FLITT HUNDRED 



LUTON 



of John Crawley,' '" to whose representative, Francis 

 Crawley, it still belongs, though the farm-house has 

 been pulled down of recent years.'*' 



The manor oi HATES or HOOBURNE was held 

 of Luton manor, though no mention of the overlord- 

 ship has been found before 1487, when it was held 

 of John Rotherham by a rent of 50/. for all services,'"* 

 and at a court held at Luton in 1554 the lord of 

 Hayes still paid service to that manor."" Very little 

 has been found concerning the early history of Hayes, 

 but from the twelfth century a family of de la Hayes 

 held property in Luton, from which this manor 

 possibly originated. In 1 198 John de Sandon trans- 

 ferred 4 virgates of land in Luton to Reginald de 

 la Haye,"' the next mention found is in 1 275, when 

 Walter de la Haye and Matilda his wife recognized 

 the claim of Agnes de la Barre to her dower, consisting 

 of 2 marks' rent and one-third of a carucate of land.'"' 

 By 1296 Walter had been succeeded by Roger de la 

 Haye, probably a son, who in that year transferred a 

 messuage and land to Thomas de la Hyde."" The 

 family apparently still continued to hold land in 

 Luton, for in 1390 Nicholas de la Haye confirmed tc 

 his mother, Agnes Thrale, lands in West Hide, Luton. 

 He was followed by John Hay, who is mentioned in 

 the * Return of the Gentry of Bedfordshire in 1433.' '" 

 He was steward of the archbishop of Canterbury, and 

 was buried in the north aisle of Luton church, with 

 an inscription to the effect that he had repaired the 

 church at his own expense."" After his death in 

 1454 there is a gap in the his- 

 tory of the manor until it 

 reappears in 1475 under the 

 title of Hooburne manor, 

 when John White acknow- 

 ledged the right of John Cates- 

 by to it."" He died in 1487, 

 leaving a son Humphrey Cates- 

 by,'" who by 1534 had been 

 succeeded by Anthony Cates- 

 by,'" on whose death in 1554 

 his son Thomas succeeded to 

 the estate."^' In 1586, and 

 again in 1589, Thomas Cates- 



by conveyed Hayes manor to Edward Docwra and 

 other trustees,'" and finally in 1 598 the manor was sold 

 by George Catesby for ^£830 to Thomas Cheyne.'^' 

 Thomas Cheyne, dying in 161 2, left Hayes manor by 

 will to his younger son George, who held it until 1645, 

 when he appears to have transferred it to Robert 



Catxsby. Argent fwo 

 leopards sable -with golden 

 croivns. 



Cheyne (probably his nephew),'^' and the latter in 

 1652 alienated it by fine to John Howland and others, 

 probably trustees.'" Twenty years later it appears as 

 the property of Sir Samuel Starling.'" From him it 

 passed to the Etricks, though it has not been found 

 possible to ascertain the exact date, and in 1 7 16 

 Anthony and Elizabeth Etrick alienated it to Ben- 

 jamin Morris,'" whose family continued to hold it for 

 upwards of 150 years. Lysons, writing about 1802, 

 describes Hayes as ' a spurious manor, a small estate 

 within Stopsley, the property of Mr. Morris,' '*' whilst 

 Davis, writing a generation later, says that the manor 

 was still held by this family, which belonged to 

 Buntingford in Hertfordshire.'" It was purchased from 

 Mr. Morris about forty years ago by the late Colonel 

 Sowerby, who owned Bennet's manor (q.v.), and is 

 now the property of Mr. Sowerby of Putteridge Park. 

 The first reference to HJFERINGS MANOR in 

 Stopsley occurs in 1430, when the manor was held 

 of John Cressy as of Luton manor.'" After its 

 escheat to the crown in 1543 it is described in 1627 

 as held as a moiety of the crown and a moiety of Sir 

 Robert Napier lord of Luton.'" The earliest holders 

 of this manor were the Haverings, of whom first 

 mention is found in 1 25 8, when Richard de Havering 

 and Lucy his wife conceded lands in Luton to 

 Andrew de la Brache,'*' and in 1262 John de 

 Havering, probably Richard's son, acknowledged 

 his father's right to certain lands in Luton.'" John, 

 who was still alive in 1305, left a son Richard, 

 who in 1348 received a charter of free warren 

 in his demesne of Stopsley.'*' By 1402 this manor 

 had passed to William Butler, who at that date 

 granted it to his son John Butler. On his death in 

 1430"° it passed to his son John, whose descendants 

 appear to have held for the next century, for when 

 the manor appears in 1525 it is as the property of 

 Thomas Butler, who at that date conveyed it to Sir 

 Henry Wyatt and others.'" This may have been 

 preparatory to an alienation to Richard Fermor, who 

 held it in 1534,"' on account of whose' transgressions 

 and contempts against the king ' it escheated to the 

 crown, and was granted in 1543 to Sir Thomas 

 Barnardiston.'" He died in the same year, and his 

 son Thomas Barnardiston alienated the manor in 

 1568 to John Crawley,'" who was succeeded by a 

 son Thomas in 1599,'" and he was followed in 

 1627 by a son, Francis Crawley."^ After 1684 no 

 separate mention has been found in documents of this 

 manor, which has become absorbed in the other 



»" Add. MSS. 9408. 



M> Information supplied bjr Mr. F. 

 Crawley. 



M6 Cal.oflnj.Hen. F//, No. 356. 



»7 Marquess of Bute's MSS. ■ 



228 Feet of F. Beds. 9 Ric. I, No. 4. 



»» Feet of F. Beds. 3 Edw. I. In 

 1554 Hayei is described as 'one mes- 

 suage and one carucate of land.' 



880 Feet of F. Beds. 24 Edw. I, No. 4- 



231 12 Hen. VI, pt. 2, m. 28 ; Harl. 

 Soc. Puhl. xix. 



232 Lysons, Mag. Brit, i, no. 

 383 Close, 15 Edw. IV, m. 17. 



!S< Cal. oflnq. Hen. Vll, No. 356. 



«3S Marquess of Bute's MSS. Anthony 

 Catesby was a defaulting suitor at Luton 

 view of frankpledge in this year. 



886 Ibid. 



237 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 28 Eliz. ; 

 Trin. 31 Eliz. ; Recov. R. Mich. 31 Eliz. 

 rot. 62. 



»38 Com, Pleas Recov. R.Trin. 39 Eliz. 

 m. 14. In the same year a William 

 Huggyns and Jane his wife resigned their 

 right in Hayes manor to Thomas Cheyne; 

 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 39 Eliz. 



283 Beds. N. and Q. ii, 68. 



a« Recov. R. Mich. 21 Chas. 1; Feet 

 of F. Beds. East. 1652. 



!"i Ibid. Div. C0S.HII. 1672. 



2" Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 2 Geo. I. 



2<8 Lysons, Mag. Brit, i, no; Add. 

 MS. 9408. 



^1 Davis, Hist, of Luton, 44. Informa- 

 tion supplied by Mr. Austin. 



2''5 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. VI, No. 1 1. 



"6 Ibid. (Ser. 2), Iviii, No. 433. 



«' Feet of F. Div. Cos. 42 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 17. 



248 Ibid. 46 Hen. Ill, No. 3. 



2^9 Ibid. Beds. 33 Edw. I, No. 5 ; 

 Chart. R. 2i Edw. III. m. 2, No. 8. 



250 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. VI, No. II. 



359 



It is here called Havetyng's manor, a 

 moiety of the manor of Stopsley, and was 

 worth j^3 per annum. 



251 Feet of F. Beds. Hil. 16 Hen. VIII. 

 It is still described as 'half the manor of 

 Stoppesley alias Haveryngs.' 



252 Close, 25 Hen. VIII, m. 29. 



253 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 20. 

 2S< Marquess of Bute's MSS ; Crawley 



Papers, Nos. 19, $14; Pat. 10 Eliz. 

 pt. 4 ; Feet of F. Beds. Trin. Mich. 10 

 Eliz ; Recov. R. East. 10 Eliz. Through 

 some confusion of ideas, arising probably 

 from the fact that the manor had hitherto 

 been described as a moiety of the manor 

 of Stopsley, Haverings is described in' the 

 Patent Roll as a moiety of the manor of 

 Haverings. 



255 Fine R. 41 Eliz. pt. 2, No. 24 j 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclvi, No. 29. 



25S Chan. Inq. p.m. ccccxxxiii. No. 

 58 ; Fine R. 4 Chas, I, pt. 2, No. 14. 



