A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



time of the Conquest. About 1301 he acquired the 

 lands called ' La Synglcdehall ' from Geoffrey de ia 

 Mare, 17 and henceforth the two manors descend 

 together. He seems to have been succeeded bv 

 Sampson Matham. M In 1365 Sampson and his wife 

 Margaret granted al] their lands in Saw bridge worth 

 to John Blode, a London fishmonger, to hold during 

 their lives. ' & Hamelin son of Sampson succeeded to 

 the property in Sawbridgeworth, and died seised of 

 a messuage and 24.0 acres of land, 10 acres of 

 meadow, 7 acres of pasture, 4 acres of wood and 

 1 6r. 4./. rent there in 1382. w He left two daughters, 

 Elizabeth and Margaret, 61 who as Elizabeth wife of 

 John Thorpe and Margaret wife of John Michel!, a 

 fishmonger of London, conveyed the manor called 

 -Mathams and lands in Sawbridgeworth 

 Leventhorpe by fine of Hilary, 1413— 14. e - 

 John Leventhorpe was member for the 

 1413 and 1422. 63 He died in 1433 and V 

 at Sawbridgeworth. 64 His son 

 John Leventhorpe, also mem- 

 ber for Hertfordshire in 

 1 4-67, as had a grant of free 

 warren in Sawbridgeworth, 

 Then-ley and Stortford in 

 1 + 39.^^ In 1447 he obtained 

 a grant of a market on Wed- 

 nesdays and two fairs on the 

 eve, day and morrow of the 

 feasts of St. Denis and St. 



John 



s buried 



the Ma 



and 



Shingkh .li. 



licence to inclose 401 



land, 40 acres of me: 



80 acres of wood in Saw- gain and aUt, 



bridgeworth and Thorley fur 



a park. 67 On his death in 1484 he was succeeded 



by his son Thomas, aged sixty, 68 who held the manor 



until his death in I493- 6S John, his son, who was 



Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1 5C9, 70 died in 151 I, 



when Shingehall and Mathams descended to his son 



the grant of market, fair, and park made in 1447.™ 

 He died in 1527, 71 his son Edward in Ijjl," and 

 his grandson Edward in 1 566. ;s John son of Edward 

 was knighted at Theobalds in 1603, was Sheriff of 

 Hertfordshire in I 593-4 and 1 607-8, and was created 

 a baronet in 1622. He married Joan daughter of 

 Sir John fire-grave of Hamdls in Braughing and died 

 at Sawbridgeworth in 1 625.^ Thomas, his second 

 but eldest survii ing son, succeeded. He died in 1 636 

 and was buried at Sawbridgeworth. 7 ' His son John, 

 a minor at his father's death, 78 died of smallpox in 



1649, when the property passed to his brother Sir 

 Thomas Leventhorpe, who had no male issue. Sir 

 Charles Leventhorpe, his uncle and male heir, rector 

 of White Roding, co. Essex, succeeded to the title iu 

 1679, but the manors passed to Mary daughter of 

 Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, who married John Coke 

 of Melbourne, co. Derby. 78 



Thomas Coke, son of John and Mary, sold Shinge- 

 hall and Mathams to Ralph Freeman, D.D., M who 

 conveyed them in 1755 to Edward Gardiner. 81 His 

 daughter and heir Rose married Jeremiah Milles, and 

 they were holding the manor in 1781. aa Jeremiah 

 died in 1797, whilst Rose Millcs suffered a recovery 

 of the manor in 1803, 83 and survived until 1835.** 

 Rose, her daughter and co-heir, married Rowland 

 Alston," 5 who acquired Sayesbury and Pishobury, 



after which th 

 Sayesbury). 



There is a homestead m 

 Trim's Green. The house 

 Mr. F. J. Lukies. The na 

 Field on this estate (m 

 ancient park and 



:nd together (see under 



t at Shingehall close to 

 now a farm occupied by 

 ames Park Field and Mill 

 both arable) point to the 

 On the north-west a moat 

 of the old manor-house of Mathams. 

 The manor of HYDE HJLL, which occupies the 

 tongue of land on the east of the Stort, is an 

 interesting example of an estate which has remained 

 in the same family from the date of its first appear- 

 ance until the present day. It appears first under the 

 name of The Hyde and was held of the Earls of Essex, 

 chief lords of the fee. fi7 Early 

 in the 1 3th century it was in 

 the tenure of the focelyn 

 family. A Ralph Jocelyn held 

 land in Easton, co. No'rthants, 

 in the reign of John, but 

 there is no evidence of his 

 holding The Hyde.* 9 His son 

 John, however, held it rather 

 later. b0 Thomas son of John 

 succeeded his father about the 

 middle of the 1 3th century. w 

 His son Thomas married Joan 

 daughter of John le Blunt 01 

 (for this family see manor of 

 Blunts). After the death of 



the younger Thomas 02 the rent from The Hyde was 

 granted by the Earl of Essex to Sir Walter de Essex, 

 who sold it in 1284 to Adam de Stratton to hold 

 during the minority of the heir Thomas son of 

 Thomas. 03 The next year Joan de la Lee, widow 

 of Thomas, released her right of dower to Adam de 



■h four iatvh' 



-' Cott. Chart, .vii, 33. 



M See Cat. Clan, 1337-9, 

 1354-60, p. 303 ; Chan. 

 3* Ed". Ill (2nd ocs.), no. 02. 

 petty in Sawbridgeworth is here 

 manor of Eststede. 



J »£W. Ch»,, J C i S,p. 70. 



,;1 IbId. ; C:,l. P.7-. i;Sl- 

 61 Feet of F. Herts. Hit. 

 *> r.CH. Hem. family, 

 « There is a brass to him 

 05 y.CAI. Hera. FanL'Us, 

 66 Chart. R. 1-20 Hen. Y 

 CT ILid. 25 & 26 Hen. VI 



• Ibid. (Ser. z), «iii, ,27. 



70 y.C.H. Hen. Famili,,, 282. 



; * Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvii, II 



73 L. and P. Htn. VIU, ii (2), 3730. 



73 E*ch. In,, p.m. (Ser. 2), file ji 



'* Chan. 



..(Ser.*),, 



76 G.E.C. Compltte Baronetage, 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccctxv 



» Chan. Inn. p.m. (Set. 2), 



M M.I. 



85 Cus.ans, loe. cit. 



88 Apportionment of rent-char 

 (Bd. of Agric). 



w And. D. (P.R.O.), A cm 



** Had. MS. 4944 (pedigreet ; 

 of Essex families), fol. S ii. 



ins, Hut. of Hera, Braughing 



of F. Herts. Ttin. % 7 & 2S 

 Trin, 28 Geo. II (K.S.B.). 



34° 



., and Hart. Sac. Publ. xiii (1), 22 



t thi« Thomai. 



* Anct D. (P.R.O.), A Jii 



