FLITT HUNDRED 



HAYNES 



1571 ; Sir Bernard, his grandson ; and Sir Bevil, his 

 great-grandson, the great west country royalist, killed 

 at Lansdowne in 1 643 ; Sir John Grenville, son of 

 Sir Bevil, and first earl of Bath ; Sir George Carteret, 

 Governor of Jersey ; Edward Montagu, first earl of 

 Sandwich ; Robert, earl of Essex, Elizabeth's favourite ; 

 and Margaret, countess of Lennox, Darnley's mother. 



Among the place-names in this parish occur those 

 of Hubbards Pightells, and Hare Stockingfield, as the 

 names of closes belonging to the manor of Franklins in 

 1 68 1 .' In I s 84 Sir Robert Newdigate died seised of 

 a close called Purleies Close or Julian's Grove, parcel 

 of the manor of Haynes : ' the name St. Julian's 

 Grove still survives in the parish. In 1622, when 

 the manor was sold to Sir Oliver Luke, he received 

 with it two closes called Fattinge Pasture, and West- 

 mires, and also a close called Collens Close,* which is 

 also mentioned in 1 5 84, as parcel of the manor.' 



A ring stated to be identical with the one given by 

 Queen Elizabeth to the earl of Essex was in the 

 possession of Lord John Thynne at Haynes, and was 

 said to have been inherited by him through Essex's 

 daughter Frances, but there is no foundation for the 

 story.* 



Haynes was once the scene of a royal visit, when 

 Sir Robert Newdigate was lord of the manor, and on 

 27 and 28 July, 1605, Queen Anne, the wife of 

 James I, was entertained by him at Haynes, the king 

 being then at Sir Edmund Conquest's at Houghton. 

 On the 30th, the royal pair, with the whole court, 

 attended divine service at Haynes church.' 



From the time of the Great Survey, the 

 MANORS manor oi HAYNES was held of the king 

 in chief. The last mention of the over- 

 lordship occurs in 161 4.' 



In 1086 the manor was held by Hugh de Beau- 

 champ and was assessed at j hides. It had been held 

 by Achi, a thegn of King Edward.' Hugh's eldest 

 son Simon died without issue and the second son Pain, 

 who obtained the barony of Bedford from William II, 

 inherited the manor, which on his death descended to 

 his son Simon." The latter died about 1 206, leaving 

 as his heir a son William, who in 12 19 was concerned 

 in a dispute with Robert de Bray over land in Haynes." 

 On his death in 1259 the manor passed under'" a 

 settlement of 1257 to his second son Henry, who, 

 however, did not live long to enjoy the property, for 

 he died some time before the year 1265, leaving no 

 children and the manor became the right of his brother 

 John, who was killed in 1265 at Evesham, in arms 

 against the king. The manor then passed to Maud, 

 sister of John, who married Roger de Mowbray as her 

 first husband, by whom she had a son Roger. She 

 married as her second husband Roger Lestrange,'' who 

 in 1286 claimed view of frankpledge in the manor of 

 Haynes in right of his wife." Roger survived his wife 

 and on his death in 1312 the manor passed to Maud's 



Gules a 



grandson John, son of Roger de Mowbray, who had 

 died in 1296." John married Aliva, daughter and co- 

 heir of William de Braose, and in 1 3 1 5 settled the 

 manor on his father-in-law for life." 



John joined the insurrection of Thomas, earl of 

 Lancaster, in 1 3 2 1 and having been made prisoner at 

 the battle of Boroughbridge, 

 he was hanged at York in 

 March, 132 i-z." The same 

 year Edward II granted the 

 reversion of the manor held by 

 William de Braose to Hugh 

 le Despenser and Eleanor his 

 wife.'* William de Braose died 

 before the end of the year 

 and Hugh and Eleanor were 

 granted in February, 1325-6, 

 free warren in the demesne 

 lands of the manor of Haynes." 



Edward III on his accession, however, restored the 

 manor to John de Mowbray (whose father John de 

 Mowbray was hanged at York), who in that year came 

 of age.'" John's mother Aliva had married, as her 

 second husband, Sir Richard Peshall, who seems to 

 have enjoyed the manor of Haynes in the right of his 

 wife who died in 1 38 1, for in 1329 and again in 

 1332, Sir Richard Peshall complained that his stepson 

 had broken his manor of Haynes and carried away oxen 

 and cattle, besides mowing his crops, fishing in his 

 streams, and carrying away the crops and fish." John de 

 Mowbray was a distinguished soldier, and earned great 

 renown in the wars with France. He died of the 

 plague in 1 361 and was succeeded by his son John.''' 

 The manor was held for life, however, by his widow 

 Elizabeth," who in 1366 was called upon by her son 

 John to show by what right she had prepared to sell 

 or destroy three houses, woods and gardens in Haynes 

 and Willington, which with the manor were to revert 

 to him after her death." John recovered the site of 

 the manor and park by grant of waste against Elizabeth 

 and also was awarded as damages ^23 annually for 

 twenty years to be paid out of the manor of Haynes. 

 This John de Mowbray married Elizabeth daughter 

 and heir of John Lord Segrave by Margaret his wife 

 daughter and heir of Thomas, earl of Norfolk and 

 marshal of England.*' He joined the crusades and 

 was killed by the Turks near Constantinople in 1368, 

 leaving a son John, who was then three years old.** 

 His father's widow Elizabeth died in 1376"' when 

 the custody of the manor of Haynes was committed to 

 trustees during the minority of the heir.'* The 

 damage in the manor of Haynes was such that the 

 jury did not think the necessary repairs could be under- 

 taken for less than j^ioo."' The next year John de 

 Mowbray was created earl of Nottingham, but died in 

 1383 while still under age, when his brother Thomas 

 inherited the manor which was then worth £,\(>?° 



2 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 33 

 Chas. II, m. 11. 



8 Chan. Inq. p.m. vol. 209, No. 16. 

 ■> Com. Pleas Recov. R. Eaat. 20 Jas. I, 



ra. 3'?. 



5 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 209, 

 No. 16. * Diet. Nat. Biog. 



7 MSS. of Thomas Archer, rector of 

 Houghton Conquest. 



8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 334, No. 

 ,07. 9 y.CH. Bed!, i, 238. 



10 Burke, Extinct Peerage. 



11 Pipe R. Beds, and Bucks. 3 Hen. HI, 

 m. 5. 



" Feet of F. Beds. 41 Hen. Ill, No. 38. 



1' G.E.C. Complete Peerage, v. 



" Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), II. 



1* Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. II, m. 67. 



1" Inq. a.q.d. file cxv, No. 8 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Cos. 9 & 10 Edvi-. II, No. 149. 



V Chan. Inq. p.m. i Edv^. Ill (ist 

 Nos.), No 87. 



18 Anct. D. A. 98 i ibid. A. 101. 



" Chart. R. 19 Edw. II, m. 6, No. 14. 



«i Chan. Inq. p.m. i Edw. Ill (ist 

 Nos.), No. 87. 



21 Cal. of Pat. 1327-30, p. 435 i ibid. 

 1330-45 PP- 299. 386- 



339 



''■'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, 

 (lit Nos.), No. 10. 



23 Feet of F. Trin. 36 Edw. Ill, Beds, 

 No. loi. 



i" De Banco R. 425, m. 144. 



25 G.E.C. Complete Peerage,\i, 



25 Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. z 

 (ist Nos.), No. 7. 



27 Ibid. 5oEdw. Ill, (ist Nos.), No. 44. 



^Abhrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 



342- 



■^9 Chan. Inq. p.m. 50 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 Nos.), No. 53. 



3» Ibid. 6 Ric. II, No. 58. 



