A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



In the same year Thomas was created earl of Notting- 

 ham, as that title had died with his brother, and in 

 1389, marshal of England for life, while in 1397 he 

 was created earl marshal and duke of Norfolk.'' He 

 was banished from England the next year and died at 

 Venice, 1400," in debt to the king and without having 

 accounted for sums of money spent in the defence of 

 Calais.'' He left a son Thomas, then a minor, and a 

 widow Elizabeth who married, as her fourth husband, 

 Sir Robert Goushill, to whom she brought the manor in 

 dower. At his death in 1 404 the manor was valued 

 at ^10 only." Thomas was beheaded the next year, 

 having joined in the Scrope conspiracy, and the rever- 

 sion of the manor passed to his brother John " who 

 entered into possession in 1425, on the death of 

 Elizabeth his mother.'^ John took an active part in 

 the French wars and died 1432." His son John died 

 in 1 46 1, leaving as his heir a son John,'' created earl 

 of Surrey and Warenne in his father's lifetime. On 

 his death in 1475-6 the manor passed to his daughter 

 Anne who married Richard Plantagenet, duke of York. 

 She died while still an infant in 1480-1, and Haynes 

 passed to her co-heirs, William earl of Nottingham and 

 Thomas earl of Surrey, who were the descendants of 

 her great grand-aunts, the daughten of Thomas Mow- 

 bray, first duke of Norfolk, who was banished in 1398. 

 Isabel the elder of these had married James, Lord de 

 Berkeley, and by him had a son William, created earl 

 of Nottingham in 1483 ; the younger, Margaret, 

 married Sir Robert Howard, and their second son 

 Thomas, in 1483, was created earl of Surrey." 



William earl of Nottingham, and Anne his wife, in 

 1488 alienated their share of 

 the manor to Sir Reginald 

 Bray," who acquired the other 

 moiety of the manor in 1491 

 from Thomas, earl of Surrey, 

 and Elizabeth his wife." Sir 

 Reginald Bray died in 1509 

 and the manor became the 

 subject of a dispute between 

 Margery wife of Sir Wil- 

 liam Sandys, afterwards Lord 

 Sandys, and daughter of Sir 

 John Bray, a half-brother of 

 Sir Reginald Bray, and Ed- 

 mund Bray, afterwards Lord Bray, son of John, another 

 brother of Sir Reginald." The quarrel was settled in 

 1 5 1 o and Edmund retained Haynes manor, Margery 

 obtaining manors elsewhere." Edmund died in 1 5 3 9," 

 and was succeeded by his son John, Lord Bray, who 

 married Anne daughter of Francis earl of Shrewsbury. 

 He died without issue in 1557, appointing his mother 

 Jane, daughter and heir of Richard Haliwell, his sole 



Bray. Argent a 

 che'veron benueen three 

 eagles' legs razed sable. 



Newdigate. Gules 

 three lions* fatvs ra%ed 

 argent. 



executrix. Jane had married, as her second husband. 

 Sir Urian Brereton of Handforth, Cheshire, but she 

 did not survive her son long, as she died in 1558.** 

 According to a settlement made by Edmund Lord 

 Bray in 1538," the manor, on the death of John, 

 passed to this Edmund's brother. Sir Edward Bray, 

 but he also dying in 1 5 5 8 it was inherited by his son 

 Sir Edward." The latter in 1564 conveyed it to 

 Robert Newdigate," but the total alienation of the 

 manor could not take place until Sir Edward's son 

 and heir Reginald was of full age. The completion of 

 the purchase was, therefore, 

 not effected until 1580, when 

 Sir Edward Bray and Mary 

 his fourth wife, with Reginald 

 his son and heir by his second 

 wife Elizabeth, sold the manor 

 to Robert Newdigate." The 

 manor of Haynes remained in 

 the possession of the Newdi- 

 gate family for nearly half a 

 century. The original pur- 

 chaser Robert died seised of it 

 in 1584, when it was worth 

 £,^o, Robert having acquired, 

 shortly before his death, a third of the manor, which 

 was held as dower by Lady Anne Wharton, who died 

 in 1585, the widow of John Lord Bray." He was 

 succeeded by his son Robert, afterwards Sir Robert 

 Newdigate, kt., who died in 1613, leaving a son 

 Robert, the third of that 

 name." The latter in 1622 

 sold the manor to Sir Oliver 

 Luke of Wood End, in the 

 parish of Cople," the father 

 of Samuel Luke, knighted in 

 1624." Both father and son 

 were zealous Parliamentarians 

 and strong Presbyterians and 

 both sat in the Short Parlia- 

 ment of 1640, and in the 

 Long Parliament, Sir Samuel 

 Luke as member for Bedford 

 Borough, and his father representing the county. 

 At the Restoration Sir Samuel Luke also sat in 

 the Convention Parliament as member for Bedford 

 Borough. He took an active part in the Civil 

 Wars and was several times wounded and taken 

 prisoner. His personal appearance and short stature 

 made him an object of Royalist satire and he was the 

 original of Butler's 5/> Hudibras.^ During these dis- 

 turbed times " he seems to have settled the manor on 

 his son Oliver, who had married Elizabeth the daughter 

 of Onslow Winch,** and in 1667 fetherandson united 



Luke. Argenta hunt~ 

 ing horn sable. 



«l G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. ) Hen. IV, pt. I, 

 No. 71a. 



»3 Ibid. 22 Ric. II, No. loi. 



»< Ibid. 5 Hen. IV, No. 22. 



85 Ibid. 8 Hen. IV, No. 76. 



"Ibid. 3 Hen. VI, No. 25. 



»' G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi. 



63 Chan. Inq. p.m. i Edw. IV, No. 46. 



8' G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi. 



« Pat. 3 Hen. VII, pt. i, m. 14 i 

 Feet of F. 3 Hen. VII, Beds, case 6, file 

 83. 



« Ibid. 6 Hen. VII, case 6, file 83. 



'"' Dugdale, Baronage, ii, 303, 311. 



" Close, 2 Hen. VIII, m. 30 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Cos. Mich. 2 Hen. VIII. 



« Recov. R. East. 25 Hen. VIII, rot. 

 22 ; Feet of F. Beds. East. 25 Hen. VIII. 



** Burke, Extinct Peerage ; Harl. Soc. 

 Beds. Visit, xix, 163 : Exch. Dep. Beds. 7 

 Eliz. E. 5. 



" Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. 6, m. 4 ; Feet 

 of F. Diy. Cos. Mich. 30 Hen. VIII. 



^' Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. 9, m. 22 ; Recov. R. 

 Hil. 2 Eliz. rot. 332. 



<8 Recov. R. Trin. Eliz. 1564, rot. 557. 



« Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 22-3 Eliz. 



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

 No. 16. 



" Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 344, No. 107. 



'2 Feet of F. Beds. East. 20 Jas. I ; 

 Recov. R. East. 20 Jas. I, rot. 42 ; Com. 

 Pleas Recov. R. East. 20 Jas. I, m. 33. 



«> Cal. S.P, Dom. 1637-8, p. 550. In 

 1638 Sir Samuel Luke petitioned Arch- 

 bishop Laud to give him licence to go to 

 another church than that of Cople. ' His 

 house being distant from the parish church 

 about 1 mile, and the way thither, especi- 

 ally in winter, being so foul and often such 

 •uddcn inundations over the same, that he 

 cannot go thither.' 



'* Diet, Nat. Biog. 



" Recov. R. Hil. 18 Chas. II, rot. 16. 



'' Probably this accounts for Lysons' 

 statement in his Mag. Brit, i, 92, that the 

 manor was sold by the Lukes to Sir Hum- 

 phrey Winch, the son of Onslow, about 

 1654, who, being called of ' Haunes,' was 

 created a baronet in 1660. Some colour is. 



