Queen Mary in the first year of her reign granted the reversion after the expiration of these leases to Anne More, widow of John More, eldest son of Sir Thomas, and to Thomas son of John, and the heirs of Thomas, to be held as to the honour of Hunsdon for a twentieth part of a knight’s fee.

Thomas More died in 1606, having settled the manor in 1603 upon his son Christopher Cresacre on his marriage with Elizabeth Gage. In 1629 Christopher conveyed the manor to Thomas Rooper, for a settlement on the marriage of his son Thomas with Mary daughter of Sir Basil Brooke.

On the death of Mrs. Sambrooke it came to John Freeman, who sold it in 1777 to John Hunter. John by his wife Ann had a daughter Ann, wife of William Hornby, by whom she had a daughter Hannah. Ann Hornby died in 1777, and her father by his will dated 27 February, 1802, left the manor to Thomas Holmes husband of his granddaughter Hannah, who in 1804 settled it upon himself and his son William.

Thomas assumed the name of Hunter, and afterwards sold the manor to Thomas Nash Kemble, who died in 1833. In 1836 the estate was sold by the trustees of his will to Robert William Gaussen of Brookmans Park. Shortly after Mr. Gaussen acquired this estate, he pulled down the house and incorporated the grounds surrounding it with Brookmans Park.

In the time of Thomas Nash Kemble the gardens at Gobions, which had been laid out by Bridgman, were widely celebrated.

Leggatts

Leggats is a small estate in the hamlet of Little Heath, about four miles south-east of the parish church. It was a portion of Gobions, but was not sold with the estate on the death of Mr. Kemble. Mrs. Virginia Kemble his widow held it till her death, which occurred in 1870, when it was sold to William Webb More. In 1881 it was bought by Mr. Samuel Gurney Sheppard, from whom it passed to his sons Samuel Gurney and Gerald. The house is now occupied by the former.

Rectory

There seems to have been a manor attached to the rectory of North Mimms, of which successive rectors were lords, for in 1306-7 free warren was granted in North Mimms to John de Kirkeby, parson of the church of North Mimms, and in 1366 and 1371 Thomas de Horton, rector of the church, held courts in North Mimms, and William de Kesteven, a former rector, seems to have done so also. There is now a farm known as Parsonage Farm in the north of the parish, which belongs to Mrs. Gaussen, and is occupied by Mr. Herbert Bosanquet.

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Gobions - The History