. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. 19 INDEX MAP to Uie HUNDRED FLITT (,'ninr)i}ii))i)iiin})}ii))i)i»iiiiiilllillllllllll,. FLITT HUNDRED John de Beauchamp.' By a series of settlements extending over twenty- years," Hugh de Mortimer acquired the whole hundred and died seised of it in 1372," when it passed to his grandson William, an idiot, who died in 1391, leaving as his heir his brother Hugh,^'^ who married Petronilla and died childless. On the latter's death in 1422 the hundred passed to John Cressy as cousin and heir of Hugh.^* It then followed a sim
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. 19 INDEX MAP to Uie HUNDRED FLITT (,'ninr)i}ii))i)iiin})}ii))i)i»iiiiiilllillllllllll,. FLITT HUNDRED John de Beauchamp.' By a series of settlements extending over twenty- years," Hugh de Mortimer acquired the whole hundred and died seised of it in 1372," when it passed to his grandson William, an idiot, who died in 1391, leaving as his heir his brother Hugh,^'^ who married Petronilla and died childless. On the latter's death in 1422 the hundred passed to John Cressy as cousin and heir of Hugh.^* It then followed a similar descent to that of the manor of Luton, passing from the family of Cressy to the Wenlocks and after- wards to the Rotherhams ; in 1612 it was sold by the Rotherhams to Lewis and Edward Marbury for jfjoG, a preliminary step to alienating it to Richard and Robert Napier. The Marburys were ordered to appear in court but failed to put in an appearance, and the hundred was taken into the king's hand, but was finally restored to the Napiers in ; It re- mained, with the manor of Luton, in the Napier family, passing from them to Francis Heme, a rela- tive, who in 1764 alien- ated it to the earl of Bute;^' the latter was holding the hundred in 1815, when the annual payment of 6oj. was still made," but after this date all rights in it seem to have lapsed. In 1297 the hundred paid ^38 15J. 4i^. to- wards a general subsidy," while its contribution to- wards a general assess- ment had increased to £ji IS. Sid. in 1597 ;" in 1645 the amount rose further to ^80 12s ' Jli5ref. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, i8 ; Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 54- " C<?/ of Pat. n27-30, p. 393; Inq. File. 212, No. 25 ; Cal. of Pat. 1340-3, p. 275; ibid i3+;-8; p. 280. 7 ^ ' P '^' '^ ^ u Chan. Inq. 46 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), No. 41. "Ibid. 15 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 46. " Ibid. 6 Hen. VI, No. 51- " Memo. Trin. 16 Jas. I, rot. 302. " Close R. 4
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