A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



also of St. Neots Priory, and from an examination of 

 existing charters of these houses the Burnard lordship 

 in Arlesey can be traced. Roger son of Burnard gave 

 I virgate of land in Arlesey and a tenement to St. Neots.'* 

 Odo son of Roger granted I p. ^. rent and right of 

 way through his lands towards the canons' meadow 

 to Waltham Abbey." The Testa de Nevill states 

 that in the thirteenth century Roger Burnard held a 

 knight's fee in Arlesey of the Earl Marshal," and this 

 is the Roger son of Odo who confirmed to St. Neots 

 all the gifts of his ancestors." In 1270 Stephen 

 Burnard of Edworth, probably a son of the above 

 Roger, was in possession of Arlesey manor, for in that 

 year he received the grant of a fair there." He was 

 the last of his family to hold in Arlesey which, as in 

 the case of Everton, passed to Walter Langton, bishop 

 of Coventry and Lichfield, and followed the same 

 descent as that manor (q.v.) through the Peverels, de la 

 Poles, Cobhams, Brookes, and Tanfields, until late in 

 the sixteenth century." In 1566-7 Clement Tan- 

 field sold Arlesey manor to Henry Gylberd, a goldsmith 

 of London," from whom it was purchased a year later 

 by John Andrews." 



The Andrewses did not long retain it, however, for 

 William son of John conveyed it to Thomas Emery in 

 1593."' Thomas Emery left six daughters at his 

 death in 1636, one of whom, Florence widow of 

 Henry Goodwin, received Etonbury or Arlesey manor 

 as her inheritance." She subsequently married 

 John Farwell, and they alienated the estate in 1646 

 to Samuel Browne." Like Astwick (q.v.) this manor 

 remained with the Brownes during the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries, passing to John Schutz on 

 his marriage with Mary daughter of Thomas Browne." 

 In 1775 John Schutz was holding the manor, for in 

 that year he conveyed it by fine to Edward Kynaston." 

 Lysons, writing early in the eighteenth century, says 

 Arlesey was then in the possession of John Jacbon, who 

 had made a recent purchase." In 1820 Mr. Jackson 

 sold this property to Samuel Bedford Edwards, whose 

 son, also Samuel Bedford Edwards, again sold it to 

 Messrs. Lycett, Inskip & Co., solicitors, of Bristol."* 

 They have cut the estate up and sold it to various 

 persons, but do not appear to have parted with the 

 manorial rights." 



The manor of ^iJL^S^r 5 rar formed part of the 

 original endowment of Waltham Abbey by Harold, 

 and a confirmation of his grant is first found in a 

 charter of Edward the Confessor, bearing the date 

 1062.*' By the time of the Domesday Survey, in 

 common with other Waltham Abbey lands, this manor 

 is to be found in the tenure of the bishop of Durham. 



Waltham Abbey. 

 Argent a cross engrailed 

 sable ivith five crosslets 

 fitchy or thereon. 



It consisted of 8 hides and contained two mills.*' It 

 would seem, however, to have been very quickly re- 

 stored to its original owners, for it reappears as part of 

 the endowment of the abbey 

 in charters of Henry II and 

 Richard I.*" The thirteenth- 

 century history of this manor 

 is marked by numerous small 

 grants of land in Arlesey to 

 the abbey by the Bumards and 

 others," but, nevertheless, the 

 Testa de Nevill states that the 

 abbot held 3 hides only in 

 Arlesey, as opposed to the 8 of 

 the Survey.'* The abbey re- 

 tained the possession of the 

 manor until the dissolution of 

 the religious houses, at which 

 time the yearly rents were £'^ 5 6s. %d., whilst the profits 

 of court were worth ^^3 13/.^ In the year 15 14 the 

 abbot and convent had leased 

 Arlesey Bury (with all its ap- 

 purtenances save pleas of court) 

 to John Henneage,'* and 

 Thomas Henneage on the 

 seizure of the manor by the 

 crown secured their title by 

 purchase in 1 544." On his 

 death in 1559 Thomas Hen- 

 neage left as heiress his daughter 

 Anne, wife of John Luke." 



Nicholas Luke, their son, 

 held the manor for his life,'" but 

 his son Oliver who succeeded him in 16 13, and who 

 was certainly holding in 1625,'' appears to have alien- 

 ated it, for by 1659 Arlesey 

 Bury with Lanthony had passed 

 to the Edwards family, as in 

 that year Richard Edwards 

 recovered the manor from 

 Richard Hampson and George 

 Edwards.'' 



Richard Edwards was suc- 

 ceeded by a son Richard who 

 died in 1746,*° and whose 

 son Richard, dying without 

 issue in 1789, left the Arlesey 

 estates to a nephew William 

 Bedford who took the name 

 Edwards by royal licence in 1792." 



In 1820 his son Samuel Bedford Edwards held the 

 manor,** and as in the case of Arlesey manor (q.v.) his 



Luke. Argent 

 hunting horn sable. 



Edwards of Arlesey. 

 Party bend sinisterivise 

 sable and ermine a lion or. 



" Cott. MSS. Faust. A. iv, fol. 56*. 

 " Add. Chart. 17648 ; Coll. Tofog, et 

 Gen. vi, 234. 



i-" Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 247*. 

 15 Cott. MSS. Faust. A. iv, fol. 56*. 

 1° Cal. of Chart. R. 1257-1 300, p. 149. 

 1' Feud. Aids, i, 20 ; Cal. of Close, I 3 1 8- 



23.P-47ii i323-7,P-273 i 1349-54. P- 

 150; Cal. 0/' Pa?. 1467-77, p. 191 ; Plac. 

 de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 30 ; Close, 23 

 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 4 ; 24 Edw. Ill, pt. i, 

 m. 20 ; 26 Edw. Ill, m. 7 ; 29 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 16 ; 36 Edw. Ill, m. 13 ; 6 Hen. VI, 

 m. 5 i Feet of F. Div. Cos. 27 Edw. Ill, 



t No. 90; 32 Edw. Ill, No. 43; 36 Edw. 



' III, No. 104. 



18 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 8-9 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 8 Eliz. rot. 1025. 



19 Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 10 Eliz. At his 

 death (Chan. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], ccxii, 



No. 46), Clement Tanfield is erroneously 

 described as seised of this manor, whereas 

 he had sold it twenty years previously. 



«> Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 35 Eliz. 

 m. 8. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. dxxvii, No. 

 46. 



22 Feet, of F. Beds. Hil. 14 Chas. I ; 

 Mich. 22 Chas. I. 



23 Recov. R. Trin. 22 Chas. II, rot. 1 50; 

 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 23 Chas. II, m. 

 7 i Feet of F. Beds. East. 4 Geo. III. 



2J Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 1 5 Geo. III. 

 2* Lysons, Mag. Brit, i, 160. 

 2^ Information supplied by Rev. R. C. F. 

 Scott. 



27 Ibid. 



28 Cart. Antiq. (P.R.O.), M. i ; K.em- 

 ble, Cod. Dipl. iv, No. 813. 



29 V.C.H. Beds, i, 227*. 



262 



811 Cart. Antiq. (P.R.O.), M. 2 ; Dug- 

 dale, Mon. vi, 63. 



*l Add. Chart. 17639-51 ; Feet of F. 

 Beds. 8 Hen. Ill, No. 6 ; Cal. of Chart. 

 R. 1226-57, ^7) ^o"- '^"P- " (''"• vi, 205. 



82 Testa de Nevill {Rec. Com.), 243. 



»8 Plac. de Quo ffar. (Rec. Com.), 8, 1 5, 

 1 7 ; Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 2 ; Dugdale, 

 Mon. vi, 63. 



'■* Coll. Topog.et Gen. vi, 231. 



85 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 8. The manor 

 was purchased for ,^709 1 3 j. %d. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxii. No. i. 



8' Ibid, cccxliii. No. 177. 



88 Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 22 Jas. I. 



89 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 12 Chas. II, 

 Recov. R. Trin. 1659. 



■" Burke, Landed Gentry, 1871. 



*i Ibid. 



"2 Recov. R. Hil. 60 Geo. Ill, rot. 358. 



