BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



nephew Edward Gardiner, son of his 

 by Simon Gardiner her first cousin.' 

 sheriff of the county in 

 i6z8 M ; he died in 1650^ 

 leaving a son Edward, who 

 also served as sheriff in 1657." 

 On his death in 1 664 Thund- 

 ridge descended to a younger 

 son John, and then, according 

 to Chauncy, to his son Henry, 

 who died in 1693, and to 

 Henry son of Henry, the 

 owner in 1 700." Clutter- 

 buck, however, gives a rather 

 different account, making the 

 manor descend to John, the 

 fourth son of the above- 

 mentioned John, 10 John his son, who died 

 to another John his son, and then to Gilbert son and 

 heir of John. Gilbert Gardiner sold part of the 

 estate called Poles, and later another part called 

 Downfield 19 , and in 1811 he with Dorothy Gardiner, 

 widow of John, sold the manor with the mill at 

 Wadesmill to Daniel Giles of Youngsbury." It then 

 descended with Youngsbury in Standon (q.v.), and 

 Mr. C. B. Giles- Puller of Youngsbury is the present 

 lord of the manor. 



The manor of SAWTRES (Sawtrey, Sawtrees), an 

 estate on the north of the parish, situated in the 

 bend of the River Rib, was held of the manor of 

 Ware. At the beginning of the 15th century it 

 seems to have belonged to Sir Nicholas Thorley, let., 

 and to have passed from him to his kinsman and heir 

 Walter Estoft, who conveyed it in 1+51 to John 

 Viscount Beaumont and others. 31 In 1533 Walter 

 Wadeland and Thomas Montgomery conveyed it to 

 Richard Welles and others." Francis Roberts died 

 seised of it in 1632, his grandson Sir William 

 Roberts, son of his son Barn, being his heir." Sir 

 William Roberts, called of Willesden, co. Middlesex, 

 sold the manor and capital messuage in 1638 to 

 Robert Turner, D.D., canon 

 residentiary of St. Paul's 

 Cathedral, 34 excepting three 

 copyholds in Ware and an 

 acre of land in Ware Park. It 

 descended to Thomas Turner, 

 Dean of Canterbury, and to 

 his son Francis Turner, Bishop 

 of Rochester 1683-4, Bishop 

 Of Ely in 1684 (afterwards 

 suspended from the latter 

 -bishopric for refusing to take To num. Or a lim 



the oath of allegiance to bePwau tkrtc cranes pay 



William and Mary), who in S* k * 



1 69 ; sold the manor to 



Richard Crawley of London." After this the descent 



of the manor is fragmentary. Jane Smith suffered a 



recovery of it in 1732," Edmund Pepys and his wife 



Sarah did the same in 1765,'' and Lee Steere Steere 



in 1824.." It was acquired from the Steere family 



THUNDRIDGE 



about forty years ago by Mr. Arthur Giles-Puller, 

 and has since descended with the Youngsbury estate 

 (Standon, q.v). 



The church of ST. MARY at Wades- 

 CHURCH mill consists of chancel z6 ft. 9 in. by 

 10 ft. 9 in., north vestry, nave 56" ft. 

 9 in. by 2; ft., and west tower ; all internal dimen- 

 sions. The church was built in 1853 of squared 

 rubble with stone dressings, to take the place of the 

 old church, of which only the tower remains. 



The old church was pulled down in 1853 on the 

 erection of the church at Wadesmill. There was a 

 chapel here in the time of Hugh de Grentmesnil, who 

 was tenant in io86. S3 The dedication is given variously 

 as ALL SAINTS* and 57*. MART. Chauncy says 

 it was called Little St. Mary's." The tower is built 

 of flint rubble with stone dressings, and is of three 

 stages, with angle buttresses on the west ; it was 

 erected in the 15th century. The tower arch is 

 blocked and the stonework much defaced. Under the 

 arch has been inserted a 12th-century doorway with 

 semicircular arch, with cheveron and billet mouldings, 

 all much decayed ; above the doorway a 1 4th-century 

 window has been inserted. It has two trefoiled lights 

 with tracery under a square head ; it is in good con- 

 dition. Both doorway and window appear to have 

 come from the old church. On the south wall, in 

 the first stage, is a square panel inclosing a quatrefoil 

 piercing with a rose in the centre ; in the west wall is 

 a doorway with a four-centred arch under a square 

 head, with tracery in the spandrels, and above it is a 

 window of three cinquefoiled lights under a four- 

 centred arch. The second stage has narrow single 

 lights on the north, south and west faces and a 

 sundial on the south. Each face of the belfry stage 

 has a window of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoiled 

 opening in the head, under a four-centred arch. The 

 tower has been buttressed on the east, and the upper 

 stages are secured with iron bolts. 



The bells, of which there are four, are now in the 

 modern church. The treble is inscribed 'Johannes 

 est nomen ejus' by an unknown founder ; the second 

 is dated 1623; the third 1631, both by Robert 

 Oldfeild; the fourth by John Dier, I 5 80. 



The communion plate consists of flagon, 1775, 

 cup, 1837, and paten, 1837. 



The registers are in five books as follows : (i) 

 baptisms, burials and marriages 1556 to 1670 ; (ii) 

 baptisms, burials and marriages 1682 to 1738 ; (in) 

 baptisms and burials 1738 to 1812, marriages 1738 

 to 1 7 5 j ; (iv) marriages I 7 5 4 to 1 806 ; (v) marriages 

 1806 to i8iz. 



The advowson of the old church 

 ADVOWSON of ST. MART follows the descent 

 of the advowson of Ware (q.v.), to 

 which church it was a chapel. Hugh de Grentmesnil 

 gave both church and chapel to the Priory of Ware. 

 In the composition made between the parishioners of 

 Ware and Thund ridge and the Prior of Ware in 1231 

 (see advowson of Ware) it was agreed that the Prior 

 and vicar of Ware should serve the church daily by 



* Clutterbuck, Hut. and Anriq. 

 ili, 278 ( Feet of F. Herts. Mi 

 jas. I. 



"> Liu of Sheriff, (P.R.O.), 64.. 



W CbauBCV, Sin. Antiq. cf fieri, 



* Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



"' D,v-! 



I of Mr. 



:6-Puller of You 

 31 Close, 32 Hen. VI, m. 15. 

 M Feet of F. Herts. Trin. 25 Hen. VIII. 



33 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), ccccluv, 65. 



34 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 14. Chas. I, 



379 



33 Close, 7 Will. Ill, pt. vii, no, 

 ^Recov. R. Mich. 6 Geo. II, to 

 37 Ibid. East. 5 Geo. Ill, rot. 20 

 3a Ibid. Trin. 5 Geo. IV, rot. 10. 

 39 See advowson. 

 10 Lond. Epis. Reg. Gilbert, fol. 

 41 Hilt, and Antia, n/Hirt,. 214. 



