A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



holding it in 1423." John Hinxworth released all 

 right in the manor in 1436 to John Fray and 

 other;," who appear to have been trustees for Sir 

 Andrew Ogard, kt., who died holding it jointly with 

 his wife Alice in 1454, leaving as his heir his son 

 Henry, aged four." Henry Ogard was knighted, 

 and by his will proved in 1 j ! i he left the manor of 

 Thele to his son Andrew," who held it until his 

 death in March I 525-6, when it passed to his son 

 George. ** In 1553 George Ogard leased the manor 

 of Thele to Thomas Fleminge of Stanstead for ninety- 

 nine years. He died shortly afterwards, bequeathing 

 the remainder of the lease to Agnes his wife, who 

 married John Thorowgood." 



In I 560 George Ogard sold the manor to William 

 Frankland, clothworker of London,* 3 who died in 

 1576, leaving Goldingtons to his son William for life 

 with reversion to his nephew Hugh for life." Hugh 

 died in January 1607,* and in 1623 William Frank- 

 land his nephew with Lucy his wife conveyed the 



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London. 51 Simon Adams in 1637 settled the 

 for the purpose of the payment of an ann 

 Sarah his wife," and in 1651 his son Simon Adams 

 of Aston upon the Wall (co. Northants), clerk, sold 

 it together with the messuage lately built upon a 

 parcel of land called Quitchells aRas Cutchilis and 

 the right of feeding one cow on Amwell Marsh to 

 Henrv Lawrence of St. Ives (co. Hunts.) for £1 ,ooo. a 

 This Henry Lawrence was a relative of Oliver Crom- 

 well and a member of the Commonwealth Council 



held by his 

 In 1689 it was purchased of 

 her by Francis Roiton, who 

 was holding it in 1700." It 

 passed to Richard Kj nnesmin 

 of firoughton (co. Northants), 13 

 who sold it in 1 7 14 to Spencer 

 Cowper of Hertford Castle 

 (co. Herts.)." On the death 

 of Spencer Cowper 



Nided 



William Cowper, 

 im it passed to a 5 



same name, and fror 

 Lis son, also William 

 " The latter died v, 



issue in 1798, and th 



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hcrited by his brother Charles,™ on whose de»th it 



passed to his sister Frances Cecilia." She married 

 the Rev. Joseph Stephen Pratt," and died in 1R49, 

 when the manor descended to her son the Rev. 

 Charles Pratt, rector of St. Margaret's.** He held it 

 until his death, and in 1889 it was bought of his 

 executors by Mr. Septimus Croft," who is the present 

 lord of the manor and resides at St. Margarctshury. 



The site of the manor and the demesne lands of 

 the manor were sold separately from the manor by 

 George Ogard in 1559 to John Thorowgood and 

 Agnes his wife, who were then holding a lease of the 

 manor 68 (q.v.). John Thorowgood died in February 

 1 568-9, and his lands descended to his son and heir 

 Thomas. 6 ' At the end of the 17th century the 

 capital messuage appears to have been divided 

 between co-heirs, for in 1685 Thomas Wale, citizen 

 and goldsmith of London, sold one-quarter and one- 

 third of a quarter of it to Robert Peter the elder, 

 citizen and girdler of London. 10 In 1782 the site ol 

 the manor was held by Anna Maria Lake, spinster." 



The manor-house on the west bank of the New 

 River, opposite to and a little south of the church, 

 has been much restored, but appears to date from 

 the 17th century. It is a timber-framed building 

 with a tiled roof. There are 18th-century iron gates 

 at the principal entrance. These are surmounted by 

 a shield charged with the arms of Lake with the coat 

 of augmentation, beneath which is the motto ' Un 

 Dieu un Roy un cceur.' 



The church of ST. MARGARET 

 CHURCH consists of chancel measuring internally 

 35ft. by 19 ft., nave, which has no 

 structural division from the chancel, 32ft. by 19ft., 

 and two modern north vcsiries, the westernmost con- 

 taining a stair to the modern west gallery. The 

 walls are of flint rubble coated with cement and have 

 stone dressings. The roof is tiled. The church was 

 made collegiate about 1 3 1 6."" 



The nave was built in the early part of the 12th 

 century and the chancel about the middle of the 

 14th century ; a north chapel and aisle were also 

 erected at this period, but these were subsequently 

 pulled down. The church is now a rectangular build- 

 ing with the two modem vestries on the north side. 



In the east wall of the chancel is a 14th-century 

 window of four trefoiled lights with geometrical 

 tracery in the head ; it has been much restored. 

 On each side of the window is a tall shallow 

 niche with cinquefoiled arch and crocketed canopy ; 

 the sills are supported on grotesque heads. In the 

 north wall is a small and plain stone bracket, perhaps 

 for a light. In the sill of the easternmost window 

 in the south wall is a plain bowl of a piscina. On 



i tee Feet of F. Herts. Mich, 

 o. IV; Mich. 1 & j Geo. IV. 



ov. R. Mich. 23 Geo. III. 



if. R S. Mylne, F.S.A., tuggem 

 : present church formed th. 

 >nty of the collegiate church. 



