. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE manor, messuage or farm called Panshanger with ill appurtenances to John Forstcr," at whose death in 1558 it passed to his son Humphrey, a ; He alienated the manor in 1567 to Edward Skeggs,** who conveyed it in 1578 to John The latter in 1585 made conveyance of it to certain feoffees/" who granted it in 1587 to James ; He in 1588 conveyed to Humphrey Weld the manor and its appurtenances and five messuages, one dove- cote, five gardens, 300 acres of arable lan


. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE manor, messuage or farm called Panshanger with ill appurtenances to John Forstcr," at whose death in 1558 it passed to his son Humphrey, a ; He alienated the manor in 1567 to Edward Skeggs,** who conveyed it in 1578 to John The latter in 1585 made conveyance of it to certain feoffees/" who granted it in 1587 to James ; He in 1588 conveyed to Humphrey Weld the manor and its appurtenances and five messuages, one dove- cote, five gardens, 300 acres of arable land, 60 acres of meadow, I do acres of pasture, 40 acres of wood and as much of furze and heath and of moor, in Panshanger, Swinhoe, Hertford St. Andrew and ; Humphrey was probably iden- tical with the alderman of London of that name who was knighted in [603 a and who married Mary the daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney, Lord Mayor of London in I ; He died as holder of Panshanger in 1610 and had for heir a son John," who was knighted, and who, at his death in 1623, was succeeded by his son Humphrey, a The latter was holder in 16+2," but probably alienated the manor in that year or subsequently. A con- veyance of it took place in 1693 from George Hitch- cock and his wife Elizabeth to Sir Gervase Elwes, ban., and Sir John Elwes, kt., with warranty against the heirs of Elizabeth.*8 This was probably in trust for Sir John," who may be identified with Sir John Elwes, younger brother of the baronet, who was knighted in 1665 and who was of Grove House, Fulham, where he died in 1702. Hi) wife "as Elizabeth daughter and co-heir of Sir Walter Raleigh of West ; In 1719 there was a conveyance of Panshanger from John Elwes to Thomas Wood- ford,11 afterwards executor to the first Earl Cowper,5' which was probably in trust for the earl or his son and heir. The Lord Cowper in question was the distin- guished Lord Chancellor who h


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