FLITT HUNDRED 



LUTON 



Halx. Azure a 

 cheveron or battled on 

 both sides. 



Richard Crawley in 1613 to Robert Faldo of North 

 Mimms,"* who in 1620 sold the property (or £1,600 

 to Henry Denham and Ralph Merefield."' The 

 latter released his claim in the manor in 1622 to 

 Henry Denham, who in the following year sold it to 

 Richard Peters,'" who finally, in 1640, sold it for 

 £1,450 to Bernard Hale of King's Walden.'" 

 Dallow manor continued to be 

 held by the Hales until 1 859,"' 

 when by sale to T. Sambrooke 

 Crawley it was reunited to the 

 other portion of the manor, 

 and a farm of this name exists 

 at the present day in possession 

 of Mr. Francis Crawley, his 

 son.'" 



The first reference to what 

 later became known as DJFID 

 ASHBTMJNOR occurs in an 

 inquisition taken in 1 375 when 

 Edward de Kendale held those 

 lands and tenements which were of David de Ashby 

 in Luton, including 47/. 6d. rent of assize of free 

 tenants, partly held of John and William Loryng by 

 service of 27/. z\d. per annum, and the residue of 

 Hugh Mortimer by service of 2/. jd}^* This 

 property followed the same descent as Brache and 

 Woodcroft (q.v.),'" until, like the former manor, it 

 was alienated by John Markham to George Rother- 

 ham in 1585,"* and so became included in Luton 

 manor (q.v.). This manor is mentioned by name as 

 part of the Luton estate in a Recovery Roll of 1 8 1 5,'" 

 but all trace of it is lost at the present day. 



The property afterwards known as EJSTHIDE 

 MJNOR or THE HTDE appears to have been held 

 by a family of Hyde in the twelfth century, but is 

 not mentioned as a manor until 1535."* It was 

 parcel of Luton manor, but the only reference that 

 has been found to the overlordship occurs in 1253, 

 when the heirs of Alan de Hyde were distrained by 

 the bailiff of Luton manor."' As early as 1 197 Fulk 

 de la Hyde is mentioned in a fine as holding 

 the moiety of a mill here. Alan de Hyde, 

 who is the next owner of whom mention has been 

 found, was holding in 1232, when he acknowledged 

 the right of Alice, wife of Roger de Luton, to her 

 dower in his lands of Luton.'*" In 1240 he was 

 admitted to Dunstable Priory and gave, *with his 

 body,' I virgate and rent of ^ a mark in Stopsley, 

 which were leased to Walter de Hyde, who appears to 



have been his successor.'^' Roger de la Hyde was 

 holding in 1 247, in which year he held two parts of 

 the moiety of a mill in Luton of Agnes de la Hyde.'" 

 His name appears in 1252 and again in 1262, and 

 finally he released to his son Henry all his inheritance 

 in La Hyde for the rent of one clove of gilliflower.'" 

 In 1305 Thomas de la Hyde was holding land in 

 Luton,'^ and then all trace of this property i( lost 

 until 1534, when it reappears as a reputed manor in 

 the possession of Richard Fermor, who in that year 

 mortgaged it to Thomas Pope, together with Luton 

 Hoo (q-v.)."* Its history is the same as that of 

 Luton Hoo manor until the death of Sir John 

 Brocket in 1599,'^ when it passed by settlement to 

 his brother Edward. His son John in 1 647 conveyed 

 it to Thomas Mitchell,"' by whose family it was 

 retained until 1717, when Richard Mitchell trans- 

 ferred it by fine to Samuel Hannot."* It was subse- 

 quently purchased by Philadelphia, widow of Sir 

 Thomas Cotton,'" who some time after 1 74 1 sold it 

 to Mr. Floyer, governor of Fort St. David, from whom 

 it was purchased by Dr. Bettesworth, chancellor of 

 the diocese of London, who died in 1779."° John 

 Bettesworth, probably his son, held this manor in 

 1782,'" and in 1806 John Bettesworth Trevanion "' 

 sold it to Robert Hibbert, the founder of the Hibbert 

 Trust to provide lecture* and scholarships for the 

 spread of Christianity."' It was purchased in 1833 

 by Levi Ames, whose direct descendant, Lionel 

 Ames, of Ayot St. Lawrence, holds it at the present 

 day."* 



The origin of FARLET MJNOR is found in 

 the land which Henry II granted in 1 1 56 to the 

 Hospital of Holy Trinity, Santingfeld, Wissant, in 

 Picardy. This grant is specified in the charter as 

 ' terram de Ferleya juxta Lectonam, usque ad terram 

 ecclesiae de Lectona. . . . Et totam terram de Wyper- 

 leya usque ad viam de Presteleya.' "' This grant was 

 subsequently augmented in 1204 by 45 acres in 

 Luton from Baldwin de Bethune.'" These lands were 

 afterwards colonized, and became a dependent hospital, 

 with a master and brethren,"' known as Farley. In 

 1 29 1 the master of Farley had in Farley and Luton 

 in lands, rents, mills, and woods £4 12/., and on his 

 non-appearance in 1 3 3 1 to support his claim to view 

 of frankpledge in his manor of Farley, the manor 

 was taken into the king's hands."' On the dissolu- 

 tion of the alien priories in 1447 Farley was granted 

 to the provost and scholars of King's College, Cam- 

 bridge,"' who did not continue to hold it however. 



"8 Add. Chart. 35203. 



1«9 Ibid. 35204. 



17" Ibid. 35205, 35206. 



171 Ibid. 35209. 



17» Recov. R.Trin. 22 Chas. II, rot. 45 ; 

 Trin. 16 Geo. II, rot. 152 ; Feet of F. 

 Beds. Hil. 10 Anne ; Davis, Hist, of 

 Luton, 44. Cf. also Edworth parish, where 

 this family held. 



17» Information supplied by Mr. F. 

 Crawley. 



W* Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. III. 



17" Ibid. 3 Hen. VI, No. 35 ; 27 

 Hen. VI, No. 14. The estate at this 

 date included i toft, 120 acres of land, 3 

 of meadow, 3 of wood, I windmill, and I 

 toft, both worth nothing. 



vs Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 27 Eliz. 

 Here first called a manor. 



I'if Recov. R. Hil. 55 Geo. III. rot. 



274 



W8 Pat. 25 Hen. VIII, pt. i, No. 29. 



17» Axn. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 187. 



180 Hunter, Fines, p. 1 1 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Cos. 16 Hen. Ill, No. 38. Pet- 

 ronilla daughter of Aylward de la Hyde 

 was holding lands here about the same 

 time ; ibid. No. 13. 



^^ Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 154- 



7- 



isa Feet of F. Beds. 31 Hen. Ill, No. 

 5. This mill, later known as Hyde Mill, 

 reappears in extents of the manor in the 

 sixteenth century. 



183 Ibid. 36 Hen. Ill, m. 7 ; 46 Hen. 

 Ill, m. 15 i Add. Chart. 28705. 



184 Feet of F. Beds. 33 Edw. I, No. 

 II. 



185 Pat. 25 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 29. 

 188 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclvii, No. 



42. 



187 Harl. Soc. Publ. xxii, 33 5 Feet of 

 F. Beds. Mich. 23 Chas. I. 



188 Ibid. Mich. 3 Geo. I. 



357 



188 Lysons, Mag. Brit, i, 109. Hester 

 Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), Johnson's 

 friend and biographer, spent her early 

 years here with Lady Cotton, her maternal 

 grandmother ; Diet, Nat, Biog. 



1'" Lysons, Mag, Brit, i, 109. 



181 Feet of F. Beds. East. 22 Geo. Ill } 

 Recov. R. Mich. 20 Geo. III. 



18» Recov. R. Trin. 46 Geo. III. 



198 Lysons, Mag, Brit, i, 167 j Diet. 

 Nat, Biog. 



184 Davis, Hist, of Luton, 27. 



186 Dugdale, Mon. vii, 639. 



195 Rot, Chart. (Rec. Com.), 118. 



"7 fr,C.H. Beds, i, 400. The first re- 

 ference to a master is found in 1201, when 

 Mauger, master of Farley, quitclaimed 

 to Adam Black right of common pasture 

 in Ketenho ; Hunter, Fines, 30. 



I98f/ac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 

 78. 



iw Pat. 26 Hea VI, pt. i, m. 7. 



