. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CLIFTON HUNDRED MEPPERSHALL and continued in the hands of the Leventhorpes, un- til by some means it came into the possession of Richard Stringer and Anne his wife, uncle and aunt of Elizabeth Leventhorpe, after the death of the latter's father Thomas in 1621 ; Richard Stringer alienated it by fine in 1627 to William Parsell;°'' the widow and daughters of the latter alienated it by fine to Robert Lovett in 1649.*° No further mention of the manor has been found until 1731, when it was in the possession of John Compton or Crompton
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CLIFTON HUNDRED MEPPERSHALL and continued in the hands of the Leventhorpes, un- til by some means it came into the possession of Richard Stringer and Anne his wife, uncle and aunt of Elizabeth Leventhorpe, after the death of the latter's father Thomas in 1621 ; Richard Stringer alienated it by fine in 1627 to William Parsell;°'' the widow and daughters of the latter alienated it by fine to Robert Lovett in 1649.*° No further mention of the manor has been found until 1731, when it was in the possession of John Compton or Crompton, who conveyed it in the same year to George, Viscount Torrington and the Hon. Pattee ; Lysons, writing in 1805, states that Polehanger manor was then in the hands of Sir George Osborn, bart.,^ from whom it has descended to Sir Algernon Kerr Butler Osborn, bart., one of the chief landowners in Meppershall parish.*' In the nineteenth century the manorial rights probably lapsed as there is no trace of them to-day, but the manor-house is doubtless represented by Polehanger Farm. Other lands in Meppershall were held by the priory MeppershalL Church. ± Scale of reel:. ix,* Centujy. lO^Centujy. is*Centujy. M of Merton (co. Surrey), which acquired 100 acres of land by the grant of Robert son of William le Des- penser. These lands were held of the king by serjeanty, and the grant was confirmed by Henry II, and later by Henry III in 1252.'° In the reign of Edward I the annual value of lands held of the prior in Meppershall, Stokesholt, Astwick, and Dunton was £^ 6s. 2(2'.," and his holding in Meppershall amounted to one ; The prior failed to make good his claim to view of frankpledge over tenants in the eighth part of the parish of Meppershall in 1330, when he asserted that the right was granted to him by Richard I and confirmed by a charter of Henry III. The jury shewed that in the reign of Henry Gilbert de Meppershall held the manor of Meppers
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