A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



mil passed with it into the hands of Mr. Robert 

 Pryor in 1857, his son Mr. M. R. Piyor being the 



Court rolls are not extant for Weston Argentein 

 until a late date. The existing rolls show that court 

 baron was held there in 1489 M and court leet in 

 1536." 



The manor of LJNNOCK (Langenache, xiii cent. ; 

 Langenoke, xiv cent. ; Langnock), which originally 

 formed part of the manor of Weston, was given to 

 the Knights Templars by Gilbert de Clare, first Earl 

 of Pembroke, who died in 1 148, ^ and was confirmed 

 to them by William Marshal, husband of Gilbert's 

 granddaughter and heir Isabel. M It remained in the 

 possession of the Templars until the suppression of 

 their order in I 309,''" after which it was granted with 

 the other lands of the Templars to the Knights 

 Hospitallers. 1 



In 1353 the Prior of the Hospitallers seems to have 

 been embroiled with Mary widow of Thomas of 

 Brotherton Ear] of Norfolk (who was lady of the 

 manor of Weston), for she c.ime with a number 

 of others and ' broke his close and house, drove away 

 40 horses, 30 oxen, 12 bullocks, 10 cows and 800 

 sheep of his, worth £300, carried away his goods, 

 impounded without reasonable cause ten other of his 

 horses, kept them impounded so long that two of the 

 ten, worth 100;., died, and so threatened his men 

 and servants deputed to preserve his liberties and till 

 his lands and make his other profiis there, that ihey 

 dared not stay there for this, whereby he lost their 

 service and the profit of the manor." 



About 1540 Lannock came into the king's hands 

 owing to the dissolution of the Hospitallers,' and 

 remained in his possession until 1544,* when it was 

 granted to Sir Michael Dormer. 5 



Sir Michael Dormer is said to have died in 1 i4^° ; 

 John and William Dormer were holding the manor 

 in 1 5 ; 2,' and Katrine Dormer, widow of one of them, 

 was lady of the manor in 1560.° Soon afterwards it 

 came into the possession of George Burgoyne of Quicks- 

 wood, 9 who in 1577-8 alienated it to his second son 

 George.'* After his father's death Geurge joined 

 ■ Dorothy and his younger 



appear as deforciants in a fine levied of the manor." 

 Ultimately James Spurling acquired it, for he held 

 courts there from 1600 to 1619." In 1611 James 

 Spurling sold Lannock to William Hale of King'i 

 Walden,' 5 who died seised of it in 1 63 3, when it passed 

 to his son William, 18 who died without issue in 1 641." 

 His sister Dionisia, wife of Sir Thomas Williamson, 

 then held Lannock for a while, 18 but in 1683 shortly 

 before her death it was in the possession of her nephew 

 William Hale, son of her brother Rowland." This 

 William, who was M.P. for Hertfordshire, was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Richard in 1688, who, however, 

 died in the following year, leaving a son William 

 underage.* The latter died in 1717, leaving two 

 sons." The elder, William, died without issue in 

 1741 and was succeeded by his brother Paggen Hale," 

 after whose death the manor passed to his second 

 cousin William, son of Bernard Hale and nephew of 

 Paggen's grandfather Richard Hale." William's son 

 William inherited Lannock in 1793 " and was followed 

 by his son, a third William, in 1829." Charles 

 Cholmeley Hale, son of the last named, succeeded his 

 father and was lord of the manor in 1877.** In 1896 

 Lannock was acquired from the trustees of Mr. C. C. 

 Hale by Mr. M. R. Pryor, lord of the manor of 

 become united with that manor." 



a fan 



d manorial courts were 

 id later.* 3 They seem to 

 ister in the 15th century 

 Court Rolls are extant up 



mant to Lannock Manor 



Iunde, a labourer, entered 



yith ferrets and nets 



View of frankpledge 

 held at Lannock in 1476 

 have been held yearly at East 

 and lateral Whitsuntide. Cc 

 to 1685." 



Free warren was appurten; 

 in I 4 8o,whcn oneWilliam Mu 

 the warren and took rabbits 

 without licence. 10 



The manor of NEWBERRT (Le Neucbery, 

 xiv cent.), which lay partly in Weston and partly in 

 Graveley, was held of the lords of the manor of Weston 

 for the service of half a knight's fee. 31 In i 522 it is 

 said to have been held of Sir William Say as of his 

 manor of Weston Argentein," but this was perhaps 

 the result of a confusion with the manor of Chesfield, 

 .s held by the lord of Newberry of Sir William 



