. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CowpER. Argent three martlets gules and a chief engrailed gules ivith three rings or thereon. Herbert. Party axure and gules three lions ar- gent. William the Conqueror to Robert Fafiton, and was the only manor which the latter owned in Bedford- shire ; it was then assessed at 5 ; Nothing further is heard of Robert Fafiton, and the overlord- ship passed in some way, of which no record has been found, to the Mortimers, earls of March, of whom the manor was held as of their honour of Wig- more, from 1284 until 1424, whe
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CowpER. Argent three martlets gules and a chief engrailed gules ivith three rings or thereon. Herbert. Party axure and gules three lions ar- gent. William the Conqueror to Robert Fafiton, and was the only manor which the latter owned in Bedford- shire ; it was then assessed at 5 ; Nothing further is heard of Robert Fafiton, and the overlord- ship passed in some way, of which no record has been found, to the Mortimers, earls of March, of whom the manor was held as of their honour of Wig- more, from 1284 until 1424, when the last male representative of the Morti- mers, Edmund earl of March, died without issue.** There is no further record of the overlordship until 1615, when the manor was held of Richard Chetwode as of his barony of WahuU," and after 1623 it is not ; Holding directly under the Mortimers was the family of Zouche of Ashby (co. Leic.) ; Roger, who was holding as early as 1232,** died in 1285, and was suc- ceeded by his son Alan ;" on the latter's death, 13 14, with- out a male heir,** an arrangement was arrived at between the two daughters, Ellen, wife of Nicholas de St. Maur, and Maud, wife of Robert de Holand, by which the latter retained her father's estate in Flitton,'' and the heirs of Alan la Zouche continued to hold under the Mortimers until 1424.*° The first tenant of Flitton under the Zouches was Philip de Flitton, who in 1232 disputed with the prior of Dunstable about services from a tenement which the former ; In 1284-1302 Peter de Flitton's holding amounted to one fee," but between the latter year and 1314 it passed to Robert de. Mortimer. Barry or and azure a chief or tvith fwo pales azure betvjeen fwo gyrons azure and a scutcheon argent over all. Kendale, and had been reduced to the third of a ; It again rapidly changed hands, for by 1316 John Grey, Lord Grey de Wilton, was lord of Flitton and Silsoe," and on h
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