A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



kniglits held one hide, which belonged to VVillybrook 

 Hundred ; the value had risen from 2s. to 20J. The 

 two knights were probably ancestors of the Gargates 

 and Peverels of later days. (Ill) Isembard [Artifex] 

 and Rozelin held Ij hide ; the land had increased in 

 value from 5;. to 40.(. between 1066 and 1086. This 

 estate was Papley. 



The Survey made c. 1 1 25 gives no further infor- 

 mation, but again affirms that one hide was in Willy- 

 brook Hundred ; the assessment of Papley is given 

 as one hide only, and is recorded under Polebrook 

 Hundred." 



Later than Domesday the abbots appear to have 

 made further grants to free tenants. Thus one 

 portion, \ hide, was joined with the manor of Church- 

 field in Ouiidle'2 ; another with Stoke Doyley,''' and 

 a third with Torpel in UfTord. Papley seems to have 

 been the only free tenement entirely within Warming- 

 ton, for Gargate had land in Irthlingborough as part 

 of his fee, and the Peverel holding here was attached 

 to Paston. 



The manor proper, that held in demesne by the 

 abbots, remained undisturbed till the Dissolution. 

 W.irmington, with its churches and mills, was con- 

 firmed to the abbey by Eugenius HI in 1146'* and 

 by Richard I in 1189,^* as well as by later kings. Its 

 condition about 11 25 is described in det.iil in the 

 Liber Niger, as follows : ** 



In Warmington there are 8 hides geldable ; of 

 which 20 full villeins and 29 half-villeins hold 34J 

 virgates. The full viUeins work 3 days weekly ; the 

 otheis according to their tenures. In all they have 

 16 ploughs and plough 68J acres, and also do 3 boon 

 works with their ploughs ; they carry 34 cartloads 

 from the wood. They render ^4 I is. ^d., and give 

 to the charity of St. Peter lo rams, 400 loaves, 40 

 dishes (disci), 1 34 hens and 260 eggs. There are also 

 8 sockmen, who have 6 ploughs. In demesne are 

 4 ploughs for 32 oxen, 9 cows, 5 calves and one idle 

 beast, 129 sheep, 61 pigs, a draught mare {aura) and 

 a foal. Also a mill with one yard {z'ir^a) of land and 

 6 acres, rendering 60s. and 500 eels. Ascelin the 

 clerk holds the church with 2 yards of land of 

 the altar of St. Peter of Burgh. Robert, son of 

 Richard, has 2\ yards. In this town can be stocked 

 100 sheep. 



In 1231 a composition was made between Abbot 

 Martin and John (Scot), earl of Huntingdon, as lord 

 of Fotheringhay, concerning the fishing in the Nene. 

 It was agreed that where tiie earl had one side of the 

 river and the abbot the other, the two should have 

 the fishing ; but where the abbot had land on both 

 sides he should have the sole right of fishing between 

 them ; from Turnbrook to Pirihou (in Southwick) 

 the carl should have sole right." 



There is a very full rental made in I393i*under 

 Abbot Nicholas de Elnestovve. 



After coming into the hands of Henry VIII the 

 manor was, with Oundle, etc., given to Katherine 

 Howard, his queen, in 1541,'* and after reverting to 

 the Crown on her execution in the same year was 

 given to queen Katherine Parr in 1544,2" and she 

 retained it till her death in 1 548, when it again fell to 

 the Crown. A very full survey made in 1546 is 

 extant.^l 



From a survey of 1605^^ it appears that Thomas 

 Elmes held by charter of 28 October, 1555, a messuage, 

 late of Edmund Elmes, his father, and previously of 

 Robert Kirkham, and various others ; also the rectory. 

 The Warden of Stamford had land in Middlefield and 

 Westfield. The inhabitants claimed to hold by copy 

 a tenement near the parsonage called Scobhouse. 

 William Dickenson had the tithes of Eaglethorpe, 

 paying ^3 a year. The jury found that the fines of all 

 the ancient copyholds were certain, being half a year's 

 rent ; all freeholders and copyholders were accus- 

 tomed to feed their cattle on the common ; copy- 

 holders could use the timber on their copyholds for 

 repairs ; land had been taken out of every farm to 

 make cow pastures, called Angerstonne Leyes (50 ac.) ; 

 leys at the over end of Golding Slade next the Wold 

 were their sheep and neats' pasture, and there was 

 other pasture on the Greens. There was no waste 

 in the woods. " Thomas Elmes, esq., had a fishing in 

 the manor butting on the east end of Thornbrook, and 

 so to the Fishhouse butting east, so to the Holme 

 butting east, so to Elton dam butting north ; being 

 in the same water these kind of fishes — perch, roach, 

 cheviun, pickerell, eel," etc. ; the extent was about 

 J mile. There were ashes and wiches in the woods. 

 These were the ancient bounds of the manor : 

 Portersherne on the north-west, to Warmington 

 Grove, to Tansor Cross, to the corner of William 

 Blofield's close, so up Barnwell slade, to Tansor Mere, 

 to Potter's Hill, to Butcher's Gr.ive, to Lutton 

 brook, to Wasingley brook, to Odgarstone brook, to 

 Great Wolwell, to Foxhalls hill, to Eglethorp, to the 

 Watch close, so to Thornbrook east, over the high 

 stream to the weir of Fotheringhay Park to Fother- 

 inghay bridge, from the bridge in the farther side of 

 the causey (the bridge lying east) to Portersherne. 



Leases of portions had been made by the Crown 

 from time to time-' until in 1614 the manor was sold 

 to Thomas Elmes of Green's Norton^'* ; court let 

 and view of frank-pledge were added in 161 7." 

 Tliomas Elmes, who had inherited the manors of 

 Lilford and Papley, with various other estates in the 

 neighbourhood, settled this manor of Warmington on 

 his younger son Thomas on his marriage (1621) with 

 Anne, daughter of Robert Clark of London, as 



" V.C.H. Northaiili. i, 366, 387. 



*' Cbron. Petrob. (C.imdcn Soc), 175, 

 fri>m 'hf I.ibcr Nigrr. 



*' By fine in 114S-0. Robert dc Stoke 

 acknowledged the abbot's right in J 

 knight'l fee in Stoke, Warmington and 

 Aihton. The abbot thereupon released 

 the lame to him for a rent of 8i. (Pytch- 

 lej't Reg. f. 9+rf). 



" Gunton, lliil. Ch. of Pettrborotifb, 

 131. 



" Cal. Chan. 1327-41, p. 174. 



'• ChroH. Pnrth. 160. 



"Colt. MS. CIcop. C. ii, f. ai</. 



For question as to the fisitery at Elton, 

 between Divorgilla, widow of John 

 Balliol,and the Abbot of Rirnscy in 1286 

 sec Assize R. \^% m. yd. 



" Cott. MS. Nero C. vii. f. 85. 



'• /,. (?>■ P. Urn. Vlll, xvi, p. 716. 



•» Ibid, xix (1), p. 644. 



■■ Mins. AccM. Hen. VIII, 2661. The 

 issues of a messuage with the ' Rurgh 

 wcrke ' were 401. 4jd. ; the site of the 

 manor was in lease to Thomas Rootlie 

 and the mill and rectory to lluinphrry 

 Ilornc ; from the warden of the Hospital 

 called the Dc.idehouse in Stamford, 8(. 



"Miic. Bki. (Land Revenue), 221, fl. 

 2S6-326. 



" Eg. in 15(10 the manor to William 

 Gerard and others (Pat. R. 2 Eliz. pt. 15); 

 in 1588 a close to Thomas Newman 

 (Pat. R. 30 Elir. pt. 4); in 1608-q, the 

 site of the manor to Roger Dale (Pat. R. 

 6 Jas. I, pt. 2) ; also a messuage and three 

 water mills to Edward Cuthbert (Pat. R. 

 6 Jas. I,pt. 23). 



'* To he held in chief as one knight's 

 fee (P.it. It. 11 Jas. I, pt. 12). Acreman's 

 land had been demised to John KIdred and 

 others. " Pat. 11. 15 Jas. I, pt. 16. 



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