. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. HERTFORD HUNDRED in office until 1361," when the Abbot of St. Albans received a grant of the manor at farm. John of Gaunt died early in 1399, and his son Henry became king in the same year as Henry IV ; thus Bayford returned once more to the Crown, and was granted for life to Henry's second queen, Joan of Navarre.'8 Henry VI, upon his accession in 1422, granted the manor in dower to his mother Katherine of France," ^ V7 fietrs de lis or. and a quarter gilts. queen of Henry V, and his successor Edward IV gave it to his
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. HERTFORD HUNDRED in office until 1361," when the Abbot of St. Albans received a grant of the manor at farm. John of Gaunt died early in 1399, and his son Henry became king in the same year as Henry IV ; thus Bayford returned once more to the Crown, and was granted for life to Henry's second queen, Joan of Navarre.'8 Henry VI, upon his accession in 1422, granted the manor in dower to his mother Katherine of France," ^ V7 fietrs de lis or. and a quarter gilts. queen of Henry V, and his successor Edward IV gave it to his queen Elizabeth Woodville for her ;" In 1489 Henry VII leased the manor-house of Bayford and the demesne lands to Robert Markham for seven years," at the end of which term he received the lease for another seven years," and in 1504. a further term of twenty years was granted to Robert's widow, Agnes In 1544 Henry VIII granted to John Knighton 'all the manor ofBayford, with members and appur- tenances, to be held of the king and his successors as of the duchy of Lancaster by the service of one- fortieth of a knight's fee.'11'" John Knighton died iu 1586, leaving the manor of Bayford or Bayfordbury to his eldest son George,*' who died in 161 z, leaving a son John and a daughter Anne.,s John Knighton held the manor until his death in 1635, when it passed to his nephew Knighton Ferrers, son of his sister Anne and Sir John Ferrers.,s Knighton Ferrers mortgaged Bayford to Edmund Knight in 1638 for £2,000, and died in 1640, leaving the debt to his wife Katherine, who was to pay it oft' and hold the manor for her life, after which it was to pass to their daughter ; Katherine the younger, when twelve years old, married Thomas Fanshawe, afterwards Viscount Fanshawe16 of Dromore, and wa; holding Bayford in l6;i," but in 1655 they conveyed it to John Mayo," who was succeeded by his son Israel Mayo in Israel Mayo, w
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