A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



devised it by will proved in 1792 to her son Martin 

 Reynoldson, whose daughter Ann Easton Reynoldson 

 sold it in 1824 to William Tringham. Both moieties 

 remained in the Tringham family until 191 1, when 

 the estate was bought by Mr. Grosvenor Berry, the 



W1GFRITH (also called REGRET or RE- 

 GRACVES,* 1 and now RIGGORT'S) was another 

 reputed manor held of Standon. Robert Fitz Herbert 

 died seised of it in 15 I 5 and was succeeded by his 

 son Humphrey, 82 whose son John Fitz Herbert 83 

 sold it in 1 551 to Henry Chauncy. M He conveyed 

 it to William Holliland in 1562." David Holliland 

 sold it in 1598 to Richard Hak, ss who died seised 

 in February 162O-I, 87 William his son, aged fifty- 

 two, being his heir. In 1706 Susan Baldwin, 

 spinster, was holding one-third of the manor. 1 * 

 Later it was in the possession of the Jennings family, 

 and was offered for sale by auction with other lands 

 of George Jennings, son of Sir John Jennings of 

 Greenwich, in 1786. It was bought by St. Edmund's 

 College in 1 8 1 5- 8& The farm lies to the south-west 

 of Old Hall Green. 



The STONEHOUSE alias BRICKHOVSE estate 

 may perhaps be traced to John Field, who in 1477 

 died seised of nine messuages and other property in 

 Standon including an inn called the New Inn aHat 

 the 'Swan' at Puckeridge. 80 His widow Agnes 

 Morton died seised of the same in 1 5 1 7, sl when 

 they descended to Dorothy wife of Sir William 

 Kilo]], kt., as daughter and heir. 6 * A rental of 

 KiloU's lands includes tenements scattered over the 

 north-west of the parish, 93 and among them is one 

 called 'Stonehaw in Stortford Street,' which proba- 

 bly represents the later form of Stonehouse. The 

 property descended to Anne Filoll, daughter and 

 heir, who married Sir Edward Wil'oughby. After 

 the death of her husband she and her son Henry 

 sold the 'manor of Standon afim the S:onchouse ' 

 to Thomas Howe in 1541." In 154+ he alienated 

 part of the estate called Hallys and Ducketts (see 

 history of the chapel of Salcbourne above) to John 

 Gardiner, and in 1550 sold the 'manor of Standon 

 alias the Brickhouse alias the Stonehouse ' to Thomas 

 Gardiner, us from whom it passed in I i ,2 to Guy Wade 

 of London. 66 Wade's will is dated 1557." His son 

 and heir Samuel died without issue about 1 562, b " and 

 in I 567 Samuel's p.uernal aunt and heir Marion wife 

 of William Pickering of London sold the Stonehouse 

 to Thomas Stanley. M It descended to his daughter 

 and heir Mary, who married Sir Edward Harbcrt 

 of Hendon, and they in 1 583 conveyed it to Sir 



Ralph Sadleir, 1 " with other land* called Palmers 



and Mylmans which Thomas Stanley had acquired 

 from Thomas Wytton in 1567. It then follows the 

 descent of Standon and is mentioned in conveyances 

 of that manor as late as the reign of James I. If tie 

 stone house or brick house of this estate is the same 

 as the tenement called the 'Stonehaw' (see above) 

 which lay in Stortford Street, it is possible that thii 

 is the old manor-house described by Salmon as lying 

 west of the town by the road leading to the main 

 road to Ware. 1 



By an early 13th-century deed Ralph Child of 

 Milkley settled a messuage in Standon and land in 

 Milkley, Hanley and Northfield by Ruggeberwe 

 (Ragborough) on his sister Isold. 1 John Child was 

 assessed for property at Standon in 1307.* The 

 Childs' property may be identified with the ' manor, 

 capital messuage or farm called CHILDS alias THE 

 HOLLE,' which belonged to Ralph Astcley at the 

 beginning of the 1 5th century, 3 * and of which John 

 Watts (see Mardocks in Ware) died seised in 1616. 4 

 Hole Farm, which corresponds with the situation of 

 this estate, 6 may preserve the name. 



The RECTORT MANOR alias STJNDON 

 FRIARS originated in a grant made by Gilbert de 

 Clare son of Richard de Ton- 

 bridge, probably early in the 

 12th century, of the church 

 of Standon, 140 acres of land 

 and his vineyard there to the 

 Knights of St. John of Jeru- 

 salem.' 1 Roger dc Clare his 

 brother and successor further 

 granted them 'the mill which 

 la outside the gate of Standon 

 towards the south.' ' It was 

 evidently this mill which the 

 lords of Standon subsequently 

 rented from the prior, 8 who 

 in 1337 exchanged the rent with Elizabeth de Burgh 

 for lands in West Pcckham and Swanton, co. Kent." 

 The maintenance of a chantry 'in the chapel of the 

 manor' was incumbent on the prior, and was prob- 

 ably a condition of the grant by Gilbert de Clare. 10 

 The Prior of St. John of Jerusalem had amendment 

 of the assize of bread and ale from his tenants at 

 Standon. 11 In 1330 the prior leased the manor to 

 William de Langcford for ten years, 12 and in 1533 

 the manor and parsonage were leased to Richard 

 Wytherall (for whom see Youngs). 13 After the Dis- 

 solution the manor and rectory were granted in 

 1540 to Sir Ralph Sadlcir, 11 and they have since 



Mjy 



argtnt. 



77- 



* Deeds in possesion of Mr. Grosve 

 rry (ommunicated by Mr. W. Mm. 



* Chan. Proc (Ser. 2), I " 

 » Chan. In,, p.m. (Ser. 2), x«, 9S . 

 a Feet o( F. Herts. Hil. 32 Hen. VIII. 

 1 Ibid. Mich. 5 Edw. VI. 



* Ibid. Mieh. 4 & 5 Eliz. 



* Ibid. Hil. 40 Eliz. 



■ Chan. la,, p.m. (Ser. 2), eetfwirli, 



1 property after 





'the 



■ 677 



. R. Eas 



S Anr. 



■+s- 



ion from the Rn. E.Burt, 



Feet of F. Her 



. 7 ; Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 25 & 26 



' Salmon, Hiu. of Htra. 238. 



1 AncL D. (P.R.CO, A 5111. 



3 Subs. R. bdle. 120, no. 8. 



""Will of Ralph Asteley in Cant. 



rchicpis. Reg. Stafford, foL 135A. 



' Chan. In,, p.m. (Ser. 2), cccliv, 



the boundar 

 3<l2 



(deed in possession of St. Edmund's 

 College). 



6 Cat. Rat. Chan. 1199-1216 (Rec. 

 Com.), 16. 



7 Dugdale, Man. Ang!. vi, 806. 



a Add. MS. 604.2, fol. 72 (Muti. of 

 Mortimer Earl of March). 



9 Ibid. ; In,. a.,.d. file 240, no. 20. 



"Ct. R. (Gen. Ser.), portf. 178,110. 

 17, 39 ; Cott, Mf.. Claud, £ vi, fol. 10. 



» Aetize R. 323. 



" Cott. MS. Nero, E vi, fol. tio. 



1J Land Rev. Mi»c Bits. Ivii, (oL 108. 

 For other ]6tb-century leases see Cott. 

 MS. ClaurL E vi, foL 10, 245 A. 



11 L, and P. H,n. Vlll, *vi, 370 (16). 



