. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BisBoPRic or London. Gules two svfords of St. Paul crossed saJtirewise. The Bishops of London had a residence at Hadham where the king was apparently entertained in , when Letters Patent were dated there.^' Bishop Roger Walden, after having been pro- vided to the see of Canter- bury in 1397 shared in the downfall of Richard II, but in 1404 he was provided to London by the efforts of his former rival Arundel. He died at Much Hadham in 1406, less than a year after his con- secration.'* At the beginning of the I 5 th century
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BisBoPRic or London. Gules two svfords of St. Paul crossed saJtirewise. The Bishops of London had a residence at Hadham where the king was apparently entertained in , when Letters Patent were dated there.^' Bishop Roger Walden, after having been pro- vided to the see of Canter- bury in 1397 shared in the downfall of Richard II, but in 1404 he was provided to London by the efforts of his former rival Arundel. He died at Much Hadham in 1406, less than a year after his con- secration.'* At the beginning of the I 5 th century the Bishop of London found that his revenues were insufficient to keep up all his manors, and he received licence from the pope to dispose of several of them, but Hadham was one that he retained.'^ Apparently, however, soon after this the palace was leased or lent, for it seems to have been occupied for a short time by Katherine de Valois, widow of Henry V. She married as her second husband Owen Tudor, and her eldest son Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond, the father of Henry VII, was bom at Hadham about 1430 and was styled Edmund of Hadham.^' Bishop Ridley is said to have made use of the neighbourhood of the episcopal residence at Hadham to visit the Princess Mary at Hunsdon House in 1552, in the hope of persuading her to the Pro- testant religion. She received him graciously, but \va5 indignant at his suggestion that she should hear him preach.'' After she became queen Bishop Bonner made a visitation in Hertfordshire. At his own town of Hadham he received a poor welcome. The bells, it is said, did not ring to greet him, and in the church the ordinances for the decoration of the rood-loft and the hanging of the sacrament had not been obeyed. The rector pleaded that he had not expected the bishop to arrive so early, but he appears to have been of Protestant sympathies, and Bonner left Hadham in disgust and set out for Ware.*^ In 1578 during the episcopate of John Aylmer Queen Elizab
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