. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE having settled the manor on his daughter Lucy on her marriage (at the age of ten) with Ferdinand Lord Hastings, son of Henry Earl of In 1628 the Crown seized this property in payment of debts incurred by Arthur Denny,81 but it was appa- rently regranted to Lucy and her husband Ferdinand Lord Hastings, who were in possession in Previous to this, however, Sir Archibald Douglas, who had married Eleanor widow of Sir John Davies, had sold the rectory and manor for a term of sixty yean


. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE having settled the manor on his daughter Lucy on her marriage (at the age of ten) with Ferdinand Lord Hastings, son of Henry Earl of In 1628 the Crown seized this property in payment of debts incurred by Arthur Denny,81 but it was appa- rently regranted to Lucy and her husband Ferdinand Lord Hastings, who were in possession in Previous to this, however, Sir Archibald Douglas, who had married Eleanor widow of Sir John Davies, had sold the rectory and manor for a term of sixty yean to Francis Poulton. In 1642 Lucy Lady Hastings appeared on behalf of her mother to claim the rectory, alleging that Sir Archibald was insane and Eleanor was in prison when he sold the pro- perty,*3 and that her mother was in great distress owing to Sir Archibald having appropriated all the profits ^ SatU ,hn, chief. DoVE-COTE AT HaM of this sale, and to the loss of her dower in Ireland was in the hands of rebels. Lady Hastings' remarked that she was unable to help her mother as in the Insh Rebellion « The Poultons, however irT,T-? k"1 &Tâ¢Â°\ 3nd the manor wa* *>« 1 homas White," whose executors conveyed it to an. Inq. (S«. *), eeecutwii, t- 4 Chai. I, pt. mii no ,, "».i, 'â MSS. Com. Rtp. Vj App. 5> l$t laS. :or. S Cha». II, rot. 167. Anthony Deane, kt., in 1686.** Morgan Deane, grandson of Sir Anthony, left the property to hit trustees for sale,87 and in 1736 it was bought by Robert second Lord Raymond,*8 from whom it passed by his father's will to Benesham Filmer, son of Sir Robert Filmer, bait., of East Sutton, co. Kent. He died unmarried in 1763, when it came to his nephew Sir John Filmer, Sir Edmund Filmer, great-grandson of Sir Edmund, brother and ultimate heir of Sir John, sold the manor in 1870 to Messrs. Paine & Brettel of Chertsey, solicitors (since which dat


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