. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED. Crouch of Cornejr- bury. Argent three crosses formy bet-ween tzuo pales tvithin a border engrailed sable. £e,o from various manors of her inheritance including ; Margaret married first Lord Henry Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland/" who was killed at St. Quintins in 1557," and secondly Thomas Duke of Norfolk.*' She died seised of Corneybury in January ; Her husband survived her and held the manor until January 1571-2, when he was attainted for high treason, and it
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED. Crouch of Cornejr- bury. Argent three crosses formy bet-ween tzuo pales tvithin a border engrailed sable. £e,o from various manors of her inheritance including ; Margaret married first Lord Henry Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland/" who was killed at St. Quintins in 1557," and secondly Thomas Duke of Norfolk.*' She died seised of Corneybury in January ; Her husband survived her and held the manor until January 1571-2, when he was attainted for high treason, and it then passed to her son Thomas Lord Howard.'" In 1583 he sold it to John ; John Crouch died in February 1605-6 and left Corneybury to his second son Thomas Crouch," who held it until his death in ; The manor then passed to his son John" and at his death in 1649 to his third son ; Thomas Crouch, second son and heir of Charles," raised a company of soldiers at his own expense in 1688 to support the king in Ireland. After an unsuccess- fill campaign, in which he lost most of his men," he returned to England and in 1690 sold the manor of Corneybury to Ralph Hawkins, brewer, of London.** Ralph died in 1696 and the manor descended to his son John ; Thomas Hawkins, son of John,™ died in 1742 and by his will left Corneybury to his niece Catherine, the wife of William Woolball of Walthamstow, co. Essex, with remainder to their issue.' Their daughter and heir Catherine married Sir Hanson Berney of Kirby Bedon, co. Norfolk, bart.,' and in 1790, after her husband's death,' joined with her son Sir John Berney in selling the manor of Corneybury to William Butt.' He held it until his death in 1806, when it descended to his son William Butt,' who in 1841 was succeeded by a son of the same ; The estate has lately been sold, after the death of the latter, by his sons. The church of ST. GILES stands on CHURCH hi
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