A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Polebrook.'* A part of Catworth in Huntingdonshire was held with Thrapston, 

 and was within the Hundred of Navisford/^ 



After the dissolution of the Abbey, the issues of the courts of the two 

 hundreds were returned jointly, and only one bailiff and one steward are 

 named. ^ Henry VIII granted the Hundred of Navisford for life to Queen 

 Catherine Howard,^ but after her death it remained with the Crown' 

 until i6i I, when James I granted it to John Eldred and George Whitmore^ 

 to hold with all the privileges formerly belonging to the Abbey of 

 Peterborough.^ In 1 6 1 3 the two grantees sold it to Sir Edward Montagu 

 of Boughton.i" Shortly afterwards a writ of quo warranto was issued against 

 Sir Edward regarding his rights in the Hundreds of Polebrook, Huxloe and 

 Navisford which were duly allowed to him.^^ In the early i8th century his 

 descendant the Duke of Montagu held it, and the court of the hundred was 

 held at Thrapston. ^^ It afterwards passed to the Duke of Buccleuch and 

 Queensberry, 



^Cf. Chron. PetTob. p. 118. 



<* Buccleuch Coll. Ser. Chron. 353 ; V.C.H. Northunts. i, 365^-. 

 '" ydor Ecclts. (Rcc. Com.), iv, pp. 279, 280, 282. 

 ' Close R. 2,165 ; ^- ^1^^ P- ^''"- fm, xvi, p. 716; Pat. R. no. 695. 

 ' P.R.O. Court R. ptf. 19s, no. 56. 

 ' Pat. R. (no. 1905), 9 Jas. T, pt. 6. 



' Close R. 2,165 ; Anglo-Sax. Chron. (Rolls Ser.), i, 220; Cal. Pat. 1226-57, P- '9: P^^- ^■ 

 38 Hen. VI, pt. ii, m. 8. 

 •"Close R. 2,165. 

 " Buccleuch Cell. Ser. Chron. 387. 

 '- Bridges, Hist. Northants. ii, 264. 



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