A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



house against the market-place oci 

 Lennard. 10 " 



Gilbert Hill died in 1583, his son Richard being 

 aged four. 1 During Richard's minority his sisters 

 Philippa wife of Edward Meade and Elizabeth wife 

 of Thomas Calvert held hi; Ware estate. 2 After attain- 

 ing his majority he sold the manor to James Stanley, 3 

 who died seised of it in 161 1. * His son Thomas appa- 

 rently sold it to Alexander Weld, who was holding it 

 in 166;. 6 His son Alexander 6 possibly left a daughter 

 Sarah, who married Robert Jones ; they held it (in 

 Sarah's right) in I 710, 7 and later Robert Jones joined 

 with George Bruere and Anthony Thompson, the 

 heirs of Alexander Weld, in selling it to Walter 

 Plumer, called of Cavendish Square. 8 



Widbury Houje (as it is now called) was burnt 

 down about ten years ago. It was rebuilt by the 

 present owner, Mr. J. H. Buxton of Easneye. 



The manor of WATERS a/its MARTOCKS, now 

 MARDOCKS (Mattocks, Mallocks, Maddoks, Mar- 

 docks, Mardox), on the east of the parish, probably 

 took its first name from its situation in a bend of the 

 River Ash. The family of Atte Water held land in 

 Ware in the 14th century and later. There is record of 

 John atte Water in I 3 3 I ,» of Robert son of William in 

 1 H8, 10 f John son of William in I 3 5 3 and I 3 54," 

 of William in 1 3 5 6, 1398 and 1408,' 2 of Richard 

 son of William, who granted the lands settled on him 

 by his father to Thomas Braugh 

 in 1324, 13 of William atte 



i + io, 14 and of Thomas 

 Water of Ware, ' gent ill 



1427. 1 



The 



Waters, held of the manor of 

 Ware, first appears by name 

 in the reign of Henry VII, 

 when it was in the possession 

 of Sir Thomas Bourchier, kt., 

 who died seised of it in 1492. 

 His nephew Henry Earl of 

 Essex succeeded him. 16 He 

 apparently retained the capital 

 messuage called Waters Place 

 (see below), but alienated the 

 which in 1505 is said to have b< 

 of Hugh Chapman and Agnes 



upied by John seem to have acquired it from Margaret Martok, 

 against whose executors they brought a suit in 

 Chancery for having kept back the title deeds. In 

 this suit it is called the manor of John at Waters. 18 

 This a/rcounts for the alternative name of Martocks, 

 which began to be used in the 1 6th century. 



From Hugh Chapman the manor descended to his 

 son Robert, to John son of Robert, to Henry son of 

 John, and then to John, probably son of Henry. 12 In 

 1 590—1 (Hilary Term) John Chapman conveyed it 

 to Theophilus Adams, 2 " probably in trust for John 

 Watts, 21 who in 1601 settled it on his son John on 

 his marriage with Mary daughter of Adam Bayntnge 

 of Little Bentley, co. Essex. 23 Sir John Watts 

 (knighted in 1603), 23 alderman of London, died in 

 1616. 21 His son John died before 1651, when 

 Mary Watts, widow, with John Watts, evidently her 

 son, conveyed the manor to John Buck of Hamby 

 Grange in Leverton, co. Lincoln, 24 created a baronet 

 in 1660. 2S In 1664 Sir John Buck conveyed it to 

 Sir Cyril Wich and M.itihew Pinder," evidently 

 trustees for Thomas Bird, who was in possession in 

 1666. 28 It descended to his nephew and heir 

 Richard, who sold it in 1701 together with the 

 capital messuage called 'Matrox,' the mill, and fields 

 called Bridge Mead, Down Mead, Dickholm Mead, 

 Grimswood Mead and Queach Valley 20 co Arthur 

 Windus. In T 71 1 the heirs of Windus joined with 

 mortgagees of the manor and creditors of Windus in 

 conveying it, with the mill belonging, to the trustees 

 of Felix Calvert of Hunsdon, for a settlement on 

 Felix and his wife Elizabeth, with reversion to their 

 eldest son Peter. 30 He, according to Clutterbuck, 

 sold it in 1767 to Norton Hutchinson, whose eldest 

 son the Rev. Julius Hutchinson succeeded. 31 The 

 latter conveyed the estate to Ambrose Procter, by 

 whom it was devised to his great-nephew George 

 Procter. 32 



In 1814 George Procter rebuilt the manor-house 

 near the mill and afterwards (1818) let it to Sir James 

 Mackintosh, who had been appointed professor of law 

 and general politics at Haileybury College and who 

 lived there until 1824, when he resigned the pro- 

 fessorship. 33 In 1826 Procter sold the manor to 

 manor of Waters, Dr. Abraham Wilkinson of Forty Hall, Enfield, who 

 :n in the possession lived there for a short time and then let it to William 

 his wife. 17 They Tugwell Robins, solicitor in the case of Wellesley v. 



ing and other feoffees 



"Cat. Pet. ,4 01 -5, pp. 

 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 1075. 

 "Cat. Pa,. 1422-9, p. 572. 



* Ct. of Rfq. bdle. 130, no. 49. 



5 Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 43 & 4, 



iz. , Trin. z jaa. I. 



1 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxliii 



'■■ Chan. 



(S« 



*), 



5 Feet of F. He 



6 Ibid. Mich. 1-. 

 ■ Ibid. He. 



Trin. 17 Chas 

 ill. III. 



s D. Enr. HiL 13 Geo. II, 

 to. 1 ; Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 13 Geo. II! 

 In this conveyance (1739) it is called ths 



Grimbalds alias Whitboro.igh Hill. 

 ' Ccl. Close, 1330-3, p. 303. 



10 Ibld - '3+6-9, p. 513. 



" Ibid. 1349-;+, p. 523 ; Chan. Inq. 

 a.q.d. hie 3 1 z, no. n ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 

 A 966. 



11 Cal. Clair, 1354-60, p. 32; ; Anct. 

 D. (P.R.O.), A;, 95,5196, 5216. 



IJ Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 3420, 3388. 



llfP.C. 

 [ Dogett) desired to be huried ir 

 pariah church of Ware, and the boi 

 Isabel, his late wife, to be taken uj 

 laid by his honea. He left many 

 ments to the church. 



17 Ct. of Req. Idle. 4, ao. £4 ; bdl 

 no. 60. 



18 Early Chan. Proc. hdle. iz8, no. 6 



19 See Notes of F. Dly. Co. Ea t 

 7 Eli*. ; Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 3 

 no. 75 ; bdle. 70, no. 22 ; bdle. zz, 

 no. 6;; bdle. Z27, no. 5; 



the 



!. 16, 



" Rccov. R. Mich. t6;;, m. 3; ; Eait. 

 1656, m. 228. 



*> G.E.C. Bt'oitflagr, iii, 741. 



» Feet of F. Herta. HiL 1; 4 16 

 Chas. II. 



*» Com. Pleas D. Enr. Eaat. 19 Chat. H, 

 m. 2 ; see alao Feet of F. Herta. Ealt. 

 2i Chas. II; Com. Pleas D. Enr. E«it 

 10 Will. Ill, m. 6 ; Recov. R. Mich. 1 1 

 Will. Ill, m. 4.1, 



'" See Fee 



of I 



Her 



» Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 33 Eliz. 



*' For Thomas WattsofWare, yeoman, 

 probably father of this Thomas, ace will 

 printed in Hem. Get. i, 369. 



» Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 4 3 & 44 Eliz. 



" Shaw, Knight! of Engl, ii, iz8. 



w Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z),cccliv, 135. 



390 



Will. Ill ; Recov. R. Trin. jz Will. Ill, 

 m. 118; Feet of F. Mich. 10 Anne ; 

 Com. Pleae D. Enr. Mich, ro Anne, 

 m. to. For dealings with it bythe Calvert 

 family see Feet of F. Herts. HiL 9 Geo. I ; 

 Recov. R. Hil. 9 Geo. I, m. 77 ; Feel 

 of F. Herta. Trin. z8 Geo. II; Recov. 

 R. HiL 7 Geo. Ill, m. 234. 



!l See Recov. P. Eait. 19 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 47. 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit iii, J05. See 

 Berwick in Standon. 



" Did. Nat. Bigg. 



