HUXLOE HUNDRED little addington 



lands at Thorpe Achurch (q.v.). They were holding 

 in 1 196, when Hugh do Watervillc convoyed land 

 to Maud de Houghton, and in 1240 Richard do Water- 

 villc granted lands and a mill to William, abbot of 

 Sulby.* The remainder of their lands here was 

 apparently acquired from the heirs of Reginald de 

 Waterville, who died in 1287, by the Barnacks,' 

 and from them by the abbot of Sulby. 



The abbey of Sulby gradually bought up the lands 

 of the other holders in Little Addington from the 

 early part of the 13th century if not before. Kdward II 

 confirmed the gifts of Arnold de Pavilly (Papilam) 

 of lands, the church and mill of Addington ; of 

 Roger Ic Brabanhoun (i Brabazon) ; of John de 

 Hotot, of Hampton ; of the manor of Sir Richard 

 son of Gervase de Barnack, and the lands of William 

 son of Richard de Barnack.* In 1300 a composition 

 was made between the abbot of Peterborough and 

 the abbot of Sulby whereby the abbot of Sulby 

 had licence to enter on the Barnack lands subject 

 to the continuance of the homage to the abbot of 

 Peterborough, as chief lord, of Humphrey de Bassing- 

 bourne, under whom the Barnacks had held, suit 

 at the court of Castor, and relief and fealty by the 

 abbot of Sulby to Peterborough.*' The abbey of Sulby 

 had a grant of free warren here in 1 316,** and con- 

 tinued to hold the whole manor until the Dissolution. 



In 1543, Edward Humfrey, a younger son of Richard 

 Humfrey, of Barton Seagrave, received a grant of the 

 manor and rectory of Little Addington, formerly the 

 property of Sulby Abbey.** He settled the manor 

 on his younger brother John, and died without issue 

 in 1552.** John Humfrey died in 1592, when he 

 was succeeded by his son John, aged thirty,** who 

 died without issue in 1 596, when his mother, Margaret, 

 survived him. John Humfrey, the son, was succeeded 

 by his brother Edward,*^ citizen and merchant tailor 

 of London, aged 27, who with Mary his wife in 

 1597 sold to John Weekly, of Little Addington, 

 for £S'^ '^^ manor and manor house of Little 

 Addington, in the occupation of Thomas Selby, 

 late in the occupation of John Weekly,*' the rent of 

 Zi. from the mills called Cotton Mills, and two barns 

 known as the Tithe Barn and Church Barn. John, 

 father of Edward Humfrey, had settled the manor 

 and advowson on his wife Margaret, and had had a 

 daughter Elizabeth Burton, the mother of Rowse, 

 Thomas, and Israel Burton, and a daughter Marjory 

 Mallory, the mother of Thomas, Anthony, William, 

 and Katherine Mallory. Edward left a son Edward, 

 who died in 1599, aged five, leaving sisters, Eleanor 

 aged two, and Dorothy aged one, as his heirs.*' 

 John Weekly, in 1606, settled certain lands in Little 

 Addington on his son Thomas on his marriage with 

 Anne, daughter of Richard Templer, and died in 



1628.** A settlement was made in 1630 by Thomas 

 Weekly, with John Weekly, presumably his son, 

 and .Anne Weekly, widow, evidently his mother,** 

 and in 1656 the manor was in the hands of John Weekly 

 (Weckeley) and Mary his wife, and Thomas Weekly, 

 presumably their son.^' John Weekly and Thomas 

 Weekly, senior, and Susan his wife in 1682 conveyed 

 the manor to Robert Underwood, and Henry Weekly,'* 

 the latter of whom was already holding the Gloucester 

 manor (q.v.) in Little Addington. This was probably 

 only a settlement, as in 1685 Thomas Weekly, senior, 

 and his wife Susan, with Thomas Weekly, junior, 

 conveyed it to Samuel Penn, apparently for the pur- 

 pose of a mortgage.*' Thomas Weekly, senior, and 

 Susan his wife were holding it in 1691.** It was 

 possibly the manor which William Murdin, clerk, 

 and his wife in 1737 conveyed to Robert Lambe.'* 



When Bridges wrote, the lordship was divided 

 among several freeholders, but the manor belonged to 

 Henry Weekly. The most considerable estate, he 

 writes, was owned by the family of Sanderson, who 

 with it held the advowson. 

 At the Inclosure Act of 1 803, 

 William Zouth Lucas Ward 

 was lord of the manor, and 

 one of the principal proprie- 

 tors of lands and messuages 

 with Thomas Sanderson, clerk, 

 vicar and owner of the ad- 

 vowson, and George Capron. 

 There is now no lord of the 

 manor, but Mr. G. H. Capron, 

 lord of the manor of Stoke 

 Doyle, is one of the principal 

 landowners in the parish. 



One and a half hides in Little Addington, held 

 before the Conquest by Azor, were entered in the 

 Domesday Survey among the lands of the Bishop of 

 Coutances,^' whose tenant there was Osmund.^' 

 After the forfeiture of the bishop's lands it was 

 bestowed on either the first Earl of Gloucester or his 

 father-in-law, and continued parcel of the Gloucester 

 fee. In the 12th century Northamptonshire Survey^' 

 it is entered as a hide and one and a half virgates, held 

 by William de Huntingdon of the fee of Gloucester. 

 The Grimbalds seem to have succeeded William de 

 Huntingdon, as in 1198-9 Maud, widow of Robert 

 Grimbald, granted land in Addington and Slipton to 

 Ernald de Bosco,-' and this property appears in 1284 

 as a quarter of a knight's fee in Little Addington 

 which John de Bosco was then holding of the Earl of 

 Gloucester. It was held of John de Bosco by Hugh 

 Daundelyn, under whom Warner de Garney and 

 Beatrice de Wolaston were sub-tenants.'* 



The Daundelyn descent followed that of Cranford 



Sanderson. Paly argent 

 and azure a bend sabte 

 tviib three 

 thereon. 



rings 



' Feet of F. Northants. 8 Rich. I, caie 

 . 171, file I, no. 15; ibid. Hen. Ill, case 

 1731, file 19, no. 386. 



• There wai a family quarrel in 1281 

 ai to lands in Addington, when the 

 question of the legality of the marriage of 

 Robert de Waterville and Alice, his wife, 

 was raised. Anct. D. A5010. In 1284 

 this fee is said to have been held by the 

 heirs of Reginald de Waterville and 

 Richard de BarnacV. Feud. Aids iv, 12 ; 

 cf. Cott. MS. Cleop. C ii, fol. 44^. 



• Dugdale, A/ob. Angl. vi (ii), 904 ; 

 ef. Col. Pal. 1292-1301, p. 520. 



"Cott. MS. Cleop. C ii, fol. ^id ; 

 Reg. Rob. Swaffham (Peterb. Cath. Lib.), 

 cclxxvi. " Cat. Chan, iii, 306. 



'• L. and P. Hen. VIII, xviii (i), g. 981 

 (62) ; Pat. R. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 16, m. 32. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), xcv, 104. 



'• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccxxxvi, 89. 



" Ibid, ccxlv, 93. 



'• Close R. 39 Eliz. pt. 22 ; Feet of F. 

 Northants, Hil. 39 Eliz. 



^' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cclxii, 122. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cccdxxviii, 

 48. 



'• Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 6 Chas. I. 



161 



" Ibid. Trin. 1656. 



" Feet of F. Northants, Mich. 34 

 Chas. II. 



"Ibid.Mich.IJas.il. 



«• Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 3 Wm. 

 and Mary. 



" Ibid. Trin. loand 11 Geo. II. 



•* In Naveslaad hundred. 



•• V.C.H. Northants. i, 311. 



•' Ibid. 388. In South Navesland. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 10 Ric. I, case 

 171, file 2, no. 38; Farrer, Honors and 

 Knights' Fees, i, 37. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 12. 



