[3] Chauncy writes: “This Vill in old Records was called Cestrehunt, from Castrum in the Latin, which might, in all Probability, import some castle erected here by the Romans; and the Saxons imitating the name, though corruptly ... might from hence call it Cestrehunt”.
[4] This Sir John Harrison erected the fine brick mansion in Balls Park, S.E. from Hertford, once the property of Charles Townsend, Secretary of State to George II. His widow built four almshouses at Butchery Green, long ago decayed.
[5] The story of the “Maid of the Mill” is, I understand, told in an early number of Temple Bar.
[6] Hist. Antiq. of Hertfordshire, etc., vol. i., p. 383, ed. 1826.
[7] Clutterbuck says it was erected between 1402 and 1427.
[8] Vide Historical Records of St. Albans, by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., etc.; a most interesting little volume.