A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Survey, which lay for the most part within the parish 

 of Little Hormead in Edwinstree Hundred, but 

 which perhaps extended into Braughing. A little to 

 the east of Bozen Green it a farm-house called Rotten 

 Row. It is a two-storied building of timber and 

 plaster, and was probably built in the 16th century, 1 * 

 but underwent considerable alteration in the 1 7th, 

 1 8th, and 19th centuries. It was apparently of the 

 half H -shaped plan with interior space inclosed. 

 The roof of the main block is coTered with slate, and 

 the wings are tiled, with hipped ends. The entrance 

 passage and the parlour, with a 1 7th-century fire- 

 place, formed the original hall. There is some 

 17th-century oak panelling in one of the rooms 

 on the ground floor. 



Place-names that occur in this parish are Nether- 

 stokkying, Aldithelee, Kingesho or Kingshohull, Enne- 

 worth, Fordmad (xiii cent.) 18 ; Pumps Land and 



but there was land for eleven ploughs. A mill ii men- 

 tioned in the extent." The lands of the honour of 

 Boulogne came by inheritance to Queen Maud, wife of 

 Stephen, and the manor of Braughing was divided 

 among several grantees. Between 1 146 and 1148 

 Stephen granted 100/. rent in the manor to the priory 

 of Holy Trinity, London, and at the same time he 

 granted them 6 librates of land there in exchange for 

 the mill and land which the queen had granted 

 them near the Tower of London, where she had 

 afterwards founded the hospital of St. {Catherine ; 

 these 6 librates, as the charter explains, being that 

 part of the manor left over after the rest had 

 been granted away and including the site of the 

 church and the market.* This charter was con- 

 firmed by the queen al and by her son Eustace 

 Count of Boulogne." Other 4 librates of land in 

 the manor were given to Holy Trinity by Hubert 



The Maltings, Bkauceiii 



Sportlowfield (xvii en;.)." Near Sportlowfield 

 was a loam-pic in the road to Furneux Pelham, for 

 which the inhabitants of Braughing were indicted in 

 1683. 1B 



Before the Conquest Braughing was 

 MANORS held by two thegns ; one, a man of 

 King Edward, held 4 hides, and the 

 other, a man of Asgar the Staller, I hide. In 1086 

 these holdings were united in the hands of Count 

 Eustace of Boulogne. They were assessed at 5 hides, 



the queen's chamberlain, to whom 16 librates had 

 been granted by the king and queen. 1 ' The priory's 

 lands formed the manor of BRAUGHING or 

 BRAVGHINGBURT. The mill of Braughing was 

 also given to the canons by Henry de Furneaux and 

 Theobald de Braughing. 24 In 1291 their lands, 

 rent and mill at Braughing were taxed at 

 £37 6l - $y- 2S The prior had a grange there for 

 the management of his estates. 88 By Stephen's 

 charter he claimed to have soc, sac, toll, team and 



'74)- 



is mentioned by ita pretent Dame 

 a (Chan. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], cccuii, 



"And. D. (P.R.O.), A 5794, 104.9, 

 5+59. 545+. 5"°. 



" S«<. *. (Hert.. Co. Rec), i, »S- 



"Ibid. 328. w V.C.H,Htrb.;, Z zzb. 



"Cart. Antiq. N. 21; And. D. 

 (P.R.O.), A 105 1. 



" Cart. Antiq. N. 22 ; Anct. D. 

 (P.R.O.), A 1050 ; Dugdale, Mm. Angl. 

 vi, I J!. 



"Cart. Antiq. N. 25. In 1141 

 Stephen had granted 100 libratci of land in 

 Anstey, Braughing and Ham to Geoffrey 

 de Mandeyille to the use of Ernulf hi» 

 son (Round, Gtaff. de Mandrvillt, 14.1). 

 Thia he probably forfeited in 114.3, ta & 



308 



Ernulf waj never reitorcd to hit father'* 

 lands. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1043, io 4*- 



u Dugdale, Men. Angl. vi, 153 - Anct. 

 D. (P.R.O.), A 1110,6101. Henry de 

 Furneaua owned ieven parti of the 

 mill. 



» Pop, Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 14J. 



M AuizeR. 325 (15 Edw. I). 



