BROADWATER HUNDRED 



son William de Bocland. In 121; the manor was 

 granted to Nicholas de Joland, and is described 

 as having belonged to Geoffrey de Bocland," who 

 was perhaps a predecessor of Hugh. In 1217, 

 however, the custody of the lands of William de 

 Lanvaley was granted to Robert Delamare and 

 Thomas de Win ton. 19 This suggests that William 

 had forfeited ; eventually, however, Datchworth 

 returned to the Lanvaleys and descended to Hawise's 

 granddaughter Hawise, who married John de Burgh,*" 

 son of the famous Hubert de Burgh." John and 

 Hawise de Burgh conveyed the manor in 1240 to 

 Gilbert de Wanton, for the rent of a pair of gilt spurs 

 or 6d. at Easter." Gilbert de Wauton was suc- 

 ceeded before 1287 by his son John de Wauton," 

 but by 1302 Datchworth had passed into the 

 hands of William de Melksop," and in 1346 was 

 held by Henry Melksop." Some time after this 

 it was acquired by John de la Lee, from whom it 

 passed upon his death in 1370 to his son Walter 

 de la Lee, ,s who held it in 1376." Walter's heirs 

 were his two sisters, Margery the wife of Robert 

 Newport and Joan wife of John Barley. M These 

 two sisters in 1406 conveyed their moieties to John 

 Coke, 18 who was succeeded by Thomas Coke after 

 I4io 30 and before 1428." Who were the heirs of 

 i if the 



DATCHWORTH 



passed to Margaret and Thomas, but a few years later 

 was claimed by Richard Fuller, nephew of Grace 

 Johnson, on the ground that Thomas Johnson had 

 promised to convey it to him failing his own issue. 

 His claim, however, was not allowed, and m 1 57' 

 the moiety was conveyed by Thomas and Margaret 

 Appowell to Richard Foster," who a year or two later 

 became possessed of the other moiety. Thus patch- 

 worth was again united in the same hands. Richard 

 Foster was succeeded before 1 6 1 4 by Thomas Foster,' 

 who in 1620 conveyed the manor to John Gamon. 

 Datchworth remained in the Gamon family" until 

 1693, when it was sold by Richard and Mary Gamon 

 to William Wallis." In 1719 it was purchased from 



Drded, but it seems 



en two daughters. One of 



Joan the wife of John 



n 1479 seised of half the 



She left 3 son John, to 



Thomas Coke 



manor was divided bctwi 



these may have been 



Shawarden, who died i 



manor of Datchworth. 31 



whom her moiety descended, and who died 



By his will the rent of the half-manor was to be used 



to raise portions for his daughters Ellen and Susan 



and his younger sons Thomas and Laurence. 33 



The moiety descended to his eldest son John 



Shawarden, who in 1572-3 sold it to Richard 



Foster. 3 * 



The history of the other moiety of Datchworth 

 after the death of Thomas Coke is more obscure. 

 In 1533 a portion, which from subsequent evidence 

 would appear to be a half, was conveyed by Robert 

 and Alice Darkenoll to John Covert and others and 

 the heirs of John. !i In 1559 the moiety was held 

 by Richard Covert, 36 presumably the son of John, and 

 was later purchased from him by Thomas Johnson.' 7 

 By his will of I 569 Thomas Johnson bequeathed his 

 lands to his wife Grace for life with remainder to 

 Margaret wife of Thomas Appowell, who seems most 

 probably to have been his niece. The half-manor 



li Close, 17 John, m. j. 



'« Cal.Pat. 1216-25, P- 9 s - 



K Excerpia . Roc, Fin. (Rec. Com. 



?■ 



!1 Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peer 



4; ; M..r 



the latter by Edward Han 



upoi 



'73* 



whose death 

 r Audrey, 



will provided that pa 

 should got ■ 



sold 



:d to his daughi 

 hird Viscount Townshend." 

 md and died in 1788. He: 

 t of the Datchworth estad 

 on John Townshend, but thr 



Wilson.' 6 A 

 :em, however, 



nuity for 

 and her 

 have kept 



her granddaughter Ann- 

 husband Richard Wilson 

 the manor," for they . 

 1791," and sold it about ten years later to Samuel 

 Smith of Watton Woodhall," with which manor it 

 has since descended. 



In 1275 it was found that the Abbot of Westminster 

 had been holding view of frankpledge illegally in 

 Datchworth for the past forty years and had neglected 

 to attend the sheriff's tourn, for which offence he was 

 fined. 60 Apparently, however, he continued to hold 

 it, sometimes as appurtenant to his main manor of 

 Stevenage." 



Free warren was granted by Henry III to Gilbert 

 de Wauton in 1253," and there is a reference to free 

 fishery in the manor in 1719." 



The reputed manor of HAWKIN'S HALL or 

 HAWKTNS first appears in 1 564, when it was in the 

 possession of the younger branch of the Bardolf family, 

 who held the manor of Crowborough in Watton-at- 

 Stone until 1 564. Hawkin's Hall seems to have 

 extended into Watton parish, so it probably joined 

 their lands there. In 1564 Edmund Bardolf settled 

 the manor of Hawkin's Hall on Elizabeth Bardolf, 

 widow, presumably his mother, for her life, with 

 annual rents to be paid to Edward, Ralph, and 

 Richard Bardolf, with remainder to himself and his 

 heirs." Lands in Tewin and elsewhere were con- 

 veyed with the manor." In 1591 the estate was 



e that ther- 



Her 



Her. 



III. 



dship of the 

 Burghs seems to have soon fallen into 

 abeyance, for it is not mentioned after 

 1303 [Feud. Aids, ii, 429), when the 

 manor was aaid to be held of Robert 

 Fiti Waller in right of hie wife, the 

 granddaughter of John de Burgh. 



r. R. 30 Edw. I, no. 17; Feud. 



.vifc of Thoi 

 ,ot appear in thi 



■ 9 Feet of F. Herts. 8 Hi 



ev Ibid. 12 Hen. IV, no. 



B1 Feud. Aid', ii, 448. 



83 Chan. Inq. p,m, zc 



1,625. Jt i" «i 

 a third sister, Al 

 ewell, hut she d 



« Recov. R. Mich. 2 

 loo; FeetofF.Hcrts.Tr 

 East. 2 Jan. H. 



« Ibid. Mich. 5 Will. 

 Close, ; Will, and Mary, pt. 



Chas 



M Ibid. 6 Geo 



,pt. \ 



3 Ibid. (Ser. 

 * Feet of 1 

 :ov. R. Hil. 



',36. 



Aids, 



» ',!,. 



.429. 



Aid h \ 



16 Chan. Inq. 



436. 



15 Elii. 



: - 44i- 

 F. Div. Co. Mich. 21 

 4en. VIII. 3 



86 Recov. R. Trin. 1559, rot. 124. 

 31 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 6, no. n. 



44 Edw. Ill (is 



, P t,ii,m. t,d. 

 Feet of F. Herts. 8 Hen. IV, no 



* Ibid. 



;9 Recov. R. Tiii 



13 Elk 



ot. 848 ; 



79 



Richard Wilson bought it of the Townshend 



,s Recov. R. East. 31 Geo. Ill, rot. 



,e Clutterbuck, op. cit. ii, 3 it 

 » H»*d. R. (R«, Com.), i, ,m 

 61 Ct. R. portf. 178, no. 47, ; 5 ,62. 

 "Pat. 37*38 Hen. Ill, pt. ii, no. 77. 



m ..a i A«i«R.jz,. 



'-» Close, 6 Geo. I, pt. vii, nD . 2 . 



H Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 6 & 7 Eliz. 



