BROADWATER HUNDRED 



this a lease of the manor had been granted by the 

 Bishop of Ely to John Brockctt, who sold it some 

 time later to Richard Peacock for £1,100.' In 

 1579-80 Elizabeth granted the court leet and view 

 of frankpledge and the profits of the manor to John 

 Moore for twenty-one years, 9 and in 1 590 she 

 granted the manor to John Cage, to hold for one- 

 twentieth of a knight's fee, of the honour of Hampton 

 Court. 10 About 1603 John Cage and Richard 

 Peacock had a prolonged lawsuit for the possession of 

 the manor. 11 John and Katherine Cage and Richard 

 their son and heir released their right in 1607," 

 apparently in favour of the Peacocks, for it seems to 

 have descended to another Richard Peacock, who 

 married Rechard Grigge, who was holding the manor 

 in 1678" and died before 1689." Rechard had 

 fourteen children, and, surviving her husband and all 

 her sons, sold Totteridge in that year to Sir Francis 

 Pemberton and Isaac Foxcroft. 11 They apparently 

 conveyed it to Sir Paul Whichcote, who was lord 

 of the manor in 1700. 16 The latter sold Totteridge 

 in 1720-1 to James Duke of Chandos, 17 from whom 

 it passed to his son Henry in 1 744.^ Henry 

 Duke of Chandos conveyed it in 1748 to Sir 

 Lord Chief Justice of the King's 

 was succeeded by his son William,* and 

 1786 by his grandson, also Sir William Lee, 

 ■ok the additional surname of Antonie." Sir 

 i Lee Antonie died in 1815, when Totteridge 

 to his nephew John, the son of his sister 

 ~" >tt. This John, who was a 

 of antiquities, assumed the 

 s holding the manor in 1821." 

 it children in 1866 Totteridge 

 r the Rev. Nicholas Fiott, 

 of Lee. 21 Sir Samuel 



Willia 

 Bench/ 1 



Willia 



Harriet and John 



Upon his death v 



was inherited by his brothe 



who also took the 



m, bart., is the present lord of thi 

 Free warren was granted to the Bishop of Ely at 

 Totteridge in 1250-1." About 1580 the office of 

 keeper of the pheasants and partridges was surren- 

 dered by Augustine Sparks and was granted to John 

 Pratt, with a fee of 4^. a day and £\ 6s. U. for a 

 yearly livery coat. M In 1611 the reversion of this 

 office was granted in survivorship to Alban Coxe and 

 John his 



indmill 

 I277. 18 



Totteridge seems 

 separate from the m; 

 of frankpledge is n< 

 it until 1580, when court J 

 pledge were granted by Eli 

 for twenty-one years, for a 



mentioned at Totteridgt 



of Hatfield, 



irts of its c 



although v. 



abeth to 

 ent of 3. 



ew of frank- 

 John Moore 



^ 



™d a chief in 



TOTTERIDGE 



rights of the Bishops of Ely in Hatfield probably 

 extended to Totteridge as a member of that manor." 

 A capital messuage, held of the manor of Totteridge 

 by knight's service, was purchased from the trustees 

 of John Cage at the beginning 

 of the 17th century by Hugh 

 Hare and his brother John, 

 who were jointly seised of it." 

 John Hare died in 1613, 

 leaving his house in Totteridge 

 to his honest bailiff Richard 

 Hare and his wife for their 

 lives, 35 after which it seems to 

 have passed to his son Hugh, 

 who in 1625 was created Lord 

 Coleraine. 31 The latter died 

 and was buried at Totteridge 

 in 1667, and was succeeded 

 by his son Henry, second 



Lord Coleraine, who died in 1708. At the death of 

 Henry Hare, grandson of the second baron, in 1 749 

 the peerage became extinct. Ji The house is said to 

 have been afterwards the residence of Sir Robert 

 Atkyns, K.B., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 

 but it was pulled down shortly before i8zi and 

 another house built on its site by John Fiott, 56 lord 

 of the manor of Totteridge. 



COPPED HJLL in this parish is perhaps iden- 

 tical with a capital messuage held in the 16th century 

 by one John Cop wood, who died seised of it in 1 543, 

 leaving a daughter Sophia. 31 It seems to have passed 

 soon afterwards into the possession of the family of 

 Clyffe. Richard Clyffe held a 'manor or capital 

 messuage ' in Totteridge at his death in I 566, leaving 

 it to his illegitimate son William Clyffe or Smyth, 

 with remainder to Richard's brother Geoffrey and 

 his son Richard. 38 In the following century it was 

 held by Edward Clyffe, who died about 1635, leaving 

 two sons, William, on whom the property was settled, 

 and Edward. 33 Copped Hall was for some time 

 owned by William Manning, father of Henry Edward, 

 Cardinal Manning, who was born there in 1808.* 

 Since 1875 it has been occupied by Sir Samuel Bagster 

 Boulton, bart., A.I.C.E., F.R.G.S., J.P., D.L., who 

 has enlarged the house. 



SERLESFIELD, which is mentioned in 1277," 

 was in the 1 6th century in the tenure of Richard 

 Snowe, who between 1544 and I 549 conveyed 'land 

 called Serlys' to William Blakewell and Margaret his 

 wife." It appears at the same time in connexion 

 with ' Beauchampfeld ' or ' Beauchampsted,' which was 

 also conveyed by Snowe to William Blakewell. " By 

 1689 Serlys, then called Searles, hadbecome united with 



10 Ibid. 32 Elii. pt. vii, m. zi. 



11 Lansd.MS. 1S1, fol. 14.;. 



1S Feet of F. Herts. Hii. 4 Jeo. I. 

 "Recov. R. Hil. 30 & 31 Chas. 



'= Close, 1 Will, and Mary, pt. vi, 

 no. 21 ; Feet of F. Herts. last. 1 

 Will, and Mary. 



» Cliauncy, loc. cit. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Hil, 7 Geo. Ij 

 Add. MS. 9434, p. 58. 



1S G.E.C. Complete Peerage ; RecoV. R. 

 East. loGeo. II, rot. lag. 



I. MS. 9434, p. 58. 

 . ; Recov. R. Trin. 



<* Clutterbuck, 1 

 is Diet. Nat. Bio 



Inform 



Smith. 



» a Chart. R. 3; Hi 

 ™ Col. S.P. Dom. i;acv 

 " Ibid. 1611-18, p. 57. 

 28 Clutterbuck, op. cit. 

 s. Accts. bdlc. 11 



" Will, P.C.C. 66 Capel. 



M G.E.C. Complete Piereg 



Nicholas had presumably . 



"■ Clutterbuck, op. cit, 

 ,; Chiin. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 



a Pat. 2 



■■ 3*5, 



!. pt.! 



Ill, T 



.11. :6d. 



3S Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 

 181. 



149 



leas D. En 

 . 22 d. ; East. 

 1 Edw. VI, 



Mich. 36 

 37 Hen. VIII, 

 5,6 d. j East. 



