HUXLOE HUNDRED 



both with crocketed ogee hoods. The three lower 

 stages on the north side and the two lower on the 

 south are blank, the third having a small traceried 

 opening. The lofty upper stage is almost wholly 

 occupied by double square-headed, traceried bell- 

 chamber windows of two lights, with wide middle 

 muUions and traceried transoms, above which is 

 a band of quatrefoils and battlcmentcd parapets 

 with tall crocketed angle pinnacles. The tower arch 

 is of three chamfered orders, the innermost on half- 

 round responds with moulded capitals and bases. The 

 vice is in the south-west angle. 



The late 13th-century font consists of an octagonal 

 bowl moulded on the under edge, on a pedestal com- 

 posed of eight keel-shaped shafts with moulded bases. 

 The font was sold in 1655, but was set up again in 

 1662, when it was rclcaded.^* 



In the chancel is the brass of William Aldwincle 

 (d. 1463), who is represented in a long garment with 

 his feet resting on a dog. The inscription reads, ' Hie 

 jacet Williu Aldewyncle armig. qui obiit xxviii die 

 augusti A° Dni. Millmo cccclxiii cujus ale ppicietur 

 Deus.' On the waU of the north aisle is a brass com- 

 memorating John Pykering, physician (d. 1659) 

 with a rhyming inscription written by himself in 

 1652. 



There are Jacobean turned altar rails, and over the 

 chancel arch the names of the churchwardens of 1814 

 on either side of the space formerly occupied by the 

 Royal Arms. 



Bridges records a ' portrait of St. Catharine with her 

 wheel ' in the lower window of the south aisle,'" but 

 this is lost. 



There were formerly five bells^" in the tower, but in 

 1903 four were melted down to provide metal for a 

 new ring at Aldwinkle St. Peter. The remaining 

 bell (tenor) was found to be so badly cracked that it 

 was recast. 



The plate consists of a cup and cover paten of 

 c. 1570, and two patens of 1861, one inscribed ' Ald- 

 wincle All Saints Church 1864. R. Roberts, rector.' 

 There is also a pewter flagon/^ 



The registers begin in 1653. The first volume con- 

 tains entries of baptisms to 1726, of marriages to 

 1725, and of burials to 1679. 



There is a lych gate in memory of Fanny Satter- 

 field Hodgson (d. 191 7). 



The advowson presumably passed 

 ADVOWSON with the manor of the Aldwinkle 

 family until in 1 315 it was conveyed 

 by Richard son of Henry Aldwinkle to Robert de 

 Holand.^' It then went with the manor of Ald- 

 winkle St. Peter (q.v.) until the forfeiture by Francis 

 Lord Lovel in 1487. Sir Ralph Butler, possibly as 

 trustee, presented in 1 47 1. The advowson later 

 passed to the Somerset family, Sir Charles Somerset 

 afterwards Earl of Worcester presenting in 1503 and 



ALDWINKLE 

 ALL SAINTS 



15 II.*' It was conveyed by William Earl of Worcester 

 in 1553 to Gilbert Pickering,'''' apparently on behalf of 

 his son Boniface, who died seised of it in 1586.^* Boni- 

 face left it to his younger son John,'* and it was prob- 

 ably he who in 1597 presented his kinsman Henry 

 Pickering, father of Mary, mother of John Dryden, the 

 poet, who was born at the rectory in 1631." Early in 

 the 17th century the advowson was acquired by Simon 

 Lcnton,wiio conveyed it with the manor (q.v.) in 161 3 

 to the Fleetwoods.** Elizabcth,vvidow of William Fleet- 

 wood who sold the manor, presented in 1 72 1,** and 

 died in 1722. Her eldest son Miles had a son and 

 heir William** who died without issue in 1747. Eliza- 

 beth, one of his three sisters and coheirs, wife of John 

 Kimpton, obtained her sister's shares in the advowson. 

 John Kimpton desired to sell the advowson, but fail- 

 ing, presented Thomas Haweis, a Methodist, who was 

 assistant chaplain at the Lock Hospital. Later, being 

 offered £1,000 for the advowson, Kimpton tried to 

 eject Haweis. Eventually Lady Huntingdon bought 

 the advowson and Haweis remained incumbent until 

 his death in 1820.*"" The advowson was afterwards 

 purchased by Lord Lilford, who held it with Ald- 

 winkle St. Peter, to which parish it was united in 1 879.** 

 The present Lord Lilford is patron of the united 

 parishes. 



The chantry of William Chambre in the church of 

 All Saints was founded by William Chambre in 1488 to 

 pray for William and his wife Elizabeth and her 

 former husband William Aldwinkle (d. 1463). '^ It was 

 endowed with the manors of Armston and Denford and 

 lands there and in Aldwinkle and Benefield.*' It was 

 founded to provide a priest who taught six poor 

 children of the town of Aldwinkle. Its lotal value in 

 1549 was £10 15J. 6d. out of which 26s. 8<^. was 

 annually distributed in alms to two poor bedesmen in 

 the almshouses in Aldwinkle.** On 18 December, 

 1546 William Dudley and others were ordered to take 

 possession of the chantry** and nine days later the 

 endowment, including the Chantry House in Ald- 

 winkle, was granted to Sir Edward Montagu.** The 

 property of the chantry seems to have reverted to 

 the Crown and was granted out again in 1570 to 

 Thomas second Lord Wentworth in tail. At the 

 request of Lord Wentworth's son William, it was re- 

 granted in 1585 to Theophilus Adams and Thomas 

 Butler.*' In 1619 William Montagu, younger son 

 of Edward the original grantee, died seised of a 

 messuage and 20 acres of wood called Priestes 

 Coppice, probably part of the endowment. His heir 

 was his nephew Edward afterwards second Lord 

 Montagu.** 



The chantry house, which had been the priest's 

 dwelling and the school house, seems to have been held 

 with the manor. Bridges (1724) states that its ruins 

 ' which were lately pulled down stood, in Mr. Spincke's 

 yard, where human bones were dug up.' *' 



•• Assoc. Arch. Sac. Rep. vii, 244. 



*' Bridges, Hist, oj Nortbants. ii, 210. 



'» North, Ch. Bells of Northanis. 178, 

 where the inscriptions are given. The 

 treble and tenor were dated 1720, the 

 second 1830, the third was by Thomas 

 Eayre 1724, and the fourth by Thomas 

 Norris, 1637. 



" Markham, Cb. Plate of Nortianls. 6. 



'« Feet of F. bdle. 175, file 65, no. 193. 



"Bridges, H:sl. Nortbanls. ii, 210; 

 G.E.C. Compute Peerage, viii, 20. 



'* Rccov. R. Northants. Trin. 7 Edw. 

 VI, ro. 516. 



" Bridges, op cit. ii, 3S4 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Cos. Mich, i Mary ; Chan. Inq. p.m 

 209 (33). " Ibid. " D.N.B. ■ 



" Recov. R. Northants. East. 11 Jas. I, 

 ro. 122; Feet of F. Northants. East. II 

 Jas. I ; Mich. 14 Jas. I. 



" Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



•» Northants N. and Q. (New Ser.), i, 

 119; Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 20 

 Geo. II. 



167 



'"^n.N.B. XXV, 186; XXXV, 288; 

 jV. and Q. (New Ser.), vi, 73. 



" London Gaz. 5 Dec. 1879, no. 7201. 



" Cal. Pat. 1485-94, p. 253. 



"Ibid. 311. 



•• Chant. Certif. 36, no. 9. 



" L. &■ P. Hen. VIII, vol. xxi, pt. ii, 

 g- 64S (39). 



" Ibid. (52). 



" Pat. R. 27 Eliz. pt. 4. m. 31. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii) ddxxxv, 51. 



" Bridges, op. cit. ii, 21 1. 



