10 Jul Lordship Title of Upper Stondon or Over Stondon ID1308
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Engelar held 2½ hides of Azelina in 1086, but there is no further record until 1201, when William Briton alienated a virgate of land in Stondon to Stephen de Holwell, and a few years later conveyed to Roger Briton half a virgate of land, and a messuage in the same place. In 1261 Richard Briton was holding in Stondon, in which year he conveyed the advowson of the church to the prior of Merton. evidence is scanty, but the Britons apparently continued to hold the manor, and in 1302 William Briton held one knight's fee in Upper Stondon of the barony of Bedford. Forty years later the same fee was held by John Briton. Some time in the latter part of the fourteenth century the manor was transferred from the Britons to the Wenlocks by the marriage of Margaret Briton to William Wenlock, who was knight of the shire in 1404. As in the case of the manor of Someries in Luton (q.v.), Upper Stondon, on the death of Sir John Wenlock in 1471, passed to the family of Rotherham, and was alienated in 1565 by George Rotherham to William Huls, who, in 1592, sold it to Henry Grey earl of Kent. From this point onwards the descent of Upper Stondon follows that of Wrest in Flitton-cumSilsoe (q.v.), and it is now held by Lord Lucas and Dingwall.
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