. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE Higham, which was involved in the dispute between Richard Gobion and his mother Maud in 1279. Maud held a third of the mill in dower, and the men of her manor of Streatley were accustomed to do suit and to grind their corn there.'' At Richard's death in 1300, the mill, called a water-mill, was worth The abbey of Woburn possessed a small estate m Higham, which, together with land in Potsgrove, was worth £3 13/. 7^a'. in 1291 ;" in 1337 the value of the holding was the same.'' There is no further rec
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE Higham, which was involved in the dispute between Richard Gobion and his mother Maud in 1279. Maud held a third of the mill in dower, and the men of her manor of Streatley were accustomed to do suit and to grind their corn there.'' At Richard's death in 1300, the mill, called a water-mill, was worth The abbey of Woburn possessed a small estate m Higham, which, together with land in Potsgrove, was worth £3 13/. 7^a'. in 1291 ;" in 1337 the value of the holding was the same.'' There is no further record of this property. There were apparently two other manors in this parish, which by 1613 had amalgamated, and were always afterwards known as the manor of WESTHET A'ND FALDO. Of these the manor of Faldo owed its name to the family of Faldo or Keynes of Faldo. William de Faldo and Cecilia his wife owned land in Higham Gobion in 1245," and the heirs of the former in 1302 held I hide of Ralph Butler for the fifth part of a knight's fee.** This estate, which is mentioned for the first time as a manor in 1336, was still held at that date of Ralph Butler," but the overlordship is not again mentioned. In 1312 William son of William de Keynes of Faldo and Joan, probably a grandson of the original holder, defended his mother in an action which she brought against Robert Michel, concerning her dower of 10 marks of annual rent paid from her tenants in Higham, Faldo, and elsewhere.*" This William joined the earl of Lancaster's rebellion in 1322, and his estates were forfeited ; but he was afterwards par- doned, and his possessions were restored to his heir in 1324, William's death having occurred in the in- ; This heir, another William Keynes, died in 1336, leaving as his co-heiresses his four aunts, Christina, Emma, Alice, and Margery.*' Alice, who at that date was married to Roger Foliot, appears to have married as her second husband Ralph Fitz Richard, with
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