A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Grafton Underwood and Burton Latimer.* By 1316, however, these two 

 hundreds were both included in Huxloe Hundred' and the names disap- 

 peared from use. In 1447, Henry VI granted various privileges to the Abbey 

 of Peterborough, including the goods and chattels of felons and outlaws, etc., 

 not only belonging to the men and tenants of the Abbey, but also of residents 

 within the Hundred of Huxloe and other Hundreds ; also all fines, ransoms, 

 forfeitures, issues and amerciaments as well as fines for licence to agree in 

 whatever court the judgment might have been given. ^ This was confirmed in 

 1462, and the charter also confirmed the grants by previous kings of deodands, 

 wreck of sea, treasure trove, evasions and escapes, and other privileges.^ In 

 1 540-1, after the dissolution of the Abbey, Henry VIII granted Huxloe 

 Hundred to Queen Katherine Howard for life,^'' but after her execution it 

 remained in the Crown^^ until 161 1, when James I granted it to John Eldred 

 and George WTiitmore.^^ Two years later they sold it to Sir Edward Montagu 

 of Boughton,^^ whose descendant Ralph, Earl of Montagu, owned the Hun- 

 dred in 1704.^* A moiety of it appears to have been alienated before 1760,^^ 

 but the remaining moiety passed by descent to George, Duke of Montagu, who 

 held it in 1776.^* From him it passed to his daughter and heir, Elizabeth, the 

 wife of Henry, Duke of Buccleuch,^' and the present Duke of Buccleuch is 

 now lord of the Hundred. ^^ The court was probably held at Huxloe Cross 

 in Lowick parish (q.v.). 



« V.C.H. Northanti. i, 388a, 389 a and *. 



^ Ibid. 297. 



5 Cal. Chart, vi, p. 88. » Cal. Pat. 1461-67, p. 191. 



i« L. IsS P. Hen. Vlll, xvi, p. 716 ; Pat. R. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 3. 

 '1 L. (J P. Hen. VIII, xviii, pt. i, no. 982 ; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1603-10, p. 157. 

 >2 Pat. R. 9 Jas. I, pts. 6 & 8. 

 ^ Close R. 11 James I, pt. 12, no. 9. 



" Recov. R. Hil. 3 Anne, ro. 223 ; cf., Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 9 Chas. I & Mich. 1658. 

 1' Recov. R. East., 33 Geo. II, ro. 162. 



" Recov. R. East. 8 Geo. Ill, ro. 479 ; Feet of F. Northants. East. 16 Geo. Ill ; Bridges, Hist, of Northants. 

 ii, p. 203. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 16 Geo. Ill ; G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 

 '* Inf. from Messrs. Nicholl Manisty & Co., Solicitors to the Duke. 



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