. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CLIFTON HUNDRED ARLESEY son sold Arlesey Bury Manor to Messrs. Lycett, Inskip & Co. Arlesey Bury House with 40 acres of land was bought by Colonel Fyler who died in 1903, and has since been purchased by Mr. Howard Carter, who lives there.*' The nucleus of LJNTHONr MANOR is to be found in the 3 J virgates of land which Nigel de Albini owned in Arlesey at the time of the Domesday Survey, and which were held of him by a certain ; The next mention is to be found in a charter of King John to the prior of Lanthony in G


. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. CLIFTON HUNDRED ARLESEY son sold Arlesey Bury Manor to Messrs. Lycett, Inskip & Co. Arlesey Bury House with 40 acres of land was bought by Colonel Fyler who died in 1903, and has since been purchased by Mr. Howard Carter, who lives there.*' The nucleus of LJNTHONr MANOR is to be found in the 3 J virgates of land which Nigel de Albini owned in Arlesey at the time of the Domesday Survey, and which were held of him by a certain ; The next mention is to be found in a charter of King John to the prior of Lanthony in Gloucestershire, which confirms the gift of Nigel son of Hordfast (the Erfast of the survey) made with the permission of his overlords Henry de Albini and Robert his ; This manor remained with the priory till the Dissolution, when it passed to the crown. A valuation taken in the reign of Philip and Mary assesses it at 38/. ^\d}^ By 1559 it had been granted to Thomas Henneage to whom Arlesey Bury () belonged, and in this manor it becomes henceforward merged.'" Dealing with the land of the burgesses of Bedford the survey states that Ulsi, a prebendary of the king, held two-thirds of a virgate of land in ; This holding is probably to be found again in the half-hide of land which, as stated in the Testa de Nevill, Warin de Claidich held from the king at a yearly rental of 4/.*' In 1302 John de Claidich was holding the same land of the king," and an inquisition taken in 1356 states that one John de Claidich, who died three years previously, had held a messuage and land in chief at a rental of 4/." He left a son John Claidich, but no further trace has been found of this fee. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the Greys of Wilton held property in Arlesey. John de Grey (who died in 1323) received 9/. 41/. yearly rent from freemen there, and also two pounds of pepper valued at 9,/." In 1371 his grandson Reginald de Grey of Wilton d


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