BEDWORTH, (Warwickshire) 3 m. S. of Nun-Eaton in the road to Coventry, bel. after the conquest to the E. of Warwick, who
enfeoffed the Hastings family with it. It was successively the manor of Turvile, Craft, and the Charnels; and from the
latter it passed to Ld. Astley, and from the female heir of that family to Reginald, Ld. Gray of Ruthen. It descended
afterwards to Henry, D. of Suffolk; by whose attainder it escheated to the crown, and was by Q. Eliz. granted to Mr.
Gerrard, &c. to hold in capite; and afterwards by the same Q. to Clement Fisher, Esq; and his heirs, with the neighbouring
coal-mines, and the advowson of the rectory. Here are 2 ch. ss. one for boys, the other for girls.