A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



In 1556 a lease of the manor for forty years was 

 made to trustees for the benefit of Anne Lady 

 Bourchier, whom Lord Parr had repudiated as his 

 wife in 1 54 3." During her tenure a suit in Chancery 

 was brought against her by copyholders of the manor 

 whom she had turned out of their tenements on the 

 plea that the lands had been granted by her father, 

 who held the manor for life only. Judgement was 

 given for the plaintiffs in 1 565." Anne died in 157 1 

 without legitimate issue and the manor escheated to 

 the Crown. In January 1572-3 the farm called Sayes 

 Park was leased to William Lord Burghley, 45 and in 

 1609 a lease was made to Robert Earl of Salisbury 

 (son of Lord Burghley) for the lives of himself, his 

 son William Cecil and his daughter Frances Cecil." 

 The earl died in i6iz and his son in 1668. In 

 February 1 61 3— 1 4. the manor and park were granted 

 in fee to Lionel Cranfield, 47 a son of Thomas Cranfield 

 of London. He rilled successively the offices of 

 Master of the Requests, Keeper of the Great Ward- 

 robe and Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, 

 and in i6zi was made Lord Cranfield of Cranfield, 

 co. Bedford. From i6zi to 1624 he was Lord 

 High Treasurer and was created Earl of Middlesex in 

 i6zz. In May 1624, however, he was convicted of 

 mismanagement and sentenced to lose all his offices 

 and fined jf^o.ooo. 48 He seems to have surrendered 

 the manor to the ting, who in [632 granted it with 

 Saycs Park, the manor of Pi,hobury (except the 

 park), Sawbridgeworth Mills and the rents of land 

 called Alexander, late of Edward Leventhorpe, and 

 of the manor of Glasmonhall, co. Cambridge (viz. 

 I lb. of pepper and I lb. of corn from the first and 

 I red sparrow-hawk from the second) to Arthur Brett 

 and Nicholas Harman.« They 

 the earl in conveying the manors 

 :d a baronet in 1 660, who rt 



1 1635 joined u 



rsidcdatP^hubury.' 1 

 and was succeeded by his son 

 of Pishobury, who for his services 



lade Baron of Jamestown, co. 



scount Hewctt of Gowran, co. 



9. He died without issue in 



He died in 166: 



Sir George Hewet 



in Ireland was 



Longford, and V 



Kilkenny, in 16: 



1689. s * His heirs were his four surviving sisters, 



Elizabeth wife of Sir Richard Anderson, ban., Arabella 



wife of Sir William Wiseman, Margaret wife of Sir 



Edward Farmer, and Mary wife of Sir Charles Crofts 



Read. 63 



In the same year Sir Charles and Lady Read settled 

 their quarter of the manor of Sayesbury, of the farm 

 called Sayes Park, closes called Church Close and 

 Sayes Garden, a coppice called Sayes Coppice, the 

 two water-mills called Sawbridgeworth Mills, one 3 

 corn-mill and the other a fulling-mill, and the manor 



of Pishobury on their three youngest children, Jane 

 wife of Anthony Wroth, Bridget afterwards wife of 

 Thomas Tarver, and Thomas. 64 In the division of 

 Lord Hewett's lands made in 1 691 the whole of the 

 Sawbridgeworth estate seems to have been settled on 

 Lady Read ifi and to have descended to her three 

 younger children. Jane and Anthony Wroth con- 

 veyed their third about 1700 to William Betti, 6 * and 

 Bridget and Thomas Tarver their share some yean 

 later to Thomas Betts. 67 In 1709 Thomas and 

 Bridget conveyed a sixth (their share after the death 

 of Bridget's brother Thomas) to Robert Colman.* 8 

 Each of the first two of these conveyances, and 

 possibly the third, was in trust for Ralph Freeman." 

 Whether he acquired the remaining sixth of the 

 lands is uncertain, as in 1709 Anthony Wroth settled 

 it to his own use. 60 



The manors descended with HamelU in Braughing 

 (q.v.) to Philip Yorke, third Earl ofHardwicke,* 1 who, 

 according to Clutterbuck, sold them in 1823 to 

 Rowland Alston of Harrold House, co. Beds." In 

 185 1 they were purchased by John Hodgson of 

 Gilston, 63 since which date they have descended 

 with Gilston (q.v.), Mr. A. S. Bowlby being the 

 present lord of the manors. 



of Sayesbury was long ago pulled 

 me lands have been for the mo^t 

 farms.* 4 Sayes Park Farm, Park 

 o the west of Sayes Park Farm, 

 .ih of this and Grass Park to the 



md the 



part divided up inti 



Field a large field 



Corn Park to the sc 



north of it preserve the name of the ancient manorial 



park, and Dovehouse Field of the manorial dovecote. 8 ' 



Some accounts for the manor at the end of the 

 13th century show that there were 8 virgates which 

 paid ox-silver and sheep-silver to the lord (cf. Pisho- 

 bury). The ' gavelerth,' of which each acre paid 64., 

 is also mentioned. 00 Burgage tenure is mentioned 

 in a rental of 1433 of the lands of John Heron 

 (1 5th century), where the rent of assize within the 

 borough of Sawbridgeworlh is said to amount to 

 £4 1)1. (sd. and the rent within the ' patria ' to 

 £5 17/. <)d. e7 A pedigree of the villeins of the 

 manor taken by inquisition apparently in the 13th 

 century fls is printed by Professor VinogradofF. M 



The manor called SAWBRIDGEWORTH down 

 to the end of the 13th century, and after that 

 PISHO or P1SHOBURT (Pcyshoo, Pyssoubery, 

 xiii cent. ; Pyshobury, Spisshou, xiv cent. ; Pisshou, 

 Pyshowe, xv cent. ; Pyssowe, Pisshebury, Pishoo, 

 xvi cent. ; Pishebury, xvii cent.), originated in a 

 grant of 74 librates of land at Sawbridgeworth, 

 which Geoffrey de Mandeville the elder (ob. 1144) 

 made to Warin and Henry Fitz Gerold, to hold by 



" G.E.C. Pttragt, i.v. Northampton! 

 Pat. j & + Phil, and Mary, pt. nii, m. 4.1. 

 He had apparently kept her lands. 



M G.E.C. PitTBg,, s.v. Hewett. " See Cor 



i3 Add. Chart. 44867 ; Feet of F. Div. m. 5. 

 Co. Trin. s Will, and Mary. Arabella m Ibid, 



and Mary wete widowa by the latter date 61 See Re. 



(1693)- 



51 Add. Chart 4.4869; Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. Hil. 1 Will and Mary. 



M See Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 5 

 Will, and Mary ; Chauacy, Hiti. Antii. 



M Feet D f F. Hern. Mich. 12 Will. Ill; 

 Mich. 13 Will. III. 



B Ibid. Div. Co. Trin. 6 Anne ; Recov. 

 R. Mich. 6 Anne, rot. 77. « I 



« Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 8 Anne ; 195. 

 Recov. R. Hil. 8 Anne, rot. 124, «• Ibid, portf. 8, no. 42. 



'33- « Vilttimg, i» Engl. 143. 



336 



Pica 1 D. Enr. Hil. 8 Anne, 



« See Recov. R. Hil. 4 Geo, II, rot. 

 254; Trio. 16 Geo. II, rot. 26 ; Com. 

 Pleas D. Enr. Eait. 39 Geo. Ill, m. 42. 



61 Clutterbuck, Hiit. and Antiq. o/Hira. 

 iii, 196. 



63 Cuiiana, Hi,,. 0/ Him. BteurUtv 

 Hund. 78. J ' ' 



61 See apportionment of rent-chir(e, 

 1838. <b Ibid. 



'<- Mini. Accti. b :,-. 868, no. 6. 



'" Ibid. do. 9 , Rental! ind Sun. It. 



