. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Spen-cer, Earl Spencer. Argent quartered ivith gules fretty or over all a bend sable ivith three scallops argent thereon. church, to Robert Spencer.** He was created baron Wormleighton in 1603, and died in 1627," when his son William succeeded to the ; In 1662 Robert Spencer, grandson of William and second earl of Sunderland, held Dunton ; His son Charles, who died in 1722, left the property to a younger son John, who was created Earl Spencer in 1765, and it remained in the direct line in this family&q
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Spen-cer, Earl Spencer. Argent quartered ivith gules fretty or over all a bend sable ivith three scallops argent thereon. church, to Robert Spencer.** He was created baron Wormleighton in 1603, and died in 1627," when his son William succeeded to the ; In 1662 Robert Spencer, grandson of William and second earl of Sunderland, held Dunton ; His son Charles, who died in 1722, left the property to a younger son John, who was created Earl Spencer in 1765, and it remained in the direct line in this family" until 1812. It appears later as the property of Earl Brownlow, who held it in 1869, and since 1877 has belonged to the Rev. John Richardson. The manor of MILLO formed part of the original endowment of Waltham Abbey, founded by Harold son of Earl Godwin, and is mentioned in the con- firmation charter of Edward the ; It was seized by William the Conqueror together with other lands of the abbey, and granted by him to the bishop of Durham, who held this manor at the time of the Domesday ; It is not clear whether it had come into the Conqueror's hands by exchange or violence, but it was subse- quently recovered by Waltham Abbey," and is mentioned as part of the endowment" in the charter of confirmation of Henry II. The abbot claimed view of frankpledge and free warren in Millo manor in 1311," and it continued in his possession down to the Re- formation. In 1541 the king sold the manor for X3°S '°-'- to John Burgoyne," who on his death in the following year left it to his son Thomas,** who died in 1550 leaving a son John to ; He alienated Millo in 1599 to Robert Spencer," together with the manor of Dunton Goyes (), and the history of the two manors henceforth coincides. Walter Giffard possessed 5 hides at the time of the Survey, which constituted a second MILLO MANOR.*^ This manor reappears later as the knigh
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