. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Lucy, Gules crusiUy argent and three lucies argent. these lands were already leased by Sir Thomas Rotherham, lord of Luton manor, it seems likely that this grant was preliminary to a final transfer to him, and that this portion of Luton manor again became absorbed in the ;* The one-sixth which fell to Sybil de Bohun, later known as WOODCROFT alias HJLTARD MJNOR,^^ was transferred almost immediately by her son John de Bohun to Emery de Lucy, who in 1276 obtained a confirmation of the grant of
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Lucy, Gules crusiUy argent and three lucies argent. these lands were already leased by Sir Thomas Rotherham, lord of Luton manor, it seems likely that this grant was preliminary to a final transfer to him, and that this portion of Luton manor again became absorbed in the ;* The one-sixth which fell to Sybil de Bohun, later known as WOODCROFT alias HJLTARD MJNOR,^^ was transferred almost immediately by her son John de Bohun to Emery de Lucy, who in 1276 obtained a confirmation of the grant of ten librates of land in Luton held of the king by tUe service of half a knight's fee.*' Emery de Lucy was suc- ceeded some time previous to 1296 by Geoffrey de Lucy," who died in 1305 holding ' one-sixth of the manor of Luton, namely the hamlet of Woodcroft.' '* He left a son Geoffrey, aged 17 at the time of his father's death, who in 1332 obtained a charter of free warren in his demesne lands of Woodcroft,'' and dying in 1346 was followed by a son Geoffrey,™ who held the manor till 1400, when Reginald his son succeeded him.'"' Reginald de Lucy was followed in 1437 by a son Walter who died in 1444 leaving a son ;" On the death of the latter in 1461'°' the manor passed for life to his widow Margaret, who held it until 1467,'" when it was divided between his niece Elizabeth, daughter of his sister Eleanor and wife of John earl of Worcester, and his nephew William Vaux, son of Maud, another sister, who was attainted on account of a speech made against the king.'"' Woodcroft eventually passed to William Vaux, who was slain at Tewkesbury in 1471, and whose grandson. Sir Thomas Vaux, Lord Harrow- den, transferred this manor to the earl of Essex,"" who in 1544 conveyed it into the hands of Robert Dormer and other trustees.'"' This was probably preliminary to an alienation for when the manor re- appears a generation later it is a
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