. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Westminster Abbey. Gules St, Peter'f keys crossed or. trust for ; Some years later, in I 516, Richard Eston, probably a son of Thomas, died seised of lands and tenements in Holme," leaving a son Thomas aged six, who in 1549 did homage at the Biggleswade court for a messuage and a virgate of land inherited from his ; The later history of this property may be inferred from an extract from a Biggleswade Manor Court Roll {c. 1660) by which customary lands which had formerly belonged to Thomas Esto
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Westminster Abbey. Gules St, Peter'f keys crossed or. trust for ; Some years later, in I 516, Richard Eston, probably a son of Thomas, died seised of lands and tenements in Holme," leaving a son Thomas aged six, who in 1549 did homage at the Biggleswade court for a messuage and a virgate of land inherited from his ; The later history of this property may be inferred from an extract from a Biggleswade Manor Court Roll {c. 1660) by which customary lands which had formerly belonged to Thomas Eston, then to William Plomer, were transferred by Sir Edward Alford and others to Erasmus de la ; No further mention of this property has been found. Ralph de Lisle owned two mills in his manor of Biggleswade which were worth 47/. at the time of ; In 1611 these mills were separated from the manor and granted to Edward Ferrers and Francis ; Stratton manor appears to have had a water-mill attached to it in 1436, in which year John Enderby conveyed it to John Broughton and other ; There was a free fishery in the waters of Biggleswade manor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.** Biggleswade is an ancient BOROUGH by prescrip- tion which has never received a charter of incorpora- tion or returned members to Parliament. Small but undoubted traces of Roman remains have been dis- covered," and the early importance of Biggleswade as an agricultural centre was probably owing to its favourable position on the Roman road to the north. The earliest mention that has been found of burgage tenure is in 1247, when Sewel de Haswell alienated a burgage to Henry le ; In 1293 the burgesses of Biggleswade claimed from Bishop Sutton the right of leaving their burgages by will by a certain charter which granted them ' liberties and customs which are observed in other boroughs.' The bishop ordered an inquiry into the validity
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