BRAUGHING HUNDRED saweridgeworth 



Morley. Argent a lion 

 passant gales lufa-tti: .'■:;■» 

 bars sable with three 

 haru' heads cabosfted 

 sable in lie chief and 



i6z2 w and his son Henry Lord Morley in 165 5 - 

 Thomas Lord Morley, son of the latter, conveyed it 

 in 1657 to Robert Brudenell 

 and others, 21 apparently trus- 

 tees for Thomas Lindsey,- a 

 whom Chauncy gives as the 

 purchaser. Lindsey had two 

 daughters, Grace, who married 

 Richard How, and Elizabeth, 

 who married George Hock- 

 nell. 23 The manor was divided 

 between them, but seems 

 eventually to have become the 

 property of the heirs of Grace. 

 Her son Richard How died 

 without issue 24 ; his brother 

 John was holding the manor 

 in 1 738, 2a in which year he 



conveyed it to William ™"w"»«"'" 

 Taylor. 26 William Taylor How 



was in possession in 1756. 27 He died before 1779, 

 leaving five sisters and co-heirs, Jane, Catherine and 

 Anne Taylor, Elizabeth wife of James Stillingfieet 

 and Sarah wife of Savile Read. 28 According to 

 Clutter buck it was assigned to Sarah and Savile 

 Read, but was devised by the latter, who survived, to 

 the three unmarried sisters, and was sold by Anne, 

 who outlived the others, to Mrs. Rose MQIes in 1 799. 29 

 Tednambury descended with Shingehall and Mat- 

 hams (q.v.) to Rowland Alston, who sold in 1 84a to 

 William Bigg of London. After his death in 1868 

 it was conveyed by trustees to Augustus Smith of 

 Upper Norwood. 30 In 1867 John Hodgson of 

 Gilston bought it. 31 It now belongs to Sir Walter 

 Gilbey. 



The manor of GROPES comprised the land given 

 by Henry Fitz Gerold (see Pishobury) to the abbey 

 of St. Mary, Reading, prob- 

 ably in the second half of the 

 izth century. 32 In 1287 the 

 Abbot of Reading claimed 

 assize of bread and ale, infan- 

 gentheof, utfangentheof, 

 chattels of fugitives and felons, 

 and waif in his lands at Saw- 

 bridgeworth as among the 

 liberties granted him by 

 Henry I. 33 After the Disso- 

 lution the manor was granted Reading Abiiy. 

 in 1 ; 44 to William Gooding AaUT * ***«%< »'■ 

 or Goodwin s * of Writtle, co. 



Essex. He sold it in 1549 to Robert Gooday. 3S It 

 descended to Thomas Gooday, who conveyed it in 

 1 57 1 to Robert Hirst. 36 The latter died seised in 



2), t 



1548, his heir being his nephew Henry, son of his 

 brother John. 37 Henry Hirst sold in 1594 to John 

 Duke, 38 who held it until his death in i6o6. 3B In 

 the inquisition taken at his death the manor is called 

 Sawbridgeworth alias Groves, the first time that the 

 latter name appears. Robert Duke, his son, is said 

 by Chauncy to have granted the manor in 1628 to 

 his own son John Duke, rector of High Roding, co. 

 Essex, who married Joyce Bcnnet.' 10 Robert son of 

 John sold the manor in 1665 to his mother Joyce, 41 

 who in 1671 conveyed it to Thomas Rogers. 42 

 John Rogers, son of Thomas, 43 sold it in 1693 to 

 Edmund Godwin 44 of East wick, and from the latter 

 it was bought in 170Z by Anne Mary Godfrey, 

 widow. 16 It descended to Peter Godfrey, and a 

 Godfrey was holding when Salmon wrote (1728). 

 In 174Z it was in the possession of Eliott Taylor, 40 

 of whose heirs it was bought by Thomas Nathaniel 

 Williams, the owner in 1 8 2 3 . 47 It was sold, accord- 

 ing to Cussans' descent, to Jones De'Ath by Willia 

 trustees in 1 844.^ Later il 



red from the 



. Barnard, who sold it to 



. The house called 



1 park a little to the 



De'Ath family by Mr. E. 

 Mr. Silva, the present owi 

 Grove Lodge lies within a si 

 north-west of High Wych. 



The manors of SHINGEHALL alias SHINGLE- 

 HALL alias SHINGErsmd MATHAMS seem to have 

 been originally two separate properties which became 

 amalgamated in the hands of the Matham family, from 

 whom the second manor took its name. They were 

 evidently formed by subinfeudation from the Mande- 

 ville manor, and were held of the honour of Mande- 

 ville. This descended not to the Says (as did the manor 

 of Sayesbury) but to the Earls of Essex, descendants of 

 William de Say, eldest son of Beatrice de Say, whose 

 daughter Beatrice married Geoffrey Fitz Piers, created 

 Earl of Essex in 1199, their son Geoffrey taking the 

 name of Mandeville. 49 Through Maud, sister and 

 heir of William de Mandeville, it passed to the 

 Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, and eventually came to 

 the Crown by the marriage of Mary de Bohun with 

 Henry IV and was annexed to the duchy of Lan- 

 caster. 60 The manor of Mathams was the holding 

 of a family of that name who had lands in Saw- 

 bridgeworth at an early date. A John de Matham 

 appears as a witness to deeds at the end of the 13th 

 century. 61 He had a daughter Christina 63 and a 

 wife Isabel. John and Isabel were apparently both 

 dead by I 304, when a conveyance took place of a 

 piece of land charged with an annual rent of %d. 

 for celebrating two anniversaries for their souls. 63 

 Geoffrey de Matham 64 was holding lands in Saw- 

 bridgeworth in 1 268. 56 He claimed view of frank- 

 pledge in 1278, 56 as held by his ancestors since the 



to St. Edmund's " Clutterbucfe, op. cit. iii, 210 



"Cubans, Hist, of Herts. Br«. £ hin K 



■a.), no. 92 ; 5 Ric. II, 



tioned in the charter of the Empress Mi 

 to Geoffrey de Mandeville (1141). 



" Ibid. +733. "Ibid. 4749. 



J ' He is witness to the abuve-meciiiut 



* 1'U:. de Que ffarr. 2 



