HERTFORD HUNDRED 



in office until 1361," when the Abbot of St. Albans 

 received a grant of the manor at farm. John of 

 Gaunt died early in 1 399, and his son Henry became 

 king in the same year as Henry IV ; thus Bayford 

 returned once more to the Crown, and was granted 

 for life to Henry's second queen, Joan of Navarre.' 8 

 Henry VI, upon his accession in 1422, granted the 

 manor in dower to his mother Katherine of France," 



^ V7 



fietrs de lis or. and a quarter gilts. 



queen of Henry V, and his successor Edward IV gave 

 it to his queen Elizabeth Woodville for her life."" 



In 1489 Henry VII leased the manor-house of 

 Bayford and the demesne lands to Robert Markham 

 for seven years," at the end of which term he received 

 the lease for another seven years," and in 1 504. a 

 further term of twenty years was granted to Robert's 

 widow, Agnes Markham. 15 



In 1544 Henry VIII granted to John Knighton 

 'all the manor ofBayford, with members and appur- 

 tenances, to be held of the king and his successors as 

 of the duchy of Lancaster by the service of one- 

 fortieth of a knight's fee.' 11 '" John Knighton died 

 iu 1 586, leaving the manor of Bayford or Bayfordbury 

 to his eldest son George,*' who died in 161 z, leaving 

 a son John and a daughter Anne. ,s John Knighton 

 held the manor until his death in 1635, when it 

 passed to his nephew Knighton Ferrers, son of his 

 sister Anne and Sir John Ferrers. ,s Knighton Ferrers 

 mortgaged Bayford to Edmund Knight in 1638 for 

 £2,000, and died in 1640, leaving the debt to his 

 wife Katherine, who was to pay it oft' and hold 

 the manor for her life, after which it was to pass to 

 their daughter Katherine." Katherine the younger, 

 when twelve years old, married Thomas Fanshawe, 

 afterwards Viscount Fanshawe 16 of Dromore, and 

 wa; holding Bayford in l6;i," but in 1655 they 

 conveyed it to John Mayo," who was succeeded by 

 his son Israel Mayo in 1675. 51 Israel Mayo, who died 

 in 1715, sold the manor in 1713" to Charles Kent 

 and Joseph Wright, 53 trustees for Henry Long, whose 

 daughter and heiress Jane was lady of the manor in 

 1728." Jane married Charles Adelmare or Caesar 



BAYFORD 



the younger " of Bennington, and hnd two daughters 

 —Jane, who married Charles Cottrcll in 1755," 

 and Harriet, who later married Robert Chester." 

 After the death of Charles Caesar in 1740 (his wife 

 had died in 1737)" Bayford was divided between 

 Jane Cottrell and Harriet, 1 " who joined in conveying 

 their moieties of the manor to Sir William Baker in 

 1758."° Sir William was succeeded in 1770 by his 

 son William Baker, M.P. for Hertfordshire,*" who 

 died in 1814°' and whose grandson and successor 

 William Robert held the manor and died in 1896. 





if Bayfordbury. Parry irm 

 mng greyhound benvttn it, 

 :nd thru qumrtjhih all 1 



William Clinton Baker, son of the latter, inherited 

 Bayford and died in 1903, and his son Mr. Henry 

 William Clinton Baker is the present lord of the 



The liberties of sac, thol, theam and infangentheof 

 were granted to Roger de Valognes with his lands by 

 the Empress Maud 1 '* in 114,1, When the manor 

 was in the king's hand view of frankpledge and other 

 courts were held together with Essendon. 65 Court 

 leet, view of frankpledge, amendment of the assize of 

 bread and ale and free warren were included in the 

 grant of Bayford Manor to John Knighton in 1 544 6a 



In 1278 it was stated that the men of Bayford 

 had been accustomed to fish in their waters with 

 'botere!l' and other small engines until William de 

 Valence had hindered them some twenty years before. 



"Each. Enr. Accts. 35 Edw. Ill, 8, 

 m. F; Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bk.. lii, 

 fol. ;8. 



!a Ct. R.(Gen. S=r.), portf. 77,00. 997. 



M D. of Lane. Misc. Bks. xviii (2), fol. 

 49- 



30 Fete of F. Div. Co. Edw. IV, file 76, 



31 Duchy of Lane. Miic. Bks. xxi, fol. 



"Ibid. 174 d. By his will of 1503 

 Robert Markham desired to be buried in 

 Bayford Church (P.C.C. 13 Holgrave). 



i, fol. 



,s G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



19 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 1651. 



M Recov.R. East. 165;, rot. 163. 



-, 32 Geo. II, pt. vi, 1 

 at Hertingfordbury. 



5 » Recov. R. Hil. 28 Geo. II, rot. 

 Mich. 30 Geo. II, no. 117. 



fi0 Close, 32 Geo. II, pt. vi, no. 21 



61 Chitterbuck, Hin. of Ihns. ii, , 



63 M. I. 



03 Burke, Landed Gentry (1906). 



S4 Round, op. cit. 2S6. 



M Ct. R. (Gen. Ser.), portf. 77, no. 



907. 



« Duchy of Lar 



. MiS: 



Bks. 



