. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE it continued to be held of them as of their manor of Dallow in Luton ; it is mentioned as so held in 1327 and again in 1531.'" Subsequent to the dis- solution of the abbey it continued to be held of Dallow, the last mention of the overlordship occurring in ;» Robert Fitz Walter, to whom Biscott manor thus passed, was one of the twenty-iive barons appointed to enforce the fulfilment of Magna Charta. He was outlawed and temporarily deprived of his possessions on two occasions—in 1212 and ag
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE it continued to be held of them as of their manor of Dallow in Luton ; it is mentioned as so held in 1327 and again in 1531.'" Subsequent to the dis- solution of the abbey it continued to be held of Dallow, the last mention of the overlordship occurring in ;» Robert Fitz Walter, to whom Biscott manor thus passed, was one of the twenty-iive barons appointed to enforce the fulfilment of Magna Charta. He was outlawed and temporarily deprived of his possessions on two occasions—in 1212 and again in I z 16.*" Whether, after these alienations, Biscott was ever restored to him does not appear, and no record has been found of the manor until 1289, when Hugh de Philibert granted to William de Bereford £^() l6s. rent in Biscott, together with all services of those holding in the ;" In 1327 William de Bereford, probably the original grantee, died seised of £() 9/. \d. rent in Biscott, received from eleven free tenants, leaving a son Edmund as heir.'"' The manor was held in 1386 by his son Baldwin de Bereford,"" who in 1401 made a settlement of the manor, in the event of his dying without heirs, on the heirs of Joan, Agnes, and Alice, sisters of his father Edmund.'"' Biscott was held by Elizabeth, widow of Baldwin de Bereford, during her lifetime, but by 1419 the reversion had passed to Ralph Bush (in right of his wife Eleanor), who in that year conveyed it by fine to William ;" John Acworth was holding the manor in 1500,"* and was followed by a son George, who, dying in 1531, left as heir a son, also George Acworth.'"" He sold the manor in 1548-9 to John Dormer, citizen and mercer of London,'"' who in the following year transferred it to William Harper, citizen and merchant tailor of London,'"* by whom it was sold in 1555 to John Alley.'"' His son Francis conveyed Biscott manor t
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