. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. SoMiRY. Quarterly or and axure a bend guleu which house was sumptuously begon by the lord Wennelok but not finischid. The Gate House of Brike is very large and faire. Part of the residew of the new Foundations be yet seene and part of the Olde Place standeth yet. It is set on a Hille not far from St. Anne's Hill.'»" At the present day the ruins consist of a gate-. SoMERiES Castle, Luton Hoo : Entrance Gateway house with a chapel and vestibule to the east, probably forming about two-thirds of the north front of the fif- tee
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. SoMiRY. Quarterly or and axure a bend guleu which house was sumptuously begon by the lord Wennelok but not finischid. The Gate House of Brike is very large and faire. Part of the residew of the new Foundations be yet seene and part of the Olde Place standeth yet. It is set on a Hille not far from St. Anne's Hill.'»" At the present day the ruins consist of a gate-. SoMERiES Castle, Luton Hoo : Entrance Gateway house with a chapel and vestibule to the east, probably forming about two-thirds of the north front of the fif- teenth-century building. They are built of narrow red bricks of excellent quality, ranging five courses to the foot, and here and there dark vitrified bricks are used in the facing, generally as it seems at random, but over the inner arch of the gateway a lozenge of such bricks occurs. The entrance gateway is 8 ft. wide, with a four-centred stone head and jambs, and above it the wall face is set forward on a pretty cinquefoiled arcade of moulded brickwork. The entrance is flanked by half-octagonal turrets, that on the west side containing the entrance to a lobby, from which a small round window commands the approach to the gate. The gateway passage is 20 ft. long, and was covered with a brick vault; from it doors opened at the south-west to a room with a fireplace, and a window overlooking â¢W Bedi. N. and Q. iii, 24. The name of Crawley appears in 1476 in a Court Roll of Luton manor. *" Ibid, iii, 27 ; Crawley Papers. »" Crawley Papers, No. 38 ;Recov. R. Hil. II KHz. rot. 149. Robert Wolley made a series of conveyances of the manor between 1570 and 1585 (Crawley Papers, 4»> 4^. 44, 63, 65. &<:â )⢠»«" Crawley Papers, No. 279-82. «6i Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 4 Jas. II; Recov. R. Trin. 4 Jas. II, rot. 162. w" Recov. R. Trin. 7 Anne; Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 7 Anne. '" Chan. Inq. 2 Edw. II, No. 58. ''* Chan. Inq. 16 Edw
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