. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE London. The mesne tenants were changed in number in three cases : a holding of I hide I virgate, held formerly by two brothers, men of Asgar, had only one tenant; another of l^ hides, which one man of his had held, had passed to William and Ranulf; and that holding which had been in the tenure of men of Anschil and Godwin was held by Ranulf only. Moreover the five sokemen of the king had disappeared. The two thegns of Anschil and of JE\m3T had given place to two knights.^' All the three Pelhams contin
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE London. The mesne tenants were changed in number in three cases : a holding of I hide I virgate, held formerly by two brothers, men of Asgar, had only one tenant; another of l^ hides, which one man of his had held, had passed to William and Ranulf; and that holding which had been in the tenure of men of Anschil and Godwin was held by Ranulf only. Moreover the five sokemen of the king had disappeared. The two thegns of Anschil and of JE\m3T had given place to two knights.^' All the three Pelhams continued to be held of the Bishops of London. The division between them was probably estab- lished in the i zth century. There is separate evidence of Brent and Furneux Pelham in 1181,-" of Stocking Pelham in 1278.^^ was said to hold of the bishop half a knight's fee in the parish.^^ He may be identified with a Nicholas le Grey who made his will in 1334" and who was succeeded before 1363 by Thomas le Grey. The latter with his wife Agnes at this date settled his manor of Brent Pelham on himself and his heirs by * He still held in 1373," but in 1378 the manor had passed to John Grey,'" probably his son, who in 1405 '^ settled it on himself and his wife Joan in tail. In 1418^' and 1428" Joan was sole tenant. She was succeeded, according to the settle- ment, by her son Ralph, who was knighted and who died in 1464, leaving a son and heir Ralph.'* The latter, who was one of the barons of the Exchequer, died in 1492 and left a daughter and heiress Eliza- beth,''who married Anthony Waldegrave or Walgrave,. The Stocks, Brent Pelham Between 121 o and 1212 Richard le Giey held part of a knight's fee of the Bishop of London, evidently the manor of BRENT PELHJM or GRErS,^ and about the year 1230 he again occurs as a tenant in the parish.^' His probable successor was Nicholas le Grey, who in 1254 received a grant of free warren in Brent Pelham.^* This Nicholas was
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