Buckland in the northeast of the county
is bordered by the parishes of Reed, Barkway, Wyddial, Layston, Throcking,
Sandon and Therfield.
Miscellany
In the June following his accession
[Edward IV] assigned Pope’s Hall in dower to his mother Cicely Duchess of York,
and the grant was confirmed by Richard III.
She died in 1495. The manor afterwards
formed part of the dower of Jane Seymour.
At her death in 1537 it reverted to the Crown, and in 1540 it was
grabted to Sir Ralph SADLIER of Standon, then one of the king’s secretaries, in
consideration of his surrender of certain annuities. This grant was in tail-male.
In 1544 Sir Ralph had a regrant of the same lands in fee simple. He sold Pope’s Hall to Edward HAMOND, a
yeoman of Buckland, in 1570. Edward
HAMOND settled Pope’s Hall on his younger son Alexander in 1578. Alexander succeeded his father in 1579-80
and apparently obtained confirmation of his title from Sir Ralph SADLIER in
1581. William TIPPER, a ‘fishing
grantee,’ who had a royal grant of Pope’s Hall about 1592, evidently failed to
oust HAMOND from the estate or compaunded with him, since he was still in
possesion at his death in 1604. His son
John HAMOND sold Pope’s Hall to John BOWNEST, gentleman, in the early part of
1612.