Haunted Essex, Spirit box, ghost says "Don't film me" P-SB11

Описание: This session was filmed at (Bretons Manor, Essex)
I come to this site quite often as it seems very active. I cant say I've ever walked away from this place and been disappointed with the evidence collected. Bretons manor has a long history, plenty of negative things have happened here over the years. That's probably the reason why it's so active. Local folk tell me that some people died in a fire down here, and another died by hanging. those incidents happened within the last century according to my sources. I've also uncovered evidence of a policeman who was shot and killed here in 1885 (Inspector Thomas Simmons) Theres also suspicion of another murder taking place...but theres nothing solid on that one. Although I did collect some evidence to suggest there might be some truth in that. But anyway, lets go back further. im going to share with you some information I managed to find on this property. It dates this place back to the 12th century....

The manor of BRETONS or DANIELS or PORTER'S FEE lay beside the Beam river, about 2 miles south-west of Hornchurch village. It probably took its first name from the Breton family, which lived at Hornchurch from the 12th century to the 14th. Daniels and Porters seem to have been originally separate tenements, also named from families, which became attached to Bretons. Daniels was held along with Bretons by 1446, but Porter's fee was still separate in the later 15th century. William de Northtoft of Finchingfield, who was holding Bretons in 1355, was said to have acquired it from Richard de Stamyngden. In that year John de Cokefield and William Spalding unsuccessfully conspired to gain possession of the manor by force, and by fabricating evidence to show that Northtoft was an illicit coiner. In 1361 Northtoft conveyed Bretons to William Buckingham, chaplain, probably in trust. The manor was later held by John Newmarche, from whom it passed by successive convey ances, to Richard de Batheleye, to John Bredeford, and then, in 1373, to William, son of Geoffrey Chisleden.

Sir Richard Arundel (d. 1419), was holding the manors of Bretons, Baldwins (Lee Gardens), and Mardyke in 1417, when he made his will before going to France with the army of Henry V. He devised Bretons to his wife Alice for life, but after his death his executors were involved in a long struggle for possession of the manor against Joan, daughter of Sir John Newenton and widow of Roger Swinnerton. She had inherited the manor of Redden Court. Her title to Bretons is not clear, but she may well have vindicated it, for in 1446, shortly after her death, the manor was conveyed to Thomas Scargill by trustees including Richard Newenton, presumably a relative of Joan. Scargill was also holding Daniels by 1446. He died in 1476, having directed that if his daughter died without heirs the manor should be sold.

In 1501 Christopher Throckmorton conveyed Bretons to William Ayloffe (d. 1517), in whose family it remained for about 150 years. Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, Bt., a prominent royalist during the Civil War, sold Bretons to meet the costs of sequestration imposed upon him by Parliament. The purchaser was John Winniffe, who was holding the manor by 1659. Winniffe soon sold Bretons to John Austen, alderman of London, from whom it descended to his son of the same name. John Austen the younger was holding the manor in 1720. It was stated in that year that the entail had been cut, and that after Austen's death Bretons would pass to another family. By 1742 the owner was John Hopkins, who also held Redden Court. He died in 1772, leaving both manors to John Dare. Bretons descended like Redden Court until 1858, when parts of the Hall-Dare estate were sold. Bretons remained in the possession of the Hall-Dares until 1869, when it was bought by Romford local board for use as a sewage farm. In 1976 the farm was being developed by Havering L.B.C. as a youth centre and sports ground.

The earliest surviving buildings at Bretons are the walls of a 16th-century barn, which formerly had a roof of nine bays, and other buildings south-east of the house. Associated with these is some garden walling with bee boles, and the original house may have stood in the same area. The present house is of late-17th-century origin, and has some panelling and a fine main staircase of that date. It was much reconstructed by John Hopkins in the mid 18th century, when the external walling was rebuilt, most of the rooms were panelled, and the staircase was extended to the second floor, which was probably added then. About the same time the walled garden was enlarged and the forecourt of the house was enclosed by a clairvoyée with central gates.

This is just what we have on record. But who knows what else has happened here over the centuries, and what type of horrors have taken place that still remain unknown.

Haunted Essex, Spirit box, ghost says "Don't film me" P-SB11
Haunted Essex, Spirit box, ghost says "Don't film me" P-SB11