BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED 



BIGGLESWADE 



detts (q.v.), passed by her marriage with Henry Has- 

 tings into the possession of the earls of Pembroke.^' 



No connexion has been found between the under- 

 tenant, Fulk of Paris, mentioned in Domesday, and 

 William Rixband, who was holding in Stratton as 

 early as 1231,"' and whose family continued to hold 

 this manor, for in 1322 Margaret Rixband, presumably 

 a descendant, enfeoffed William Latimer of her manor 

 in Stratton." From this date the manor appears to 

 have followed the same descent as Potton Burdetts 

 (q.v.)," until Elizabeth Latimer brought Stratton as 

 dower to her husband Robert de Willoughby. Before 

 his death in 1397 the manor had been leased for a 

 rent of ^^lo per annum to Richard Enderby and Alice 

 his wife, and they appear subsequently to have acquired 

 the full possession of the manor, for John Enderby 

 their son held the manor at his death in 1457.*' 

 Maude, his widow, subsequently married Robert 

 Bothe, and at her death in 1 474 the manor passed 

 to Richard Enderby, her son by her first marriage,'* 

 who died in 1487,'° when his son John acquired 

 the manor, and died in 1 509 leaving an only daughter, 

 Eleanor, as heiress.'^ She married Francis Pygott, 

 and an inquisition taken at the death of their son 

 Thomas Pygott in 1581 states that he, 'having cause 

 to mislike the marriage of their eldest son Michael 

 with Margaret, daughter of one Gill,' settled the 

 manor of Stratton on his son Lewis and heirs male, 

 with remainder settlement to 

 a younger son John." Seven 

 years later Lewis and John 

 alienated the manor to Sir Ed- 

 mund Anderson, chief justice 

 of the Queen's Bench.'^ The 

 Andersons of Eyworth (q.v.) 

 continued to hold the manor 

 until the death of Edmund 

 Anderson in 1639,'' whose 

 daughter and sole heiress mar- 

 ried Sir John Cotton.*" In 

 1764 the manor of Stratton 

 was purchased of the relatives of 

 Sir John Cotton, last heir male of the family, by the 

 trustees of Curtis Barnett, who had died in 1 746 at Fort 

 St. David, and it is held at the present day by Mr. 

 Barnett, a representative of the same family.*' 



There are seven entries in Domesday, amounting 

 in all to 6 hides 3 J virgates of land, relating to the 

 hamlet of HOLME. Two of these holdings became, 

 by the thirteenth century, absorbed in neighbouring 



Cotton, Azure a 

 cheveron betvjeen three 

 hanks of cotton argent. 



manors. The first was the manor of 2 hides held by 

 Ralph de Lisle, lord of Biggleswade manor in 1 086," 

 which by 1284 had become absorbed in Biggleswade." 

 The second property was the hide of land held by 

 Walter the Fleming at the time of the Survey,** which 

 subsequently became appur- 

 tenant to Langford manor.*' 

 Another holder in Holme at 

 the Survey was the Countess 

 Judith, of whom Fulk of Paris 

 held 3j virgates.** This pro- 

 perty, which never attained the 

 status of a manor, followed the 

 same descent as Sutton (q.v.), 

 and after the fifteenth century 



no further trace is found of „ ^ i 



. 47 Barnett. Or a sal- 



tire sable luith a leopartTs 



Other holders in Holme head sable in the chief. 

 were Nigel de Albini, of whom 



Fulk of Paris held half a hide,*' of which one 

 further mention is found in the thirteenth century, 

 when Richard Cosyn held I hide in Stratton and 

 Holme of the honor of Ralph St. Amand and Isabella 

 de Albini.*' Alwyn, a king's bailiff, held I J hides of 

 the king in Holme,'" which reappears in the thirteenth 

 century as the hide which Ivo Quarel held of the 

 king in serjeanty." Hugh de Beauchamp owned a 

 virgate, which was held of him by Mortuing.'* This 

 land appears to have been granted by them to the 

 abbot of Abingdon, who in 1236 had a dispute with 

 Geoffrey de Beauchamp concerning free tenements 

 which he held of him in Holme and Stratton.'' In 

 1346 Richard de Milnho held one-tenth of a knight's 

 fee of the abbot of Abingdon in Stratton. This fee, 

 which had formerly been held by Roger de Milnho, 

 probably represents the ancient Beauchamp holding, 

 of which no further trace has been found.'* 



William d'Eu also held a small estate of 3 virgates 

 in Holme at the time of the Domesday Survey," which 

 disappears after the beginning of the fifteenth century, 

 until which time it appears to have followed the 

 same descent as Edworth (q.v.).'" 



The Holme portion of HOLME WITH LJNG- 

 FORD MANOR, of which the history is given in 

 Langford parish, consisted of land in this hamlet of 

 which Henry le Scrope died seised in 1337," whose 

 son Richard le Scrope in 1398 granted all his lands in 

 Holme and Langford to Richard II, who immediately 

 transferred them to the abbey and convent of West- 

 minster.'" 



29 Feud. Aids, i, 4, 23 ; Cat of Close, 

 1313-18, p. 388; Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 

 Edw. II, No. 48 ; 4 Ric. II, No. 35 ; 5 

 Ric. II, No. 35 ; 12 Ric. II, No. 40 ; 20 

 Ric. II, No. 54 i 13 Edw. IV, No. 46 ; 

 3 Hen. VII, No. 286 ; (Ser. 2), cxciii, 

 No. 90 ; Ivi, No. 199. In the last in- 

 quisition, dated 16 16, the manor was stated 

 to be held of the king in chief. 



6» Feet of F. Beds. 16 Hen. Ill, No. 18. 



81 Ibid. 1 5 Edw. II, No. 3 ; Plac. de Quo 

 Warr. (Rec. Com.), 76. 



S2 References as in Note 29. 



ss Add Chart. 35245 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 20 Ric. II, No. 54. In this inquisition 

 the jurors state that at the death of Robert 

 de Willoughby he was not seised of this 

 manor. 



3-1 Add. Chart. 35237-45. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. IV, No. 46 ; 

 (Ser. 2), iii, No. 39. 



86 Ibid. (Ser. 2), xxv, No. 154. 



87 Ibid, xcv, No. I ; cxciii. No. 90. 



88 Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 30 El'z ; Pat. 

 30 Eliz. pt. 8. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxciv, No. 

 107 ; Ivi, No. 199 ; ccclxii. No. 188 ; 

 cccclxxxvii, No. 175 ; Recov. R. Mich. 4 

 Chas. I, R. 84 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. ; 

 East. 13-15 Chas. I. 



41 His grandfather, Sir Robert Cotton, 

 had collected the famous library which 

 his grandson presented to the nation. 



^ Recov. R. East. 1652, Trin. 1653 ; 

 Hil. 3 Anne ; East. 12 Geo. II ; Trin. 7 

 Geo. Ill ; Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 1653 ; 

 Hil. 28 Geo. III. Lysons, Magna Brit- 

 tannia, i, 57. 



«F.C.ff.5e(/i. i, 256a. 



« Feud. Aids, i, 4. 



« V.C.H. Beds, i, 250*. 



45 Feud. Aids, i, 4. 



« V.C.H.Beds.\,xi,%a. 



47 Feud. Aids, i, 4 ; Cal. of Pat. 1313- 



211 



17, p. 222 ; 1422-9, p. 455 J Plac. deQuo 

 JVarr. (Rec. Com.), "jj. 



48 V.C.H. Beds, i, 245*. 



« Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 250*. 



s» V.C.H. Beds, i, 264a. 



51 Testa de Neiiill (Rec. Com.), 243*. 



^•^ F.C.H. Beds. \, -nib. 



58 Close, 20 Hen. Ill, m. 10 d. 



54 Feud. Aids, i, 23. 



55 V.C.H. Beds, i, 233a. 



55 Feud. Aids, i, 23, 37 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 35 Edw. I, No. 14 ; 22 Ric. II, No. 

 loi. 



57 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. Ill, No, 47. 

 He held of three overlords — a messuage, 

 80 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow of 

 Sir John de Moubray ; 20 acres of Wil- 

 liam le Latimer, by service of 31. ; a curti- 

 lage and 8 acres of the bishop of Lincoln, 

 of 5j. o^d. yearly. 



58 Chart. R. 21-3 Ric. II, m. 74, No. 

 7 i Westm. MSS. bdle. 5. 



