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son George sold it to Ambrose Procter in 1786. He 

 devised it to George Procter, son of his nephew John, 47 

 by whom it was sold in 1826 

 to Abel Smith of Woodhall. 

 His son Abel Smith, M.P., 

 was lord in 1 873,** and the 

 manor is now held by his son 

 Mr. Abel Henry Smith. 



To the south of Rennesley 

 Garden Wood is a moated 



Another mesne manor held 

 of the manor of Standon was 

 BAR TRAMS (Bertrammes, 

 xv cent.) alias BERTRAMS 

 LAND, situated on the east 

 of the parish. It evidently 

 took its name from a family ■»«■■«•'• 

 of Bertram, one of whom, 



William Bertram, appears as witness to a 13th- 

 century deed. 49 In the second half of the 14th 

 century the manor was in the tenure of Robert 

 Marshall, from whom it descended to his son Robert 

 Marshall, who died seised of it in January 14OZ-3. 60 

 His heir was Richard Tor ell, son of his sister Elizabeth, 

 who held the manor until his death about i.j.io. 51 

 His son Thomas succeeded on reaching his majority. b2 

 In 1436 Thomas Torell conveyed the manor to 

 Ralph Asteley and four co- feoffees. 53 It descended to 

 Nicholas Asteley, whose widow Cicely was holding it 

 in I 503 together with two water-mills called Wades 

 Mills. 54 In 1 5 18 Robert Asteley and his wife Eliza- 

 beth conveyed it to Thomas Newce. 55 Another 

 Thomas Newce was holding it in 1597- 66 He or 

 possibly a son of the same name sold it in 1638 to 

 William Fenn ; ' 7 of Harrow, co. Middlesex, who, 

 according to Chauncy, was lord of the manor when 

 he wrote (1700),^ but this was more probably a son 

 of the same name. George Fenn suffered a recovery 

 of themanor in 1741. 5S In 1746 Mary Fenn, senior, 

 and Mary Fenn, junior, conveyed the manor to 

 William Waddilovc, 110 possibly for a settlement on the 

 younger Mary on her marriage with William Wood- 

 ward, for he with his wife Mary was holding it the 

 next year. 61 In 1754 William and Mary Woodward 

 conveyed it to Henry Lewis. 52 In 1839 it was in 

 the possession of Mary de Home Hooper, 63 daughter 

 of John Scott, the Quaker poet. 



The manor of BROMETTS, BROMELLS, or 

 BROMLEY HALL was held of the lord of Standon 

 early in the 15 th century by John Clerk, a netmaker 

 of London. 64 His daughter and heir Margaret 



STANDON 



married William Walden of London, 65 but whether 

 she held it is uncertain, as it seems to have passed to 

 Nicholas Sterlyng, eG and from 

 him before 1462 to John 

 Field, who in March of that 





icomti 



of homage ' for the land: 

 tenements of Bromeley ' from 

 Cecilia Duchess of York. 07 

 This John was possibly son of 

 Roger atte Field, bailiff" of the 

 manor of Standon in 1362 

 and 1 366. Ge The brass of 

 John who died in 1477 is in 

 Standon Church, also that of 

 his son John (1474). No 

 further record of this manor 

 has been found until 1548, 



when Thomas Howe and Audrey his wife conveyed 

 it as the manor of Bromley Hall to Philip Gunter. eB 

 In 1585 it was in the possession of Francis Gunter, 70 

 and Thomas Gunter was holding it in 1587. 71 In 

 1636 it was sold by Blanche James, widow, to Richard 

 Spicer, M.D., and his wife Thomasine. 72 John 

 Spicer, son of Richard, joined with Mary his wife and 

 Steward Spicer, his eldest son, in a conveyance of the 

 manor and of the capital messuage at Standon in 

 which he lived to Henry Uthwhat of St. Margaret's, 

 Westminster, in 1690. 73 Elizabeth daughter and 

 heir of Henry Uthwhat married Edward Elderton, 

 afterwards of Mile End, Stepney. They became 

 bankrupt, and in 1718 the manor was sold to Francis 

 Brownsword and Charles Cotton, 74 who conveyed it 

 to Thomas Scott, a poulterer of London. 75 Thomas 

 Scott died without issue and intestate in January 

 1738-9, leaving a wife Elizabeth and two sisters, 

 Ann Wilkinson and Mary Easton. In 1 741 pro- 

 ceedings in Chancery were taken by Ann Wilkinson 

 to obtain a partition of the estate, her brother's 

 widow having, according to her evidence, taken pos- 

 session of the whole property by right of dower, 

 and having with her agent Charles Easton, son of 

 Mary, committed waste there. A decree for partition 

 was obtained, but does not seem to have been carried 

 out.™ Mary Easton died in 1 746, and left an un- 

 divided moiety to her younger son Charles Easton of 

 Twickenham, co. Middlesex. 77 He by will of 1785, 

 proved in 1786, left it to Charles Easton, son of his 

 brother Robert. 78 In 1822 Charles Easton conveyed 

 this moiety to Joseph Tringham of St. John's Wood. 73 

 Ann Wilkinson's moiety descended in 1757 to her 

 daughter Ann, wife of Thomas Reynoldson. She 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 

 m deeds of George Proct. 

 la Cussans, Hilt, of Her. 

 «d. 17;. 

 "And. D. (P.R.O.), A 



of Pet: 



•I Then 



also 



■ 6 Ibid. Mich. 39 &40 Eli 

 " Recov. R. Mich. i+Chas 

 ®Hisr. Antiq, of Herts. 22 

 s Recov. R. Trin. 14 & 



. i;6. 



i0 Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 

 ■' Ibid. Mich. 21 Geo. II. 

 i! Ibid. East. 27 Geo. II. 



5 Geo. II, 

 ;o Geo. II. 



1. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. IV, no. ro. 

 e said to be held of the king 

 the minority of the Earl of 

 :c Foreign R. 12 Hen. IV, m.A). 



s > Feet of F. Herts. 14 Hen. VI, no. 81. 



54 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 55.07. 



is Feet of F. Herla. Mich. 10 Hen. VTII. 



t. 45 G. 3. 



H"-S. P- 

 Ikd dL.no,, 



Tithe f 



w Harl. Ch 

 6S Cat. do, 

 Clerk is here 

 sumably the same. 



10 Harl. Chart. 4; G, 

 po.-.i'.-ly have been only a 

 Add. Chart. 15476". 

 Accts. bdle, 1 



s. m. J4d. 



' 2 Recov. R. Mich, iz Chas. I, 1 



Feet of F.Herts. Hil. ; Will. I 

 irjr; Recov. R. East. 4 Will, i 

 rry, rot. S9 ; Close, 4 Will, and Ms 



'* Cora. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. ; Geo 



>f Mr. Grosvo 



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d by Mr. 



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a Min: 

 also Har 



Char: 



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73 Deeds in possession of Mr. Grosven. 

 Berry communicated by Mr. W. Mi net 



46 



