A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



having settled the manor on his daughter Lucy on 

 her marriage (at the age of ten) with Ferdinand Lord 

 Hastings, son of Henry Earl of Huntingdon. 60 In 

 1628 the Crown seized this property in payment of 

 debts incurred by Arthur Denny, 81 but it was appa- 

 rently regranted to Lucy and her husband Ferdinand 

 Lord Hastings, who were in possession in 1634. M 



Previous to this, however, Sir Archibald Douglas, 

 who had married Eleanor widow of Sir John Davies, 

 had sold the rectory and manor for a term of sixty 

 yean to Francis Poulton. In 1642 Lucy Lady 

 Hastings appeared on behalf of her mother to claim 

 the rectory, alleging that Sir Archibald was insane 

 and Eleanor was in prison when he sold the pro- 

 perty,* 3 and that her mother was in great distress owing 

 to Sir Archibald having appropriated all the profits 



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of this sale, and to the loss of her dower in Ireland 

 wh.ch was in the hands of rebels. Lady Hastings' 

 remarked that she was unable to help her mother as 



in the Insh Rebellion « The Poultons, however 

 irT,T-? k" 1 &T™°\ 3nd the manor wa * *>« 

 1 homas White," whose executors conveyed it to 



an. Inq. p.m. (S«. *), eeecutwii, 

 t- 4 Chai. I, pt. mii no ,, 

 "-Hca a D.E n r.Triii. Ic .Cha».i, 

 '■ MSS. Com. R tp . Vj App . 5> l$t 



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:or. R.Mich. S Cha». II, rot. 167. 



Anthony Deane, kt., in 1 686.** Morgan Deane, 



grandson of Sir Anthony, left 



the property to hit trustees 



for sale, 87 and in 1736 it was 



bought by Robert second Lord 



Raymond,* 8 from whom it 



passed by his father's will to 



Benesham Filmer, son of Sir 



Robert Filmer, bait., of East 



Sutton, co. Kent. He died 



unmarried in 1763, when it 



came to his nephew Sir John 



Filmer, bart. 69 Sir Edmund 



Filmer, great-grandson of Sir 



Edmund, brother and ultimate 



heir of Sir John, sold the 



manor in 1870 to Messrs. Paine & 

 Brettel of Chertsey, solicitors (since 

 which date most of the tenants have 

 been enfranchised), and the rectory 

 farm and about 415 acres of land to 

 Mr. Daniel Davis of Hexton, farmer. 

 It is now occupied by Mr. E. R. Davis. 

 The manor of Ramerick in Ickleford 

 extended into this parish, and this part 

 of it is sometimes referred to as the 

 manor of Pirton.™ 



The parish church of 

 CHURCH ST. MJRr, standing in 

 the middle of the village, 

 is built of flint rubble with stone draf- 

 ings. The chancel roof is tiled, and 

 that of the nave is covered with lead. 



The church consists of a chancel, 

 central tower, nave and south porch. 71 

 original church, consisting of a 

 , nave and central tower, was 

 the 1 2th century. The chancel 

 was much altered in the 14th century, 

 when a south transept, now demolished, 

 was built on the south side of the 

 tower. New windows were inserted 

 in the nave in the 14th and 15th cen- 

 turies, 72 and the south doorway was 

 altered about 1380, when the south 

 porch was built. In the 1 7th century 

 several small alterations were made, 

 notably to the east window, and in 

 1883 the whole church was restored 

 and the tower rebuilt from the founda- 



The chancel, of which the walls are 

 probably part of the original church, now shows no 

 detail earlier thane. 1330. The east window, which 

 was originally of the 14th century, is now much 

 defaced by 17th-century alterations. The remaining 

 windows are all of the 15th century. One on the 

 north side and one on the south have two lightt, 

 cmquefoiled and with tracery. In the south wall 

 there is also a three-light window of three cinque- 



chance 

 built i: 



-t of F. Herts. Mich. 2 >!. II. 

 ■■an., Hi,,. of Htm. Hitchin hu» 



65 Ibid. 24 Geo. I 



'"See Col. Pa,. 



Chan. I Q q. p . m . i s 



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chancel, 24 ft. by 

 i central tower, 17ft by ifift.) 

 56 ft. by 16 ft. 

 i486 John Dayell (DruaU) mult 



'+76-85, p. +78; 



2 )> ™, 49 i Clow, 



'J™ *•■/«« l uiu« 1 y ui-~ 



the work of the church, and 

 e year following another bcqueit m 

 ade by Walter Browne (P.C.C l MiUf, 

 ; Godyn), 



