. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED tLITTON seised of it before their ; Their son Hum- phrey in 1539 mortgaged his reversion of the property to Edmund Conquest for ^^73 6s. 8</.," and ag^in in 1544, after the death of his" father, further mortgaged the estate, and the reversion of the property which his mother held as her dower, to Thomas Palmer for i^i20.°* Humphrey was evidently unable to redeem the mortgage for Edmund Conquest at his death left his wife Joan as his executrix, and she sold the estate to Sir Henry Grey, Je ju
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED tLITTON seised of it before their ; Their son Hum- phrey in 1539 mortgaged his reversion of the property to Edmund Conquest for ^^73 6s. 8</.," and ag^in in 1544, after the death of his" father, further mortgaged the estate, and the reversion of the property which his mother held as her dower, to Thomas Palmer for i^i20.°* Humphrey was evidently unable to redeem the mortgage for Edmund Conquest at his death left his wife Joan as his executrix, and she sold the estate to Sir Henry Grey, Je jure fourth earl of Kent, for ^£; In this way, the third part of the manor returned to the de Greys, and was absorbed in the manor proper of Norwood. At the time of the Great Survey there was a manor in Silsoe which afterwards became known as the manor of 'NEWBURY (Newberry). It was then held by a concubine of Nigel de Albini, and had been held formerly by Alvric the Little, a thegn of King ; The overlordship continued vested in the Albinis and their descendants, and the manor was held of them as of their barony of Cainhoe, the descent of which is traced under the parish of Clop- hill (). By 1284 the manor had passed into the possession of the family of Fitz Richard,'^ who owned land in Silsoe before that date, for in 1201 Ralph Fitz Richard leased I perch of land and \\ acres of meadow to Wil- liam Wiscard for dd. yearly.*' The manor remained in the possession of this family, passing to Ralph's son, who was hold- ing it in 1318,°* and in 1396, when a settlement of the manor was made; *' but the Fitz Richards alienated part of their estate in Silsoe amounting to one-quarter of a fee, which was held in 1302 by Ralph de Limbury and by the tenants of the lands which had belonged to Henry son of William and to William Wiscard.™ By 1346 it was in the possession of John Morice and Margaret his wife, in right of the latter," and had passed by 1428 to J
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