HATFIELD-WOODHALL, (Hertfordshire) a subordinate manor to Hatfield-Bps. so called from the plenty of timber growing on and
about it. It bel. anciently to the Basingbourns, who held it from the R. of Hen. III. to that of Q. Eliz. when it was sold
to Sir John Boteler, Ld.-mayor of London, the ancestor of Sir Francis Boteler, who flourished in the R. of Cha. I. from
whom it descended, in 1690, to his daughter Juliana, the late widow Shallcross, who left it by her will to her sister.
Mrs. Hutchinson.