A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Winchester." In 1284 two-thirds of the manor was 

 held by Hugh and the remaining third by John de 

 Beaumont, on whom Godfrey de Beaumont and his 

 wife Cecily, two years before, had settled lands, the 

 inheritance of Cecily in Barnwell.'* 



Hugh leased the manor in 1297*' and before 1316 

 granted it for life to Walter de Langton, Bishop of 

 Coventry and Lichfield, who died seised of the manor 

 called Spenser in Barnwell.-" 



In 1326, the Earl and his son were executed and 

 their lands forfeited.-' 



After the death of Giles de Wachesham, another 

 life owner,2- the king in 1337 granted the manor to 

 his yeoman, John de Ravensholme.^' Later in the 

 same year Hugh le Despenser, the earl's grandson, 

 renounced his right in the manor in John's favour.'* 

 John, in 1344, made a settlement of the manor in his 

 wife Margaret and his heirs.-* He died in 1353,^' 

 Margaret and their son Thomas, then aged four, 

 surviving him.-' After Thomas's death without issue 

 in 1370, the manor was held by his mother until her 

 death in 1375.'* The heirs of John de Ravensholme 

 were then found to be the descendants of Margery 

 and Cicely, the sisters of his father William de Ravens- 

 holme, namely, John Dyn, grandson of Margery, 

 and John Dounome, son of Cicely .^^ John Dyn had 

 already conveyed the reversion of his moiety to Sir 

 Richard Stury,^ to whom John Dounome soon after 

 Margaret's death, sold his moiety.^' In 1376 Sir 

 Richard received a life grant from the Crown of a 

 weekly cartload of firewood for his hearth at Barnwell 

 such as Sir John de Ravensholme had enjoyed before 

 him.'- In 1385 he settled the manor in tailmale,'^' and 

 on the death of his widow Alice in 141 3 Barnwell All 

 Saints descended to Robert Stury, the third but first 

 surviving contingent heir.** Sir Robert settled it on 

 his son Richard, to whom Catherine Stury, his widow 

 and Richard's mother, released her right.** In 1436 

 Joan Pavy, widow, formerly relict of John Kent, 

 also renounced her right.'* In 1438 Richard Stury, 

 then knight, sold Barnwell All Saints to John 

 Sturdys, citizen and goldsmith of London." A 

 considerable part of the manor seems also to have 

 belonged to John Laurence of Wyboldston, Bedford- 

 shire, and Elizabeth, wife of John Estwyk, who, 

 together with John Estwyk, sold their rights here to 

 John Sturdys in 1441.** John Sturdys sold the manor 



in 1447 to Thomas Thorpe'' in whose possession it 

 was in 1451.'"' Thomas, one of the Barons of the 

 Exchequer under Henry VI, was taken prisoner at the 

 Baale of Northampton and executed after a long 

 imprisonment.'" His lands in Northamptonshire 

 were confiscated by Edward IV in I46l,''2 but were re- 

 stored to his son Roger on the accession of Henry VII.''* 

 Roger was lord of the manor of Barnwell All Saints 

 in 1496 when, with his wife Constance, he sold it to 

 David Phelip''* afterwards knight of the body to 

 Henry VII.« \\'ithin a year of his death in 1506** 

 Sir David sold the reversion to George Kirkham, who 

 sued his executors in Chancery for their refusal to 

 complete the bargain.'" George, however, was seised 

 of the manor of Barnwell All Saints when he died in 

 1528. He had settled it on his son Robert and his 

 wife Sybil.'** In 1548 Sir Robert Kirkham and Sybil, 

 together with John Banastre, whom Sir Robert had 

 enfeoffed of some part of his estates,** sold the manor 

 to Sir Edward Montagu*" and within the next three 

 years George Middleton and George Lynne, sons and 

 heirs respectively of Margaret 

 Middleton and Agnes Lynne, 

 the daughters of George Kirk- 

 ham, confirmed his title.*' 

 From that time to the present 

 day Barnwell All Saints has 

 descended with Barnwell St. 

 Andrew (q.v.) 



Another so-called manor in 

 this parish was in the posses- 

 sion of William Dudley of 

 Clapton in 1521 and descended 

 with the manor of Clapton 

 (q.v.) until 1666, when it was 

 mortgaged by Sir William 

 Dudley*^ and acquired six years later by Edward 

 Lord Montagu.** 



An estate in this parish called Barnes between 

 15 1 8 and 1529 appears to be the so-called manor of 

 Barnes sold to Sir Edward Montagu in 1548 by 

 John Banastre who seems to have acquired it from 

 Sir Robert Kirkham.*'' 



The manor of Barnwell All Saints had two dove- 

 cotes in the 14th century,** twelve in 1548.** A 

 fishery is mentioned amongst its appurtenances in 

 1 28 1.*' There were a capital messuage and a wind- 



MoNTAGU. Quarterly : 

 I (S- 4 Argent a Jesse in- 

 dented of three points and 

 a border sable ; 26-3, 

 Or an eagle vert. 



*' Complete Peerage (New Ed.), iv, 261;. 



" Feet of F. Northants. caie 174, file 

 51, no. 12. Cecily was probably a 

 Ferreri by birth [Bridges, op. cit. i, 



485]- 



" Pat. R. 25 Edw. I, pt. 2 (117), m. 17. 



•" Feud. Aids, iv, 28 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 15 Edw. II, file 70, no. 7. 



" Complete Peerage (New Ed.), iv, 266, 

 6^-70. 



" Pat. R. 16 Edw. II, pt. I (157), m. 10, 



" Ibid. II Edw. Ill, pt. 2 C"9o)i n>- 29. 



•• Close R. II Edw. Ill, pt. 2 (159), 

 m. i^d. 



"Pat. R. i« Edw. Ill, pt. 2 (212), 

 m. 26; Feet of F. Northants. case 177, 

 file 77. no. 287. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. Ill, file 121, 

 no. 12. 



•' Ibid. 



"Ibid. 49 Edw. Ill, file 251, pt. 2 

 (ist nos), no. 29. 



•• Close R. 49 Edw. Ill (213), m. 9. 



•• Feet of F. North.ints. case 178, file 84, 



no. 648 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, 

 pt 2. (ist nos,), file 251, no. 29. 



" Feet of F. Northants. case 178, file 

 85, no. 689. 



" Cal. Pat. 1377-81, p. 314. 



" Pat. R. 6 Ric. II, pt. i (313), m. 27 ; 

 8 Ric. II, pt. ii (319), m. 31. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. V, file 8, 

 no. 27. 



" Bridges, op. cit. ii, 214. 



" Close R. 14 Men. VI (286), m. 9. 



•' Ibid. if. Men. VI (288), m. 10. 



■" Feet of F. Northants. case 179, file 

 95, no. 104. 



•* Bridges, loc. cit. 



" Close R. 32 Hen. VI (304), m. 22J. 



♦' Pari. R. (Rec. Com.) vi, pp. 294-5. 



" Pat. I Edw. IV, pt. 4 (495), m. 81/. 



*• Pari K. (Rcc. Com.) vi, pp. 294-5. 



'* Feet o( F. Northants. case 179, file 97, 

 no. 39. 



" Cal. Pat. 1494-1509, p. 383. 



" Ibid. pp. 490, 514-15. 



•' Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 328, no. 56. 



•74 



" Chancery Warrants, file 608, no. 161 j 

 L. and P. Hen. I' III, iv, g. 4993 (4); 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 692, no. 13. 



" Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 2 Edw. VI, 

 m. 7. 



'» Ibid. Trin. 2 Edw. VI, m. 91/; Feet of 

 F. Northants. Trin. 2 Edw. VI. 



" Com. Pleas 1). Enr. Mich. 3 Edw. VI, 

 m. 91/1 nil. 3 and 4 Edw. VI, m. qd ; 

 Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 3 and 4 

 Edw. VI. 



•' Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 18 

 Chas. II. 



*' Bridges, op. cit. ii, 214. 



'• Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 510, nos. 12, 

 13 ; Com. Pleas \). Knr. East. 2 Edw. VI, 

 m. 7. 



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

 no. 8; 15 Edw. II, file 70, no. 7; 27 

 Edw. Ill, file 121, no. 12. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 2 

 Edw. VI. 



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

 no. 8. 



