A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



It 'Gems probable, however, that Roger le Strange 

 held it in right of his wife Maud, for upon his death 

 without children in 13 1 1 7B it evidently passed to 

 Roger de Mowbray son of Maud by her first husband, 

 since Chells was held in 1359 of John de Mowbray, 

 great-grandson of Maud.'* The tenure docs not 

 therefore confirm the identification of Chells with 

 the Scelva of 1086. 



Under Roger Le Strange the manor appears in the 

 tenure of the family of PateshuU. The earliest 

 known member of the family 

 is Simon de PateshuU, chief 

 justice of the Common Pleas, 

 who died about i2i7, s " and 

 had a son John. 81 The first, 



:ver, who " 

 have held Chells is Si: 

 PateshuU, son of this John, 82 

 a well-known judge, who died 

 seised of the manor about 

 129;, and was succeeded by 

 his son John. 83 John's son M 

 and successor William de 

 PateshuU died in 1359, leav- 



his 



Sibyl 

 wife of Thorn 

 de Todenham 

 Maud and he 

 Chells was assigned to Alice 

 in 1373 conveyed it to th 

 wife Maud."" 

 held th. 

 passed to hi 





> Wake, 

 records of the 

 to have died in 

 eeded by his soi 

 latter who conveyed Chells to John 

 o died seised of it in 1521.8* John 

 also lord of the manor of Boxbury, 

 son and successor John Norreys sold 

 r in 1526.=° Probably Chelb was 

 Boielers about the 

 ■Philip on his son John, 91 1 

 in j 5 6z. C2 After that date it fol- 

 f Boibury 93 in 

 Walkern, with which it was henceforward associated. 

 The manor of BROOKS (Broke*, Brokys) took its 

 name from the family of Brok, who held land in Steven- 

 age in the 1 5th century. Laurence de Brok, son of Adam 

 de Brok, 91 died about 127; seised of considerable posses- 

 sions in Stevenage, of which 300 acres with a capital 



messuage were held of the Abbot of St. Albans, 

 200 acres with a windmill of the Abbot of West- 

 minster, 140 acres of Ivo de Homeley and 100 acres 

 of Robert de Graveley.** Some or all of these por- 

 tions were probably known as ' Brooks,' for the manor 

 is mentioned by that name in a deed of the same 

 year by which it was conveyed to Laurence's son and 

 heir Hugh. ps Hugh de Brok was succeeded before 

 1194 by his son, another Laurence/ 7 whose widow 

 Ellen was holding his lands in 1330, with reversion 

 to her son Ralph. 98 Ralph's heirs, who succeeded 

 before 1 346, *° were his three daughters Joan, Ellen 

 and Agnes, the eldest of whom died without issue. 

 His lands were therefore divided between Ellen and 

 Agnes. Agnes had a daughter Joan, 100 who was per- 

 haps identical with Joan the wife of Robert Corbet, 

 who was holding Brooks with her husband in 1400. 1 

 There is no further record of the manor until towards 

 the end of the i;th century, by which time it had 

 : possession of Edmund Node. s His 

 survived him, and enfeoffed her second son 

 o the use of herself and her heirs, with the 

 that he made an estate to his elder brother, 

 ulso called William. He, however, refused 

 , and between 1493 and 1500 hi* mother 

 a suit against him 

 compel him to give up 

 " William Node 

 holding Brooks in 1521,'' 

 have been suc- 

 ceeded by another William, 

 who in 1564 sold the manor 

 to Robert Ivory. 5 The latter 

 conveyed it in the same year 

 to John Bagshawe. 8 In 1608 

 it was purchased from Edmund 



Bagshawe, probably the son """"" ° * 



of John, by William Field, 7 Hi,c . h,n ' f r s ,"" " 

 who in 1614 sold it in nis , W o f*»d< tngrailtd table 

 turn to Ralph Radclifte of «*'ri B lab:! asorc ovtr 

 Hitchin Priory 8 (q.v.). Brooks ""■ 

 has since descended in the 



Radcliffe family, and is now in the possession of 

 Mr. Francis A. Delmc-Raddiffe, J.P. 



Ellen widow of Laurence de Brok was granted free 

 warren in her lands in Stevenage in 1330.' 



CJNNIX, CJNiTTKES, or BROXBOURNES, 

 was named from its early tenants, and was held of 

 the manor of Stevenage by military service. 11 It 

 seems to have been identical with the messuage and 

 virgate held of the Abbot of Westminster in 1 3 1 ; by 

 John de Broxbourne. la His son Richard held the 



1 Feet of F. Herts. 1 



' Early Chan. Proc. hr 

 1 Ibid. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser 



'- Feet of F. Hrru. 



Recov. R. Eait. 6 Eliz. r 



"Chart. R. + Edw. Ill, 1 



13 MSS. quoted by Clutterbuclt, op. eit. 

 ii, App . p. 1 4 ; Line. Epis. Reg. Burgherih. 



