BROADWATER HUNDRED 



t of Weston, and Totteridge, which was a detached part of the parish of 

 atfield about twelve miles south of its mother-church. 



Two places mentioned in the Domesday Survey have not been identified : 

 r ollenwick (Wlwenewiche), 3 which was probably a portion of Stevenage 

 xish lying between Wymondley and Burleigh, and which is mentioned as 

 te as 138 i, 3 and Rodenhanger (Rodebangre, Rodenehangre), which evidently 

 [joined Norton, with which it was given to St. Albans Abbey by King 

 thelred in 1007.* 



Broadwater has always been a royal hundred.' The hundred court is said 

 1 have been sometimes held at Stevenage with the county court, but in the 

 4th century the sheriff's tourn was held at Broadwater at Easter and 

 lichaelmas." In 1651 the value of the hundred, with profits, perquisites 

 id privileges, was £5 ioj. yearly. The total of rents and royalties due to 

 le lord of the hundred amounted to £10 i^sJ In 1651 payments amount- 

 lg to 2 1 j. 4</. for frankpledge were due to the lord of the hundred from 

 Velwyn, Knebworth, Bardolfhall (Watton), Little Munden, Letchworth 

 nd Wymondley. Rents of assize paid to the sheriff's aid at the same time 

 om various places amounted to £3, and certainty money from freeholders 

 t the sheriff's tourn to 12s. id} The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of 

 :lons and fugitives, fee, within the hundred belonged to the lord if the 

 ailiff of the hundred seized them first, but if any bailiff belonging to a lord 

 fa manor who had leet within the hundred seized them before the bailiff 

 f the hundred, then that lord in whose leet they were seized commonly had 

 le profit and benefit thereof. 9 



The lords of all the more important manors in the hundred appear 

 3 have had right of view of frankpledge. 10 The lords of Aston, Ayot St. 

 ,awrence, Baldock, Benington, Hatfield, Stevenage, Walkern and Weston 

 ad also gallows and tumbrel ; those of Datchworth, Knebworth, Great 

 /Iunden and Sacombe had gallows. 



' See F.C.S. Hurt,. I, 297. ■ Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ric. II, no. 1 10. 



* Anecdota Oxoniensa (Med. and Mod. Ser.), pt. vii, 24, 133. 



s Assize R. 325 ; Chauncy, Hist, of Herts. 304 ; Clutterbuck, Hist, of Herts, ii, 244. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. file 403, no. 38 j Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 68. ' Pari. Surv. Herts, no. 1. 



* Ibid. ' Ibid. 



10 Assize R. 325, m. 26 d. ; Rot. Hmd. (Rec. Com.), i, 192 j Pkc.de QuolVarr. (Rec. Com.), 279, 289 ; 

 at. ij Jas. I, pt. axii, m. 18 ; Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 68 j Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. iv, m. 27. 



