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To the Worsp.ll Edward Sayer of Barkhamsted Place Esq.e this Plate of the Mannor House is Pa. 577
Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. Repaired left corner.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Berkhamsted Place was erected c.1580 by Sir Edward Carey, the keeper of the Jewels to Queen Elizabeth I, using stones removed from Berkhamsted Castle. It was bought by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594 - 1612) in 1612 and when he died later that year was passed to his brother Charles later crowned Charles I (1600 -1649). The house then changed hands a few times in the turbulent times of the English Civil War and its aftermath inluding the Murray family. In 1660 the lease of Berkhamsted was taken on by the Lord Treasurer, Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland (1605-1663) however a fire broke out and parts of the house were completely destroyed. Reconstruction was hastily commenced, probably financed by John Sayer who took ownership of the house shortly after it was rebuilt. The Sayer family remained in residence at Berkhamsted Place until 1716, when they sold the lease to William Atwell. The House was demolished in 1967
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[Pendley Manor] To the Honourable S.r Richard Anderson Bar:t this Plate of the Mannor House of Penley is Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver. Pag. 594.
[London: Benjamin Griffin et al, 1700.]
Engraving. 285 x 325mm (11¼ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the original Pendley Manor, near Tring, burned down in 1835. From Sir Henry Chauncy's 'Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire'.
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To the Honourable S.r Richard Anderson Bar;t this Plate of the Mannor House of Penley is Pa. 594
Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. A few tears to marins. Slight ink offset.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. he manor of Pendley pre-dates the Norman Conquest of 1066, after which it was confiscated by William the Conqueror and passed to his brother-in-law, Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1031-c.1095), and a later owner was John de Angle, an early Member of Parliament. In 1440 Sir Robert Whittingham (or Whytingham) and his wife Agnes received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI at Pendley manor; he enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture. He built a manor house at the western end of the now-demolished town as a double cloistered courtyard as well as building a Chapel. On the accession of Edward IV (1442 -1483) he granted Pendley manor to George Neville, Bishop of Exeter in 1461 which then passed on to the Verney family through marriage. The Verney family lived at the medieval manor for the next 150 years, until it was passed on to the Anderson family. Sir Richard Anderson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1635-1699) owned the Penley estate when the print was made.
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S.t Albans. To The Right Worp.ll the Mayor, & Aldermen of the Antient Borough of S.t Albans this Plate is Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver.
[London: Benjamin Griffin et al, 1700.]
Engraved plan, 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½), very large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Binding folds flattened.
An early plan of St Albans, orientated with north to the top right. Published in Sir Henry Chauncy's 'Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire'.
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To the Honourable Henry Guy of Tring-House Esq. this Plate of ye Mannor House is Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver. Pag. 593.
[London: Benjamin Griffin et al, 1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 290 x 330mm (11½ x 13"), very large margins.
The facade of Tring Manor House, home of Sir Henry Guy (1631-1710), a Groom of the Bedchamber and secretary of the Treasury in 1679. In 1669 Guy obtained a grant of the manor of Great Tring. He later commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build a new house, now Tring Park Mansion, but in 1695 he was accused of funding the building work by taking bribes in the Treasury. He was arrested and was committed to the Tower of London. In 1702 he sold Tring. From Sir Henry Chauncy's 'Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire'.
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