A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



vowson remained in his family until 1 600, when his 

 grandson, Lewis Lord Mordaunt, with his son and heir 

 Henry Mordaunt, sold it to Edward Haselrigg," by 

 whom the reversion was granted to Robert Syers of 

 Isham, convicted of recusancy in 1603. Five years 

 later Edward Haselrigg obtained a grant of the ad- 

 vowson for forty-one years on payment of a fine to 

 Robert Syers.®" The presentation of 1617, however, 

 was made by Sir Edward Montagu,*^ and although 

 the Crown reasserted its rights in 1620 by granting 

 the church to Sir Henry Spiller and others,'^ it seems 



to have followed the descent of the manor until 1821" 

 when it was united to the church of Barnwell St. 

 Andrew.** 



This parish participates in the 

 CHARITIES benefits of Parson Latham's Hos- 

 pital, an account of which is given 

 under the parish of Barnwell St. Andrew. 



A sum of 6s. Sd. yearly, known as the Montagu 

 Dole, is due on St. Thomas' Day for the poor of 

 Barnwell All Saints out of Lord Montagu's Estate. 

 The origin of this charity is unknown. 



BARTON SEAGRAVE 



Bertone xi cent. 



The parish of Barton Seagrave contains 1,826 acres 

 of land, and lies between 200 ft. and just over 300 ft. 

 above the ordnance datum. The subsoil is Great and 

 Inferior Oolite and Upper Lias. The river Ise forms 

 part of the western boundary and another stream part 

 of the eastern boundary. The village is on the Ket- 

 tering and Thrapston road about two miles south-east 

 of Kettering. The church lies on the south side of 

 the road and south-west of it is the site of Barton Sea- 

 grave Castle built in the early part of the 14th cen- 

 tury by Nicholas Segrave the younger,' and is appa- 

 rently last mentioned in 1433,^ after which it probably 

 became a ruin. It was surrounded by a moat, and 

 another moat lies to the north of the castle site. Barton 

 Seagrave Hall, lately the property of Mr. George 

 Edward Stringer, but now of the Wicksteed Village 

 Trust, is on the north side of the road. It appears to 

 have been rebuilt in the first half of the 1 8th century, 

 the date 1725 being on the lead rain-water heads. The 

 house is of two stories, constructed throughout of 

 limestone and roofed with CoUyweston slates. The 

 main front faces south and has projecting end-wings 

 ■with plain gables and a middle gabled porch of two 

 stories with classic doorway. A wing at the east end 

 containing a number of small rooms appears to be older 

 than the rest of the building.^ 



The Kettering and Huntingdon branch of the Lon- 

 don Midland and Scottish Railway crosses the parish, 

 the nearest station being at Kettering. 



The manor of BARTON, which was 

 MANORS afterwards divided into the manors of 

 BARTON HANRED and BARTON 

 SEAGRAVE, was held in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor by Burred.'' He and his parents are said 

 to have granted it to the Abbey of Peterborough,^ but 

 it was not amongst the abbey lands in the Domesday 

 Book (1086), but appears under those of Geoffrey 



Bishop of Coutances, to whom it and other lands of 

 Burred and his son Eadwine were granted.* It 

 was assessed at 4J hides in 1086,' and passed to 

 Robert de Mowbray, who forfeited it to William 

 Rufus. Rufus probably gave them to Robert Fitz- 

 Hamon, whose daughter married Robert first Earl of 

 Gloucester.* They thus passed to the Gloucester Fee 

 in Northamptonshire.* In 1086 the sub-tenant of 

 the manor was named Robert,'" but early in the 12th 

 century he had been succeeded by Geoffrey the cham- 

 berlain, probably Geoffrey de Clinton, who held 5 

 hides of land in Barton.'' In 1284, the immediate 

 mesne tenant of the Earl of Gloucester was Joan 

 Chambernon,"' who was living in 1 314," but her 

 successors are not named, nor does it appear what 

 right she had in the manor. 



In the second half of the 12th century Barton was 

 held in mesne lordship by Richard de Hanred,'* 

 who gave his name to the manor of BARTON HAN- 

 RED. His son William succeeded as a minor, but was 

 of age in 1201,'^ and he held the manor partly as a 

 mesne lord but had also 2i virgates of land in de- 

 mesne." He died before 1209" and was succeeded 

 by his son Richard ;'* the latter's heir was holding 

 Barton in 1243;'® he was probably another Richard de 

 Hanred, who was living in 1266.^" His successor, 

 William Hanred,^' was hanged for felony in 1295, and 

 his possessions escheated to the king for a year and a 

 day, and the mesne lordship disappeared.^^ 



The first tenant of the manor in demesne whose 

 name is recorded was William Clifford, who was 

 hanged for felony in the latter part of the 12th cen- 

 tury .^^ It escheated to his lord, Richard de Hanred, 

 and while William de Hanred was a minor his guar- 

 dian granted it to Thomas de Buketon, who married 

 Agatha sister of William Cliff^ord.-'' It passed to her 

 son John de Buketon before 1 201, when William de 

 Hanred tried to recover it.^^ An agreement was made 



'• Feet of F. Northanti. Mich. 42 and 

 43 Ellz. 



'" Pat. R. 6 Ja». I. pt. ii (1761), no. 17. 



" Init. Bk.. (P.R.O.). 



•• Pit. R. 18 Jai. I, pt. 21 (2136), no. 5. 

 m. 7. 



•• Init. Bki. (P.R.O.). 



•• Vardon, Index U ImcoI Pen. and Priv. 

 Acu, 1798-1839. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, no. 37 ; 

 D.N.B. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. 11 lien. VI, no. 43. 

 ■ • C. A. Matkham in Norlhanli N. and 

 Q. (N.S.), T, 146-9. 



' V.C.H. Norlbanlt. i, p. 311. 



' Sparkc, Hiu. An^l. Script. (Var.), ii, 

 43. • V.C.H. Noribanis, i, 287. 



' Ibid. 311a. • Ibid. 287-8. 



' Ibid. 389A ; Ch.in. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. 

 II, no. 68 ; 46 Edw. Ill (i«t nos.), no. 62 ; 

 10 Ric. II, no. 437 ; 4 Hen. IV, no. 41. 



'" V.C.H. Norlhanti. i, p. 311. 



" Ibid. 389*. 



" Feud Aids, iv, 12. 



'• Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II no. 68 j 

 Col. Close, 1313-18, p. 138. 



'« Abkrev. Plac. (Rcc. Com.), p. 34. 



" Ibid. 



'• Feet of F. Northanti. 4 John, caic 

 171, file 9, no. 145. 



176 



'^ Booh of Fees, \, 19, 



■» Red Bk. of E.ych. (Roll. Ser.), 533 ; 

 Feet of F. Northants. 2 Hen. Ill, case 172, 

 file 14, no. 3 ; 4 Hen. HI, case 172, file 16, 

 no. 64 ; Bk. of Fees, i, 326. 



'• Ibid, ii, 937; Egcrton MS. (B.M.), 



J73.1. '"'• '42<'- 



•" Cal. Pal. 1258-66, p. 592. 



" Feud. Aids,{v, 12 ; Cat. Close, 1272-79, 

 p. 4i;i-2. 



"Ibid. 1288-96, p. 478; 1330-33, 

 p. 70-1. 



" Ahhrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), p. 34. 



•« Ibid. 



»• Ibid. 



