. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE them who occurs is Walter le ChamberlejTi, who received small grants of land in the parish from Peter Fitz William le Grey,'' John Prior of Berden in Essex, and Agnes de Wancy, widow.*' In 1240 a contract was made for the marriage of his eldest son Henry to Agatha niece of Alexander, Treasurer of St. Paul's Cathedral,*' and in 1278 a presentment was made to the justices in assize as to the encroach- ment committed by him in arching the king's high- way.^ His son may be identified in Henry le Chamberle
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE them who occurs is Walter le ChamberlejTi, who received small grants of land in the parish from Peter Fitz William le Grey,'' John Prior of Berden in Essex, and Agnes de Wancy, widow.*' In 1240 a contract was made for the marriage of his eldest son Henry to Agatha niece of Alexander, Treasurer of St. Paul's Cathedral,*' and in 1278 a presentment was made to the justices in assize as to the encroach- ment committed by him in arching the king's high- way.^ His son may be identified in Henry le Chamberleyn, who made a grant of land in Brent Pelham to be held of himself for a yearly rent *' and who in 1303 was the tenant of the bishop in the fourth part of a knight's fee in the parish.*^ He probably had for his heir John Chamberleyn of Brent Pelham, who in 1345 bequeathed to Sir Alan, vicar of the parish, a red cow to go before his own corpse on the day of his burial. His will makes mention of his late wife Alice, his wife Joan and his son Robert.^'. The Bezchis, Brent Pelham : South-west Front In 1355 this manor of Brent Pelham had passed to Sir Thomas Chamberleyn, kt., and Alice his wife, who then settled it on themselves, Stephen son of Thomas and the heirs of his body.*^ At his death soon afterwards Thomas was succeeded by Thomas le Grey as kinsman and heir of Stephen Chamberleyn. It appears, however, that a claim to the inheritance was made by Sir John de la Lee of Albury ; for in 1361 Thomas le Grey went to Albury and asked counsel of Sir John, promising to be guided by him only. Subsequently he re-entered the manor, at this date called Chamberleyns, and furnished it with goods and chattels to the value of j^io. In 1364, however. Sir John with his brother Robert and others of his servants expelled him. Sir John's successor. Sir Walter de la Lee, settled the manor of Chamberleyns in 1376,** but in 1406 his sister and co-heir Joan with her husband John Barley and Robert New
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