BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



In the same year the manor was sold by his widow 

 Margaret (described as mother of John Wrothe, 

 deceased, heir of William) and her son Edward B3 to 

 William and John Leake in trust for Robert Bird of 

 Staple Inn. 64 It descended to his son John Bird, 

 who died in 1732, leaving four co-heirs, the daughters 

 of his brother Robert who predeceased him. Of 

 these Elizabeth Bird conveyed her share in 1 7+0 to 

 her sister Jane Bird, who also acquired the share of 

 her sister Martha, wife of George Jesson. 56 In 1744 

 Jane married David Poole, serjeant-at-law, and a 

 settlement of the three undivided fourth parts was 

 made on David for life, with remainder to Jane and 

 their children. In 1745 David Poole bought the 

 remaining fourth from the assignees of his wife's 

 fourth sister Abigail, wife of Marmaduke Lilley, who 

 died about 1737. 56 The manor then descended 

 with Youngs (q.v.), and now belongs to Mr. C. B. 

 Giles-Puller. 



STANDON 



son James Henry Leigh conveyed the site in 1790 

 to David Barclay, and it thus became reunited with 

 the manor. 60 The manor-house lies near the North 

 Road, a little to the north of High Cross. It is an 

 early 17th-century building, originally L-shaped, 

 with a fragment of moat remaining. It has two 

 stories, and is timber-framed with plastered walls and 

 tiled roof. Two of the original chimney stacks 

 remain. In the kitchen is the large original fireplace. 

 Sutes Wood and Great and Little Southey Woods lie 



little 



> the 



The manor of YOUNGS took its name from a 

 family of Juvene or Young, who held lands in Standon 

 in the 13th and 14th centuries. 61 In 1426 Youngs 

 is called a manor, and was released by John Oke to 

 Henry Barton, William Crowmer and Thomas Hole- 

 well, who held it of the gift of Thomas Farndon. 62 

 In 1472 Nicholas Ellerbek died seised of it, 03 and it 

 descended with Sutes (q.v.) to William Tendring. 



Sutes Ma nor- house, Standon 



The site of Sutes Manor was held separately from 

 the demesne lands in 1692 by Thomas Nason. 67 

 His son Thomas sold it about 1704 to William 

 Norcliffe, 68 who in 1719 conveyed it to Franklin 

 Miller and Arnold Warren, 69 evidently in trust for 

 Robert Lord of St. Martin's Lane. Robert Lord 

 left two daughters and co-heirs, Mary, who married 

 William Leigh, and Elizabeth, who married Thomas 

 Wentworth. James Leigh, son of William and 

 Mary, was heir of both his mother and aunt. His 



" John, bom in 1632, and Edward in 

 1640, were both baptized at Thundridge 

 (notes from the registers lent by Mr. 

 W. C. Waller). 



M Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 29 Chas. II ; 

 deed> in possession of Mr. C. B. Giles- 

 Puller of Youngsbury. 



« Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 13 Geo. II ; 

 Div. Co. Mich. 16 Geo. II; deeds in 

 possession of Mr. C. B. Giles-Puller. 



"Will of David Poole, .758 ; deed! 

 in possession of Mr. C. B. Giles-Puller. 



After his death it was apparently divided between his 

 two daughters, Margaret wife of Robert Forster and 

 Dorothy wife of Francis Southwell. 84 In 1543 John 

 Southwell, husband of Elizabeth, daughter of Robert 

 and Margaret Forster, conveyed one-fourth of the 

 manor to Richard Wytherall, 66 and at the same time 

 her brother George Forster, between whom and 

 Elizabeth this half seems to have been divided, conveyed 

 another quarter to Wytherall. 06 In 1 545 Wytherall 

 acquired the other half from John Beaumont and his 



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