17 Nov Lordship Title of Ruxox ID14005
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Formerly at RUXOX in Flitwick there was a monastic cell or chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas which was granted before the reign of Richard I by Philip de Sanvill to the priory of Dunstable. The grant was confirmed by William Earl of Albemarle and his wife Hawis. The house at Ruxox was used by the priory as a residence for priors who had resigned, and the last reference made to it as a monastic institution was in 1290, when Stephen chaplain of Flitwick died and was buried there. Ruxox was included in the thirty years' lease of Dunstable property to Robert Hewet in 1537 on the condition of providing a roll of bread yearly at Ruxox at the Feast of St. Nicholas. This estate, consisting of 56 acres, was assessed at 74s. at the Dissolution, and was granted in 1558 to the West family as the manor of Ruxox. In 1573 it was settled by Nicholas West on his son and heir William, but as the latter died the same year it descended at Nicholas' death in 1586 to his second son Edmund. Before 1663 Edward Blofield had obtained seven closes called Ruxox, and by his will dated that year he bequeathed these to Elizabeth Scarborough, who held Ruxox Manor in 1703. In 1704 she transferred the manor to Lord Bruce, from whose family it was purchased by John Duke of Bedford in 1738. From him it descended to Francis Duke of Bedford, who held it in 1787, and probably became merged in the other property held by the dukes in this parish, as there is no later separate mention of the manor.
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