A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



nominee, Daniel Falkner. 6 * The archbishop at 

 first refused to admit Falkner on the ground that he 

 must take care of the king's title,''' 1 but admitted him 

 finally. This reluctance was one of the matters 

 brought against him in his trial in February 1 640-1.** 

 Anne and Penelope Bayning both died without issue, 

 Penelope in 1657, Anne in i659- ss Anne's husband, 

 the Earl of Oxford, ca presented in 1 660. 67 The 

 advowson then reverted to the heirs of Paul first 

 Viscount Bayning, and was divided among the 

 descendants of his four daughters, Cecily, Anne. 

 Mary and Elizabeth. 68 Cecily married Henry 

 Pierrepont Marquess of D o re h ester, 6 ' and their 

 daughter Anne married in 1658 John Mi 



1661 by Arthur Gorges and Mary 

 They sold all right in the advowson to Edward 

 Pecke in i664. 71 Mary the daughter and co-heir 

 of Anne and Henry Murray married Sir Roger 

 Bradshaigh, bart., 75 and her son Sir Roger Bradshaigh 

 in 1697 conveyed to his father-in-law Sir John 

 Guise 76 his mother's share in the advowson of Hinx- 

 worth. 77 The fourth and youngest daughter of 

 Paul Viscount Bayning, Elizabeth, married Francis 

 Lennard Lord Dacre, 78 and her son Thomas Lennard, 

 who was created Earl of Sussex in l674, 7S suffered a 

 recovery of it in 1 704.** The whole of the advowson 

 seems to have been acquired by Richard Holden (see 



Pullers), who presented in t 72 7- 81 On his death it 



descended to his son Robert, who presented in 1739 

 and 1777. 83 Robert Holden left two daughters and 

 co-heirs, Charlotte and Elizabeth ; Charlotte married 

 the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon and sold her share in the 

 advowson to the Rev. Thomas Whitehurst in 1785.*' 

 Elizabeth married Richard Webb 8 * and sold her 

 share in the advowson also to the Rev. Thomas 

 Whitehurst in I787. 8S Thomas Whitehurst held the 



whole of the advowson till 1791, 

 William Parkins, 96 possibly in 

 Parkins, who presented in 1795. 87 

 Albion Cox presented. 88 By li 



then he sold it t 

 ust for Richard 

 In 1797 Robert 



it the advowson 



i the hands of John Lafont,* 9 the rector 



death, which took 



It was held by his 



the posses 



hade 



of H in* worth, who held it till hi 



place between 1840 and 1844. 



trustees until 1892, when it car 



of the Bishop of St. Albans, in whom it is still 



vested. 



Meeting-places for Protestant Dissenters in Hinx- 

 worth were registered in 1763 and 1813.*° 



In 1797 Jane Brooks, by her will 

 CHARITIES proved in the Archdeaconry Court of 

 Huntingdon 24 January, gave £160, 

 the interest to be distributed equally among the poor 

 of Hinxworth, Baldock, Biggleswade, and Stotfold. 

 The property now consists of 7 a. jr. 18 p. of land 

 at Stocking Pelham, in the county of Hertford, and 

 the churchwardens receive one-quarter of the rent, 

 amounting to £1 zs., which is distributed in bread on 

 Good Friday and at Christmas. 



The Wesleyan Methodist chapel comprised in 

 deed of 1 8 3 1 is regulated by a scheme of the Charity 

 Commissioners of 1882. 



KELSHALL 



The parish of Kelshall, containing about 4,703 

 acres, lies on the chalk hills. On its eastern side 

 the land rises as high as 5 1 9 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum, but falls to 300 ft. in the west. The Icknield 



Chelesele (x, xi cent.) ; Kelshulle, Kelshille were inclosed by Act of Parliament passed in 1795, 

 (xiii cent.). the award being dated I 797. 1 



The village lies about 2 miles to the south of the 

 Icknield Way, with which it is connected by roads 

 leading north, joining in the village and thence going 

 to Therfield and the Ermine Street at Buckland. 

 The main part of the village lies along the road 

 to Buckland and the church occupies a commanding 

 position in the highest part of it. Several small 

 ponds lie on the east of the church, and from the 

 formation of the ground it appears probable that 

 there was once a moat here. 2 On the small green in 

 the middle of the village is the stone base of a village 

 cross, which was found in 1906, and set up here on 

 e of the manor of a brick base. It has been very much worn by the 

 The common lands weather, but enough remains to show that it probably 



Way forms the par 

 north-west, and nea 

 tumulus. The soil 

 gravel. The parish 

 crops being wheat, 

 proportion of the 

 There are only a few acres c 

 are principally in the south 

 Philpotts Wood marks the • 

 Woodhall alias Philpotts (q.v.) 



and county boundary 



to it on Gallows Hill is a 



chiefly clay or chalk and 



mainly agricultural, the chief 



and roots, and only a small 



d is laid down to pasture. 



acres of woodland, and these 



if the parish where 



61 Col. S. P. Dom. 16+0-1, p. 459. 

 « Ibid. 

 w Ibid 



64 G.E.C. Complete Pcerogt, a. v. Bayning 



65 Ibid. 



67 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Set. z), ectdviii 

 .58. 



** G.E.C. Complete Peerage, 3.1. Dor 



n Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. Will. III. 



» G.E.C. CvmpUu Peerage, ..v. Dacre ; 

 see Feet of F. Div. Co. Trim + WilL 

 and Mary. 



rs G.E.C. Complete Peerage, s.t. Dacre. 



60 Recov. R. Trin. 3 Anne, rot. 36. 



S] Ir.it. Bks. (P.R.O.). 

 m Ibid. 



33 Com. Plea. D. Enr. Trin. 15 Get 

 m. j. 

 * Ibid. 



65 Feet of F. Herts. Hii. 27 Geo. 

 M Ib!d. But, 3, Geo. III. 



67 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



« ibid. 



68 Cluttcrbuck, op. 1 



»Un 



I. 794. 



