WILLYBROOK HUNDRED 



SOUTHWICK 



figures of 15th or early i6th century date. Parts of 

 two small headstone crosses from graves in the church- 

 yard have lately been found ; one has the unusual 

 feature of an Agnus carved on the shaft, and both are 

 of the I4.th century. 



The plate consists of a silver communion cup, 

 c. 1570, made by a smith whose mark is a fish on an 

 oval, and who was probably a local craftsman, a cover 

 paten undated, but of the 17th century, and a flagon 

 with indistinct date-letter, perhaps 1667. 



There are two bells, the smaller being blank. The 

 other bears the mark of Thomas Newcombe the elder, 

 of Leicester, and is inscribed -f S-|-S-f-S-|-,i.e. Sanctus, 

 Sanctus, Sanctus. 



The registers begin at a late date ; the first book 

 contains baptisms and burials from 1732 to 181 2, 

 and marriages from 1732 to 1761, and the second, 

 marriages from 1762 to 181 2. 



The rents of the poor's land, about 

 CHARITIES ten acres in extent, in Lincolnshire 

 amounting to ;^32, and dividends on 

 jf374 6s. "jd., consols (held by the official trustees) 

 arising from the gifts of George Lynne and others, are 

 distributed in gifts of fuel and clothing, except £z, 

 which is used for educational purposes. 



The official trustees also hold for the benefit of the 

 poor a sum of £iq consols, arising from the redemp- 

 tion of a charge of 1 5;. upon a certain copyhold 

 property in Spalding, Lincolnshire, containing 

 30 a. I r. 1 1 p., settled in 1 69 1 by John Lynne, for 

 the benefit of the vicar of Southwick. 



Mrs. Mary Lynne, by will proved in London 

 23 November, 1840, bequeathed j^5oo, now repre- 

 sented by ;^528 8/., consols (held by the official 

 trustees), the dividends of which are applicable for the 

 relief of persons in the ecclesiastical parish. 



TANSOR 



Tansoure (xi and xii cents.). 



The parish of Tansor covers about 1,490 acres, of 

 which 634 are arable, 735 pasture, and 10 woodland. 

 It is very long and narrow, the northern portion 

 being little more than a strip of land along the bank 

 of the Nene, which forms the western boundarj' of 

 the parish for some distance. It lies very low, only 

 rising to 200 ft. above the ordnance datum in the 

 extreme south-east. The subsoil is mixed, near the 

 river it is alluvium ; it then passes through great oolite 

 and cornbrash in a south-easterly direction until it 

 reaches Oxford clay. The productiveness of the soil 

 varies considerably, that near the river being the 

 richest. The population, numbering 203 in 1901, 

 is entirely engaged in agriculture ; gravel was worked 

 to a small extent in the past. 



The main road is that running from Oundle to 

 Fotheringhay, a branch from it diverging south-east 

 towards Lutton, and forming the main street of the 

 village. The Northampton and Peterborough branch 

 of the London and North Western Railway runs 

 through the parish, the nearest station being at 

 Oundle. 



The village is situated on the right bank of the 

 Nene, a little farther north than Cotterstock on the 

 opposite bank, the church being close by the river 

 bank. At the extreme south-east of the village is the 

 church school, built in 1877. There is a disused 

 windmill a short distance to the north. The manor 

 house is occupied by Mr. Ronald Muntz, and the 

 old rectory, now named Tansor Court, by Mr. J. 

 Layton Mills. South of the village, on the outskirts 

 of the parish, stands Tansor Lodge, the residence of 

 Mrs. Richardson and Miss Cunnington. 



The parish was enclosed in 1778. Among the 

 place names found are Ringstock Close, Osier Holt, 

 Dovecote Close, and Fleet Meadow. 



In 1086 Tansor, held by the king, was 

 MANOR assessed at six hides ; this return prob- 

 ably included Southwick.' No further 

 reference to the lordship has been found until the 



1 2th-centur7 survey of Northamptonshire, when five 

 and a third hides in Tansor were held by Hascuil de 

 St. James, probably identical with Hasculf de St. 

 Hilary, whose grand-daughter and heiress, Maud, 

 married Roger de Clare, third earl of Hertford.' 

 Gilbert grandson of Roger became in right of his 

 mother earl of Gloucester, and thus Tansor became 

 part of the honour of Clare, held by the earls of 

 Gloucester, the descent of which is given in the his- 

 tory of Glapthorn, part of the same fee.' From the 

 time of the overlordship of Roger earl of Hertford 

 the division of the manor begins. He, according to 

 a plea concerning the advowson of the church in 1 2 1 1, 

 granted to Robert son of Humphrey, grandfather to 

 Ralph Camoys, half the vill of Tansor. The rest 

 was apparently held by Roald son of Alan,* constable 

 of Richmond, who declared his ancestors had presented 

 three parsons to the church before that date,' and in 

 the reign of Henry III, Roald son of Alan and Ralph 

 Camoys were holding one fee in Tansor of the honour 

 of Clare.* The history of these two portions is 

 separate ; that held by the Camoys, which was no 

 further divided, being the most important. 



The Ralph Camoys to whom reference has been 

 made was probably he who married Ascelina, heiress 

 of the Torpel family, and died in 1259. He was 

 succeeded by a son Ralph, who on his death about 

 1276 held half a fee in Tansor of the earl of 

 Gloucester, from which he was bound to pay 20/. 

 each to John Gifford and the prior of Perio.' He 

 was followed by a son John, and grandson Ralph, 

 who in 1318 obtained from Edward II a grant of 

 free warren in his demesne lands at Tansor." Thomas 

 son of this Ralph died without surviving children, 

 and his possessions passed to Thomas son of John 

 Camoys, very probably his nephew.' John was suc- 

 ceeded in 1420 by his grandson Hugh, who died, 

 still a boy, in 1427, and his lands were divkled 

 between his two sisters and co-heirs, Margaret wife 

 of Ralph R.-idmilde, and Eleanor wife of Roger 

 Lewkenor.'" The latter received in 1433 from Roger 



' V.C.H. Noribann, i, 307a. See his- 

 tory of Southwick. 

 » Ibid. p. 362, 387*. 

 » G. E. C. Pttrage, iv, 222. 

 * Alan soa of Roald held a fee of the 



Countess Maud de St. Hilary in 11 66 

 tJUd Bk. ofExcb. p. 406). 



s Abhrev. PUc. (Rec. Com.), p. 82. 



* Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), pp. 2+, 

 34*, 35*. 1 Ibid. 5 Edw. I, No. 1. 



595 



8 Chart. R. 12 Edw. II, m. 14, No. 44. 



9 Orig. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 322 ; Pat. 

 I Hen. IV, pt. ii, m. 37. 



'" Chan. Inq. p. m. 9 Hen. V, No. 29 ; 

 ibid. 5 Hen. VI, No. 26. 



