BROADWATER HUNDRED 



John de Ludwick before 

 as conveyed by Ludwick's 



whom it passed to 1 

 1377- 37 In '4'4 " ™ <= 

 feofFees to John Perient, 38 

 who according to the monu- 

 ment to him in the church 

 died in the following year. 

 He was succeeded by his son 

 John, from whom it passed in 

 14.32 to his son [ohn, 39 who 

 died in I442. 4l) He was suc- 

 ceeded by Edmund Perient, 

 who died in 1474, when 

 Digs well came to his son 

 Thomas. 41 In 1 539 Thomas 

 Perient the younger suc- 

 ceeded, 43 and died in 1545, 



leaving four daughters, Mary the wife of Affabell or 

 Amphabell Rowlett, Dorothy, Anne, and Elizabeth. 43 

 Digswell came to Mary, the eldest daughter, whose 

 first husband died in I J46, 44 and who married secondly 

 George Horsey, and held the manor until her death in 

 15; i.* 5 It was then divided between her sisters Dorothy, 

 who had married George Burgoyne, and Anne the wife 

 of Anthony Carleton 46 ; Elizabeth had presumably 

 died in the mean time. In 1552 Anne and Anthony 

 Carleton conveyed their moiety back to George 

 Horsey, 4 ' who had just married Anne Sadler, 43 and 

 in 1557 he acquired the second half from George 

 and Dorothy Burgoyne. 49 Ralph Horsey succeeded 

 his father 50 before 1591, 51 and in 1599 conveyed 

 Digswell to John Sedleyand Nicholas Hyde. 62 John 

 Sedley died in 1605 seised of half the 



DIGSWELL 



to Richard Willis, the husband of his niece.* 6 

 Elizabeth Willis, their daughter, sold the manor in 

 1786 to Henry Cowper. 66 The latter occupied the 

 position of guardian to the young Earl Cowper, 

 and the sale was in reality to his ward, for the earl 

 □n of the manor in i8*i. ub Digswell 

 ie possession of the Earis Cowper until 

 190; of the seventh and last earl, 

 are at present lords of the manor, 

 nor of Digswell possessed two mills as early 

 : which time a half mill was held by Roger 

 de Valognes. 69 Two mills, togeth 

 ucate of land, 1 

 between Simon 



leased by the lord of the ma 



as late as 1786, 71 but only 



Laurence de St. Michael 



: the subjec 



2 side of the r 



Apparently the 

 ime to him, for 



brother Willi 

 moiety held by Nicholas Hydr 

 in 1 6; 6 he sold the whole 

 manor to Humphrey Sh all- 

 cross. 54 The latter died in 

 1665, 55 and was succeeded by 

 his son Francis Shallcross, 56 

 and his grandson Francis 

 Boteler Shallcross in 1681.** 

 The last-named died without 

 issue in 1 693^ and Digswell 

 passed to his uncle Henry 

 Shallcross, 59 who died in 

 1696. CCJ Henry's son Thomas 

 is mentioned as lord of the 

 manor in 17*8 61 and 1729" ***""• 

 and William Shallcross in 



I7S7-* S He was succeeded by another Thomas 

 Shallcross, who died in 1770 s4 and left Digswell 



fine 



Henry 



they had doubtless been 



>r. They arc mentioned 



n 1274 had free warren 

 id claimed it on the other 

 side. 72 He also claimed at the same time view of 

 frankpledge, gallows, and amendment of the assize of 

 bread and ale. 73 William de Melksop received a fresh 

 grant of free warren in 1301-2. 74 In i 278 Laurence 

 de St. Michael claimed by charter of Henry III a 

 weekly market on Thursdays and a fair every year for 

 ten days. 75 Neither now survives. They probably 

 died out owing to decrease in the population, caused 

 presumably by the Black Death, for in 1428 Digswell 

 only possessed six householders. 78 



The parish church of ST. JOHN" is 



CHURCH covered with cement outside andplastered 



inside, and consists of a chance], nave, 



north chapel and north aisle, north-west tower, and 



south porch. 



The original church, probably consisting of a 

 chancel and nave, was built in the 12th century, 

 and to that date the present chancel and nave may 

 probably be referred. The north aisle was built 

 about 1300, with a chantry chapel added at its east 

 end a quarter of a century later, but the arcade no 

 longer exists. 



ecade of the 1 6 th century the present 

 is built, replacing the smaller chantry, 

 of which John Perient left £200 at 

 324 for the souls of himself, his wife 

 and parents, and John Ludwick and John Derham. 78 

 At the same period the north-west tower was added 

 to the west of the aisle, its north and west walls being 

 continuous with those of the aisle and nave. The 

 south porch seems to belong to the end of the 17th 

 or the beginning of the 18th century. The church 



In the 

 north chapel \ 

 for thi 

 his death 



', +49- 



10 Gibbon 



of Ludwick in Hatfield ; 

 . 21 Ric. II, no. 29. 

 ten. V, m. 6 d. (see al.o 

 ', m. 1 id.); Feud. Aid,, 



10 Hen. VI, no. 1. 



of F. Her 



of Hen 



, Early Line. Willi, 

 monumental inscription. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. IV, no. 

 Ct. R. portf. 72, no. 893. 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lxiii, f 



43 Ibid. Ixxiii, 89. 



145 



50 Vitit. 



« Feet of F. Herti 

 M Ibid. East. 4I E 

 63 Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 R. Hil. 



s Monum. Inscr.' 

 6 Ibid. 



. Trin. 3 & 

 (Harl. Sue 1 

 Trin. 55 Eli*. 

 ■). 



Phi:. 



655.' 



■ 55- 



P.C.C. 



128. 



Men; Her; 



Gen. . 



" Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 4 Edw. VI ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. {Ser. 2), xciii, 104. 

 * Ibid. 



47 Feet of F. Herts. Mich, 6 Edw. VI. 



48 fiat, of Herts, (Harl. Soc. miii), 



