NAVISFORD HUNDRED 



TITCHMARSH 



A rent of 20 marks held in 1412 by Nicholas Mores, 

 in Rothevvell, Titchmarsh, and Glapthorn may have 

 arisen from one or more of these portions of land ^' and 

 equally be represented by the manor, later known as 

 TrRR!NGH.^.MS, which was bouglu from John 

 Morice in 1512 by Thomas Tyrringham and otliers." 

 On the death of Thomas, the manor, which was held 

 of Lovel's manor by fealty only, passed to his son 

 Robert, a minor.^' The latter died in 1532 and his heir 

 was his brother Thomas,** who settled the manor in 

 1544 on Edmund, his son, and he, in 1557, conveyed it 

 to Thomas, probably his brother. Apparently, in 1557, 

 it was held by Boniface Pickering,''" the third son of 

 the Gilbert Pickering,'* who had bought I.ovel's 

 Manor (j.f.). In 1583 Boniface settled the manor on 

 his second son, James, on his marriage with Anne 

 Clifford. James obtained seisin when his father died 

 in 1586.** He was succeeded 

 in 1629 by his grandson 

 Christopher,'' who owned the 

 manor in 1655.'^ On his death, 

 it seems to have been divided 

 between his two heiresses, 

 Anne the wife of Alexander 

 Wilkinson and Jane Picker- 

 ing." They probably sold it 

 in 1679 to John Farrer and 

 William Sherard,** who sold 

 it in 1685 to John Creed, of 

 Oundle," who had married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 



Gilbert Pickering, the lord of Lovel's' manor. John 

 Creed died in 1701, and his eldest son Major Richard 

 Creed was killed at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704."" 

 John, brother of Richard, apparently succeeded and 

 died in 1731.*' He was succeeded by his son John,*' 

 who made a settlement of the manor, in 1745, on 

 another John Creed, the younger.™ In 1766, the 

 property was in the possession of Dr. William Walcott 

 and his wife Mary,'' the younger daughter of Col. 

 John Creed (d. 1751). Their son, William Walcott, 

 died in 1827 



Margaret,the daughter of Ascelin de Sidenham, the 

 tenant of Lovel's manor, married Simon de Borard 

 and Joan their heiress brought the manor of Clifton 

 Reynes, iu Buckinghamshire, to her husband Thomas 

 de Reynes about 1293.'- It seems probable that she 



Creed. Azure a ch£vc~ 

 ron bet'vccn three ytvans 

 argent. 



brought land in Titchmarsh also, since in 1 349 Thomas 

 de Reynes, grandson of Thomas and Joan and Geoffrey 

 de Titchmarsh held j\- of a fee of Jolin Lovel.'* 

 In 1383, Sir Thomas de Reynes, of Clifton Reynes, 

 son of the last named Thomas, settled lands in Titch- 

 marsh and other places on his younger son Richard'* 

 and in 141 2 Robert Reynes had rents in Titchmarsh 

 of z6s. 8d. a year,'* but this appears to be the last 

 mention of this holding. 



TITCHM.IRSH alias KNOLLES manor was held 

 of the Abbey of Peterborough. In 973, 2 J hides of land 

 at Titchmarsh are mentioned in a forged charter of 

 King Edgar to the Abbey" and in 10S6 it held 3 hides, 

 I virgate there." The overlordship is last mentioned 

 in 1428,'* but it presumably lasted till the dissolution 

 of the abbey. 



In 1086, the under-tenant was Ascelin" who may 

 be identified as the ancestor of the de Watervilles, 

 who held Thorpe Waterville and Achurch of the 

 Abbey.*" In the early 13th century, the manor was 

 sub-infeudated*! and the mesne-lordship followed the 

 descent of Thorpe Waterville (y.t'.), Lord Burghley 

 being the mesne lord in 1590.'''- 



The manor was held in demesne by a second family 

 named Titchmarsh, but their pedigree is obscure. A 

 Robert de Titchmarsh was living in 1 199*' and may 

 have been the same as Robert son of Thomas, who 

 paid geld from his fee in Titchmarsh early in the 13th 

 century.*'' In 1243 he had been succeeded by Thomas 

 son of Robert, who held a fee of Reginald de Water- 

 ville.** Robert de Titchmarsh was seised of land in 

 Titchmarsh before 1269*' and was living in 1280.*' 

 His son William was living in 1298,** but before 1301 

 it seems to have passed to Henry de Titchmarsh, 

 presumably the husband of the youngest Waterville 

 heiress.*' In 1 317, he settled the manor of Titch- 

 marsh on his elder son John,'" but he seems to have 

 been living in 1324.'! John was seised of other family 

 property in 1330'^ and, in an undated inquisition, 

 was said to hold half a knight's fee in Titchmarsh." 

 Before 1 348, he was succeeded by his son Henry .'^ from 

 whom the manor passed to Katherine, the wife of 

 John Bray. Two parts of the manor were acquired 

 by Sir John Lovel, who died seised of them in 1408, 

 when the remaining third part was held for life by 

 Margaret, widow of Henry de Titchmarsh of the 

 inheritance of Katherine Bray.'* The Brays' portion 



•* Feud. .iiJs, vi, 500. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), xlvl, 64. 

 The chief reaion for luggciting that the 

 m.inor of Tyrringhams represented part 

 of Ralph de Titchmarsh** fee is that a 

 free fishery was one of the appurtenances 

 of the manor and that it was held of 

 Lovel's manor. For Tyrringham descent 

 •ee y.C.H. Bucks, iv, 482-3. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), xlvi, 43 (i), 



«♦• 

 »• Ibid, liv, 48 ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, 



Tol. vi, g. 105 (23). 



" Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 36 Hen. 

 VIII i ibid. 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary ; Court 

 R. (P.R.O.) (Gen. Ser.), ptf. 195, no. 

 56. 



•' Metcalfe, Vtsil. Nortbanls. 42. 



•• Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 25 and 

 26 Eliz. ; Chan. Inq. p.m (Ser. ii), ccix, 



33- 



•• Ibid, ccccxlix, 44. 



•* Recov. R. Mich. 1655, to. 26 ; Feet 

 of F. Northants. Mich. 165;. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 30 Chas. 

 II. 



" Ibid. 



•' Ibid. Mich. 36 Cha.. II ; Recov. R. 

 Trin. 36 Chas. II, ro,io. 



"» M.I. in church. 



" Did. Nat. Biog. 



" Bridges, Hist. Northants, ii, 384. 



"> Recov. R. Trin. 18 and 19 Geo. II, 

 ro. 240. 



" Recov. R. Trin. 6 Geo. Ill, ro. 8. 



' » V. C.H. Bucks, iv, 3 1 7-8 ; Lipscombe, 

 Hist, of Bucks, iv, 105. 



'* Cal. Inq. ix, no. 393. 



'« Close R. 6 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 1 1 rf. 



" Feud. Aids, vi, 500. 



'• Kemble, Cod. Ihpl. dlxxix. 



" V.C.H. Northants. i, 316A, 365*. 



" Egcrton MS. (B.M.) 2733, f. 134 i; 

 Feud. Aids, iv, 48. 



'• V.C.H. Northants. i, 316*. 



»» See p. 136. 



" Egerton MS. (B.M.) 2733, f. 134 d. 



••Cott MS. Vesp. E ixii, f. 113; 



H5 



Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. IV, file 66, no. 29 ; 

 ibid. Hen. V, file 8, no. 30 ; Feud. Aids, iv, 

 48, 51 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccxxix, 

 120. 



"' Rot. Cur. Regis (Rec. Com.), p. 389. 



e« Egerton MS. (B.M.), 2733, f. 155. 



" Ibid. f. 134 d. 



" Feet of F. Northants, Trin. 53 

 Hen. III. 



«' Chron. Pctroh. (Camden Soc), 36. 



«» Cal. And. D., A. 1288. 



«» Coram Rege R. 166; Pytchley, Bk. of 

 Fees (Northants Rec. Soc), 43 ; Feud. 

 Aids, iv, 28 ; Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, 

 141 d. 



"Feet of F. Northants. Mich. II 

 Edw. II. 



»' Cal. Inq. Edw. II, no. 619. 



•• Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 3 Edw. 

 III. 



•• Cott MS. Cleop. C i, f. 141 d. 



•« Cal. Inq. Edw. II, ix, no. 44. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. IV, file 66, no. 

 a9- 



