A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



William Stanley, kt., whose wavering support to the 

 throne he was most anxious to secure." Stanley 

 afterwards maintained that Richard's substantial grants 

 to him had been in exchange for * other manors, lands 

 and tenements of great value,' but the truth of this 

 statement remains unproved. His execution in 1495 

 for complicity in the rising of Perkiti Warbeck caused 

 Hunsdon once more to revert to the Crown. In 

 1503 Henry VII made a life grant of this manor to his 

 mother Margaret Countess of Richmond and her 

 husband the Earl of Derby, elder brother of the late 

 Sir William Stanley. 62 The earl died in 1504 and 

 the countess in ijoo,. 83 On I February 1 5 14 

 Hunsdon was granted to Thomas Howard, Earl of 

 Surrey and Treasurer of England, on his creation 

 as Duke of Norfolk. 61 The duke died in 1524. 

 His son and heir Thomas Duke of Norfolk con- 

 veyed the manor in 1526 to Sir Henry Wyatt 

 and others 66 evidently tn trust for the king, who in 

 1 5 29 granted it to Henry Norris, reserving the 

 house and parks. 68 In 1 5 3 1 the grant to Thomas Duke 

 of Norfolk was recited and the manor was confirmed 

 to the duke, his successor, 07 but this was probably 

 oniya formality, as in 1531 the manor was still in the 

 king's hands. 08 On 15 January 1531 an Act of 

 Parliament was passed whereby the manor became the 



honour of Hunsdon, to which v 



mds in He; 



fordshir. 

 grantc 



In Ms 



Queen E 

 lands, &< 



e attached. 60 In thesameycar Henry VIII 

 n annuity out of this honour to Anne Bolcyn 

 reation as Marchioness of Pembroke, 70 but 

 r remained under the control of his bailiffs or 

 '1 In 15+8 Edward VI granted Hunsdon 

 the Princess Mary 'for her life, or until she 

 ■ise provided for,' this being in accordance 



father Henry VIII.' 

 •n, annexed the bonou 



will of their h 



a she became cji 



the duchy of Lancaster.' 3 



ch 1558-9 (six months after her accession) 

 lizabeth granted this manor, with house and 

 :., to her cousin Sir Henry Carey, kt., and 

 male, 7 ' she having already {January 1558-9) 

 iim Lord Hunsdon. Carey died in I 596,™ 

 succee.lcd by his son George Lord Hunsdon, 

 I in 1603, leaving as heir his brother John, 

 r fifty years of age. 79 A neighbour wrote in 



1616: 'Seven men are to be hanged for a robbery 

 of £700 in the house of Lord Hunsdon, who is 

 building a monument in Hunsdon Church for him- 

 self and family.' 77 John, third 

 Lord Hunsdon, died in i 6 1 7,™ 



of Dover in 1628. He was 

 Speaker of the House of Lords 

 in 1641, and played a promi- 

 nent part on the Royalist side 

 in the Great Civil War. On 

 the triumph of the Parliamen- 

 tarians, Carey was ; 

 a 'delinquent, or n 

 or cavalier,' and his estates 



sequestrated. 80 He must have compounded for them 

 before the sale of Hunsdon by him in March 1653 to 

 William Willoughby,afterwards sixth Lord Willoughby 

 of Parham. 81 Lord Willoughby made a settlement 

 of Hunsdon Manor on himself and his wife Anne in 

 1666. 83 Tn 1671 he sold Hunsdon Manor to Matthew 

 Bluet, 83 who was succeeded by his son and heir of the 

 same name. 84 He was still holding in I7i8, 8i and in 

 1743 a Matthew Bluck suffered a recovery of this 

 manor. 8G Clutterbuck, writing in 1823, says (hat 

 this was the occasion of the 'purchase of Hunsdon 

 by Mr. Josias Nicolson of Clapham. 87 The tatter's 

 daughter and heir Christian married Felix Calvert of 

 Furneux Pelham, their son Nicolson Calvert inherit- 

 ing Hunsdon at his mother's death in 1759. He 

 suffered a recovery of this manor in 1 789,* 18 and died 

 in 1793. His nephew and heir Nicolson Calvert 

 made a settlement of Hunsdon in 1806, M0 and was 

 holding in 1823.* In 1858 Edmund Calvert, son 

 of Nicolson, sold the manor to James S. Walker, who 

 in turn sold it to Charles Phelips of Briggens Park in 

 :r's death in 1870 Hunsdon 

 son Charles James Phelips. 

 his nephew Mr. Gerald F. 

 1907 transferred the manor 

 to the Hon. H. C. Gibbs. 

 manor date from 1675. 



this parish." 1 On the latt 

 Manor descended to his 

 He died in 1903, when 

 Phelips succeeded, who ir 

 with the Briggens estate 

 The existing rolls of the 



■ Cat. 7i ? . p.m. Htn. VII, 10+ i 

 ui, jiib. There are Iwo liqui- 

 dated respectively June H *, io d 

 483, in which it is stated that 

 nor of Bengeo was then held of 

 1 Hu.sey •» of hit manor of 

 n'(Chan. Inq. p.ir 



i Hen. VIII 



pt-i 



. }8). Thi. is 

 explained by a conveyance from the Bishop 

 of Durham and other trustees to William 

 Hussey (And. D. [P.R.O.1, A 979), 

 who held for the king (cf." Cal. Pat. 

 . + -l-SS.P-24:). 



41 Close, 18 Hen. VII, no. 28. 



63 A mortgage of the manor by John 

 Lord Berners to Sir Wi;iiam Capel] in 

 1508 (Close, 23 Hen. VII, pt. ii, no. 9), 

 is difficult to e*plaiD. Possibly Berners 

 was a lessee. 



« L. and P. Ha. VIII, i, 4.694. His 

 father had been created Duke of Norfolk 

 in 148;, but the title had been forfeited 



« Feet of F. Herts. Trin, 1 8 Hen. VIII. 



»L. and P. Hen. VIII, it (3), 5336 

 (to). The Duke of Norfolk m at 

 Hunsdon in July 1527, but he was pro- 



1S L. and P. Hen. fill, 

 916. Probably the king came to 

 ne arrangement with the duke, for in 

 38 the manor is mentioned among the 

 ds which he sold to the Icing (ibid. 

 , [»], ■2.5). Norn, was probably 

 npensated with lauds elsewhere. 



™ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Set. z), ccd«iv, 95. 

 He was buried at Hunsdon 7 April 1617 

 and his wife on 7 April 1627 (notes from 

 par. rcg. supplied by the Hon. H. C. 

 Gibbs). 



M7o (3) i 



i S- "499 



71 Ibid- ilii (1), p. 582; xv, p. 539. 



" Pat. zEdw. VI, pt. v, m. 32. 



'* Orig. R, 4 & ; PhiL and Mary, 

 pt. ii, rot. 4, 



74 Pat. 1 Eliz. pt. in ■, Duchy of Lane. 

 Misc. Bks. xiiii, 240. Sir Henry's 

 mother Mary was the sister of Anne 



« Chan. Ioq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccilvi, 



» Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), eclxxxvi, 



170 ; Memo. R. Mich, 2 Jas. I, roL So. 



" Cal. S. P. Dom. 1611-18, p. J78. 



328 



oChas 



:, P t. i 



vi, 39). 



Mich. 36 

 644 (Hht. 



<*> Eich. 

 Chas. II, no. ; 

 tainly still at 

 MS$. Com. Rt 



81 G.E.C. P. 



81 Feet of F. Herts. Div. Co. Hil. iS 

 & 19 Chas. II. 



» Feet of F. Herts. East. 23 Chi*. II. 



w Recov. R. East. [3 Anne, rot. 158; 

 Exch. Dep. Mich. 36 Chas. II, no. 22. 



M Salmon, Hat. and Antio. of Hera. 25 %. 



66 Recov. R. Mich. 17 Geo. II, rot, 379. 



67 Clutterbuck, Hat. and Antiq. of Hern. 

 iii, 182. 



w Recov. R. Hit 29 Geo. Ill, rot. ij. 

 69 Feet of F. Hens. Trin. 46 Geo. III. 

 *> Clutterbuck, loe. tit, 

 »' Cussans, Hut, of Htrn. Braugking 



te of the second sale, 

 is patron of Hunsdon li 



„..- the 

 r. Phelips 

 ..859. 



