WALDEN-ST. PAUL'S, (Hertfordshire) which joins to the former on the N. W. was formerly called Abbots-Walden, because it bel. to the abbots of St. Alban's, who were its Lds. and kept courts here, called first hall-motes, and then views of frank-pledge; but Henry VIII. granted it to the D. and C. of St. Paul's, London, from whence it has the present name. If any copyholder dies possessed of any customary land held of this manor, his widow shall have dowre; and by another custom all surrenders of copyhold estates must be taken by the Lds. of the manor, or their stewatds, unless a copyholder lie at the point of death, and then he must surrender the same by the hands of a copyholder, sworn in some court to take surrenders of tenants who are in such extremity; but if such tenant, who has made such surrender, shall happen to recover and go abroad, the surrender so made is void.