. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE In 1617 Simeon Brograve was granted free fishery and free warren in ; He died in January 1638-9, and his half of the manor, with a messuage called Albury Lodge, descended to his son John,*' whose son Thomas Brograve was created a baronet in March 1662-3.** He died in 1670 and was succeeded by his son John.*' The other half of the manor, on the death of Richard Frank in 1627, descended to his son Leventhorpe Frank,*" who had five daughters, Susan, Anne, Mary, Frances and Dorothy.'' In
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE In 1617 Simeon Brograve was granted free fishery and free warren in ; He died in January 1638-9, and his half of the manor, with a messuage called Albury Lodge, descended to his son John,*' whose son Thomas Brograve was created a baronet in March 1662-3.** He died in 1670 and was succeeded by his son John.*' The other half of the manor, on the death of Richard Frank in 1627, descended to his son Leventhorpe Frank,*" who had five daughters, Susan, Anne, Mary, Frances and Dorothy.'' In 1640 he with his daughters Anne and Frances levied a fine of two fifths of one half of the manor of Albury, probably on the marriage of his daughter Anne with Robert son of Richard Hale of Tewin,'^ for Richard Hale appears as a party to the ; In 1646 Robert Hale and Anne his wife, Thomas Fix and Dorothy his wife and Frances Frank held a court of the manor with John Brograve.** Robert and Anne after- wards became possessed of half of the manor by the purchase of the shares of Thomas and Dorothy Fix and of Frances Frank," and in 1661 they sold it, with the mansion-house called Albury Hall, to Sir Edward Atkins, baron of the ; Sir Edward Atkins was one of the most celebrated judges during the Commonwealth. In 1640 he had been appointed baron of the Exchequer by the king, but as the order did not take effect he was created anew by the Commons in 1645. He continued to hold his office after the Restoration, and one of the judges who presided over the trial of the regicides, but he took no active part in the ; After the of Albury Baron Atkins resided at Albury Hall," and died there in l66().^^ His half of the manor descended to his son Edward, who sold it five years later to Thomas Bowyer, from whom it passed to Felix Calvert of Furneux Pelham.*"* In 1688 Felix Calvert sold the manorial rights pertaining to
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