A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Gloucestei and William Thornton." John Edward, 

 brother and heir of Thomas Gloucester, conveyed the 

 manor to Lord Sudeley and others, who in 14.4S 

 demised it to John Say and certain co-feoffees," Sir 

 John Say died seised of it in 1478." The manor of 

 Periers then followed the descent of Baas and Hoddcs- 

 don, and with them came into the possession of Sir 

 William Cecil in I 572. S7 For some years it was held 

 with Theobalds. 



In connexion with a dispute about the River Lea, 

 which was referred to the judges in 1594, it was 

 stated that the honour of the manor of Theobalds 

 paid £i 6s. &J. a year to tie lord of the manor 

 of Periers for the course of the water going through 

 his ground from Lea to Cheshunt Mill until both 

 the manors came to the Lord Treasurer. 6 * In 1608 

 part of the manor of Periers was inclosed in the king's 

 park, 65 the residue of the manor with the manor- 

 house being leased in the same year for thirty-one 

 years w to Thomas Dewhurst," son of Barnard 

 Dewhurst, formerly English secretary to Lord 

 Burghley." Thomas Dewhurst did not live for the 

 term of his lease, and in the survey of 1 6z 2 the manor 

 of Periers was included in the manor of Theobalds. 75 

 In 1629 the site of the manor was leased to Sir 

 William Gardiner for twenty-one years." The subse- 

 quent descent of the manor is not very clear. It was 

 granted in 1661 to George Duke of Albemarle with 

 TheobaSds, 7i with which it was still held in 1699." 

 In 1774, however, it was held with the manor of 

 Beaumond Hall by Hannah, Mary and Robert Sax." 

 It subsequently pas ed by marriage to — GrifFenhoofe, 

 whose devisees sold it in 1842 to Matthew son of 

 Isaac and Judith Munt of Kingston, Jamaica. In 

 1851 Mr. Munt sold it to James Fort, who was 

 the possessor in 1874," since when it has passed to 

 Mr. G. F. H. Grant. 



Cussans suggests that the manor of BEAUMOND 

 HALL derives its name from Robert Beaumont, third 

 Earl of Leicester, who during the reign of Richard I 

 gave the adjoining manor of Broxbourne to the 

 Knights Hospitallers.' 9 As, on the eve of the Disso- 

 lution, the manor of Beaumond Hall formed part of 

 the possessions of the hospital of St. Mary without 

 Biihopsgate, 80 it was more probably identical with 

 the lands in Chcshunt which were granted to the 

 hospital of St. Mary by Richard de Periers in 1297. 91 

 That this was the case is further suggested by the 

 survey of 1650, which describes the manor as being 

 ' intermixed with .... the Manner of Periers.'' 5 

 In 1540 the manor of Beaumond Hall was granted 

 by Henry VIII to Thomas Wrothe of Enfield. 83 

 The latter appears to have sold it in 1572 to Sir 

 William Cecil." It evidently followed the descent 



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of the Manno 1 afore- 

 said extend to Wormeley 

 Woodd on the North and on 

 the River Leigh on the East 

 And on the Lande of the 

 Earle of Salisbury called 

 Bassetts on the West and unto 

 the Landes of Thomas Dacres o 

 some time after this the manor was apparently held 

 with Theobalds ; that was the case in 1699, when 

 it is described as ' Beaumonts and Periers,' M and in 

 1 734- 8 ' By 1774, however, it had become separated 

 from Theobalds and was held jointly with Periers,"' 

 with which it subsequently descended. 



CLARKES alias LOCKETS alias TEBBS was a 

 tenement or farm-house, let to Joan Ireton for life in 

 1618. It was included in the manor of Beaumond 

 and Periers in 1622 B1 and in Periers in 1650," but 

 by 1699 it had apparently become merged in Theo- 

 balds." 



The manor called LA MOTE first appears in the 

 14th century, held of the Earls of Richmond and of 

 other neighbouring lords, by the family of Valence, 

 Earls of Pembroke. Aymer dc Valence Earl of 

 Pembroke died seised of it in 1324, and Mary his 

 widow held the manor for life after the death of her 

 husband, and died seised in ] 377.** The heir was 

 John de Hastings, descendant of Isabel, sister of Aymer 

 de Valence. John de Hastings Earl of Pembroke 

 died in 1389 seised of the manor of La Mote, and 

 as he died without issue his heir was Reginald de 

 Grey, whose grandmother Elizabeth was daughter of 

 Isabel de Hastings, sister and co-heir of Aymer de 

 Valence." In 1414 Reginald de Grey conveyed 

 the manor to Robert Bishop of London and others," 

 who were probably trustees, as by 14.39 the manor 

 had become divided into moieties," held apparently 

 by two heiresses. One moiety, which was conveyed 

 by Robert Ellerbck and Agnes his wife to John Fray 

 in 1439, seems to be the manor de la Mote which 

 in 1507 Hugh Clopton and Katherine his wife 

 surrendered by a fine to Edmund Denny and others," 



