A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



it was conveyed to John Say by John Edward and 

 Joan his wife," brother and sister-in-law of Thomas 

 Gloucester. Sir John Say died seised of Baas in 

 1478 and was succeeded by his son William," after 

 whose death in 1529 it passed to his daughter Mary 

 and her husband Henry Earl of Essex," and thence 

 to their daughter Anne, the wife of William Lord 

 Parr, created Marque=s of Northampton in 15+7-" 

 The marquess was attainted in 1553 and his lands 

 forfeited. 6 ' Queen Mary granted the manor to the 

 Earl of Arundel and others in 1553, to hold during 

 pleasure, apparently to the use of Anne Marchioness 

 of Northampton. ra Elizabeth granted it in 1 569 to 

 Sir William Cecil, 63 who also obtained releases of 

 title from Anne Parr 70 and other heirs of Sir William 

 Say." From that time Baas descended in the Cecil 

 family r * and eventually became amalgamated with 

 the manor of Hoddesdonbury. It is mentioned 

 separately as late as 1820." Courts held at Baas are 

 recorded from 1+0+ onwards." 



The manor of HODDESDONBURr seems to 

 have been also formed of lands held of the fees of 

 Mandeville and Richmond. Those held of the latter 

 fee owed a service of a quarter of a knight's fee to 

 the Earls of Richmond, u. 6d. rent for the ward of 

 the casde of Richmond and the service of inclosing 

 1 1 perches of hedge belonging to Cheshunt Park/ 1 

 The Mandeville fee descended to the Earls of Here- 

 ford through Maud, heiress of the Mandcvilles, who 

 married Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford, who 



died in 1220." A half fee in Hoddesdon remained 

 in the hands of the Bohuns" until the death of the 

 last Humphrey de Bohun in January I 372-3," when 

 it passed to his elder daughter Eleanor, who married 

 Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester and died 

 in 1 399." Eleanor left three daughters : Joan, who 

 also died in 1399," Isabel, who became a nun In 



i+oz. 



nd Anna, who married fir; 



Stafford and secondly his brother Edmund Earl of 

 Stafford, 81 and inherited her sister's lands. At the 

 death of Edmund in 1+03 " a redistribution of the 

 estates took place between the heirs of Eleanor and 

 Mary, daughters of Humphrey de Bohan, and 

 Hoddesdonbury fell to Mary'» son and heir Henry, 

 who ascended the throne as Henry V. The over- 

 lordship thus became vested in the Crown, and the 

 view of frankpledge at Hoddesdon was granted by 

 Henry VI to his mother Katharine in dower in 

 1422." The rolls of the courts of the honour of 

 Mandeville, parcel of the duchy of Lancaster, held 

 there in [539 and later are preserved at the Record 

 Office." 



The sub-tenant of the Mandeville fee at Hoddesdon 

 before the Conquest was Godid, and in 1086 it was 

 held of Geoffrey dc Mandeville by Ralph."* The neit 

 sub-tenants of whom there is record are the Bauing- 

 burn family, who probably 

 acquired the manor towards 

 the end of the 12th century. 

 The first to be mentioned in 

 Hoddesdon are Humphrey de 

 Bassingburn and his mother 

 Aubrey, who appear in 1242. Sl 

 This Aubrey was probably 

 identical with Aubrey the 

 wife of John de Bassingburn, 

 who was holding the manor 

 of Woodhall in Hatfield in 

 1 igS. 67 Humphrey was ap- 

 parently succeeded by another 



John de Bassingburn, 6 ' perhaps his brother John, 

 who is mentioned in 1243.*' John died about 1276* 

 and was succeeded by Stephen de Bassingburn, whose 

 son John was in possession by 1301-2." About 

 1323 Agnes dc Bassingburn, mother of this John, 

 died seised of Hoddesdon Manor, which she held for 

 the term of her life ' from the inheritance of Agnes, 

 daughter of John, son of the deceased Agnes.'" The 

 granddaughter Agnes, who was aged five in 1 323, 

 may have been assigned the manor by her father, but 

 in this case must have died young, for Stephen de 

 Bassingburn, son of John, was holding Hoddesdon 

 in 1333. Joan, widow of John de Bassingburn, was 

 then holding a third in dower. M 



Later in the same century the manor was held by 

 Thomas de Bassingburn. He was holding Astwick 

 (in Hatfield) in 1370, and presumably Hoddesdon 

 at the same time, for he is mentioned later as having 

 held it." He died before 1397, leaving an infant 



Wtpb* 



"Chan. Inq. F .m. 18 Edw. IV,no.4;. 

 For accounts of the manor during Sir 

 John Say", tenure see Tregellei, Hist, if 

 HedJado* ■ 



^Chan 

 56 Ct. . 



Inq. p.m. (S=r. 2), Li, 50. 



, Mie 



fbL 372 d. ; Feet 

 Hen. VIII. 



fiI G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



M Pat, 1 Mary, pt. ii, m. 11 

 "" Elding Ceddings, one of the 1 

 similarly granted, in 1569 (Char 



F '™'pa s r,, ] ' c,i ' 59) "- 



; "FeetofF. D,v."co."Hil. 12 F 



