A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



of Stanstead Abbots) Isney was still a thick wood. 

 He built the present house, now the residence of 

 Mr. J. H. Buxton, in 1S69. 20 This house stands in a 

 park of 133 acres and is approached by an avenue of 

 trees nearly a mile long. In the abbot's manor were 

 also some lands called Joyses after a family of Joce who 

 had them in tenure in the 14th century. 37 In I 304. 

 the abbot leased a dwelling-house and land assigned to 

 the pittsneer of the convent to Master John de 

 Manhale, clerk, for life,- 8 and in 1525 Roger Rodes 

 had a lease of the land called the Pitansry or Joyses 

 for twenty-one years at a rent of 5 marks payable to 

 the pittancer.™ These lands came with the manor 

 to the Crown at the Dissolution and the name sur- 

 vives in Pitansey Meadow. 30 Other place-names 

 occurring about the 1 3th century are Danesthe- 

 maneswode, Sturtereshull, Newstrate, Bokkeberwefeld, 

 Alfladesfelde, Kyngesfeld and Alfeyesholsme. The 



There is : 





it of her in the hall of Bruenotc 



frequent 



able. 



of 'holms' in this parish is 



Newgate, the site of which is marked by Newgate 

 Wood, was an estate held in the middle of the i;th 

 century by Andrew Ogard, lord of the manor of 

 Rye, and sold in 1558 by George Ogard to Robert 

 Grave. 81 Bonningtons, about 3 miles north-east 

 of the church, formerly belonging to the Calvert 

 family (see Hunsdon), who made the pond there, 

 and afterwards the seat of Mr. Salisbury Baxendale, 3 - 

 is for the most part a modern two-storied house, but 

 has an cast wing which may date from the 17th 

 century. In Moat Wood, on the north-east of the 

 parish, there are traces of a homestead moat, but 

 nothing is known of its hbtorv. 3 ' 



One inhabitant of Stanstead Abbots of more than 

 local fame was Joyce Trappes, daughter of Robert 

 Trappes, a goldsmith of London, who married first 

 Henry Saxaye, a London merchant, and, secondly, 

 William Krankland of the manor of Rye. Her 

 memory ia famous from her numerous gifts for edu- 

 cational endowment. Jointly with her son William, 

 who was a student at Gray's Inn, she founded junior 

 fellowships and scholarships at Caius and Emmanuel 

 Colleges, Cambridge. William, to whom there is a 

 brass in the church, was killed whilst riding an 

 unbroken horse in 1581, aged twenty-three. 31 In 

 memory of him his mother founded the iree school at 

 Newport Pond, Essex, and by will of 1 5 86 gave 

 money and houses to Brasenose College to increase 

 the emoluments of the principal and fellows and for 

 the foundation of a fellowship. Her name was 

 included in the grace after meat in the college hall, 

 and the principal and fellows of Brasenose erected a 

 monument to her memory in the church of St. 

 Leonard's, Foster Lane, where she was buried. 



College and another in the master's gallery in the 

 combination room at Caius College, Cambridge.** 

 Thomas Bradock (1576-1604), who translated Bishop 

 Jewell's confutation of the attack of Thomas Harding 

 on Jewell's Apologia Eultsiae Angltianat, wai vicar of 

 Stanstead Abbots from 1591 to I 593- sa 



The manor of STANSTEAD, called 

 MANORS later STANSTEAD ABBOTS, STAN- 

 STEAD BURV, and sometimes STAN- 

 STEAD BAESH,wis held in 1086 as 17 hides by 

 Ranulf brother of Ilger. It was then composed of 

 two separate estates, one consisting of 1 1 hides which 

 had been held in the time of the Confessor by Alwin 

 of Godtone and which after the Conquest had been 

 given by Ralf Taillebois to Ranulf as a marriage 

 portion with his niece (one other hide which had 

 belonged to the estate he attached to his manor of 

 Hunsdon), and the other of 7 hides which had been 

 held by fourteen sokemen, four of them the men ol 

 Anschi! of Ware and the other ten the men of Alwin . 

 On Ranulf's estate in 1086 there were 13 hides in 

 demesne with two ploughs, whilst the tenants of the 

 manor had eight ploughs although there was land 

 and also meadow for sixteen plough-teams. There 

 was pasture on the manor for the live stock of the vill, 

 woodland for a hundred swine, and a mill. Among 

 the tenants are mentioned seven burgesses, who paid 

 zy., including dues of meadow and wood. 37 With 

 other lands of Ranulf 38 Stanstead was acquired by 

 the Clares, lords of Chepstow and Earls of Pembroke, 30 

 by whom it was held as two knights' fees.* After the 

 manor was acquired by Waltham (see below) Richard 

 dc Clare released the abbey from all knight service, 

 and the king also released him from the same service.* 1 

 This Richard, son of Gilbert the first earl, left a 

 daughter Isabel de Clare, who married William 

 Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke. His sons all 

 died without issue, and the rent from the manor 

 payable by the abbey to the overlords after the mesne 

 iordship lapsed descended to his daughter Joan, who 

 married Warin dc Munchensy, and to her daughter 

 Joan, wife of William de Valence Earl of Pembroke." 3 

 Through Isabella, sister and heir of Aymer son of 

 William de Valence and wife of John de Hastings, the 

 rent came to Laurence de Hastings, their son, created 

 Earl of Pembroke in 1339. 43 His grandson John 

 Earl of Pembroke died without isaue, 4H his heir being 

 his kinsman Reginald de Grey de Ruthyn, who levied 

 a fine of the rent in 1400. 46 Philippa, widow of 

 John de Hastings and afterwards wife of Richard Earl 

 of Arundel, held, however, 44/. in dower ** (i.e. one- 

 third of £6 13/. 4^., or 10 marks), and later 5 marks 

 (one-half of £6 131, 4,/.) was in the possession of 



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