. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Survey, which lay for the most part within the parish of Little Hormead in Edwinstree Hundred, but which perhaps extended into Braughing. A little to the east of Bozen Green it a farm-house called Rotten Row. It is a two-storied building of timber and plaster, and was probably built in the 16th century,1* but underwent considerable alteration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It was apparently of the half H-shaped plan with interior space inclosed. The roof of the main block is coTered with slate
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Survey, which lay for the most part within the parish of Little Hormead in Edwinstree Hundred, but which perhaps extended into Braughing. A little to the east of Bozen Green it a farm-house called Rotten Row. It is a two-storied building of timber and plaster, and was probably built in the 16th century,1* but underwent considerable alteration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It was apparently of the half H-shaped plan with interior space inclosed. The roof of the main block is coTered with slate, and the wings are tiled, with hipped ends. The entrance passage and the parlour, with a 17th-century fire- place, formed the original hall. There is some 17th-century oak panelling in one of the rooms on the ground floor. Place-names that occur in this parish are Nether- stokkying, Aldithelee, Kingesho or Kingshohull, Enne- worth, Fordmad (xiii cent.)18; Pumps Land and but there was land for eleven ploughs. A mill ii men- tioned in the ; The lands of the honour of Boulogne came by inheritance to Queen Maud, wife of Stephen, and the manor of Braughing was divided among several grantees. Between 1146 and 1148 Stephen granted 100/. rent in the manor to the priory of Holy Trinity, London, and at the same time he granted them 6 librates of land there in exchange for the mill and land which the queen had granted them near the Tower of London, where she had afterwards founded the hospital of St. {Catherine ; these 6 librates, as the charter explains, being that part of the manor left over after the rest had been granted away and including the site of the church and the market.*0 This charter was con- firmed by the queenal and by her son Eustace Count of ; Other 4 librates of land in the manor were given to Holy Trinity by Hubert. The Maltings, Bkauceiii Sportlowfield (xvii en;.)." Near Sportlowfield was a loam-pic in the road to Furneux Pelham, for whi
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