. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. KiNGSLET. Vert a cross engrailed argent. Pym. Sable a fesse between three otvls or vjith three crosslets sable on the fesse. and their direct descendant Francis Pym is at the present day lord of Hasells ; The hamlet of GIRTFORD, of which no mention is made in Domesday, gives its name to a manor, which in the first instance belonged to Caldwell Priory. The original grant to the priory has not been found, but an early thirteenth-century grant exists made by Henry son of Hugh of Sandy to the priory.'° In 1291 the prior
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. KiNGSLET. Vert a cross engrailed argent. Pym. Sable a fesse between three otvls or vjith three crosslets sable on the fesse. and their direct descendant Francis Pym is at the present day lord of Hasells ; The hamlet of GIRTFORD, of which no mention is made in Domesday, gives its name to a manor, which in the first instance belonged to Caldwell Priory. The original grant to the priory has not been found, but an early thirteenth-century grant exists made by Henry son of Hugh of Sandy to the priory.'° In 1291 the prior of Caldwell owned lands and rents in Girtford and other places worth £â } lit. lod,," and an exemplification of a certificate of the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer made in 1342 at the request of William de Souldrop, the prior, shows that the priory possessed lands and rents in Girtford.** At the dissolution of the priory it held lands to the value of 58/. in Girtford," and in 1541 Henry VIII granted Girtford manor and grange to John Burgoyne,*" who in 1562 received licence to alienate it to Edward ; Between that year and 1614 the manor passed to William earl of Salisbury, who in the latter year sold it to Francis Lord Russell," who in 1618 alienated Girtford to John Taylor and Alice his ; The latter, being left a widow, married Oliver Bromhall, who in addi- tion to the manor thus acquired, also purchased fur- ther land in Girtford.** Oliver Bromhall, their son, sold the manor to Jasper Edwards, chief registrar in the High Court of Chancery, in ; His son Richard Edwards transferred the property in 1695 to Robert Pulleyn of St. Neots, who sold it in 1741 to Heylock Kingsley.** Through the marriage of his daughter with William Pym it passed to that family, and has since followed the same descent as Hasells manor ()." Two mills are mentioned in Sandy at the time of the Survey of 1086, their value was 50/., and
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