A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



son was Thomas Sanderson, who was also vicar, and 

 died unmarried in 1855.^* Mrs. Benton Keane now 

 holds the advowson. 



A vicarage is referred toe. 1 2 14-15, and was endowed 

 with a moiety of the church, the abbey and convent of 

 Sulby retaining the other half.*' The endowment now 



includes 275 acres of glebe, a part of which was a 

 thank-offering for the Restoration, given by John 

 Sanderson, ' Counsellor at law,' who had been ' a great 

 suffer>,r for King Charles I.'^ An allotment was made 

 for tithes at the passing of the Inclosure Act.*' 

 There are no charities in the parish. 



ALDWINKLE ALL SAINTS 



Aldvincle {x\ cent.) ; Aldwj'ncle, Audewinlde, 

 Ardewinlde (xv cent.). The parish of Aldwinkle All 

 Saints was united to that of Aldwinkle St. Peter by 

 Order in Council of 29 November 1 879.^ The combined 

 parishes contain 2,886 acres, the most of which isgrass- 

 land, with a fair amount of wood around Lyveden. 

 The parishes are bounded on the east by the River 

 Nene, and on the south by its tributary Harper's 

 Brook. From the low land near these streams the 

 ground rises towards the north-west, where it reaches 

 a height of nearly 290 ft. The soil is clay and gravel. 



A road from Thorpe Waterville leads over the Nene 

 and across the bridge, called Brancey Bridge, over 

 Harper's Brook, to the village of Aldwinkle All Saints. 

 The church lies on the south side of the road and the 



South Hay, Lady Wood, Bradshaw Wood and 

 Bareshanke Meadow (now Bearshank Wood).' Old 

 Mill Bridge, carrying the road from I slip to Lowick 

 over Harper's Brook, may mark the site of the manorial 

 mill. Other place names are Cockermouth Closes, 

 Great Laund, Old Laund and Old Park. 



In 1651 the constables and third-boroughs presented 

 seven recusants and declared that the village contained 

 no ale house nor any Sabbath breakers, common 

 drunkards or profane swearers ; that it was well 

 provided with churches in a state of repair; its high- 

 ways and bridges were in good repair and there was 

 provision for its poor.* 



An Act for inclosing the common lands of Aldwinkle 

 was obtained in 1772. 







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Aldwinkle: Dryden's Birthplace 



manor house, which was pulled down about 1826, 

 adjoined the churchyard on the east.* The rectory 

 house, the birthplace of John Drydcn, the poet, is a 

 plain but rather picturesque two story building of 

 rubble and plaster with a thatched roof. It is, in 

 part, of i6tli century date, but tlic windows have been 

 modernised and the liouse othcrv/ise altered. The 

 road continues through Aldwinkle St. Peter to Oundlc. 

 A branch from it goes to Lowick and another to the 

 north to Lyveden where some of the woodland is in 

 this parish. We have here mention in the 17th 

 century of the Over and Great Assart, South Wood or 



In 1086 Picot, Landric and Oger held 

 M.4N0RS of Guy de Reinbuedcurt 5 hides in 

 Aldwinkle All Saints, wliich in King 

 Edward's time had bcin held freely by Lef si.* Richard, 

 son of Guy de Reinbuedcurt, held in Aldwinkle 

 3 hides, less half a virgatc, of the queen's fee.* His 

 licir was his daughter Margery, who married Robert 

 Foliot, lord of the barony of Wardon,' and ihe over- 

 lordship of half a knight's fee in Aldwinkle afterwards 

 passed with this barony.* 



Tlie mesne tenant in 1242-3 was Henry de Ald- 

 winkle,* probably failicr of Richard de Aldwinkle, son 



** Norihonii N. and Q. i, 115. 

 »' Rot. Hug. dt Wtllet (Cant, and York 

 Soc), 130. 

 •' Lanidownc MS. 1029. 

 " Priv. Stat. 1 1 Cto. IV, c. 19. 

 ' London Gaxillt, 5 Dtc. 1879, no. 7201. 



Set also Loc. Gov. Bd. Order, 25 Mar. 

 1885. ^ Alloc. Arch. Soc. Rep. vii, 251. 



■ Pat. R. 9 Chai. I, pt. 5, no. 24 ; 

 12 Chai. II, pt. 24, no. 12. 



* Quarter Sen. Rtc. (Norlhanlf. Rcc. 

 Soc), 124, 161, 172, 227. 



' r.C.H. Northanti. i, 343a. 



• Ibid. 365/I. 



' Rrldgci, Hill. Northanti. i, i iz. 



• Uk. of Feel, pt. i, 495, 499 ; Cat. lag. 

 p.m. ii, 374. 



' Bk. of Feei, pt. ii, 937. 



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