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Exemplification. Great Munden (Hertfordshire) (manor). 8 November, 24 Hen. VI (1445). . Exemplification at the desire of John Fray, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, of entries from various records preserved in the Exchequer, concerning the knights' fees held in the county of Hertford by Gerard de Furnival, and afterwards by John Dosevylle, in the manor of Munden Furnevale in the same county. Dated at Westminster.

Fine. Great Munden (Hertfordshire) (manor), Great Munden (Hertfordshire) (manor), Rowney, Benedictine priory (), Wakeley (Hertfordshire), Watton at Stone (Hertfordshire). Octave of the Holy Trinity, 25 Henry VI, and afterwards within the 15 days of Easter, 26 Hen. VI (1448). . Fine made at Westminster on the octave of the Holy Trinity, 25 Henry VI, and afterwards on the quindene of Easter, 26 Hen. VI, between John Fray and Ralph Gray, plaintiffs, and Thomas Porter, esq., and Anne his wife, cousin and one of the heirs of Thomas Howard, esq., and John Bellers, esq., another heir, defendants, concerning the manor of Great Munden, with appurtenances, and of the advowsons of the churches of the said manor and priory of Royney, and of100s, rent, also 3 Ibs. of cummin and two cloves in Great Munden, Wakelee, and Watton atte Stone, acknowledged to be the right of John Fray, for which the said defendants received 300 marks of silver.

Demise. Essendon (Hertfordshire), Bishops Hatfield (Hertfordshire). 15 April, 37 Hen. VI (1459). . Demise by Stephen Wolfe and Thomas Stoughton, citizens and fishermen of London, to Henry Bourgchier by John Say, esq., William Tyrell of Gyppynge, esq., John Mongomory, esq., Thomas Mongomory, esq., John Clopton, John Denston, esq., John Grene of Gosfeld, and David Mortymer, all those their lands and tenements, woods, meadows, pastures, rents, customs and services in Esenden and Hatfeld Bishops, co. Hertford, together with the advowson of the chantry of St. Anne in the church of Hatfeld Bishops, which they had conjointly by the demise of Sir Thomas Tyrell, kt., Sir Thomas Charleton, kt., and ten others. Dated at Esenden.

Convention. Waterbeche (Cambridgeshire), Mesdone m (Hertfordshire) (manor). Quindene of Hilary, 47 Hen. III to Michaelmas, for five years from Michaelmas (1268). . Convention made between the lady Dionisia de Muntchenes', lady of Anestie, of the one part, and Richard le Butiller, rector of the church of Mesdone, of the other, namely, that the said Richard grants to Dionisia the whole of a tenement which Robert his brother held in the village of Waterbeche, in the co. of Cambridge, with all its appurtenances, to hold the same for her life as dower, for the third part of the lands of the said Robert le Butiller, formerly her husband; also he grants the manor of Mesdone, in the county of Herteford, with the wood called ' Smalhey' to hold the same from the Quindene of St. Hilary, 47 Hen. III, until the feast of St. Michael, and from the same feast to the end of five years, at an annual rent or the five years of £30.

Cockayne Hatley, Potton, Wratting, Carlton, Conington, Ickleton, Great and Little Wilbraham, Elm, Great and Little Baddow, Great Burstead, Little Burstead, Rayne, Gestingthorpe, Littlebury, Brickendon, Great Staughton, Whepstead, Walton, Stratford St Mary, Troston, Barnham, 'Mawyrthe' [unidentified]. Will of Ælfhelm (Polga), including bequests of land at Wratting, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Brickendon, Herts., to Westminster Abbey; at Whepstead, Suffolk, and Walton (perhaps near Felixstowe, Suffolk), to his son Ælfgar; and at Baddow and Burstead, Essex, at Stratford, (probably Stratford St Mary, Suffolk), at Enhale and Wilbraham, Cambs., at Rayne, Essex, at Carlton, Cambs., and at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to his wife; at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to Godric and Ælfhelm's daughter; at Conington, Cambs., to his wife and daughter, and to Æthelric, Ælfwold and Osmær; also at Cockayne Hatley and Potton, Beds., to Ælfmær, Ælfstan and Osgar; at Littlebury (near Saffron Walden), Essex, to Leofsige, and at Great Staughton, Hunts., to Leofsige and his wife; also at Troston, Suffolk, to his three brothers and Ælfwold; at Ickleton, Cambs., and Mawyrthe to Ælfhelm; and at Barnham (probably Suffolk), to Wulfmær. [975 x 1016] [Manuscript: s. xviii, a translation].

East Ham, Wennington, Great Fanton Hall alias Fan Hall, Morden, Aldenham, Holwell, Datchworth, Watton-at-Stone, Chollington, Bleccenham (lost), Lothereslege (lost), Staines, Teddington, Halliford, Feltham, Ashford. King Edgar to Westminster Abbey [St Peter's, Thorney], confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John [Pope John XIII], of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middx. 969, Id. Maii (= May 15) [manuscript: 12th century]

Norton, 'Rodanhangra' [lost], Oxhey. King Ethelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of land at Norton, 'Rodanhangra' and Oxhey, Herts., originally granted to the abbey by King Offa but subsequently lost, and later forfeited to King Ethelred by Ealdorman Leofsige, and purchased for St Albans by Archbishop Aelfric and Abbot Leofric. 1007