ODSEY HUNDRED 



among his four daughters, Hester wife of Henry 

 Meade, Elizabeth wife of Thomas 7 Sanford, Susan 

 Clerke and Sarah wife of John Higham. 3 The 

 Highams were dealing with their fourth of ' Butler's ' 

 manor in i666. 9 By 1676 a part of the estate of 

 Thomas Clerke in Therfield had been acquired from 

 the four co-heirs by John Green of Thorpe. 10 After 

 the death of Susan Clerke her sisters divided her 

 portion of Gledseys Manor between them. Sanford 

 held one-third in right of his wife and purchased 

 another third. He was succeeded by his son John 

 Sanford, who was in possession of two-thirds of the 

 manor about 1700. u The remaining third was pur- 

 chased by Ralph Baldwin, gent., whose son Ralph 

 Baldwin inherited it in 1694. 12 The 'manor' of 

 Gledseys was subsequently sold by Mr. B. Wortham 

 to the late Mr. Phillips, who bequeathed it to the 

 father of the present owner, Captain J. H. J. Phillips. 13 



The lands of Gledsey Manor extend into Buck- 

 land parish. 14 



The manor ofHODDENHOO or HODDENHOO 

 NEWHALL was among the possessions of Royston 

 Priory at its dissolution. 15 In 1086 Hoddenhoo was 

 within the hundred of Edwinstree, 16 and the greater 

 part of the manorial lands lie in Buckland parish, 17 

 but the manor-house of Hoddenhoo is within the 

 boundaries of Therfield parish. 



In the Domesday Survey Hoddenhoo is returned 

 in two portions. The one consisting of I hide and 

 half a virgate had been held before the Conquest by 

 a sokeman of Earl Algar and three sokemen of 

 Archbishop Stigand. In 1086 it was held of Odo 

 Bishop of Bayeux by Osbern, tenant also of Buckland 

 and of land in Throcking. 18 Possibly, therefore, 

 this was the land in Hoddenhoo given with land in 

 Throcking to the priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, 

 by Roger son of Brian and his wife Maud and 

 confirmed to the priory by Henry III in February 



in8-r.» 



The second portion consisted of a hide and a 

 virgate held before the Conquest by two sokemen 

 of Earl Algar. Tetbald held it of Hardwin Scales 

 (de Scalers) in 1086. 20 



It is uncertain how Royston Priory acquired the 

 ' manor of Newhall and Hoddenhoo in Buckland,' 21 

 which by process of exhaustion appears to be identical 



ntl) 



THERFIELD 



In January 1512-13 the site of the manor was 

 let on a sixty years' lease, and Laurence Pleydon was 

 lessee in 1536, when the property of the priory had 

 been surrendered to the Crown. u The courts were 

 apparently held at Buckland. 26 In December 1540 

 Robert Chester, gentleman usher of the Chamber, 

 received a grant of all the possessions late of Royston 

 Priory including the manor of Newhall and Hodden- 

 hoo. 26 He sold this manor to John Gill and his 

 wife Margaret about the following Easter. 27 It 

 remained with his direct descendants iB at least until 

 the death of Sir George Gill, kt., in 1619. a!) 



Early in the y 

 Freeman 30 (lord si 

 He had been pre 

 John Put„,m,» 

 manor descended t 

 Ralph Freeman. 32 Apparc 

 a settlement was made on Jus 

 son Ralph about 1700. 33 The 

 latter's son William Freeman 

 was dealing with the manor 

 in 1730. 34 Dr. Ralph Freeman, 

 his brother, succeeded in 

 1749. 36 It descended with 

 his manor of Hamels in Stan- 

 don to Philip third Earl of gtiargtnt. 

 Hardwicke, and is now the 



property of the Hon. John Henry Savile, grandson 

 of Lady Anne Yorke, eldest daughter of the Earl of 

 Hardwicke mentioned above. 



The manor of WEST REED or ALAN DE REDE, 

 sometimes called MARDLET BVRT, was held by the 

 Priors of Royston. 38 The house at Mardley Bury 

 with a carucate of arable land and certain meadow, 

 pasture and rent was acquired by the priory in 1302 

 from Adam de Twynham. 37 The ' manor ' of West 

 Reed, ' formerly called Alan de Rede,' 3S held by the 

 priory at the Dissolution, is in all probability identical 

 with the tenement in the ' vill ' of West Reed which 

 a certain Alan de Rede held of the Earl of Gloucester 

 rendering suit at the earl's court of Popeshall 3a (in 

 the neighbouring parish of Buckland). Alan de Rede 

 died about 1314 and left a son and heir Henry. 40 

 The priory of Royston had already in 1 25 1 acquired 

 from Elias son of Richard of West Reed a messuage 



of Aspen- 



