A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



On his de.it h in 183+ the manor came by will to hi 

 nephew Henry James Wheeler for life, with remainder 

 to his sons in succession ; he 

 died in i860 and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Henry James 

 William Wheeler." In 1875 

 Wheeler sold the manor to 

 Lord Ellenborough, who 

 mortgaged it to the Rev. 

 Edward C. Dermer and others. 

 They conveyed it m 1901 to 

 Mrs. Helen Fitzgerald, who 

 sold it in 1903 to Mr. Frede- 

 rick Wilby, the present lord, Wilbv. Guiaamill- 

 whose family had for some "»d argr .t and a hordtr 

 generations been resident at 

 Wind Hill House 3fi (see above). 



The old manor-house of Pisgotts.now a farm-house 

 occupied by the foreman to Mr. F. J. Lubes, farmer, 

 of Shingle Hall, lies about a mile to the south-west of 

 Bishop's Stortford. It is partly surrounded on the 

 north and cast sides by a moat containing stagnant 

 water. The house itself is built of timber framing 

 covered with lath and plaster, the plaster work having 

 still the remains of a style of a decoration very 

 the eastern counties during the 17th 



Marquess of Exeter. 89 She was attainted m 1539, 



and in 1544 the farm of Wickham Hail with lands 

 called Tolgrove, Lyvery Coppice, Whites Coppice, and 

 Mawkins, were granted to Sir Henry Parker, Lord 

 Morley* He is said to have alienated to John 

 Elliott, and Elliott to have sold to William Goodwyn." 

 In i;6o Goodwyn with Margaret his wife con- 

 veyed the farm to John Good- 

 day. 12 In 156+ John Goodday 

 sold it to John Gibbe," 3 who 

 died seised in 1597, having 

 left his property in Stortford 

 to his grandson George, son 

 of his son William.* 14 It 

 descended to a William Gibbe, 

 son apparently of Edmund, 

 the eldest son of John Gibbe,"* 

 who died seised of it in _ j 



January i6z+-5, 4e his brother E)ltl 

 James being his heir. It was bow™ 

 sold by James Gibbe in 1633 >■**>"» 

 to Arthur Capell of Little 

 Hadham, created Lord Capell 

 bought the 



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PlCCOTTS. N" BlSMOPSjSTpuiTORD 



century. The surface of the walls is divided into 

 large panels by means of slightly sunk mouldings, the 

 panels being filled with roughly executed pattern, 

 consisting of rows of arcs of circles placed one above 

 another. The house is small, with gables at the front 

 and back, and there is a long kitchen wing extending 

 parallel with the house. The whole interior has been 

 modernized, though the old wide kitchen fireplace 

 still remains. 



U'ICKHJM HALL {Weekham Hall, Wy kef-am 

 Hall, ivi and xvii cent.), an estate on the north-west 

 of the parish, apparently represents the * Wickeham ' of 

 Domesday, where were several small holdings. 37 

 After 1 0S6 it first appears about the end of the 1 5th 

 century. In January 1491-2 Sir William Say 

 conveyed his ' plot called Wvkeham hall ' and lands 

 called Bryans, Bledeways and Thornes in Stortford 

 and Farnham to Henry Freshwater for twelve years, 3 ' 

 The property de-cended to Elizabeth daughter and 

 co-heir of Sir William Say, who married William 

 Blount, fourth Lord Mountjoy, and to her daughter 

 and heir Gertrude, wife of Henry Courtenay 



641, who also 

 of Wickham (from which the 

 been separated, perhaps on the 

 Say) from Edward Atkins. He 

 turned the house known as 

 Wickham Hall into a keeper's 

 lodge. The estate descended 

 with Little Hadham to George 

 Devcrcux de Verc Capell, 

 seventh Earl of Essex, who in 

 1900 sold it to Mr. Frank 

 Stacey, the present owner.*' 

 The house is timber framed 

 and plastered, of two stories 

 with attics built on an L-shaped 

 plan. It probably dates from 

 the e;irly 17th century, but has 

 been much altered and restored. 

 One original chimney stack remains. The brick 

 cottage on the south of the house, formerly a pigeon- 

 house, is now used as a lodge. 



The lands of the church or RECTORY MANOR 

 were held with the advowson 

 by the precentor of St. Paul's. 

 In 1651 the manor was sold 

 by the trustees for the sale of 

 church lands to William 

 Alsop, a haberdasher of Lon- 

 don, together with the manor- 

 house, fields called Brickhill 

 Croft, Great and Little Kings- 

 bridge, and Swinstead, a 



Mill 

 Great Kingsbrid 

 called Chanters 

 Pixsoe Wood. 4 ' 



11 called Parson's 

 the lower side of 



ind woods 



.eases of »*t« 



he 1 8th century. With their 

 d in 1867 to the Ecclesiastical 



Hand. 1 



15 Cussant, Hist 



of tor*. 

 am Major 



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■" L. and P. Htn. VIII, 1 



. Skeet, 



nephew of the present owner. 

 s y.C.H. Hen,, i, 3083, 532*, J35*. 

 a Aact. D. (P.R.O.), D 967. 

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Geere, Farnh, 



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 Si. 

 Pleas D. Ear. 



302 



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 Tiii, 106. « Ceere, 



16 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr 



