A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



anor in i 363 to Richard 

 as also a conve\ance to 

 by William de Wotton 



labeth 



gaol." Heconvey 



de Pembrugge." 



Richard in the sar 



and Margaret his 



interest is not clear. Richard de Pembrugge and 



his son Henry both died in 1375," and the manor 



passed to his nephews Richard de Beurlee, son of his 



sister Amice, and Thomas Barre, son of his sister 



Hawise. Richard de Beurlee apparently died soon 



after or quitclaimed his moiety, for in 1383 thi 



manor was settled on Thomas Barre and El 



Thomas Barre was appointed justice of the peace 

 for Herefordshire in 1384," andsurveyor of the king's 

 hay in that county in the same year." At this time 

 he also received a grant for life of 40 marks yearly 

 from the issues of the county, instead of from the 

 Exchequer, from whence it had previously be;n 

 drawn. 11 In 1397 this was augmented by an allow- 

 ance of 3 tuns of red wine yearly.* 6 He was 

 J. P. for Herefordshire again in 1385" and for 

 Hert:"ordshire in I401." In 1 393 he was appointed 

 with others to deal with Walter Bent ' and other sons 

 of iniquity ' for preaching false doctrines in the 

 diocese of Hereford.** Early in 1394 he received 

 protection for half a year to go to Ireland on the 

 king's service, 10 which was later extended for another 



empted for life, on account of his 

 cing charged with being sheriff, 

 or other officer of the king, and 

 1 person, provided that he find a 

 competent person to serve the king in his place and 

 to ride with ihe king when required ' " ; nevertheless 

 he served as justice of the peace for Hertfordshire in 

 1406 and 1407." He survived his wife and his son 

 Thomas and died in 1420, being succeeded by his 

 grandson John Barre." John's daughter Isabel 

 married first Humphrey Stafford Earl of Devon, who 

 was beheaded in 1469," arid upon her father") death 

 in 1481 or 1483" Ayot St. Lawrence passed to her 

 and her second husband Thomas Bourchier," who 

 survived her and died in 1491." Isabel died in 

 [4X9. 



Lab.I and Thomas Bourchier had a daughter 

 Isabel, but she predeceased them, and upon the death 



In 1404 he 

 great age, ' 



from all laboi 



1. Im 



p.m. 28 Edw. ITI.no. 



" Ibid. 682. 



of Thomas the heirs were declared to be three cousins, 

 viz. Richard Delabere son of Joan sister of John Barre, 

 Thomas Cornwall great grandson of Elizabeth, a 

 second sister, and Edward Hanmcr grandson of Ancret, 

 a third sister of John Barre." These three each re- 

 ceived a third part of the manor.'" In 1 505 Edward 

 Hanmer granted his share to Sir William Say, 

 Thomas Cornwall did the same in 1506, and finally 

 in 1508 Richard Delabere released his portion,* 1 so 

 that in that year Sir William Say was seised of the 

 whole. From Sir William Say the manor descended 

 to his daughter and co-heir Elizabeth, wife of William 

 Blount, fourth Lord Mountjoy, and to their daughter 

 Gertrude, who married Henry Courtenay Earl of 

 Devon, in 1525 created Marquess of Exeter." Henry 

 Courtenay was attainted for treason and beheaded in 

 1539, and his wife being attainted in the same year 

 her lands were forfeited to the Crown." In 1543 

 Ayot St. Lawrence was granted to John Brocket!, 

 John Alway and Nicholas 

 Bristowe." Nicholas Bristov 

 held the manor in 1572 ai 

 made his title secure agnir 

 possible heirs of Sir Willia 

 Say." He died in 1585 

 widow Lucy, ai 



*>'»>"*>* 



(9 99 



the 



mded s 



Bristowi of Ayot 

 St. Lawrence. Enmi 

 a fast eolhed tablt villi 



sively to his son Nicholas" 

 and his grandson Nicholas, 

 the latter inheriting inieie. 49 

 In 1661 trie manor was held 

 by Robert Bristowe, accord- 

 ing to Cussans the brother of a 

 fourth Nicholas." He was 



succeeded by William Bristowe, his third bujt elde« 

 surviving son, whose widow was lady of the! manor 

 in I7oo. so She sold it in 1714 to Thomas iLcwis," 

 who died in 1718"; and five years latW hit 

 estates were sold by Thomas Lewis and HenVy and 

 Margaret Hensleigh to Cornelius Lyde." Rachel, 

 ihe daughter of Cornelius, with her cousin and 

 husband Lionel Lyde" conveyed half the manor and 

 advowson in [749 to her mother Rachel widow of 

 Cornelius." It perhaps reverted to the daughter 

 Rachel and her husband before 1758, for Lionel 



Lyde then pre 



nted t 



the church." This Lionel 



!l Ihi 



c Ibid. 1 385—9, p. 80. 

 * Ibid, u 99-14.0 1, p. t; 9 , 

 'Ibid. .391-6, PP . 354-5. 

 " Ibid. p. 472. 



"Cha 



.z% the 



F- 375- 

 , p. 492. 

 Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. V, , 

 ' taid to hav 



.63. 



"> Ancr. D. (P.R.O.), B 257,258, 259. 



" Ibid. B 254, 255, 27;. 



'* G.E.C. Complttt r, lta „ . L. W P. 



H, n . ym,\x,A,i\. 



a G.E.C. Combine Parage 



« L. „d P. tilt,. VIII, xvjjj (,), g . 9 8, 

 (95). Mr. Round points out that they 

 bought the manor for twenty years' 

 purchase, and that Nicholas Bristowe, 

 clerk of the jewel-home, was made 

 steward of Reading Abbey in 1 540 ( 5t e 

 under Aston). To 'The Monarch, of 

 England' exhibition at the Grafton 

 Gallery (in 1901) there were lent by 

 Mrs. Ames the hat of Henry VIII and 

 the shoes of Anne Boleyn, which, accord- 



granting it to him when riding by it with 

 Anne must be wholly false. 



15 Add. Chart. 1994. 



16 Chan. Ioq. p.m. (Scr. 2), cccliiii, 

 204 (z). 



« Chan. Decree R. no. 77 (14J. 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. (Set. a), cccUiis, 

 204 (z). 



19 CuiEans, o P . cit. Broad-water Hund. 

 236. Nicholas died in 1626, ice M.I. 



5 ° Chauncy, Hi,!, „f Hertt, 



1 line of 1697 i 



Ihe n 



; of her 



id by the 



d<, ii, 448). He was probably the 



irdian of the heir, then a minor 



* G.E.C. Co-xplru Parage. 



Inq. p.m. 2 2 Edw. IV, no. 39. 



Nichol 



Inf. lien. 



II, i, 



Bristowe by ihe king as tlie 

 1 of Ayot St. Lawrence, and 

 ce always gone with the estate.' 

 id points ou[ that Anne Boleyn 



and hn partners acquired the 

 id that the story of the ting 



daughter Elizabeth and husband Charles 

 Wilson, conveying half the manor to 

 Robert Raworth, but this was probably 

 only a settlement ; Feet of F. Herts. 

 Hil. 8 Will. III. 



01 Feet of F. Herts. Trim 1 Geo. I[ 

 Com. Pleas Reno,. R. t Geo. I, m. 4 i 

 Rccov. R. Herts. Trin. 13 Anne. 



Si Tombstone at Ayot St. Lawrence. 



M Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 10 Geo. I j 

 •/»™ (17 = 8). «*• 





of F. Herts. Hil. 13 Geo. 11. 

 u Bks. (P.R.O.). 



