BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



a curious little side 

 nning for about z ft. 



other is a little larger and 

 cupboard or arm, 12 in. wide, runnin 

 behind the brickwork. 



The west end of the barn seems 

 return building to 

 the south, as the — 

 existing buttress has 

 a partly built up 

 narrow light in it, 

 and has evidently 

 been formed from 

 the remains of a 

 wall. Marks on the 

 south wall of the 

 barn show this re- 

 turned building to 

 have been 30 ft. 

 wide. The bam is 

 probably not earlier 

 than the first half of 

 the 17th century, 

 though the burned- 

 brick diapers in it 

 might suggest an 

 earlier date. 



The house and 

 bam stand within a 

 moated inclosure. A 

 portion of the moat 

 on the east side of 

 the house is still filled 



with water, and is about 25 ft. wide. In length it is 

 about 245 ft., and it has a return westwards at its 

 north end. There are indications in the ground 

 that the moat extended to some 335 ft. in length on 

 the north side, then turned southward past the west 

 end of the barn. The west side seems not tD run 

 parallel with the east side, and this probably accounts 

 for the skew end to the barn, which is parallel to 

 the sinking in the ground indicating the position of 

 the moat. 



HAMELLS seems to have been part of the 

 manor of Milkley in Standon which extended into 

 Braughing, and does not appear as a separate estate 



■ Braughing Upp Hall 



Pltsn of Old Barn 



BRAUGHING 



He served as eusttt rotuhrum for the county of 



Hertford for thirty years. He died in 1613 and 



was buried at Braughing. 33 His son Simeon Brograve, 



have had a who succeeded him, obtained a grant of free warren 



Upp Hall, Braughing ; Old Barn from the South- 



for his several fisheries within his Hertfordshire lands in 

 1617. 33 His brother John Brograve rebuilt the house 

 at Hamells for him at his own expense.* 1 Simeon 

 Brograve, who was also attorney for the duchy of 

 Lancaster and eustos rotuhrum for thirty-three years, 

 died in January 1638-9 seised of the manors of 

 Hamells alias Milkley Hamells and Cockhamsted. 36 

 He was succeeded by his son John, who was one of 

 Cromwell's commissioners for the county of Hert- 

 ford. 353 Thomas Brograve, son of John, was created 

 a baronet in Maroh 1662-3. He was Sheriff of 

 Hertfordshire from 1664 to 1665 and died in 1670 

 and was buried at Braughing. John his eldest son 



until a house was built there by John Brograve, 

 was attorney for the duchy of Lancaster 

 Elizabeth and James I and was knighted by J<- 



L who died unmarried in 1 69 1 and was also buried at 

 under Braughing, and Thomas brother of John died without 

 nes I. issue and was buried there in 1707. 36 



* M.I. at Braughing. 



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