A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



session shortly afterwards.'^ The almoner of Peter- 

 borough secured a virgate of this fee.*" 



Soon afterwards the Stokks or Stock family became 

 prominent. They may have originally been con- 

 nected with the Stoke Doyly land in Warmington.** 

 In 1375 the right of Thomas del Stokkes to a tene- 

 ment in Elton and Warmington was acknowledged by 

 Hugh Rauf and Agnes his wife ;'''- and the same was 

 held by John Stokkes and Alice his wife in 1390.*^ 

 It was probably the same John who, in 1428, held the 

 fourth part of a knight's fee in Warmington which 

 had formerly (1346) been held by Margaret wife of 

 Ralph Thorney.*^ He or his son John seems also to 

 have had a grant of lands forfeited by John Moyne.^* 

 A son of John and Agnes Stock was Sir William 

 Stock, knight, of Warmington, who, in 1464, was 

 attainted as an adherent of Henry VI,** but procured 

 pardon and restitution in 1472.*' He died in 1485, 

 leaving as heir his brother Thomas Stokes, clerk.** 



Agnes, widow of John Stok, died in August, 1465, 

 holding tenements in Warmington and Papley of the 

 abbot of Peterborough, and others in various places 

 in the district. The heir was her son the above- 

 named Thomas Stok, clerk.** This son died 23 Octo- 

 ber 1495, having settled his estate on one Thomas 

 Stock the younger and his sister Agnes ; these may 

 have been illegitimate, for his heirs were his two 

 sisters, Isabel, widow of — Fazakerley and Margaret 

 wife of William Brown of Stamford, whose daughter 

 and heir married John Elmes.'" The Fazakerley 

 share, described as 8 messuages, 100 acres of land 

 and 40 acres of meadow in Warmington and Church- 

 field, was purchased by George Kirkham about 

 1504.'! By his wilF'^ (3 March 1527-28) he be- 

 queathed all his land to his son Robert, some being 

 in the hands of trustees for Robert's wife Sibyl ; 

 should Robert have no children, then the lands in 

 Warmington, Papley, Churchfield, Elton, etc., were 

 to be given to his daughter Margaret Middlcton, with 

 remainders to his other daughters Agnes Lynne and 

 Cecily Kirkham.'^ Dying soon afterwards, he was 

 succeeded by his son Sir Robert Kirkiiam, who at 

 the Dissolution acquired the priory of Fineshade and 

 made it his seat, selling his lands in Warmington, 

 which he styled a manor,'* to Edmund Elmes in 

 1555.'" The Stock estate was thus reunited and 

 afterwards descended with Papley (g-v.). 



Walo de Paston held of the abbot (about 1 100) 

 J hide in Warmington for the third part of a knight's 

 fee, in conjunction with his land in Paston.'* This 

 had descended to Robert Peverel by 1 146," and to 



" Pytchley, loc. cit.; Cott. M.S. CIcop. 

 C. i. 



•" Pjrechlcy, op. clt., p. 155. 



•* Wymund dc Stoke was holding a 

 knight's fee in Warmington in 1125-8 

 and in 1199 Robert dc Stoke held half a 

 knight's fee in Warmington and chcwhcrc 

 (I'ytchlcy, Bk. of Frei, ii4>i, 1451, cf. I'cct 

 of F. Northants. 10 Rich. I, no. 77). 

 Vivi.m de Stokes occurs in 1227 {Cal. 

 Chan. R. 1226-57, p. 20). 



•« Feet of F. Divers Cos. 49 Edw. \U. 



" Ibid. 14 Ric. 11. 



*« /•>urf. /f<i/i, iv, 48. 



" Fine R. 12 lien. VI | CI. Pjl. 

 1456 41, p. 467. 



'• RoHioj I'arl. v, 512. 



*"* Ibid, vi, 28. In 1469 he w.is 

 described as " of Temple Ncwsam," 

 Vorki ; Cal. fill. R. 1467-77. p. 153. 



William Peverel by 1 189,'* and he was succeeded by 

 Robert Peverel. Robert's under-tenant a httle later 

 (121 1) was Gilbert Peverel," who released to abbot 

 Mart'n the 4 virgates of land he held by the service 

 of the third part of a fee. Robert quitclaimed to the 

 abbot all his right in Gilbert's tenement, and at the 

 same time released its liability to knight's service. 

 Gilbert retained one virgate at a rent ; the other 

 holders were Hugh Gargate, Hugh de Codestoke, 

 Reginald son of Walter Le Noreys.* The name 

 Peverel fee was retained for some time. It rendered 

 13/. 4(£. to the scutage of Deganv^ c. I250,''i and the 

 reeve of Warmington received from it iSd. yearly for 

 ward of Rockingham castle.'^ The tenants at this 

 time were Robert Peverel, the almoner of Peter- 

 borough (successor of Coterstock), Reginald Porthors 

 (Noreys), and John de St. Liz (Gargate).'^ Hugh 

 Aubrey and Athelina, widow of Robert Coif, had 

 succeeded Pe\erel and Porthors in 1346.** 



The Churchfield (Angevin) part of Warmington 

 seems to have lain in Eaglethorp. In 1202 Christian, 

 widow of Adam Gargate, released to Ismena, widow of 

 WiUiam Angevin, dowry in Warmington.*' The 

 same Christina was concerned in another sale to 

 Geoffrey, the clerk of Elton.** Baldric, son of 

 William Angevin, released to the almoner of Peter- 

 borough a virgate which his mother, Ismena, had once 

 held,''' and he was holding in 1227.'* The property 

 seems to have followed the descent of Churchfield in 

 Oundle and Lyveden in Aldwinckle St. Peter (y.f.), 

 and formed part of the lands in Warmington, and 

 Elton forfeited by Sir John Holt in 1387.'^ 



John, son of Sir John Knyvet, in 1395 made a 

 settlement of an estate in Warmington and Elton 

 sometime held by Joan, widow 

 of Richard Knyvet, and by 

 John Ki'.yvet the father, by 

 feoffment of William Lyve- 

 den."" From abbot Elnestow's 

 rental of 1393*^ it appears that 

 the Knyvet holding was largely 

 in Eaglethorp, and a later 

 corrector altered the name 

 Knyvet to Sapcote. How the 

 latter family succeeded is not 

 manifest, but Richard Sapcote 

 and Margaret his wife held the 

 manor of Elton and lands in Eaglethorpe in 1517."- 

 The estate descended to Henry Sapcote, who was in 

 possession in 1600, in right of his wife Joan, daughter 

 and coheir of Robert Sapcote.*'' Soon afterwards it was 



Sapcote. Sable 

 dovitvles argent. 



tire; 



°« Cal. Inij. p.m. Hen. VII, i, no. 45. 



•" Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Ed. IV, no. 32. 



'" Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, no. 1179. 

 Will, I'.C.C. 32 Vox. 



" Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 328, no. 58. 

 See Ibid. bdlc. 254, no. 53 and bdle. 32S, 

 no. 57. 



"P.C.C. 38 Porch. 



'• Ibid, printed in Coll. Top. el Gen. 

 V. 307. 



'« Feet of F. Northants, Mich, and Ilil. 

 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary. 



'•Com. Pleas Deeds enrolled, Midi. 

 2 & 3 I'hil. and Mary. 



'• Soc. Antlq. MS. (to. 



" PytthUy, Ilk. of Feel (Northants 

 Rec. Soc), 122, 12311. 



" Cal. Chart. 1327-41, p. 277. 



" Feet of F. Northants, case 171, 

 file 13, no. 233. 



»» Cott. MS. Cleo. C. ii, ft. 37, 37^. 



" Soc. Antiq. MS. 60, f. 245J. 



" Sparkc, lint. Angl. Script (Swaffhan.^, 

 f. 265. 



" Soc. Antiq. MS. 60, f. 246. 



"« Cott. MS. Cleo. C. i, '. 105. 



"' Feet of F. Northants, case 171, 

 file 9, no. 141. " Ibid. no. 142. 



•' Sparkc, Hill. Angl. Scri/>/ (Swaflham), 

 ccixiii. 



"' Cal. Chart. 1226-57, p. 20. 



"' Cal. Close, 1389-92, p. 540. 



"" Ibid. 1392-96, p. 397. 



"' Cott. MS. Nero, C. vii, (. 86d. 



'■ Harl. ch. 55, G. i«. 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cccliii, 89. 

 For pedigree, see Vtm. of II unit (Camd. 

 Soc), p. 12 ; John Sapcot — s. Richard — 

 8. John — s. Richard — s. Robert — daus. 

 lilranor, Mar^.irct and Frances. 



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