ODSEY HUNDRED 



» "373, 



may have come into the possession of Adam 

 ■ Edmond, who was imprisoned for debt 

 t which date he held 3 acres of meadow, 



34 acres of pasture and 3 

 in 1405 John Edmond 

 Chamberlains 5 first 

 conveyed it in that ye: 

 t for John Walsingh; 



of wood in Reed, 4 for 



1 holding the manor of 



ed by that name. He 



to feoffees, 6 apparently in 



for the latter granted it 



during the reign of Henry IV to John Grey and J< 

 his wife, 8 and Margaret Walsingham, widow, released 

 all right in the manor in 1430. * On the death of 

 John Grey Chamberlains descended to his son Ralph. 

 Grey, kt.,'° who presented to the church in i+S -" 

 He died in 1464, when the manor passed to his son 

 Ralph, aged at that date twenty-four." 



Shortly after this Chamberlains came into the posses- 

 sion of John Home, who presented to the church in 

 1477.'* He must have died soon after, for John Shuk- 

 burgh, husband of his daughter Clemency, presented in 

 her right in 1479. John Shukburgh predeceased his 

 wife, and she took to live with her her son Thomas 

 with his wife and three children." Leaving them in 

 her house at Reed, she went to London, where she 

 married Thomas Staunton, ' contrarie to the will and 

 mynde ' of her son, who refused to allow Staunton to 

 enter the house at Reed and assaulted his servants. 15 

 In consequence he was arrested, but escaped with the 

 help of his friends and tried to break into the house. 16 

 Clemency and her husband brought a suit against her 

 son in 1493," but in February 1494-5 s ^ e j°' ne d 

 with her husband and son in making a settlement of 

 the manor. 18 By 1 5 1 1 Chamberlains had descended 

 to John Shukburgh, 13 who sold it in 1 5 1 9 to Robert 

 Dormer. 10 In 1522 Robert Dormer purchased the 

 manor of Challers (q.v.), and from this date the two 

 manors have descended together. 



The manor of QVEENBURT (Querenebury, 

 Quinbury, xvi cent.) was held in the time of Edward 

 the Confessor by Aelfward, a man of Earl Harold. 

 By 1086 it had become part of the possessions of 

 Count Eustace of Boulogne, and was held of him by 

 Robert Fiti Rozelin. al Queenbury always remained 

 part of the honour of Boulogne. 3S From Robert 

 Fitz Rozelin it passed, as did other fees held in this 

 county by Robert, to the Trikets, who were possibly 

 his descendants. " It was held by Hugh Triket," 

 who was living in the reign of Henry II, and 

 descended to Simon Triket, who was holding it in 

 1 2 IO. ,s The Trikets do not again appear in Reed. 



REED 



been made to John Fitz Bernard, 5 " and from him it 

 descended to Walter Fitz Bernard." In the reign 

 of Henry III he sold it to Queen Eleanor.' 8 In 

 1255 Eleanor had caused the 

 dissolution of the hospital of 

 St. Katharine outside the 

 Tower of London, which 

 had been founded by Queen 

 Matilda, wife of Stephen, and 

 the patronage of which was 

 vested in the Queens of Eng- 

 land." She refounded it in 

 1273, and bestowed on it, 

 among other estates, all her 

 lands in Reed to be held in 

 frankalmoign without power 

 of alienation, 3 " a grant which 

 was declared to be to the 

 king's loss. 31 It is to this 



of Queenbury appears to owe 



its name. In 127S the hospital claimed in Reed 

 view of frankpledge, gallows, and assize of bread and 

 ale." In 1287 it claimed these liberties and also 

 tumbril," At the time of the Dissolution the manor 

 was farmed out for £j 6s. 8<i. 3i It is probable that 

 Henry VIII intended to dissolve the hospital, but 

 that it was saved by Anne Boleyn, to whom as Queen 

 of England it belonged." Queenbury remained with 

 the hospital of St. Katharine, which for many years 

 leased it for a term of three lives to the lords of the 

 manor of Challers.' 6 The Hon. Mrs. Vernon-Harcourt, 

 who died in 187.1,* left the remainder of her lease 

 to her god-daughter the Hon. Caroline Mary Frances 

 Jems. 58 About the year 1900 the hospital of St. 

 Katharine sold Queenbury, 59 which parsed through 

 several hands before it was purchased about 1909 by 

 Mr. Thomas E. Brandt, the present owner. * 



The tithes of the manor of Queenbury, together 

 with certain lands called the demesne lands of Mynchey 

 Porcyn, were held by the priory of St. Leonard of 



Apparently a sub- Feoffment of the 11 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 47 Edw. Ill (la 



8 Close, 8 Hen. VI, m. 4. 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. IV, no. 27 



« Cluuerbuck,Hist.Md^ntia.ofHer, 



iii. 555- 



la Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. IV, no. 27, 

 13 Clu rKrbiick, loc. cit. ; see Sti 

 Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, no. 59. 



u Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, no. 5' 



r had already 



-Bow. 41 Thes 

 in 1535." After the dissc 

 St. Leonard they were gra: 

 Sadleir." He restored ther 

 change for other lands 



e valued a 



Stratford-a 



lution of the priory of 

 .ited in 1539 to Ralph 

 a to the Crown in ex- 

 1547-8," and they then 

 the possession of Richard Chambers, who 

 died in 1549, and left them to his son Robert, 

 aged eleven. 11 Robert Chambers received a quit- 

 claim from a certain Robert John; 



;nd his 



*° Close, 11 Hen. VIII, no. 2 ; Feet 

 of F. Herta. Trin. 11 Hen. VIII. 

 ! ' V.C.H. Hen,, i, 321a, 282. 



™Libtr Nigir Sccscc. (cd. T. Hearne), 

 i, 389, 390 ; Sett. Bk. of Exch. (Rolls 

 Ser.), ii, 501, ;8l ; Tula de NeiAll (Rec. 

 Com.), 270, 274 ; Bund. R. (Rec. Com.), 



;J See manors of Comeybury in Wyd- 

 dial and Barkesdon Green in Aspenden. 



« Libit N^er Settee, loc. cit. J Rid Bk. 

 of Exch. loc. cit. 



" Red Bk. of Exch. loc. cit. 



26 See Libit Niger Scacc. loc. cit. ; 

 Testa A NiviU (Rec. Com.), 270. 



37 See Red Bk. of Exch. ii, 581 ; Testa 

 d, NcvUl (Rec. Com.), 274.. 



is Httnd. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 88 seq. 



S9 Dugdale, Mon. vii, 694. 



M Ibid, j Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, 

 p. 409. 



»» Uund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 88 seq. 



251 



eR. 323. 



;!l Fahr Etc!. (Rec. Com.), i, 386. 

 85 Dugdale, Mon. vii, 694. 

 = 6 Caasans, Hist, of Hens. Odscy Hund. 

 see Feet of F. Herts. East. 8 Geo. I ; 

 47 Geo. III. 

 ' Cussans, loc. cit. 

 ;5 Ibid. 

 a Inforn 



»+3 



from 



the Rev 



Majendie of St. Kathari 



10 Inform, from Mr. Thomas' Brsndt 

 of Queenhury. 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 1), Ixxxviii, BS ; 

 Ct. of Req. bdle. 135, no. 1; Dugdale, 

 Mon. h, lit,. 



« Dugdale, loc. cit. 



13 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (1), 403 

 C+4)- 



« Dugdale, loc. cit. 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bunrviii, 

 75- 



