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The advowson belonged to the 

 ADVOWSON lord of the manor, and is first men- 

 tioned in i z 39, when Thomas and 

 Roger de Pavilly established their claim to it against 

 the Prior of Envermeu, 70 on the ground that their 

 grandfather Matthew de Graville presented to the 

 church. The prior stated that William de Rue, 

 father of Matthew, gave the church of Willian to 

 Envermeu, but the claim was not allowed." Paul 

 Peyvre held it in 1247-8," and in the time of his 

 grandson John the king presented owing to his 

 minority. On this occasion the Prior of Bee Hellouin, 

 to which Envermeu was a cell, is mentioned as having 

 contested the king's claim to the advowson.™ 



At the Taxation by Pope Nicholas in 1291 the 

 church was valued at £13 6s. id., in addition to a 

 portion of 26s. Zd. belonging to the Prior of 

 St. Neots 7 ' ; this payment was evidently long retained 

 by that priory, for as late as 142 8 the same sum was 

 paid to it." The advowson continued in the Peyvre 

 family until about 1 3 84,'" in which year Nigel Loring 

 received a pardon for acquiring it from Thomas 

 Peyvre," his son-in-law. In the year following, N igel 

 Loring granted it to Robert Braybrook, Bishop of 

 London, and others," who in 1 39+, or a little before, 

 conveyed it to the king." In that year Richard II 

 gave it to the Prioress and convent of Dartford, on 

 condition that they should appropriate it to the use 

 and profit of the Friars Preachers at Langley. 60 The 

 grant was confirmed in 1399/ 1 1+24** an d 1466, 61 

 and the advowson remained in the possession of the 

 Friars until the Dissolution. The rectory was 

 appropriated by the nuns of Dartford and a vicarage 

 ordained between 1399 and 1405." In 1544 the 

 rectory and advowson of the vicarage of Willian were 

 granted by Henry VIII to Thomas Calton, a gold- 

 smith of London, and Margaret his wife." Margaret 

 survived her husband, and she and William their 

 eldest son settled them in 1 5 70 on George and Henry 



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the younger sons, with the remainder to William and 

 his son Thomas. Margaret died in 1 571. . 



Henry Calton was in possession of his moiety in 

 1S83," 1 and by 1589 had apparently become sole 

 heir, for in that year he conveyed the whole rectory 

 and advowson to John Phillips." Elizabeth Widow 

 of John Phillips held them until her death in 1*1+, 

 when they came to her granddaughter Elizabeth 

 Johnson. 89 At this date the rectory consisted only ot 

 an annual rent of 20 marks issuing from the vicarage. 

 After this there is some obscurity in the descent. 

 Richard Way presented in 1673 ou and died in that 

 year,' 1 so that the Richard Way who presented in 

 1676°' must have been his heir. In 172; presenta- 

 tion was made by Stephen Ashby, and in 1739 b Y 

 Anne Rooke, 93 widow of John Rooke, who died in 

 1755."* According to Cluttcrbuck the advowson had 

 been sold previous to this to Henry Kingsley, whose 

 granddaughter Elizabeth married William Pym. 

 Their son Francis Pym presented to the vicarage in 

 1792,1 804 and 1 8 1 6, B6 and the rectory and advowson 

 continued in the Pym family until 1893, when they 

 were acquired by Mr. Joseph Chalmers-Hunt. They 

 are now in the possession of the Rev. Leonard 

 Chalmers Chalmers-Hunt, M.A. 



A dwelling-house was certified as a meeting-place 

 of Protestant Dissenters in Willian in 17 1 +." 



In a terrier, dated 

 CHARITIES stated that 'there are 

 inclosed pasture given 

 Rev. Mr. Ward, vicar, and by John h 

 by cows of the poor people of Willian. 1 

 let at £2 2s. a year, which is distributed 



In [880 James Smyth, by his w 

 London 28 February, left £400, no 

 by .£413 8/. 3d. India 3 per cent -»" 



n 1788, it is 

 two acres of 

 by the late 

 lr d, to be fed 

 The land is 

 n money. 

 11, proved at 

 v represented 

 :k, the annual 



"/ ■£.+ '.) UJ - s— *«««» 3 f— " ~-j -- 



dividends, amounting to £ 1 2 8/., to be distributed 1 

 meat and coal at Christmas. The stock is held by 

 the offici 



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Wimundeslai (xi cent.) ; Wilmundele (xiv and 

 xv cent.) j Wimley. 



The parish of Great Wymondley has an area of 

 1,490 acres, of which i,397§ acre3 are arable land, 

 348! acres permanent grass and 92 acres wood. 1 

 Two portions of the parish are detached. The first 

 portion, lying a mile south of Great Wymondley 

 proper and separated from it by Little Wymondley, 

 contains the hamlet of Titmore Green, which lies 

 between Redcoats Green and Todd's Green, each of 

 which gives its name to a few cottages. The second 

 detached portion lies still further south, on the 



,0 The Priory of St. Lawrence of 

 Envermeu in Seine Inferieure. 



71 Cur. Reg. R. 12a, m. 14. According 

 to the descent given under the manor 

 Matthew de Graville would have been 

 great-grandfaiher of Thomas and Roger de 

 Paviliy. 7! Assize R. Herts. 31B. 



borders of Stevenage parish, and has r 

 its area, but contains part of Lucas': 

 elevation of the parish in the east is 

 rid 400 ft., but it slopes 



houses within 

 Wood. The 

 itween 300 ft. 

 iwards towards the 

 River Purwell on the western boundary. This river 

 turns the mill of the same name which was leassd by 

 the lord of the manor of Great Wymondley from 

 Hitchin.' Near to the mill the foundations of a 

 Roman house were found in 1884. A little distance 

 from the boundary, in a meadow beside the road 

 from Hitchin, are the ' Nine Springs ' from which 

 rises a brook flowing into the Purwell. 



'' Pat. 7 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 1 

 '■ Cat. Pal. 158 5-9, p. 64. 

 ' 3 Ibid. 1391-6, p. J7J- 

 M Ibid. 



"Ibid. 1J99-1401, p- 59- 

 » Ibid 



63 Ibid 



*>Chan 



1461-7, p. 55°"- 

 :.E D is.Ree.Mcm.: 



7< Pope Nkh. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 33. 



n Fead. Aids, 11,463. 



76 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 5 

 CaL Pal. 1317-21, p. 579 ; Abbrru. I 

 Ong. (Rec. Com.), ii, 341 ; Pat. 4 Ric. 

 pt. i, m. 41. 



.caumont, 

 31 d. 



L, and P. Ht*. VIII, «* (2), E- 5*7. 

 Under this grant a fee of 24*. '" 

 ually paid to the Crown by the owner 

 he impro r riate rectory. Information 

 11 Rev. L. C. Chalmers- Hunt. 

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