HERTFORD HUNDRED ST . andrew rural 



important holding of the two. In that year William 

 de Lodewyk received a grant of the manor of 

 Panshanger and of 80 acres of arable land, 7 of 

 meadow and 4 of wood in Blakemere.' Later con- 

 veyances of Panshanger mention these lands in 



Blakemere," and the inquisition on Walter Chiv.il 

 (see Panshanger) gives the manor of Blakemere as 

 well as that of Panshanger. 9 In 14.74 the manor of 

 Blakemere was conveyed with Panshanger," 1 but in 

 1492 lands only are mentioned," and after this date 

 it apparently became amalgamated with Panshanger. 



The manor of PJNSHJNGER (Penneshanger, 

 Paneshanger, Pensangre, xiii cent. ; Peneshangre, 

 jciv cent. ; Pansangre, xiv and xv cent.; Passanger, 

 Passhanger, Pansanger, xvi, xvii, and xviii cent.) is 

 described in 1247 as 1 carucate of land. 13 In 1389 

 suit for -it was owed every three weeks at the court of 

 Robert de Hoo of Knebworth. 13 Robert de Hoo's 

 rights in Blakemere descended with the manor of 

 Knebworth, and had passed by 1428 to John 

 Hotoft." The latter's daughter and heir Idonea 

 married Sir John Barrc, kt., of Knebworth, of whom 

 Panshanger was held in 1 446, 1S and who died in 1483. 

 His property descended to his daughter Isabel,' 6 widow 

 of Humphrey Stafford Earl of Devon, who was 

 beheaded in 1469. and wife of Thomas Bourchier, kt., 

 younger son of the Earl of Esses. She died childless 

 in 1489," and there is no later trace of rights in 

 Panshanger which she had inherited. 



Panshanger was held immediately in the first half 

 of the I 3th century by Walter de Gynney or Gisney, 

 whose wife was Elizabeth. He made a feoffment 

 thereof to his daughter Joan and her husband Philip 

 de Mardley, who accordingly held in 1 247-8 after 

 his death. Walter had three other daughters, Eleanor, 

 Nichola, and Philippa who married Robert Fitz 

 William; and in 1247-8 John the son of Eleanor 

 together with Philippa and her husband unsuccess- 

 fully claimed as their inheritance a moiety of 

 I carucate of land in Panshanger." Philip de 

 Mardley was dead in 1274. In that year Joan his 

 widow received from Philip his son a life grant 

 of 1 carucate of arable land, 30 acres of meadow, 

 15 acres of wood and 32/. of rent in Panshanger." 

 In 1289 the younger Philip conveyed the manor of 

 Panshanger to William de Burneton to be held for the 

 rent of one clove gillyflower rendered to himself and 

 his heirs and for all services due to the chief lords 

 except suit at the court of Robert de Hoo at Kneb- 

 worth which the grantor was to do during William's 

 life." William de Burneton in 1293 alienated the 

 property, described at this date as a messuage, 300 

 acres of land and appurtenances in Panshanger, to 

 William de Melksop and Maud his wife, 31 and this 

 William in 1302 received a grant of free warren in 

 his demesne lands of Panshanger/ 3 He was suc- 



ceeded by his son William about 1317. The 

 latter was lord of the manor of Digswell in Broad- 

 water Hundred, and it therefore seems probable 

 that Stephen de Waltham, parson of the church ol 

 Digswell, and Ralph de St. Denis were acting for him 

 when in 1 3 16 they conveyed the manor of Pans- 

 hanger to William de Lodewyk. 13 This William 

 was succeeded by John de Lodewyk (see Ludwick 

 Manor in Hatfield, Broadwater Hundred), who is 

 given as the tenant of Blakemere in 1349" and 

 1352." Later the manor appears to have passed to 

 Felicia de Brickendon. 10 Felicia's husband was 

 Herman de Brickendon, and he had a son Philip 

 (see Roxfbrd), but whether Panshanger was held by 

 Philip is not certain. It passed ultimately to female 

 heirs, for in 1369 a fine was levied between Matthew 

 Lety of Hertingfordbury and his wife Margaret, 

 and William de Tyringham and his wife Joan, by 

 which it was settled on Nicholas son of Joan and 

 Alice daughter of Margaret and the heirs of their 

 bodies, a life interest being reserved to Matthew and 

 Margaret Lety. 3 * In 1370 Matthewand Margaret 

 received a quitclaim of a moiety of the manor from 

 Simon Clerk and his wife Agnes, who probably had a 

 right of dower. 3fl In 1397-8 Margaret, who was 

 then the wife of William Kilmyngton, granted her 

 life interest in the manor of Panshanger and lands 

 in Blakemere to Nicholas Chival, citizen and vestment 

 maker of London, and his heirs, n who may have 

 been the Nicholas son of Joan Tyringham mentioned 

 above. The heir of Nicholas was his son Walter, 

 who died in 1434.. His heirs were his sisters Joan 

 and Alice, the wives in 1446 of Edmund Wykes 

 and of Thomas Walssh, then holders in their right." 

 Thomas Walssh made a feoffment of the manors of 

 Panshanger and Blakemere to William Walssh, Roger 

 Bere and William Canwyk of Stevenage, and in 1474 

 the latter conveyed them to Thomas Birch and Ellen 

 his wife." In 1492 Thomas and Ellen conveyed 

 Panshanger Manor and lands in Blakemere to Simon 

 Paxman and Nicholas Larwood, with warranty against 

 themselves and the heirs of Ellen. 33 This was pro- 

 bably in trust for Sir William Say ; for Gertrude 

 granddaughter and heir of Sir William Say of Brox- 

 bourne, daughter of William Blount Lord Mountjoy 

 by Elizabeth Say, and widow of Henry Courtenay 

 Marquess of Exeter, who was beheaded in 1539," 

 was found at her attainder in the same year to have 

 forfeited to the Crown her reversionary right after 



the death of Willia 

 shanger, by which nam' 

 Panshanger and Blakemer 

 known. 



In 1546 the manor wa 

 the famous Nicholas Thrt 

 Queen Katherine. 1 * He i 



> the 



the 



of Pan 

 ■ly holdings in 

 this date both 



granted by the king t 

 ;kmorton, then sewer t 

 ■ 1555 conveyed it as th 



7 Feet of F. Herts. 20 Edw. II, no. t 



6 Ibid. 4; Edw. Ill, no. 600; 



Edw. IK, no. 614 ; 2. Ric. II, no. li 



3 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Hen. VI, no. 



10 Close, 14 Edw. IV, m. 28. 



11 Feet of F. Herts. 8 Hen. VH, no. 

 "Assise R. 318, m. 5. 



1 3 Feet of F. Herts. 1 7 Edw. I, no. J 

 11 Feud. Aids, ii, 450. According 

 these returns John Hotoft's fee was t 

 formerly held by Ralph Boteler, but 

 parentty Panshanger has been confi 

 here with Sele. 



13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Hen. VI, no. 24. 



1,1 See acnmul ill' Knebworth. 



17 C.E.C. Complia Pttrtp, iii, 105. 



ls Assize R. 318, m. 5, 17. 



LS Feet of F. Herts. 2 Edw. I, no. 30. 



30 Ibid. 17 Edw. I, no. 243. 



11 Ibid, ii Edw. I, no. 294. 



ia Chart. R. 30 Edw. I, m. 4, no. 17. 



" Feet of F. Herts. 2.0 Edw. II, 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pU i, 



B Ibid. 26 Edw. Ill, no. 54. 



469 



ford in Hertinjjt'.rrfl.iiry. 



r9 Ibid. 44 Edw. Ill, no. 

 ! »Ibid. ii Ric. II, no. 1: 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 H( 



11 Close, 74 Edw. IV, m 



12 Feet of F.Herts. 8 Her 

 « G.E.C. Coalite 



"Chan 



I- ?•">■ (Ser- 2), Ixjciii, 93. 



# L. and P. Hen. VU1, xxi (l), g. 1 



