BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



about a century later." His son Richard de Gates- 

 bury 9 ' received a grant of free warren in I 320." In 

 1 323 he settled the manor on his son John and John's 

 wife Elizabeth and their issue with remainder to 

 John's brothers Adam, Ralph, and Roger. 96 Richard 

 was living in 1324," but John had succeeded before 

 1328." A further settlement was made by John 

 on his brothers Adam and Roger, failing his own issue, 

 inHilaryterm 1330-1. 98 The manor seems to have 

 remained in this family until the beginning of the 

 15th century, when an Adam de Gatesbury appears 

 to have left two sisters and heirs, Joan, who married 

 John Elveden, and Elizabeth, who married JohnTuwe. 

 He also left a widow Agnes, who married Thomas 

 Tuwe." In 1456 John Joskyn and Elizabeth his 

 wife, kinswoman and co-heir of Adam de Gatesbury 

 (and probably the above Elizabeth Tuwe or her 

 daughter), and Henry Elveden of Gyng Mounteney, 

 co. Essex, kinsman and another heir of the same 

 Adam, 10 " levied a fine of the manor of Maisters in 

 Westmill and of lands in Braughing.' Henry Elveden 

 was outlawed for a murder in 1462, and in 1463 his 

 moiety was granted to John Sturgeon.' In 1472, 

 however, he received a general pardon, 1 and he died 

 seised of Gatesbury in 1498.' His son Henry had 

 predeceased him in 1493,* leaving Denise his daughter 

 and heir, then aged one year. She was her grand- 

 father's heir, and in 151; was married to Humphrey 

 Fit2 Herbert of Uphall." 



The tenure of the Fitz Herberts is marked by 

 a series of lawsuits resulting from quarrels among 

 themselves and with their neighbours. About 1535 

 Humphrey brought a suit in the Court of Requests 

 against Sir Henry Parker, lessee of the other half of 

 Gatesbury, for entering tenements belonging to 

 Uphall and for cutting down trees on his half of 

 Gatesbury. 7 In 1520 the vicar took proceedings 

 in the court of Star Chamber against Humphrey 

 Fitz Herbert for an attack made upon him in 

 church, the immediate cause of quarrel being the 

 presence of John Fitz Herbert, a priest, the defendant's 

 brother, whom the defendant had brought to arbitrate 

 between the vicar and the parishioners, and on whom, 

 by the defendant's account, the vicar had laid violent 

 hands, the defendant retaliating by an attack on the 

 vicar. 8 After the death of Humphrey several actions 

 were brought against Denise by copyholders of the 

 manor for her refusal to admit them to their lands, 9 

 the reason given in one case being that the tenant's 

 predecessor had forfeited the land for not taking off 

 his cap when he met Humphrey in the streets of 

 London.' In 1578 Denise, who was then about 

 eighty-four years of age, brought an action in the 

 same court against her eldest son John for evading 

 the settlements made by Humphrey on herself and 

 younger sons." 



BRAUGHING 



John son of Humphrey and Denise seems to have 

 left a son Thomas, who was holding this moiety 

 in 1589, and in that year conveyed it to Thomas 

 Hanchett, who was already seised of the other." 

 Thomas Hanchett conveyed it by fine of Hilary term 

 1 608-9 to Sir Arthur Heveningham and two others, 13 

 apparently in trust for John Stone, who died seised 

 of it in 1640, leaving a son and heir Richard. 11 In 

 March 1656-7 Richard Stone, described as of Stuke- 

 ley, co. Hunts., and John Stone of Uphall, his son 

 and heir, sold the manor with lands called Gatesbury 

 Green, Broom Hill, BHckhill (now Brick Kiln Hill), 

 Sacombe, the Mawne (now the Malm), &c, a warren 

 in Braughing, a water-mill and fulling mill called 

 Gatesbury (Gaddesbury) Mill to Robert Dicer of 

 London." Through Dorothy, daughter and heir of 

 Robert Dicer, 16 the manor passed to William Harvey," 

 and thereafter descended with Braughing until about 

 1890, when it was bought from the executors of 

 Mrs. Tower by Mr. Robert Lanyon, a Cornishman 

 by birth, who emigrated to America and there made 

 a fortune. In 1896 he sold Gatesbury Mill and 

 Farm to Mr. C. J. Longman, who resides at Upp 

 Hall. Gatesbury Mill, on the River Rib, was pulled 

 down in 1906. The mill-house has been converted 

 into two cottages. 18 



The other half of the manor which descended to 

 John Joskyn was forfeited by him in 1461 ls and 

 granted to Nicholas Harpisfield. 50 Later it was 

 restored to Edward Juskvn, sc>n of John. 5 ' Through 

 an heiress named Elizabeth, possibly daughter of 

 Edward, this half came to Richard Braughing, who 

 died seised of it in January 1 5 17-18, Richard his son 

 succeeding." Richard seems to have left two co- 

 heiresses, for in 1559 Nicholas Fulham and Elizabeth 

 his wife conveyed a fourth part of the manor to 

 Thomas Hanchett. 83 A certain Thomas Braughing 

 apparently also had some interest which he conveyed 

 at the same time to Andrew Gray. 24 In 1583 

 Thomas Hanchett joined in a conveyance with 

 Sir Arthur Heveningham and his wife Mary and 

 Sir Thomas Barnardiston and his wife Elizabeth 

 (Mary and Elizabeth being presumably the Braughing 

 heiresses) and Andrew Gray to Andrew Paschall, sen., 

 and Andrew Paschall, jun. !S This was probably for 

 assurance of title. Soon after Thomas Hanchett bought 

 the other half (see above) and re-united the manor. 



The house called Gatesbury is situated a little to 

 the east of the Cambridge road where it branches off 

 at Puckeridge. A wood called Gatesbury Wood lies 

 to the north-east. 



The manor of UPHALL first appears in the 1 5th 

 century. Its name is probably derived from its 

 situation on the high land to the south-east of the 

 village. In 1461 it appears in the possession of 

 John Joskyn (see Gatesbury) and was forfeited by him 



100 This Henry was son of Thomas 

 Elveden (see Anct. D. [P.R.O.], A 1033). 

 1 Feet of F. Herts. 3 ; Hen. VI, no. 1 80. 

 ' Cat. Pal. 146 1-7, p. 296. 



* Ibid. 1467-77, p. 369. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxx, 47. 

 4 Ibid, uc, 24. 6 Ibid, xxx, 47. 

 7 Ct. ofReq. bdle. 3,1 

 8 Star Chamb. Proc. b 



13 Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 6 J: 

 11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), c< 

 13 Com. Pleas D. Enr. E; 

 ».6d. 



16 Morant, op. cit. 167. 

 " Recov. R. Trin. 14 G. 



II, tc 



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9 Ct. of 5 



. 19, no. 319, 

 >■ 7*. 6 7 , 56. 



:, Trin. 31 Eli*. 1 

 311 



"ParLR. v, 477*, $%%"■ 

 » Cal. Par. 1461-7, p. 35S. 

 * 'Par!. R. vi, 33,,. ■ 

 a * Chan, Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ]x 

 13 Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 1 . 

 "Recov. R. Trin. 1559, ret, 

 M Feet of F. Herts. East. 2< I 



