A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



granted Henlow Warden to William Sewster," who 

 appears to have alienated it within a short space of 

 time to John Raven, for the latter settled it in 15 76 

 on a son John," who dying in 

 1 594 *' was succeeded by a son 

 John,^' who was under age at 

 his father's death.'" John Raven 

 died in 1 641," and his son 

 John was certainly holding the 

 manor in 1654." The manor 

 next passed by inheritance to 

 the Edwards family ."^ In 1670 

 George Edwards was in pos- 

 session of Henlow Warden." 



A] A 



His son George succeeded him 



Warden Abbkt. 



r , ^ ,, . , Ax,ure a crosier set pale- 



in 1 7 1 z,-> and was followed by ^,„ i,^^„„ ,,,„, ^^^j,„ 



a son, also George.'* On the pean or. 

 death of the latter in 1 78 1 his 



wife Elizabeth retained possession of the manor." 

 Their son George having died without issue in 1809, 

 George Nigel Raynsford (who took the name of Ed- 

 wards), son of his sister Frances, succeeded to Henlow 

 Warden."* In 1849 Thomas 

 Alexander Raynsford held the 

 manor, and in 1855 General 

 Raynsford. By 1 869 it had 

 passed to the Rev. Henry Ad- 

 dington, by marriage with the 

 eldest daughter of T. A. Rayns- 

 ford, who was followed by 

 Thomas Alexander Addington. 

 In 1889 the latter sold it to 

 the Alliance Bank, who shortly 

 after sold it to Edward Ham- 

 mond Thompson. In 1896 

 it was purchased from him by 

 Mr. George Gribble, who is 

 at the present day lord of 

 the manor." The capital 

 messuage knovim as Graies 



Bury formed part of the manor of Henlow Warden 

 and was held by John Raven in 1641.'° 



A third manor to be found in Henlow is that 

 of HENLOWZOVCHES." The Domesday Survey 

 states under the land of the burgesses of Bedford 

 that Alric held one virgate, and had held it in the 

 time of Edward the Confessor." In the thirteenth 

 century William de Cantelow held one virgate of 

 the honor of Eyton (probably Eaton Bray), in 

 Henlow," and it is possible that these virgates are 

 identical. From William de Cantelow this manor 



Gribblk. Partyfeue- 

 •wise invecked table and 

 argent vjtti a demilion 

 between two lix-pointed 

 molets in the chief and a 

 greyhound's head razed 

 sable having a collar or 

 in the foot. 



passed into the hands of the Zouches of Harring- 

 worth by the marriage of Millicent daughter of 

 William de Cantelow with Kudo de la Zouche.** In 

 1302 William de la Zouche, her son, held one- 

 twentieth of a knight's fee, consisting of one vir- 

 gate of land in Henlow.*' His grandson William 

 de la Zouche held the same fee in 1 346." William 

 de la Zouche, son of Eudo, and grandson of the 

 former William, died seised of this fee in 1382," 

 as did also his son William in 1396" The pro- 

 perty appears to have remained in this family in the 

 direct line, though there is very little documentary 

 evidence, for in 1473 Jacquetta duchess of Bedford 

 was appointed guardian to John son of William de la 



Cantelow. Gules 

 three fleurs de lis coming 

 out of leopards* heads 

 reversed or. 



Zouche. Gules bessan- 

 ty and a quarter ermine. 



Zouche, and amongst his possessions are mentioned 

 lands, rents, and services in Henlow." In 1542 Richard 

 de la Zouche, son of the above John, alienated Henlow 

 Zouches to Reginald Conygrave and Joan his 

 wife ; ^ sixteen years later it was the property of 

 Thomas Henneage," and by the marriage of his daugh- 

 ter to John Luke passed to that family, being held by 

 Nicholas Luke" and his son 

 Oliver successively." In 1632 

 it was alienated by Sir Oliver 

 Luke to Richard Edwards and 

 others," to become absorbed 

 later in the more important 

 manor of Henlow Warden 

 (q.v.) which was acquired by 

 the Edwards family." 



Walter the Fleming held 

 three -and-a- half hides in 

 Henlow at the time of the 

 Domesday Survey," and this 



manor, known later as HENLOfV GRET, became 

 part of the barony of Wahull or Odell." The 

 Domesday under-tenant of the manor was Hug^i, but 



Grky. Barry argent 

 and assure. 



^ Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. 3. 



^7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser, 2), ccix, No. 1 2. 



28 Ibid, ccxi. No. 7. 



29 Fine R. 40 Eliz. pt. 2, No. 38. 

 "> Ibid. 



8^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), dxviii. No. 

 53 ; Fine R. 18-23, Chas. I, pt. i, No. 23. 



82 Recov. R. Mich. 1654. 



88 In 1635 Dorothy Raven married 

 George Edwards of Henlow ; Coll, Topog, 

 et G««. vi, 291. 



»• Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 21, Chas. II. 



8' Coll, Topog. et Gen. v, 291 ; Court 

 Rolls in possession of Mr. George Gribble. 



88 Ibid. In 1738 George Edwards, 

 senior, and George Edwards, junior, con- 

 veyed the manor in trust to Christopher 

 Tower; Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 12 

 Geo. II. 



87 Ibid. She was holding a court in 1785. 



«8 Ibid. 



8^ Information supplied by Mr. Geo. 

 Gribble. 



■"' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxxiii, No. 

 33. The Greys were early benefactors of 

 Warden Abbey in Henlow. 



*' Henlow Zouches is not called a manor 

 before the sixteenth century, but is de- 

 scribed as appurtenant to Eyton Manor be- 

 longing to the Zouches. 



*'^KC.H,Beds,\,z6ia. 



« Testa de Nevlll (Rec. Com.), 25 lA. 



« Plac, de Quo Jfar. (Rec. Com.), 3. 



<8 Feud, Aids,i, 13. 



« Ibid. 31. 



■•' Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Ric. II, No. 62. 



<8 Ibid. i9Ric. II,No. 52. 



" Cal. of Pat, 1467-77, p. 327, G.E.C. 

 Complete Peerage, 



8" Feet of F. Beds. HiU 34 Hen. VIII. 



282 



In this document the property is for the 

 first time described as a manor. 



8' Chan. Inq, p.m. (Ser. 2), cxii, No. i. 



82 Ibid, cccxliii. No. 177; Feet of F. Div. 

 Cos. East 8 Jas, I. 



°8 Ibid. Beds. HiU 22 Jas. I ; Recov. R. 

 Hil. 22 Jas. I. 



" Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 8 Chas. I. 



'8 An indenture of 1735 mentions as be- 

 longing to Henlow Warden Manor • all 

 that ancient messuage, tenement, or 

 cottage,with all and singular appurtenances 

 situate and being in Henlow, sometime the 

 messuage of Sir Oliver Luke.' (From docu- 

 ment in the possession of Mr. George 

 Gribble). 



"> KCH. Beds, i, 251a. 



87 Testa de Nevill {Rec, Com.), 251*, 

 cf. also Langford which belonged to this 

 barony. 



