HERTFORD HUNDRED 



CHESHUNT 



:e in 1477 his estates 

 n 1+84 Richard III 

 i-nt for life to Walter 

 as killed at Bosworth in 

 is granted for life by Henry VII 

 of Richmond, 1 ' who held it 



reversion returned to the Crown." The manor 

 continued to be held by Elizabeth Lady Say, widow 

 of John Norbury, whose life interest was regranted 

 to her in 1 46 1 " by Edward IV, and was exempted 

 from the Resumption Act of 1461." In the same 

 year the reversion after the death of Elizabeth Lady 

 Say was granted for life to Sir John Clay, Joan his 

 wife, and John his son.*' In spite of this grant, after 

 the death of Elizabeth Lady Say the manor was 

 granted in 1465 to George Duke of Clarence and 

 heirs of his body. 18 



On the attainder of Claren 

 passed to the Crown, 1 ' and 

 granted the manor of Chesh 

 Devereux Lord Ferrers, " who w 

 1+85." In 1+87 it 

 to Margaret Count 



until her death in 1509." In I 5 17 two annuities 

 of £10 each were provided out of the issues of the 

 lordship of Cheshunt for Katharine wife of Leonard 

 Pole, nurse to the Princess Mary," and in 1525 the 

 manor, with many others, was granted to Henry 

 Fitzroy Duke of Richmond," who died without 

 heirs in 1536. In 1538 Joan Brignan, widow, re- 

 ceived a grant of an annuity of 5 marks out of the 

 manor of Che 5 hunt in consideration of her services 

 to Henry Duke of Richmond in his childhood. ifi 

 Edward VI in I 547 granted the reversion of the 

 site of the manor, then held by Henry Sell, yeoman, 

 pricker of the king's buckhounds, with the manor 

 itself, to Sir John Gates," who was executed for 

 treason in 1553." The manor, having reverted to 

 the Crown once more, was granted in 155410 Sir 

 John Huddleston, 53 who immediately sold it to John 

 Cock of Broxbourne. 60 From 

 this date the manor of Ches- 

 hunt followed the descent of 

 Broxbourne (q.v.) until 1782, 

 when it was sold by John 

 third Lord Monson to George 

 Prescott. It descended to his 

 son George William Prescott, 

 Sheriff of Herts, in 1793-4, 

 created a baronet in 1 794, 

 who died in 1801, then to 

 his son Sir George Beeston Ph^cott, baronet. 



Prescott, who died in 1840, &% ZuUiTZ?'™" 

 then to the latter's son Sir '" ™ 



William Prescott, and in 1850 



to Sir George Rendlesham Prescott, fourth baronet, 6 ' 

 whose son Sir George Lionel Lawson Bagot Prescott 

 succeeded in I 894 s * and is the present owner. 



Cheshunt Park is mentioned in 1339, when John 

 Duke of Britanny complained of trespass in his park 

 at Cheshunt. 51 The keepership of Cheshunt or Bran- 

 tingshey Park appears to have been held as a rule with 



of Cheshunt. 64 In 

 grant of it, from the 



t of the 



the office of" bailiff of th- 



I 5 1 9 Cardinal Wolscy re 



death of William Bedell, with \d. a day 



issues," and in 1538 a grant of the offii 



ship was made to Anthony Denny and Sir Thomas 



Hennage. 66 Cheshunt Park was apparently separated 



from the manor of Cheshunt before 1570, in which 



year it was conveyed by John Harrington to Sir 



William Cecil." In 1607 it passed with Theobalds 



to the Crown. M It appears subsequently to have 



followed the descent of the manor of Theobalds, with 



which it is now held. 60 The house, a mid-Victorian 



stuccoed building, is the residence of Mr. F. G. 



Debcnham. 



The manor of THEOBALDS is first mentioned in 

 1441, when it was confirmed by Henry VI to John 

 Carpenter, clerk, master of the hospital of St. Anthony, 

 London, John Somerset, chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 and John Carpenter the younger, citizen of London. 

 The manor, which is described as being lace of 

 John Hylton, clerk, with a messuage, 1^ virgates of 

 land and 5 acres of meadow in Cheshunt, was to 

 be held as of the manor of Cheshunt of Elizabeth, 

 Henry and John Norbury, and, after their deaths, of the 

 king by fealty and the rent of a bow worth is. or of is. 

 and a barbed arrow worth id. or of id. yearly for all 

 suits and services and secular demands." 1 A grant 

 was also made to these tenants of quittance from all 

 shires, leets, hundreds and sheriffs' tourns, from 

 vice on juries and inquisitions and fi 

 goods by royal officials without payn 

 grantees were probably feoffees to uses, 

 ssems to have come to Edward Green (se> 

 for in 1497 it was conveyed by Willi 

 and Cecilia his wife, Edward's 

 heir, to William D 

 Clement Carseyand h 

 and William Embrokf 

 sibly for p- 



seised of it in 152 

 left a son and h« 



the manor appt 

 ntil 

 conveyed by Rob' 

 in 1564 to Sir Wr 

 created Lord 



of 



The; 



essbrokes), 

 Craythorn 



p. 498. 



217. 



71 Ibid. 



v.Co.HiLijHen 

 .m.(Ser. 2 ),l*xx, 

 ■'. Herts. Mich. 2 



75 Ibid. Hit, and Trii 

 Eliott and Eleanor hi. 

 conveyance. Eleanor, 

 of dower. 



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