A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Essex. 8 ' The plot failed and he was obliged to 

 take refuge in England. Later he was appointed 

 ambassador to England by the 

 United State? of Holland, and 

 he died in London in 1591 . M 

 His two eldest sons were 

 killed fighting in the Nether- 

 lands, but his fourth son 

 Edward, who was only a year 

 old at the time of his father's 

 death, settled in England, and, 

 taking holy orders, was for 

 many years Professor of 

 Hebrew at Christ Church, 

 Oxford. bT His grandson, who 

 married the heiress to Julians, 

 died in 1732,** and Penelope 

 died in 17+6," when Julians 

 descended to their son Adolphi 

 purchased the manor of Rushden i 

 this date Julians has descended 



(q.v.). 



The mansion-house of Julians is situated about half 

 a mile north of the church. It was erected by 

 William Stone about 1610. The house was entirely 

 recased about the beginning of the I 8th century, but 



i Meetkerke, 90 who 



1779, and from 



vith that manor 



: been left stand 

 nt of the house i 



front is cemented 

 s in the middle, enterim 

 : opens directly off ih> 



dis 



the old 



that the general arrangem 

 little changed. The prcscn 

 very plain. The doorway 

 into the hall. The stairca 



hall, and probably at one time formed a back proje 

 tion, but considerable additions have been made to 

 the house. The stair is a very good example of the 

 Queen Anne period, with delicately twisted and 

 fluted balusters and carved ends to the steps. The 

 details are very similar to the stair at the Great 

 House, Cheshunt, which belongs to the same period, 

 though the arrangement of the returned ends of the 

 steps is somewhat different. There are wide folding 

 doors at the foot of the stair, to shut it off from the 

 hall when desired. To the right of the hall on 

 entering is the drawing-room— no doubt the old 

 parlour, and to the left is the kitchen wing, which 

 still contains a little 17th-century panelling and an 

 oak chimneypiece. The site of the old Bur)- can be 

 traced in the park, immediately to the north of the 

 church. 



The descent of the manor of CUMBERLOW 

 GREEN (Comerlowe Green, Cumbarlo Green, xvi 

 cent.) is very difficult to trace. It appears to hive 

 been called the manor of Broadfield in 1346, when 

 it was held by Walter de Mauny, 91 and from him it 

 afterwards took the name of Maunseys. 52 He does 

 not appear to have held it long, and it may prob- 

 ably be identified with the manor of Broadficld 



which in February 1361-1 was in the hands of 

 John de Ellerton, King's Serjeant-at-Arms, to whom 

 Edward III granted free warren." In 1376 

 Sir Walter Lee, kt., quitclaimed all right in the 

 manor of Cumberlow to Richard de Ravensere and 

 others, 84 probably in trust for the lord of the manor 

 of Broadficld, for in 1428 Walter de Mauny's holding 

 had come to John Clerk, to whom the manor of 

 Broadfield belonged. 96 It descended with that manor 

 (q.v.) until i486, when, on the death of Margaret 

 Dunstable, they became separated and Maunseys in 

 Cumberlow descended to her son and heir Thomas 

 Hatfield, 96 who sold it in 1+92, as the manor of 

 Broadfield in Cumberlow Green, to Thomas Oxen- 

 brigge. 97 He must have sold it to John Fortescue, 

 who died seised of the manor of Cumberlow Green in 

 1 5 1 7, when it descended to his son Henry. * 8 Henry 

 Fortescue was holding lands in Cumberlow in 

 1537-8, 9Sa but he conveyed the manor to William 

 Goodman, 99 who was holding it in 1574. 100 On his 

 death it descended to his son John, to whom Francis 

 Fortescue quitclaimed all right in the manor in I 577. * 

 John Goodman, who built a house at Cumberlow 

 Green, a was holding the manor in I dot..* He 

 shortly afterwards acquired the manor of Rushden 

 (q.v.), and from this date the two manors have 

 descended together. Cumberlow Green lies in the 

 south-west of the parish, on the borders of Clothall, 

 into which parish the manor extended and in which 

 the manor-house was situated. 4 



The Knights Hospitallers held certain lands in 

 Rushden which were attached to their preceptory of 

 Shingay in Cambridgeshire. 1 This manor of Shingay 

 was given them by Sybil de Raj nes, daughter of 

 Roger de Montgomery, in 1 140, and it is probable 

 that the land attached to it in Rushden represents the 

 half hide which Earl Roger held in Broadfield in 

 Io86, r for there is no further trace of this holding in 

 Broadfield and the boundaries of the manorial hold- 

 ings do not seem to correspond with the present 

 boundaries of the parishes. 8 In 1 198 the Knights 

 Hospitallers were holding land in Rushden and were 

 fined for receiving a fugitive, Ralph Rusticus, there. 9 

 They continued to hold these lands 10 until the dis- 

 solution of the order, after which the preceptory of 

 Shingay with all its appurtenances in Rushden and 

 elsewhere was granted by Henry VIII to Sir Richard 

 Long in tail-male in 1540. 11 There is no further 

 record of the Rushden estate after this date. Shingay 

 survived as the name of a wood, which is marked on 

 the tithe map of 1845.^ 



The Knights Templars also seem to have had a 

 small holding in Rushden, attached to their manor of 

 Temple Dinsley, in I 309, the year of the suppression 

 of their order, when a report was ordered to be made 

 on all their lands in Hertfordshire. 13 After the grant 



" Clow, 7 Hen. VII 



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