. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE From this family, who continued to hold the manor in an almost unbroken line of succession from father to son for more than 300 years, Hatley acquired the prefix Cockayne. Reginald son of John Cockayne succeeded his father in 1427, and held the manor till his own death in 1433," when the estate passed to his son John, who died in ; His son Edmund appears to have left two sons, Humphrey, who died in 1515, the same year as his father, and William, to whom the estate, being entailed on male
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE From this family, who continued to hold the manor in an almost unbroken line of succession from father to son for more than 300 years, Hatley acquired the prefix Cockayne. Reginald son of John Cockayne succeeded his father in 1427, and held the manor till his own death in 1433," when the estate passed to his son John, who died in ; His son Edmund appears to have left two sons, Humphrey, who died in 1515, the same year as his father, and William, to whom the estate, being entailed on male heirs, then passed. Chad Cockayne, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Luke, chief baron of the Exchequer, succeeded to William in 1527," and his son John held the manor in ; In 1625 Lewis Cockayne made a settlement of the manor on the occasion of the marriage of his son John to Susan ; He, however, died without issue, and the manor passed to John Cockayne, son of his brother Richard, who succeeded his grand- father Lewis before 1663, in which year he attained his ; He married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Cust, and died in 1719, leaving a son Richard, who died in 1731, having survived all his children. He had one brother, Samuel, with whom he appears to have been on unfriendly terms, for in his will he left him the specific sum of one shilling, and the estate of Cockayne Hatley to his second cousin, Judith Cockayne, with the condition that she should marry a man of the name of Cockayne. Samuel Cockayne, as lineal representative, threatened litigation, but a compromise was effected in 1733, by which Judith in return for ^^1,000 gave up the estate to ; At his death in 1745 Samuel left a will under which the Cockayne Hatley estate passed to his cousins by the mother's side, the descen- dants of his grandfather. Sir Richard Cust. Saville Cust, who adopted the additional name of Cockayne, accord- ingly succeeded to
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