A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Duke of Northumberland, but a grant of the manor 

 was made to his brother Sir Henry Gates, 90 who 

 with his wife Lucy in 1557 conveyed it to Richard 

 Spicer 91 {alias Heldcr). 



About [569 John Spicer conveyed the manor to 

 William Crawley, 9 * and he died seised of it in 1595, 

 having granted the estate to his son Richard and 

 grandson William. 33 From this time no record 

 appears of this manor until 1 704, when Henry 

 Bolderne the elder and Anne his wife 54 and Henry 

 Bolderne their son (all holding in Anne's right) 

 levied a fine of it. 9S In 1713 Henry Bolderne 

 the younger seems to have conveyed it to Thomas 

 Ansel!. 96 According to Cussans it was acquired later 

 by Samuel Burroughs, whose daughter and heir Sarah 

 married Sir Thomas Salusbury. With St. Ledgers it 

 descended to the Marquess of Winchester, from whom 

 it was bought in 1840 by Ann Burroughs, second 

 wife of the Rev. Lynch Salusbury, and on her death 

 in 1856 came to her sister Maria, wife of James 

 Newbury of Clapham Rise. 07 It was sold in 1872 

 to Mr. Francis Gosling, " and is now the seat of 

 Mrs. Gosling. 



The reputed manor known as HIRSTHALL or 

 HALLEBVRY was held in 1625 by Edward House, 31 * 

 and in 1658 belonged to John Dermer, 100 in whose 

 family it was still vested in 1698."" 



A capital messuage called BULLERS was in the 

 1 5th century in the possession of John Sholfold, who 

 alienated it to the gild of Holy Trinity of Luton. 1 " 2 

 In the reign of Elizabeth it was the subject of a suit 

 in the Court of Requests between Robert Ivory the 

 lessee and Gregory Warren widower of a certain Alice 

 who held it for life. 103 Sir John Spencer acquired 

 this messuage before his death in 1587, and it then 

 descended with the manor of St. Ledgers. 



The manor of PUTTERIDGE (Potherugge, 

 , Pothruge, Pot trygge bury, xiv cent, j Pod- 



it.) « 

 inor ofDelat 



riggebury, 



mesne manor formed from the 1 

 It was possibly the carucate of 

 which John de Nevill granted in 1240 to Nicholas 

 de Putteridge for life, 1 " 1 but nothing is known of the 

 descendants of Nicholas de Putteridge. By 1303 it 

 had passed into the hands of Hugh le Blunt, who held 

 it of Robert Dclamarc for half a knight's fee. 106 He 

 had a grant of free warren in 1305, 11 * and died 

 seised in ] 561."" In 1 346 the manor was held by 

 Nicholas Peyvrc, I,J * but apparently only during the 

 minority of John son and heir of Hugh le Blunt, 

 since he was in possession in 1363. 1OT Thomas le 



151. 



an® 



Edward \J_f\~{* 



ily four <JJC >n" 



Blunt, who seems to have succeeded John, 110 may 

 perhaps have left heiresses, as in I 39 1 John Herwe 

 and Christine his wife and John Maps and Joyce his 

 wife conveyed the manor to three feoffees, 111 from 

 whom it was recovered in 1407, after the expiration 

 of a life interest held by Agnes de Havering, by 

 Thomas and Elizabeth Chelrey. 113 After Thomai 

 Chelrey's death Elizabeth married Thomas de la 

 Pole, and died in 141 1, leaving as co-heirs her two 

 daughters, Elizabeth wife of John Kyngeston, and 

 Sybil Chelrey, and her granddaughter, Elizabeth 

 Calston. 113 The manor seems to have passed to the 

 latter, who married William Darrell, 11 * and joined 

 with him in 1428 in making a settlement of the 

 manor on themselves in tail, with remainder to 

 William's brother John. 11 * 



On the death of Elizabeth Darrell in 1464 1I8 it 

 passed to her son George, 

 who died in 147.4,"* when 

 the manor was delivered to 

 Thomas Cardinal Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, 118 apparently 

 during the minority of Edward 

 Darrell, who was only 



fath, 

 death. 11 " Edward 1 

 manor on himself 



fe and his heirs in 1503 

 and in 1520 he sold it 

 Richard Lyster, 1 * 1 the kin 

 solicitor, who conveyed it 

 1525 to John Docwra, 

 He was succeeded by his ; 

 Thomas Docwra, las who in 

 1 556 bought the manor of Lilley (q.v.), since 

 date the two estates have descended together. 



The first record of the so-called manor of 

 HOCKH'ELL aim UOCKW ELI/BURY (Hoke- 

 wclle, Hokcwellebury, xv cent.) is of the year 141 1, 

 at which date the estate was held by Elizabeth widow 

 of Thomas de la Pole, 1 " who was then holding the 

 manor of Putteridge. The two manors descended 

 together until 1788, after which Hockwell seems to 

 have been amalgamated with Putteridge. 



The parish church of ST. MART 

 CHURCH MAGDALENE, situated about half a 

 mile south-east of the village, is built for 

 the most part of flint and stone. The chancel is faced 

 with Portland stone and the north aisle with cement. 

 The tower is built of brick and the roofs are of lead, 

 except that of the north porch, which iB of tiles. 



»De Banco R. 583, m. 537a. 



115 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 6 Hen. VI, 

 10. 75. In thil year Hugh Blunt wai 

 >aid to be holding (he manor {Ftud. Aid,, 

 1,449), but this is probably a tranicript 



Putte- 



■wiii a pah gulu 1 



which 



. Ill, 



'• FW. Aid,, \\, 428. 



m Cal. Chart. R. [300-26, p. 59. 



107 Chan. Inq. p.m. file 116, no 11 

 (35 Edw. III). The manor i, called by 

 the name of ' Huche," but seem, to be 

 this manor. 



m Ftud. Aids, ii, 437. 



109 Add. Chart. 24067 



™ See Moram, H„i. of S , UX , ii, 48. 

 It was held in right of Christine 

 and Joj-ce (Feet of F. Herts. , S Ric. II, 



4 = 



older 

 " Chan. I: 



i Edw. IV, 11 



Inq. p.m 

 " Ibid. 14 Edw. IV, no. 14. 

 * Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 2872. 

 19 Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. IV, no. 14, 

 "'Close, 18 Hen. VII, no. 45. 

 « Feet of F. HerU, Mich. 12 

 1. VIII. 



" Clutterbuck, Hiti. ana" Amiq. of 

 ':. iii, 86. Ste Rccov. R. Ea»t. j 5 Elifc 



3Clut 



rbuck, li 



p.m. i 3 Hen. IV, D 



