BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



Mornington. He resided there until 183;, a.tcr 

 which the house was occupied by Edward Downs of 

 Lincoln's Inn for ten years and subsequently by 

 Captain Moorsora, C.E., of Birmingham. It was 

 then left unoccupied until 1863, when being in a 

 t tate of decay it was pulled down. The manor was 

 sold in 1865 by Edward Smith Wilkinson to Thomas 

 Fowell Buxton of Easneye in Stanstead Abbots. 84 

 Mr. J. H. Buxton is the present owner. Mardocks 

 Mill, now pulled down, was situated on the River Ash. 



Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, who apparently 

 retained the capital messuage and some of the lands 

 of the manor of Waters (see above), which henceforth 

 was known as the manor or tenement of WATERS 

 PLACE, died without male issue in March 1539-4.0. 

 On his death the viscounty of Bourchier became 

 extinct. 36 His daughter Anne married William Lord 

 Parr, and a settlement of Waters Place was made on 

 them in 1542. 36 In 1543 Lord Parr was created Earl 

 of Essex, although he had that same year repudiated his 

 wife and obtained an Act of Parliament declaring her 

 children bastards. 37 He was created Marquess of 

 Northampton in February 1546-7, but was attainted 

 in 1553. Waters Place came to the Crown, where 

 it remained until 1563, when Elizabeth granted it to 

 the marquess for the maintenance of Anne. 38 After 

 her death without legitimate issue in January I 570-1 

 the queen granted it to Walter Devereux Viscount 

 Hereford 3 ' (great-grandson of John Devereux, husband 

 of Cicely, sister of Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex), 

 who was one of the few peers of the old blood who 

 remained faithful to the queen during the conspiracy 

 of the Duke of Norfolk and who was made Earl of 

 Essex in 157a. 40 In that year he conveyed Waters 

 Place to William Garnett, 41 from whom it was 

 acquired in 1573 by Ralph Bacsh. 43 He died in 

 1 598, leaving a son Edward, aged four. 43 After this, 

 apparendy, it was owned by Robert Hellam in 164.3 

 and by John Andrewes in 1652. 44 Waters Place is 

 now owned with Mardocks by Mr. J. H. Buxton. 45 



The estate of COSTNS or COUSTNS, sometimes 

 called a manor, was held in the reign of Henry VI 

 by John Hotoft. His widow Joan had it at her 

 death in 1445. 46 With Waters Place it was settled 

 on Lord Parr and his wife Anne in 1542, 47 and 

 descended to Ralph Baesh, who died seised of it. 

 In the survey of his lands it is mentioned as the 

 ' farm called Cosyns.' ^ The house now called 

 Great Cousins, near Fanhams Hall, is the residence 

 of Mr. Henry Page Croft, M.P., J.P. 



WARE 

 .other local 



BRAUGHTNS was the holdim. 

 family. Thomas Braughing was one of a number 

 of grantees of land from Richard atte Water in 

 1 444. 40 He or his son Thomas died seised of the 

 'manor called Braughyns ' in 1490, leaving a son 

 Thomas, aged forty. 60 There is no further trace of 



In 1326 John de Hengham, clerk, granted all his 

 tenements in the vill of Ware called IE NEIfE- 

 HALLE, 61 viz. two messuages, 200 acres of land, 

 7 acres of meadow, [£ acres of wood, to the Abbot 

 and convent of Waltham Holy Cross, 63 to hold of 

 the chief lords of the fee by the customary services. 

 This estate remained in the possession of the convent 

 until the Dissolution. Leases of it were granted to 

 Nicholas le Blake in 13+4 and 1365. 63 After the 

 Dissolution it was granted (in 1543) under the name 

 of the manor and tenement called Newhall, with two 

 woods called Abbottes Gardeyn containing 1^ acres, 

 and Tyle Wood, containing 3 acres, to Richard 

 Andrewes and Nicholas Temple, 54 probably trustees, 

 as they immediately alienated to John Dodyngton. 65 

 He died seised of it in January 1544-5, leaving a 

 son and heir John, aged twenty-two, is who conveyed 

 it in 1548 to Thomas Thorogood." No further 

 trace of it has been found until 1 783, when William 

 Ward and Anna Maria Gardiner, spinster, conveyed 

 it to William Leake. sa The estate is now owned by 

 Mrs. Croft of Fanhams Hall. The house and farm 

 buildings are inclosed by a homestead moat, one side 

 of which is now filled up. 58 " 



The manor of HALFHIDE or WESTMILL is 

 said to have been held by « family of Halfhide, 59 

 of whom a pedigree is given by Chauncy, who, 

 moreover, wrongly identifies it with the Westmill 

 held by Ralph de Tany in io86. eo In 1483 this 

 manor was in the possession of Richard Bull and his 

 wife Anne in right of Anne, 61 and they conveyed 

 in that year to Robert Gobye and Thomas Bacon. 

 In 1 65 1 George Bromley was holding it. 82 Accord- 

 ing to Chauncy, George son and heir of George 

 Bromley sold it to Thomas Fcltham, and it descended 

 to Ralph Feltham, who was holding in 1722. 63 In 

 1743 Ralph Feltham conveyed the manor to Crowley 

 and John Hallet, G4 trustees, apparently in trust for 

 Thomas Hall, 55 whose brother and heir Humphrey- 

 Hall was holding in I766. 6a It is said by Cussans 

 to have been sold in 1770 to John Scott, the 

 Quaker poet, and after the death of his daughter 

 Maria de Home Scott, who married Joseph Hooper, 



14?- 



. Braughing Hun 



lat 



G.E.C. Pierage, s.v. Essex. 

 16 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 33 Hen.VIII. 

 " G.E.C. Parage. 

 83 Pat. 5 Eliz. pt. ii, m. io. 

 39 tbid. 13 Eliz. P L x, m. 36. 

 " C.E.C. Parage, s.v. Essex. 

 "Recov, R. i 57I Trin. m. 1018. 

 " Feet of f. Herts. East. 15 Eliz. 

 « Chan. In,, p.m. (S.r. 2), ccliii, Si ; 

 CL of Wards, Feod. Surv. no. 17. 

 44 Sat. K. (Hen*. Co. Rec), I, 76. 

 ' ! Information from Mr. R. T. Andrews. 

 46 Chan. In,, p.m. 24 Hen. VI, no. ji. 

 "FeetofF. Herts. Hil. 33 Hen. VUI. 

 16 See ref. under Waters Place. 

 11 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C. 33B8. 

 M Chan. In,, p.m. (Scr. 2), vi, 78. 



-' IW. 



Hall i 



a apparently s 



Ware. The 



■599.1 



W.:rc 



61 Feet 



1. 66. : 



that the highway between War 

 Widford, near 'Old Hawk,' was rery jurors in 

 ruinous (S«j. R. [Herts. Co. Rec], i, 30). Wake in 

 There was also an Old Hall Mead south no. 59). 

 of Hartham in Hertford. 6U Hist. 



"Chan. In,, a.q.d. file 184, no. 9; 

 Cat. Pat. 1324.-7, p. 277 ; Add. Chart. 

 17671, 17672. 



■' :1 AJ.I. Chart. 17678, 17681. 



M L. and P. Hen. VIII, xviii (1), 981 

 (56). proof that 



M Ibid. 981 (64). 



- Chan. In,, p.m. (Ser. 2), lxxiv, 1. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 1 Edw. VI 



68 Ibid. Mich. 24 Geo. III. 



5S3 See ' Moated houses, moats ; 

 remains of moats,' by R. T. Andre 

 Herts. Mercury, 8 Nov. I 9 02. 



59 A John de Halfhide and Joan v. 

 of Walter de Halfhide were assessed 



391 



>,no.8). 



jSofChan.In,. p.m 



Anth). tfgM. 209. 



of F. Herts. 22 Edw. I' 



In 14.52 there is a eonveyan 



nanor of Halfhide from John a 



Shipton to Richard Mcrston (ib 



57). but there is 



this 







J. Div. Co. East. 1651. 

 :ov. R. Hil. 9 Geo. I 

 rtof F. Herts. Hil. 17 



