BROADWATER HUNDRED 



was in Scotland on the king's service certain persons 

 broke into his park at Hatfield, hunted therein and 

 carried away deer. 1 Apparently he failed to obtain 

 immediate justice, for in 1312 he again advanced his 

 complaint of this offence, 2 and in I 3 I 3 was at length 

 awarded damages. 3 In 1323 the extent of the park 

 was 60 acres, the wood being valued at 8*. a year. 4 

 Free warren was granted to Aylmer de Valence in 

 his demesne lands at Hatfield in 1309." 



The name of LITTLE HOLEWELL was given 

 to certain tenements in Holewell or Holwell which 

 first appear in the possession of Aylmer de Valence, 

 when they were valued at 2 3;. 1 y. a They were held 

 of the manor of Symondshyde. &" Little Holewell passed 

 in the same manner as Gacelyns to Joan and David de 

 Strathbolgi, the latter of whom died seised of it in 

 * 1 327, holding it of Hugh Fitz Simon of Symondshyde. 7 

 It is still mentioned in connexion with Gacelyns in 

 1336 9 and 1377,* but disappears after this date. 



HJNDSIDE (Haneshyde, xiii cent.) is now repre- 

 sented by a hamlet in the extreme north of the parish. 

 It was held of the Bishop of Ely by service of a quarter 

 of a knight's fee. 10 It seems to have had its origin in 

 the lands held by John Polayn in H.itficld in 1324." 

 John son and heir of John Polayn also held lands in 

 this parish previous to 1 35 1. 12 Both were lords of 

 the manor of Ayot Montfitchet {Ayot St. Peter, 

 q.v.), ii'hidi manor passed at the death of the 

 second John to the Fish family. The ' manor 

 of Handside ' first appears in the possession of 

 a member of the Fish family in the reign of 

 Henry VIII. 13 A little later it was held by Thomas 

 Fish. 11 Elizabeth widow of Thomas Fish married 

 secondly William Perient, and continued to hold 

 Handside. 16 Some time between 1558 and 1579 

 Edward Brockett brought an action against her, stating 

 that Edward and George, the sons of Thomas Fish, had 

 granted him the reversion of the manor after her 

 death, and protesting because he had heard that she 

 and her husband intended to cut down the wood on 

 the estate, which was valued at 1,000 marks. 1 * 

 Edward Brockett died seised of Handside in 1599, 

 his heir being his son John. 17 After this there is no 

 further mention of the manor j probably it became 

 absorbed in the Brockett estates. 



HERONS was a small reputed manor situated 

 in Cromerhyde, and seems to have been held of 

 Symondshyde. 18 Its origin is uncertain, but as early 

 as the reign of Henry III one Simon le Heron held 

 land in this district. At this time 4 acres of land 

 granted to Nigel de Chewell are described as lying 

 ' between the land of Simon le Hcyrun and the way 

 which leads across Croymer,' ls which proves that 

 Simon's knd lay in a locality corresponding wilh the 

 later manor of Herons. In 1293 Geoffrey I e Heron 



HATFIELD or 

 BISHOP'S HATFIELD 

 received damages from John de Kassingburn and others 

 because they had broken down I oft. of his hedge.-" 

 In 1315-16 there was a conveyance from Simon 

 Heron to John Benstede of the reversion of a messuage, 

 240 acres of arable land, rent of money and rent of 

 three clove gillyflowers, one goose, two fowls and 

 five sheep and rights of pasture in Hatfield, 31 these 

 tenements being probably coincident with the manor. 

 This John de Benstede died in 1359 seised of land 

 in Hatfield called Chewells, some of which was held 

 of the Bishop of Ely and the rest of Hugh Fitz 

 Simon M (of Symondshyde). As Chewells was held 

 of the bishop only, and Herons at a later date is said 

 to be held of Symondshyde, it seems as if ' the rest ' 

 here was synonymous with Herons. Edward Benstede 

 was certainly possessed of it at his death in I432, 38 

 so it is probable that it followed the descent of the 

 manor of Benington from an earlier date. After this 

 it is not again separated Jr<;m Chewells. 



POPES or HOLBEJCIJAS (Ho\bcches,Ho\beckes, 

 Holbaches) was held of the manor of Hatfield by 

 fealty and free socage. B3a In 1330 John de Hotham, 

 Bishop of Ely, granted to Robert dc Holbeaches and 

 Emma his wife in tail-male a messuage and lands in 

 Hatfield for the rent of one rose yearly at the Nativity 

 of St. John Baptist. 24 Emma, after the death of Robert 

 de Holbeaches, married John Molyn, the king's 

 envoy, and in 1 3 5 1 granted these same lands to John 

 de Berland of Prittlewell to hold during her life. ss 

 In the reign of Edward III the manor is said to have 

 been held by William Stalworth,- 6 from whom it 

 descended successively to his son John and his grandson 

 William, the latter of whom left two daughters, 

 Elizabeth and Jane, between whom the manor was 

 divided. Elizabeth is said to have married Richard 

 Hall, and her moiety to have descended to two grand- 

 daughters, Elizabeth the wife of Laurence Woodhall, 

 who had a son Fulk, and Alice, who married John 

 (James i) ap Jenkyn. Jane, the second daughter of 

 William Stalworth, is said to have married Charles 

 Blount, and her moiety to have come to her daughter 

 Margaret, who married Thomas Woodhall. 27 



In 1542 Thomas Woodhall and Margaret his wife 

 conveyed the 'manor of Popes Park,' which was pre- 

 sumably the name given to their moiety, to Fulk 

 Woodhall,- 8 who thus became possessed of three- 

 quarters of the original manor, which he held in 

 1545.- 9 In 1529 James apjenkyns and Alice his wife 

 sold a quarter of the manor of Popes to Roger 

 Belamy. ^ This quarter came to William Belamy, 

 son and heir of Richard Belamy, in 1 538, 31 who sold 

 it in 1548 to William Tooke, 32 auditor-general of 

 the Court of Wards and Liveries. 



Chauncy says that Fulk Woodhall afterwards joi 



vith WiJIia 



Bel at 



iveyai 



, WiJIia 



W Cut. C/oit, 1 149-54, P- 3'°- 



!C Chauncy, op. cic. ;io. 



"Ibid. 310-11. The pedigree is io 

 fai unsupported by documentary evidence, 

 but if authentic explains the existing 

 documents which follow. 



« Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 34 

 W<;n. VIII. 



* Ibid. Heits. Mich. 37 Hen. VIII. 



■iii.ful. 



" Ibid 



>1 Ct. ofWards Mis. 



1 Hen.'VIII. 



