. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED watton-at-stone conveyed it in 1813 to Samuel Smith, lord of the matior of Woodhall, with which manor it has since been The manor of Watton possessed a mill in 1086,⢠which in 1324 was valued at 131. 41/,⢠It is men- tioned in a conveyance in i6;i,61 and is still working. Robert Aguillon obtained a grant of free warren in ; The right to hold a fair yearly on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (7-9 September) was granted to Robert Aguillon in King Edg
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED watton-at-stone conveyed it in 1813 to Samuel Smith, lord of the matior of Woodhall, with which manor it has since been The manor of Watton possessed a mill in 1086,⢠which in 1324 was valued at 131. 41/,⢠It is men- tioned in a conveyance in i6;i,61 and is still working. Robert Aguillon obtained a grant of free warren in ; The right to hold a fair yearly on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (7-9 September) was granted to Robert Aguillon in King Edgar gave 4^ hides in Watton to the abbey of Westminster," which grant was confirmed by Edward the Con- | * Of this land, which is safe, reckoned in the Domesday Book as 5 hides, I hide was held by the abbot himself66; 2 hides were held of the abbot by Aluric Blac, together with half a hide held by Almar, a man of Aluric (which was perhaps the added half-hide)«; and i£ hides were held by Goduin of the Before 1086 this West- minster estate had become broken up. The hide held by the abbot remained in his possession,69 and was afterwards united to the manor of Stevenage,70 the chief manor of the Abbot of Westminster in Hert- fordshire. Goduin's 1 £ hides should have reverted to the abbey after his death, but his widow put herself by force under Eddeva the Fair, who was in possession of the land ' on the day when King Edward was living and died.' It was granted by William the Conqueror to Count Alan," who was also lord of Great Munden, and hence seems to have become permanently attached to that ; Aluric Blac, al- though he held his land in Watton of the Abbot of Westminster, was Alexander de Balliol, lord of Benington, claimed liberties in his manor of * In the 12th century the sub-tenants of the manor appear to have been a family of Watton. There was a Ralph de Watton, whose son Robert succeeded, and settled his 'vill of Wat
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