THE HUNDRED OF HERTFORD 



Parts of ALL SAINTS and ST. JOHN'S, 

 HERTFORD, including the liberties of 

 Bbickendon and Little Amwell 



GREAT AMWELL 



BAYFORD 



BENGEO 



LITTLE BERKHAMPSTEAD 



BROXBOURNE with HODDESDON 



CHESHUNT ST. MARY 



ESSENDON 



HERTINGFORDBURY 



ST. ANDREW RURAL 



STANSTEAD ST. MARGARET'S 



STAPLEFORD 



TEWIN 



WORMLEY 



and HERTFORD BOROUGH 



Hertford Hundred lies in the valley of the Lea, for the most part to the 

 south of the borough of Hertford, which it almost encircles. Little is 

 known of the spot where the courts 



were held, but it was apparently 

 customary for the sheriff's tourn to 

 be held at Ware Bridge in the 14th 

 century. 9 The hundred adjoins the 

 counties of Essex and Middlesex on 

 the east and south respectively. 



The hundred in 1086 was some- 

 what more extensive than at the 

 beginning of last century. It origi- 

 nally included Bramfield on the 

 north-west. 3 Four men and the 

 reeve together with the whole town- 

 ship (yillata) of Bramfield were wont 

 to plead and to be geldable with the 

 rest of the king's 'foreign' [formsec) 

 hundred of Hertford ; but about 

 1260 Abbot John of St. Albans 

 annexed Bramfield to his liberty/ 

 and thenceforward it was accounted 



part of the abbots' hundred of Cashio. 6 Index Map to the Hundrkd of Hertford 



The Domesday Survey also locates 



the unidentified holdings of Stiuicesworde and Bricewold within the hundred 

 of Hertford. 6 The royal jurisdiction here as elsewhere was considerably 

 diminished by the liberties exercised by religious houses over their lands. 

 The Abbot of Westminster claimed exemption from suit at the hundred 



1 This list represents the extent of the hundred in 183 i {Pop. Ret. 183 I, i, 248). In the arrangement 

 of the parishes of Hertford Borough the boundaries adopted under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1S35 

 have been used. 



2 Chan. Inq. p.m. 50 Edw. Ill (1st nos.), no. 3 ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D 641. 

 8 V.C.H. Herts, i, 34.W. * Pkc. di Quo Wart: (Rec. C01 

 6 V.C.H. Hens, ii, 310. « Ibid, i, 331, 341. 



.), 290. 



