. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED letchworth subsequently to his sister Maud, the wife of John Nicholas son of Maud and John assumed the surname of Burnell; he was holding Letchworth in 1346™ and died in 1382, when he was succeeded by his son Hugh Burnell died in 1420 seised of the Montfitchet lands on the Essex border,28 which may have included Letchworth, though it is not mentioned by name. His heirs were his three granddaughters Joyce Erdington (who died childless), Katherine Ratcliffe and Margaret Edmund Hu
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED letchworth subsequently to his sister Maud, the wife of John Nicholas son of Maud and John assumed the surname of Burnell; he was holding Letchworth in 1346™ and died in 1382, when he was succeeded by his son Hugh Burnell died in 1420 seised of the Montfitchet lands on the Essex border,28 which may have included Letchworth, though it is not mentioned by name. His heirs were his three granddaughters Joyce Erdington (who died childless), Katherine Ratcliffe and Margaret Edmund Hungerford, husband of Margaret, was seised of the Montiitchet lands in Essex, but the over- lordship of Letchworth cannot be definitely traced any further. Very little is known of the early sub-tenants of Letchworth. In 1086 William of Letchworth, a Norman and one of the Domesday jurors for Broad- water Hundred,30 held the manor of Robert Gs. holding it as late as I 3 14 3r ; ii another Richard was assessed for it in 1428,39 but it is not clear whether he acquired it from the Mont- fitchets. About the middle of the 15 th century it came into the possession of Thomas Hanchet of Bedford, who was holding it in He was succeeded by William Hanchet, who died seised of it in 1515, leaving a son Andrew, however, Sn. died in the following year w°«b and his lands passed to his * ""'' brother John, an infant of Letchworth had been settled 1346 it was held by Edmund Barrington 1 8 W'V'^' Letchworth Hall : West Frc Later the sub-tenancy seems to have been acquired by a younger branch of the Montfitchet family. In 1274, when Margery and Nicholas Corbett acquired the manor, the sub-tenant was a John Muschet,33 whose name is probably a corrupt form of Mont- In 1295 Letchworth is said to have been held of Maud Burnell by 'the heirs of Richard de Montfitchet,' u and a Richard de Montiitchet claimed the advowson in In 1303 Cu
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