. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BRAUGHING HUNDRED Gloucester claimed view of frankpledge, gallows, tumbrel and pillory, free market, amendment of the assize of bread and ale, quittance for himself and men of gelds, aids, sheriff's aids and sheriffs tourn.™ From an extent of the manor taken on the death of Earl Richard in 1262 it appears that there were in demesne 2 50 acres of arable land, I 5 acres of meadow, 9^ acres of pasture, 140 acres of poor {dcbile) pasture, a park" about 2 leagues in circumference, a fruit and herb garden (the remembrance of whi
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BRAUGHING HUNDRED Gloucester claimed view of frankpledge, gallows, tumbrel and pillory, free market, amendment of the assize of bread and ale, quittance for himself and men of gelds, aids, sheriff's aids and sheriffs tourn.™ From an extent of the manor taken on the death of Earl Richard in 1262 it appears that there were in demesne 2 50 acres of arable land, I 5 acres of meadow, 9^ acres of pasture, 140 acres of poor {dcbile) pasture, a park" about 2 leagues in circumference, a fruit and herb garden (the remembrance of which may still survive in the name Balsoms Park, a field to the east of the lordship)," a fishery in defense, and another common fishery, whilst in villeinage were tor to the Black Death. Edmund Mortimer, Loger, died without issue in January , succeeded by Richard Duke of York, son of r Ann, who married Richard Earl of Cam- For the duke's good service as the king's : in France and Normandy the officers of the household were excluded from taking live stock or crops, fuel or carriage within the parish of Standon, and the harbingers of the household from lodging About 1441 the manor was granted for life by the Duke of York to Sir William Oldhall, ' After the death of the duke in [460 it descended to his son Edward Duke of York, who ascended the throne as Edward IV in 1461. In the same year he granted the manor to his mother Cicely Duchess of York as part of her jointure,8" and the grant was confirmed by Richard III on his ' The custody of the park was granted by Cicely in 1476 to her servant John atte Field™ (see Bromley Hall) and the office of bailiff of the lordship the next year to John ; The Duchess of York died in 1495. In 1509 the manor was granted by Henry VIII to the Princess Katherine of Aragon 1 of their marriage,3* and it also formed. part of the jointure of Queen Jane Seymour, after whose death it reverted to the C
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