. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED. Beauchamp, Lard St. Amand. Gules a fesse beHoeen six martlets or tvith a border argent. not remain long in the latter's possession, for it was acquired EynHenry, earl of Kent, in ; Before this purchase, it had appar- ently been held of the earl of Kent as of his manor of I Nether Gravenhurst by knight ; The manor was held by the earls of Kent jointly with their other manors of Gravenhurst. The last men- ' tion of the manor occurs in 1623, when Charles, earl of Kent, died seised of it,"
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED. Beauchamp, Lard St. Amand. Gules a fesse beHoeen six martlets or tvith a border argent. not remain long in the latter's possession, for it was acquired EynHenry, earl of Kent, in ; Before this purchase, it had appar- ently been held of the earl of Kent as of his manor of I Nether Gravenhurst by knight ; The manor was held by the earls of Kent jointly with their other manors of Gravenhurst. The last men- ' tion of the manor occurs in 1623, when Charles, earl of Kent, died seised of it," after this date it was probably merged in one of the larger manors. One of the numerous small holdings in Eye in Lower Gravenhurst probably de- veloped into what was known afterwards as the MANOR OF ION, and in the seventeenth century Hi ION HO USE. In 13 3 2 Robert de Kirkby of Eye granted to Nicholas, son of Roger de Aspley and Alice his wife, a messuage in Eye," and it may have been this messuage which was left in 1508 by Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, to his illegitimate son Anthony,'' who was holding it under the name of Ion manor in ; In l6lz Henry Whitehead died seised of land in Eye,*" and Lysons states that Ion House was sold in 1639 by William Whitehead to William Allen.'* Elizabeth, daughter of William Allen, married in 1665 John Sabine," who was created a baronet in 1672, and sold the property in that year to Morgan Hinde, of whose family it was purchased in 1724. by the duke of Kent.^ Ion House is now. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Page, William, 1861-1934, ed; Doubleday, H. Arthur (Herbert Arthur), 1867-1941. Westminster [A. Constable]
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