. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE V\'atcr Andrews and the Rectory Manor to Mr. F. W. Woodhouse, but who still holds the manorial rights.'* In 1287 Robert Burnell chimed gallows, amend- ment of assize of bread and ale and view of frank- pledge at ' Free warren in Barkway was granted to Robert first Lord Scales in 1270,'* and in 1299 he complained that Walter de Barley and certain others, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Barley, had broken his warren at Xewsells and hunted and carried away his deer.^' It is not clear whether
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE V\'atcr Andrews and the Rectory Manor to Mr. F. W. Woodhouse, but who still holds the manorial rights.'* In 1287 Robert Burnell chimed gallows, amend- ment of assize of bread and ale and view of frank- pledge at ' Free warren in Barkway was granted to Robert first Lord Scales in 1270,'* and in 1299 he complained that Walter de Barley and certain others, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Barley, had broken his warren at Xewsells and hunted and carried away his deer.^' It is not clear whether the warren made by the first Lord Scales was Newsells Park or the wood called Scales Park which lies at some distance from Newsells on the borders of Langley, co. Essex.^" Scales Park or Wood was alienated from the manor of Newsells by John sixteenth Earl of Oxford. He sold it early in 1548 to Robert Chester,-' who had already acquired Nuthampstead and Cockenach. The earl reserved to himself an annual rent of £ I o.^^ A small holding in Barkway was in 1086 in the hands of two men who held of Harduin ' de Scalers.' Two sokemen, the one of Earl Algar, the other of Eldred, had held this land before the Conquet.^ Possibly these were the same sokemen who had held a part of ^ NUTHJMPSTEJD BVRT or EWRLSBURr (Nothamstede, xii-xiv cent. ; Northamstede, xiii-xiv cent. ; Northampstede, xiv-xv cent. ; Nothampsted, XV cent. ; Northamsted a/ias Erlesbury," xvi-xvii cent. ; Nuthampstead Bury (j/ia/Earlsburya/t'd/Nusted or Nutsted, xviii cent.) lies to the east of Barkway village. It is identical with the 3 hides in Barkway held of GeoiFrey de Mandevijle as a ' manor' by a certain Hugh in 1086. It had previously been held by two men of Asgar the Staller.^* The tenant in the fifth decade of the 12 th century was a certain Ralph Nuers ('de Noeriis'), whose son Roger built a chapel ' in his court' at Nuthampstead between 1141 and 1151.^ At this time Ralph was still living,-*
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