. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BRAUGHING HUNDRED stanstead abbots Joan de Beauchamp, wife of Lord Abergavenny and sister of Thomas Earl of Arundel son of the above Richard "; this descended to her son Richard Earl of. Worcester, to Richard's daughter Elizabeth de Beau- champ, who married Sir Edward Nevill, and to their son George Nevill Lord ; After this there seems to be no further trace of it. At the beginning of the 12th century the manor .5 held under the Earls of Pembroke by Roge Wancy, who mortgaged it to Br for a debt of £280 17*


. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BRAUGHING HUNDRED stanstead abbots Joan de Beauchamp, wife of Lord Abergavenny and sister of Thomas Earl of Arundel son of the above Richard "; this descended to her son Richard Earl of. Worcester, to Richard's daughter Elizabeth de Beau- champ, who married Sir Edward Nevill, and to their son George Nevill Lord ; After this there seems to be no further trace of it. At the beginning of the 12th century the manor .5 held under the Earls of Pembroke by Roge Wancy, who mortgaged it to Br for a debt of £280 17*. \d. Wancy, in order to obtain re- lease from the debt, conveyed half of the manor to the king (Henry II), who granted it in free alms to the Abbey of Waltham Holy Cross. — His 1 xjev of London, . Michael de other half was also given to "OL^l V fSr'*' the abbey by Michael at a f^ /jillA rent of £; The grant V > J was confirmed by William X^J \\/ Marshal, the overlord, with a ^^^"^ proviso that, if by escheat tht fee should come to him or his successors, nothing should be exacted from them except the £ 12 reserved by Michael de Wancy,*0 the services due to the overlord being ex- tinguished as stated above. The rent was paid by the abbey to Michael's heir Henry de Wancy, ' a Norman,' who seems to have forfeited at the begin- ning of the reign of Henry III, when it was granted by the ting to Henry de St. Owen for his expenses whilst in Gascony with the king's brother Richard Earl of ; Afterwards it was paid to the overlords as ; In 1253 the abbey obtained a grant of free warren in their demesne ; The liberties enjoyed by the abbey in their lands were as full as * royal power could make them.' In Stanstead they had inter alls toll, team, soc, sac, infangentheof, utfangentheof, chattels of " Chan. Inq. 14 Hen. VI,no. 3;. The original amount mm, to have been £11 (Cart. Antiq. M. m). Out of this £6 were


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