. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. 1341, Thomas, living in ,15 and a Thomas, living in 1418,46 occur in records of Sawbridgeworth. The services for their lands were owed in the 15th century to the lord of Mathams, to whom apparently they had been assigned at some earlier date by a lord of Later the lands came either by escheat or purchase to the owners of Mathams. John Leventhorpe died seised in 1511 of the ' manor of Blunts,' and for a long time it descended with that manor48 (). In 1861 it was bought by Mr. John Prout (see general descrip
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. 1341, Thomas, living in ,15 and a Thomas, living in 1418,46 occur in records of Sawbridgeworth. The services for their lands were owed in the 15th century to the lord of Mathams, to whom apparently they had been assigned at some earlier date by a lord of Later the lands came either by escheat or purchase to the owners of Mathams. John Leventhorpe died seised in 1511 of the ' manor of Blunts,' and for a long time it descended with that manor48 (). In 1861 it was bought by Mr. John Prout (see general description of parish) and now belongs to Mr. William Prout. Other tenants of the lords of Pishobury and Mathams were the Vantorts,49 whose holding in the 16th century is called the manor of VANTORTS. Margaret wife of Robert Vantort died in 1 31 o seised of lands in Saw bridge worth, which descended to her son The name of Richard Vantort of Saw bridge worth occurs in 1337 and and of John Vantort in 137852 and A John Vantort was holding lands of John Leventhorpe of Mathams early in the 15 th In the 16th century the 'manor of Vantorts' was held with Mathams by the Leven- thorpesS5 and subsequently became amalgamated with that manor. Vantorts Farm lies to the south-east of the town. BLECHES, BEACHES, or BLOTCHES was the holding of a John Bleche, whose name appears in Saw bridge worth at the end of the 14th century,56 and who was living in His lands, called the manor of Bleches, were held with Chamberlains () in the 16th cen- tury by John Shelley. The estate descended with that manor until 1764, when it was sold by Christopher Parker the younger to raise money for paying off the mortgage on Cham- The purchaser was Edward Gardiner of Pishobury. FRERES was similarly the holding of another local family. The name of Walter Frere occurs in I22D69 and of William Frere in Another Walter Frere and Alice his wife held lands in S
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