BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



i n fan gen theof" over his tenants, and in that part of the 

 manor held of the honour of Boulogne he claimed 

 view of frankpledge ' by ancient custom of the 

 honour, without charter,' each view being attended 

 by the bailiff of the honour and the prior's bailiff, 

 the former receiving 4/. as the part of the profits 

 due to the royal officials. These liberties, together 

 with gallows and assize of bread and ale, were allowed 

 by the justices in 127S. 2 ' 



In February 1531-2 the Prior of Holy Trinity 

 surrendered to the Crown, sa arid in 1534 Braughing 

 was granted to Sir Thomas Audley the chancellor, 38 

 afterwards Lord Audley of Walden. 30 In 1585 

 the manor was conveyed by Thomas Howard, 

 second son of Lord Audley's daughter Margaret, 

 who married Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 31 to John 

 Steward of Maiham, co. Norfolk. 32 John Steward 

 died seised of the manor, with a mill, dove- 

 cote, and several fishery in Braughing, in February 

 1604— 5. 3a John his son succeeded, but left no issue. 3 * 

 The manor appears to have passed to his brothers 

 Humphrey and Francis Steward, and to have been 

 divided between their sons, for Hoo Steward, son of 

 Francis (who married Roberta Hoo), conveyed a 

 moietyin 1668 to John Spicer 

 and John Paltock. 3S The 

 object of this conveyance is 

 not clear, but before 1695 

 the manor (for this moiety 

 seems to have included all 

 manorial rights) had been sold 

 to William Harvey of Chig- 

 well, co. Essex, 36 M.P. for 

 Essex in 1722. It descended 

 to his son William, who died 

 in 1742, and to William, son 

 of William, who died in 

 1763. 37 William the eldest crescents or therein. 

 son of the last-named William 



died single and the manor came to his brother Eliab 

 Harvey, 38 afterwards Sir Eliab Harvey, G.C.B., of 

 the Royal Navy. He greatly distinguished himself 

 at the battle of Trafalgar, where he commanded the 

 Timirairt, celebrated in naval history and in art as 

 the ' fighting Temeraire* -For his services there he 

 was made a rear-admiral. 39 He died in 1830, leaving 



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. chief 



BRAUGHING 



four co-heirs, of whom Maria, the wife of the 

 Rev. William Tower, inherited the manor. 110 Her 

 daughter and co-heir Maria Louisa married Col. 

 Edward Goulburn, and their son Col. Henry Goul- 

 burn is the present lord of the manor. There are 

 now no copyhold lands left. 41 



The other moiety of the manor seems to have 

 consisted of the capital messuage called Braughing 

 Bury which h.td been divided into two tenements.' 13 

 Humphrey Steward (see above) left a son Humphrey, 13 

 and Francis Steward, apparently his son, 44 sold it to 

 William Dclawood.*' Part of the Bury came with 

 Haraells into the possession of Miss Mellish and was 

 sold with that manor to Mr. H. Shepherd Cross in 

 1 8S4, 46 the other part descended with Uphall and 

 Gatesbury and was bought by Mr. C. J. Longman in 

 1896. 47 Both parts are now farms with barns and 

 other farm buildings attached, although Mr. Long- 

 man's part is now let as a private house. The whole 

 is a 17th-century plastered brick house. It contains 

 some old panelling in the south parlour and a good 

 oak staircase. 



The manor of QUEEN BURT® seems to have 

 taken its name from Queen Maud and to have been 

 the 16 librates of land which Stephen and Maud 

 granted to Hubert de Anstey the queen's chamber- 

 lain. 18 Four of these he gave to the priory of Holy 

 Trinity. 60 Richard and John, sons of Hubert de 

 Anstey, 51 seem to have died without issue, 52 and his 

 lands to have descended to his daughter Denise, who 

 married Warin de Munchensey. 53 From her grand- 

 daughter Denise, who married Hugh de Veer, 64 the 

 fee in Braughing passed to the former's cousin and 

 heir Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, on whose 

 death in 1324 it was assigned to Elizabeth Comyn, 

 one of his co-heirs. 65 



Under Denise Munchensey this fee was held by 

 Matthew Furneaux and Henry Pentelow, who 

 were assessed for it in I303. 66 Matthew Furneaux 

 in Hilary term 128S-9 granted his 'manor of 

 Braughing' to David le Grand for life. 67 Henry 

 Pentelow seems to have been holding his part of the 

 fee as late as 1 3 3 1 ? * e but Furneaux's moiety had 

 apparently passed before that date to John Peverel, 69 

 and it was the latter which was known as the manor 

 of Queenbury. In 1324 John Peverel granted the 



37 Plat, de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 



I7 8. 



38 Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 125. 



89 L. and P. Hen. Pill, vil, l6to (15) ; 

 « ibid. »ii (,), 4,1 (6). 



30 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lixxyi, 100. 



31 Ibid, clxii, 167 5 clxi, 169. 

 "Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 2; & 28 



Eli*. 



33 Chan 



too,, p.. 



. (Ser, 



), «l*i 



"pktflh,*, (Hart. Sec. «), 94. 

 He had no children in 1634, when he 

 was thirty-Bin years of age, and he was 

 succeeded by his brothers, ao the pre- 

 sumption is he left no issue. 



"= Feet of F. Herts. Trin. zo Chas. II. 

 According to Chauncy (op. eit. 223) 

 Humphrey and Francis held a court in 

 ifiio, hut John was siill living in 1634 

 {Vint, of Her,, Inc. cit.). 



36 Recov. R. East. 7 Will. Ill, rot. loo. 

 The conveyance of 1668 can ecarcely 

 have been to William Harvey, for he 

 would have been very young at that date, 

 nor to his father Sir Eliab Harvey, for he 



lived until 1698, so that William would 

 not have been holding in 1695. 



37 Mora nt, Hist, of Essex, \, 167; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 24 Geo. II, rot. 280. 



38 Recov. R. East. 20 Geo. Ill, rot. 38;. 



39 Cussans, Hist, of Hem. Braughing 

 Hund. 190. 



10 See Feet of F. Herts, Trin. ] Will. IV. 

 41 Information from Mr. C. J. Long- 



• Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 3 1 Geo. II, 

 rot. j 24. 



" Chauncy, Hist. Anciq. of Herts. 223. 

 Chauncy says that this Humphrey sold to 

 William Delawood, but this seems to be 



44 Called great-grandson of John. 



43 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 3 1 Geo. II, 



Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 578. Mr. 

 Round points out that the Anstey family 

 held three knights' fees of the honour 

 of Boulogne in Anstey, Hormead and 

 Braughing, which must not be confused 

 with the further grant made to them out 

 of the demesne of the honour by Stephen 

 and Maud (see Anstey). 



w Anct. D. (P.R.'O.), A 1043 («ee 



51 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1043. 



" Richard was „ minor at the time of 

 his father's death (see Testa de Ne-uill 

 [Rec. Com.), 269*). 



'■''": V.C.H. Surr. iii, 2ZZ ; Feud. 



Aid-, 



16 Inforn 



1 from Mr. H. Shephen 

 n Mr. C.J. Longman 



4a Quinfauty 1 

 form, owing to a false derivation from 

 the River Quin. 



"Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1043; &"* 

 309 



-+3S- 



■" Ahbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 252. 

 ; ' ; ' Cal. Chse, 1323-7, p. 272. 

 w Feud. Aids, ii, 435, 

 M De Banco R. 76, m. 21. 

 s8 Cat. Close, 1330-3, p. 199. The 

 Iders given for fees in such cases are 

 Pente- 



/b property seems ._ . 



•r by the estate called Pentlow'i 



''Ibid. 1321-7, p. 265. 





