. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. DI Port. Barry argent and asaure a saltire gules. has been found to the overlordship is in 1515, when the manor was held of Sir Edmund Grey as of the barony of Bedford.' No tenant of the overlord is mentioned in Hatley at the time of the Survey, but members of the family of de Port seem to have estab- lished their position as lords of the manor in the twelfth cen- tury.' In II97 Adam de Port con- firmed the gift of the church to Newnham Priory,' and again in 1231 he received the grant of half a virgate of land in Hatley,' from E
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. DI Port. Barry argent and asaure a saltire gules. has been found to the overlordship is in 1515, when the manor was held of Sir Edmund Grey as of the barony of Bedford.' No tenant of the overlord is mentioned in Hatley at the time of the Survey, but members of the family of de Port seem to have estab- lished their position as lords of the manor in the twelfth cen- tury.' In II97 Adam de Port con- firmed the gift of the church to Newnham Priory,' and again in 1231 he received the grant of half a virgate of land in Hatley,' from Ellen, daughter of Agnes of Hatley, whilst in 1277 William de Port was in possession of the manor.'" This manor passed from the de Ports in the last decade of the thirteenth century to Roger Bryan, who acquired from William de Port 70 acres of land in 1294," a carucate of land, 8/. rent, and a messuage two years later,'^ and finally, in 1298, lands, rents, a messuage, and a ; Joan, daughter of Roger Bryan, married John d'Argen- tein, who was holding the manor in 1308," and from him it passed to his daughter, Joan wife of Ralph Butler," whose heir was her nephew Edward Butler, who came of age in 1360.'* He made various settlements of the manor," and finally in the year 1417 sold it to John Cockayne, chief baron of the Exchequer, for 1,000 marks.'*. Cockayne. Argent three cocks gules having their beaks, combs and •wattles sable. 8 Harl. MS. 3656, fol. 217 ; Feet of F. Beds. 9 Ric. I, m. 2. 9 Feet of F. Beds. 16 Hen. Ill, m. II. 1" Ibid. 6 Edw. I, m. 4 ; Feud. Aids, '. 3- " Feet of F. Beds. 23 Edw. I, No. 5. 12 Ibid. 25 Edw. I, No. 2. 1' Ibid. 27 Edw. I, m. i. The same year Adam de Port obtained from Thomas de Blegner (or Blaigny) 4 messuages and 30 acres of land in Hatley (ibid. 27 Edw. I, m. 3), which he conveyed to Roger Bryan (ibid. m. 5). This family of de Blaigny had been holding in Hatley some seventy years before, when Mabel, d
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