. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Crofts. Quarterly Jessewlse indented azure and argent lu'tth a leopard or in the quarter. who held the advowson between 1686 and 1710, and were conveyed, together with the advowson, to the duke of Kent by John Coppin between 1710 and 1716. The duke of Kent is mentioned as the chief landowner in PuUoxhill in 1736," and from him the manors descended to his great-granddaughter Lady Amabel, baroness Lucas,** and have remained in the de Grey family since that date, the manorial rights now being vested in Lord Lucas and Dingwall.
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Crofts. Quarterly Jessewlse indented azure and argent lu'tth a leopard or in the quarter. who held the advowson between 1686 and 1710, and were conveyed, together with the advowson, to the duke of Kent by John Coppin between 1710 and 1716. The duke of Kent is mentioned as the chief landowner in PuUoxhill in 1736," and from him the manors descended to his great-granddaughter Lady Amabel, baroness Lucas,** and have remained in the de Grey family since that date, the manorial rights now being vested in Lord Lucas and Dingwall. The manors appear to have been amalgamated in the process, and are now known as the manor of PuUoxhill and Greenfield. The manor of BEECHES or UPBURY, which appears for the first time after the Dissolution, probably originated in the estate held by Dunstable Priory in PuUoxhill of the barony of Cainho. This estate cao be traced back to the Domesday manor of PuUoxhill,*' part of the lands of which were acquired by Woburn, part by Dunstable, the rest being held by William de Faldho, the Buniun family *° and the prior of St. John of Jerusalem. The amount ofthe priory's holding was5 hides in 12 8 5 ,*' and the land was ap- parently leased by the priory to the Pyrot family, for it became known as the Pyrot fee,*' and c. 1240 William Pyrot was stated to be one of the lords of PuUoxhiU, holding, with Wil- liam de Faldho, one fee.*' The priory's holding had diminished to 2J hides in 1302,*° at which it remained in 1316, 1346, and in ; The priory in 1323 was granted free warren in its demesne lands of PuUox- hill " and justified its claim in 1330 by a production of this charter.'' The lands were worth £2 10s, ^d. in 1342," but the value of the manor had risen to £\ 6s. Sd. in ; At the Dissolution the manor was taken into the king's hand and was by him probably granted to Simon Fitz, who died seised of the manor in 1543 ;'° his eldest son William inher
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