PATMER, a hamlet partly in the parish of ALBURY, hundred of EDWINSTREE, and partly in the parish of BISHOP'S STORTFORD, hundred of BRAUGHIN, county of HERTFORD, adjacent-to the town of Bishop's Stortford. It belongs to the Bishops of London, who here hold courts leet and baron, at which a constable and other officers are annually chosen, and misdemeanants punished.