HUXLOE HUNDRED 



BURTON LATIMER 



In the reign of lulward tlic Confessor, 

 MANORS Earl Ralph, probably the carl of Here- 

 ford, held 8J hides of land,' which 

 constituted, until the first half of the 13th century, the 

 manor of Burton, and paid the service due from 1} 

 knights' fees.' In 1086, it was held of the king in 

 chief by Guy de Reinbuedcurt,'" whose son Richard 

 was the tenant under Henry I." Richard is said to 

 have pledged the manor in payment of a gambling debt, 

 to the King,'- who granted it, to hold at pleasure, 

 to Alan de Dinant, a Breton who defeated the cliam- 

 pion of the King of France near Gisors.** This grant, 

 which was continued to Alan's successors, evidently 

 caused confusion as to the payment of scutage, and 

 in 1 173-74 ••" inquiry was ordered as to the fee which 

 Roland de Dinant held of the King.*'* Margery, the 

 daughter and heir of Richard de Reinbuedcurt, 

 married Robert Foliot and their descendants con- 

 tinued to return Burton amongst their fees.'* Margery, 

 the granddaughter of Robert Foliot, brought their 

 rights in the manor to her husband Wischard Ledct, 

 who answered for the Foliot barony in 1210-12." 

 In 1215, his lands were seized by King John, and his 

 Northamptonshire holdings were granted to Hugh 

 Neville." Ledet, however, recovered Burton, which 

 escheated to the Crown at his death, about 1221.'' 

 It seems clear, however, that at this time, or a few 

 years bter, a division of the manor was made between 

 the heir of Wischard Ledct and the successors of 

 Alan de Dinant. The former relinquished the over- 

 lordship of the whole manor and obtained a third 

 of the township of Burton, which formed a separate 

 manor, held in chief of the King in demesne as half 

 a knight's fee." It was known as Jl'LESFORD'S 

 MJ.\OR-<> or BURTON LJTIMER.-^ Wischard 

 Ledct's heir was his daughter Christina, the wife first 

 of Henry de Braybroc" and then of Gerard dc 

 Furnival.-^ She outlived both her eldest son Wischard, 

 who took the name of Ledet, and his son Walter, so 

 that on her death between 1266 and 1270,-* her h^-irs 

 were Walter's daughters Alice and Christina, the wives 

 of the brothers William and John Latimer, and Burton 

 was apparently assigned to Alice.^ In the meantime, 

 the manor had been subinfeudated. In 1242 it was 

 held by Henry de Aldwinkle, probably only for life,"' 

 since it wasgiven, possibly in the lifetime of Christina," 

 to her younger son Gerard de Furnival.'-* He gave 

 it to his elder daughter Christina, the wife of William 



Gules a cross 



de Aylesford or Eylcsford,'" and it was held of the 

 Latimers for the rent of i oz. of silk or 121/. a year.*" 

 The younger Christina, as a widow, apparently granted 

 it both to Gerard dc Furnival and to John Devereux 

 and, though an ensuing lawsuit in 1283 was decided in 

 favour of Furnival,*' Devereux evidently obtained a 

 further grant of it for life as he died seised in 1316.*^ It 

 reverted to Christina's son, Gerard de Aylesford** and 

 passed in direct succession to 

 lidmund,** John*^ and John de 

 .Aylesford. The last granted 

 all his right in the manor in 

 1369 to his overlord William, 

 Lord Latimer, the great- 

 grandson of Alice Ledet.** On 

 the death of Lord Latimer's 

 widow in 1389 it passed to 

 their daughter Elizabeth and 

 by her marriage to the 

 Nevilles,*' who held it till 

 the death of John Neville, 



Lord Latimer, in 1577.** It was inherited by 

 Catherine, the eldest of his four daughters and heirs, 

 and wife of Henry, Earl of Nortliumberland.** Her 

 son sold it in 1605 to Francis and George Mulsho,** 

 from whom it passed to Edward Bacon.'" He died 

 seised of the manor of Burton Latimer in 1627'- and 

 was succeeded by his son Thomas, a vigorous opponent 

 of the levy of ship-money.''* Thomas's son Edmund 

 inherited it in l642'''' and was living in 1670. Early 

 in the 1 8th century. Dr. Perkins, who had married 

 the widow of Edmund or his successor, was lord of the 

 manor.** 



About 1760 the manor was purchased by John 

 Harpur, on whose death it passed to his cousin 

 Joseph Harpur, of Chilvers Coton (co. Warwick). His 

 son, Henry Richard Harpur, was succeeded in 1870 by 

 his brother, the Rev. Latimer Harpur, who died in 

 1872. His son and heir, the Rev. Henry Harpur, 

 died in 1904, and was succeeded by his son, Thomas 

 Wilfred Harpur, the present owner.'" 



The two-thirds of the township of Burton which 

 in the 13th century were assigned to the successors 

 of Alan de Dinant became known as the manor of 

 BURTON by THINGDEm'' or BURTON PLESSl' 

 or PLACr*'*. Alan, the grantee of Henry I, was 

 succeeded as tenant at will in the whole of Burton by 

 Roland de Dinant, who was holding it in 1166 and 



• y.C./f. Xorihants. 1, 342A. 



• Red Bk. of Ex.b. (R.ill) jcr.), jji-z. 

 '" y.C.H. S'oribants. i, 342A. ' 



" Ibid. p. 3S9A. 



" B.nkcr, Hist, oj Northants. i, 521. 



■> Book oj Fees (P.R.O.), ii, 937. 



■« Great Roll of the Pipe (Pipe Roll Soc), 

 xxi, 53. 



" Dugddlc, Baronage, 1, 679 ; Red Bk. 

 of Exch. (Roll» ler.), 331-2; Pipe Roll 

 Soc. xviii, 53; Pipe Roll, 13 John, m. 13. 



" Wrottcjicy, PeJ. from the Plea R. 

 SIS J Pipe Roll, 5 John ; Red Bk. of 

 Ex.b. (Roll tcr.), 173, 532. 



" Rot. Litl. Claui. (Rec. Com.), i, 235*. 



" Excerpt, e Rot. Fin. i, 80. 



*• Book of Fees, i, 499 ; Feud. Atds, iv, 12. 



"■ Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. 34. 



«' And. D. A, 8428. 



" Excerpt, e Rot. Fin. i, 80. 



" Cat. Inq. p.m. ii, no. 374. 



«* Cal. Pat. 1258-66, p. 559 J Cal. Inq. 

 i, no. 781. 



'•'- Ibid. ; Cal. Close, 1279-88, p. 325 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 43. 



'• Bk. of Fees, ii, p. 937. 



" Cf. Rot. Ric. Gravcsend (Cant, and 

 York. Soc), p. 105. 



" Ibid. ; Assize R. 1256, m. 33 ; Dc 

 Banco R. 427, m. 203. 



«• Ibid. 



"" Cal. Inq. p.m. v, no. 569. 



" Assize R. 1256, m. 33. 



'^ Feud. Aids, IV, 12, 29; Cal. Inq. v, 

 no. 569. 



" Ibid. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, 

 no. 37. 



" Ibid. ; ibid. 5 Edw. Ill (ist nos ), no. 

 43 ; Cal. Close, 1327-30, p. 414. 



>» Ibid. 



" Close R. 46 Edw. Ill, m. 28 ; G.E.C. 

 Complete Peerage. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. 34. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 54; 

 ibid. 5 Urn. IV, no. 28; Ecct of F. 



181 



Div. Cos. Hil. 22 Hen. VI ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 9 & 10 Edw. IV, no. 28 ; Anct. D. 

 A. 8428 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), clxxviii, 



57- 



'" Ibid, ccxlviii, 22 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. 



Trin. 21 Eliz. ; Hil. 22 Eliz. ; Trin. 28 Eliz. 



" Rccov. R. Hil. 2 Jas. I, ro. 95 ; Feet 

 of F. Nnrthants. Mich. 2 Jas. I ; Northants 

 Record Society, i, p. 49(cit. Quarter Sessions 

 Records). 



" Metcalfe, Visit, of Northants. p. 66; 

 Feet of F. Northants. Trin. i Chas. I. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccccxixv, 

 115. 



" Ibid. ; Cal. S. P. Dom. 1635-36, pp. 



J29, 33>. 349- 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), dxxi, 47 ; 

 Feet of F. Northants. East. 1654 ; ibid. 

 East. 21 Chas. II. 



*' Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 223. 



" Burke's Landed Gentry. 



*' Cal. Inq. iv, no. 47. 



*' Chan. Inq. p.m 8 Hen. IV, no. 63 



