HERTFORD HUNDRED 



irmly of Juvenal was connected with this neigh- 

 ourhood about the year 1228, when William Juvenal, 

 s guardian of the heir of Alexander Alders (de Alno), 

 .ad the custody of the half of 2 carucates in Erickendon 

 nd Hoddesdon." Aymer de Valence died in 1324," 

 nd this manor was committed to the custody of 

 lugh le Despenser the younger is during the minority 

 f Lawrence de Hastings (afterwards Earl of Pem- 



ts piles. 



roke), who was Valence's grand-nephew and one of 

 is co-heirs." In February 1326-7, shortly after 

 be forfeiture of Despenser's land, the king assigned 

 enningsbury to Juliane widow of John de Hastings, 

 he father of Lawrence, in dower." She had married 

 ir Thomas Blount, kt., S6 and afterwards became the 

 <ife of William de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon. 57 

 1 134; Lawrence Earl of Pembroke, Juliane's son 

 id heir, released to her third husband and his heirs 

 1 right in the manor of Jenningsbury. 58 It thus 

 sscended to the Earl of Huntingdon's nephew John 

 r the death of Juliane in 1367/" 



ord Clin to 



In 1391 the manor was in dispi 

 - Grey, grandson of Elizabeth, 

 arl of Pembroke, who had 

 ed without issue, and Richard 

 albot and othen, represen- 

 tives of the second sister of 

 awrence's great- uncle, Aymer 

 : Valence. 60 In accordance, 

 wever, with the settlement 



1345 Jenningsbury re- 

 amed in the Clinton family 

 itil William Lord Clinton, 

 andsonofjohn Lord Clinton 

 entioned above, enfeoffed 

 mon Stratford and others. 61 

 he feoffees transferred the 

 wor to Richard Clitherow 

 d John Chamberleyn, chap- 

 n." The tenant in 1402 wa: 



tof Li 



n Reginald 



; John 



vife Anne and 

 1 15 16, leaving 



• the family of Gardine 

 r of London and Mar 



ALL SAINTS AND ST. 

 JOHN'S, HERTFORD 



Clitherow, 6 ' and Richard Clitherow of Kent, esq., 

 conveyed to Richard Claidich and others on 3 April 

 1415, evidently in trust for his son and heir Richard, 

 upon whom the feoffees settled the manor in 1443. 61 

 William Lord Clinton was returned as tenant in 

 1428," and, as in the case of Pirton (q.v.), his son 

 and successor John apparently attempted to oust 

 Roger son of Richard Clitherow from Jennings- 

 bury. 00 Roger died on iz March 1455, and the 

 manor apparently passed to his daughter Eleanor wife 

 of John Norres" of Goldstone, co. Kent. * A John 

 Norres, apparently the younger brother of William 

 Norres, who succeeded John in Goldstone, 80 held 

 Jenningsbury jointly with his wife Isabel. He died 

 on 12 October 1485, and his widow married Henry 

 Marney.™ Edmund Norres, son and heir of John 

 and Isabel, probably sold the manor to Edward 

 Sulyard/ 1 who bequeathed it to his 

 their heirs n He died on 30 Mar. 

 a son and heir William/' 



The manor passed by sale 1 

 Henry son of Henry Gardin 

 his wife were dealing with it 

 in 1552. u Their son John 

 was styled 'of Jenningsbury,"'' 

 and the manor descended to 

 his son Henry Gardiner of 

 Jenn!-if:sburv,' h whose daugh- 

 ter and ultimate heir married 

 Henry Dunster.' 7 ' Henry 

 Dunster of Jenningsbury, esq.,' 

 was indicted for not repairing 

 a footbridge on a footway from 

 Hertford to Ware in 1671, 78 

 and in 1683 refused to pay 

 his quota of the rate for build- 

 ing a house of correction. 79 

 His wife survived him. 6 " Upon 



her death in 1 7 1 8 her estates descended to her son 

 Giles. 6 ' He died childless in 1724, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his nephew Henry Dunster. 83 Upon the 

 death of the latter without issue in 1754 the estate 

 of Little Amwell with Jenningsbury passed to his 

 nephew Henry Dunster, who died on 23 August 

 1 79 1. 53 In accordance with Henry Dunster's will 

 the manor was sold to George Townshend Earl of 

 Leicester, from whom it was purchased by Lord John 

 Townshend 8 ' of Balls Park, great-grandfather of the 

 sixth Marquess Townshend, who is the present owner. as 



The manor of LITTLE AMWELL, sometimes 

 known as LITTLE AMWELLBURY or RUSHEN,™ 

 was among the possessions of the abbey of Waltham 

 Holy Cross at its dissolution on 23 March 1540. 8 ' 



75 Ibid. 



