PETERBOROUGH SOKE 



house on the right of the porch, and this mny have 

 been originally part of it, but if so it imJ fallen upon 

 evil days and had lost nearly all the architectural 

 features which connected it with the rest of the struc- 

 ture. It has since been removed. The interior of 

 house has been modernized. In the village are schools 

 partly supported by a private bequest, and Primitive 

 Methodist and Congregational chapels. 



Among the field names occurring in this parish 

 are Stonelands, Lambcpithege, Polesmcddow, Crossc- 

 dykewong, Chekergore and Torgohtescroft. The en- 

 closure award, dated 1820, is in the custody of the 

 churchwardens. 



Peakirk and Glinton, with a church and 

 M/4N0R chapel, toll at Deeping, and fisheries, were 

 included in the confirmation of Wulf- 

 hcre to Peterborough. According to Ingulph the 

 manor of Glinton belonged to the monastery of St. 

 Pega.' In 1086 Peterborough Abbey held 3 hides in 

 Glinton, and among other particulars of the return 

 mention is made of two bondwomen, an entry suffici- 

 ently rare to be noted with special interest.' Three 

 knights of the abbey also held 10 hides and a virgate 

 with two mills.' This makes a total of over 1 3 

 hides for what is now a small parish ; it is probable 

 that this estimate comprised Peakirk, and perhaps also, 

 as Deeping is mentioned in connexion with Glinton 

 in several charters, some of the land now forming 

 Northborough and Maxcy parishes, neither of which 

 is named in Domesday. 



Peakirk and Glinton formed only one manor, and 

 for a lang time one parish ; Peakirk seems to have been 

 always included in the description of Glinton,'' and the 

 court to have been held at the latter place, but the 

 parish church was at Peakirk with a chapel at Glinton. 



About 1 1 25 the abbey of Peterborough held 3 

 hides in Glinton in demesne.' Among the tenants of 

 the manor was a fowler who held 7J acres for a rent 

 of ten wild geese. From every plough in the village 

 id. was paid for 'wax to light the church of Burg.' 

 Ralph de la Marc, Leofric of Marham, Alfric, and 

 Ailmer who paid 6s. for a fishery and 1 2J. for 

 his house, were also tenants. The profits of the 

 toll, probably that at Deeping mentioned in the 

 charters, amounted to 40/.* 



In 1 146 two parts of the tithe of Ralph of Glinton 

 and of the soc of Glinton were confirmed to Peter- 

 borough by Pope Eugenius.' Richard I and Henry III 

 confirmed Glinton to the abbey in terms identical 

 with those of the spurious charter of Wulfhere.' 



In the 13th century certain socmen were tenants of 

 Peterborough in Glinton, and the abbey of Crowland 

 also had tenants there on land held of Peterborough." 

 This land formed one of the many subjects of disagree- 

 ment between these two rival abbeys ; in 1 48 1 

 one of the conditions of an agreement made between 

 them through the mediation of the archbishop of 

 York was that the abbot of Crowland was to be ready 

 to give up to the abbot of Peterborough all his lands 



GLINTON 



in Glinton and Peakirk whenever the Ijtter should 

 require it.'" 



In I 29 1 Glinton, probably including Peakirk, was 

 richer than any other manor kept in hand by Peter- 

 borough except the'vill of Burg' and Burghberry. 

 The profits of the land and stock, with a mill, fishery, 

 and court, amounted to ^^^15." On the death of 

 Abbot Godfrey, in 1 321, there was in Glinton a 

 capital messuage and a windmill. It is evident that 

 the land was still in a very marshy condition, for 

 several fields arc stated to be not worth much because 

 they are generally flooded.'- 



After the dissolution of the monastery the manor 

 of Glinton was granted to the dean and chap- 

 ter of Peterborough.'^ In 1650 the commissioners 

 for the sale of church lands sold the manor, 

 charged with the yearly payment of £^i 19/. ■}//. 

 towards £62 6s. Sd. for the maintenance 

 of 20 scholars, ^^20 for poor of Peterborough, 

 j^i6 for a schoolmaster, ^^8 for an usher, which 

 was charged on the revenue of the dean and 

 chapter to Robert Hicklyn and John Foe," ap- 

 parently acting for John Wildbore, who, on the back 

 of a survey taken for the commissioners in 1649, is 

 stated to be the purchaser. There was then a capital 

 messuage covered with slate commonly called Berry- 

 stede or the manor house, in the town of Glinton, 

 consisting of a hall, a parlour or wainscoted kitchen, 

 and three lodging chambers, with brewhouse, malt- 

 house, stables, barns, and well-planted orchard. The 

 whole manor had been leased to Mr. Robert Wild- 

 bore for sixty-one years from Michaelmas, 1597, and 

 he was still tenant. There belonged to the manor 

 right-of-common in the North Fen and in the 

 Borough Great Fen.'* This sale was rescinded at the 

 Restoration. 



The fee-farm rents reserved to the crown on the 

 grant of the manor in 1641 were sold by the trustees 

 for the sale of such rents to Sir Edward Cartarett in 

 1675.'^ The manor of Glinton with Peakirk was 

 taken over by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under 

 the Act of 1836, and in 1863 formed part of the 

 endowment of the dean and chapter of Peter- 

 borough." 



The history of two families can be traced fairly 

 continuously in Glinton during the 13th and part of 

 the 14th century. Richard son of Ivo of Kendale 

 released the land of his father to the Abbot Robert " 

 and held henceforth by serjeanty." His son William 

 did homage for land in Glinton in 1304 and 1322.*° 

 This land was held later by John Kendale " and was 

 probably sold by him to Robert of Thorp, who made 

 it part of the endowment of his chantry at Maxey." 

 The holding of Ralph of Glinton, a socman in the 13th 

 century, had passed to Robert le Freeman by 1300." 

 In I 32 1 Nicholas le Freeman did homage for land in 

 Glinton," and in 1343 John Edgar gave to the abbey 

 of Peterborough the land once Robert le Freeman's 

 in Glinton." 



1 Birch, Cart. Sax. No. 22 ; Fulman, 

 Scri^torcSy p. 56. See introduction to Soke. 



2 y. C. H.Northants, i, 313A. 

 8 Ibid. p. 31 511. 



* Soc. Antiq. MS. No. 60, fol. 192. 



* Peakirk is probably included ; it is 

 not mentioned by name in this survey, 



^ Chronicon, p. 162. 



7 Sparke, Scri^tores, p. 82. 



8 Cart. Antiq. DU 17; Chart. R. 

 II Hen. Ill, pt. i, Nn. 1 q. 



' Egerton MS. 2733, fol. 150. 



'» Dugdale, Mon. i, 39S. 



" Tax. Pope Nick. (Rec. Com.), p. 33. 



*'^ Sparke, Scriptorcs, p. 182. 



'^ Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 14-17. 



" Close, 1650, pt. xxxi, No. 32. 



** Papers at Peterborough in custody of 

 dean and chapter. 



" Pat. 26 Chas. II, pt. iv. 



'^ London Gazette, 24 March, 1S63, No. 

 1670. 



493 



W Probably Robert de Lindaey, abbot, 

 1214-22. 



" Soc. Antiq. MS. No. 60, fol. 192. 



*• Cott. Vesp. E, xxii, 48/", 79 



^ Ibid. Nero, C, vii, 130. 



*• Ibid. Nero, C, vii, 202 </. 



^ Ibid. Vesp. E, xxii, 47 ; Ibid. Nero, 

 C, vii, 130. 



»< Ibid. Vesp. E, xxii, 78 J. 



•" Add. MS. 2528S. 



