A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



court for his tenant* at Amwell, the Knights Templars for theirs in Benr^eo. 

 The tenants of Waltham Holv Cross had a similar exemption in the liberty 



of Bricken'don and at Wormley. The men of the hospital of St. Bartholomew 

 atTewin, and those of Hertford Priory, Mcrton Priory and the priory of Holy 

 Trinity Aldgate, had all withdrawn their suit from the hundred by 1278. 7 



The hundreds of Hertford and Braughing were usually farmed jointly by 

 a single bailiff.- The value of Hertford Hundred in 1278 was £10 yearly.' 

 Early in the year 13 19 inquisition was made as to the possibility 01 severing 

 these two hundreds from the body of the county ; but their value was 

 uncertain, since the sheriff accounted for the whole county in gross. 10 In 

 1335 the petition of Edmund ' de Bolestroda,' a servant (valet) of Henry of 

 Lancaster, who desired to hold the two hundreds severally at farm, was rejected, 

 as it was proved to the Council that they were of the body of the county and 

 could not be separated." No such consideration weighed with Queen 

 Elizabeth, who in 1571 granted these and other hundreds to William Cecil 

 Lord Burghlev and his heirs, to hold in fee farm. 12 Burgbley's son, Robert 

 Earl of Salisbury, bequeathed them to his son and heir William, 18 and they 

 have descended with the earldom of Salisbury. 



1 Pin,-, dt Quo U\vr. (Rec. Com.), 276 et set]. ; cf. Uund. ft. (Rec. Com.), i, 190. 



s Assize R. 318, m. 18 ; Hardy, Sin. R. (Herts. Co. Rec), i, 2S, 54, 64, 319 ; Memo. R. (Exch. 

 L.T.R.), Hil. 11 Jas. I, 'Recorda,' m. 294. In 1297 John of Baylor J firmed these two hundreds and also 

 Broadwater and Hitchin. a Assize R. 323. 



lu Memo. R. (Exch. L.T.R.), Hil, 12 Edw. II, ' Brevia,' m. 78. " Pari. R. ii, 93d. 



1= Pat. 13 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 25 (grant begins m. 21). 1! Will l'.C.C. 49 Fenncr. 



