BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



descended to his s 

 Duke of Surrey i 

 taken prisoner ; 

 by the populace 



i Thomas Earl of Kent 28 (cr 



Kent. ENGLAND 



1397), who 

 ind beheaded 

 it Cirencester 

 he contest with 

 Henry IV. His lands were 

 forfeited, and Henry IV 

 granted Ware, the manor, 

 rown and lordship, to his son 

 John. These were valued at 

 £120 a year. 29 Later the 

 manor was restored to Edmund 

 Earl of Kent, brother and heir 

 of Thomas, who died without 

 issue in 1408. 30 His heirs 

 were his sisters, of whom 

 Eleanor, the wife of Thomas ' "'■'"' 

 de Montagu Earl of Salisbury, 



inherited Ware. The extent of the manor taken on 

 the death of the earl, who survived his wife, included 

 a capital messuage, 70 acres of arable land, 80 acres 

 of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, a water-mill let for 

 100;., rents of free tenants amounting to £50, per- 

 quisites of court worth 6s. Sd., and the park worth 

 nothing beyond the fee of the parker and the keeping 

 of the deer. 31 



Alice, only daughter and heir of the Earl of Salis- 

 bury and Eleanor, married Sir Richard Nevill, after- 

 wards Earlof Salisbury. Their 

 son Richard succeeded on his 

 marriage to the Warwick 

 estates, and was confirmed as 

 Earl of Warwick in 1+49. 

 He was the 'Kingmaker' of 

 the Wars of the Roses, and 

 was slain at Barnet in 1 471, 

 leaving no male issue. His 

 daughter Anne married first 

 Edward Prince of Wales, who 

 was killed after the batde of 

 Tewkesbury, and secondly, 

 about a year afterwards, argent and assart, 

 Richard Duke of Gloucester, 



who became King Richard III in 1483. 33 The king 

 in 148; granted an annuity of £10 from the issues of 

 Ware to William Porter, a yeoman of the Crown. 33 

 Sir Robert Brackenbury, Constable of the Tower, 

 was appointed steward of the manor. 34 Queen Anne 

 died in 148; ; her heir was Edward Earl of War- 

 wick, son of Isabel, sister of Anne and co-heir of 

 Richard Earl of Warwick, who, having spent all his 

 life in prison, 35 was condemned for conspiring high 

 treason with Perkin Warbeck, a fellow prisoner, and 

 was executed on Tower Hill in 1499, aged twenty- 

 four. He, however, never held Ware, 36 for after the 

 death of Richard III King Henry VII granted it to 



Nevill, Earl of Sails- 

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WARE 

 ind (who 



his mother, Margaret Countess of Rich: 

 had already received a grant of the 

 officers within the lordship), for life. 37 After her death 

 in 1509 it came into the hands of the king, who in 

 the same year appointed Sir Thomas Lovell, treasurer 

 of the household, steward of the manor. 38 The next 

 year William Compton, groom of the stole, was made 

 bailiff of the town and manor, keeper of the park, 

 meadows, fishery, and two mills. 30 



In 1513 Lady Margaret Pole, sister and heir of 

 Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick, was reinstated 

 as Countess of Salisbury. w Two inquisitions were 

 taken on the manor of Ware, 41 after which it was 

 restored to her. Accounts for the manor about this 

 date show that the fishery called the truncage was leased 

 with the park for £8 13/. \d., the mill for £2 6 13J. \d. 

 During the year I 5 15 four views of frankpledge and 

 four other 'little courts' were held, the perquisites 

 amounting to £2 c/i. 3d., whilst the perquisites of the 

 court of pie- powder amounted to 141. 2d. for that year. 

 The extent included the site of the manor called Le 

 Bury, a capital messuage with a grange called Kydes- 

 well, and a wood called Wolkechyn, ail leased out at 

 farm.* 2 As the last remaining member of the old royal 

 house of England, the Countess of Salisbury aroused 

 the jealousy of the king and was attainted in 1539 

 and beheaded in I 541, two years after her eldest son 

 Henry Pole Lord Montagu had suffered the same 

 fate. 43 The manor thus came again into the hands 

 of Henry VIII, who in 1539 granted the fishery and 

 •custom called troncage ' in the water at Ware to 

 John Noode, a yeoman of the guard. 41 In 1542 

 Thomas Wrothe was appointed bailiff of the manor 

 and keeper of the park in reversion after Oliver 

 Frankeleyn, who held these offices by grant from the 

 Countess of Salisbury. 43 Leases of ' the stable within 

 the close called Le Bury,' of the meadows called 

 Chaldewell and Berymede, of Newnney Wood, and 

 the field called Newnney or Woodfeld were made 

 by the king at different times, 4B and in 1544 he 

 leased the two corn-mills 

 Ware for forty years. 47 



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. Thorn 



Lennard of 



In 1548 the 

 Edward VI to hi; 

 On her accession 

 Francis Earl of Hu 

 who was daughter of Henry Fob 

 of Salisbury, and who with hi 

 Winifred wa< 

 of Parli 



1 ted by King 



the Lady Mary, for life. 43 



queen, Mary granted them to 



igdon and his wife Katherine, 19 



of the Countess 



tored in blood and honours by Act 

 1 1554-5. 60 Katherine received a 

 confirmation of Ware from Queen Elizabeth in 1 5 70, 

 with the exception of the park, mills, and fishery 151 ; 

 the park and fishery were, however, granted to her 

 son Henry Earl of Huntingdon two years after- 

 wards. 62 Later the countess sold the manor to 

 Thomas Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, co. Derby, 



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