. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED LUTON of John Crawley,''" to whose representative, Francis Crawley, it still belongs, though the farm-house has been pulled down of recent years.'*' The manor oi HATES or HOOBURNE was held of Luton manor, though no mention of the overlord- ship has been found before 1487, when it was held of John Rotherham by a rent of 50/. for all services,'"* and at a court held at Luton in 1554 the lord of Hayes still paid service to that ;" Very little has been found concerning the early history of Hay
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED LUTON of John Crawley,''" to whose representative, Francis Crawley, it still belongs, though the farm-house has been pulled down of recent years.'*' The manor oi HATES or HOOBURNE was held of Luton manor, though no mention of the overlord- ship has been found before 1487, when it was held of John Rotherham by a rent of 50/. for all services,'"* and at a court held at Luton in 1554 the lord of Hayes still paid service to that ;" Very little has been found concerning the early history of Hayes, but from the twelfth century a family of de la Hayes held property in Luton, from which this manor possibly originated. In 1198 John de Sandon trans- ferred 4 virgates of land in Luton to Reginald de la Haye,"' the next mention found is in 1275, when Walter de la Haye and Matilda his wife recognized the claim of Agnes de la Barre to her dower, consisting of 2 marks' rent and one-third of a carucate of land.'"' By 1296 Walter had been succeeded by Roger de la Haye, probably a son, who in that year transferred a messuage and land to Thomas de la ;" The family apparently still continued to hold land in Luton, for in 1390 Nicholas de la Haye confirmed tc his mother, Agnes Thrale, lands in West Hide, Luton. He was followed by John Hay, who is mentioned in the * Return of the Gentry of Bedfordshire in 1433.''" He was steward of the archbishop of Canterbury, and was buried in the north aisle of Luton church, with an inscription to the effect that he had repaired the church at his own ;" After his death in 1454 there is a gap in the his- tory of the manor until it reappears in 1475 under the title of Hooburne manor, when John White acknow- ledged the right of John Cates- by to ;" He died in 1487, leaving a son Humphrey Cates- by,'" who by 1534 had been succeeded by Anthony Cates- by,'" on whose death in 1554 his
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