A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



The Great Extern railway passes through the 

 east of the parish and Rye House station is in the 

 extreme north-east. 



The subsoil of the parish is chiefly London Clay 

 on chalk, but in the east this gives place to Woolwich 

 and Reading Beds, beyond which is a strip of Allu- 

 vium by the Lea. In the north-east a wedge of 

 Chalk sep-irates the two latter. There are many 

 gravel-pits in the parish. 



Lampits Field was inclosed in 1 84 1. Both awards 

 are in the custody of the clerk of the peace." The 

 chief common fields were Lowefeld, Westfeld, Mid- 

 dlefeld (or Ditchfeld), Estfeld (or Ryefeld), Lampit- 

 feld, and Southfeld. The chief common meadows 

 were Dole Mead, Ditch Mead, Chaldwell Mead and 

 South Mead."' 



Other place-names that occur in Broxbourne and 

 Hoddesdon are Phelippesholm, Flodgate Bridge, 

 Huttescrofr, Beggeres-grene, Gosewellehelle, Algores- 

 holme, Loffeld (xiii cent.) ; Hathell, le Newelonde, 

 Coppethorne (xivcent.) ; Pikottes, Sawells, Sampsons, 

 Brodcredyng, Lonehedge and ftockinges (xv and 

 xvi cent.) ; Tunefield, Harfield, Cockabury Slable 

 (xvii cent.) ; Morsforlong, Sparcwynesmade, Lawe- 

 feld, Godewelleacrc, Bbkemad, Pafoghel and Curst- 

 marsh. 



The manor of BROXBOURNE was 

 MAS'ORS held in the time of Edward the Con- 

 fessor by Stigand, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bun', who,c reeve held half a hide of it as a soke- 

 man. In 1086 it wa- held by Adeliza wife of 

 Hugh dc Gr.mtmesnil, and was assessed at 5 J hides.' 3 

 Ivo de Grantmesnil, son and heir of Hugh,' 4 gave 

 Broxbourne to the abbey -I Ikrm 'inLev, but as a con- 

 sequence of his having previously mortgaged his estates 

 to Robert Count of Meulan and first Earl of Leicester 

 to defray the expenses of his journey to the Holy Land 

 and dying on the way, Robert is said to have taken 

 possession of Broxbourne with the consent of the monks 

 of Bermondsey. 1 ' Robertdiedin IIl8,and Waleran, 

 his eldest son, took his father's Norman lands and 

 became Count of Meulan, 

 while Robert, the second son, 

 became Earl of Leicester and 

 inherited the English estates. 16 

 Robert F.-.rl of Leicester, son 

 of the latter, married in 1168 

 Parnell or Pctronilla, the 

 heiress of the Grantmesnils 

 and apparently granddaughter 

 of Ivo," shortly after which 

 Robert and Parnell, with the Th[ k 



consent of their sons William fitah.ebs. 

 and Robert, gave the manor *rgmi. 

 of Broxbourne to the Knights 

 Hospitallers. 18 King John confirmed th 

 1 199," and the manor remained in the ha 

 Hospitallers until the dissolution of thei 



1540.*" In 1 33 1 the king confirmed » charter of 

 the late prior, Thomas Larcher, by which he granted 

 the manor, reserving the lordship and royalty of hii 

 tenants there, to Edward de St. John for life, at 1 

 rent of 10 marks for the first 

 five years and of > marks for 

 the rest of the term." In 

 1539 it was leased to John 

 Sargeante, dyer, of London, 

 for twenty-nine years." 



In i 544 Broxbourn e 

 Manor, with woods of 70 

 pod, 



nd Lo 

 ited to John 

 I seised of it 

 it to hi; wife 



s called Brc 



Brodcredyng, 

 hedge, was gr 

 Cock," who di 

 ini ;5 7,leavir 



death it passed to his son Henry." Sir Henry Cock died 

 in March 1609-10, leaving two daughters, Frances, 

 the wife of Sir Edmund Lucy, and Elizabeth, who 

 married first Robert West and secondly Sir Robert 

 Oxenbridge. 15 Broxbourne was apportioned to Eliza- 

 beth, who married thirdly Sir 

 Richard Lucy about 1 6 1 7, and 

 died in 1645.** Sir Richard 

 survived her and continued 

 to hold the manor until his 

 death in 1667, when it passed 

 to Ursula Oxenbridge, daugh- 

 ter of Elizabeth Cock by her 

 second husband." Ursula was 

 the wife of Sir John Monson, 

 bart., K.B., who died in 1683, 

 and was succeeded by hisgrand- Monson, Lord Mon 



son Henry." Sir Henry Mon- «on. Or evrt duvtrm 

 son died childless in I 7 l8and £"'"■ 

 his brother William died in 



March 1726-7, when Broxbourne passed to hi 

 nephew John, son of a third brother George." Thi 

 Sir John Monson was created 

 Lord Monson of Burton 

 1728 and lived until 1748 



His 



and h 



John die 

 _ grand 



alsc 



ith his mother 

 Dowager Lady 

 Monson in selling the manor 

 of Broxbourne in 1790 to 

 Jacob Bosanquet." The latter 

 was succeeded in 1830 by his 

 son George Jacob Bosanquet, 

 whose daughter and only child 

 Cecily married Horace James 

 Smith, second son of Samuel 

 George Smith of Sacombe. 21 

 Upon becoming lord of the 

 manor of Broxbourne in right 

 Mr. Horace Smith assumed the su 



; Dujial 



*hmm R. 3*5; 

 799-800, 



"Cut. Pat. .3,0-4, p. ,01. 

 TregellM, Hit,, of Ihddti.hn, J 



-' MIsc.BkB.Lmd Rev.Rec.v 



"L.W P.Hen. fill, ax (1 



if his wife in 1866 

 name of Bosanquet." 



nan. Jnq. p.m. (Ser. 

 .id. ccciix, :oo. 

 '. <W Q. (Ser. 2), • 

 rt..ML-h. i S ja.1 

 WandQ. loc cit. 



*), i 



" G.E.C. Complex 

 fill, Aaliq. of "Hern. 209. 



» Ibid. ; Recov. R. Mich. 10 Geo. I, 

 it 165. » G.E.C. CampUtt Piingt. 



Jl Ibid. ; Recov. R. Eait. *+ Ceo. II, 



n. is;. 



177; Bufke, Landed G—trj 



