A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



of RuntingforJ and his heirs. It seems probable that 

 one of these sisters married Laurence de Ayot, lord of 

 Ayot St. Lawrence. In 1353 he died seised of a 

 tenement called Olivers in Sandon which he held of 

 the inheritance of his son and heir William, 13 who 

 was imprisoned for felony in the Bishop of Win- 

 's gaol at the time of his father's death. 11 



In 



them 



1+57 Walter and Aiit 



inor in right of Alice and gr, 



to Robert Oliver and his 



were holding 

 nted a life-interest 

 wife Elizabeth. 15 

 ny of William de 



In i + qo 



Possibly in consequence of the 

 Ayot the tenement had reven 

 under the settlement of 1 3 14." 



belonged to Matilda Exton in her own right, and 

 she together with John Barbour, her son by a former 

 marriage, conveyed it to Richard Fyfehid alias Lowe 

 and other trustees, 17 who granted it in 14.92 to 

 Leonard Hyde of Throcking and others. 18 These 

 appear to have been acting only as trustees. In 

 1 506 they transferred the ' manoi 

 Drury, kt., and others, who in t 

 Thomas Sandon. 11 



■ daughte 



Rose 



wife of John Bird. 20 They 

 sold the 'manor of Olivers or 

 East End' to Simon Pratt, 

 and his son John with his 

 wife 'Ethddred'- 1 (Audrey) 

 made a conveyance of the 

 estate to William Hvde of 



Thr 



:king 



152s 



kiiftr 



George Hvde of Thrc 

 had a release from Francis 

 Fiti Geoffrey.'-- His grand- 

 son William son of Leonard 

 Hyde conveyed the estate to 

 his uncle William Hyde of 



Daniels, who reserved it in alienating Daniels. 35 

 William Hyde of Daniels died childless, and Olivers 

 appears to have reverted to William Hyde of Throw- 

 ing. He died in 1580, leaving to his son and heir 

 Leonard the manor of Olivers, and a capital messuage 

 called Hyde Hall to his wife for life. 21 After this 

 date the manor is frequently called by the name of 

 Hyde Hall. 



In 1607 Sir Leonard Hyde, kt., sold the manor of 

 Olivers or Hyde Hall to Sir Thomas Cheeke, kt., 

 of St. Martin's in the Fields,-'' who Is said to have 

 conveyed it [wo years later to the Earl of Exeter. 28 

 In 1 6 1 z he sold it to Sir Julius Adelmare alias 

 Caeiar." This estate was settled on his son Sir John 

 Caesar. 28 His eldest son John sold it in 1656 to 

 William Franklyn. He died without male issue, 

 and the manor passed to his only sister and heir 

 Mary wife of Sir Nicholas Miller, kt. IB They were 



■ J Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Ed*. Ill, 1 



« Cf. AAA. Chart. I 



Chau 



>. BiB. 



" Chan. ] 

 For the pedigree s 

 Soc. »ii), 67-8. 

 » Close, 5 J«. I 

 * Chauncy.loc. c 

 " Close, 9 Ja.. I 

 1. loq. p.n 



succeeded by their son Franklyn, who married Jane 

 daughter of Sir Reginald Forster. 3 ' She succeeded 

 to the manor on the death of her husband in 1718. 

 At her death four years later the estate passed to her 

 grandson Nicholas Franklyn Miller. 31 He died at 

 the age of nineteen, and the estate passed to his aunt 

 Jane NorthclifF, widow, his father's sister. Under 

 her will the estate came to Edward Mundy 02 of 

 Shipley, Derby, who had married Hester sister of 

 her nephew Nicholas Franklyn Miller. From 

 Edward Mundy the estate passed to his son Edward 

 Miller Mundy, 33 and he sold it in 1789 to William 

 Baker of Bay ford bury. 3 * It has since descended in 



■ Robert 

 -eyed to 



%f<jfue^' 



Baki 



of Bayfordbury 



his family, and the present owner is Mr. Clinton R. 

 Baker 3S of Bayfordbury. 



Hyde Hall is a 17th-century house much restored 

 and altered. Two of the chimney-stacks and a part 

 of one of the gables appear to be original. Near the 

 house is a large 16th-century brick barn lighted by 

 long narrow loops. 



The church of ALL SAINTS consists 

 CHURCH of chancel 36 ft. by 15 ft., nave 52 ft. 

 6 in. by 20 ft., north and south aisles 

 54. ft. by 9 ft. 6 in., south porch 12 ft. by 10 ft., west 

 tower 12ft. 6 in. by 12 ft., all dimensions being 

 taken internally. 



The chancel was rebuilt on the old foundations 

 about 1 348," and the nave with its aisles was erected 

 about 1360-70, the west tower and south porch 



Mich. 



cm, 69. 



'59- 



pi. .iv, no 



(Ser. 2), « 



lirti. 579, quoting from ' 

 ate W. Baker of Bayfordbi 

 " Ibid. ; cf. P.C.C. Will, 

 M Burke, Landid Gintry 



M Cloje, 30 Geo. Ill, P t. 

 3S V.C.H. Hirn. Famil,,,, 

 » Among the muniment. 



» Chauncy, Htr, 



.;, 276. 



1 i cf. 



« Dom. Nich. Miller.' 

 :ve, P t digr llt ,/ (fc K 

 Wit.), 354- 

 buck, Hill, and Ann 



274 



