HERTFORD HUNDRED 



.'if, Lord Bo- 



ivas succeeded bj- his son W 

 him less than a year, leaving a 

 under age." By l+oz the 

 manor had passed, probably 

 by sale, to John Norbury, 35 

 who had already in 1388 ac- 

 quired the manor of Bedwell 

 with lands and tenements in 

 Little Berkhampstead, 18 and 

 who in 1406 received a grant 

 of free warren and licence to 

 make a park in these manors." 

 From 1402 the manor of 

 Little Berkhampstead must 

 have followed the descent of £«'«. 

 Bedwell in Essen-don (q.v.), 



as it formed part of the possesions of the Marquess 

 of Exeter which were granted to Sir Anthony Denny 

 in IS47" I" iSoo it was sold by Sir Edward 

 Denny, grandson of Sir Anthony, to Humphrey 

 Weld, citizen and alderman of London. 58 From Sir 

 Humphrey Weld it passed in 1610 to his son John 

 (afterwards Sir John) Weld, 30 and the latter, dying 

 in 1623, left it to his son Humphrey, who was a 

 minor." Humphrey suffered a recovery of the 

 manor in 1639." In 1645 it was sold by Frances 

 Weld, widow of Sir John Weld, to Phineas Andrews, 

 a London merchant. 33 In 1655 Phineas Andrews 

 sold the manor to George Nevil] 3< of Stapie Inn, 

 London, who died in 1 679, leaving as heir a daughter 

 Elisabeth, the wife of Crom- 

 well Fleetwood. 55 She died 

 without issue in 1 692, !5 when 

 the manor passed to her cousin 

 John Nevill's son George," 

 who sold it in 1713 to Sir 

 John Dimsdale. M He died in 

 1726 and his widow was 

 owner of the manor in I 728.*' 

 As Sir John Dimsdale left no 

 issue, the heir under his will 

 was his cousin Thomas Dims- 

 dale," 1 who in 1768 was made 

 a baron of the Russian Empire. 

 He died in 1800, leaving the 

 manor to his second son 

 Nathaniel, who had received 

 a title similar to his father's. 



Nathaniel, dying unmarried in 181 r, left the manor 

 to his sister Anne Dimsdale, who was the possessor 

 in 1S17." 1 When she died unmarried in 1832 the 

 manor went by will to her nephew Thomas Robert 

 fourth Baron Dimsdale, on whose death without 

 male issue in 1865 it passed to his wife. On her 



■Mttktrc:;:. 



LITTLE 

 BERKHAMPSTEAD 



death in 1874 it was vested in her sons-in-law, Vice- 

 Admiral Sir Walter Tarlelon, K.C.B., and Colonel 

 David Henry Mackinnon, as trustees for her four 

 daughters, Lucinda widow of Major George Darby 

 Griffith, Ann widow of the Rev. Henry Dawson, 

 Finette Esther wife of Sir Walter Tarleton, and 

 Caroline Mrs. Mackinnon." The present lords of 

 the 





. M. Macltin 



and Mr. A. H. 



The 



of ST. JNDREtf' stands 

 CHURCH about the centre of the village, and con- 

 sists of chancel 22 ft. by 16 ft., north 

 chapel 13 ft. by lift. 6 in., nave 39 ft. 6 in. by 

 20 ft., north aisle 24 ft. by 15 ft., south porch and 

 wooden bell-cote ; all the measurements are internal. 

 The walls are faced with Kentish rag. 



The church is said to have been rebuilt about 1 647 

 on the site of an older building, but the only remains 

 of that date are parts of the east and west walls, the 

 rest of the church being modern. In the chancel 

 are some late 17th-century floor-slabs to the families 

 of Pendred, Nevill and Heetivood. 



There are three bells : the first, by John Waylett, 

 dated 1718 ; the second inscribed 'Ave Maria gracia 

 plena dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieribus' in 

 Lombardic lettering ; the third, dated 1621, cast by 

 Robert Oldfeild. 



The communion plate consists of a cup of 1565, a 

 cover paten of 1 576, another paten, 1721, an almsdish 

 with handles (silver), I 791, a plated flagon (Sheffield), 



[ 790, and two pewter almsdishes, c. i 72' 



The registers before 1812 

 isms, burials and m.irringfs 



:; lullr.,-.. 



l6 47 



1769 to 181 2 ; 



ADVOWSON 



the priory of Li 

 Henry his son 

 the king present 

 land and hi" 



(i) bap- 



I7o8; (ii) 



to 1762, 



and burials 



1762, 

 to 1747; (m) baptist 

 (iv) marriages 1756 to 1812. 



Hugh de Scales, lord of the manor 

 in the 1 2th century, gave the 

 church of Little Berkhampstead to 

 vves, and the grant was confirmed by 

 ind Hugh his grandson. 43 In 1397 

 ;d ' by reason of his wardship of the 

 )f William Botreaux, kt., tenant-in- 

 i399 Hi and again 



chief,'" and he also presented ii 



in I44.4, J6 but by what title does not appear. In 

 1538 the advowson of the church of Little Berk- 

 hampstead was granted to Thomas Cromwell with 

 the priory of Lewes." In 1612 Robert Earl of 

 Salisbury died seised of the advowson,* 6 and the 

 advowson was retained by his descendants," the 

 Marquess of Salisbury holding the patronage at the 



A house was licensed as a Pr^lvucn 

 lace in Little Berkhampstead in 1672. 



ting- 



