. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED PULLOXHILL a false statement, acquired possession of the premises," and the matter came up for settlement before the Privy Council, by whom Norton was fined for mis- ; In 1547 Sir William Pagett was granted PuUoxhill Grange,'' and in the following year, an agreement being come to with Sir Thomas Palmer," who had a grant of the site of the manor, the latter entered into possession of the property.*' On his attainder in 1553 for his adherence to Lady Jane Grey the grange was granted by Q
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED PULLOXHILL a false statement, acquired possession of the premises," and the matter came up for settlement before the Privy Council, by whom Norton was fined for mis- ; In 1547 Sir William Pagett was granted PuUoxhill Grange,'' and in the following year, an agreement being come to with Sir Thomas Palmer," who had a grant of the site of the manor, the latter entered into possession of the property.*' On his attainder in 1553 for his adherence to Lady Jane Grey the grange was granted by Queen Mary to George Bredyman for life.*^ Queen Mary, however, died seised of the manor, which then passed to Queen Elizabeth, who in 1563 bestowed it on John Lee and Thomas Julyan, and the heirs of the former.'" Thomas Julyan died soon after, and John Lee, becoming sole tenant, sold the grange of PuUoxhill to Sir Thomas Cheyney and Lady Jane his wife in ; The latter were called upon by the queen to justify their title in 1567, and apparently made good their ; The manor was in the queen's hands, however, by 1595," and in 1601 was granted to Peter Page and Edmund ; Matthew Page, evidently a rela- tion, in 1623 conveyed the reversion of the manors after the death of John Page to Richard Norton," who alienated them in 1626 to Peter ; From him they probably passed to Noah Duckett, who may have been a brother, and through the latter's daughter Anne to her husband Sir William Briers," who held them in 1643.'° On his death in 1653 there was a division of the manors, a moiety being settled on Arabella his second wife as her dower, and the other moiety passing to Briers Crofts, his heiress. It is prob- able that the latter was his niece, and that her mother Anne Briers was his sister.'" Briers Crofts'husband. Sir John Crofts of Westow, Suffolk, united with Arabella Briers in 1660 to convey the whole manor to Sir Henr
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