BRAUGHING HUNDRED stanstead abbots 



Joan de Beauchamp, wife of Lord Abergavenny and 

 sister of Thomas Earl of Arundel son of the above 

 Richard " ; this descended to her son Richard Earl of 



Worcester, to Richard's daughter Elizabeth de Beau- 

 champ, who married Sir Edward Nevill, and to their 

 son George Nevill Lord Abergavenny." After this 

 there seems to be no further trace of it. 



At the beginning of the 1 2th century the manor 

 .5 held under the Earls of Pembroke by Roge 



Wancy, who mortgaged it to Br 

 for a debt of £280 17*. \d. 

 Wancy, in order to obtain re- 

 lease from the debt, conveyed 

 half of the manor to the king 

 (Henry II), who granted it 

 in free alms to the Abbey of 

 Waltham Holy Cross. — 



His 1 



xjev 



of London, 

 . Michael de 



other half was also given to "OL^l V fSr'*' 



the abbey by Michael at a f^ /jillA 



rent of £12." The grant V <&{>> J 



was confirmed by William X^J \\/ 



Marshal, the overlord, with a ^^^"^ 



f.uhyn. 



proviso that, if by escheat tht 

 fee should come to him or his 

 successors, nothing should be 

 exacted from them except the 

 £ 12 reserved by Michael de 

 Wancy,* the services due to the overlord being ex- 

 tinguished as stated above. The rent was paid by 

 the abbey to Michael's heir Henry de Wancy, ' a 

 Norman,' who seems to have forfeited at the begin- 

 ning of the reign of Henry III, when it was granted 

 by the ting to Henry de St. Owen for his expenses 

 whilst in Gascony with the king's brother Richard 

 Earl of Cornwall." Afterwards it was paid to the 

 overlords as above." 



In 1253 the abbey obtained a grant of free warren 

 in their demesne lands." The liberties enjoyed by the 

 abbey in their lands were as full as * royal power could 

 make them.' In Stanstead they had inter alls toll, 

 team, soc, sac, infangentheof, utfangentheof, chattels of 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Hen. VI, no. 3;. 

 The original amount mm, to have been 

 £11 (Cart. Antiq. M. m). Out of this £6 

 were granted by Walter Marital, Earl 

 of Pembroke, to William J<-ymer, wto 

 released this »iratc.theconvent(Harl. MS. 

 4809, fol. 1194,140). After thia the rent 

 is generally given aa £6 ii r . + rf. { S(e 

 text), but mmetimes a* £8 (Cat. Chart. R. 

 1116-57, P- A- 6 i i Feet of F. Dir. Co. 

 i Hen. IV, no. 16). 



"> Chin. Inq. p.m. [ 6 EJw. IV, no. 66. 



*• Cart. Antiq. M. 22. 



M Ibid. a;. 



" Roi. Li,. Claui, [Rec. Com.), ii, nb. 



thieves, amercements of murders, pleas of natttU ttlllt, 

 free fishing in the Lea throughout their demesne 

 lands, and free warren. Their men were quit of 

 shires and hundreds, ward, scot, geld, sheriff's aids, 

 toll in markets and fairs and in crcssing bridges, 

 roads and seas, and anyone accused had the right to 

 take his pica to the court at the Holy Cross and 

 answer there according to civil law." In 1522 the 

 abbey leased the manor for sixty-one years (reserving 

 the manorial rights) to John Rodes of London and 

 his wife Margaret." The manor was obtained from 

 the abbey by Henry VIII in 1 531, who granted in 

 exchange the site of the monastery of Blackmorc in 

 Essex, the priory manor and other lands." The next 

 year the king gave the farm and reversion of the 

 manor to Anne Boleyn on her creation as Marchioness 

 of Pembroke." 



After the death of Anne Boleyn in I 532, Stanstead 

 Abbots remained in the Crown until 1559, when 

 Queen Elizabeth granted it to Edward Baesh of 

 London," who in 1577 had licence to impark 

 300 acres of land there with a grant of free 

 warren.* 9 Edward Baesh died in 1587, when the 

 manor descended to his son Ralph. The inscription 

 to Edward in the church calls him general surveyor 

 of victuals for the royal navy and marine affairs in 

 England and Ireland during the reigns of Henry VIII, 

 Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. Ralph died in 

 1598 and was succeeded by his son Edward." On 

 the death of Edward in 1653 the manor passed to 

 his cousin Ralph, whose son Edward conveyed it in 

 1678 to Edward Byde and Ralph Skynner, 51 pro- 

 bably in trust for Thcmas Feilde. Thomas was 

 knighted in 1681" and died in 1689, when 

 Edmund his son succeeded. 53 Edmund's three 

 sons, Thomas, Edmund and Paul, held the manor 

 successively and died without issue." It passed to 

 their cousin Thomas Feilde, rector of Eastwick, to 

 his son William Henry Feilde and to the latter's son 

 of the same name. 06 William Henry Feilde, jun., 

 sold it to Fhilip Holh'ngsworth of Thundridge, who 

 bequeathed it to his sister. She directed that at her 

 death it should be sold for the benefit of the children 

 of Paul Meyers of Forty Hill, Enfield. It was bought 

 by Dr. Abraham Wilkinson of Enfield, whose son sold 

 it to Thomas Fowcll Buxton.* 6 Mr. Henry Buxton, 

 his grandson, is the present lord of the manor. 



At the beginning of the 19th century the manor- 

 house of Stanstead Bury was the residence of Captain 

 Jocelyn, R.N., descended from Sir Robert Jocelyn, 

 bart., of Hyde Hall in Sawbridgeworth. He died in 

 1806 and was succeeded by his son Robert Salusbury 

 Jocelyn of Stanstead Bury. 61 Later the manor-house 

 was used as a hydropaihic establishment, and is now 

 the property and residence of Mr. Spencer Trowcr. 61 



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