. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED After the dissolu- wo tenements, wit! a messuage called the Boarshead.' tionol Holywell in i 5 39 3 these 50 J acres of land, were granted in March 1539-40 to Sir John Gostwick and Joan his wife.' Sir John died in April 1545, and at his in- quisition in October 1546 it was stated that Wilshere had collected the profits of the estate during the interval,' so that it seems probable that he had remained as occupier of Gostwick. Arrtnta the Frythe. Sir John Gost- bout cetiuJ gulu betwuH wick's heir was his son «*
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED After the dissolu- wo tenements, wit! a messuage called the Boarshead.' tionol Holywell in i 5 39 3 these 50 J acres of land, were granted in March 1539-40 to Sir John Gostwick and Joan his wife.' Sir John died in April 1545, and at his in- quisition in October 1546 it was stated that Wilshere had collected the profits of the estate during the interval,' so that it seems probable that he had remained as occupier of Gostwick. Arrtnta the Frythe. Sir John Gost- bout cetiuJ gulu betwuH wick's heir was his son «* Coniish choughs, William, who, however, died almost immediately after his father, his lands passing to his uncle William, Sir John's William Gostwick the elder sold the Fry the in 1546 to William Wilshere,7 who alienated it to his son Thomas in 15498 and died in 1558.' From Thomas Wilshere, who died in I 570,10 the Frythe descended to his son Thomas, who was a minor at his father's death,1' and whose son John Wilshere inherited the estate in March ; This John granted the Frythe to his eldest son John, who, however, predeceased him ,s; Thomas Wilshere the second son therefore succeeded his father at his death in February 1646—7 died in 1666 or 1667, and his eldest sc shortly afterwards, when the Frythe came to the second son John, who was succeeded by his only ing son William in 1711. William Wilshere, Thomas Thomas. Wilshere of the Frythe 1 of the last William, inherited the property in 86, and his son, also named William, in 1708. WELWYN This third William died in 1824, having settled the Frythe in tail-male upon the children of his youngest brother Thomas Wilshere. William the eldest son succeeded his uncle, but died unmarried in 1867, when the Frythe came to his brother Charles Willcs Wilshere, who died in 1906, leaving three daughters,' the eldest of whom, Miss Edith Elizabeth Marie Wilshere, inherited this estate. The Frythe is now the residence o
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