BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



Berland, who married John Baud. 86 He held the 

 manor jointly with his wife and died seised in i+zz. S7 

 William their son and heir succeeded and died about 

 four years afterwards. 88 The manor then passed to 

 his uncle Thomas Baud of Corringham, co. Essex, and 

 Hadham, co. Herts., who died in 14J0. 89 His son 

 Thomas died in 1449. Ralph his son held the 

 manor until 1483, when he died and was succeeded 

 by his son Thomas. 90 In 1502 Thomas Baud con- 

 veyed Milkley (cj.V.) to Sir William Say of Essendon, 

 co. Herts., and Berwick was probably conveyed about 

 the same time. Elizabeth daughter and co-heir 

 of Sir William Say married William Blount Lord 

 Mountjoy, and their daughter and co-heir Gertrude 

 became the wife of Henry Courtenay Marquess of 

 Exeter, who with his wife was attainted in the reign 

 of Henry VIII. 91 



In 1543 the manor was leased by the king to Sir 

 Ralph Sadleir. 92 It seems, however, to have been 

 eventually restored to the Say family. Thomas, 

 brother of Sir William Say, left a son William, who 

 died a minor in 1508, and two daughters, Anne 

 wife of Sir Robert Hussey of Lin wood, co. Lincoln, 

 and Elizabeth wife of William Clopton, second son 

 of Sir William Clopton of Melford and Lutons, co. 

 Suffolk. In 1575 William Clopton conveyed one half 

 of the manor to Clement Newce, 93 and in the same 

 year Dorothy daughter and co-heir of Sir Robert and 

 Anne Hussey 94 and wife of John Massingberd of 

 Gunby, co. Lincoln, also conveyed a twentieth part 

 to him. 85 In 1576 he acquired another twentieth from 

 John Mounson, son (apparently) of Mary Mounson 

 sister of Dorothy, and Margaret Thoralde, widow, a 

 third sister. 88 Clement Newce died seised of the whole 

 in 1579, 97 and was succeeded by his son William, 

 who died in February i6io-ll. 9S 



The Newces lived at Much Hadham in this county." 

 Thomas Newce died in 1623 10 ° ; his son William 

 conveyed the manor in 1648 to Edward Hide and 

 Oliver Bromhall to be sold for the payment of his 

 debts. 1 It was purchased, according to Chauncy, by 

 Thomas Flyer of Brent Pelham, 2 and descended to 

 his son Francis. 3 Thomas son of Francis died in 

 1743.* In 1746 the entail on the lands of Francis 

 Flyer was barred and the estates divided between his 

 daughters, Elizabeth wife of John Gibbs of Clapham, 



t of Much 



STANDON 



Judith and Catherine Flyer, and Anne wife of Angel 

 Chauncy of Cottered. 6 According to Clutterbuck the 

 manor was sold in 1764 to 

 Ambrose Procter. 6 He de- 

 vised it by will of 1803 to 

 George Procter, eldest son of 

 his nephew John Procter, 

 After the death of George 

 Procter, his son Leonard being 

 an infant, the manor was sold 

 under an Act of Parliament 

 in 1831 to Daniel Giles of 

 Youngsbury/ with which 

 manor it has since descended. 



The capital messuage or faks argent and aqunrttr 



manor called B1GGINGS, to '"»•»>■ 

 the east of Barwick, was held 



with that manor by Thomas Baud, who died in 

 I449, 8 and by his son Ralph Baud at his death in 

 1483. After the forfeiture of the Marchioness of 

 Exeter it was apparently separated from that manor, 

 for in 1547 Clement Newce acquired it from Sir 

 Richard Lee. 9 Clement Newce died seised of it in 

 1579, but it was again separate from Berwick in 

 1 59 1 , when George Dyer conveyed it to William 

 Newce. 10 In 1648 William Newce settled it on his 

 son Thomas. 11 It is now included in the Berwick estate. 

 The manor of MILKLEY or MENTLET (Mel- 

 chlega, xii cent. ; Melkeleia, Melkeleye, Melklegh, 

 xiii cent.; Mylkeley, xv cent.) was held of the manor 

 of Standon by the service of a knight's fee and a rent 

 of 1 6s. St/. 12 It appears first in the tenure of a family 

 with a local designation. Robert son of John de 

 Milkley appears on the Pipe Rolls in connexion with 

 Hertfordshire in the reign of Henry II. 13 Richard de 

 Milkley, who died before izzz, held a hide and 

 z virgates in ' Melkeleia and Hungerhulla,' which 

 descended to his son Richard.' 4 Later in the century 

 a John de Milkley was acquiring lands in Standon 

 from Thomas le Verly and his wife Alice, daughter 

 of John Pake, and others, 16 but the principal holding 

 was probably that of Robert de Milkley, who in I 3 1 1 

 received a grant of free warren at Milkley. 18 The 

 grant was made 'at the request of Bartholomew de 

 Badlesmere,' and was to William le Baud of Corring- 

 ham, co. Essex, and his wife Isabel in conjunction 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. i Hen. VI, no. 53. 



87 Ibid. M Ibid, s Hen. VI, no. z 9 . 



"Mine!, 'Baud Family of Corryng- 

 ham and Hadham Parva' {Essex Arch, 

 Soc. Tram, [new w .], x, 14; ; Morant, 

 Hist, of Essex, i, 241). In Thomas Baud's 

 will (P.C.C. 18 Rous) Berwick was left 

 to his son William, but there is no evi- 

 dence as to William holding it. Possibly 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 Ric. Ill, no. 6, 

 After the death of Thomas Baud a suit 

 was brought against his widow Anne, then 

 wife of Sir Edmund Lucy, by Margaret 

 Marzen (see Sutes), who claimed to be 

 the daughter of Anne Ellerbek, daughter 

 and heir of Ralph Baud, and therefore 

 entilled to the manors of Berwick, Milkley 

 and Biggin. The suit was brought to 

 recover the title deeds which were said to 

 be in the possession of Lucy and his wife 

 (Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 339, no. 33). 

 There is no further evidence as to Mar- 

 Lion is that Thomas was son and heir of 

 Ralph Baud as stated in the inquisition. 



E.C. Peerage 



and P. Hen. VIII, i, 



:t of F. Herts. M. 



3 *Thei: 



.1559. 



nThon 

 >r pedigre. 



Unit, of Topog. and Hist. ~of Nea 

 Ieafird{l%z S ), .08. 



» Feet ofF.Herts. Mich. 17& 



M Ibid. Ttin. 18 Eliz. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sir. 2), 



92 : Feet of F. Hen 



1.3, E 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), c 



'» Chan.' Inq" 1 p'.m.' , (Ser. 2), cccc**i*, 



1 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 24 Chas. I, 

 >■ J'- 



1 Hist. Antiq. of Hens. 220. 



8 Recov. R. East. 28 Chas. II, rot. 96 ; 

 Nl. 1 Geo. I, rot. Bs. 



4 Clutterbuck, op. eft. iii, 130. 



5 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 19 Geo. II, 

 . iz i Recov. R. East. 19 Geo. II, rot. 

 (2 ; Feet of F. Herts. East. 19 Geo. II. 



6 Op. cit. iii, 230. Clutterbuck gives 



359 



s-Puller; Private Act, 5 Geo. IV, 

 27. 

 Sec P.C.C. Will, 18 Rous. Bigging 



' 3 Cal. Class, 1323-7, p. 94. 



z Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc), 



9; 25 Hex. II, 5 ; E : 



; Bk. (ed. Maitland), 



15 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1 

 113,1--- - - '■ 



S3- 



The heir of this John and of Richard "d". 

 Milkley was John's daughter Muric 

 (ibid.A 5127, 9598). 



16 Cal. Chart. S. 1300-26, p. 183 

 See also Subs. R. bdle. 120, no. 8, when 

 he is assessed under Standon. 



