. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED ASPENDEN WITH WAKELEY. JocKLYN. Azure a fwisted "wreath of argent and sable ivith foitr Aawks' bells or attached thereto. right in it to his son William/' who died before 1426," when his heirs, John Hughessen of Ashwell and Elizabeth wife of John Gierke, senior, of Ardeley, conveyed all their right to John Gierke, citizen of London, and Thomas Gierke, ; In January 1450-1 the manor was held by Thomas Smyth, Joan Wendy and Thomas Pilche, who sold it in that year to Ralph Jocelyn, citizen an
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED ASPENDEN WITH WAKELEY. JocKLYN. Azure a fwisted "wreath of argent and sable ivith foitr Aawks' bells or attached thereto. right in it to his son William/' who died before 1426," when his heirs, John Hughessen of Ashwell and Elizabeth wife of John Gierke, senior, of Ardeley, conveyed all their right to John Gierke, citizen of London, and Thomas Gierke, ; In January 1450-1 the manor was held by Thomas Smyth, Joan Wendy and Thomas Pilche, who sold it in that year to Ralph Jocelyn, citizen and draper of London, and Philippa his ; Ralph was son of Geoffrey Jocelyn of Sawbridge- worth. In 1464 and 1477 he was Lord Mayor of Lon- don," and in 1465 was made a knight of the ; On the death of his wife Philippa he married Elizabeth daughter of William Barley. He left no issue at his death in ; The manor of Aspenden had been settled on his wife Elizabeth," who married as her second husband Sir Robert Clifford," a prominent supporter of the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy, who afterwards obtained his pardon and a substantial reward by betraying the names of his fellow-conspirators. He died in 1508'° and his widow Dame Elizabeth Clifford about ; In 1527 their son Thomas Clifford conveyed the manor to trustees for Agnes Marsh, widow of Thomas Marsh, citizen and mercer of London,*' who died seised in 1528, when Aspenden descended to her son William Byrche.'' In 1537 the manor was held by Edward Viscount Beauchamp, afterwards Duke of Somerset and Pro- tector, and Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, in her right, and they conveyed it to Thomas Pope, treasurer of the Court of Augmenta- tions.'^ This may have been in trust for Thomas Lord Audley, for he held at his death in ; It then apparently came to the king, who mort- gaged it to John Gierke and ; It was re- deemed shortly afterwards, and in 154
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