Great Hormead is bordered by the parishes
of Anstey, Brent Pelham, Furneaux Pelham, Little
Hormead and Layston.
Miscellany
The Earls of Oxford appear to have held
the manor [of Great Hormead] until 1579, when it was the subject of a fine
between Edward Earl of Oxford and Anthony CAGE. From the evidence of a suit in Chancery in 1588 it seems probable
that it was the reversion that was conveted to Anthony CAGE. In his petition to Chancery in 1588 Thomas
HAMMOND of Great Hormead declared that Edward DE VERE Earl of Oxford had
demised the manor to Walter HAYWARD for twenty-one years and that the latter in
1586 granted his interest and terms of years to the complainant. The reversion of the manore, the petition
states, then belonged to Daniel CAGE, ‘a very covetuous and froward fellowe
seekinge by all means possible to inriche himselfe by wranglinge sutes agaynst
his pore neighbours.’ The lease being
conditional upon the payment of the rent within a certain period, Daniel CAGE,
it was complained, ‘hath nowe of late sought by dyvers lewd practyces’ to
overthorw the lease.
The result of the petition is not stated,
but amongst the claims for offices at the coronation of James I in 1603 are
those of Edward Earl of Oxford and Daniel CAGE, each of whom claimed, as seised
of the manor of Hormead, to be chamberlain the the queen. The claim was left unexamined, owing
probably to the curtailment of the coronation ceremonies on account of the
Plague.