The Right Hon. Edward 16 Victoria ... December 30th. Strutt, now Lord Belper Earl Granville Earl of Harrowby 18 Victoria ... June 21st. 18 Victoria ... March 31st. The Right Hon. Matthew 19 Victoria ... December 7th, 1855. Talbot Baines James Duke of Montrose The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G. C. B. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M. P. The Right Hon. George February 26th, 1858. June 22nd, 1859. July 25, 1861. April 7, 1864. January 26, 1866. Joachim Goschen, M.P. July 10, 1866. June 26, 1867. November 7th, 1868. December 12th, 1868. August 9th, 1872. THE MANOR OF WORCESTERS. In the wardrobe accounts of Edward II. it is mentioned that "the King kept his Christmas this year (1318) at the palace of Westminster," and on that day the following knights received sumptuous presents -of plate from the King, viz., "Sir Bartholomew de Enefeld," &c., &c. His son, John de Enefeld, died in 1350, seized of a manor in this parish, and his widow, Margaret, married John Wroth, who purchased the manor in 1374, of her son, Francis de Enefeld. John Wroth leaving no issue on his death, the manor descended through Sir John Tiptoft, to his son, the learned Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer, who lost his head on the scaffold for his adherence to the House of York, "when (says Fuller) the axe did at one blow cut off more learning than was left in the heads of all the surviving nobility." His son dying without issue, the manor devolved to his sister Philippa, wife of Thomas, Lord Roos, who died in 1461, and their son Edmund (whose monument in the Parish Church is hereafter described) also dying childless, in 1508, the estate came to his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G., Privy Counsellor and Treasurer to Henry VIII. He was made Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first year of Henry VII., and in 1502 became Treasurer of the Household, and President of the Council. He was one of Henry VII.'s executors, and Steward and Marshall of the House to Henry VIII. He built the gateway of Lincoln's Inn, on which he placed the King's arms, along with the Earl of Lincoln's and his own. His badge of the rose and the wing,-which will be more fully discussed in the account of the Parish Church,-appears in the vaulting of the choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, as well as on his stall-plate. Sir Thomas Lovell died at his house here (Elsynge Hall) May 25th, 1524, and was buried in the priory of Haliwell, Shoreditch, within the chapel founded by himself, with great funeral pomp. The following curious items occur in the records of the Herald's College, at the close of a long description of the ceremonies "down at the buryall of the most noble knyght, Sir Thomas Lovell, banneret, and knyght of the most Noble Order of ye Garter, on whose soule God pardon." Item,—It is remembered that the day he came from Enfyld to Holywell, there followed a carte with ale and torches, for to refresche the poore people, and the torches were renewen by the way. "Item,-There was every day, while he was at Enfylde, 200 poore folks, and them that had pence-a-piece, and bread and meat. "Item,-There was said the day of his buryall at Holywell, 140 masses. "Item,-There was served that day to people that were ther, 400 messes of mete and above.” Sir Thomas Lovell, by his will, dated October 14th, 1522, gave the Manor of Worcesters to Thomas Manners, Lord Ros, afterwards first Earl of Rutland, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Lovell, his brother. In 1540, the Earl of Rutland gave the manor, along with the capital messuage of Elsygne Hall, to King Henry VIII., and it was settled by Edward VI. upon his sister Elizabeth. It was afterwards granted, by the Crown to Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, who died seized of it in 1612. Lysons and Dr. Robinson state, that "it is not certain at what time it was alienated by the Cecils," but by the deeds at Forty Hall, it appears to have been conveyed by the second Lord Salisbury, (July 4th, 1616) to Sir Nicholas Raynton, and by "An abstract of all ye landes "and tenements appertaining to ye estate of N. Raynton, "Esq., which are in Endfield in ye Co. Middlesex, being "carefully collected by compairing up ye tennants, and "by perusing severall writeings, &c., about ye year 1656." The property at this time consisted of,-"Imprimis, Forty "Hall, one antient howse lately new-built, called and "knowne by ye name of Forty Hall, with close adjoining, "enclosed by a brick wall, and containing by estimation, "six acres," with sundry meadows and closes duly specified, containing 344 acres, 1 rood, 36 poles. "Also "in ye possession of ye said N. Raynton, Esq., one "very ancient house called ENFIELD HOUSE, (otherwise "ELSYNGE HALL) with ye court yards, gardens, orchards, "&c. adjoining, one antient tenement att "Wight-webbs adjoining to Endfield Howse. And ye piece of land |