. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Thomas inherited the property M and held it for some twenty years. It passed at his death in 1493 " to his son John, who was afterwards knighted. In 1501-2 he and his wife Katherine sold the property to William Lytton," who died in 15 17, leaving as heir his son Robert, aged five ; Robert at his death left three daughters, of whom Ellen wife of John Drockett bought up the shares of the other ;1 From this date the manor descended with the manor of Almshoe in Ippollitts (q.
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Thomas inherited the property M and held it for some twenty years. It passed at his death in 1493 " to his son John, who was afterwards knighted. In 1501-2 he and his wife Katherine sold the property to William Lytton," who died in 15 17, leaving as heir his son Robert, aged five ; Robert at his death left three daughters, of whom Ellen wife of John Drockett bought up the shares of the other ;1 From this date the manor descended with the manor of Almshoe in Ippollitts (). There was a small religious house in this parish called NEW BIGGING, belonging to the order of St. Gilbert of ; This house was founded by Edward de Kendale before 1363, when he obtained licence to divert a grant made by his mother Margaret de Kendale of a rood of land at Orwell, co. Cambridge, and of the advowson of the church there to the warden and chaplains of the chapel of St. Peter within the parish church of Hitchin, for the benefit of the prior and canons of this house.*5 In 1372 two chaplains granted to them, probably on the behalf of Edward de Kendale, certain lands in Willey and ; The lands of the priory were valued in 1535 at £13 i6j.'; After the Dissolution the priory was granted in 1544. to John Cock, together with a messuage called Barkers Dalles Place in Bancroft Street and nineteen messuages in ; It apparently descended with his manor of Maidecroft (), as this is the last mention of it. In the 17th century the manor-house called the Biggin was in the possession of Joseph Kemp, , who in 1654 devised it for charitable purposes (see under Charities). There was also a free chapel at Bigging, of which Robert Turk (lord of the manor of Maidecroft in right of his wife) died seised in I400.,B In 1317 the king granted HITCHIN PRIORT to the Carmelite Friars in fran^h:. were like yards or waste places of gro
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