A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



with Robert de Milkley, so that apparently they had 

 some interest in the manor at that date, probably a 

 grant of the reversion. In 1314 they received a grant 

 (made again at the request of Bartholomew de Badles- 

 mere)of a market on Thursday and a fair on the vigil, 

 day and morrow of the Decollation of St. John the 

 Baptist (29 August) at their manor of Puckeridge (by 

 which name Milkley was then known)." Robert 

 de Milkley was apparently still living at the manor, 

 and after his death in I 3 1 5— 1 6 a rent of IOOJ. was 

 payable from the manor to Alice his daughter. ,s 



William Baud forfeited in the rebellion of Thomas 

 Earl of Lancaster," and 

 Milkley was not restored until 

 1327, *° in which year a fresh 

 grant of market and fair was 

 made, the market to be held 

 on Saturday and the fair on 

 the vigil and day of St. Peter 

 and St. Paul {29 June)." In 

 1331 William Baud made a 

 settlement on hii son John." 

 William died at Corringham 

 in 134.3 » nd J ohn in Gascony 

 in 1346." Sir William Baud, 

 son of John, died before 1388, 

 when Milkley was 

 third son." He 



of Thor 



Sheriff or Hertfordshire in 

 1446 and I447-" In 1422 he granted the Tile- 

 house at the manor of Milkley with land and a 

 pasture tailed Mayeshull and free entrance and exit 

 for earning tile- by three wars, viz. towards Pucke- 

 ridge, Old Hall Green and ' Schakelocks Lane,' to 

 William Colt for six years, a thousand tiles yearly 

 being reserved for roofing the houses there." Thomas 

 Baud died in 14^0 and his son Thomas in 1449." 

 Themanor then descended to Ralph son of Thomas, and 

 in 1483 to Thomas son of Ralph. In 1 502 Thomas 

 Baud conveyed it to Sir William Say of Essendon, to 

 whom he was bound in a sum of £1,000." Agnes 

 his wife released her right to a third after his death 

 in 1521." With Berwick (q.v.) the manor was for- 

 feited to the Crown under Henry VIII," and in 1534 

 was granted to Sir Thomas Audlev, afterwards Lord 

 Audley of Walden. 11 It descended to his daughter 



.558 I 



The n 



Margaret, who married Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 

 and was settled on Thomas Lord Howard, their second 

 son, who in March 1 583-4 conveyed it to Simeon 

 Brograve, son and heir-apparent of John Brogrive 

 of Westmill." It then descended with Hamellj in 

 Braughing (q.v.). 



The house called Mentley, now a firm, lies a little 

 to the north-west of Puckeridge. There are the 

 remains of a homestead moat near it. A mill at 

 Milkley is mentioned in 1342." 



The rolls of courts held at Milkley in 1516 and 

 : at the Record Office." Mention of the 

 t Milkley occurs in the former roll. 

 anorof#£WA f £SZ,£r(Rcneslegh, Romesley, 

 , ; Ranesleye, xiv cent.), on the south of the 

 :ar the Rib, was held about the middle of the 

 tury by Walter de Furneaux and his wife 

 Alice, who granted it to Adam de Cretingc. He 

 in 1283 or soon after conveyed it to Anthony Bek, 

 Bishop of Durham." 1 Possibly Robert de Wyleby and 

 John de Harecouit, the kinsmen and heirs of Anthony 

 Bek, reconvcyed the manor to Sarah daughter of 

 Walter de Furneaux." In 1317 a certain Gerard 

 Daudcnard and his wife Sarah conveyed a moiety of 

 the manor held for the life of Sarah to John de 

 Horneby, 16 who in 1321 acquired another moiety 

 from Jordan de Beverley, called one of the heirs of Sir 

 Roger de Scot re." 



There seems to be no further trace of the manor 

 until 1517, when it was held by Thomas Bird." 

 In 1 ;43 John and Nicholas Bird with their wives, 

 both named Elizabeth, conveyed it to John Gar- 

 diner," who died seised in 1550,'" having bequeathed 

 it to his son Thomas with a remainder to Richard 

 Farnfield." The latter was holding it at his death 

 in 1609," and it descended to his son Walter, 

 who died in 161 1, Thomas his brother and heir 

 being then aged twelve." Before 1676 it had come 

 into the possession of Ralph Freeman," who with his 

 wife Elizabeth conveyed it in 1685 to Christopher 

 Cratford and Henry Clarke," probably in trust for 

 Benjamin Gardiner, who was holding in 1 700.** It 

 descended to Sarah daughter of John Gardiner and 

 wife ofThomas Kilpin. She joined with her daughter 

 Martha in 1731 in a sale to John Jennings, whose 



17 Chart. R. 8 Edw. II, m. ao, no. 4.4. 



"W.CK ijh-7, P- 9+- 



" Pari. IVnn (Rec. Com.], ii, App. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. 5 Edw. III. 



* Morant, op. cit. L, J*t. For grants 

 by John of land in Puckerid ? e, Ac, 

 lee Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B 656, 14.74 i 



a V.C.H. Htm. Famihn, z8z. 

 B Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D 407. 

 7 Miner, op. c" 



* Close, 



[8 Hen. VII, t 



'5- 



ofF. Hert.'.Trin. 13 Hem VIII. 

 id P. Tim. Fill, 11,481. 



Tii, eS7(io);*iii(*),49i(6). 



or (i.e. the rent from it) was 

 ooeted to tie duchy of Lancaster in 

 558 (Pat. 4. & ; Phil, and Mary, m. 23). 

 - D. Ear " 



The 



1 of F. Her 



: before 1628 ; 



At some 

 :e of the 



1, for 



Ithat 



. Edward Din 



L Ch.S. 



.thers (Pat. 

 I). They 



c (Clo«. 



6 Cha.. I, pt. vi, no. Ji), and accordin 

 to Chauncy it descended in hit Famil 

 until 1695, when Elizabeth Wyke, hci 

 of Thomas Brograve, told it to Sir Thorns 

 Brograve of Hamell. (Hut. Antiq. if Hrri 

 no). But all the conveyances dcalin 

 with Hamells, Westmill, Ac, during thi 



Furneaux and Alice had given to Adam d 

 feting and he to Anthony Bek, who. 

 eirs apparently released it to San 

 aughter of Walter de Furncau-, whos 



nMilk 

 robable that 



Edw; 



360 



d John (De Banco R. Trin. 

 I, m. 60}. At first sight it 

 ir that thii moiety of Pleuii 



Rennesley, but the date 1 

 acquired by John de H 



ncby (se 



" AMrtV. Plat. (Rec. Com.}, ] 3 8. 

 M See Chan. Ino,. p.m. (Sei. 1), rxiii, 



3a Feet of F. Herts. Hit. 34 Hen. VIII. 

 "Chin. Inq.p.m. (Ser. z), xciii, 107. 

 " Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, aja. 

 « Chan. Inq, p.m. (Ser. 1), cccii, 



» Ibid 



195. 



etofF.Div.Co.Trin.lSChai 

 " Ibid. Trin. . Ja.. II. 

 "Ibid. Mich. 12 Will. III. 



