BROADWATER HUNDRED 



remainder to the heirs of Walter.* 8 Sir Walter was 

 holding it in 1346, 29 after which it passed to John 

 Haggeford, son of Walter de Crek's sister Joan and 

 Walter de Haggeford, who held in tail-male. 80 At 

 this time the capital messuage was ruined and worth 

 nothing and the land in a poor state. 31 John 

 Haggeford died childless in 1373, 3a and the manor 

 was granted by Edward II) to his 'kinsman' and 

 heir Edmund de Vauncy, who was the illegitimate 

 son of Edmund de Vauncy, husband of Joan daughter 

 of William de Crek, brother of Walter and John. 33 

 As he was a minor the custody of his lands was 

 granted in 1374 to Robert de Bolthorp, 34 and later 

 to John Pusy, who died before 1387, when he and 

 his executors were charged with having committed 

 waste in the manor and having diminished the build- 

 ings, woods and men thereon. 36 Edmund died in 

 1390 and was succeeded by his half-sister Joan 

 daughter of Edmund de Vauncy the elder and wife 

 of Thomas Prior. 36 Joaa seems to have married 

 secondly John Hore of Cambridge, who together 

 with his wife conveyed Lockleys in 141 5 to John 

 Perient 37 of Digs well, in whose family it descended 3S 

 in the same manner as Digswell (q.v.). 



Upon the death of Thomas Perient in 1545 38 

 Lockleys was divided between his second and third 

 daughters, Dorothy the wife of George Burgoyne, and 

 Anne, who married Anthony Carleton. 40 In 1557 

 George and Dorothy Burgoyne conveyed their moiety 

 of the manor to William Perient, 41 Dorothy's uncle, 43 

 who acquired the other half from Anthony and 

 Anne Carleton in 1559, 43 and thus became possessed 

 of the whole manor. William 

 Perient sold Lockleys in 

 1564 to Henry Walter, 44 

 who in 1566 conveyed it to 

 George Horsey, 46 husband of 

 Mary Perient, the elder sister 

 of Dorothy and Anne. 46 

 George Horsey died in 1587, 

 and was succeeded by his son 

 Ralph, 47 from whom the 

 manor apparently passed to 

 his brother Jasper Horsey, 48 

 for he, together with his wife 

 and son and Eustace Needham, 

 conveyed Lockleys in 1624 

 to Edward Wingate. 49 The lat 

 his son Edward before 1675, 



1 1698/ 



1 whose son Ralph 



Wingate sl was lord of the manor 

 it in 171 5 to Edward Searle/' 3 



Elizabeth daughter and heir 

 married Charles Gardiner, whose 

 lord of the manor in 1815," 

 but sold it soon after to Sir 

 George Shee, b a r t., who 

 possessed it in 1821. ° e Sir 

 George died in 1825," his 

 widow holding Lockleys until 

 her death in 1838, when the 

 manor passed to her daughter 

 Lctitia the wife of Robert Der- 

 ing. s8 Their son Mr. George 



Edward Dering succeeded his ^ a 



father in 1859 6S and died in f ts ,/a^'t ■with't'hrce 

 191 I, when he was succeeded roundels gales in the 

 by his daughter Mrs. Neall, Mef. 

 who is now lady of the manor. 



In the time of Edward the Confessor MJRDLETot 

 MARDIEYBURY (Merdclai, xi cent. ; Mardeleye, 

 xiii to xiv cent. ; Magdaleynbury, Mawdleynbury, 

 xvi to xix cent.) was held by Alward, who was still 

 holding it in 1086 of Robert Gernon. It was then 

 assessed at I hide. 60 Robert Gernon also held the 

 neighbouring manor of Ayot St. Peter, and the over- 

 lordship of Mardiey presumably followed the descent 

 of that manor 61 (q.v.). 



The mesne overlordship belonged to the sub- 

 tenants of Ayot St. Peter, Mardiey being held of 

 them for the service of 201. and suit of court twice a 

 year. 62 It seems to have followed the descent of the 

 moiety of Ayot St. Peter known as Ayot Mont/itchet. 63 

 Early in the 14th century lands forming part of the 

 manor were held of the Abbot of Reading and of 

 Henry Melksop of Datchworth. 64 



Alward de Mardiey, sub-tenant of the manor in 

 1086, 66 was one of the Domesday inquisitors for 

 Broadwater Hundred. 66 There is no record of his 

 family and no further mention of a sub-tenant until 

 1288, when the manor was held by Philip de 

 Mardiey, perhaps a descendant of Alward. In that 

 year Philip released his right in his lands in Welwyn 

 to Robert Bumell, 67 lord of Ayot St. Peter. Philip 

 had a daughter Pagana de Mardiey, 66 but probably 

 the manor did not come to her, for it was held 

 soon afterwards by Adam de Twynham. He died 

 seised of it about IJD7.* His son Walter being a 

 minor, the custody of his lands was granted to 



23 Cat, Clou, 1339-41, p. 487. 

 -" Feud. Aids, ii, 436. 



30 Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 29. 



31 Ibid. 48 Edw. Ill (ist nos.}, no. u 

 " Ibid. ' ^ 

 33 Ibid. 13 Ric. II, do. 29. 



3i Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xiii, fol 

 jod. »Grf.P«, 1385-9, p. 320. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Ric. II, no. 51, 

 " ■. 3 Hen. V, 



t of F. Herts. Trie 



38 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lxiii, 61. 

 " Ibid. Ltxiii, 89. 



40 Ibid. ; Viiit. Hern. (Hart, Sec. x*ii1 

 157- 



41 Feet of F. Her 



13 Cnsiana, Hist, of Herts, Broad-wst 

 Hund. ijj. 



,s Feet of F. Herts. East, i Eh'z 



44 Ibid. Trin. 6 Eliz 

 pt. ii. 



2 & 3 Phil. 



. 7 Eiiz. 



45 Pat. 8 Elk. pt. iv, m. i 7! Feet of 

 F. Her.!. Hil. 9 Eliz. 



16 Visit. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), i; 7 . 

 47 Ibid. 114; Com. Pleas D. Ear. 

 Mich. 33 & 34 Eliz. 



46 Visit. Herts. (Harl. Soc. «ii), , ,, 

 49 FeetofF. Herts. Hil. 21 las I 



M Visit. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 10, ■ 

 Feet of F. Her.,. East. 27 Chas. II. 

 " Salmon, Hist, of Herts. 204. 

 5! Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 10 Will. III. 

 SJ Ibid. Mich, z Geo. I. 

 54 Clulterbuck, Hist, of Herts. ii, 407 

 "Feet of F. Herts. Hil. ;; Geo. III. 

 ° 6 Clutterbuck, Hist, of Hem. ii, ,,,-. 

 " G.E.C. Complete Baronetage 

 M Burke, Landed Gentry. 

 "Cussans, Hist, of Herts. Broad-water 



'"> V.C.H. Her,,. 

 " Sec Ca!. Clos 

 brev. Plac. (R e[ 



. 323a. 



. 1279-88, p. 548; 

 Com.), 214, 



™ Chan - W P' m - 3! Edw. I, no. 25 ; 

 Chan. Inq. a.q.d. 16 Edw. II, no. 100. 

 A manor of 'Welwys' nr Welwyn 

 appears among the possessions of the 

 Ayot St. Peter heiresses in 14,0 and 

 14*3 (Feet of F. Herts. 7 Hen V 

 no, 39 ; De Banco R. Trin. 4 Hen. Vl) 



63 Inq. a.q.d. 16 Edw. II, no. 100 ■ 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. Ill (md nos v! 



no. 23 ) (2 Edw. Ill (2nd nos) no 



S4«i *% Edw. Ill (2nd n 0( ,),„„ 1M : 



33 Edw. Ill („ t n 08 .), no. 39.' *' ' 



Ibid. 3; Edw. I, no, 25 j ,6 Edw II 



no. 100 ; 2 Edw. Ill ( 2n d nos.), no 21' 



65 V.C.H. Herts, i, 3 2 3 „ 3 " 



cfl Cott.MS.Tib.A.vi,fol.,8 



Close, 1279-88, p. H g. 



De Banco R. Mich. 1; Edw IT 



167 



5 » Chan. Inq. p.m. 3S Edw _ la 



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