HUXLOE HUNDRED 



The first volume of registers contains entries of 

 baptisms from 156J to 1653, but there are no marriages 

 or burials, the book having been mutilated.'* The 

 second volume contains baptisms 1653-1711, mar- 

 riages 1654-1706, and burials 1653-1678. At the end 

 of the second volume are sixteen pages of briefs. 



There was a priest among the 

 ADl'OiySON tenants of the Abbey of Peterborough 

 in Aldwinkle between 1 125 and 1 128'' 

 and two parts of the tithes were confirmed to the abbot 

 by Pope Eugenius III.''' The church was held with 

 the manor in the middle of the 12th century \t'hen 

 Hugh de Waterville held them, and they continued to 

 be so held. In 1372 it was found by inquisition that 

 Oliver de Lufwik and Richard, parson of the church of 

 Stanwigg, might assign tenements in Aldwinkle, held 

 of Sir Robert de Holand, to William de Lufwik, parson 



BARNWELL 

 ALL SAINTS 



of St. Peter's church, to provide a priest to celebrate 

 daily at the high altar.'* At the time of the Dissolution, 

 the tithes, the rectory house, the land and glebe were 

 worth /;i I 16;. 8(/. a year, whence loj. 7(f. was paid to 

 the archdeacon of Northampton for procurations and 

 synodals.'* In 1570, at an episcopal visitation, it was 

 presented against the rector of Aldwinkle St. Peter 

 that ' the parsonage is in decay. And that he helpeth 

 not the poore nor tcacheth anie children.'" 



In 1602 Thomas Fuller became rector, whose son, 

 born at Aldwinkle in 1608, was Thomas Fuller, author 

 of the ' Worthies."* Joseph Drury, the distinguished 

 headmaster of Harrow School from 1785 to 1805, held 

 the living for some years on condition he should resign 

 it to the son of Lord Lilford, the patron, but he never 

 lived at Aldwinkle." 



There are no separate charities for this parish."" 



BARNWELL ALL SAINTS 



Bernewelle (xi cent.) ; Bernwella (xii cent.) ; 

 Barnewell, Kyngesbernewelle (xiv cent.) ; King's 

 Barnwell (xvi cent.) ; Barnwell .All Saints (xvii cent.). 



The parish of Barnwell All Saints, which since 1821 

 has been united with the sister parish of Barnwell 

 St. Andrew ' covers 1,781 acres on a subsoil of Corn- 

 brash, surrounding Great Oolite in the north and 

 centre and Oxford Clay in the south-east. The land 

 is mostly under grass, but hay, wheat, barley and 

 beans are grown. There are over 200 acres of wood- 

 land. The average height above the ordnance 

 datum is 200 ft. In the west of the parish the main 

 road from Thrapston to Oundle leads northwards, 

 separating it from Lilford cum Wigsthorpe. The 

 village is watered by a stream flowing, also northwards, 

 into and through the neighbouring village of Barnwell 

 St. Andrew, which passes in its course the site of the 

 manor house, tenanted in the early years of the 1 8th 

 century by Mrs. Elizabeth Creed, philanthropist 

 and artist, a Montagu by birth,^ and the remains of 

 the church of All Saints. A little distance to the 

 east are Friar's Close Farm, a moat, and Foot Hill 

 Spinney. There is a considerable amount of wood- 

 land in the south-east of Barnwell All Saints and 

 different parts of this are named Rough Wold, 

 Common Wold, Barnwell Wold, Gunwell's Wold, 

 Middle Coppice, and New Park Close. Earlier 

 place names are Newdegardun, which belonged to the 

 chief manor in the 14th century,' Tuthill and Break- 

 hill situated east of the village, and Kilsey meadow, 

 all three known in the 1 8th century. 



Barnwell All Saints is said to have been inclosed in 

 1683.* In 192 1 its population numbered 79 persons. 



Barnwell All Saints belonged to the 



MANORS king in 1086, but in the following 



century was alienated to Robert de 



Ferrers.* Robert and his successors in the parish 



held of the Crown in chief until l6o8.' 



From the first Robert de Ferrers, created Earl of 

 Derby in 1 138, SPENSER or KINGS BARN If ELL 

 descended to his son of the same name' who gave 

 10 librates of his fee here to his daughter Isold on her 

 marriage with Stephen de Beauchamp. Isold was a 

 widow in 1 1 85, with a son aged four and five daughters." 

 Her son, another Stephen de Beauchamp, was dead 

 without issue in 1216" and his lands in Barnwell went 

 to John, son of his sister Isold de Suburie, (Sud- 

 borough), by her husband Richard de Suburie, and 

 Maud, another sister, widow of William de Wascough*" 

 who conveyed their shares in 

 the manor to Sir Philip 

 Basset.** This conveyance was 

 confirmed by John de Suburie 

 and Ralph son of Maud de 

 Wascough, in 1248. '^ 



Sir Philip Basset gave the 

 manor of Barnwell All Saints 

 to Hugh le Despenser in free 

 marriage with his daughter 

 Aline or Aveline,*' who be- 

 came the wife of Hugh Bigod, 

 Earl of Norfolk** after her 

 first husband's death at the 

 battle of Evesham.** She 



died in 1 28 1 and the manor descended to her son 

 and heir Hugh le Despenser** afterwards Earl of 



Despenser. Argent 

 quartered tvitb gules 

 fretty or with a baston 

 sable over all. 



"The book consisted originally of 65 

 parchment leaves, of which only 14 re- 

 main. 



'• Cbron. Petrob. (Camden Soc), 166. 



'• Sparke, Hist. Angl. Script. (Hugo 

 Candidus), 83. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (znd 

 nos.) 35. 



'• Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 291. 



" Sorthants. N. &■ Q. (New Ser.), ii, 176. 



"Ibid. 173. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. 



"> See Aldwinkle All Saints. 

 * Vardon, Index to Local Personal and 

 frivau Acts. In 134; < croft in Barnwell 



next the well which is called ' Barnewell * 

 is referred to (Bucdeuch Coll. 148 H 78). 



• D.N.B. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, file 

 251, no. 29. 



' Bridges, Hist. Noribanis. ii, 213-14. 



' y.C.H. Nortbanls. i, 307a, 359-61, 

 jC^b. 



• Feud. Aids, iv, 13 ; Pat. R. 25 Edw. I, 

 pt, ii(ii7), m. 7 ; 16 Edw. II, pt. i 

 (157), m. 10; II Edw. Ill, pt. ii (190), 

 m. 29 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. ; 27 Edw. Ill, 

 file 121, no. 12 ; 2 Hen. V, file 8, no. 27 ; 

 6 Hen. VI, file 35, no. 58 j (Ser. ii) cccv. 

 129. 



' Complete Peerage (New Ed.) iv, 190. 



« Rot. de Dom. (Pipe R. Soc), 20. 



» Close R. (2 Hen. Ill (19), m. l8d. 



'*• Dugdale, Baronage^ i, 252. 



" Anct. D. A. 5033, 5069. 



" Anct. D. A. 5027 ; Feet of F. 

 Northants. case 173, file 36, no. 569. 



'• Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. I, file 27, 

 no. 8. 



'• Cal. of Inq, p.m. Edw. I, vol. ii, 

 no. 389. 



" Complete Peerage (New Ed.), iv, 261. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. I, file 27, 

 no. 8. 



