. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. matrimonial troubles of Thornton Cage form the subject of a pamphlet published in 1685.*' In it he complains of the extravagance of his wife and her mother, who, however, laid out the grounds at Hormead Bury with great taste. As a result, probably, of their extravagance, Thornton Cage in 1680 sold the manor of Great Hormead to Bernard Turner,^ who died in 1696, leaving the manor to his son ;" The latter was succeeded by his son Anthony, who was lord of the manor in 1728.'* Anthony
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. matrimonial troubles of Thornton Cage form the subject of a pamphlet published in 1685.*' In it he complains of the extravagance of his wife and her mother, who, however, laid out the grounds at Hormead Bury with great taste. As a result, probably, of their extravagance, Thornton Cage in 1680 sold the manor of Great Hormead to Bernard Turner,^ who died in 1696, leaving the manor to his son ;" The latter was succeeded by his son Anthony, who was lord of the manor in 1728.'* Anthony Turner appears to have conveyed the manor in 1733 to Thomas Tumer,^'who held it in 1737.'* The descent for some time after this is obscure. In 1751 the manor had passed into the possession of Lyde Browne,^' by whom it was sold in 1770 to James Haughton Langston, together with woods called Anney Wood, The Park, Eden Grove and The Frith.^o The latter in 1792 conveyed it to Thomas Welch,*i by whom it was sold in 1810 to Colonel Edward Stables. He was killed in I 81 5 at Waterloo, and on his death the manor passed to his brother Colonel Henry Stables, who was the possessor in ; After the death of the latter the manor was bought by his cousin Robert Trotter of Crawley, by whom it was sold shortly afterwards to James White Higgins of Fumivall's Inn. The latter died in 1854, leaving the manor to his daughter Harriet wife of Arch- deacon ; John Higgins Allen of 48 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, is the present lord of the manor. The manor of REDESIVELL {alias Clarkes or Hormead Hall), which in later documents is de- scribed as held of the manor of Brooks in Stevenage, probably originated in the half knight's fee in Great Hormead held in 1303 by John Marshal of Laurence de Brok," who also had the manor of Brooks in Stevenage.** Its name sug- gests that it was identical with the half knight's fee which William Hilton held in Great Hormead in 1428 and which was forme
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