LAYSTON, (Hertfordshire) near Buntingford, of which it is the mother Ch. was erected by the Saxons above 1 m. E. of Aspeden, where nothing remains now but the Ch. The manor was formerly called Corneybury, and bel. to Hugh Tricket, who gave it to Trinity-Ch. London, when it had the grant of a Mt. on Tu. and a Fair at Bartholomew-tide for 8 days. Upon the Diss. K. Hen. VIII. granted the manor to Sir Tho. Audley, Kt. Chan. of England. In the R. of Philip and Mary, it bel. to Henry Dudley, whose widow carried it by marriage to Thomas D. of Norfolk, who sold it to John Crowch, citizen of London, one of whose descendants, in 1690, sold it to Ralph Hawkins, citizen and brewer of London, whose son, John, inherited it in 1728. The r. Rib rises in the neighbourhood; and here is the present post-road from London to the North.