A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



by Mabel de Tuwc, 1 * probably his daughter. In 

 1308 she conveyed the reversion of the manor to 

 Philip de Peletot, 81 who was still holding it in 

 I J+6,-' and died in 1361."' Philip is said to have 

 had a daughter Kathermc, 

 who married, first, Ralph le 

 Boteler (by whom she had a 

 son Philip), and secondly 

 Edmund Bardolf.'" Edmund 

 Bardolf and his wife Kathe- 

 rine were holding Woodhal] 

 in 1372," when the manor 

 was claimed by Elizabeth 

 Peletot, as daughter of Adomar, 

 son of PhiOp de Peletot, 86 but 

 there seems to have been a 

 defect in her title, as the 

 manor passed to Philip Boteler, 

 the son of Katherine. In 

 1382 Philip received 

 " igputon juries, Sec 



cAnij J 



exemption for life from 

 id from being made mayor, 

 .heriff, escheator, or other minister of the king against 

 his will. 87 Hediedin 1420, andhfseldest son Edward 

 dying a few weeks after, Woodhall came to his second 

 son Philip,* who came of age in 1+35. " Philip died 

 in 1453, and his widow Elizabeth immediately 

 married Laurence Cheyney and held the manor with 

 him until her death, when it came to her son John 

 Boteler.* 1 John was succeeded by Philip Boteler, 

 presumably hia son, in 1514," who in turn was 

 succeeded by his son John in 1545." From John's 

 son, Sir Philip, Woodhall passed in 160; to his 

 grandson Robert Boteler, son of an intervening Philip 

 who died during his father's lifetime.*' Robert died 

 in 1622, leaving a daughter Jane arid 3 brother 

 Sir John." John Boteler suc- 

 ceeded," and the lord of the 

 manor in 1700 was Philip 

 Boteler, 80 his son. The last- 

 named Philip died in 1712 

 without issue, and his estates 

 passed to John Boteler, the son 

 of his great-uncle John." 

 From John Boteler Woodhall 

 came to his grandson John 

 ho sold 



Palmer Bolder, 91 



to Sir Thomas 



After the death of the la 



Woodhall was purchased 



1793 by Paul Bendfield, a 



whose bankruptcy it was i 



old. 



by Samuel Smith," who died in I 834."° His great- 

 grandson Mr. Abel Henry Smith is the present lord 

 of the manor. 



CROlfBOROUGH (Croubery, Crobbercwc, xiii 

 cent. ; Crobbcrgh, Crowbcrgh, Crebborogh, xv cent. ; 

 Crowbury, xvii cent.) was held of the lords of the 

 manor of Benington for the service of a quarter of a 

 knight's fee. Alexander de Balliol claimed liberties 

 there as at Woodhall in IZ78. 1 In iz66 the sub- 

 tenant of Crowborough was Alice de Rivers, who in 

 that year settled it on herself for life, with remainder 

 to her daughter Christine.' In IZ70 Christine de 

 Rivers conveyed the remainder of the manor after her 

 death to Robert de Graveley," who had a grant of free 

 warren in 1 292 ' and was holding it in 1303. 1 He 

 died before 1311, his lands passing to his widow 

 Beatrice de Graveley, 5 who in 1329 conveyed 

 Crowborough to Thomas Bardolf, 7 who seems to have 

 joined it to his manor of Watton and paid Beatrice an 

 annuity of 66s. 0V. 8 He was succeeded by his son 

 John Bardolf, who in 1340 granted the manor of 

 Crowborough to his brother Edmund for life. 8 

 Edmund was still holding it in 1346",'° but after his 

 death it reverted to the heirs of John Bardolf, being 

 held by his son William." After the death of Agnes, 

 widow of William Bardolf, in 1403 " Crowborough 

 passed to a younger branch of the family ; probabjy 

 William Bardolf settled it on a younger son, for in 

 1384-5 he had granted it to trustees, from whom his 

 widow Agnes held it in dower. 13 In 1+05 it was 

 held by another William Bardolf," and in 1428 by 

 Edmund Bardolf." Edmund Bardolf, apparently 

 nd successor of the latter,"' died about 1472, 

 ng to his wife Margery 'certain rooms at 

 ' of Crowborough where she can bake bread 

 ale.' He left a son Henry and a grandson 

 the son of Henry." In I 562 Edmund 

 Bardolf, perhaps a son or grandson of the last-named 

 George, conveyed the manor to Sir John Bolder ls of 

 Watton Woodhall, after which date Crowborough 

 followed the descent of that manor. 10 In i 702 Philip 

 Boteler exchanged the siteof Crowborough Hall (which 

 is still marked by the moats near Walton Green) for 

 the old rectory-house m (sec advowson). Apparently, 

 however, the manor was kept by Philip Boteler, for it 

 the Boteler family as late as 1780." It 



his man 

 and brc 

 George, 



,nd acquired i 



apparently passed 

 advowson). 



WATTON HALL, 



Mrs 



Abel Smith (se 



01 first recorded 



or IVATKIN'S HALL, is 



ippears about 1 54c. The 



Thomas Munden, whose 



»Moi 



436. 



M Clutwrbuck, Hia, of Hen,, ii, 473. 



" Wrotteslrr, Fed. from tie Pita R. toy. 



* Ibid. * Cal. Pal. 1381-5, p. 149. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. V, no. 78. 



9S Ibid. i+ Hen. VI, do. +9 ; 13 

 Hen. VI, no. u. The Feud. Aids of 

 1438 (ii, 4+8) give John Cheyney as .he 

 holder of Woodhall. Doubtless he was 

 guardian during Philip's minority. 



*° Chan. Inn,, p.m. 31Hen.vi.no. 27. 



91 Monum. Inscr. 



° a Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), li-iii, 88. 



Hun, 



1 Pkc. di Quo Warr. (Ree. Com. 

 Ct. R. portf. 177, no. 8-11 ; Cha 

 p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 39. The We 

 of 1303 and 1346 (i'i, 429 and 4 

 Hugo and John de Bibbcsworth 

 overlords. As thisfamily belonged t. 

 ton it would seem that thia is an 



' FeetofF. Herts. 50 Hen. Ill, 

 584. B Ibid. 54 Hen. Ill, no. 



' Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 



1 Fend. Aids, ii, 429. 



l62 



a.' Inq! 

 d. Aids 

 6) give 



"Cal. C/„ f , 1507-13, p. 317. 

 ' Feet of F. HerH. 3 Edw. III.no. 31. 

 '" Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill, no. 66. 

 9 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, p. 17. 

 "■•Fend. Aid!, ii, 436. 

 11 Close, 8 Ric. II, ra. 33 d. 

 '2 Chan. Inn. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 39. 

 13 Ibid. ; Close, 8 Ric. II, ro. 32 d. 

 " Cal. Pal. 1405-8, p. 89, 

 15 Find. Aid,, ii, 448. 

 K Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 41, no. 27. 

 " Will, P.C.C. 6 Watty.. 

 « Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 4 & 5 Eliz. 

 p.m. (Ser. x), cc.cvii, 



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