A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



OSBORN, Baronet. 

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charter of Edward I, and also to view of frankpledge 

 held twice a year in the manor by prescriptive right." 

 At the time of the dissolution of Chicksands, the 

 priory's estate was worth ^9 1 2;. %d.^ Henry VIII 

 in 1544 granted the manor to Henry Audeley and 

 John Maynard and their heirs,*' but it was probably 

 soon acquired by Richard Snowe and Elizabeth his 

 wife, who had already obtained in 1540 the manor 

 of Chicksands, and all lands in that parish belonging 

 to the dissolved priory. Richard Snowe died in 

 1553 seised of a messuage and lands in Haynes," and 

 his son Richard in 1587 alienated the Grange to 

 Peter Osborn at the same time that he sold him 

 Chicksands manor.** Since this date the manor has 

 remained in the Osborn family, 

 and its history has been ident- 

 ical with that of the manor 

 of Chicksands (q.v.). The 

 present representative of the 

 family, in whom the manorial 

 rights are vested, is Sir Alger- 

 non Kerr Butler Osborn, bart.; 

 the manor is now known as 

 the Grange Farm House, and 

 is situated about half a mile 

 south-east of the village. In 

 shape it is like the letter H, 

 of which the central portion 

 and east wing have been rebuilt at a comparatively 

 recent date. The old west wing of half timber con- 

 tains a fine old staircase, leading to a spacious apart- 

 ment, in which there is a large open fireplace. 



Applewood and Inwood, which were sold by the 

 priory in 1325 in order to raise money, were appar- 

 ently regained and followed the same descent as 

 Haynes Grange, for Sir John Osborn died seised of 

 them in 1628.'° Another wood called Auferney was 

 reserved to the crown when Henry Audeley received 

 Haynes Grange in 1544, but the Snowes were hold- 

 ing it in 1587, and it passed to the Osborns. The 

 name Apple still survives in Appley Corner. 



The manor of FRJh'KLINS probably owed its 

 name to the family of Franklin, for in 1463 a protec- 

 tion granted to John Franklin of Haynes for one 

 year, to go to Picardy on the king's service, was revoked 

 as he delayed in Westminster on his own business." 

 No other record of this family, however, is found 

 relating to Haynes, although the Franklins were 

 landowners in Thurleigh. The manor of Franklins 

 is first mentioned in 1563, when Sir John Gascoigne 

 and Margaret his wife and their son and heir George 

 conveyed it to Peter Grey,** who sold it in 1564 to 

 Simon Leaper and Katherine his wife, an arrangement 

 being made by which the purchase money was to be 

 paid in the form of a rent for a certain number of 



latter for refusing to pay the rent after her husband's 

 death in 1568.'° The manor passed to Thomas, son 

 of Katherine and Simon, and he, on the occasion of 

 his son Thomas's marriage with Judith Saunderson in 

 1 60 1, settled it on them and their heirs. Thomas 

 the father died in 1604,°° and the son with his second 

 wife Peregrine sold the manor in 1622 to Thomas 

 Field,"' who, two years later, with his wife Anne, 

 conveyed it to Sir Oliver Luke, who had already 

 purchased Haynes manor." The manor continued 

 to be held by the Lukes, and the last mention of it 

 occurs in 1 704, when Nicholas Luke was the owner." 

 From this date the descent of the manor is lost." 



Another supposed manor appears for the first time 

 in 1623 under the name of the manor of THE 

 CHJPEL OF SAINT MACUTES {alias St. Ma- 

 chutus, alias St. Makes, alias St. Marks). This estate 

 owed its origin to the free chapel of St. Machutus in 

 Haynes, said to have been given by Robert de Albini 

 in the twelfth century to Beaulieu Priory, in the 

 parish of Clophill, a cell to the abbey of St. Albans." 

 Although the priory had to serve the chapel and took 

 the profits of the lands, the advowson appears to have 

 been retained by Robert de Albini and followed a 

 descent which is traced under the advowson of the 

 church. On the occasion of the transfer of Beaulieu 

 Priory to St. Albans Abbey without the king's con- 

 sent in 1435, an inquisition was taken, in which it 

 was stated that Aumary of St. Amand, a descendant 

 of Robert de Albini, had shortly after 1279 given a 

 carucate of land in Wilshamstead to support one 

 monk in the chapel of St. Machutus, who should 

 celebrate mass there three days a week for the souls 

 of Aumary and his ancestors. During the eight years 

 prior to this inquisition the abbot had ceased to pro- 

 vide a monk and had taken all the profits of the 

 carucate which was worth £,\.^ The same abbot 

 John of Wheathampstead undertook many expensive 

 works on the lands belonging 

 to St. Albans, and among others 

 caused five barns to be built at 

 St. Machutus in 1438, one of 

 which, 48 ft. in length, cost 

 £ I o." The chapel and lands 

 came to the crown at the Dis- 

 solution, and were afterwards 

 bestowed by Queen Mary 

 upon George Rotherham of 

 Farley and Roger Barber of 

 Luton, and were conveyed by 

 them, towards the end of the 

 same year, to John Ventris of 

 Campton, to hold from the 

 queen in chief John Ventris died seised of the manor 

 in 1558 and was succeeded by his second son Henry, 



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years, and in 1 570 an action was brought against the the elder, William, dying a few weeks after his father." 



8lP/jf. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 

 32-4. 



^^ Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 194.. 



8» Pat. 36 Hen. VlII, pt. 19, m. 5. 

 It was stated that the Grange, together 

 with a messuage called the Parsonage 

 Farm, had been leased by the priory to 

 William Kimpton, William Ardern, and 

 John Waller, who were still occupying the 

 premises. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 102, 

 No. 4. 85 Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. I, m. 8. 



8' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 45 1, 

 No. 106. 



W Cal. of Pat. 1461-7, p. 217. 



88 Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 6 Eliz. 



™ Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 112, 

 No. 43. • 



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

 1 34. 91 Feet of F. Beds. East. 1 9 Jas. I. 



»» Ibid. 21 Jas. I. 



" Recov. R. Hil. 3 Anne, rot. 128. 



^■* The manor appears to have been 

 alienated soon after its acquisition by the 

 Lukes, but the transfer was doubtless only 

 for purposes of mortgage, as the Lukes 

 afterwards held themanorin 1639. John 

 Browne and his wife Mary conveyed it to 



John Fish, and in 1681 it was settled by 

 William Nurse on Lady Mary Hevingham, 

 daughter and heir of John, earl of Dover. 

 (Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 15 Chas. I ; 

 Com. Pleas Recov. R.Mich. 33 Chas. II, 

 m. II ; ibid. rot. 63.) 



9* Cott. MS. Nero D. vii, fol. 92 ; 

 Claudius D, i, fol. 135^. 



^ John Amundesham, Ann. Mob. St, 

 Alban. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 1 1 1, 



9' Ibid, ii, 200, 263. 



98 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 45 1, No. 

 96. 



9' Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 120, No. 15, 



