A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



later descent, however, of this holding has not been 

 ascertained. The holding of Berengar le Moyne 

 seems to have been acquired by his ancestor Reginald, 

 who in the time of Henry II exchanged lands in 

 Woodwalton (Co. Hunts.) for lands in Thurning, 

 Thorp and GrafTham.*'- From this date the descent 

 followed that of Barnwell St. Andrew {q.v.) until the 

 holding was acquired by the abbot of Peterborough. 

 The Hotot holding of the Lovetot fee probably 

 foDowed that of Clapton {q.v.). The descent of 

 Ralph de Grendon's holding doubtless followed that 

 of his property in Polebrook (g.v.). His descendant 

 William Carlyll was in 1428 holding half a fee in 

 Polebrook and Thurning, formerly held by William 

 Carleton and others of the Peterborough Fee.i- 



In 1316 Thurning was recorded as making one 

 vill with Winwick, the holders being Walter de Aloles- 



Mullysworth's and the advowson of the church of 

 Thurning. This is recorded in the inquisition after 

 his death in 1505 ; the heir was his son, the famous 

 John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's. ^* It became part of 

 the Knyvet estate in Thurning. 



The Beaumes were holding in 1236 when Reginald 

 de Beaumes was a tenant in Thurning," and in 1263 

 another Reginald, son and heir of Robert de Beaumes, 

 paid rehef, his lands being in the King's hands by 

 reason of the custody of the heir of Richard, Earl of 

 Gloucester.'* The Beaumes estate appears to have 

 descended to Thomas Beaumes, who, in 1373, in con- 

 junction with Katherine his wife, sold to Sir John 

 KnjTet seven messuages 3J virgates of land, rents 

 of 21. 6d. and a pair of gloves and five villein tenants. 

 Thomas and Katherine were, however, to retain it 

 for life.19 



Thurning Rectory 



worth, Geoffrey de Beaumes, John de Holme and 

 John Cardon.'' The estate of the first of these, 

 which probably represents one of the above holdings, 

 was, on the death of Walter de Molesworth in 1 318, 

 divided between his daughters Katherine and Mar- 

 garet.'* A small part of the estate in Molesworth 

 was settled on Margaret and the rest in Thurning 

 and Wold Weston, including the advowson of two 

 parts of the church of Thurning, was settled on 

 Katherine and Richard de Bayeux, her husband, 

 and their issue, with reversion to Margaret.'^ The 

 other third part would be held by Walter's widow 

 Katherine. The later descent is not known, but 

 Sir Henry Colet, of London, purchased from Thomas 

 Molesworth, probably about 1470, the manor called 



Sir John Knyvet acquired much of the Peterborough 

 property in Thurning, and his family seem eventually 

 to have obtained all of it.-" In 1380 Sir John held 

 the manor of Winwick and also held a messuage and 

 land in Thurning of the abbot of Peterborough by 

 suit of court.^i Joan (? Kn)Tet) in 1428 held the 

 third part of a fee in Tliurning.'^ She seems to 

 have been the widow of John Knyvet the elder, on 

 whom (in conjunction with his wife) the estate had 

 been settled for life in 141 1, should Sir Robert Ty 

 and Margaret, his wife, die without issue, with 

 remainders to Catlierinc and Elizabeth, daughters of 

 another John Knyvet. Margaret Ty was no doubt 

 a sister.-' By 1456 it had come to Edmund Radcliffc, 

 as son and heir of Elizabeth, wife of Sir John RadcliflFe 



" Roi. dt Obi. el Fin. (Rcc. Com), 395 

 »• Fend. Aidi, iv, 4(1. 

 '• Ibid, ii, 472. 

 '* Cal. Inq. vi, no. 166. 

 " Fctt of K. Hiintt. 

 caic 93, flic 2J. 

 " Chan. Inq. p. m. (Ser 

 " Bk.ofFeei,H,<)iy 



12 Edw. II, 

 ii), xix 28. 



*' F.xcerpia e Rot. Fin. ii, 400. 



'• Feet of F. Ilunti. llil. 47 F,d\v. III. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (nt. 

 no8.), file 230, no. 62. See ttUo Exch. 

 Inq. p.m. fSrr. i), liii, 2 (for Hugh Earl 

 of Stafford, 1387) and Ch.Tn. Inq. p.m. 

 4 Hen. IV, file 39, no. 41 (for Edmund 

 Earl of Stafford, 1403). 



I 10 



•' Ch.TH. Inq. p.m. 4 Ric. II, file 15, 

 no. 32. For the pedigree, ace Klomeficld, 

 NorJ.\,l7<); v. 153. 



" Frud. Aids, ii, 474. Slie is called 

 Thyrninp in the print. 



" Add. Chart. 7567, 7575, 7578 ; 

 Hridgcs, //m/. Northanti. ii, 420. 



