. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. AsTSLL. Gules a lion passant forty or and cr- 'tnt between four cross- ets argent. fe Walter Cary,''' who retained it until 1714, when he alienated it to William ; Richard son of William Astell held the manor in 1738,*' and on his death, without issue, in 1777, was succeeded by his nephew William Thornton, who assumed the name of ; He died in 1847, and of his two sons, William the elder died unmarried in 1864, and John the younger succeeded to the Everton pro- perty. He died in 1887, and was followed by a
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. AsTSLL. Gules a lion passant forty or and cr- 'tnt between four cross- ets argent. fe Walter Cary,''' who retained it until 1714, when he alienated it to William ; Richard son of William Astell held the manor in 1738,*' and on his death, without issue, in 1777, was succeeded by his nephew William Thornton, who assumed the name of ; He died in 1847, and of his two sons, William the elder died unmarried in 1864, and John the younger succeeded to the Everton pro- perty. He died in 1887, and was followed by a son Wil- liam Harvey Astell who, at his death in 1896, left a son Richard Astell, born in 1890, who is the present representa- tive of the ; No mention has been found of a third manor in Evertonâthat of EFERTON BIGGINâprior to the late fifteenth century ; it appears to have been an off-shoot of Everton manor of which it was held when it first appears in ; The last mention that has been found of the over- lordship occurs in 1640, when William WoUascott held Everton Biggin of Onslow Winch, lord of ; In 1480 John Dale, who also ovraed Everton Mos- bury, died seised of this manor" and from that date Everton Biggin has followed the same descent as Everton Mosbury ().*' It did not, however, become immediately absorbed in the larger manor, but preserved a separate identity certainly down to the late eighteenth ; In 1307 Walter Langton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, obtained a grant of a market to be held every Wednesday at his manor of Everton, and also of a three-days fair yearly on the feast of St. Bartho- lomew (24 August)," but no further trace has been found of the exercise of these privileges in Everton. At the same time a charter of free warren was granted to the lord of the manor," who also possessed the right of holding a three-weekly court baron," and of a view of frankpledge within the
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