A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



manor to John de Preston an 

 Peter de Hi-r-eden for thei 

 William Bradbury and his 

 wife Margaret, holding in 

 right of Margaret, conveyed 

 it to Roger Ree and Thomas 

 Gryme. 61 There seems to be 

 no farther record of the 

 manor until 1527, when 

 Richard Bishop of Norwich 

 obtained licence to grant it to 

 Trinity Hall, Cambridge/" 



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in the possession of the college. 



The house called Quinbury, uVurdv ttgrailU 



now a farm, is situated to the trwfot. 



south-east of Hay Street. 



The manor of TL'RKS is first heard of at the 

 beginning of the 15th century when it was in the 

 possession of Robert Turk. 63 His daughter Joan 

 married Roland Barley, who survived hia wife and 

 died seised of it in I+48, leaving a son Thomas. fiJ 

 Before 1517 this manor had come into the same 

 hands as Quecnbury and was given with that manor 



to Trinity Hill, Cambridge, in 1527. 



Turks Wood on the north-east of the 

 the site of this manor. Within the wot 

 circular homestead moat with 

 south-west side. 



In 1086 Count Eustace of B 

 at COCKHAMSTED which v 

 of Edward the Confessor by Got 

 thegiis, and was assessed at z hid< 

 ploughs. For a considerable ti 

 there seem to be no records relatin 



l\ nearly 

 > the 



ulogne had an estate 

 as held in the time 

 uti, one of Harold's 

 h land for 1 



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priory of Anglesey, co. Cambr 

 prior was assessed at £6 for his property in Standon, 

 and, as the prior is not otherwise known to have held 

 land there, this entry may refer to Cockhamsted in 

 Braughing, which perhaps extended into Standon. ee 

 In 13+6 Thomas de Chcd worth fl7 by licence of the 

 Earl of Pembroke granted a messuage and 1 80 acres 

 of land, with meadow, pasture and wood, formerly 

 belonging to Sir Robert Scales, to the prior and 

 convent. ■" Before this, however, the prior seems to 

 have sub-enfeoffed a tenant of his other lands there, 

 for the manor appears in the hands of lay lords who 

 held of the prior)-. In 1 3 1 9 Geoffrey de la Lee had 

 a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in 

 Braughing. 69 John de la Lee his son 70 had a similar 



grant in 1366 and also licence to inclose and impark 

 300 acres of land in Braughing and Alburv." From 

 Sir Walter de la Lee, son of John, the manor oi 

 Cockhamsted passed to one of his sister), Joan, who 

 married John Barley, 7 * and in February 14.4.5-6 their 

 son John Barley died seised of the manor held jointly 

 with his wife Katherine of the Prior of Anglesey. n 

 Henry his son was his heir. Henry was succeeded in 

 1475 by his son William Barley, who died seised of the 

 manor held as above in March 1521-2. 7 * Itdcsccnded 

 to his son Henry, and in 1529 to the latter'i son 

 William, rs whosedaughterand co-heir Dorothy married 

 Thomas Leventhorpe of Saw bridge worth, 78 and they 

 levied a fine of it in 1570. 77 Their son Thomas 7S died 

 before 1594, when the manor was divided between 

 his daughters and co-heirs. 79 Of these Dorothy wife 

 of Simeon Brograve seems eventually to have inherited 

 the whole manor. In August 161 1 George and 

 Thomas Whitmore, who were the informers as to defec- 

 tive titles usually called ' fishing grantees,' obtained a 

 grant from the Crown of the manor as lately belong- 

 ing to the priory of Anglesey. 60 They conveyed 

 their title to William Milled and Paul Mason, who 



conveyed 

 London. 81 Simeo 

 seem, however, to! 

 only had a rent ii 

 formerly beer 



ted with the m; 

 rightly theirs. Hi 



Zachariah Blacltstoclt of 



ograve and Dorothy his wife 

 Deen able to show that the king 

 ; from the manor which had 

 he Prior of Anglesey, who had 

 and land, and that the manor 



pai 



s rightly theirs. H1 



:ttlcd on their fourth son Edward, 

 and he settled it on his third son Edward. H3 The 

 latter died without issue, and his widow Susan con- 

 veyed the manor to the heir-at-law Thomas Brograve, M 

 who in 1716 conveyed it to Robert Colman, appa- 

 rently in trust for Jacob Houblon » t of Hallingbury 

 Place, co. Essex. The latter settled it in 1758 on 

 his son Jacobs John Archer Houblon, son of the latter, 

 sold Cockhamsted to John Larken of Braughing," 7 

 who devised it to his nephew the Rev. William P. 

 Larken. 8 * It was bought from Mr. Larken's repre- 

 sentatives in 1894 by Mr. Robert Lanyon of Spits- 

 berg, Kansas, U.S.A., whose son now holds it. 



The moated house called Cockhamsted, situated on 

 the east of the parish, is a farm occupied by Mr. Grigg. 



GATESBURr seems to have originally formed 

 part of the manor of Westmill 6V (q.v.), and to have 

 been held under the Montfitchets and their successors 

 by the family of Gatesbury. At the end of the 

 12th century it was held by John de Gatesbury, 90 

 who gave lands there to the monastery of Holywell 

 in Middlesex. 91 Sir Richard de Gatesbury was holding 



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