. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. Savile, Earl of Mcx- borough. Urgent a bend sabU ivith three ozuls argent thereon. died without issue soon after his father, and ^^'akelcy came to a younger son William Morlcy.*^ In 1574 William sold the manor to Edward Halfhide," who with his wife Amy conveyed it to Edward Baesh in 1574-5.*' In 1577 Edward Baesh and Jane his wife re-conveyed the manor to Halfhide,*^ who in 1577â8 sold it to Edward Hyde.'' In 1610 John Hyde sold it to William Dodi.*^ By 1623 it had come into the possession of Sa
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. Savile, Earl of Mcx- borough. Urgent a bend sabU ivith three ozuls argent thereon. died without issue soon after his father, and ^^'akelcy came to a younger son William Morlcy.*^ In 1574 William sold the manor to Edward Halfhide," who with his wife Amy conveyed it to Edward Baesh in 1574-5.*' In 1577 Edward Baesh and Jane his wife re-conveyed the manor to Halfhide,*^ who in 1577â8 sold it to Edward Hyde.'' In 1610 John Hyde sold it to William Dodi.*^ By 1623 it had come into the possession of Samuel Bridger and his wife Mary,*' who held in Mary's right, and they in 1625 sold it to Ralph Freeman, lord of the manor of Aspenden.^" From this time the manor of Wakeley descended with the manor of Aspenden () until 1785, when Philip Vorke sold the manor of Aspenden, but retained Wakeley in his own hands.'^ In 1790 Philip Yorke suc- ceeded his uncle as third Earl of Hardwicke.'^ He died in 18 3 4 and the manor of Wake- ley descended to his eldest daughter Anne the wife of John Savile third Earl Mex- borough of LifFord.^' She died in 1870, and Wakeley de- scended to her grandson the Hon. John Horace Savile, who succeeded his father as fifth Earl of Mexborough in 1899 'â * and is the present lord of the manor. All manorial rights, however, have long since lapsed, and the estate consists merely of a farm-house and a few cottages. The manor of TANNIS (Tanneys, xv cent. ; Tawnys, xvi cent. ; Tawney, Townis, xvii cent.) was held in 1424 with the manor of Wakeley by the four daughters and co-heirs of Joan ;' The name of the manor suggests some connexion with the family of Tany, and it seems probable that it was either composed of lands which they held besides the manor of Aspenden or that it was the part of Wakeley which for a short time was held by Joan and Luke Tany, and that during that time it acquired a separate name. From 1424 it descended with the manor
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