. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CLOPHILL. Charnock. Argent a bend sable 'with three crosslets argent thereon. of the abbey of St. Albans until the Dissolution, when it was taken into the hand of the king. Edward VI in 1553 bestowed it upon Sir William Fitz- william and his wife ; The former died in 1558 and his wife shortly afterwards, when the manor was divided among their four daughters, Mabel wife of Thomas Browne, Katherine wife of Christopher Viscount Gormanston, Eliza- beth wife of Francis Jermye, â and Elizabeth wife of Innocent
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CLOPHILL. Charnock. Argent a bend sable 'with three crosslets argent thereon. of the abbey of St. Albans until the Dissolution, when it was taken into the hand of the king. Edward VI in 1553 bestowed it upon Sir William Fitz- william and his wife ; The former died in 1558 and his wife shortly afterwards, when the manor was divided among their four daughters, Mabel wife of Thomas Browne, Katherine wife of Christopher Viscount Gormanston, Eliza- beth wife of Francis Jermye, â and Elizabeth wife of Innocent Rede.*' Mabel Browne died in 1564, and her son Matthew sold his share in the manor in 1585 to Richard Charnock,⢠who had already acquired the remaining parts from the three other daughters of Sir William Fitzwilliam.*' Richard Charnock left the manor to his son John,** and the latter's son Robert, who was knighted in 1619, succeeded his father, and was in possession in 1639*' and died in 1670, leaving a son, St. John, who had been created a baronet in 1661 and died in 1680. He was succeeded by his youngest son and heir, Sir Villiers Charnock (the elder sons having died without issue in their father's lifetime), who died in 1694, and the manor passed through his son Sir Pynsent, who died in 1734, to Sir Boteler Charnock, the latter's son, who died in 1756 without issue.'" His brother and heir. Sir Villiers, probably sold the manor to Lady Amabel Grey, who was holding it in 177Z," since which date it has been held by the de Greys, earls of Kent, jointly with the manor of Clophill and Cainhoe, the manorial rights at the present day being vested in their descendant Lord Lucas and Dingwall. Another manor in Clophill, which at the beginning of the sixteenth century acquired the name of the MJNOR OF CLOPHILL HALL, can be traced back to a grant of land made in 1354 by Joan the widow of Roger Dakeney to Gerard de Braybrook and his wife Isabella, which consisted of 4 acres
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