A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



manor." Humphrey died in 1516 and Marger)-, in 

 exchange for other lands left her by his will, settled 

 WydJial on their eldest son Arthur Wellisboume in 

 tail-male." She afterwards married Thomas Cheyne. 

 In 1 5 2 2 she quitclaimed Wyddial to Robert Dormer," 

 to whom Arthur Wellisbourne sold his interest in the 

 manor." 



In 1528 Robert Dormer and Joan his wife con- 

 veyed the manor of Wyddial to George Canon and 

 John Gill." George Canon built the chapel of 

 St. George in the parish church of Wyddial " and there 

 he willed he should be buried, providing for a priest, 

 four clerb and four children to say masses for him 

 for twenty years." He had one daughter and heir 

 Margaret, who married John Gill,*' and on his death 

 in 1534** the manor became vested in John and 

 Margaret." Their son George inherited the manor 

 on the death of John in March 154.5-6." He held 

 it until his death in 1568, when he was succeeded by 

 his son John." In 1600 the manor descended to 

 John's son and heir George Gill,'' who was knighted 

 at Whitehall in 1603." In 1619 he died and his 

 son John Gill inherited Wyddial." He sold it in 

 1627 to John Goulston." 



On the death of John Goulston in 1643 the manor 

 descended to his son Richard," who during his tenure 

 of the manor made a parti 

 round Wyddial Hall." In 

 1 6S6 Richard Goulston died 

 and was succeeded by his son 

 James," who died in 1 704, 

 when Wyddial descended to 

 his son Richard." Richard 

 died in 1731." His son 

 Francis inherited the manor" 

 and sold it in 1772 to Stephen 

 Comyn, barrister-at-law and 

 bencher ofthe Inner Temple." 

 Stephen Comyn died the fol- 

 lowing year and the manor 

 of Wyddial passed to his two 

 sons Stephen and Robert, who 

 sold it shortly afterwards to Brabazon Ellis" who came 

 of an ancient Welsh family." He died in 1780 and 

 his son John Thomaj Ellis, M.P., who married Mary 

 Anne, the only daughter of John Heaton of Bedfords 

 in Havering atte Bower, co. Essex, succeeded him." 

 At his death at Milan in 1836" the manor passed 



Goulston of Wyd- 

 dial Argent three ban 

 ZL'lvy gulei VfifA a lenj 

 sable over ali and three 

 roundtU argent upon It, 



to his son Charles Arthur Hill Heaton-Ellis," who 

 died in 1865.*' His widow held it for life, and at 

 her death in 1880 it descended to her grandson 

 Lieut.-Col. Charles Henry Brabazon Heaton-Ellis, 

 son of Edward Henry Brabazon, second son of 

 C. A. H. Heaton-Ellis," who is the present lord of 

 the manor." 



The manor of CORNErBVRr (Comei, xi cent. ; 

 Cornheie, Corneia, xii cent. ; Courneybury, xvi cent.) 

 was formed from two small holdings which in the 

 reign of Edward the Confessor were held by Alward, 

 a man of Harold, and Gode, a man of King Edward, 

 the former having i virgate and the latter 3." By 

 1086 these two estates had become united in the 

 possession of Count Eustace of Boulogne and the 

 whole was held of him by his tenant Robert. The 

 overlordship remained with the honour of Boulogne," 

 which came to the Crown through the marriage of 

 Maud daughter of Count Eustace III of Boulogne with 

 King Stephen and was resumed by Henry II after 

 the death of Queen Maud's two sons." 



In the early part of the 12 th century the manor 

 was held by Hugh Triket, who had inherited it 

 from his father," who was possibly the Robert of 

 1086. Hugh granted all his lands in Corneybury 

 to the church of Holy Trinity, London." In 1 2 1 2 

 Simon Triket had rights of overlordship in Corney- 

 bury." 



The canons of Holy Trinity held the manor " 

 until the dissolution of their priory. In 1253 

 Henry III granted them free warren in all their 

 demesne lands of Hertfordshire and a market to be 

 held every Tuesday in their manor of Corneybury 

 and a fair there every year on the vigil and feast of 

 St. Bartholomew and the six days following." The 

 bridge over the Rib between Corneybury and Throck- 

 ing was broken in 1287 and the Prior of Holy 

 Trinity was ordered to repair it by his men in 

 Throcking and Corneybury." The priory of Holy 

 Trinity was dissolved in 1531 " and in 1534 its site 

 and lands were granted by Henry VIII to Sir Thomas 

 Audley." In 1538 Sir Thomas settled the manor 

 of Corneybury on himself and his wife Elizabeth in 

 tail." He was created Lord Audley de Walden the 

 same year." At his death in 1544 he left two 

 daughters and co-heirs, Mary and Margaret."* The 

 wardship and marriage of Margaret were granted to 

 Sir Anthony Denny, together with an annuity of 



« CaJ. Inq. p.m. Hen. Vll, 427. 



" Close, 7 Hen. VIII, no. 41. 



" Ibid. 14 Hen. VIII, no. 24. 



" Ibid. no. :?. 



" FcetofF.Hert.. East. 20 Hen. VIII. 



" Chauncy, Hut. Antiq. 5/ Hera. 1 1 2. 



"P.C.C. Will, i8Hogan. 



•' Coll. T:t!:g. et Gen. Tiii, 275. 



<^ Ibid. ; Berrv, Herts. Gen. 56. 



*9 L. and P. Hen. nil, xii (i), g. 795 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixiiri, 97. 



" Ibid, cli, 58. " Ibid, cclir, 77. 



** Shaw, Knights oj EngUrJ^ ii, 122. 



'< Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccvii, 95. 



" Recov. R. East. 3 Chas. I, rot. 62 ; 

 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 3 Chas. I, 

 m. - ; Trin. 7 Chas. I, m- i. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dcciliii, 1 6. 



^ Chauncy, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. ; Recov. R. Trin. 12 WilL HI, 

 rot. 88. 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 471 ; Recov. 

 R. Trin. 8 Geo. I, rot. 71. 



" Clutterbuck, loc cit. 



" Ibid. ; Recov. R. Trin. 28 Geo. II, 

 rot. 205. 



° Cussani, Hist, of Herts, Edwinstree 

 Hand. 120, 



•* Clutterbuck, loc cit. 



^ Burke, Landed Gentry (1906), s.v. 

 Heaton-EUis of Wyddial HalL Brabazon 

 Ellis wa« son of Dr. Ellis, author of Ellis 

 on Divine Things, ^ Ibid. 



•* Cussans, loc cit. ; Burke, Landed 

 Gentry (1906). 



^ cf. Recov. R. Mich. 8 Geo. IV, rot. 

 220. 



^ Burke, Landed Gentry (1906). 



•^^ The eldest son Charles John Heaton- 

 Ellis died before Delhi in 1857. 



'" Information from the Rev. F. R. 

 Broughton. 



" y.C.H, Herts, i, 321a. 



" Liter Niger Scacc. (ed. T. Heame), 

 i, 389 ; lUd Bk. of Exch. (RoUs Ser.), ii, 

 581 ; Testa de Nevill (Rec Com.), 274 ; 

 Cal. Close, 1343-6, p. 516. 



116 



" Round, Studies in Peerage and Family 

 History, 172. 



1* Dugdale, Mon. vi, 152. " Ibid. 



'« lUd Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 581 ; Liber Niger Scacc. (ed. Hearne), i, 

 389. For descent of this family see 

 manor of Berkesden in Aspenden. 



" Anct. Chart. (Pipe R. Soc), 104 ; 

 Pipe R. 6 John, m. 3d.; 12 John, 

 m. 1%; lUd Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), i., 

 581 ; Testa de Nevill (Rec Com.), 274 ; 

 Feud. Aids, ii, 432, 446, 453 ; Ahbrev. 

 Plac. (Rec. Com.), 344 ; Cal. Close, 1 343-6, 

 p. 510; Ct. R. (Gen. Ser.), portt 177, 

 no. 29. 



" Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- 427- 



" Assize R. 325, m. 30 d. 



* Dugdale, Mon. vi, i 50. 



" L. and P. Hen, Fill, vii, g. 587 (10), 

 1601 (35). 



«» Ibid, xiii (2), 491 (6). 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, s.v. Audley 

 of Walden. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lixxvi, lOO. 



