. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. 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 his death in 1323 an inventory of the manor was taken.*' The manor has continued in the possession of the de Grey family and their descendants from the early part of the fourteenth century until the present day, following the same de
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. 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 his death in 1323 an inventory of the manor was taken.*' The manor has continued in the possession of the de Grey family and their descendants from the early part of the fourteenth century until the present day, following the same descent as that of the manor of Wrest, in Silsoe, in this parish (), the present lord of the manor being Lord Lucas and Dingwall. In 1388 the manor was worth /lo,*° and by 1445 its value had decreased to £,-J 13/. 4</. ;" in 1615 it included three messuages, 144 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow and 16 acres of pasture, as part of the demesne lands.*' There was another estate in Silsoe which became known in the fourteenth century as the manor of NORWOOD, and in the reign of Henry VIII as Norwood alias Silsoe, at first held of John Peyvre;" the overlordship passed before 1388 to the barony of WahuU,'" and remained vested in the barony until towards the end of the reign of Henry VII it was transferred to the ; After 1524 there is no further mention of ; This manor probably originated in the land held by Henry de Northwood, who in 1203 acquired 4 acres of land, 27 roods of meadow in Silsoe from Robert de Bray," and in 1206 he leased half a vir- gate to William, son of Henry de Ryde, at an annual rent of ; In 1315 Thomas de Northwood, evidently a member of the same family, held half a fee in Flitton and Silsoe of John Peyvre," and in 1360 Richard, probably his son, and his wife Alice, alienated the manor of Norwood to Reginald de Grey of Ruthyn, and Eleanor his ; The de Greys, earls of Kent, and their descendants h
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