A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



BUKGOYNX. Gulti a 

 cheveron or hefwten thret 

 talhctt argent and a batthd 

 chief argent 'with three 

 martlets azure therein. 



part of the duchy of Lancaster, and was the subject 

 of various temporary grants." 



In 1402 Henry Longdon received the site of the 

 manor of Sutton for life," and in 1 42 7 Elizabeth, 

 daughter of William Beau- 

 champ of Powyk and wife of 

 Thomas Swinford, was granted 

 this manor for her life." 



Finally, in 1 544, Thomas 

 Burgoyne received a perpetual 

 grant of this manor for him- 

 self and his heirs,'" and it has 

 since remained with this family, 

 whose representative. Sir John 

 Burgoyne, is at present lord of 

 Sutton manor." 



A second manor in Sutton, 

 that of ENDERBIES, appears 

 in the fifteenth century, and 

 appears to have originated in a grant by the crown to 

 the Enderbys after Sutton manor fell to the duchy of 

 Lancaster. The first mention of it occurs in 1488, 

 when Sir Richard Enderby 

 died seised of a messuage and 

 24 acres of land in Sutton, 

 held of the king as of the 

 manor of Sutton, parcel of the 

 duchy of Lancaster." It ap- 

 pears to have continued to 

 belong to the Enderbys " until 

 in 1529 an exchange was 

 effected between Francis Py- 

 gott (who had married Eleanor 

 Enderby) and John Burgoyne, 

 the former giving Enderbies 

 manor (here first so called) in 

 exchange for lands in Edworth, Stratton, Holme, and 

 Astwick.'" John Burgoyne left the manor to his son 

 Thomas in 1541," who acquired Sutton manor (q.v.) 

 in 1544, and these two manors have since followed 

 the same descent. The smaller manor did not im- 

 mediately lose its separate identity, and as late as 1 73 1 

 it is still distinguished by name from the more im- 

 portant manor." 



At the time of the Survey one of these I J virgates 

 of land in Sutton belonging to the reeves and almsmen 

 of the king was held by Alwin, in 1086, and had been 

 assigned by Ralph Taillebois, as sheriff, to the king's 

 service." This holding probably reappears in the 

 thirteenth century as the land which Henry de Cos- 

 tentin held of the king in chief for half a knight's 

 fee.'* On his death in 1255 Henry left a son Geof- 

 frey," who transferred this fee to Alexander de 

 Somersham.'" John de Somersham, who succeeded 

 his father in 1291," appears to have split up the fee 

 by enfeoffing several persons with small portions of 



Endirby, Argent three 

 bars dancetty sable with a 

 pale ermine in the chief. 



land ; William Godwin, John Warison, Alice le 

 Latimer, Nicholas and Geoffrey Power, were each so 

 enfeoffed." Thus by 1344 Alexander de Somersham, 

 who had succeeded John, died seised of 14 acres of 

 land only, which are described as poor and sandy, and 

 were held of the king in chief by petty serjeanty." 

 He left a son John, and a later inquisition, bearing the 

 date 1 364, held on Alexander de Somersham, probably 

 a grandson, for the same 14 acres, states that he left 

 as heirs his daughters Margaret and Agnes, and with 

 the consequent subdivision of the land further trace 

 of this fee disappears." 



A third holder in Sutton at the time of the Survey 

 was Eudo son of Hubert, of whom Alwin held 3 vir- 

 gates." The lands of Eudo were granted to the 

 Beauchamps of Eaton in 1 1 20," and next reappear 

 in the free tenements which Henry de Braybrooke 

 claimed in Sutton in 1 2 1 2, and which had come to 

 his father by gift of Philippa Beauchamp." This 

 holding, of which no further separate mention has 

 been found, thus became absorbed in Sutton manor. 



The right of holding a view of frankpledge twice 

 yearly," and also of free warren *• belonged to Sutton 

 manor. 



Camden, in his Magna Britannia, mentions a rhym- 

 ing grant by which John of Gaunt gave Sutton to 

 Roger Burgoyne." 



Lysons also makes mention of the tradition,*' which 

 is without foundation (cf. history of Sutton manor). 

 The doggerel grant, which has been applied to many 

 other places, ran as follows : — 



I, John of Gaunt 



Do give and do graunt 



Unto Roger Boyne 



And the heir of his loine 



Both Sutton and Fotton 



Until the world's rotten. 



The church of ^ii SAINTS consists 



CHURCH of a chancel 26 ft. by 16 ft. 6 in., nave 



45 ft. by 1 8 ft. 6 in., with north aisle 



1 7 ft. wide, and south aisle 9 ft. wide, south porch 



and western tower 1 1 ft. 9 in. by 1 1 ft. 3 in. 



The angles of an aisleless nave, of twelfth or thir- 

 teenth-century date, remain at the north-east, south- 

 east, and south-west of the present nave, but the chancel 

 belonging to this church has been entirely rebuilt. In 

 the thirteenth century the south aisle was added, and 

 it is probable that somewhere about the same time 

 the chancel was rebuilt. It was, however, entirely 

 remodelled in the early years of the fourteenth century, 

 a vestry being built at the north-east, and the chancel 

 arch and north aisle with its arcade are approximately 

 of the same date. The western tower is an addition 

 of the fifteenth century, and the clearstory was added 

 shortly after the building of the tower : the south 



23 Mins. Accts. bdle. 728, No. 1 1 991 ; 

 D. of Lane. Misc. Bks. 15, fol, iS d, 



3-' Ibid. 15, fol. 841/. ; 16, fol. 21. 



25 Ibid. 18, fol. 1351/., I36(/. ; Feud, 

 Aids, i, 37 ; Cal.ofPat. 1422-9, p. 455. 



25 D. of Lane. Misc. Bks. 22, fol. 193 d. 



2' Chan. Inq, p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxiv, 

 No. 2 i cclxxxvili, No. 115 i Feet of F. 

 Beds. Hil. 18 Chas. I ; Mich. 1657 ; Trin. 

 16 Chas. II ; East. 1 8 Geo. Ill ; Rccov. 

 R. East. 4 George II, rot. 246 ; East. 21 

 Geo. Ill, rot. 33 ; Trin. 58 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 22 ; Harl, Sac. Publ. v, 19 ; G. E. C. 

 Baronetage, 



28 Cal, Inq, p,m, 3 Hen. VII, No. 284. 



22 Cf. Edworth for this family. 



»» Add. Chart. 35252 ; Feet of F. Beds. 

 Trin. 21 Hen. VIII. 



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

 20. 



"2 RecoT. R. East. 4 Geo. II, rot. 246. 



8» V.C.H. Beds, i, 264a. 



" Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 243*. 

 The holding had increased to 2J virgates. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Hen. Ill, No. 15. 



»« Tlac, de Quo fVar. (Rec. Com.), 13. 



37 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. I, No. 140. 



88 Aiireii. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i8i, 



248 



190 ; HarL Chart. 84, A. 50 ; Cal. of Pat. 

 •3°7-i3. P- 39^ i Feud. Aids, i, 19. 



«2 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 8 Edw. Ill, No. 3 1. 



« Ibid. 38 Edw. Ill, No. 43. 



" r.CJI. Beds, i, 235A. ^ Ibid. 200. 



« Abbrtv. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 87. 



** Court R. bdle. i. No. i ; Plac. de Quo 

 fVar. (Rec. Com.), 2, 14, 77 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxyiii. No. 115 ; Feet 

 of F. Beds. Hil. 18 Chas. I; Trin. 16 

 Chas. II ; East. 18 Geo. III. 



« Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), 3. 



•■* Camden, Magna Brit, i, 328. 



■•' Lysons, Magna Brit, i, 138. 



