Bride's Parish

[Ruskie]

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=16&lat=51.7552&lon=-0.0852&layers=171&right=BingHyb

[horselydown86]

Thanks so much for all the responses, really appreciate the help!  Looks like it's a mistranscription of Brickendon then. 

Not so much a mistranscription as a variation in spelling, typical of the time.

[dobfarm]

Don't know if it helps

Hertford, is a town, three parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Hertfordshire. The tree parishes taking designation from Hertford All Saints, St. Andrew, and St. John

Honing in Ruskie's maps

Below Hertford - is Brickendon rural and St John Rural

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=51.7776&lon=-0.0684&layers=171&right=BingHyb

Hertford - Brickendon urban & St John urban

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=51.7972&lon=-0.0763&layers=171&right=BingHyb


'Liberty of Brickendon,' (fn. ...... reeve at a time when Hertford as a villa regalis was the administrative centre for the district. (villa reg / of Royal will admin / Royal [Regal] house estate admin)

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp490-501

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g7iNnoo-vHsC&q=Hertford+as+a+villa+regalis&dq=Hertford+as+a+villa+regalis&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y

[horselydown86]

It's extremely helpful, thank you Dobfarm.

Although the term originates a long time before the record in question, that Hertford was referred to as a Villa fits perfectly with our record.  It looks as though the London clergyman was being precise in his choice of words.

[dobfarm]

Villa reg  - Is also found in some  parish registers (more 16/17th century but odd one on 18th century to pre 1812 registers on landed gentry estates admin shortened to Vill. (Sometimes thought 'of village' but if found the person of the event was a tenant farmer out in the country = 'of estate' Vill.)

[..claire..]

Very impressive work - well done horselydown86 and dobfarm

 

[dobfarm]

Very impressive work - well done horselydown86 and dobfarm

 

Hi Claire,

We only added too,

Ruskie:  did the main finding

Fair doo's

[..claire..]

And well done to everyone who contributed 

...especially Ruskie

[Ruskie]

Thank you, but I disagree. 

It was Horseleydown and Dob who did the reading and interpreting of the text which answered the original question.