. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Warden Abbkt. r , ^ ,, . , Ax,ure a crosier set pale- in 171 z,-> and was followed by ^,„ i,^^„„ ,,,„, ^^^j,„ a son, also George.'* On the pean or. death of the latter in 1781 his wife Elizabeth retained possession of the ; Their son George having died without issue in 1809, George Nigel Raynsford (who took the name of Ed- wards), son of his sister Frances, succeeded to Henlow ;* In 1849 Thomas Alexander Raynsford held the manor, and in 1855 General Raynsford. By 1869 it had passed to the Rev. Henry Ad-


. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. Warden Abbkt. r , ^ ,, . , Ax,ure a crosier set pale- in 171 z,-> and was followed by ^,„ i,^^„„ ,,,„, ^^^j,„ a son, also George.'* On the pean or. death of the latter in 1781 his wife Elizabeth retained possession of the ; Their son George having died without issue in 1809, George Nigel Raynsford (who took the name of Ed- wards), son of his sister Frances, succeeded to Henlow ;* In 1849 Thomas Alexander Raynsford held the manor, and in 1855 General Raynsford. By 1869 it had passed to the Rev. Henry Ad- dington, by marriage with the eldest daughter of T. A. Rayns- ford, who was followed by Thomas Alexander Addington. In 1889 the latter sold it to the Alliance Bank, who shortly after sold it to Edward Ham- mond Thompson. In 1896 it was purchased from him by Mr. George Gribble, who is at the present day lord of the ; The capital messuage knovim as Graies Bury formed part of the manor of Henlow Warden and was held by John Raven in 1641.'° A third manor to be found in Henlow is that of ; The Domesday Survey states under the land of the burgesses of Bedford that Alric held one virgate, and had held it in the time of Edward the ; In the thirteenth century William de Cantelow held one virgate of the honor of Eyton (probably Eaton Bray), in Henlow," and it is possible that these virgates are identical. From William de Cantelow this manor Gribblk. Partyfeue- •wise invecked table and argent vjtti a demilion between two lix-pointed molets in the chief and a greyhound's head razed sable having a collar or in the foot. passed into the hands of the Zouches of Harring- worth by the marriage of Millicent daughter of William de Cantelow with Kudo de la Zouche.** In 1302 William de la Zouche, her son, held one- twentieth of a knight's fee, consisting of one vir- gate of land in Henlow.*' His grandson William de la Zouche held the s


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