Riseley, Bedfordshire

Riseley [‘Ryseley’], Bedfordshire, 1612

Riseley, Bedfordshire, 1793

Census Abstract, 1821

Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England, 1845

Riseley, Bedfordshire, 1883


3 November 1501: At Westminster the morrow of All Souls 17 Henry VII [3 November 1501] before Thomas Wode, William Danuers, John Vauasour and John Fyssher,  justices: Henry Horneby clerk, William Marbery, William Taylard, Robert Marbury, Walter Best and John Dadyngton, plaintiffs, v. John Frount of Riseley son and heir of William Frount, deforciant of 2 messuages, 1 garden, 48 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow in Ryseley. Deforciant acknowledges the premises to belong to Walter, for which the plaintiffs grant the deforciant 40 marks.