A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



Whitbread, Argent 

 a eheveron between three 

 hinds* heads raxed gules. 



In 1 271 this manor became the property of her 

 granddaughter, Alice, wife of William le Latimer," 

 and followed the same descent as Sutton manor (q.v.), 

 until its lapse into the duchy of Lancaster," and 

 like that manor was settled 

 in 1544 on Thomas Burgoyne 

 and his heirs for ever." Potton 

 manor, with which were sub- 

 sequently united the other 

 manors in Potton, remained 

 in the Burgoyne family until 

 the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. '° By 1774 the pro- 

 perty had passed from the 

 Burgoynes to George Viscount 

 Torrington," from whom this 

 group of manors was purchased 

 in 1795, by Samuel Whit- 

 bread.'" I'hey were held in 1 8 1 7 by his son Samuel 

 Whitbread," and his son, also Samuel Whitbread, is 

 at present the lord of Potton. 



A second manor in this parish is that o( POTTON 

 MUCH MJNURED." This sub-manor was split 

 off from the main manor of Potton on the death of 

 the earl of Huntingdon without male heirs in 1237. 

 The overlordship of this part went to Margaret, the 

 elder sister of the earl of Huntingdon. Her 

 daughter, Devorgilla, married John de Balliol, and 

 through the marriage of her daughter Ada the over- 

 lordship passed to the Clavering family, who held it 

 as of the honour of Huntingdon." The descent of 

 the under-lords of this manor can be traced from 

 ' the heirs of Nicholas Quatremars ' who in the thir- 

 teenth century held half a fee in Potton of this 

 honour."" By 1284 it had passed to Fulk of Bath 

 and Joan his wife, who at that date held a rent of 

 £14 16/. in Potton." Their daughter Joan married 

 John d'Eyville, who held the manor in 1 306." He 

 transferred the manor to Walter Langton, bishop 

 of Coventry and Lichfield," before 1 316, at which 

 date Walter was rendering feudal service for it." 

 From 1 3 16 until 1564 this manor follows the same 

 descent as Everton manor (q.v.)." In the latter year 

 Clement Tanfield alienated Potton Much Manured 

 manor to John Burgoyne," and it thus became united 

 with the principal manor of Potton (q.v.), and has 

 since followed the same descent. 



A third manor, that of POTTON BURDETTS, 



derived its name from a family called Burdett, who held 

 in Potton during the thirteenth century. It was split 

 off from the main manor of Potton in 1237, and the 

 overlordship passed to Ada, youngest sister of the 

 earl of Huntingdon. She married Henry Hastings, 

 whose direct descendant John Hastings (1347-96) 

 became earl of Pembroke.*" The last reference found 

 to this overlordship is in 1507, when Potton Bur- 

 detts manor is stated to be held of the honour of 

 Huntingdon." 



The earliest sub-tenant of whom mention has been 

 found is William Burdett, who held land in Potton 

 in 1214.'° He was followed by Nicholas Burdett, 

 who held here by service of half a knight's fee," 

 which in 1284 had diminished to one-fifth held by 

 William Burdett." In 1291 the connexion of this 

 family with Potton Burdetts was severed when William 

 Burdett granted his ' capital messuage ' by charter to 

 William le Latimer, at that time holding Potton 

 manor." Its history is identical with that of Potton 

 and Sutton (q.v.), until these manors lapsed to the 

 duchy of Lancaster at the close of the fourteenth 

 century. It did not fall to the duchy, for in 1404 

 Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Latimer, died seised of 

 ' Bordelette's Fee.' " It next reappears in 1 507 as 

 Burdetts manor in Potton, the property of John 

 Taylor and Anne his wife, to whom it had been 

 granted by Thomas and Richard Burgoyne." John 

 Taylor left a son Roger, who died the same year as 

 his father," and Burdett manor passed to his brother 



Taylor, Quarterly 

 argent and sable a cross 

 faty countercoloured. 



Brddemei-u Argent 

 a eheveron azure between 

 three hats gules turned up 

 loitk ermine. 



Humphrey, who, on his death in 1 5 1 1 , was succeeded 

 by a second cousin William," who only survived until 

 1 5 1 6, when his brother Laurence became his heir.'* 



1' Chan. Inq. p.m. 55 Hen. Ill, No. 59. 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), 3 ; Plac. 

 de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 2, 77 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 10 £dw. II, No. 48 ; 4 Ric. II, 

 No. 35 ; 12 Ric. II, No. 40 ; 9 Hen. VI, 

 No. 24 i Feud, Aids, i, 3, 23 ; Cal, of Fat, 

 1313-17, p. 222 ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. 

 Bks. 21, fol. 173 </. "Ibid. 22, fol. 17 i d. 



^^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxviii, 

 No. 115 ; cccclxxxi. No. 120 ; Feet of 

 F. Beds. Mich. 1657, Trin. 1664, Trin. 

 1677; Recov. R. East. 9 Anne; ibid. 

 East. 4 Geo. II. 



17 Acts Priv, and Local, 14 Geo. 

 Ill, cap. 74. 



18 Add. MSS. 9408 ; Recov. R. East. 



35 Geo. Ill ; Com. Pleas, ibid. Mich. 



36 Geo. III. 



" Recov. R. East. 57 Geo. III. The 

 manors of Potton Regis, Potton Burdetts, 

 Potton Much Manured and Potton 

 Rectory are all individualized in this 

 document. 



^ The origin of this distinctive name 

 is obscure. It first appears in a six- 



teenth-century document, where it is 

 written ' Mychmanred.' Much Ma- 

 nured, the alternative spelling, is found 

 in later documents only. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill, No. 46; 

 15 Edw. II, No. 44 ; 12 Hen. VI, No. 

 37 ; Feud, Aids, i, 23, 37 j Testa de Nevitl 

 (Rec. Com.), 243 ; Wrottesley, Pedigrees 

 from Plea R, 509. 



21= Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 243. 



'^Plac, de Quo Warr, (Rec. Com.), 9 ; 

 Feud, Aids, i, 3. 



»» Robert, Cal, Gen. ii, 582 ; Abbrev, 

 Plac, (Rec. Com.), 258 ; John D'Eyville 

 claimed infangenthef in Potton against 

 Alice le Latimer, who claimed Potton as 

 member of Sutton, 



"^ Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 30. 



»5 Feud. Aids, i. 



19. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, No. 

 44 ; the bishop held a homage in Potton, 

 called the great homage, 5 Edw. Ill, No, 

 46, The extent of the manor is here 

 given as comprising no messuage, land, 

 pasture or wood, but free tenants who pay 



238 



rent yearly of ^^14 141., a windmill 

 worth loi. and pleas and profits of two 

 views and courts worth loi.; 12 Hen. 

 VI, No. 37 ; 21 Hen. VIII, No. 50 j 

 Close, 23 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 4 ; 26 

 Edw. Ill, m. 7 ; 36 Edw. Ill, m. 13; 

 Feet of F. Beds. 32 Edw. Ill, Div. Cos.; 

 32 Edw. Ill, No. 46 ; Mich. 36 Edw. Ill ; 

 East. 6 Hen. VL 



W Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 6 Eliz. 



"* Feud. Aids, i, 23. Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 18 Edw. II, No. 83 ; 20 Ric. II, No. 54 ; 

 21 Ric. II, No. 2 ; 5 Hen. IV, No. 28. 



'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), v. No. 17. 



'" Feet of F. Beds. East, 15 John, 



81 Testa de Nevill (Rec, Com,), 252. 



82 Feud, Aids, i, 3. 



88 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 225. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. IV, No. 38. 



85 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), v. No. 

 17. This is the first time this property 

 is definitely called a manor. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxv, No. 

 138. "Ibid. 



88 Exch, Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), x, No. 4. 



