A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



IJ02, 1 "* and was succeeded by his son John, 1 who 

 also held his fathers office in Rockingh.im Forest.* 

 It is siid that Richard Monchesncj' and his wife Joan 

 acquired a life interest in Hauvills in accordance with 

 a settlement made by Geoffrey de Hauvill, and that a 

 certain Reginald de Hauvill succeeded under the 

 same settlement. 3 Certainly Richard Monchesney was 

 assessed for a sixteenth in Clothall in 1316-18,* and 

 he had grant of free warren in Clothall in 1 3 3 3-* 

 Joan widow of John (possibly an error for Richard) 

 Monchesney was holding this moiety of Clothall in 

 1 349.' She seems to have been succeeded by Reginald 

 de Hauvill, 7 and his son Thomas witnessed the convey- 

 ance of Botteles to John atte Lee in 1 362.* Reginald 

 de Hauvill had a brother Ralph of Baldock, whose 

 widow Beatrice claimed dower in certain small parcels 

 of land in Clothall in 1356'; but it does not appear 

 that Ralph had any right in the manor, although his 

 title to it was asserted later. 10 



The earlier settlement on Richard Monchesney 

 evidently brought upon Thomas de Hauvill dissensions 

 with the Monchesney family, for he was charged with 

 entering the manor of Walter Monchesney 11 at Clothall 

 and carrying away £z%0. At the same time he was 

 accused of imprisoning the king's bailiff" at Southwark 

 for thirty-seven weeks and committing various other 

 enormities." The heirs of Thomas were his sisters 

 Emecine and Anne. Anne's son Robert sold his 

 moiety of Hauvills to Matthew and Henry Rede and 

 Thomas Blount, who also acquired Botteles. The 

 second moiety descended to Emetine's granddaughter 

 Kathcrine wife of John Piers. 15 In 1395-6 John 

 and Katherine conveyed their share in the manor to 

 John and Anne Bunvell," from whom it was acquired 

 by Matthew and Henry Rede and Thomas Blount. 15 

 s thus re-united with Botteles and the rest of 



Hat 



ills. 



The reputed mant 

 xv cent. ; Brytvyles < 

 the manor of Hooks ' 

 it was held by the Bi 

 Bretteville of Hertford gave to h 

 is marriage with Eleanor daughti 



reliefs l 



I318," and i: 



«Hc 



of BRICKFIELDS (Brettev, le, 



Britfield, xvi cent.) was held of 



(q.v.). During the 14th century 



:tteville family. In 1300 Hugh 



'son William, upon 



of William Bretun, 



Clothall 



d escheats. 17 William son of Hugh 

 possessed of land in Clothall in 

 333 William and Eleanor Bretteville 

 anor of Clothall ' to Hugh Bretteville 

 an in tail with remainder to John 



brother of Hugh." A William Bretteville and his 

 wife Joan conveyed the manor to William Pckke and 

 William Goldington in i4+3- IC It ultimately came 

 into the possession of Richard Druell, who held it with 

 Hauvills and Botteles at his death in 1525.*' Its 

 subsequent descent is identical with that of the main 

 manor (q.v.). 



HOOKS (Hokcslond, xv cent. ; Howkes, xvi cent.) 

 was apparently held of the manor of Botteles." It 

 was presumably held by Robert Hook, citizen and 

 grocer of London, about 1408, when he presented a 

 rector to the church." He would therefore appear 

 to have acquired the one-third of the advowson which 

 was subsequently attached to the 'manor' of Hooks 

 between 1405, when Matthew and Henry Rede and 

 Thomas Blount were possessed of the entire advowson, 

 and 1408." Robert Hook again presented a rector 

 in 1421," but between that date and 1445 'a moiety 

 of the manor of Clothall called Hokeslonds ' was 

 granted to John Mitchell, lord of Hauvills and Botteles, 

 by a certain William Aston.' 6 ' Hokesmanoir ' was 

 settled on Elizabeth daughter of Margaret Mitchell. 

 Her heirs were her sister Joan and nieces Eliza- 

 beth and Anne. 1 ' The subsequent history of Hooks 

 is identical with that of the main manor. 



The site of the * manor-house ' lies on the way from 

 Clothall to Cumberlow, nearly opposite Hook's Green 

 Farm." 



A7WGSWOOZ)Bt^r(Kingcswode, x ii-xiiicent. ; 

 Kings wood bery, xv-xvi cent.) was held of the Abbot 

 of Westminster as of his neighbouring manor ol 

 Ash well." 



A separate tenement of this name existed in I 198, 

 when seisin of it was recovered by Robert son of 

 Osbert,* 1 who seems to have been succeeded by 

 Julianne de Kingswood. 31 Robert dc Kingswood 

 owed service in Clothall about the middle of the 1 3th 

 century ; and there is reason to suppose that Kings- 

 wood was identical with the wood called 'Socage' in 

 Clothall Park, for which Simon de Clothall owed two 

 pounds of pepper to Adam de Hippcgrave. 35 



The Kingswood family held land in Clothall during 

 the first hiilf of the i 4th century. 31 The 'manor' of 

 Kingswood Bury came later to John and Joan Venour 

 and was divided among their daughters and co-heirs. 

 Margery Venour, one of these, surrendered her third 

 share in the manor to Peter Paul and his wife Alice 

 in 1422." Alice Paul seems to have held another 

 third in her own right." Peter Paul was in possession 



1 for 



2 [Cai. 

 n held 

 >'<< +3 3 >- 



in the king's forest iS Mai 

 Pol. 1301-7, P . 217). H 

 Cloihall in I 303 (FruJ. Aids, 



1 Lay Subs. R. h 



* Col. Par. ijoi -, p. 323; t«C«/. 

 Gr*. '1,707. ! De HancoR. 57S, m 231. 



' l.tv Sub*. R. Kile. 120, no. 10, II. 



s Chart. R. 7 Kdw. Ill, no. 23. In 

 I I20. 31 inquisition on the knights' fees 

 hfU o( John Jr St John returns the 

 team a, 'Amice* de Hauvill [Chan. 

 Inc.. p.m. EJ». Hi, file 19, no. 1). It is 

 possible that this relers to Emecine wife 

 of Geoffrey, for in such returns the name 

 £JYen is often that of a former tenant. 



■Co/. C/ok, 1349-54, p. -o. 



' De Banco R. 57S, m. 231. A Regi- 

 nald Hauvill was also assessed for the 

 sixteenth of 13 17-1 8 (Lay Subs. R. bJle. 



8 Col, Cl.it, 1160-4, p. 3S- ; cf. De 

 Banco R. 578, m. l 3 t. 



'' De Banco R. 348, 11 



d. ; 349, 

 s Billing- 



17 Harl. Chart. 111 D 57. 



18 Lay Subs. R. bdle. 120, 

 cf. Col. Chit, 1318-23, p. 382. 



19 Feet of F. Herts. 7 1 



P Epis. Reg. quoted by Clutterbuck, 

 1. and Ai:tiq. of Hurts, iii, 504. 

 !1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 3 Hen. VI, no. 3 1 ; 

 Banco R. 578, m. 23c. 

 ■' Epis. Reg. quoted by Clutterbuck, 



' Ibid. 4. Edw. IV, no. I 

 ''" See Andrew, 'Hospital 

 M ifrdalene,' East Htm. Arc, 

 b(i), 89. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. {Ser 

 xxxix, 8S ; Dc Banco R. 34 

 . Jt,g. (Rec. Co 



1 Ibid. 



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