. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE probably the manor-house, a carucate of land and lOO/. rent in Barley were let for life to Bartholomew de The courts were probably reserved by the abbot as they were in the i6th centurj'.-^ When each successive abbot entered upon his office he claimed ' palfrey money' from the tenants of this ; In 1533 William Grevill and his son John acquired a thirty-one years' lease of the manorial lands and agreed to entertain the abbot and his servants once yearly for two days and two nights
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE probably the manor-house, a carucate of land and lOO/. rent in Barley were let for life to Bartholomew de The courts were probably reserved by the abbot as they were in the i6th centurj'.-^ When each successive abbot entered upon his office he claimed ' palfrey money' from the tenants of this ; In 1533 William Grevill and his son John acquired a thirty-one years' lease of the manorial lands and agreed to entertain the abbot and his servants once yearly for two days and two nights, when they came to hold courts and to view the ^ The abbey was suppressed in I 539,-' and in April 1544 Edward Elrington and Humphrey Metcalf re- ceived its possessions in Barley in exchange for certain estates surrendered to the Crown.'* They were evidently speculating in land. A court was held in Elrington's name in May 1544,^' and on I July he joined with Metcalf in a sale to Sir Ralph Rowlatt, kt.,'" who had recently inherited the manors of Mincingbury and Hoares (). In 1556 he settled his estates on himself and his heirs by his wife Dorothy," and afterwards he made a second settlement,^- doubtless in favour of his second wife .Margaret^' ; but he died childless in I 571.'' He had bequeathed his estate in Barley to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Keeper of the Great Seal, ' whose second wife Ann was sister to 's second wife Margaret.'° The nephews of , who were his heirs-at-law, released their rights in fivoiir of Bacon before 1576.^' The Lord Keeper died on zo February 1578-9,''and was succeeded in the Barley estate by Anthony Bacon, the elder of his two sons by his wife Ann.'' He sold it to Sir John Spencer, ' the rich Spencer, Lord Mayor of London,'^''probably about the year 1593, when he was seriously embarrassed by his own debts and those of his brother Francis.'" At Spencer's death in March 1609-10 the estate passed to his daughter Eliza
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