BROADWATER HUNDRED little munden 



manner as Benington" (q.v.), and came with that 

 manor to the Crown. It was leased to Thomas 

 Crompton in 1594-5 for twenty-one years. !S In 

 1602 Thomas Crompton conveyed his lease to Michael 

 Woodcock,' 5 who is said to have settled it upon his 

 son Michael on his marriage with Dorothy Woodhall. 30 

 He was holding it in i6o6, SL but sold it in 1607 to 

 Peter Vaulore, 1 * who conveyed it in 161410 his son- 

 in-law Sir Charles Caesar and his daughter Anne." 

 The title, however, was defective, probably because only 

 the twenty-one years' lease of the manor had been sold 

 by Thomas Crompton, which term would run out 

 about this time. Finally the manor was bought by 

 Edmund Woodhall, brother of Dorothy Woodcock." 

 He died seised of it in 1639, leaving two sons 

 Edmund and John. 15 Edmund died without issue, 

 and in 1675 Little Munden was held by his brother 



Robert Thornton Heysham," and his grandson of 

 the same name," who in 1816 sold the manor to 

 Nathaniel Snell Chauncy." In 184+ the latter 

 conveyed it to his brother Charles, from whom it 

 passed upon his death in 1866 to his daughter 

 Elizabeth and her husband Henry Edward Surtees. 

 It was acquired about 1895 by Mrs. Edwin Prodgers, 

 the present owner. 



Previous to 1385 the tenants of Little Munden did 

 suit at the sheriff's tourn held at Broadwater at 

 Easter and Michaelmas ; in that year, however, view 

 of frankpledge was granted to John de Thornbury," 

 for which he was to pay 20s. yearly." This grant was 

 confirmed in 1439," and the view is mentioned as 

 late as 1816." 



L1BURT (Stuterehela, Sutreshela, xi cent. ; Leigh- 

 bury, Ljebery, xv cent.).— Before the Conquest and 



John, 16 from whom it passed to his youngest sister 

 Mary Thornton. She had two daughters Mary and 

 Jane, who possessed the manor in 1700," and who 

 both in succession married Robert Heysham. Robert 

 and Jane had a son Robert, 33 who died unmarried in 

 1734, bequeathing Little Munden to his kinsman 

 Giles Thornton on condition of his assuming the 

 name of Heysham. 59 He was succeeded by his son 



at the time of the Domesday Survey Stuterehele, as 

 Libury was then called, was a large estate of almost 

 10 hides, but was very much divided up in owner- 

 ship. In the time of King Edward Lewin held about 

 2^ hides 18 ; two sokemen held of him 1 hide 1 vir- 

 gate 10 acres, rendering an avera (a carrying service) 

 or $y. yearly to the king's sheriff' 11 ; Torchil held 

 of him 1 hide and half a virgate, and Walter 1 1 acres. 10 



