LAMER, (Hertfordshire) on the N. side of the r. Lea, in the p. of Wheat-Hampsted, bel. in the R. of Hen. III. to Pontius
Lamere, from whose family it came to Sir Will. Roch, ald. of London, in 1545, whose daughter carried it by marriage to Sir
John Boteler, whose son sold it to Sir Will. Gerrard, the ancestor of the present Sir Samuel Gerrard, Bt. Its Ch. thought
to be the oldest in the Co. is built like a cathedral, and the rood seems to be left in it still, which serves for the
clerk's desk.