A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 





Vere, Earl of Oxford. 

 Quarterly gules and or 

 with a niolet argent tn 

 the quarter. 



In 1086, the sub-tenant of the 2 hides and I 

 virgate was Aubrey, the ancestor of the Veres.' 

 His successor, Aubrey de Vere, held the land under 

 King Dand.i" and the Earls of Oxford claimed the 

 overlordship until the 15th century, the last mention 

 being in 1449.^^ The manor of Wadeohoe is said 

 to have been held by the 

 service of half a knight's fee, 

 sometimes of the Honour of 

 Winchester,^^ and at others 

 in chief.'' 



The Veres, later in the 12th 

 centur)', enfeoffed another 

 branch of the family with 

 their land in Wadenhoe. Before 

 1 167, it had been in the pos- 

 session of Geoffrey de Vere,'* 

 and in 1 1 85 was held by 

 Henry de Vere.'^ He, or more 

 probably his successor of the 

 same name, was the tenant in 



1229,'' but before 1236 the manor of Wadenhoe had 

 been again subinfeudated to John de Lacy, Earl of 

 Lincoln." He was succeeded in 1241 by his son 

 Edmund, who obtained livery of his father's lands by 

 124918 and in 1254 granted the manor to Roger de 

 Quinci, Earl of Winchester, 

 for life.'* On Roger's death 

 in 1264,^" it reverted to the 

 Lacys and was held in dower 

 by Edmund's widow Alice.^i 

 Her son Henry, Earl of Lin- 

 coln, succeeded,-^ but on his 

 death in 1 312, the manor 

 passed to his daughter and heir 

 Alice, the wife of Thomas, 

 Earl of Lancaster.^' After 

 Lancaster's execution in 1321, 

 his widow obtained a grant 



of the Lacy manors for life from Edward H, with 

 remainder to Hugh le Despencer, the younger.^'' 

 She afterwards married Ebulo Lestrange, and from 

 Edward III obtained a grant of Wadenhoe manor to 

 hold to them and their heirs.^' On the death of both 

 Ebulo and Alice, the manor should have passed to 

 Ebulo's nephew Roger Lestrange of Knokyn, on whom 

 it had been settled in'l336,28but ini337he had granted 



Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. 

 Or a lion purpure. 



Lestrange. Gules two 

 leopards argent. 



The latter died seised in 1356 and the manor passed 

 to Roger's son and heir, another Roger Lestrange.^* 

 His descendants held it tiU 

 the d-'ath of John Lestrange 

 in 1477.2* It probably then 

 passed to his daughter and 

 heiress Joan, the wife of 

 George Stanley, who pre- 

 sented to the rectory of 

 Wadenhoe in 1487.*' Waden- 

 hoe was presumably sold by 

 the Stanleys, perhaps after the 

 death of Joan in 1513, since it 

 was held in 1532 by Sir William 

 Blount, Lord Mountjoye.^' 

 His son and successor Charles sold it to Henry VIII 

 in 1543,'^ and in 1550 Edward VI granted it to Princess 

 Elizabeth.^ In 1 55 1, however, an exchange was 

 made with Sir Walter Mildmay.** From the Mild- 

 mays, the manor of Wadenhoe passed in 1617 through 

 Mary, the daughter and heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay, 

 to the Earls of Westmoreland.'* In 1668, Charles, 

 Earl of Westmoreland, sold it to John Stanyan,** who 

 sold it sixteen years later to Brooke Bridges." The 

 latter died in 1702 and the manor passed to his 

 great-nephew John Bridges, the historian, who died 

 unmarried in 1724.^* 



The manor was apparently sold before 1714 to 

 Sir Edward Ward, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 

 whose daughter Jane married 

 Thomas Hunt of Boreatton, 

 Shropshire. Their son, Edward 

 Hunt of Oundle, a merchant, 

 had a son Thomas, who suc- 

 ceeded to Wadenhoe, but left 

 no surviving issue. 



The manor passed to his 

 brother Rowland, who married 

 Frances Welch, and from him 

 to his son Thomas Welch 

 Hunt, who with his wife 

 Caroline Isham was murdered 

 at Paestum on their wedding 



tour in 1824. Thomas Welch Hunt left Wadenhoe to 

 his aunt, Mary Hunt (d. unm. 1835), with remainder 

 to his cousin, Mary Caroline Hunt (d. unm. 1847), 

 daughter of Rev. Edward Hunt, younger son of 



Hunt of Boreatton. 

 Party argent and sable 

 a saltire parted and 

 counter-coloured. 



the reversion to Nicholas de Cantilupe for life." Thomas Hunt of Boreatton, and with ultimate 



» V.C.H. Nortbanti. i, 309*. 



'• Ibid. 366J. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), 

 no. 84 ; 27 Hen. VI, no. 29 j Book of Fees 

 (P.R.O.), ii, 937. 



'"Chan. Inq. p.m., 29 Edw. Ill (lit 

 noi.), no. 6. 



" Cal. Pat. 1324-27, p. 103 J 1334-38, 

 p. 319 ; Feud. /Itds, iv, 50. 



'* Pipe Roll Soe. xi, p. 119. 



'• Pipe R. 31 Hen. II, m. 4. 



'• Rot. Hug. de IVelles (Cant, .ind York 

 Soc), ii, 127, 239. 



" Rot. Rob. Grosseteste (Cant, and York 

 Soc), 168 ; Cal. Close, 1234-37, p. 300, 



'• G.E.C. Complete Peerage ; Rot. Rob. 

 Grosseteste (Cant, and York Soc), 212; 

 Book 0/ Fees, ii, 1399; Cal. Chan, i, 346, 



357- 



" Feet of F. Div. Cof. 38 Hen. Ill, 

 no. 86 ; Rot. Ric. Gravesend (Cant, and 

 York Soc), loD. 



•• Cal. Inq. i, no. 27. 



«' Rot. Hund. (Rcc. Com.), i, 8i ; Cal. 

 Close, 1296-1302, p. 164. In 1274, Henry 

 de Vere seems to have been heavily in 

 debt to various Jews and ^15 was levied 

 on the manor of Wadenhoe, held by the 

 Countess of Lincoln [Cal. of Excb. oj the 

 Jews, ii, 147, 248). 



" Cal. Close, 1296-1302, p. 164. 



•> G.E.C. Complete Peerage ; Cal. Close, 

 i3'8-23, p. 575- 



•* Cal. Pat. 1321-24, pp. 156, 179, 180, 

 182. 



" Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 18 Edw. II; 

 Ctil. Chart, 1317-41, pp. 199, 213. 



" Cal. Pal. 1334-38, p. 319. 



•' Ibid. p. 463. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 29 Edw. Ill (lit 

 nni), no. 6 ; Cal. Fine, vi, 434. 



" Close R. 47 Edw. Ill, m. 5 and 6; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, no. 52; 

 ibid. 5 Hen. IV, m. 27 ; ibid. 27 Hen. VI, 

 no. 29 J Feud. Aids, iv, 50 ; ibid, vi, 500 ; 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage ; Kegister Bp. 



ISO 



John Chedworth, cit. Bridges, Hist. 

 Nortbants. ii, 390. 



•° G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



" Feet of V. Div. Cos. Trin. 24 Hen. 

 VIII. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xviii, pt. ii, g. 

 449 (i) ; Pat. R. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 5, m. 

 4 d; Feet of F. Northanti, Hil. 35 Hen. 

 VIII. 



•• Pat. R. 4 Edw. VI, pt. 3. 



•« Pat. R. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 3. 



■* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), ccxxiii, 61 j 

 Rccov. R. Hil. 41 Eliz. ro. 68 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), ccclxxvi, 94 ; ccccxcviii, 

 44 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 2 Chas. I ; 

 Northants. Trin. 8 Chas. I ; Recov. R. 

 East. i6i;6, ro. 189. 



•• Feet of F. Northanti. Trin. 19 Chai. 

 II. 



•' Ibid. Mich. 35 Chai. H. 



" Bridj;ei, Hist. Northants. ii, 391 ; 

 Wotton, English Baronetage, ed. 1741, 

 pp. 188-190. 



