. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED little munden manner as Benington" (), and came with that manor to the Crown. It was leased to Thomas Crompton in 1594-5 for twenty-one years.!S In 1602 Thomas Crompton conveyed his lease to Michael Woodcock,'5 who is said to have settled it upon his son Michael on his marriage with Dorothy He was holding it in i6o6,SL but sold it in 1607 to Peter Vaulore,1* who conveyed it in 161410 his son- in-law Sir Charles Caesar and his daughter ; The title, however, was defective, probabl
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED little munden manner as Benington" (), and came with that manor to the Crown. It was leased to Thomas Crompton in 1594-5 for twenty-one years.!S In 1602 Thomas Crompton conveyed his lease to Michael Woodcock,'5 who is said to have settled it upon his son Michael on his marriage with Dorothy He was holding it in i6o6,SL but sold it in 1607 to Peter Vaulore,1* who conveyed it in 161410 his son- in-law Sir Charles Caesar and his daughter ; The title, however, was defective, probably because only the twenty-one years' lease of the manor had been sold by Thomas Crompton, which term would run out about this time. Finally the manor was bought by Edmund Woodhall, brother of Dorothy ; He died seised of it in 1639, leaving two sons Edmund and Edmund died without issue, and in 1675 Little Munden was held by his brother Robert Thornton Heysham," and his grandson of the same name," who in 1816 sold the manor to Nathaniel Snell ; In 184+ the latter conveyed it to his brother Charles, from whom it passed upon his death in 1866 to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Henry Edward Surtees. It was acquired about 1895 by Mrs. Edwin Prodgers, the present owner. Previous to 1385 the tenants of Little Munden did suit at the sheriff's tourn held at Broadwater at Easter and Michaelmas ; in that year, however, view of frankpledge was granted to John de Thornbury," for which he was to pay 20s. ; This grant was confirmed in 1439," and the view is mentioned as late as ; L1BURT (Stuterehela, Sutreshela, xi cent. ; Leigh- bury, Ljebery, xv cent.).âBefore the Conquest and. John,16 from whom it passed to his youngest sister Mary Thornton. She had two daughters Mary and Jane, who possessed the manor in 1700," and who both in succession married Robert Heysham. Robert and Jane had a son Robert,33 who d
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