A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



A parliamentary survey of 1651 states that Onslow Winch (at that 

 time holding the hundred under a lease) received in certainty money 

 (or yieldable money due from the freeholders of the township) £1 1 i p. ^c/., 

 whilst the profits from the courts were estimated at another ^3 per annum. 

 The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of felons, suicides, fugitives, &c., 

 happening and falling within the said hundred belonged to the lord, 

 if the bailiff of the hundred seized them first ; but if seized by the bailiff 

 belonging to a lord of a manor having a leet in the hundred, then such 

 lord had the prior claim.^* 



" Pari. Surv. Beds. No. i. 



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