. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CADDINGTON. Dean and Chaptek or St. Paol's. Gules two crossed s'words ar- gent ivitb bilts or and a golden D in the chief. About one mile west from the church there is now a farm called the Bury Farm. The farm-house of the seventeenth century is prob- ably on the site of the old manor-house. Copies of manorial court rolls of the sixteenth, seven- teenth, and eighteenth cen- turies are preserved in the library of St. Paul's, together with some early surveys and leases. From these it would appear that in the twelfth
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CADDINGTON. Dean and Chaptek or St. Paol's. Gules two crossed s'words ar- gent ivitb bilts or and a golden D in the chief. About one mile west from the church there is now a farm called the Bury Farm. The farm-house of the seventeenth century is prob- ably on the site of the old manor-house. Copies of manorial court rolls of the sixteenth, seven- teenth, and eighteenth cen- turies are preserved in the library of St. Paul's, together with some early surveys and leases. From these it would appear that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the manor was usually farmed by an ecclesiastic," but certainly as early as the reign of Edward IV the farmer was a ; The custom of farming out the manor seems to have continued through the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The farmer lived at Caddington Bury, and was bound to keep a bull and a boar on the manorial farm for the use of the ; A visitation of 1222 gives the stocking of the ferm at two hundred sheep, four cows, and forty pigs, as well as two plough-teams of eight head. There was a wind- mill, which could be farmed for 20/.'* The extent of land in demesne was 260 acres of arable ; there was no pasture, but two small woods contained twelve acres between them, and there was also a great beechwood of 300 acres. In 1206 a dispute seems to have arisen between Roger de Tony and the canons of St. Paul's with regard to their right of common in the wood. It was finally agreed that the whole wood between Blikeslane as far as Bereford was to remain to the canons, and all the plain outside the wood to the south should belong to Roger. Further, that from Bereford to Papiatem all the wood should remain to the canons, and the rest of the wood, with the plain to the south, should remain to Roger ; but neither party was to exclude Walter son of Walter of Luton, who came and claimed common of pasturage in both par
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