BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED 



At the date of the Domesday Survey 

 MANORS Eudo son of Hubert (also known as Eudo 

 Dapifer) held a manor of 1 6 hides i vir- 

 gate in Sandy, which, like others held by him, had 

 belonged to Ulmar of Eaton." On Eudo's death in 

 1120 his lands escheated to the crown, and were 

 granted to one of the house of Beauchamp," and this 

 family continued to hold the manor of the king in 

 chief till the middle of the fourteenth century. In 

 1 201 Hugh de Beauchamp's claim to Sandy was dis- 

 puted by William de Lanvaley, who claimed its 

 revenues in right of his mother Gunnora, who held it 

 by gift of Henry III." Hugh appears to have been 

 in debt to the king who had seized upon this manor 

 as security and granted it to Gunnora, and some years 

 later the dowry of Maud, wife of Roger de Beau- 

 champ, was declared to be in the king's hands on 

 account of the unpaid debt." 



In 1241 William de Beauchamp held property 

 here," and in 1276 one of the same name justified 

 his right to free warren in Sandy." Ralph de Beau- 

 champ, son of William, rendered feudal service in 

 1284 for one and a half knight's fees in Sandy held 

 of the king in chief," and was followed by Roger de 

 Beauchamp, who held the manor in 1316." 



Roger de Beauchamp, by alienating the manor in 

 1 347 to John d'Engayne, severed the connexion of the 

 Beauchamps with Sandy. The fine sets forth that the 

 manor, worth ten marks per annum, is to remain to 

 Roger for his life with reversion to the d'Engaynes." 

 John held the manor at his death in 1 3 54,™ and was 

 followed by a son Thomas, wTio died in 1367 seised 

 of Sandy manor, the value of which was at this time 



vvv 



Engayne. Gules a 

 Jesse dancetty between six 

 crosslets or. 



BabnackEi Argent a 

 horse'harnacle sable. 



j^^io per annum." Thomas left three sisters as co- 

 heiresses : Joyce wife of John de Goldington, Eliza- 

 beth wife of Laurence de Pabenham, and Mary wife 

 of William Barnacke. The manor was settled on 



SANDY 



Katherine wife of Thomas d'Engayne for her life,** 

 and at her death in 1399, by a previous arrangement 

 between the co-heirs, Sandy manor passed to Mary 

 Barnacke, who had married a second husband, Thomas 

 La Zouche.*' Mary died in 1400, and was succeeded 

 by her son John Barnack^,'^ who in 1409 was followed 

 by a son John Barnacke, aged nine years."' He died a 

 minor in 1421, and his brother Edmund, who sur- 

 vived him a few days only, left two sisters Joan and 

 Mary as co-heirs.^^ The former of the two dying, 

 Mary wife of Robert Stoneham was left as sole heir. 

 In 1437 Robert and Mary Stoneham by fine with 



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Stoneham. Argent a 

 cross sable 'uiithji've scal- 

 lops thereon argent. 



Bhougbtoh. Argent 

 a che'veron between three 

 molets gules. 



Laurence Cheyne and others secured the recognition 

 of their right, and that of their daughter Elizabeth, 

 wife of John Broughton, to Sandy manor,*' which 

 continued with the Broughtons till the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, for Robert Broughton, grandson of the above 

 John, was holding it at his death in 1508." After 

 the death of his son Sir John Broughton, his daughter 

 Katherine succeeded to Sandy, and it passed before 

 1560 to William Powlett Lord St. John,'' by his 

 marriage with her daughter Agnes. He alienated the 

 manor in 1572 to Sir Robert Catlin,'" whose daughter 

 Mary married Sir John Spencer, and her grandson 

 William Spencer whose father was created Baron 

 Spencer of Wormleighton in 1603, held the manor at 

 the time of his death in 1 638." His son Henry Spencer 

 was created earl of Sunderland, and was slain at New- 

 bury in 1646, and Robert his son in 1670 sold Sandy 

 manor to Sir Humphrey Monoux.'* The manor was 

 held by this family until 1809, when by the death of 

 Sir Philip Monoux without male heirs his property 

 passed to his four sisters." Sandy manor passed tO' 

 his second sister Frances wife of Samuel Ongley.^* 

 After her death the manor-house and park were pur- 

 chased, about 1861, by the Brandreths, who in 1872 

 sold the property to the Fosters, and they in 1877 



" y,C.H, Beds, i, 235a. Eudo claimed 

 here also 3 acres of woodland against 

 Hugh de Beauchamp. 



" Ibid. 201. There is no proof of 

 any connexion between these Beauchamps 

 who owned the barony of Eaton and the 

 Beauchamps of Bedford, 



IS Abbrev, Plac. (Rec. Com.), 38. 



" Excerpta e Rot. Fin, i, 1 1 3. 



15 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 25 Hen. 

 III. 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 3. 



17 Plac de Quo War, (Rec. Cora.), 4, 

 51 ; Feud, Aids,\, 3. 



18 Feud. Aids, i, 19. 



19 Feet of F. Beds. 21 Edw. Ill, m. 2 ; 

 Cat, of Pat, 1345-8, p. 246 ; Abbrev, Rot. 

 Orig, (Rec. Com.), ii, 189; Inq. a.q.d. 

 file 314, No. 7. Two messuages, 39 acres 

 3 roods of land, i J of meadow within the 

 manor were excepted from this settlement, 



and were settled on Roger for life with 

 remainder to Annora Fresshyng and John 

 her son for their lives with reversion to 

 John d'Engayne. 



20 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 Nos.), No. 29. 



1 1bid. 41 Edw. Ill, No. 25. 



2a Feet of F. Div. Cos. 50 Edw. Ill, 

 No. 142. 



»8 Ibid. 50 Edw. Ill, No. 143 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. i Hen. IV, pt. i,No. 10. The 

 manor was at this time worth 100s, per 

 annum. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. IV, No. 15. 



26 Ibid. II Hen. IV, No. 17. The 

 manor had increased in value to ,^10. 



26 Ibid. 9 Hen. V, No. 23. The manor 

 included 200 acres of arable land (worth 

 5 marks), 20 acres meadow worth 40J., 

 20 acres pasture worth zos,, and 7 acres 

 of wood worth nothing, a water-mill 



worth 13s. 41/., and 4 marks rent of 

 assize. 



2' Feet of F. Beds. East. 15 Hen. VI ; 

 Harl. Soc. Puhl, xix. 



28 Harl. Soc. Publ. xix ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), xxi, No. 116. 



29 G. E. C. Complete Peerage, viii, 173 ; 

 Harl. Soc. Publ, xix. 



8» Recov. R. Mich. 14 Eliz. ; Feet of 



F. Beds. Mich. 14 Eliz. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxi. 

 No. 8. 



82 Close, 21 Chas. II, pt. 10, No. 24; 



G. E. C. Complete Peerage, vii, 205. 



88 Recov. R. Hil. 29-30 Chas. II ; 

 East. 1 2 Geo. I ; Com. Fleas Recov. R, 

 Mich. 1 1 Geo. Ill ; Acts Priv. and Local, 

 38 Geo. Ill, cap. 47 ; Lysons, Mag. Brit, 

 i, 168 ; G. E. C. Baronetage ; Feet of F. 

 Beds. Trin. 50 Geo. III. 



84 Add, MS. 9408. 



