. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE granted Henlow Warden to William Sewster," who appears to have alienated it within a short space of time to John Raven, for the latter settled it in 15 76 on a son John," who dying in 1594 *' was succeeded by a son John,^' who was under age at his father's death.'" John Raven died in 1641," and his son John was certainly holding the manor in ; The manor next passed by inheritance to the Edwards ;^ In 1670 George Edwards was in pos- session of Henlow
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE granted Henlow Warden to William Sewster," who appears to have alienated it within a short space of time to John Raven, for the latter settled it in 15 76 on a son John," who dying in 1594 *' was succeeded by a son John,^' who was under age at his father's death.'" John Raven died in 1641," and his son John was certainly holding the manor in ; The manor next passed by inheritance to the Edwards ;^ In 1670 George Edwards was in pos- session of Henlow ; A] A His son George succeeded him. Warden Abbkt. r , ^ ,, . , Ax,ure a crosier set pale- in 171 z,-> and was followed by ^,„ i,^^„„ ,,,„, ^^^j,„ a son, also George.'* On the pean or. death of the latter in 1781 his wife Elizabeth retained possession of the ; Their son George having died without issue in 1809, George Nigel Raynsford (who took the name of Ed- wards), son of his sister Frances, succeeded to Henlow ;* In 1849 Thomas Alexander Raynsford held the manor, and in 1855 General Raynsford. By 1869 it had passed to the Rev. Henry Ad- dington, by marriage with the eldest daughter of T. A. Rayns- ford, who was followed by Thomas Alexander Addington. In 1889 the latter sold it to the Alliance Bank, who shortly after sold it to Edward Ham- mond Thompson. In 1896 it was purchased from him by Mr. George Gribble, who is at the present day lord of the ; The capital messuage knovim as Graies Bury formed part of the manor of Henlow Warden and was held by John Raven in 1641.'° A third manor to be found in Henlow is that of ; The Domesday Survey states under the land of the burgesses of Bedford that Alric held one virgate, and had held it in the time of Edward the ; In the thirteenth century William de Cantelow held one virgate of the honor of Eyton (probably Eaton Bray), in Henlow," and it is poss
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