A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



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who sold it again to Pari* Slaughter, whose son Paris 

 succeeded in 1 693. 30 His daughter and heir married 

 a Mr. Clarke, whose son William Clarke 31 sold 

 Ponsbourne to Samuel Strode, who was lord of the 

 manor in I728. r '- He was succeeded by his son 

 William, who died in 1756, 

 and by his grandson William, 

 who in 1 76 1 conveyed the 

 manor to Lawrence Sullivan. 33 

 From Lawrence it passed to 

 his son Stephen, who sold it 

 in 181 1 or 181 2 to William 

 Busk, 34 from whom it was 

 purchased in I 8 I 9 by his 

 brother Jacob Hans Busk. In 

 1 8 ', 6 the manor was again 

 sold to Mr. Wynn Ellis, who 

 disposed of it in 1875 to 

 Mr. James William Carlile. 35 <»<">«■ 

 The latter is the present lord 



of the manor, and resides at Ponsbourne Park. Pons- 

 bourne Manor House is the residence of Colonel Sir 

 E. Hildred Carlile, M.P. for Mid-Herts. 



The manor of STMONDSHTDE was held of the 

 manor of Hatfield for the service of half a knight's 

 fee and suit of court every three weeks. 38 In the 

 Inqumtio Eltens'u, compiled about 1086, Adam is 

 stated to hold z hides of the abbot, which may 

 represent Symondshyde. 37 Adam is the only tenant 

 mentioned as holding as much as 2 hides, which was 

 the quantity held by the Fitz Simons in 1277. M 

 Moreover, Adam Fitz Hubert was the Domesday 

 holder of Almshoc, and this manor and Symondshyde 

 appear later in the hands of the same sub-tenants, the 

 Fitz Simons. At the beginning of the 13th century 

 William Fitz Simon was holding half a knight's fee 

 in Hatfield, and in 1237 Adam Fitz William was a 

 party to a conveyance of land there. 39 The manor 

 then follows the same descent 10 as Almshoe (Hitchin 

 Hundred) until 1805, when Symondshyde was sold 

 by Sir Robert Salusbury to John Fordham. 41 John 

 Fordham was succeeded by his son John Edward 

 Fordham, who in 1852 sold the manor to the Mar- 

 quess of Salisbury,' 12 after which it became merged 

 in the main manor of Hatfield. 



TOLMERS or NEITGATE STREET was held 

 of the Bishop of Ely and later of the Crown. 43 Its 

 early history is very obscure ; the name Tolmers 

 suggests that it was formerly in the possession of a 

 family of that name. In the register of the lands of 

 Ely, compiled in 1277, a certain Walter de Tolymer 

 was entered as holding land of the bishop in Hatfield, 



together with the right as a tenant in chief of pasturing 

 his cattle in the Great Park of Hatfield belonging 

 to the bishop. 44 In 1308 John the son of William 

 Tolymer released the lands in Hatfield which he had 

 acquired from his brother William to John le H»y- 

 ward. 45 These lands were probably the manor of 

 Tolmers, but there is no record of their descent for 

 two centuries following. The fim actual mention 

 of the manor of Tolmen occur* in 1516, when 

 Edmund Chyvall and Alice his wife, in whose right 



held th. 

 Thirteen years late 

 many Hertfordshire 

 Tolmers then d 

 Benington 48 (q.v.), 

 granted to Robert 

 without heirs in 1588, and his 

 Crown. 50 In 1608 Tolmers 



'eyed it to William Tattorn." 

 Sir William Say, the holder of 

 lanors, died seised of it. 47 

 scended with the manor of 

 ,nd in 1566 the reversion was 

 Earl of Leicester. 40 He died 

 ids reverted to the 

 granted to Sir 



Henry Goodere or Goodyer, to be held of the kin 

 as of his manor of East Greenwich by fealty and free 

 socage. 61 Sir Henry was perpetually in strain for 

 want of money, and was much given to composing 

 flattering poems, perhaps with a view to bettering 

 his fortunes. In 16 19 he wrote an ode to the 

 Marquess and Marchioness of Buckingham on the 

 occasion of their marriage, 63 and in 1613, when 

 Prince Charles made his journey to Spain in search 

 of a bride, he addressed poems to him both on hi. 

 departure and his return." In 1626 he petitioned 

 to be admitted a Gentleman Usher of the Queen's 

 Privy Chamber, saying that he 'desired only meat, 

 drink and lodging, with some dignity, in that place 

 where he had spent most of his time and estate.'* 4 

 It is not recorded whether he was successful, but he 

 died in the following year, and his son-in-law Francis 

 Nethersole was granted £1,000 in consideration of his 

 own and his father-in-law's services." He left four 

 daughters, Lucy the wife of Francis Nethersole, 

 Elizabeth, Mary and Anne, 10 but the manor passed 

 to another Sir Henry Goodere and Etheldreda his 

 wife, 67 who was succeeded by his son Francis before 

 1638. 6B In 1649 Francis Goodere sold Tolmers to 

 Robert Shiers of the Inner Temple 6B ; he was 

 succeeded by his son George Shiers,* who it said 

 to have died in 168;, and devised his estates to 

 charitable uses. 81 



In 1714 Hugh Shortridge, S.T.P., was lord of 

 the manor." In 171 5 he conveyed Tolmers to 

 Sir Francis Vincent and other trustees to hold to his 

 own use for life, with remainder to the trustees to 

 carry out his charitable bequests, among which was 

 an annua] payment of £120 to Exeter College, 



