A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



confirmed by Edward the Confessor." Between ! i -4 

 and 1 1K4 Henry II confirmed the manor to the monks 

 who had replaced the canons at Waltham." He 

 gave with it freedom from geld and toll and the for- 

 feitures of criminals, 18 thus 

 establishing the 'liberty.' The 

 Abbot of Waltham duly 

 claimed and obtained freedom 

 from tallage in 1227." The 



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state at Brickendon, having ^f ^lf ^\f 



,o church, was regarded as ^"1 V P^ 



.elonging to the parish of All V \<5r>> J 



The liberty was held by ^»ij l >^^ 



I the Dissolu- 

 tion. 1 ' Henry VIII granted Arga^acZs ItpaiUJ 

 it to Thomas Knighton," with ,atle with jive croaltu 

 the advowson of All Saints' f"h <" '*"■""■ 

 Church, and it descended with 



All Saints" (q.v.) to Sir William Soame, who con- 

 veved it to Edward Clarke in 1682." Clarke's son 

 Thomas held the manor in 1728" and I730. !6 On 

 his death in 1754 he is said to have left the manor 

 to Mrs. Jane Morgan, his niece, whose youngest son 

 John died in 1792 and left half to his sister Jane 

 and the other half to the representatives of his aunt 

 Anne Freke. From Jane's son, Sir Charles Morgan, 

 the one moiety passed finally to his grandchild Selina 

 Rose Catherine wife of the Rev. W. T. Marsh 

 Lushington-Tilson." The other moiety came to 

 Anne Freke's two granddaughters — Mary wife of 

 the Rev. Edward Lewis and Fanny wife of the Rev. 

 Francis Lewis." 



In 1881 the representative; of Mary and Fanny 

 Lewis joined with Mrs. Lushington-Tilson in a sale 

 of the whole manor to Messrs. Paine & Brettell of 

 Chertsey. It was afterwards acquired from them by 

 Mr. Hill of Nottingham, who sold it to Mr. George 

 Pearson, father of Mr. Ernest Pearson, the present 



Three virgates in Brickendon which had been held 

 by three brothers before the Conquest were held by 

 Baldwin, a serjeant of the king, at the time of the 

 Domesday Survey.™ This holding was probably 

 identical with the I carucate in Brickcndon which 

 Miles de Somery (d. about 1229)" held byserjeanty 

 at the king's storehouse (de d'upensa)? 1 Among the 

 co-heirs of Adam grandson of Miles dc Somery was 

 J..hn son of Ela Monchcnsey." It is therefore 

 possible that it was over the holding of Miles de 

 Somery that Richard Monchenscy had a grant of free 

 warren in 1333." 



Another holding of 1086 consisted of 5 virgates 

 which a certain henbard held of Geoffrey de Bech 

 as a manor. It had been held by Levcron, a man of 

 Archbishop Stigand's." This is probably identical 

 with the quarter of a kniyht'i fee in Brickcndon held 

 of Alice Counte:>s of Kent at her death in March 

 I4I5-i6. m The Earls of Kent had evidently inherited 

 their rights from Margaret sister and heir of Thomas 

 second Lord Wake, who was descended from Emma 

 daughter of Baldwin son of Gilbert de Clare. 17 The 

 latter had succeeded Geoffrey de Bech in Eastwick 

 (q.v.). The overlordship descended with the manor 

 of Ware to Edward Earl of Warwick." After his 

 execution in November 1499 his interest in the manor 

 was assigned to Margaret Countess of Richmond, 

 grandmother of Henry VIII," and on her death it 

 lapsed to the Crown. 10 



Of the actual tenants of this holding little ii 

 known. About 1282 the tenant was possibly one of 

 the name of ' Bellere.' " A ' manor of Brickcndon ' 

 was held in January 1250-1 by Philip Darcy, who 

 had a grant of free warren within it at that date." 



The third holding in the Domesday Survey was 

 1 virgate which Walter held of Geoffrey de Mande- 

 ville." It had previously been held by Oswi, one of 

 the men of Asgar the St.iller. It is possible that this 

 is a part of the knight's fee in Amwell (and Brickcn- 

 don) subsequently held by the Abbot of Westminster 

 of Hugh de Oddingselles." This fee was probably 

 attached to the manor of the abbey at Great Amwell, 

 which included lands in Brickendon." The monks 

 of Westminster produced Saxon charters purporting 

 to be the gift of Brickcndon to the abbey by a certain 

 Aelfhelm Polga and the confirmation of the same by 

 Bishop Dunstan and King Edgar," but the latter is 

 certainly, and the former probably, a forgery." 



The Grange estate originated in copyhold and 

 freehold land of the manor of Brickcndon Bury, 

 purchased by Benjamin Cherry of Hertford, gent., 

 and by htm bequeathed to his brother John Cherry. 

 The mansion now known as the Grange was built 

 by Benjamin son of John Cherry about the middle of 

 the last century. The property has recently been sold 

 by Mr. B. L. Cherry, grandson of Benjamin Cherry, 

 to Mr. John Trotter, who resides at the Grange.* 1 



The manor of JENN1NGSBVRT (Juveneles or 

 Juvcnelisbury, xiv cent. ; Jenaldesbury 'la Mote' or 

 Jovenellesbury, xv cent. ; Genyngisbury, xvi cent.) 

 was held as one knight's fee by Aymer de Valence 

 Earl of Pembroke in 1303." The manor was 

 always held in chief, but the service is recorded as 

 that of a quarter of a fee in the 15th century." The 



Acre had /20 land in 



rein dt Nivi/7[R c c. Cmn.], 



ry relates to Brickendon. The fortr 

 eckendon' ha. not been found. 

 'V.C.H. Htrh.1, 331A. 

 * Feud. Aidi, ii, 411. The identifier 



of the 'Man 



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ing and the fact that the Mandeville 

 family were benefactor! of We.tmiarter. 



" Add. R. (B.M.), 26828. 



" Birch, Cart. Sax. ili, io;o ; Krmble, 

 Cod, Dipt. 967. " y.C.H. Land, i, 414*. 



•' From information and deed, kindly 

 upplied by Mr. B. L. Cherry. 



" Feud. Aid,, ii, 4 34 . 



"Ibid. 44!,4!°- 



