. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. De Lisle of â RouGE- MONT. Gules a IcQpard argent â¢with a golden crown. Sir John Dk Lisle, , Lord Lisle of Rougemont. Or a fesse befzveen fwo che'verons sable. founders of the order of the Garter, was summoned to Parliament from 1350 to 1354, and died in 1356, the manor then descending to his son Robert,*^ who sat in Parliament in 1357 and 1360. Robert died in 1399, having in 1368 given eighty-six knights' fees to the king.** It is not known whether he left a son, although the visitation of Somersetshire for 1623 states tha
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. De Lisle of â RouGE- MONT. Gules a IcQpard argent â¢with a golden crown. Sir John Dk Lisle, , Lord Lisle of Rougemont. Or a fesse befzveen fwo che'verons sable. founders of the order of the Garter, was summoned to Parliament from 1350 to 1354, and died in 1356, the manor then descending to his son Robert,*^ who sat in Parliament in 1357 and 1360. Robert died in 1399, having in 1368 given eighty-six knights' fees to the king.** It is not known whether he left a son, although the visitation of Somersetshire for 1623 states that Sir William de Lisle was the son of this Robert. This Sir William, who was holding the manor of Campton in 1392,*'was more probably the brother of Robert, who apparently alienated the manor to him before his death,** and he seems to have died without issue, when the manor escheated to the crown, and was probably granted to Reginald de Grey, who was hold- ing in 1428," and it descended to his great-grandson George earl of Kent, who was lord of the manor in 1492.*' In 1499 the latter settled the manor on his son Richard Lord Grey and his wife Elizabeth,*' who were holding in 1504.^° Between that date and 1508 the manor was alienated to Giles Lord Dau- beny, who died seised of it in the latter year," and his son and heir Henry probably conveyed the manor to Sir William Compton, who died seised of it in 1528," when it passed to the king as the result of a settlement made previously by Sir William Compton in order to ensure the observance of his will.'^ Two years later it was leased to John Gostwick, auditor of the king, and Edward Copley, for twenty- one years at an annual rent of £\?* In 1543 Campton was again in the king's hands," and was annexed to the honor of Ampthill. Thomas Vis- count Fenton, steward of the manor, surrendered his office in 1613,'° and Edward Lord Bruce was appointed in his ; The office continued in the family of t
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