. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE F"-;i : the i the Rive Hunsdon House, ' the earlier manor-hoi Sir William Oldhall the Duke of York the manor, and th. ild within his of stones, with lime an ime.'2 Oldhall is not possession until February i roads near to Hunsdon Mill, Stort in the south of the parish, vhich is possibly on the site of se, is said to have been built by in 1+47. In 14+7, however, seems to have been holding 1 May of that year received â of Hunsdon a ind, and to embattle He may have begun building directly afte
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE F"-;i : the i the Rive Hunsdon House, ' the earlier manor-hoi Sir William Oldhall the Duke of York the manor, and th. ild within his of stones, with lime an ime.'2 Oldhall is not possession until February i roads near to Hunsdon Mill, Stort in the south of the parish, vhich is possibly on the site of se, is said to have been built by in 1+47. In 14+7, however, seems to have been holding 1 May of that year received â of Hunsdon a ind, and to embattle He may have begun building directly after that date, but the house was apparently unfinished in 1453, for Oldhall having forfeited, a certain Walter Burgh, a servant of the king, then received a grant of ' stones called brick in Hunsdon and Eastwick late pertaining to William Oldhall,'3 which looks as if the latter had been in the midst of building. The house seems to have come into the possession of Henry VIII with the manor before 1517, when he granted the custody of it to Henry Xorris, squire of the The merry since he came to this house, for there was none fell sick of the sweat since he came hither, and ever after dinner he shootcth to supper time'; but the postscript adds : 'This night as the King went to bed, word came of the death of William Carey.'1 After the divorce of Katherineof Aragon, the Princes* Mary was sent to Hunsdon (February 1536), and there are a number of letters of hers extant written from Hunsdon, both to her father and to Cromwell, on the subject of her reconciliation with the Writing to Charles V on the subject of the princess'i escape, Chapuys says of Hunsdon : ' The house where she is at present is much more inconvenient for the enterprise . . there are a great many houses and people in the village where she now is.' 8 It was while in the service of the princess at Hunsdon (1538-40) that Lady Elizabeth Fitzgeraldâ' the fair Geraldine 'âfirst met her admirer Henry Howard Ea
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