BRAUGHING HUNDRED bishop's stortford 



Court rolls of the manor for 1396, 1417 and 1421 

 are extant, but the name of the lord is not given. 19 

 In 1417 a court was held for John Gaall and Agnes 

 his wife, who were possibly the heirs of John and 

 Agnes Gemptyng. In 1458 the court of John 

 Leventhorp, 20 Robert Canfeld, Ralph Grey and their 

 co-feoffees was held, and in 1470 the court of Henry 

 Barlee (of Albury) and others. 



In I 5 3 3 the manor was in the possession of Richard 

 Apryce, 31 and a few months after it passed to his brother 

 and heir Thomas. 22 In 1556 Roger Apryce conveyed 

 it to John Ellyott, citizen and mercer of London. 23 He 

 evidently left two daughters, for in Hilary 1573-4 

 Thomas Saunders and his wife Jane levied a fine of a 

 moiety of the manor, 24 and in 1577 Robert Hall,jun., 

 and his wife Anne together with Saunders and his wife 

 conveyed the whole to Robert Hall, sen., and others. 2S 

 This may have been for a settlement on Thomas 



his first court in 1606. 30 He granted the manor in 

 i6zz to his son Robert, 31 who held his first court in 

 164c.. 32 Later he joined in a sale with Nicholaj 

 Westwood of Farnham, co. Essex, and Sarah his wife, 

 John Cleere the elder of Bengeo and Mary his wife, 

 and John Cleere the younger and Sarah his wife to 

 Edward Hawkins of Stortford. After the death of 

 the latter it descended to his three daughters : Mary, 

 who married Robert Dawgs, of Loughton, co. Essex ; 

 Elizabeth, who married John Barrington, second son 

 of Sir John Barrington, bart., and Susan, who married 

 William Layer of Shepreth, co. Cambridge. In 1 700 

 Mary Dawgs, then a widow, Susan Layer and her 

 husband, and John Barrington, son of Elizabeth, and 

 Anne, her daughter, wife of John Flacke of Linton, 

 co, Cambridge, joined in a sale to John Lowe of 

 St. Margaret's, Westminster. 33 



John Lowe left the manor by will of 1 707 to his 



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Saunders and Jane, for in the next year they conveyed 

 to Thomas Cnbbe * who held his first court in 

 15 8 1 F In 1 604 Thomas Crabbe was holding with 

 Grace his wife, and in that year conveyed the manor 

 to Francis Cutt of Debden, co. Essex, and John Cutt 

 his brother (sons of Richard Cutt of Debden). 28 

 After the death of Francis within a year, John Cutt 

 (called of London) sold the manor with the meadow 

 called Pigotts Hatch, the two fields called the Leyes, Sec. 

 to Robert Salmon of Broxted, co. Essex, 29 who held 



grandson John Lowe of Ashwell, co. Herts. From 

 the latter's brother and devisee William Lowe 

 of Henlow, co. Bedford, and of Basinghall Street, 

 London, it came by will to Thomas Wheeler of 

 Basinghall Street, who held it for life with remainder 

 to his wife Susan for life, then to their four sons, 

 William, Thomas, James Rivington, and Peter, as 

 tenants in common. In 1801, after the death of 

 Thomas Wheeler, Susan with her three sons sold the 

 manor to her fourth son James Rivington Wheeler. 34 



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M John Leventhorp married Joan 

 Barrington, daughter and heir of a Bar- 

 rington who had grant of free warren in 

 Thorley and Stortford in 1448 (Chart. R. 

 >-zg Hen. VI, no. 4 .). The Leven- 

 thorpes had Thorle)-. 



