EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



four-centred arch and moulded cornice above ; it is 

 of late 1 7th-century date. There is another of plainer 

 character in the dining room, but it has been brought 

 from elsewhere. The drawing room is p,inelled 

 with large bolection-moulded oak panels of late 17th- 

 century date. In the dining room and in some of 

 the first-floor rooms is early 17th-century panelling, 

 also some pilasters, friezes and mantelpieces with 

 arabesque carving. A dressing room over the entrance 

 hall has an original heavy oak moulded door frame 

 with a square head. In the cellar under the south 

 end of the drawing room is a blocked fireplace of 

 stone with plain four-centred arch ; in the walls are 

 several small brick recesses with splayed round-arched 

 heads. 



The Yew Tree Inn, east of the vicarage, is a late 

 16th-century building of two stories ; it is timber- 

 framed and weather-boarded, with tiled roof, but 

 has been modernized. A room on the ground floor, 

 now divided into taproom and passage, has a wide 

 fireplace with ingle seats ; the lintel is of wood. The 

 ceiling has some well-moulded beams and all the 

 joists are hollow-chamfered on their lower edges and 

 have carefully worked stops. The chimney stacks are 

 of thin bricks but quite plain. There are several late 

 1 6th or early 17th-century cottages in the village, 

 nearly all timber-framed and plastered ; some of the 

 plaster work is panelled and filled with combed work. 

 Many of the cottages are thatched. 



At East End there is a mission church connected 

 with the parish church, and in the village itself there 

 are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. 

 There is a brewery at Barleycroft End. There are 

 outlying houses at Barleycroft End, where the road 

 through the village meets Violets Lane,' at its junction 

 with the road to Stocking Pelham,' and, further east, 

 at East End. St. John's Pelham, where there is a 

 large moat, and Whitebarns, both the property of 

 Mr. E. E. Barclay of Brent Pelham, stand on high 

 ground in the northern part of the parish, the former 

 west of the latter. Hixham Hall, now a farm, is 

 in the south-eastern corner of Furneux Pelham, near 

 the boundaries of Albury and Essex. Of early place- 

 names Sininecroft occurs in the 1 3th century.* The 

 meadows called Songeres and Upheas were held 

 between 1558 and 1579 by the Master and fellows 

 of Queens' College, Cambridge.' Field-names in 

 Whitebarns in 165 1 are Mowgrave, Bridgefeild, 

 Springe Croft, White Barne Feild and Lammasmeadow 

 in Sillymeade.' In 1 8 1 3 Hitchfield, Pristol, Bushey 

 Leys and Burnt Ground were among the fields of 

 Hixham Hall.' 



FURNEUX PELHAM cannot be 

 MANORS certainly distinguished in the Domes- 

 day Survey from the other Pelhams, all 



FuRNEUs. Argent a 

 bend between six martlets 

 gules. 



FURNEUX PELHAM 



of which were held of the Bishop of London in 

 1086' and afterwards." Since, however, it was in 

 the 14th century in the same tenure as Hixham 

 Hall, it may be conjectured that in 1086 it was 

 comprised by the holding of Ranulf, then a tenant of 

 the bishop in Hixham (q.v.) and in Pelham." 



In 1 175-6 there is mention of Ralph de Furnell 

 in the Pipe Roll for Hertfordshire." Again Ralph 

 de Furneus or Furnell occurs 

 in 1197 as a tenant in the 

 county " and is mentioned in 

 1 199-1200." In 1210-n 

 he or another tenant of this 

 name held of the Bishop of 

 London 2 hides and I virgate 

 of land for the service due 

 from a knight's fee and three 

 parts of one." It is likely that 

 he was succeeded by Simon 

 son of Ralph de Furneus, 

 receiver of scutage in Hert- 

 ford in 1235 " and holder of 

 a vill of Pelham, of whose 



court in Furneux Pelham there is mention between 

 1229 and I 241." This tenant was probably followed 

 by Simon de Furneus, who held the park of Furneux 

 Pelham in 1274-5" ^"^ who claimed in right of a 

 grant by Henry III to have free warren in the 

 manor." In 1303 he was said, with his tenants, to 

 hold of the bishop half a knight's fee in the parish." 

 In 1309 he granted his manor of Furneux Pelham 

 to William le Gros.'" The latter's heir was probably 

 Hugh le Gros, whose widow Alice died in 1366 as 

 tenant of the manor, which had been settled on her 

 and her husband and the heirs of their bodies. It 

 was then said to be held of the bishop, with Hixham 

 Hall (q.v.), by the service due from one knight's fee 

 and a rent of 7s. 6J. It passed to William le Gros, 

 son of Hugh and Alice,'' who died in 1368, while 

 yet a minor, and left a son and heir William, who 

 was only a year old." The latter was succeeded by 

 his uncle John, who was knighted," and who was 

 dead in 1384." In 1387-8 Sir Richard de Sutton, 

 kt., and Ralph Aynell, parson, who were probably 

 John's executors, conveyed the manor to Thomas 

 Bideford in exchange for that of East Tilbury in 

 Essex," and in 1 406 John son and heir of Thomas 

 Bideford released all his right to Robert Newport 

 and his wife Margery and their heirs." Robert was 

 returned to Parliament as a member for Hertford- 

 shire in 1 400- 1 and 141 1." He died between 

 1414" and 1428. At the latter date the tenant of 

 Furneux Pelham was Margery, then widow of John 

 Duram." In 143 1 she and Henry Hert, apparently 

 her third husband, conveyed the manor to William 



' To be identified possibly with Phyllot 

 Lane mentioned in 1651 (Close, 1651, 

 pt. icxiv, m. 27). 



'In 1651 a lane called Cut Throat 

 Lane from the vicinity of Whitebarns to 

 Bishop's Stortford is mentioned (ibid.). 



* Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, 

 Liber A. Pilosus, foL 18A. 



' Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 202, no. 37. 



* Close, 165 1, pt ixiv, m. 27. 



' Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 53 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 28. 8 r.C.H. Herts, i, 307a, 307*. 



° For the bishop's overlordship of Fur- 

 neux Pelham see Feuti. Aids, ii, 431, 446 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 40 Edw. Ill, no. 16; 



42 Edw. Ill, no. 25; 12 Hen. VI, no. 36 ; 

 (Ser. 2), xxiii, 6 1 ; xxxiv, 96. 



1" See Brent Pelham. 



» Pipe R. 22 Hen. U (Pipe R. Soc), 6. 



'» R. of the King's Ct. Ric. I (Pipe R. 

 Soc. 24), 212. 



" Palgrave, i!of. Car. iJe^. (Rec. Com.), 

 ii, 275. 



" Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), 541. 



" Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 265*. 



" Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, 

 Liber A. Pilosus, fol. i8i. 



1' Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 193. 



'8 Assize R. 323, 325. 



" Feud. Aids, ii, 431. 



lOI 



2» Feetof F. Herts. Hil. 2 Edw. II, no. 22. 



2' Chan. Inq. p.m. 40 Edw. Ill, no. 16 ; 

 Cal. Close, 1364-8, p. 318. 



^a Cal. Close, 1364-8, p. 451 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 42 Edw. Ill, no. 25. The 

 elder William is called John in the writ 

 for the inquisition, but nowhere else. 



» Close, 10 Ric. II, m. 27-9 d. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, no. 156. 



" Close, II Ric. II, m. 18, 20 d. 



™ Ibid. 8 Hen. IV, m. 36 ; Feet of F. 

 Herts. 8 Hen. IV, no. 49. 



" F.C.H. Herts. Families, 290. 



28 Feet of F. Herts. 2 Hen. V, no. 9. 



» Feud. Aids, ii, 4-^6. 



