. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED LUTON. Napier. Argent a saltire engrailed between four cin^oiU gules. when it passed to his son, another Thomas, aged about five.^' He died in 1565, when the property passed to his son George,'^ who, at his death in 1600, left a son Sir John Rotherham, knight, as heir," who in 161 o—11 conveyed his manor into the hands of trustees pre- paratory to a sale to Sir Robert Napier alias Sandy, which took place in the same ; Sir Robert Napier died in posses- sion of this property in 1637, when it passed to
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED LUTON. Napier. Argent a saltire engrailed between four cin^oiU gules. when it passed to his son, another Thomas, aged about five.^' He died in 1565, when the property passed to his son George,'^ who, at his death in 1600, left a son Sir John Rotherham, knight, as heir," who in 161 o—11 conveyed his manor into the hands of trustees pre- paratory to a sale to Sir Robert Napier alias Sandy, which took place in the same ; Sir Robert Napier died in posses- sion of this property in 1637, when it passed to Robert Napier his son by his third wife Margaret Robinson.'' He sat for Parliament, representing Weymouth in 1628 and Peter- borough in 1640. During the troubles in the reign of Charles I he sided with the crown, and in 1644 the Committee of Sequestrations for Bedford reported that Sir Robert Napier' being a member of the House of Commons did in August last depart from London and Westminster and neglected the service of the House till December' and that his estates were' accordingly sequestered. He submitted and offered to compound for his estates in 1646, but was not finally discharged until 1647.™ His death took place in 1660, when he was succeeded by a grandson Sir Robert Napier, who died unmarried and under age in 1675.*' His heir male was his uncle John Napier, who held the Luton estate till his death in 1711, when his son Theophilus came into possession.^ The latter died in 1719 leaving no direct heir, and Luton passed to his nephew John Napier, who dying unmarried in 1748, devised his Luton estate by will to his aunt Frances Napier, from whom it passed to her nephew Francis Heme of Middlesex.'^ In 1763-4 Francis Heme sold it to the earl of ; After having resided at Luton nearly thirty years he died in 1792, and the property passed to his eldest son John, created marquess of Bute in 1796. He died in 1814, when the whole of this property was conveyed into the
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