. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Kktnsham. Farty argent and amure three roses countercoloured. late as 1346;*° between that date and 1428 it had passed to the College of Northill in Bedfordshire, founded at the beginning of the reign of Henry IV," and remained in its possession till the Dissolution, when the temporalities of the college in Tempsford consisted of 13/. •^^d. rent of free tenants, and 6s. SJ. by the bailiff of ; In 1550 the manor was granted by Ed- ward VI to William Fitz- william," who three yea
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Kktnsham. Farty argent and amure three roses countercoloured. late as 1346;*° between that date and 1428 it had passed to the College of Northill in Bedfordshire, founded at the beginning of the reign of Henry IV," and remained in its possession till the Dissolution, when the temporalities of the college in Tempsford consisted of 13/. •^^d. rent of free tenants, and 6s. SJ. by the bailiff of ; In 1550 the manor was granted by Ed- ward VI to William Fitz- william," who three years later alienated it to Thomas Shef- field,'" and he in 1565 trans- ferred it to George Keyn- ; He, at his death in 1593, left a grandson, George, as heir," but his wife Eliza- beth, subsequently married to Francis Gill, held Tempsford till her death in 1605,"^ when George Keynsham succeeded to the ; He became insane in 1639, *°<^ '^^ manor passed to his daughter Anne, then fourteen years of ; She married Anthony St. John the same year, and died in 1700," and from her the manor appears to have passed at some time to Henry fiendish, who held this property at his death in ; He left two daughters as co-heirs, Mary Berners and Elizabeth Hagar," who in 1772 sold the Temps- ford property to Sir Gillias Payne.'' His grandson. Sir Charles Payne, held Temps- ford, Drayton and Brayes manors in 1814,*° and in 1830 sold them to William Stuart," whose grandson, Dugald Stuart, at present owns this property. In the late thirteenth cen- tury DRArTON'S MANOR was separated from Tempsford manor (). Miles de Drayton, who rendered feudal service for his manor in 1316," was before 1346 suc- ceeded by a son Geoffrey.*' By 1428 this manor had become the possession of Robert Scott," whose daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, transferred it to her daughter, Margaret Sheffield, as appears from an inq
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