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house and the river. All the old work is built of 

 thin bricks and the roofs are tiled. The modern por- 

 tions of the building were erected about 1872. In 

 the centre of the west front is the wide entrance 

 gateway, now inclosed and forming an entrance hall, 

 with four-centred arches covered with cement ; the 

 original semi- octagonal flanking turrets have been 

 demolished nearly to the ground level, one of them 

 having been formed into a bay window ; the turrets 

 next the courtyard still contain the oak newel stairs 

 to the upper floor, but they have been shortened and 

 re-roofed. A turret at the north-west angle of the 

 building has also been lowered and re-roofed. On 

 the south side of the entrance two of the original gables 

 remain ; they have moulded brick copings with 

 square pinnacles set diagonally ; these appear to be old, 

 but according to an old view the gables had no 

 copings. The upper parts of the chimneys have been 



STANDON 



apparently granted by Richard Earl 01 Gloucester 

 {ob 1262) to a younger son Thomas deClare. His 

 son' Gilbert de Clare died in 1307 seised of a manor 

 in Standon held of Gilbert Earl of Gloucester by suit 

 at the earl's manor of Standon." He was succeeded 

 by his brother Richard de Clare. Under the Clares 

 this manor was held by Hugh Plessy, who died in 

 1301, leaving a son and heir Hugh, then aged five." 

 This Hugh probably died soon after, for before 1314 

 the manor had been resumed by Richard de Clare, 

 and was in that year granted by him to Master 

 Richard de Clare, clerk, for life. 18 Richard, the 

 grantor, left a son Thomas, who died without issue in 

 1320-1, and was succeeded in the manor by his 

 aunt Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Clare), who 

 married Bartholomew de Badlesmere.' 9 They held 

 Che manor jointly until the death of Bartholomew in 

 ia.22. 20 It descended to their son Giles de Badles- 



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Standon Lordship : West Frc 



rebuilt ; they have square shafts set diagonally. All 

 the window frames are modern. One of the rooms 

 contains some 17th-century oak panelling, and in 

 others are old stone fireplaces. 



The house is now occupied by Mr. Herbert le 

 Blanc Smith. 



The manor of PLASHES (Plessetes, Plesiz, Plessy, 

 Plesshes, xiv cent. ; Pleshez, xv cent.) was composed 

 of lands within the manor of Standon, which were 



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I Edw. II, 1 



.45. 



mere, who died without issue in 1338, when his 

 lands were divided between his four sisters and co- 

 heirs. 21 Plashes was" assigned to his sister Elizabeth, 

 wife of William de Bohun Earl of Northampton. 2 * 

 She with her husband in 1352 granted the reversion 

 of the manor (held for life by Elizabeth widow of 

 Giles de Badlesmere and then wife of Guy de Brien) 

 to Master Richard Plessy, presumably heir of the 

 above-mentioned Hugh. 83 In 1354 Guy and 



Previously a moiety of a third of the 

 manor had come into the possession of 

 Walter de Furneaux and his wife Alice. 

 See under Rennesley, p. jfio, note 35. 



17 Chan. Incj. p.m. 29 Edw. I, no. 54. 

 Hugh Plessy subinfeudated certain lands 

 called Le Hethe in Standon consisting of 

 a capital messuage, 160 acres of arable 

 land, 8 acres of meadow, 5 acres of 



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of assize to Edmund Mauley, n 

 seised in 1314, when he was succeeded 

 by his kinsman Peter Mauley (Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 141 j Ahbrtv. 

 Rat. Orig. [Rec. Com.], i, aio). 



18 Duchy of Lane. Deeds, L izSi. 

 Richard de Clare is called in the charter 

 'lordofTothomon.' 



19 G.E.C. Pierage. 



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w. Ill, no. S4fl. 



!a A rent was payable from the m; 

 to another siater Maud, wife oflohi 

 Veer Earl of Oxford [Cal. Close, 1361 

 p. 18 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. 

 no. 84). 



13 Feet of F. Herts. 16 Edw. 

 no. 4.14.. 



