A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



that year." Joan and Elizabeth were still minors 

 in 1328." In 1336 Elizabeth Boteler with her 

 husband William made a settlement of the manor." 

 William Boteler died before his wife, who took as 

 her second husband Gilbert de Elsfield, who held 

 the manor and presented to the church in 1349." 

 Elizabeth survived this husband also, and in 1376 as 

 Elizabeth de Elsfield she presented to the church 

 herself." She must have died shortly afterwards, 

 leaving no issue," and her lands passed to the heirs of 

 Joan her sister. Joan had two sons, Ralph, who died 

 while still a minor in l 3 48, and Edward,*'" who was aged 

 twenty-one in 1 360 '' and was holding the manor in 

 1379, whs° he presented to the church." Edward 

 Boteler is said to have conveyed the manor to William 

 Hyde, citizen and grocer of London, about 1395." 



In 141+ William Hyde presented to the church" 

 and he was still holding the manor with his wife Joyce 

 in 1437." By 1462 it had 

 descended to George Hyde," 

 who was living as late as 

 1470." His widow Agnes 

 Hyde presented to the church 

 ofThrockingin 1472.'^ Robert 

 Hyde is mentioned as lord of 

 the manor of Throcking in 

 14S6." It descended to 

 Leonard Hyde, who left it by 

 his will, proved in February 

 1508-9, to his son George." 

 George had a son Leonard, 

 who died before his father in 

 I 549," and on George's death 



in 1553" the manor descended to his grandson 

 WiKiam, the son of Leonard." In 1561 William 

 Hyde conveyed it by lease and release to his uncle 

 William, another son of George Hyde." A claim 

 was made on the manor by Thomas Wiseman, who 

 appears to have had a mortgage on it. Although the 

 elder William retained the manor, he felt it necessary 

 in his will to declare that the deeds of sale were 

 no forgery." He died in 1580 and his son Leonard, 

 who inherited his lands,*' received a quitclaim of all 

 right in Throcking Manor from his cousin William 

 Hyde" and from Thomas Wiseman" in 1583. 

 William Hyde died in 1590" and his widow Mary 

 immediately claimed dower from the manor of 



Hyn of Throcking. 



GuUj a saltire engrailed 

 or and a chief ermine. 



Throcking. An annuity of £,(>o was granted to her 

 and also an annual payment of ^^20 to her son 

 Nicholas." Leonard Hyde was knighted by James I 

 before his coronation in 1603." Chauncy accuses 

 him of paving his kitchen at Sandon with the grave- 

 stones from Throcking Church and of sequestrating 

 all the church property." It is a curious fact that 

 no memorials to the Hydes now remain, although 

 they were all buried in Throcking Church." By Sir 

 Leonard's will, proved in 1624, the manor descended 

 to his son Robert," who sold it to Thomas Soame in 

 1630." Thomas Soame was knighted in 1641." In 

 1670 he sold the manor to Robert Raworth," whose 

 daughter Frances married Jeremy Elwes " and inherited 

 the manor on her father's 

 death. Frances Elwes died 

 in 1678,'* when Throcking 

 passed to her son Jeremy 

 Elwes." The latter died with- 

 out issue in 1683," when his 

 brother Robert succeeded to 

 his lands." In 1731 Robert 

 Elwes died and Throcking 

 descended to his son of the 

 same name,™ who held it 

 until his death in 1752, when 

 it passed to his son Cary 

 Elwes." In 1 78 1 Cary Elwes 



with his only son by his first marriage, Cary Elwes 

 the younger," settled the manor.*' This son died 

 in that year and on the death of Cary Elwes the 

 elder in 1782 the only son of his second marriage, 

 Robert Cary Elwes, was his heir." In 1799 Robert 

 Cary Elwes sold the manor to George Wood,"* by 

 whose executors it was sold to John Ray of Finchley 

 in 1817.'° After the death of John Ray in 1840 

 his lands in Throcking were sold in separate parcels 

 by his executors and the manorial rights were allowed 

 to lapse." 



There was a mansion-house on the manor of 

 Throcking in 1549, when it is mentioned in the 

 will of George Hyde.*^ In 1692 Robert Elwes, 

 then lord of the manor, built a new house, which 

 Chauncy describes as 'a curious and neat fabric."' 

 Robert (ob. 1731) left it by his will to his grandson 

 Cary Elwes, son of his son Robert, in tail-male.'" 

 Robert the father of Cary endeavoured to persuade 



Elwis. Or a feiu 

 azure •with a bend guiej 

 over all. 



'' Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq, of 

 Herts, iii, 466. 



^ De Banco R. 273, m. 75 d. 



» Feet of F. Herts. East. 10 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 161. 



'* See Clutterbuck, loc. cit. ; Feud, 

 Aids, ii, 4.46. 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



^ R. E. C. Waters, loc. cit 



'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (i»t 

 nos.), no. 39 ; see R. E. C. Waters, 

 loc. cit. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 39. 



" Clutterbuck, loc cit. 



^n Chauncy, Hist. Antiq. of Herts. 

 117. Cussans gives 1398 as the date of 

 this sale (Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edivins- 

 tree Hund. 109). 



^^ Clutterbuck, loc. cit. ; see Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 446. Chauncy mentions a 

 Lawrence Hyde living in 1433, but he 

 does not appear to have held the manor. 

 See Chauncy, loc. cit. 



^ Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 1 5 Hen. VI, 

 no. 9. 



^ See Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



" Anct. D. {P.R.O.), D 519. 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



*^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiii, 65, 



^ Cussans, Hist, of Herts, Odsey Hund, 

 151. 



2« Ibid. 153. 



'^ His will was proved in 1553, see 

 Cussans, loc. cit. 



*° See Chad. Proc (Ser. 2), bdle. 211, 

 no. 27. 



^^ Ibid. ; sec also Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), cxciii, 69 ; Ct. of Req. bdle. 63, 

 no. 54 (34 Eliz.). 



" Cussans, loc. cit. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxciii, 69. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 25 Eliz. 



« Ibid. 



« See Ct. of Req. bdle. 63, no. 54 

 (34 Eliz.). 



" Ibid. 



<* Shaw, Knights of England, ii, 120. 



" Chauncy, op. cit. 117. 



^ East Herts. Arch. Soc, Trans, iii, 

 I ^4 ; see Cussans, loc. cit. for wiUi of 

 Hydes. 



112 



" Cussans, loc cit. 



" Recov. R. Trin. 6 Chas. I, rot. 43. 



" Shaw, Knights of England, ii, 211. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 22 Chai. II. 



" M.I. 



"* Clutterbuck, Hist. andAntiij, of Hern, 

 iii, 465. 



*^ Chauncy, loc. cit, 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



»^ Chauncy, loc. cit. ; RecoT. R. Hil. 

 4 Geo. I, rot. 43. 



«« M.I. i RecoT. R. Mich. 16 Geo. II, 

 rot. 177. 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. 



" Recov. R. HiL 21 Geo. Ill, rot. 347- 



" Clutterbuck, loc. cit. ; Recov. R. 

 Mich. 34 Geo. Ill, rot. 373. 



«* Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



« Ibid. 



^ Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Edwinstree 

 Hund. 108. 



»« Ibid. Odsey Hund. 153. 



^ Chauncy, loc. cit. 



'" Cussans, Hist, of Herts, Edwinsirei 

 Hund. 109. 



