A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



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since Francis Fitz Geoffrey son of John Fit* Geoffrey 

 of Clapham (co. Beds.) « sold the ' manor of Daniels ' 

 to George Hyde of Throcking 

 about 154.1." He bequeathed 

 the manor to his younger son 

 William Hyde," who sold his 

 life-interest to Sirjohn Perient, 

 kt., and others, including 

 Thomas Bowles the elder. 16 

 The conveyance was possibly 

 in trust for Thomas Bowles 

 the younger and Mary his 

 wife, to whom a William 

 Hyde (presumably the nephew 

 and heir of the former 

 William) and his wife Eliza- 

 beth transferred their rights in 155 6.* 7 By 1578 

 the estate had apparently reverted to William Hyde, 

 the nephew, of Hyde Hall, 

 since with his sons Leonard 

 and George he then sold it 

 to Thomas Morrison" 

 evidently the Thomas Morri- 

 son of Cadeby, co. Lines., 

 whose son Thomas lived at 

 Sandon. 111 Ch.irles ion of 

 Thomas Morrison of Sandon 

 moved to Overstonc.co. 

 Northants, after the death of 

 his first wife Elizabeth, and 

 in 1650 sold the property to 

 Thomas Flyer of Brent 

 Pelham.' It descended to 

 his son Francis," who sold it 

 Sir Gregory Page M of Grcenw 

 directors of the East India Company. 53 His son 

 Sir Gregory sold the property in 1729 to Sir John 

 Jennings of Newsells. 54 Sir John's son George 

 sold it to Mr. Edward King Fordham in 1786," 

 and from this date Daniels has descended with the 

 manor of Gannock (q.v.). 



The farm called Daniels is about a quarter of a 

 mile south-cast of Sandon Church, and one of the 

 fields belonging to the farm is known as ' Moorcs- 

 mead.' It appears possible, therefore, that Daniels 

 and La More (q.v.) were once held as one property, 

 and this theory is strengthened by the tenure of 

 La More by a certain John Daniel about 1 z 75- 66 



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in February 1720 to 

 ich, bart., one of the 



Gj'Onny or and guilt. 



The reputed manor of CJNXOCK is identical 

 with lands held of the dean and chapter as of 

 Sandon Manor by Warin de 

 B.is,ingbourn of Wimpole, 

 who died about I 348." Land 

 in Sandon had been held by 

 two branches of this family 

 since at least 1222, when 

 Alan son of Alexander de 

 Bassingbourn m was tenant of 

 3 virgates of freehold in addi- 

 tion to other land, and John 

 de Bassingbourn had the 

 custody of William ' Anglus ' 

 with 1 virgate of freehold and 

 3 acres of the demesne of 



Sandon. 59 In 1239-4.0 Aubrey (Albreda) de Bass- 

 ingbourn joined in a settlement on Alexander de 

 Bassingbourn of lands in Sandon and Kclshall and 

 elsewhere. 60 Both John and Warin de Bassingbourn 

 were presented as defaulters in the view of frank- 

 pledge of 1 30 1. 61 It appears that the holding of John 

 de Bassingbourn included the mill. 63 He was succeeded 

 in 1320 by his brother Nicholas. 83 The tenement 

 called Gannocks had been settled by Rosamond de 

 Hoo (living in 13 l6) w upon Warin de Bassingbourn 

 of Wimpole during her life with reversion to her 

 own son Robert de Bassingbourn. 65 In 1324. another 

 settlement had been made on Warin de Bassingbourn 

 and his wife Amice and the heirs of Warin. 66 It 

 was possibly on this pretext that Warin withheld the 

 lands from Robert de Bassingbourn until his own 

 death, after which they were restored to Robert. 67 



The subsequent history of the Bassingbourn holding 

 at Gannock is obscure. The ' manor ' of Gannock 

 was said to be held by John Sawyer at his death in 

 1525, when it descended to his daughter Elizabeth 

 wife of John Clifford. 68 It was afterwards found 

 that her father had sold it to Humphrey Monmouth, 

 in whose favour a decree was issued in I J 37.*' Two 

 years later the manor was sold by Richard Breame 

 (possibly an agent of Monmouth) to John Newport, 

 lessee of Sandon Bury, and Margery his wife. 70 

 John died seised of it in 1552 and left it to his 

 eldest son Robert. 71 In 1600 Edward Newport 

 son of Robert 73 conveyed the estate to Thomas 

 Morrison." The latter with his wife and son 

 Charles 74 conveyed it in 1629 to Christopher 



