A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Tooke," who appears in possession of the manor in 

 I 5+8." His son Walter died seised of it in 1609," 

 and was succeeded by his son Ralph, who died un- 

 married in 1635 , 3C George, his brother, inherited 

 the manor, 37 but died also without heirs, and the 

 manor came to his brother Thomas. Thomas Tooke 

 sold Holbeaches in 1 664 to Stephen Ewer and 

 Joshua Lomax, 31 * who sold it in the following year to 

 Thomas Shatterden, 39 who possessed it as late as 

 1 696. 40 Before 1705 it came into the possession of 

 Vice-Admiral Sir David Mitchell/' who died there 

 in 1710, 42 leaving the manor to his nephew David 

 Cooke, who took the surname of Mitchell. 43 The 

 Litter was succeeded by his son David Mitchell, 11 

 who sold Holbeaches in 174+ to William Hulk 4S 

 Thence it passed to Rebecca Assheton, daughter of 

 William Hulls, 46 and to her son William Assheton, 47 

 who in 1817 sold it to James Marquess of Salisbury, 48 

 and it thus became united to Hatfield. 



The manor-house was burnt down in January 

 1745-6, and a farm-house now occupies the site. 



The manor of HOLWELL aTmHOLWELLGK AT 

 was held of the Bishop of Ely in chief for half a fee, 49 

 and later of the Earls of Salisbury as of the manor of 



Hatfield,' but a m 

 family (of Willian) 

 The first sub-te 

 who held the maz 

 manor-house there 

 ceeded by hi 



; lordship vested in the Peyvre 

 tioned in the 14th century. 51 

 mentioned is John de Grey, 

 1 1265, for in that ya 



1 I3°j- d 



His 



iald, f 

 a John s 



He 

 ,vho held the half fee 



mplaincd ' that ce 

 manor at Holwell, broke into the 

 away his goods, felled trees in 

 his wood of Erythewood, and 

 with nets snared rabbits in 

 his free warren.' s6 John dc 

 Grey died about 1 324.*' He 

 had settled Holwell on his 

 second son Roger, 5 " and the 

 latter obtained a release of 

 the manor from his elder 

 brother Henry in 1328. M 

 He was succeeded by his son 

 Sir Reginald Grey of Ruthyn. 

 Reginald died in 1 388*"; 

 his widow Eleanor continued 

 to hold the manor until her 

 death in 1396.°' Holwell thei 



36 Ibid, cccclixi, 105. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 16 Chai. ] 

 !S Cloie, 17 Chai. II, pt. \t, m. 26. 

 * Feel of F. HerU. East. 4 Will. ai 

 Maty; Mich. 8 Will III. 

 11 Ibid. East. + Anne. 

 <> Diet. Nat. Bhg. 



" Recov. R. Mich. 11 Geo. II, n 

 328; Clutterbuek, op. cit. ii, J52. 



15 Clutterbuek, op. cit. ii, 352. 



' ; Recov. R. Mich. 53 Geo. Ill, 



.265. 



» Cussanj, op. cit. Brotdvmter Bund. 



"Colt. MSS. Claud. C »i; Ami. 



in the next century it came into 

 John Pcrient, who held it in 

 so held the manors of Digswell 

 From this date Holwell followed the 

 descent of Ludwick Manor until 1642," when it 

 was held by Frances Weld,'" but it does not seem to 

 have passed with Ludwick to the Shallcross family, 

 and it is lost sight of until the beginning of the next 



Reginald." Ear 

 the possession a 

 142s, 03 and who 

 :nd Ludwick. 



century. 



Some time previous to 1 

 inherited Holwell from his m 

 to Charles Clarke." Thorn 

 Charles Clarke entered 



Goddard 

 lother and mortgaged it 

 11.1 i died intestate, and 

 mortgagee and was in 

 ned. 87 In 1743 William 

 d Anna Clarke, widow, 



possession in the \ ear men 

 Clarke and Mary his wife 



sold the manor to John Edwards. 08 L: 

 held by Sir Thomas Cave and Sarah his wife, 89 and 

 passed from them to their daughter Sarah, the wife of 

 Henry Otway, who possessed it as late as 1794.' 

 After this there is no further record of the manor. 



HORNBEJMGJTE (Hcrmcbemgate, x\v cent.) 

 was a small manor held from an early dace by the 

 family of Louth or dc Luda. This family held land 

 in Hatfield early in the 14th century," when Roger 

 de Louth and Joan his wife were living. In 1366 

 Roger, possibly son of the first-named Roger, and 

 Margery de Louth are mentioned. They possessed 

 a messuage and curtilage in ' Herinbenegatcstr.it,' 

 ii Hornbeamgatc."" 

 te manor of Horn- 

 en John son and heir of 

 it to Nicholas and Robert, 

 id some time before 1392,'* 

 ■ apparently continued to descend in 

 ly. John son of Roger was Still living 

 in 1372'": another Robert de Louth appears in 

 1420. 78 In 1466 Robert Louth and Edith his wife 

 conveyed the manor of Hornbeamgate to Nicholas 

 Leventhorpc and Nicholas Brine,' 7 apparently in 

 trust for Sir John Say, who was in possession in 

 1468.™ There seems to be no further trace of it. 



The manor of LUDWICK (Lodcwyk, xiv and xv 

 cent.) was held successively of the Bishops of Ely, the 

 king and the Earls of Salisbury 79 as of the manor of 

 Hatfield. It seems to have belonged early in ihc 

 1 3th century to a family of the name of Ludwick. 

 The first mentioned is Roger de Ludwick, whose 

 name occurs in a document of 1220." William 

 de Ludwick is mentioned in 1 24s 81 and Adam de 



which may possibly be the 



The first actual mentio: 



beamgate is in 1 3 



Roger de Louth g: 



and the ma 

 the Louth fa 



E«a", no- 78 (1); Chan. Inq. p.n 

 1 Edw. II, no. 54. 



» Ibid. $«r. 2), ccccii, 132. 



« Ftud. A,d,, ii,4i8 ; Chan. Ino,. p.rr 

 12 Ric. II, no. »j, 



11 Abbrru. Plac. (Rec. Com.}, 15!. 



i! Wrotteslev, Fid. frm ihi Pica I 



"Col. Pal. 1 3 07-l3, p. 170. 

 " Chan. In.j. p.m. 1 7 Edw. II, no. 7 

 1««. Extenti.no. 78 (')• 

 55 Feel of F. Hern. 5 Edw. II, no. IC 

 "Oil. Clou, 1527-30, p. 599. 

 ™ Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. ; 

 61 Close, 19 Ric. II, m. 4 ; Chan. If 

 ,9 Ric II, no. 30. 



t of F 



; Ct. of 



449. 



" Ibid, 



ra Fi*d. Aid,, 



» Chan. Inq. 

 (Se, z), Ixiii, 61 , 1„ 

 Hi!. 1566, rot. 643; T: 



