent Pelham were 

 included.^' Another member of this family may 

 have been Geoffrey Sarvors or Sarnors, who before 

 1252 endowed the lights of the church.^* In the 

 first half of the I 3th century, however, the rights of 

 the Sarners family passed to the family of Chamber- 

 leyn, who possibly were descended from the ancient 

 holders but had acquired a new surname in right of 

 an office held by one of their number. The first of 



" Feet of F. Herts. Trio. 2*3 Pliil. 

 and Mary ; Recov. R. Trin. 2 & 3 Ptiil. 

 and Mary, rot. 432 ; Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), 

 bdle. 192, no. 49. 



" Clian. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 7, no. 1 1 ; 

 Star Cliamb. Proc. Hen. VIII, bdle. 20, 

 "o- '69, 353- 



*• Feet of F. Herts. East. 5 Eliz. 5 

 Recov. R. HiL 5 Eliz. rot 503. 



" Recov. R. East. 25 Eliz. rot. 87 ; 

 Trin. 25 Eliz. rot. 157. 



*' Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 39 Eliz. 



*' Recov. R. East, z Chas. I, rot. 17 ; 

 Chan..Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxv, 125. 



" Chauncy, op. cit. 141. His arms 

 impaling those of Martha Boothby his 

 wife are on the stairs at Brent Pelham 

 Hall, as is mentioned above. 



« r.C.H. Herts. Families, 283. 



*'a Chauncy, op. cit. 142. 



" Ibid. ; Recov. R. Hil. 8 Anne, rot. 10. 



" Add. MS. 5806, fol. 18. 



*' Feet of F. Herts. East. 19 Geo. II ; 

 Recov. R. East. 19 Geo. II, rot. 142. 



95 



^* Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edivinstree 

 Hand. 137. 



M Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 7 Geo. III. 



" Clutterbuck, Hist, of Hens, iii, 450. 



^' Feet of F. Herts, Trin. 27 Geo. Ill ; 

 Mich. I Will. IV. 



^3 Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edivinstree 

 Hund. 136. 



" Ncwcourt, Refert. i, 854. 



^^ Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 541. 

 See above, 



5^ See below. 



