A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Elmes. Ermine two 

 burs sable each sprinkled 

 with elm leaves or. 



younger, Joan and Isabel Elmes, Thomas, Margaret 

 and Jane f'azalcerley, and the executors were her 

 brother Thomas Stock, clerk, John Elmes and 

 William his son. 



John Elmes, son of John Elmes of Henley, died 

 4 May, 1491, and it appears by the inquisition that 

 he had married Elizabeth by 1457 ; their son and 

 heir William was 27 years 

 old.-* Elizabeth and William 

 Elmes obtained the manor of 

 Papley and other estates from 

 Brown's trustee in 1495.-* 

 Thomas Stockdied 23 October, 

 1495, leaving as heirs his 

 sister Isabel Fazakerley and 

 his niece Elizabeth Elmes. ^* 

 Elizabeth survived till 1511,-" 

 but her son William Elmes, 

 of Stamford and the Inner 

 Temple, died in 1 504, having 

 by his will-'^ made many 



charitable gifts, including one to Warmington. 

 The will mentions his moiher Elizabeth, his wife 

 Elizabeth and Joan Iwardby her mother, sons John 

 and Thomas, and daughters Elizabeth and Joan. He 

 desired to be buried in the Temple church in London. 

 His wife was one of the three daughters and coheirs 

 of John Iwardby of Great Missenden, Bucks, where 

 she was born 24 August, 1475.^^ She seems to have 

 died in 1526.^* 



The son, described as John Elmes of Lilford, esq., 

 made his will,'*^ a very long one, in No\'ember, 1540, 

 and it was proved 7 February, 1544-5. By it he left 

 jf 10 to his ' grandfather ' William Brown's almshouses 

 at Stamford and small gifts (including 6s. id. to War- 

 mington) to many churches, the gild of our Lady 

 at Oundle, etc. His son Edmond was under 22 years 

 of age, and other children and kinsfolk are mentioned ; 

 also lands in Papley, Ogerston, Elton, Fotheringhay 

 and Stamford. The executors were desired to make 

 reparation for any wrongdoing by him, and to give 

 knowledge of this ' about Oundle and Stamford, 

 where I shall be most defamed.' His wife, who sur- 

 vived, was Edith, daughter of John, lord Mordaunt 

 of Turvey, Beds. In 1539 charges had been brought 

 against him in the Star Chamber, which may explain 

 t)ic defamation mentioned in his will. The inhabi- 

 tants of Warmington and Barnwell claimed common 

 of pasture in these places and in Lilford and alleged 

 that Elmes had closed up highways in Papley, etc., 

 converted arable into pasture and impounded their 

 cattle. He was learned in the law and a man of 

 great lands and substance. The witnesses for com- 

 plainants described Papley as a hamlet in War- 

 mington, and the inhabitants of Warmington had 

 common there till Elmes stopped them. Once there 

 had been twelve ploughs going in the fields of Papley, 



but now only three. There had been ten houses of 

 husbandmen and four cottages in Papley, but only 

 two houses were now inhabited. Elmes had surcharged 

 the fields with cattle and sheep. He had stopped tiie 

 highway from Huntingdon to Fotheringhay called 

 Bradgate, and other roads.'" 



The son Edmund succeeded, and made in 1579 a 

 settlement of his manors of Papley and Warmington 

 (this latter being the Stock estate)" ; and he died 

 12 March, 1601-2, holding these manors of the bishop 

 of Peterborough, having settled them on his second 

 son Thomas. The heir was a son John, then aged 40.-'* 

 No reason is given for thus giving them to a younger 

 son, but his widow Alice (sister of Oliver St. John 

 of Bletsoe) in her own will directed that her late 

 husband's will was to be carried out, and left household 

 stuff at Lilford to John on condition that he did not 

 disturb it ; Thomas was to have the household stuff 

 at Papley. Thomas Elmes, who thus succeeded, had 

 already several children — William, John, Edmund, 

 Thomas and Anthony being named.'* 



A survey of Warmington and Papley in 1605 has 

 been cited above. Thomas Elmes complained as to 

 Papley, that the jury had done their work badly. 

 He said the cow pastures in Ogerstone Leyes were 

 in the waste of Papley manor between Goldingdale 

 gutter and Papley hedge. Ogerstone Leyes had been 

 common or several, according to the time of the year. 

 In 1573 Sir Walter Mildmay procured a commission 

 to have the bounds between Warmington and Papley 

 defined'"' and also obtained an exchange of lands, 

 acre for acre. After this exchange Warmington and 

 Papley did not intercommune. Ogerstone Leyes 

 (though in Papley) were then allotted to Warmington 

 for common of cattle, but the soil still belonged 

 to the lord of Papley, who felled the wood, etc. The 

 true and ancient bound of Papley and Warmington 

 was Goldingdale, not Lutton brook.*' Thomas 

 Elmes made settlements of the manor of Papley in 

 1615 and 1621-'-; and died at Lilford, 10 July, 1632. 

 .'\s already stated, he had divided his estates, leaving 

 the older manors of Lilford and Papley to his eldest 

 son William, then aged 40 or more, and the newly- 

 purchased manor of Warmington to the younger son 

 Thomas.*' William had in 1614 married Margaret, 

 sister of Sir Francis Goodwin. The manor of 

 Papley was held of the bishop of Peterborough in 

 socage. The rectory of Warmington descended 

 with it for a time. William Elmes suffered a recovery 

 of his manors of Papley, Lilford and Wigsthorpe 

 watermill, etc., in I632,''-* and died 17 April, 1641, 

 leaving a son and heir Arthur, aged only ten years.** 

 Arthur Elmes and Jane his wife were in 1663 still 

 in possession of the manor of Papley and the rectory 

 of Warmington.** Arthur died in that year and Jane 

 married Sir Francis Compton, the estate being sold in 

 1668 to Edward (Watson), lord Rockingham.*' Lilford 



*• Cal. Inij. p.m. I/en. Vll, i. no. 592, 

 lie, relating only to Uifordihirc and 

 IJcrkihirc. 



'• Feet of F. Divcri. Col. Trin. 10 

 Hen. VII. 



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

 Mil Undi in Warmington .ind Papley were 

 held of the abbot of Peterborough. 



•' P.C.C. 1 Fetlipl.ice. 



•• P.C.C. II llolgrave. 



>> Cal. Irti/. p.m. Ilrn. I'll, i. n. 328, 

 1080 ; ii. n. 627. 



" P.C.C. II Porch. 



" P.C.C. 22 Pynney. 



"Star Chamber Proc. lUn. \I1I, 

 23/29. 



" Feet of I". Northanls. Mich. 21/22 

 Eli?.. 



•" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), cclxxiii, 89. 

 Will in I'.C.C. 7 Montague. 



" P.C.C. <;7 Huddlc<ton. 



"> ICxche. Spec. Com. 1658 (Northanti 

 16 F.Iiz.). The boundary at given was : 

 North from I'antworth Furret to Colder- 



118 



ingdalc, Brodegate w.iy, Losborrow 

 lladon, Archcsladc and Craneland. 



«' Mis. llks. (Land Rev.), 221, f. 325. 



*• Feet of F. Northantj, Trin. ijjai. I., 

 Faiter, 19 Jal. I. 



*' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccccxcii, 

 87. 



" Kecov. R. Mich. 8 Chaj. I. 



*' Clian. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), dcxiv, 88. 



" Feet of F. Norihanti, 'Fiin. 1658 ; 

 and Trin. 1 1; Chai. If. 



«' Ibid. Mich. 2oCha». II. 



