A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



the family of Green !l to Sir Thomas Green of 

 Boughton and Wood's Norton, co. Northants, who 

 died in i jofi.leaving two daughter* and co-heirs, Anne, 



who married Nicholas Lord Vaiix of Harrowden, 



and Matilda wife of Sir Thomas Parr.* 5 In i 5 12 the 

 manor was settled to the use of Lord Vauj and Anne. is 

 In 1523,00 the de.ith of Lord Vanx,* 7 it passed to their 

 son Thomas Lord V.iux, who conveyed it in 1556 to 

 Thomas Docwra of Temple Dinsley in Hitchin. 28 

 In 1602 Thomas died, leaving the property to his son 

 Thomas, on whom it had been previously settled. S9 

 He received a grant of free warren in Lilley, Put- 

 tcridgc, Hockwell and Pirton in 1616. 80 Periam, his 

 son, succeeded him in ^zo, 11 and held the manor till 

 his death in i6+z.» The 

 manor parsed to Periam's son 

 Thomas, 13 who settled it in 

 1710 on his grandson and 

 heir - app.irent Sir George 

 Warbu.ion, bart., of Arlcy, 

 co. Chester (son of his 

 daughter Martha, who mar- 

 ried Sir Peter Warburton), 

 on his marriage with Diana 

 daughter of William Lord 

 Alington.* 1 Sir George War- 

 burton sold it in February 

 17^9-30 to the Right Hon. 

 Charles Cavendish. 35 In 1738 

 Lord Charles Cavendish sold 



of Putie 

 ■y latl, an, 



in& guln 



Ben 



fct* 



ijamm r 

 he left : 



childre 



divided .1! his death in 1775 betw____ 

 and co-heirs, descendants of his fath. 



*' Clun. Inq. p.m. 4 j Edw. HI, pt. i, i & 



o. 7; 4 Edw. 

 2 Edw. IV, m. 1; 



the property was 



Rebecca Nicholson and Sarah Coraey." Thirteen 

 years later these co-heirs told the whole manor to 

 John Sowerby of Hatton Garden, 18 from whom it 

 has descended to the present owner Captain Thomas 

 George Sowerby, 39 who resides at Putteridge Park. 



The parish church of ST. PETER, 

 CHURCH which stands in the village, was origi- 

 nally built in the 12th century. It was, 

 wholly rebuilt in 1871, a few portions of 

 hurch and some fittings being retained in 



the old 



the new buildin] 

 The chancel 1 

 been reset in the n 

 are some if,th-cem 

 There is a piscina 

 century, with a fo 

 bowl i 



il. 1 & 5 Phil, ai 

 of F. Hen,. Ea S 



h, of tufa, of the 1 2th century, has 

 lorth wall of the chancel, and there 

 tury stones in the south doorway, 

 in the chancel, possibly of the ■ 5 th 

 tred head and an octagonal 

 shelf. It is covered with modern paint. 

 The font, of the 15th century, is octagonal and of 

 clunch. There are mural tablets in the porch to 

 Thomas Doewra, 1602, and to Daniel Houghton, 

 1672. The pulpit is made up of old oak, with linen 

 panels having traceried heads, brought from St. John's 

 College, Cambridge. 



There is a ring of three bells ; the treble may be 

 by William Knight of Reading, and is of 1580; 

 the second is by George Chandler, 1 703 ; and the 

 tenor by T. Mcars, 1821. 



The plate includes a cup of 1689, paten of 1 776-7, 

 a pair of cruets and brass almsdish. 



The registers are in two books, of which the first 

 contains burials and baptisms from 1711 to 1811 and 

 marriages from i 71 1 to i75 2,and the second marriage) 

 from 1754 to 1812. 



The earliest record of the advowson 

 ADVQH'SON of the church of Lilley is in the year 

 1213, at which date it was in the 

 king's hands, with other property of the Normans,*" 

 so that it had probably belonged to the Malets. 

 Soon afterwards it was granted to Paul de Peyvre,* 1 

 and descended with the manor (q.v.) until 1730, 

 when Sir George Warburton conveyed it to Lord 

 Charles Cavendish,* 2 who sold it the following year 

 to the Master and Fellows of St, John's College, 

 Cambridge, who are the present patrons. 13 



Dwelling-houses were certified for worship for 

 Protestant Dissenters from early in the 17th century." 

 There is now a Wesley an chapel in Lilley. 

 There are no endowed charities in this parish. 



ary ; Mieh. 1 & 2 «» Close, 12 Ceo. II, pt. ivii, no. 13. 



" ClutterWk, Hht. aid Antia. ef 



(Ser. z), ccclixKvii, Hern, iii, 84. ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 

 19 Geo. Ill ; Com. Pleai D. Enr. Trio. 



:-*i, 10. 7. 19 Geo. Ill, m. 167. 

 (Ser. 2), ccciumvii, W Ibid. 18 Geo. Ill, m. 196. 



*«ii, 97- *» V.C.H. Hem. Fam. 17. 



:od. Surv. no. 17 ; « Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), Ji, loli. 



1. 21 Cbaa. II. « See A..i« R. j,g, m. 2;. 



1. 8 Anne, no. 7 ; « Close, 3 Geo. II, pt. ivi, no. 9. 



ne, rot. 178; Feet "Title-deed, at St. John"i Coll, 



*-™=- Camb. ; information given by Mr. R. F. 



pt.,vi,n . 8. The Scott, Bursar. 



le name of William " Urwiik, Nwanfrmtj m Him. 



'era. 659. 



