WAKERLEY, (Hertfordshire) or WAKELY, to the S.W. of Buntingford, and half a m. S. of Berksden, bel. to Trinity priory
London, whose canons officiated in its p.-Ch. till the Diss. when Hen. VIII. granted the manor to Sir Nicholas Dormer,
And. Judde, Tho. Lewen, Henry Amcotes, John Wilford, and George Barnes of London, aldermen, who conveyed it to Thomas
Morley; but in the R. of Charles I. it was purchased by Ralph Freeman, who left it to his son, of the same name, with the
tithes and profits of its Ch. which had bel. to the Lds. of the manor ever since the Ref.