A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



wife Anne," to whom it had apparently passed from 

 Francis and Dorothy Southwell. 



The whole having thus come into the possession of 

 Wyiherall, the manor descended with Sutes to David 

 Poole, who built the present house of Youngsbury.™ 

 After his death in 175S his widow Jane and son Josiah 

 sold the manor in 1 769 to David Barclay,* 8 who 

 improved and enlarged the house. In 1793 it was 

 bought by William CunliiFe Shawe, a mortgagee, who 

 sold it in 1796 to Daniel Giles of London,' whose 

 family came originally from Caen in Normandy. He 

 was governor of the Bank of England in 1 796 and died 

 in 1800. Youngs descended to his son Daniel 

 Giles, M.P. for St. Albans in 1809 and Sheriff of 

 Hertfordshire in 1816. He died in 1831. His 

 sister Mary married Joseph King of Taplow, and the 

 manor went to her son Benjamin Giles King, who 

 was succeeded in 1 840 by his sister Louisa, widow of 

 Sir Christopher Puller, kt., Chief Justice of Bengal in 

 1823. She died in [857, when the manor passed to 

 her son Christopher William, who in that year had 

 licence to add the name Giles before his own surname, 

 the licence extending to such of his descendants as 

 should hold Youngsbury. He died in 1864, the 

 manor descending to his son Arthur Giles Giles- 

 Puller. The latter died without issue in 1885 and 

 was succeeded by his brother [he Rev. Charles Giles- 

 1'uller, at one time vicar of Standon, whose son 



Elizabeth his wife and Thomas their son, and i'jo 

 of the reversion of 1 50 acres on the death of Richard 

 !e Somenour, which they acquired at the same lime. r ' 

 There was also a John Marshall, dead before 

 1338,"* and a John Marshall, his son, with a wife 

 Margaret, both dead before 1353," who held land in 

 Standon. By 147+ the 'tenements called Marshalli ' 

 were in the possession of Nicholas Ellerbek and 

 descended with Sutes and Youngs to Wiliiam Tend- 

 ing, then with Youngs to 

 Richard Wyiherall, and with 

 both manors to David Barclay. 

 It was separated from these 

 manors before 1823, when 

 Frederick Croker and bis wife 

 Anne conveyed it to John 

 Martin Leake of Thorpe 

 Hall. 7 ' He died in 1836 and 

 was succeeded by his son John 

 Martin Leake. On the death 

 of John in 1862 it passed to 

 his brother Stephen Ralph 

 Martin Leake, and in 1 86; 

 to his son Stephen, barrister- 

 at-law of the Middle Temple. 

 He died in 1893," and Mrs 

 widow, now holds the estate and resides there. 



The capital messuage or farm of Marshalls was 

 separated from the manor in the 17th century. 

 Roger Pavier of Uppinglon, co. Salop, died seised of 

 it in February 1634-c, leaving as co-heirs his nieces 

 Margaret wife of Ralph Kynaston, Elizabeth wife of 

 Thomas Brees and Mary wife of Samuel Challoner. 7 * 



The manor of BERlflCKot BJRlfJCK(,Btttwy)(, 

 liv cent.), an estate in the south-east of the parish on 

 the River Rib, was held of the manor of Standon at 

 the end of the 1 3th century by Eustace Fitz Thomas 

 (of Hawstead, co. Sun'., and Shenley, co. Bucks.), who 

 died in 1 272. The manor, called in this insiance 

 the manor of Hollenhac, was then seized into the 

 king's hands." Thomai Fitz Eustace succeeded his 

 father and in laqz received a grant of free warren 



Mr. Christopher Bernard Giles-Puller is the present 

 owner of the manor and resides at Youngsbury." 



MARSHALLS, on the south-west of the parish 

 to the north-west of the hamlet of High Cross, 

 apparently originated in a property consisting of four 

 messuages, 72 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, ]6 

 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood, the site of a mill called 

 Linchemill with a pond, and 24/. rent in Standon, 

 which Robert Marshall (Le Mareschal) acquired from 

 Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of the manor of Standon, in 

 I 337, and of the reversion of a messuage, 200 acres of 

 land, meadow and pasture and 4 acres of wood 

 expectant on the death of Henry de Thrillowe, 



Martin Leake, hit 



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lands of 

 , the mano 



ick." 



He died 



descended to his son" 

 e, 91 and on the death of the latter 

 in 134I to his son, also Thomas Fitz Eustace, Agnes 

 his widow having dower of a chamber and chapel 

 adjoining at the upper door of the hall and land called 

 Siguresgrove 'on the north of Berewykwood near the 

 park.' 81 Thomas, the son, died in 1349."* During 

 the minority of John his brother and heir, Sir John 

 atte Lee held the manor by grant of Edmund de 

 Mortimer, the overlord." John at his death in 1369 

 left an infant son Philip. He apparently died soon 

 afterwards, for the manor went to a cousin John Fitz 

 Eustace, whose daughter Elizabeth married Robert 

 Berland of Raithby, co. Lincoln." They probably 

 had a son William Berland, the father of Elizabeth 



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