. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED ALBURY. Bishopric of London. Gules two sivords of St. Paul crossed saltircwise. now blocked, has a flat four-centred arch, and there is a similar arch in the partition inside. Two other doorways have flat Tudor arches of oak, similar to the one at the hall. In the reign of Edward the Confessor MANORS the manor of ALBURT was held of Archbishop Stigand by ; After the Conquest it was acquired by the Bishop of London ^^ and became part of the barony of Stortford be- longing to the Bishops of London, o
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED ALBURY. Bishopric of London. Gules two sivords of St. Paul crossed saltircwise. now blocked, has a flat four-centred arch, and there is a similar arch in the partition inside. Two other doorways have flat Tudor arches of oak, similar to the one at the hall. In the reign of Edward the Confessor MANORS the manor of ALBURT was held of Archbishop Stigand by ; After the Conquest it was acquired by the Bishop of London ^^ and became part of the barony of Stortford be- longing to the Bishops of London, of whom it was held by knight service.^' At the end of the 13 th century the bishop claimed that his tenants in Albury and his other vills in the hundred of Edwinstree should be quit of suit of hun- dred court as they had always been accustomed.'* The last record of any rights of over- lordship found is in 1522.*' In 1086 a certain Ralf was tenant in fee of Albury Manor.'* It afterwards passed to the Baards. In 1166 William Baard held two knights' fees of the Bishop of London,'' which probably represent the manor of Albury, for at the beginning of the 13th century Simon Baard held two knights' fees which are located in Albury.'^ In 1294 Albury was held by Robert Baard,'' who in 1316 settled the reversion of the manor on Geoffrey de la Lee and Denise his wife for their lives, with successive remainders to their sons Thomas, John and Robert.^" The manor had descended to Geoffrey and Denise before March 1319—20, when Geoffrey de la Lee received a grant of free warren.^' There is no evidence that Thomas de la Lee ever held Albury, but by 1336 the manor had descended to John de la Lee, to whom Peter, vicar of Albury, and John de Vataille released the right of common in the park of Albury which his father Geoffrey de la Lee had granted them.^^ John de la Lee received a grant of free warren in Albury and Braughing in 1366 with licence to inclose and impark 300 acres of land ther
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