HUXLOE HUNDRED 



and it contained the usual rooms of the period, hall, 

 parlour, great chamber, bedrooms, kitchen, pantry, 

 larder, staircase, etc. The arch that connects the 

 parlour with its bay window bears the arms of Sir 

 Thomas and his wife, Muriel Throckmorton. The 



Tkuham. Party lallirt- 

 vfise argent and labU 

 with six trefoils vert. 



THROCrMORTON. OultS 



a cbeveron argent charged 

 tvith three gemell-bars 

 sable. 



building is of stone and is admirably built, much of 

 the detail being as sharp as when new. It was pur- 

 chased, together with the water orchard and the long 

 terrace, in 1922 by the National Trust for Places of 

 Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. The walls were 

 then protected against the weather, but no restoration 

 was attempted. It has been a ruin from the time 

 when it was built, for Sir Thomas died before it was 

 completed, and immediately afterwards the house and 

 manor (q.v.) were forfeited, as his son Francis became 

 implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. The Lyveden 

 estate appears to have been rescued from the general 

 disaster, for the Old Building was rebuilt by another 

 son, Sir Lewis. His arms, impaling those of his 

 Spanish wife, were in a panel in the principal gable, 

 but were removed along with the archway and in- 

 corporated with it when it was rebuilt at Farming 

 Woods.* 



In the time of Edward the Confessor 3 

 MANORS hides in ALDWINKLE or HOLLANDS 

 MANOR were held by Peterborough 

 Abbey for the sustenance of the monks, but by 1086 

 Ferron held them by the king's command, against the 

 will of the abbot. ^ According to the survey of c. 11 25 

 3J hides were held of the abbey by Ascelin de Water- 

 ville.* Ascelin's son Hugh before 1 155 made a 

 composition with Abbot Martin whereby he should 

 hold the manor of Aldwinkle at a rent of 60/. ^d.,^ 

 From this date the manor followed the descent of 

 Thorpe Achurch (q.v.) to the end of the 15th century.' 

 In 1487, while Margaret Countess of Richmond held 

 it for life,' the reversion of Hollands Manor, in tail 

 male, was granted to John Risley, knt., the king's 

 servant. The grant included woodland called Bare- 

 thanke and meadow in Brantsey and Swillyngholt 

 in Aldwinkle.* The Countess of Richmond died in 

 1509 and John Risley, to whom the manor then passed, 

 died in 1513 leaving no son.' The manor thus reverted 



ALDWINKLE 

 ST. PETER 



to the king, who in this year granted it in fee to 

 Sir William Compton." He died seised of Hollands 

 Manor in 1528 having a son and heir Peter, then six 

 years old, who died in 1539 ^'^^ ^^^^ succeeded by his 

 son Henry, afterwards Lord Compton.*^ In 1570 

 Henry Compton, at this time a knight, had licence to 



C o M p T N. Sahlt a 



leopard or between three 

 helms argent. 



Cecil. Barry of ten 

 argent and azure six 

 scutcheons sable each 

 charged with a lion 

 argent. 



alienate Aldwinkle or Holland Manor, to Thomas 

 Cecil,*2 who became Earl of Exeter in 1605. The 

 manor of Aldwinkle St. Peter afterwards followed the 

 descent of the Earldom of Exeter until in 1773 it was 

 conveyed by Henry Brownlowe, ninth Earl, to Thomas 

 Powys of Lilford,^^ created Baron Lilford in 1797." 

 It subsequently passed with this barony. 



One large virgate of land in Aldwinkle was stated 

 in the 12th century survey of Northamptonshire 

 to be held by Geoffrey de Glinton of the fee of 

 Gloucester belonging to the Barton.** In 1285 this 

 overlordship of the earls of Gloucester in Aldwinkle 

 was disputed by the abbot of Peterborough, who 

 alleged that the earl's bailifTs had usurped one-eighth 

 part of the vill of Aldwinkle, which had been wont to 

 answer to the abbot's bailiffs for all that pertained to 

 the king's dues, in the same way as all other vills 

 within the abbot's liberty. Writs of summons were 

 accordingly issued against the earl," but his right 

 seems to have been maintained, and henceforth it 

 passed with the overlordship of Denford (q.v.). Joan, 

 the widow of the Earl of Gloucester and the king's 

 daughter, was found in 1306-7 to have received yearly 

 rents from Aldwinkle,*' and two Icets in Aldwinkle 

 were held, as parcel of one-third of the earldom of 

 Gloucester and in right of his late wife Margaret, by 

 Ralph, Earl of Stafford, who died in 1372,** and by 

 succeeding earls of Stafford.** In 1404, Humphrey, 

 Earl of Stafford, being a minor and a royal ward, the 

 king, after assigning a dower to the late earl's widow, 

 granted, from the two-thirds of the possessions of the 

 earldom still in his hands, a leet of the township of 

 Aldwinkle to his consort. Queen Joan, to hold during 

 the young earl's minority.'"* At the view of frank- 

 pledge held at Denford in 1549, Sir Thomas Tresham, 



* For a full Recount of Lyveden BuUd- 

 ingi, lee J. A. Gotch, The Buildings of 

 Sir Thomas Tresham. A number of 

 references to them will also be found in 

 Hist. USS. Com. Rep. (Rushton MSS.) 



* y.C.H.Northants.i, 3166. 

 « Ibid. 365*. 



* Cott. MS. Cleop. C ii, fol. 236. 



* Feud. Aids, iv. 13; Feet of F. 29 

 Edw. I, case 175, file 58, no. 398; ii 

 Edw. II, case 176, file 69, no. 368 ; Cal. 

 Pat. 1307-13, p. loa; 1313-17, pp. 72, 



184; 1317-21, p. 43'; '3Z'-4, 88. >'3i 

 1327-30, p. 455; Cal. Chart, 1300-26, 

 p. 242 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 47 Edw. Ill 

 (ist nos.), 19; I Hen. VI (51). 

 ' Cal. Pat. 1485-94, p. 155. 



• Ibid. p. 210. 



• Chan. Inq. p.m. ptf. 25, no. 63 ; ptf. 

 79, nos. 174, 191. 



">/.. 6- P. Hen. VIII, 1509-13, no. 

 1662 (58), no. 2772(51). 



" Complete Peerage (New Ed.), iii, 

 390. 



'" Pat. R. 12 Eliz. pt. 7, m.i ; pt. 9, m. 

 34 ; Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 13 Eliz. 



'• Close R. 13 Geo. Ill, pt. 19, no. 7. 



'« G.E.C. Complete Peerage, y, 80. 



» V.C.H. Northants. i, 365*. 



'^ Chron. Petrob. (Camden Soc), 113- 

 119. 



" Cal. Inq. iv, p. 316. 



" Ch. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 62. 



'• Ibid. 10 Ric. II, no. 38 ; 4 Hen. IV 

 no. 41. •" Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 349. 



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