A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



John Peyton « In t6iz Sir John Peyton, sen., and 

 Sir John Peyton, jun., and his wife Alice sold the 

 manor of Challers to Sir Julius Adelmare a/i<u 

 Caesar, kt. CT 



Sir Julius was the son of an Italian named Caesar 

 Adelmare, who came to England in 1550 and was 

 court physician successively to 

 Queen Mary and Queen 

 Elizabeth. <» In 1596 Sir 

 Julius was made master of the 

 hospital of St. Katharine, 6 " 

 and is said to have held a 

 lease of the manor of Queen- 

 bur)'. 70 He was appointed 

 chancellor of the Exchecuer 

 b l6o6. 71 He married tu ice, 

 and in 1625 he settled Reed 

 on John, 72 the eldest son by his 



second marriage. 73 John 



,-, , . , ° , . ', roses couitercotourca. 



Caesar was knighted in 1 61 7, 

 and married Anne the 



daughter of William Hungate. 74 In 1636 his father 

 died and he came into possession of his property in 

 Reed." This he continued to hold™ until 1668, 

 when with his wife Anne he sold it to William 

 Newland. 77 On the death of William it descended 

 to Thomas Newland, who presented to the church 

 in 1 71 8. 7H In 1721 Thomas Newland and Mary 

 his wife sold their property in ReeJ, which at this 

 date appears for the first time as one manor styled 

 Challers Chamberlains alias Chamberlains Challers 



1. Caroline Mary Peachey inherited his estates." 

 married the Rev. Leveson Vernon-Harcourt, but 



iUf arge.t 



(see below for Chamber! 

 Kendrick Edesbury for 



i), to John Manley and 



nety-nine years during 



eir lives and the life ot Isaac Manley of Dublin 



d of their son George Newland.' 9 



Reed soon after came into 



had no children. 92 On her death in 1 871, according 



to the will of her mother Hester Elizabeth Jennings, 



Reed passed to the Rt. Hon. Hugh Her ' 



Lord Strathnairn of Strathn 



was descended through his 



Jennings of Dudleston Hall, , 



Sir John Jennings before 1 



gained his titles for his servio 



unmarried in Paris in l886," : 



brother Sir William Rose, v 



one month. It then descended 



George H.Douglas, th< 



of Morton, who subsequently sold his lands in Reed 



to Mr. Edward Pigg of Chipping, but all manorial 



rights appear by this date to have lapsed. 0B 



The manor of CHAMBERLAINS possibly repre- 

 sents that hide of land which before the Conquest 



Je. 



mgs, kt., 



-chief : 



ds of Sir John 



the Mcliter- 



who presented to the church in 

 i 7 2 7 .*° Sir John died in 17+3," and the manor 

 descended to his son George Jennings, 83 who 

 married Mary the daughter of Michael Bourkc, 

 tenth Earl of Clanricarde. 83 He had a daughter 

 Hester Elizabeth, who married John Peachey, the 

 only son and heir of Sir James Peachey, ban.* 4 

 In 17S7 George Jennings settled the manor on 

 John Peachey and Hester Elizabeth, 35 and on the 

 death of George Jennings in I 790 it descended to his 

 daughter and her husband. se In 1794 Sir James 

 Peachey was created Lord Selsey, and on his death 

 in 1808 his son succeeded to the title." He held 

 Reed ** till his death in 1 8 1 6,* s when it passed to his 

 son Henrv John Peachey, third Lord Selsey, who 

 died in 1838, leaving no children." 1 His sister the 



s held by Leuing, a p 

 In 1086 this land had , 

 Hard win de Scales, but 

 Alan of B 



one of Eddeva's me 

 into the possession 

 held by him of Co 

 m his other and rr 



of 



important lands in Reed."" It remained with the 

 descendants of Hardwin de Scales until the reign of 

 Henry III. 00 At that time, while they adhered to the 

 king in his struggle with Simon de Montfort, Ralph 

 le Chamberlain seized some of their land by force. 100 

 A suit was brought against him in 1 268 for its 

 recovery by Thomas de Scales, 1 but it is probable that 

 Ralph kept possession, for in 1 346 his descendant 

 Ralph le Chamberlain was holding land in Reed of 

 Thomas de Scales by service of half a knight's fee. s 

 It is from this family that the manor takes its name. 

 Ralph le Chamberlain died in 1346, and his lands 

 descended to his son Ralph, aged twenty. 3 Nothing 

 further is heard of the Chamberlains in Reed, but 



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