A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



In 1 2 84 Henry de Cramavilla held half a fee of 

 the earls of Pembroke in Edworth," but he appears to 

 have alienated the manor before i 307, in which year 

 Nicholas St. Maur transferred the manor to Walter 

 de Langton, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.'" The 



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bishop held the manor till his death in 1 321, when 

 it passed to his nephew, Edmund Peverel, son of his 

 sister Alice." In 1 346 the manor was held by John 

 son of Edmund Peverel," from whom it passed to his 

 sister Margaret, married to William de la Pole." 



William de la Pole was holding the manor in 

 1362," and from him it appears to have passed to 

 John Grivell of Campden in Gloucester, who was 

 holding in 1396," though no record of the trans- 

 ference has been found. 



The next mention that has been discovered of this 

 manor is a grant, dated 1400, by William Colne, vicar 

 of Campden, to various trustees." This may have 

 been preparatory to its transference to John Bullok 

 of Eton who, together with Katherine his wife, in 

 1416 conveyed Edworth manor to Robert Goldsmith 

 and other trustees." 



Robert Bullok had succeeded John by 1428," and 

 by 1440 the manor had passed to William Furtho 

 of Furtho, whose wife Elizabeth was probably a 

 daughter of Robert Bullok." 



Alice daughter of William Furtho married John 

 Enderby, and received Edworth as her marriage 



portion.'" On her death he married a second wife 

 Maude, who survived him, dying in 1474, when the 

 manor passed to Richard Enderby, her son by her 

 first marriage," who in 1488 was succeeded by a son 

 John." 



John Enderby at his death in 1509 left a 

 daughter Eleanor as heir," who married Francis 

 Pygott, and whose son Thomas Pygott held the 

 manor till his death in 1581." 



Thomas Pygott left three sons (Lewis, John, and 

 Michael), who between 1586 and 1588 sold their 

 interests in the manor to John Spurling," and in 

 1614 Anne his widow sold Edworth manor for 

 ;^3,ooo to John and Richard Hale, of King's 

 Walden." Richard Hale was succeeded in 162 1 by 

 a son William," who died in 

 1635, having previously settled 

 this manor on his second son 

 Rowland." William son of 

 Rowland Hale followed his, 

 father who died in 1 669," and 

 his grandson Pain Hale was 

 holding Edworth manor in 

 1742.*" He died without 

 issue, and his property passed 

 to his cousin William Hale, 

 who in 1 770 held the manor." 

 He died in 1793, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son William,"' 



whose grandson, William Edmund Brand Hale, who 

 died in 1 896, also held this property, which in recent 

 years has passed to Mr. John Inns, who at present 

 holds it. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey a second 

 manor existed in EDWORTH, It consisted of 2 J hides 

 of the land of the reeves and almsmen of the king, 

 and was held by Branting during the Confessor's reign, 

 and in 1086 by Alwin, a king's bailiff." 



By the thirteenth century this property had come 

 into the possession of the Cantilupes, though the 

 exact manner and date of the transference have not 

 been ascertained. 



Hale, Azure a che- 

 veron or hauled on both 

 sides. 



" Feud. Aids, i, 3. 



80 Feet of F. Beds. 35 Edw. I, No. 19. 



^ Feud. Aids, i, 19; Chart. R. 35 Edw. I, 

 No. 48 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, No. 

 44 ; Wrottesley, Pedigrees from Plea R. 76. 

 In the latter part of the thirteenth century 

 there are traces of an intermediary lord- 

 ship held by the Bluets. In 1 284 Henry 

 de Cramavilla held of William Bluet, who 

 held of the earl of Pembroke [Feud. Aids, 

 i, 3). Walter Langton held the manor 

 in the same way at his death (C)ian. 

 Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, No. 44 ; 17 Edw. 

 II, No. 75), but no further trace has 

 been found of the Bluets' interest in the 

 manor. ^^ Feud. Aids, i, 23. 



=* Close R. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 4, 

 when William de la Pole settled the 

 manor on John de Lisle of Rougemont, 

 who released it to him in 1352 (Close 

 R. 26 Edw. Ill, m. 7 i Feet of F. Div. 

 Cos. 27 Edw. Ill, No. 90), and again 

 in 1355 (Close R. 29 Edw. Ill, m. 16). 

 The same year they settled the manor 

 on John de Codington and other trustees 

 (Feet of F. Beds. 29 Edw. Ill, No. 2; Harl. 

 Chart. 57, D. l). In 1358 Robert Rigge 

 resigned to these trustees on the part of 

 his wife Isabella, widow of John Peverel, 

 all claim to one third of the manor as 

 her dower (Feet of F. Beds. 32 Edw. Ill, 

 m, 2). 



*• Close R. 36 Edw. Ill, m. 13 and 

 12. At this date he granted an annuity 

 from Edworth manor to Lord Cobham, 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric II, No. 51, 



»« Add. Chart. 35044. 



»? Feet of F. Beds. 4 Hen. V, m. 5. 

 This was probably on the occasion of 

 the marriage of Robert Bullok his son, 

 to whom the manor was delivered over in 

 the same year by these trustees (Add. 

 Chart. 35048). According to an inquisi- 

 tion into the assignation of the dower of 

 Beatrice widow of Lord Talbot (overlord 

 of Edworth), John Bullok still held this 

 fee in 1423 (Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. V, 

 No. 127). 



"* Feud. Aids, i, 37 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 1 1 Hen. VI, No. 43. 



"» Add. Chart. 35063 ; Feet of F. 

 Beds. 20 Hen. VI, No. 21. In this fine 

 William Furtho quitclaimed to John Lau- 

 rence on the part of himself his wife, 

 and heirs of his wife. The extent of 

 the manor at this time comprised 12 

 messuages, 4 tofts, I2virgates, 200 acres 

 of land, 12 of meadow, 20 acres pasture, 

 and 100s. rent. 



'" Add. Chart 35064, 35065 ; Bridges, 

 Northants, i, 297. In his will, dated 

 1450 and proved in 1457, John Enderby 

 desires to be buried next Alice his first 

 wife. 



224 



«l Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. IV, No. 

 46. She married, after John Enderby'* 

 death, Robert Bothe. 



»' Cal. of Inq. Hen. VII, No. 286. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiii. No. 

 308. 



" Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 30 Hen. 

 VIII ; Trin. 8 Eliz. ; Add. Chart. 

 35250; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxciii. 

 No. 90. 



'* Add.Chart 35140,35142; Com.Pleas. 

 Deeds Enrolled, East. 30 Eliz. m. 17^, 

 25</. John Spurting was to enter into 

 the property on the death of Elizabeth 

 widow of Thomas Pygott. William 

 Becher was the trustee of the Pygott* 

 for this sale (Feet of F. Beds. East. 1 1 

 Jas. I). 



" Feet of F. Beds. East. 1 1 Jas. I. 

 Two years later John Hale relinquished 

 his share in the manor to Richard (Add. 

 Chart. 35134). 



'1 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxxvii. 

 No. no. »8 Ibid, ccclxxlvi. No. 148. 



8» Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 10 Anne; 

 Recov. R. Hil. 10 Anne, rot. 167. 



*<> Recov. R. Trin. 16 Geo. II, rot. 

 152. 



« Ibid. Mich. II Geo. Ill, rot. 187 j 

 Burke, Landed Gentry, 



«» Itid. ; Recov. R. Mich. 34 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 23. « y.CH, Beds, i, 263A. 



