. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE had licence to Mary Leech, of his councillors. In the same year Thomas Lcwyn, rlcrt. who was apparently a trustee for Southwell, the manor to the use of tife of Robert Leech, alderman of a field called Newnneye Wood alas Woodfield beside Newnneye (Nimney) Wood in ; This Mary Leech, who in another place is called Mary Darcy alias Leech, must have been Mary daughter of Sir Thomas Darcy of Danbury, co. Essex, who afterwards became the second wife of Sir Richard Southwell.*6 In ij>8 she as Ma
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE had licence to Mary Leech, of his councillors. In the same year Thomas Lcwyn, rlcrt. who was apparently a trustee for Southwell, the manor to the use of tife of Robert Leech, alderman of a field called Newnneye Wood alas Woodfield beside Newnneye (Nimney) Wood in ; This Mary Leech, who in another place is called Mary Darcy alias Leech, must have been Mary daughter of Sir Thomas Darcy of Danbury, co. Essex, who afterwards became the second wife of Sir Richard Southwell.*6 In ij>8 she as Mary Darcy afias Leech of Horsham St. Faith, co. Norfolk, alienated the manor to Robert Adams, a yeoman of Widford,57 who died seised of it in I j8o. In 1589 his son and heir Henry Adams conveyed it together with forty messuages, a water-mill, free warren, free fishery and view of frankpledge to Bartholomew Barnes, sen., and Bartholomew Barnes, * A Bartholomew Barnes, probably the younger, citizen and mercer of of the same name suffered a recovery in 1814,^ and in 1819 sold the manor to Nicholas Parry of Little Hadham. It descended to his son Nicholas Segar Parry,;,s "ho devised to Mr. H. D. l'any- Mitchell of Mcrivale, Atherstone, Warwick, the present lord.'1' Widford Bury was sold by Mr. Parry-Mitchell to Sir Martin Gosselin in 1 889 and is now the property of Capt. AlwynGosselinofBlakesware. It is an L-shapcd building, with timber-framed walls covered with plaster ; there is little of interest in the house, which probably date; from the 17th century. A little to the north-west of the house is an early 17th-century dove- house ; it is of brick, octagonal on plan and hai a thatched roof. Noneof the cots now remain. Between the house and the churchyard is an old brick » all about 6; yards in length, part of which formed the outer wall of what may have been the eastern wing of the Burt- ; it to be of 16th-century date. At the. WiutoKi): Oi London, settled it i
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