A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



of L-shapcd pi™- The main block is 18th-century 

 work of brick, the wing is of the 1 ;th century, and 

 is built of clunch with brick quoins. The moat has 

 almost disappeared. 



The Bedford branch of the Great Northern rail- 

 way passes through the parish, but the nearest station 

 is at Hitchin. 



Fi eld-names of the 16th century which occur in 

 this parish are Callouse Peece, Whesell Dytch and 

 Hambridge Peece. . 



There is no mention of Ickleford in 



MANORS the Domesday Survey. It is evident 



that it was then included in the manor 



of Pirton and that the manors which subsequently 



appear were formed from that manor by subinfeuda- 



The manor otlCKLEFORD was held in the 13th 

 century of the lords of Pirton as a quarter of a 

 knight's fee by the family of Foliot.' Isabel widow 

 of John Fohot appears in 1 285 as holding part of 

 the estate of Thomas de la Sale, a felon.' In 1287 

 John Foliot, then a minor and possibly son of Isabel, 

 claimed view of frankpledge in Ickleford. 5 By 1303 

 this quarter of a fee was in the hands of Johr 

 Simon, 6 and in 13+6 Hugh Fits 

 it with several coparceners. 

 One of these was Simon 

 Francis of London, 1 into 

 who;e family the manor seems 

 subsequently to have pa^ed. 

 Ralph Francis (Frauncey;) 

 son of William died seised of 

 the manor in March 1531-3, 

 leaving as heir h 

 William, aged six years 

 William was holding in 

 In 158; Richard Frar 

 Ticknall, co. Derby), 



1 lands, to Thomas 



1 was holding 



This 



of Ickleford, together with < 

 Ansell or Aunscll, 11 and I 

 released the manor to Ansel 

 house and closes called C01 



:epting the manor- 

 , Dovehouse Clo-e, 



tenement and the water mill called Westmin.'* The 

 manor descended in the family of Thomas Ansell," 

 and came to another Thomas Ansell, who was holding 

 in 1714, " and apparently to a third Thomas, who 

 suffered a recovery in 1740. 1 * His widow Elizabeth 

 was holding in 1763, with reversion to her daughter 

 Mary and her husband Thomas Goostrey, 17 who were 

 in possession in I776. 18 In that year they conveyed 

 the manor to Charles Loundes and John Dashwood 

 King, probably for a sale to Thomas Whitchurst." 

 He in I7S8 sold it to Thomas Cockayne, who died 

 in 1S09, leaving a son and heir Thomas.™ At hi* 

 death he left an only child Marion Charlotte Emily, 

 who marrie'dthe Hon. Frederick Dudley Ryder, third 

 son of the first Earl of Harrowby His son, Captain 

 Dudley Ryder, R.N., died in 1898, and the manor 

 was bought by Captain C. J. Fellowcs, R.N. After 

 his death it was purchased in December 1910 by 

 Mr. David Simson, who is the present owner." 



The manor of RJMERICK iRanewick, Ramwnrd- 

 wike, Ramardewick, Ramorwyk, xiii cent. ; Ran- 

 worthewyk, xiv cent.) was also held of the manor of 

 Pirton as a quarter of a knight's fee." The first 

 tenant of whom there is record or tradition is Richard 

 Rcincourt, whose daughter Margaret is said to have 

 married Robert Filliot and to have had a son Richard 

 Filliot." Richard Filliot's daughter and heir Mar- 

 gery" brought (he manor by n 

 Wiscard Ledct." Wiscard's 

 Christine married Henry de 

 Braybrok,* 6 by whom she had 

 two sons, Wiscard and John. 

 Wiscard and his son Walter 

 both died before Christine." 

 Walter left two daughters, 

 Alice and Christine, who 

 married two brothers, William 

 and John Latimer." The 

 manor remained with Chris- 

 tine, who held it by sub- 

 feoffment from her sister.™ 

 It descended to her second 

 son John, 50 who took his 

 mother's name of Braybrok 



riage to her husband 

 daughter and heir 



t of F. Div. Co. Mich. : 



III ; Harl. Chart. 47 I 



