A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



lord, received an intimation through Cromwell in 

 1531 that (he ting wished to have the manor to 

 annex it to the honour of Hunsdon. 31 Negotiations 

 were begun, but the transaction was not completed 

 when Lord Scrope died in December 1533. The 

 exchange was effected by his sou John eighth Lord 

 Scrope in March 1533-4- 96 An extent of the manor 

 of about this date, probably when it came into the 

 king's hands, describes a park nearly z miles in cir- 

 cumference, well wooded, with game, deer and coneys, 

 and a lodge on one side for the keeper, a moated 

 house within the park, then somewhat fallen into 

 decay, and a stable in good repair, with room for 

 twenty horses. 86 



In 1534 Henry VIII granted the manor to his 

 queen Anne Boleyn. 97 The Saw bridge worth mills, 

 which had been leased by Henry Lord Scrope 

 10 Robert Noddes, were in 1544 leased to Oliver 

 Rigbye of Waltham Holy Cross. 96 In 1547 

 Edward VI granted (he manor with Sawbridgcworth 

 Mill and Pishoo Park to Sir Thomas Cawarden, 

 Gentleman of the Privy Chamber,'* who a few months 

 later alienated it to Sir Wjmund Carew of Bleching- 

 ley. 1 " Thomas son of the latter conveyed it in 1555 

 to Thomas Mildmay, 1 from whom it descended to his 

 second son Walter Mildmay, 3 who was holding in 

 I576. a Rather later (about 1598) the manor was 

 seized into the hands of the queen in -itisfaclion of a 

 sum of Iz^iz for which Sir Wimund Carew had 

 been in debt to the Crown,* and was leased to 



Mild: 



1606-7, when the debt w 

 Sir Thomas Mildmay, his st 

 and in 1611 conveyed the 1 

 and other appurtenances, ti 

 also acquired Sayesbury 



still 



fhe 



died in February 

 unliquidated, but 

 holding in 1610,* 

 with the two mills 

 el Cranncld,' who 

 it of the descent of 



sated under Si. ''bury (q.i 

 After the death of George Lord Hewett ii 

 the capital messuage of Pisho- 

 bury was limited to his si.ter 

 Lady Arabella Wiseman for a 

 thousand years.* She sold it, 

 according to Clmterbuck, to 

 William Gardiner,^ 1 from 

 whom it came to Edward 

 Gardiner and then descended 

 with Shingehall and Matham. 

 (q.v.) to Rowland Alston. He 

 sold it in 1847 to Francis Ede, 

 after whose death in 1849 it 

 was acquired by Mr. B. B. 

 Colvin of Waltham, and his 

 executors conseyed it in 186; 

 to Andrew Caldecott. It was 



Buxton, who sold it later to Col. F. Cnarrington, 

 C.M.G., the present owner and occupier. 10 



The house, which lies within Pishobury Pari 

 immediately to the south of the town, is said to have 

 been built in 158; by Sir Walter Mildmay. Chauncy 

 describes it as having zo acres of ground on the east 

 side then used as a paddock for deer, a bowling green 

 in front raised 5 ft. high and inclosed with a brick 

 wall, and two avenues about 4 furlongs in length from 

 the house to the road. 11 Two of the avenues were 

 removed and the third destroyed by Jercmiih Mills 

 under the advice of 'Capability Brown,' who 

 superintended the making of an ornamental lake. 11 

 The house was destroyed by fire and practically 

 rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1782, who utilized some 

 1 square brick building of 

 nbattled parapet, and a central 

 oofed in. In the entrance 

 aak panelling. The dining 

 s a carved stone fireplace 

 ring the Stuart royal arms 

 is a carved oak overmantel 

 In the servants' hall are a 

 id panelling. The stables and 

 barnson the south of the house date from about 1600. 

 The manor of TEDNAMBURT, TEDENHJM- 

 BVRr, or TEDENHOEBURV (Tydcnham, 13 xiv 

 cent. ; Tydenhoubery, Tuddenholiurye, xvi cent. ; 

 Tuddinghoebury, xvii cent.}, which lies on the 

 north-east of the parish, was 

 formed by 6 librates of land 

 given to the monastery of 

 Bury St. Edmunds (of which 

 the name seems to be a cor- 

 ruption) by Warin Fitz Gcrold 

 (see under Pishobury) in the 

 first half of the 1 2th century. 1 * 

 In the reign of Edward I the 

 Abbot of St. Edmund's claimed 

 yallows, view of frankpledge, 

 and assize of bread and ale 





>rth : 



the liberties conferred c 



abbey by Canute. 16 These •"**»** nltiriwiu. 



were allowed him. The manor 



remained with St. Edmund's until the Dissolution, 



when the farm was worth /11 io f . lfl 



In 1544 the manor was granted to Sir Henry 

 Parker, Lord Morley, together with woods of 9 J acres 

 called Sperthes Grove, Walters Grove and Patmore's 

 Grove. 17 Lord Morley was succeeded in I 555 by his 

 grandson Henry, who died seised in 1577, 18 when it 

 descended to his son Edward Lord Morley, and at his 

 death in 1618 to his son William Lord Morley and 



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