BRAUGHING HUNDRED sawbridgeworth 



Stratton. 5 * A rental of the manor exists for this 

 date. There was a house (curia) with garden and 

 courtyard, 140 acres of arable land in the fields 

 ■ called Langeland, La Doune, Wrechewellefeld, Halle- 

 feld, Hydewode, Suthfeld, and Wodeleye ; nine free 

 tenants, of whom four paid a yearly rent, other four 

 paid a rent and owed suit of court, and one paid a rent 

 and came to view of frankpledge on St. Andrew's Day 

 and owed two capons at Christmas ; six ' molmen ' 

 who paid a rent and owed suit of court, two of them 

 being tallaged with the customary tenants ; and four 

 customary tenants who paid a rent and owed two 

 works a week from Michaelmas to the Gules of 

 August (forty-one weeks), and five works in the 

 summer for mowing z acres of meadow, and sixteen 

 works from the Gules of August to Michaelmas for 

 cutting 4 acres of corn and 2 acres of oats, and also 

 paid eight eggs and owed tallage and redemption of 

 their blood and suit of court. 96 



Thomas Jocelyn (the third of the name) was suc- 

 ceeded by Ralph Jocelyn, 56 who died before 1323. " 7 

 His widow Matilda was holding the manor with her 

 second husband Roger de Berners in 133 i. ge Geoffrey 

 son and heir of Ralph was living in I $60.™ His son 

 Ralph is mentioned as holding half a knight's fee in 

 Hyde in 1373. 100 He died about 1383 and was 

 succeeded by his son Thomas. 1 Geoffrey, called by 

 Clutterbuck son of Thomas, was holding as late as 

 1403. E Thomas, his son apparently, had succeeded 

 him before 1407, when he had a grant of the manor 

 from Robert de la Rokell, 3 but he seems to have 

 granted it in the same year to Geoffrey his brother 

 and heir. 4 Geoffrey Jocelyn by will of 1424 left the 

 manor to his son Thomas subject to his wife Joan's 

 dower. 5 This Thomas inherited and was succeeded 

 by his son George, who in 1457-8 granted it (for 

 life apparently) to his uncle Ralph Jocelyn of London, 8 

 twice mayor of that city, who died in 1478. 7 In 

 1480 George settled the manor on his son Ralph, 

 then about to marry Katherlne daughter of Richard 

 Martin of Faversham. 8 Ralph died in 1 504, George, 

 his son, being aged fourteen. 8 George had no issue, 

 and in 1 5 1 3 conveyed Hyde Hall to his uncle John 

 Jocelyn, 10 to whom Gabriel, his brother and heir, 

 released all right. 11 John died in 1525 and was 

 succeeded by his son Thomas of High Roding, 

 co. Essex, 12 created a Knight of the Bath at the 

 coronation of Edward VI. At his death in 1585 13 

 the manor descended to his son Richard, 14 who died 

 in 1605. 15 Robert his son succeeded him. 16 He 

 was Sheriff" of Hertfordshire in 1645-7. His third 

 but eldest surviving son inherited Hyde Hall at his 

 father's death in 1664, and was created a baronet in 

 1665. He was Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1677-8. 17 

 In 1685 he settled Hyde Hall on his son Strange 

 Jocelyn (by his wife Jane Strange), on tht 



his marriage with Mary daughter of Tristram Conyers 

 of Copped Hall in Epping. 18 He died and was buried 

 at Sawbridgeworth in 1712, when Sir Strange Jocelyn 

 succeeded.' 3 After his death in 1734 the manor 

 descended successively to his son Sir John Jocelyn, 

 barrister-at-law, who died without issue in 1 74 1 , and 

 to the latter's brother Sir Conyers, Sheriff of Hertford- 

 shire 1 745-6, who died in 1778, also leaving no issue. 

 The estates and baronetcy passed to a cousin Robert 

 Jocelyn, son and heir of Robert first Viscount Jocelyn 

 and Lord Newport, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, son of 

 Thomas, fifth son of the first baronet. Robert, who 

 succeeded his father as Viscount Jocelyn in 1 7 5 6, was 

 M.P. for Old Leighlin from 1745 to 1756 and was 

 Auditor-General in 1750. He was created Earl of 

 Roden, co. Tipperary, in 1 771. He died at Dublin 

 in 1797. Robert, his son and heir, was also Auditor- 

 General of the Exchequer. He died in 1820 at 

 Hyde Hall and was succeeded by his son Robert, 

 Auditor-General and M.P. for Louth 1806-7 and 

 1810-20, also custos ntuhrum for the county of 

 Louth. In 1821 he was created Baron Clanbrassil 

 of Hyde Hall. He died at Edinburgh in 1870 and 

 was succeeded by his grandson Robert, fourth Earl of 

 Roden, who died single in 1 880, when his uncle John 

 Strange Jocelyn, fifth earl, inherited the property. 20 

 On his death in 1897 the title passed to his cousin 

 William Henry Jocelyn, sixth earl, and at his death 

 in 1910 to his brother Robert Julian Orde Jocelyn, 

 seventh Earl of Roden. Hyde Hall is now held by 

 Sophia Countess of Roden, widow of the fifth earl, 

 but the house, which stands in a park of 300 acres, is 

 the residence of the Earl of Arran. The old house was 

 in the form of a quadrangle, but about the year 1 806 

 the courtyard was roofed in to form an entrance hall. 31 

 Many new rooms were added and the exterior entirely 

 altered, very little of the old house now remaining, but 

 probably the walls once inclosing the courtyard and 

 parts of the cellars are old. The present front is of 

 a plain classic character and is coated with cement. 



At the Record Office are a series of ministers' 

 accounts for the manor from 12 Edward I to 19 

 Edward I, illustrating its domestic economy in the 

 13th century. 22 



The manor of CHAMBERLAINS alias BUR- 

 STEAD, which was held of the manor of Pishobury, 

 seems to have been formed from two properties, one 

 the holding of a family named Chamberlain and the 

 other of a family named Burstead. The names of 

 Simon le Chamberlain and his wife Isabel, holding 

 land in Sawbridgeworth in 1323, 23 of Simon their 

 son, living in i 3 5 5 , s * of John Chamberlain, living 

 in I354, 2S and of Walter Chamberlain, assessed for 

 the poll tax in 1378, 26 have survived, whilst the 

 name of Thomas Burstead occurs in 1426." The 

 estate seems to be first called a manor in the 16th 



would have n 





Bare. 



-See 



MS. 4944 ; Exch. Inq. p.m. 

 '.95, no. 6. 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 295, no. 6. 



Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 5 Hen. VIII. 



Harl. MS. 4.944. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xliii, zi. 



Harl. MS. 4944. 



Ibid.; FeetofF.Mich.27 &28Eliz. 



Morant, Hht. of Btsix, ii, 466. 



Itid. ; see Add. Chart. 41717. 



341 



>' G.E.C. Comple 

 le Ibid.;FtetofF.Herts.Ea 

 13 G.E.C. Complete Barmtta 

 10 G.E.C. Peerage, fl.v. Rod* 

 " Clutterbuck, op. eft. iii, 



iriginal house is illustrated h 



.p. cit 

 * a Mins. Accts. bdle. 868, r 

 * Add. Chart. 4952. 

 a >C„/. Pat. 1354-8, p. 2.6 

 !i Add. Chart. 477;. 



