. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE pledge in this manor," and also received a grant of free warren by charter of ; Part of the fifteen hides which Hugh de Beauchamp held in Stotfold at the time of the Survey " went to- wards the formation of a subordinate STOTFOLD MANOR, which belonged to the priory of Chicksands. Simon de Beauchamp {c. 1190) granted the church of Stotfold with all its appurtenances to Chicksands,*' and in 1276 the prior held two carucates of land in Stot- fold," and also claimed view of frankple
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE pledge in this manor," and also received a grant of free warren by charter of ; Part of the fifteen hides which Hugh de Beauchamp held in Stotfold at the time of the Survey " went to- wards the formation of a subordinate STOTFOLD MANOR, which belonged to the priory of Chicksands. Simon de Beauchamp {c. 1190) granted the church of Stotfold with all its appurtenances to Chicksands,*' and in 1276 the prior held two carucates of land in Stot- fold," and also claimed view of frankpledge in his manor there.*" At the Dissolution this manor was granted by the crown to Trinity College, ; The grant was confirmed by James I " owing to some question of the validity of the original grant having arisen, and Trinity College is still in possession. At the time of the Domesday Survey Stotfold was unusually well supplied with mills, Hugh de Beauchamp possessing four which were valued at £\.'^ Of these one went to form part of the en- dowment of Stotfold Newnham,** and a confirmation in 1392 by Thomas Lord Moubray of the grants of his ancestors to Newnham specially mentions 4J. Sd. year- ly rent from the mill at the ford of Stot- fold," but no further mention of it has been found after the Dis- solution. A second of these mills appears to have been part of the grant of the de Beauchamps to Chick- sands Priory.'' At the Dissolution it was separated from the manor which Chick- sands owned in Stotfold, and was acquired by Edward Butler" who owned Stotfold Brayes and Stotfold Newnham manors () as appurtenant to which it is henceforward to be ; Of the other two mills mentioned at Domesday a single reference has been found to one only, when in 1406 John Wedewessen and Alice his wife granted their water- mill in Stotfold to Simon Wedewessen their ; The church of OUR LADY consists of chancel 40 ft. by 15 ft. with a
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