HITCHIN HUNDRED 



Jane Periam in 1599. 36 So the manor must have 



come into the family at an earlier date than chat 



given by Chauncy. Thomas received a grant of 



free warren at Pirton in i6i6. S7 He died in 1620, 33 



leaving as heir his son Periam. On the death of 



Periam in 1641 it descended to his 



son Thomas, 39 whose only child Martha BJa^Au 



married Sir Peter Warburton of Arley 



(co. Cries.). In 1726, after the death 



of Martha, Thomas Warburton, Sir 



George Warburton, ban., son of 



Sir Peter and Martha, and Periam 



Docwra joined in a conveyance to 



Ralph Radcliffe. 40 It has since des- 

 cended in the family of Radcliffe, 41 and 



is now in the posse5sion of Mr. F. A. 

 ' Delme- Radcliffe of the Priory, Hitchm 



(q.v.). 



The manor of ODDINGSELLES 



{Doddingseles, Odyngseles, xiv cent.), 



often called also ' half the manor of 



Pirton,' was that part of the manor of 



Pirton which on the death of Basilia 



Oddingselles fell to the share of Hugh 



her son. Hugh died seised of it in 

 1304-5, leaving as heir his son John. 43 

 He and his wife Emma obtained 

 licence in 13 16 to grant the manor to 

 Thomas de Wassyngeles for a settle- 

 ment on them and their heirs. 43 In 

 1337 John and Emma granted the 

 manor to William Corbet for life, with 

 reversion to their son Thomas. 44 After 

 the death of John, Emma married 

 William Corbet, who died in 134.6. 46 

 She survived until the next year. 46 

 Her son John Oddingselles succeeded 

 to the manor, and died abroad in 1352, 

 leaving a son John, then aged sixteen. 4? 

 It descended in 1380 to his son Sir 

 John, and in 1404 to Edward son of ] 



John 48 (during whose minority the 

 property was entrusted to John 

 Cokayn, 49 hb father-in-law), to Edward's son Gerald, 

 and finally to Edward son of Gerald. 50 In 1505 

 Gerald d'Oddingselles granted the manor to feoffees," 1 

 who released it to Richard Decons. sa He sold it 

 shortly afterwards through trustees to Roger Lupton, 

 clerk, Provost of St. Mary's College, Eton. ss Eton 

 College held the manor till 15 February 1800, 

 when it was purchased by Penelope widow of 

 Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, 54 from whom it has 

 descended to Mr. F. A. Delme -Radcliffe, the present 



PIRTON 



The grant by which Ralph de 



RECTORY Limesi gave to the priory of St. Mary, 



MANOR Hertford, the church of Pirton (see 



below) included also 2 £ hides of land 



there and a mill. After the Dissolution this estate 



.. ■ ' -.:.-; .-- .■ ■ . 



was granted in 1538, under the name of Pirton, to 

 Anthony Denny and Joan Champernowne, who were 

 then about to marry. 55 Anthony Denny was succeeded 

 by his son Edward Denny of Walt ham Holy 

 Crosr. 66 His son Sir Edward Denny, kt., died in 

 February 1600— I, 57 leaving a son and heir Arthur, 

 a minor, whose mother Margaret Lady Denny held 

 one-third of the property in dower. 68 In 1609 

 Arthur Denny, with his wife Elizabeth and his 

 mother, conveyed the property to Sir John Davies, kt., S9 

 and he died seised of the manor and rectory in 1626, 



» Pat. ,4 Jas . i, pt . xl 



Chan. Inq. p . m . ( Sir . ^ « c i KXJviii 



39 Ct ofWardu, Fend. Surv.no 17- 

 Char. In,. ,,„. (Ser . 2)i drav!i 



"Recov. R. Mich. 13 Geo. I, rot. 

 382;F e ctofF.H e m.HjLr 3 G B o.I. 



« Recov. R. Trin. 3i Geo. Ill, rot . 

 3»2; Hil. 5 & 5 Geo. IV, rot. 22. 



Ca! Pat. i 3I ,-, 7 , p . 4s6; Inq . 

 a.q.d. file iij, n0 . 14. ; Feet of F. Div. 

 Co. Trm. 9 & 10 Edw. II, no. 135. 



3 



P- 343- 



sl Feet of F.Herts. Mich. 21 Hen. VII. 

 53 Clutterbuclt, Hist, and Amia. of 



8 Ct. of Wards, Extents and Attach- 

 es, 61 S. 

 '• Feet of E. Herts. East. 7 Jas. I. 



