PETERBOROUGH SOKE 



BAINTON 



four high steps.' A little further to the east a branch 

 road turns south and east to Ufford and Ashton, and 

 along the east boundary of the parish runs the Roman 

 King Street. The population, numbering about 214, 

 is entirely engaged in agriculture. 



Kyngsoka, Brodgate, Crossefurlong, and Synholms 

 are some of the field names which occur in documents 

 referring to the parish. Synholms and a pasture 

 called the Townfenne were let to trustees about 

 J 570 for the use of the inhabitants of Bainton and 

 Ufford,' and in a suit in 1635 an inhabitant stated 

 that as long as he could remember, the parson, free- 

 holders and copyholders of Ufford, Bainton, and 

 Ashton had had common for horses and cows on 

 ' Synholm leas ' and ' Parsons Fenn, alias Town- 

 fenne,' until ' Thomas Styles of Bainton made a 

 ditch (where formerly was no ditch, but a water- 

 course) and plowed the land and kept it for himself.' ' 



The abbey of Peterborough owned land in the 

 parish,* but there is no mention of Bainton in Domes- 

 day, nor in the full description of the possessions of 

 Peterborough sent to the king between I 125 and 

 1128.* In 1146 Pope Eugenius confirmed two parts 

 of the tithes of Richard Salide de BaJinton ' to the 

 Abbey,^ and both Richard I and Henry III con- 

 firmed to ' blessed Peter and the monastery of Burg 

 Pilsgate, Badinton, and Bernek." 



It does not appear from the records that there was 

 ever a separate manor here, and most of the land in 

 Bainton of which there is any history was held of 

 Torpel Manor. 



In 1189-90, Roger de Torpel assigned 10/. rent 

 to Peterborough partly from land held by William 

 Roc in Bainton," and in 1 243 Bainton is men- 

 tioned as part of the Torpel fee.' In 1227 Hervey 

 de Borham died holding a messuage in Bainton 

 granted to him by Robert Burnell, the guardian of 

 William Haneworth, whose father Roger had bought 

 it of Ralph Camoys, then lord of the manor of 

 Torpel.'" 



The bailiff of the manor of Torpel in 141 2 ren- 

 dered account of i^J. of the ferm of the ' Gyldehous 

 in Badyngton,' taken into the hands of the lord 

 on account of the recent statute." In the same docu- 

 ment Richard Attestyle and others paid the ferra of 

 I zs. for a certain pasture called Parsons fenne ; " and 

 the family of Style or Styles held land in Bainton for 

 a considerable period." 



Styles. Or a fen lahU 

 frctty or betiuccn three 

 jleuri de Us sable. 



The house owned by the Styles may possibly have 

 been on the site of the present Bainton House, which 

 was described in a sale from the Durham family to 

 William Goodall in 1729 as a ' capital messuage.' " 

 This house was bought by Sir John Trollope in 1856 

 from Chiselden Hensen," and 

 is now occupied by Mr. W. Earle 

 Welby as tenant of Lord Kest- 

 even. It contains no ancient 

 features. 



During parts of the 1 6th 

 and 17th centuries the family 

 of Bird held land in Bainton '° 

 which probably belonged to 

 John Stokesley, bishop of Lon- 

 don, in the reign of Edward VI." 

 There was also land in Bainton 

 held directly from Peterborough, 

 some being parcel of a quarter 

 of a fee held in Barnack of the abbey," and some 

 parcel of the land appropriated to the sacristan." 

 After the dissolution of the monastery, the land it 

 had held in this parish was granted in 154 1 to the 

 bishop of Peterborough." 



Lolham mill, on the south bank of the Welland, 

 just within the parish of Bainton, was part of Torpel 

 manor. Asceline, the heiress of Torpel, granted the 

 mill to Simon de St. Lis in 1243, reserving the right of 

 free grinding for the corn of the household at Torpel." 

 In and after the 1 6th century this mill was leased by 

 the crown separately from the manor of Torpel. In 

 1584 it was held by John Weldon, who was fined for 

 exacting excessive dues." In 1 599, Thomas Rippon, 

 to whom it had been Ic.ised a few years before," 

 brought a suit against Adam Claypole for obstructing 

 paths to the mill by which he was deprived of many 

 customers. It is stated in this suit that the tenants of 

 the mill had right of common pasture in Dirkholm 

 and Colesholm in the parish of Ufford." The mill 

 is now disused and in ruins. 



Bainton is a chapelry of Ufford and is 

 CHURCH served by the same incumbent. The 

 church is dedicated in honour of our 

 Lady, and consists of chancel," 28 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft. 

 with north vestry and chapel, nave 50 ft. by 17 ft. 

 with north aisle 10 ft. 3 in. wide, south porch 

 and west tower 8 ft. 2 in. by 9 ft. with a stone 

 spire. 



* Here stood the stocks and whipping- 

 post \ forty years ago they were in good 

 condition, but their last traces disappeared 

 a few years since. A Weslcyan chapel 

 formerly stood in the village. 



» Part of Leases (P.R.O.), ^ 



' Eich. Dcp. Trin. 10 Chas. I, No. 4. 

 A suit in 1602 (Chan. Proc. Eliz. S.S. 

 23, No. 40) in which Thomas Styles is 

 concerned may refer to this land. There 

 is now no field called Synholms in Bain- 

 ton or Ufford, but there is one in the 

 adjoining parish of Barnack. 



^ A forged charter of Wulfhere, dated 

 664, confirming Bainton to the abbey is 

 printed in Birch, Cart. Sax. No. 22, and 

 the pscudo-Ingulf has a statement about 

 the * Manor of Bainton ' in the i ith cen- 

 tury. Fulman, Scriptures, 56, 62. 



* Cbronkan, 1 57. 



* Hist. Angl. Script, Varii (ed. Sparke), 

 83. 



1 Cart. Antiq. DD. 17; Chart. R. 

 11 Hen. Ill, pt. i, m. 19. 

 >* Uugdalc, Mon. i, 391. 



9 Soc. Antiq. MS. No. 60, fol. 251. 



l» Chanc. Inq. p. m. Edw. I, file 16, 

 No. II. 



11 Mins. Acct. bdle. 639, No. 10375. 

 No other indication has been found of a 

 guild in Bainton ; possibly thisguildhouse 

 has some connexion with the guild of 

 Corpus Christi, in Barnack. 



^^ Afterwards part of the common land. 



" In 14S2 a Richard Style is mentioned 

 in a deed relating to land in Ufford, Bain- 

 ton, and Ashton (Add. Chart. 6467), and 

 in I 580 John Styles, son of Randall Styles, 

 died owning a capital messuage and land 

 in Bainton held of the manor of Torpel 

 (Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2) vol. cxcv. No.ii i). 

 Perhaps that which he was said to have 

 bought from the widow of William Cope, 

 *who on his death-bed did by a bente or 

 rushe which he had then in his hand make 

 surrender ' of a messuage and land in 

 Bainton to trustees for his wife, Joyce, and 

 after her death for his daughter Dorothy 

 (Exch. Dcp. Mich. 21-22 Eliz. No. 5). 



461 



John Styles left his land to Thomas, his 

 son, who was for a time lessee of Torpel 

 Park (Exch. Dep. Trin. 10 Chas. I, No. 4), 

 and the family from this time appear con- 

 stantly in the records, owning land in 

 Bainton at least as late 1663, whan John 

 Styles was taxed for four hearths there. Lay 

 Subs. R. ^. 



" Deed in custod)r of Lord Kestcvcn. 



» Ibid. 



" Lay Subs. R. ^ ; Chan. Inq. p. m. 

 (Ser. 2), cclivi. No. 108. 



'7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 89, No. 109; 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 142, No. 61; 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 17, No. i. 



^ See Barnack. 



» Cott. MS. Faust, B, iii. 



'^o Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 13. 



» Feet of F. Northants, 27 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 469. 



M Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 195, No. 85. 



'^ Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 16. 



'< Exch. Dep. Mich. 41-42 Eliz. No. I. 



^ All measurements are internal. 



