POLEBROOK HUNDRED 



WARMINGTON 



clerk, transferred to his brother Henry all the estate 

 he and another brother Richard had in half an acre 

 in Thurning (John Mabbot had been tenant), with 

 the advowson of the church.'" As shown above, 

 Sir Henry Colet purchased the advowson from 

 Thomas Molesworth about 1470, and it came to 

 Christopher Knyvett after the de.ith of Dr. John 

 Colet in isig.*" 



One Richard Routhall acquired it with certain 

 tenements in Thurning, and these passed to his 

 widow Agnes and her second husband Robert Char- 

 nock.'' Her son Tliomas Routiuil made a feoffment, 

 in 1529, a few months before his mother's death, in 

 which the advowson was included.''- The advowson, 

 however, came back to Thomas Knyvet, for it was 

 excepted when he sold the manor in 1577 ;■''■' he trans- 

 ferred a moiety to trustees in 1580.'"' In 1617 the 

 advowson was acquired by Thomas Wells, clerk,'* and 



John Wells,rector of Thurning from l627,and probably 

 son of Thomas, bequeathed it in 1656 to Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge.'''' Tlie master and fellows have 

 since presented to tiic rectory. 



In 1291 the cliurcli of Thurning was taxed at £&.'"'' 

 By 1535 tiie value had increased to /^IZ,'* but in the 

 tiiiie of Elizabeth the rector leased the rectury for £lo, 

 out of wliich a pension of 6j. Sd. was paid to Hunting- 

 don priory.'* The tithes were commuted for /180. 

 Tliere are 60 acres glebe. The rectory house is near 

 tlic church. 



A National school was built in l8.).3. 



The Rev. John Wells, by his Will in 

 CHARITY 1640, gave a rentcharge of ^1 to the 

 poor vested in the Minister and Over- 

 seers. In respect of tiiis an annual sum of £\ was 

 paid out of lands in the parish and distributed equally 

 among 20 po^r families. 



WARMINGTON 



Wermingtimc, c. 980 ; Wirminton, Werminton, 

 Wormington. 



Warmington extends eastward from the Nene ; 

 on the northern boundary is Elton in Huntingdonshire, 

 the old part of its manor-house standing on the border 

 line, part in each county, and Elton Park extending 

 some way into this parish. The acreage is 4,013 

 (including 20 acres in water), of which a good deal 

 more than half are permanent grass. The soil is 

 clay, with gravel underlying. Wheat and barley 

 are grown. The land rises to about 212 ft. above sea 

 level in the middle of the parish, whence it falls 

 towards Billing Brook on the eastern boundary to 

 100 ft., and more quickly towards the Nene on the 

 north-west, where the level is as low as 55 ft. to 50 ft. 

 The straggling village is in this western part, with 

 the church to the south and the manor-house or 

 Berry stead to the north; there is a moat a little north- 

 east of the latter. To the south of the church is a 

 late l6th or early 17th century two-storey house, now 

 unoccupied and in a dilapidated state, with two bay 

 mndows on the ground floor, low muUioned windows 

 above, and a thatched roof. The mill is on the river 

 some distance to the north-west. The chief road 

 leads from Oundle north-east through the village, 

 going to Elton and Peterborough ; another road goes 

 east towards Norman Cross. Eaglethorpe to the north 

 and Papley to the south-east were formerly hamlets, 

 but were depopulated even in Bridges' time (171 1), 

 when he records only three shepherds' cottages in 

 the latter place. There is a moat at Papley. Eagle- 

 thorpe House has a door said to have been brought 

 from Fotheringhay. 



Formerly the parish was considered partly in 

 WilTibrook Hundred and partly in Polebrook, and 

 Bridges thus states the position : " Adjoining the 

 touin and lying intermixed with it is Warmington 



hamlet, all lying in (Willibrook) Hundred. In the 

 earliest records this township is comprised within 

 Willibrook Hundred, but Warmington town is now- 

 reputed a member of the Hundred of Polebroo'-,.* Maps 

 of a century ago show the north-west portion (the 

 Grange) in Willibrook Hundred. One part of the 

 town was called Southorp and the other Mill End. 

 Near the town are two springs formerly known as 

 Stockwell and Caldwell or Chadwell, the latter yielding 

 a mineral water. 



In 1393 the lordship was divided into four fields — 

 the Ernefield, Bolwell Field, Blackthorn Field and 

 Westfield.2 The common fields were enclosed by 

 an Act of 1774. 



In 1921 the population numbered 550. 

 George Thicknesse, a former master of St. Paul's 

 School, at one time resided with an old schoolfellow 

 at Arlescote, and was buried in Warmington church- 

 yard in 1790.' 



From a very early time the whole 

 MANORS of WARMINGTON belonged to the 

 abbey of Peterborough, possibly from its 

 foundation. There is a charter attributed to Wulphere'' 

 embodying such a claim, and Edgar's charter of 963 

 names Warmington among the estates confirmed or 

 restored to the monks.' Two of the inhabitants 

 about that time have their names recorded as sureties 

 for land here- — Thurferth and Cytel Claccessune,^ 

 and one Swerteling took land on the understanding 

 that it should revert to St. Peter at his death.' 



In 1086 the abbey held, as it had held in 1066, 

 10 hides in Warmington.* (I) Of these 7J were held 

 in demesne ; the mill rendered 40/. and 325 eels 

 yearly. The value in 1066 was 5/., but in 1086 it 

 had risen to £11, pointing to ruthless devastation 

 just before the Conquest." In this portion the 

 rubrication** is defective or erroneous. (II) Two 



" Add Chart. 699. " Sec ibid. S26. 

 •' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), I, 114. 

 •• Feet of F., Diveri Co». Hil. 20 

 lien, VIII. 

 •• Add chart. 705. 

 '* Feet of F. Hunti. Trin. Z2 Elii. 

 •' Ibid. Mich. IS ]»». I. 

 '• E. S. Shuckburgh, Emmanutl CoU.,i2i. 



"Pope A'ifi. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 36; 

 Feud. /IrJsy ii, 481. 



" ruhr Kcd. (Rec. Com.), 260. 

 " Ct. of Req. bdlc. 76, no. 30. 

 ' HiU. Northanls, ii, 478. 

 * Bridge! citing Abbot Elncston'i 

 rental, Cott. MS. Nero C. vii. 

 ' Dut. Nat. Biog. 



• Birch, Ciiriul. Sat. i_ 36 — ipuriouf, 

 for the names of the shires are used. 



• .'Ingl. Sax. Chron. an. 963, 



• Soc. Antiq. MS. 60, f. 42. 

 ' Ibid. f. 44rf. 



' V.C.H. korlhant!. i, 314, 315, 316. 

 ' See Oundle. 

 '• " In Wiceilt Hund." 



