POLEBROOK HUNDRED 



Le Muvne. Aigtnt a 

 crass paly gules. 



in this parish and elsewhere for loos, a year and the 

 service of one knight's fee."^* Reginald le Moyne 

 was the Abbey's tenant in Barnwell from about mo 

 and possibly as early as 1091.*- Berengar, his son,^^ 

 whose name appears as a witness to various deeds 

 between 11 14 and 1163,*^ was succeeded in or before 

 1166 by his son, another Reginald le Moyne,'^ who 

 between the years 1184 and 

 1 1 89 owed the service of one 

 knight to the abbot for a fee in 

 Northamptonshire.** He ap- 

 parently had two sons, Beren- 

 gar and Reginald, and wis 

 succeeded by his grandson 

 Reginald, son of Berengar, 

 who was dead in 1248 when 

 William of York, Provost of 

 Beverley, was guardian of 

 his son and heir Berengar." 

 In 1267 Berengar, who had 



attained his majority before 1264,** was keeper of the 

 peace in Hunts.** and in 1270 he was one of the col- 

 lectors of the 20th in that county.-" Protection for 

 four years was granted him as a crusader in the same 

 year.** About 1266 he built the castle at Barnwell, 

 and in 1276 it was declared that he was holding a 

 market, fair and assize of bread and ale there without 

 known warrant.^ In the same year William de God- 

 manchester, abbot of Ramsey, bought back the 

 manors of Barnwell, Hemington and Crowthorp and 

 other lands from Berengar le Moyne, as it is said, for 

 ^1,666 ly. ^d. and for prayers for himself and for 

 the souls of his father Reginald and his mother Rose.*' 

 The grant was confirmed by Berengar's widow 

 Emma in 1286.** 



Barnwell being held of the king in chief, questions 

 arose about its alienation at this time without the 

 king's licence.*^ 



In 1329 John, son of Geoffrey of Southorpe, son 

 of Rose, daughter of Berengar and Emma, and Walter 

 Naunton, husband of Joan daughter of Margaret their 

 other daughter, sued the abbot for the manor of 

 Barnwell, which, as they alleged, had been settled on 

 Berengar le Moyne and his wife Emma and their 

 issue.** A verdict was given in favour of the Abbot,*' 

 and eleven years later John of Southorpe's son Robert 

 released to Simon Abbot of Ramsey all his right in 

 the manor. 



After the dissolution of Ramsey Abbey Henry VIII 

 in 1540 granted in tail the manor of Barnwell to Sir 



BARNWELL 

 ST. ANDREW 



Edward Montagu, Chief Justice of the King's 

 Bench,** who had been steward of the manor for 

 20 years.** Sir Edward also purchased from Ralph 

 Agard in l553^another estate which had belonged to 

 William Willington of Barcheston. A few months 

 later he was imprisoned for his opposition to the 

 succession of Lady Jane Grey.'* Probably in con- 

 firmation of title Sir Edward Montagu, his eldest son 

 and heir by his third wife, Ellen daughter of John 

 Roper, attorney-general to Henry VIII, who 

 succeeded him in 1556,'* bought the reversion of 

 the manor granted in tail to his father, from Queen 

 Elizabeth in 1602 for ^^153 3s. 9d.'' He seems to 

 have made Barnwell Castle one of his residences, for 

 he left to his wife Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir James Haring- 

 ton of Exton, Rutland " all 

 my househoulde stuff in my 

 CasteUof Barnewelle."** By 

 this lady he had seven sons, of 

 whom the second but eldest 

 surviving, another Edward, 

 succeeded him in January 



i6oi- 



A settlement made 



Montagu. Argent a (esse 

 indented gttles of three 

 points and a border sable, 

 for Montagu, quartering 

 Or an eagle vert Jot 



MoNTHERMER. 



by him rather more than two 

 years later included the manor 

 of Barnwell St. Andrew, as did 

 others in 161 1 and 1634.'* ^^ 

 1604 Sir Edward and other 

 gentlemen of the county were 

 put from the Justiceship of the 



Peace for favouring the Puritan ministers deprived of 

 their livings.'' Later on he made his peace with the 

 king'* and was created Baron Montagu of Boughton 

 in 1621.'* As a royalist he incurred the displeasure of 

 the Parliamentary party and was imprisoned in the 

 Tower. In consideration for his advanced age, he 

 was allowed to withdraw to his dwelling in the Savoy, 

 where, in his 82nd year and still a prisoner, he died 

 on 15 June, 1644.'"' Edward his second surviving 

 son, by his second wife Frances Cotton, succeeded 

 him. He sat as one of Cromwell's lords in 1657.''* 

 Edward, his eldest son by his wife Anne, daughter of 

 Sir Ralph Winwood,''* was killed fighting against the 

 Dutch. On his death in 1683 he was succeeded 

 by his second son Ralph,^' who with his third son 

 John settled Barnwell St. Andrew in 1704.^ John 

 succeeded him four years afterwards in his later titles 

 of Marquis of Monthermer and Duke of Montagu, and 

 died with no surviving male issue in 1749.''* 



"» Cartul. Men. de Rames. (RoUi Ser.), 

 u, 259. 



'» y.C.H. Northants. i, 365*. 



'• Chron. Abb. Rames. (Rollt Ser.), 263. 



'* Ibid. 259, 261, 274. 



" y.C.H. Northants. i, 367 n. 



" Cariul Mon. de Rames. (Rolli Ser), 

 in, 48. 



" Rot. Rob. Grosseteste (Cant, and York 

 Soc), 232. See also Bucclcuch Decdi 

 148, A 7, 27. 



" Bridges, Hisl. of Northants, ii, 



393-4- 



•» Cal. Pat. 1266-72, p. 132. 



» Ibid. p. 418. 



•' Ibid. p. 440. 



" Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 7. 

 Nfarkct and fair had been granted him hj 

 royal charter (»ee below). 



«• Cjriul. Mon. de Rames. (Rolls Ser.), 



''i ^3^1 339i 34° > '"> '85; Add. Chart, 

 33063. 



" Ibid. 34245 i Buccleuch Coll. 50, 



H 42, 43- 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 13, 28. 



'* Assize R. 629, m. igd. Cartul. Mon. 

 de Rames. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 79-81 ; Buc- 

 cleuch Deeds H 62, 75. John de Southorp 

 was also known as John de Layham. 



>' Ibid. 



" Pat. R. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 3, m. 39. 



" yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 274, 

 Buccleuch Deeds, C. 5. 



•"> Com. Pleas. Deeds. Enrolled East. 

 7 Edw. VI, m. 6. 



•' Diit. Nat. Biog. ; Fuller, tVortbies of 

 Engl, ii, 167 ; Lord Campbell, Lives of the 

 Chief Justices, 170-77. 



•• Did. Nat. Biog. 



" Pat. R. 44 EUz. pt. 15, m. 12. 



73 



" P.C.C. I Mountague. 



s^ Bridges, op. cit. ii, 352 ; G. E. C, 

 Complete Peerage, v, 342-45. 



" Recov. R. Trin. 2 Jas. I, ro. 42 ; 

 Hil. 9 Jas. I, ro. 37 ; Trin. 9 Chas. I. 

 ro. 40 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 9 

 Chas. I. 



" Winwood, Memorials, ii, 48-9. 

 »« Buccleugh MSS. {Hist. MSS. Com. 

 Rep.), p. 46. 



» G. E. C. op. cit. V, 342. 



*» Ibid. ; Clarendon, Hist, of the Rebel- 

 lion [ed. Macray], bk. vi, par. 35 ; North- 

 ants N. and Q. ii, 16; Cal. of Com. for 

 Advance of Money, i, 364 ; ii, 795. 



•1 G. E. C. loc. cit ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



«' G. E. C. loc. cit. 



*" Ibid. V, 342-3. 



" Ibid. Recov. R. Hil. 3 Anne. 



♦' G. E. C. op. cit. V, 344. 



