. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. D 0 c w R A. Sable a cheveron engrailed argent between three roundels ar- gent each having a pale gulet upon it. there in 1617.⢠This manor appears to have passed to the Crawleys, for in 1772 John Crawley owned Stopsley manor, together with other manors in the same parish,^' amongst which it probably became absorbed, for no further mention has been found of it. A third, WOODCROFT MANOR, is found in this parish during the sixteenth century. It appears always to have followed the same descent as Bramble
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. D 0 c w R A. Sable a cheveron engrailed argent between three roundels ar- gent each having a pale gulet upon it. there in 1617.⢠This manor appears to have passed to the Crawleys, for in 1772 John Crawley owned Stopsley manor, together with other manors in the same parish,^' amongst which it probably became absorbed, for no further mention has been found of it. A third, WOODCROFT MANOR, is found in this parish during the sixteenth century. It appears always to have followed the same descent as Bramblehanger (), and the first reference to it is in an inquisition of 1515, when John Sylam, in addition to that manor, held a messuage and lands in Luton.'*' In a fine of 1546 Robert Cheyney con- veyed Bramblehanger and Woodcroft manors to trustees,'^ and though the inquisition taken on his possessions in 1554 merely calls this property Wood- croft Farm and lands,*** it is invariably from this time onward called a manor, the last mention of it before its final absorption in Bramblehanger occurring in 1807.'*' It seems likely that the property is represented at the present day by the farm called Little Bramingham, which forms part of the Bramblehanger estate.*" To Luton manor is attached the right of holding a view of frankpledge, court leet and court ;' The marquess of Bute has in his possession a tran- script of Court Rolls of Luton manor, written in an early seventeenth-century hand, and covering a period from 1471 to 1559. Three volumes of Court Rolls, dating back to the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury, still exist, but older volumes are supposed to have been burned at the great fire at Luton Hoo in 1771. The annual view of frankpledge, court leet, and court baron of the manor is still held with all customary formality at the Luton Corn Exchange on Thursday in Whit-week. The courts are always well attended, and a fair amount of business transacted ; t
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