HUXLOE HUNDRED 



Or two bends 



held in 1086 by Robert as a mesne lord of the Abbey 

 and identified with the somewhat smaller holding of 

 Maurice Daundelyn in the 12th-century survey.' 

 Robert was presumably Robert D'Oylcv who was 

 the tenant in 1125-2S,"' and 

 the manor continued to be 

 held of the fee of D'Oyley til! 

 1253.'° In 1284 John son of 

 Guy was the mesne lord,** but 

 afterwards the manor seems 

 to have been held immediately 

 of the Abbey.'- In 1086 a 

 nameless knight was the sub- 

 tenant of Robert D'Oyley," 

 and early in the next century 

 the manor was in the hands of 

 Maurice Daundelyn.'* It was 



held by the service due from half a knight's fce.'^ 

 Maurice was succeeded in direct male succession'" by 

 Ralph (living 1189)," Maurice (living temp. John),'* 

 Ralph (living 1228),'* Maurice (l 261), Hugh (living 

 1 280- 1 3 16),-" John (living temp. Edward III)-' and 

 John Daundelyn (living 1346).-- The second John sold 

 the manor in 1360 to Henry Pyel, afterwards Arch- 

 deacon of Northampton, and Richard Bryan, chaplain, 

 presumably as trustees of John Pyel.'-^ The manor 

 followed the descent of Pyel's manor in Woodford,-' in 

 spite of attempts by John, son of William, son of the 

 last-named John Daundelyn-'' in 1403 and by his son 

 William-" in 1469, to recover possession. In 1595, 

 William, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who had been 

 empowered by Act of Parliament to alienate certain 

 manors, sold Cranford to Thomas Hensman, Owen 

 Prise and Thomas Conwaye," who also obtained a 

 quitclaim of the manor from Sir Thomas Cecil and his 

 wife Dorothy.-* It is said to have come before 1676 

 into the possession of a family named Coo, wlio were 

 lords of the manor of Cranford St. Johns (q.v.) 

 Dr. Christopher Coo, D.D., sold it in 1715 to Sir 

 James Robinson, bart.,-' and his descendant Sir 

 Frederick Robinson is now lord of the manor. 



Godric's holding in Cranford mentioned in Domes- 

 day Book^ may possibly be identified with CURZON'S 

 Af.4.\0R, which was held of the Abbey of Peter- 

 borough early in the 12th century by Bertram de 



Robinson. Vrrt a hart 

 Inppiit^ in an orle of 

 trcjoili or. 



CRANFORD 

 ST. ANDREW 



Verdun, whose holding, however, contained 2 hides and 

 I J virgates of land," instead of the l} hides held bv 

 Godric. In the latter half of the 

 13th century John de Verdun, 

 Constable of Ireland, seems to 

 have held the overlordsliip.''- 

 Wliile the lands came into 

 liis hands owing to the for- 

 feiture for felony by an under- 

 tenant, he seems to have 

 enfeoffed John de Kirkby with 

 part of them, overriding the 

 rights of his intermediate 

 tenant. Sir Richard Curzoii.^ 

 No furtlier mention is made 

 of the Verdun mesne lordship, 



but lands, parcel of the manor of Cranford, were 

 held of the Curzons of Croxhall, in Staffordshire, 

 as late as 1638.^' 



Richard Curzon granted it to his son Thomas,^ 

 whose son Robert was the tenant in 1278 and 1284,"* 

 and who seems to have settled 

 at Cranford.^' In 1300 and 

 1316 the tenant was John 

 Curzon,^ who was probably 

 succeeded by Thomas Curzon 

 before 1329.^' It passed before 

 1374 to Margaret Curzon, 

 who probably married John 

 Fossebrook. He was living in 

 1391, but seems to have died 

 before I403. His son and heir, 

 John, died in 1418, and both 

 he and his wife Maud, who 

 was nurse to King Henry VI, 

 arc buried at Cranford St. Andrew. She survived him 

 for many years, and apparently held the manor for 

 life. She was succeeded in direct succession by 

 Gerard, John and Robert Fossebrook, the last-named 

 dying seised of Curzon's manor in 1518. He was suc- 

 ceeded by his son John,''" who died in less than a 

 year. The manor passed to Richard, John's brother and 

 heir,'" whose direct descendants held it till 1630,''- 

 when, after the death of John Fossebrook, leaving 

 several daughters as his heirs, it was sold to Lawrence 



Curzon of CroxI)all. 

 Azure a bend between 

 tion Iiotis argent wt th three 

 piirrots vert on the bend. 



» r.C.H. Norlbants. i, 389A. 



• Cbron. Pelrob. (Camden Soc), 173. 



'» Ibid. ; Sparke, Htst. Angl. Script. 

 (Var.) pt. ii, 62,81; Cal. Chart, i, 20 ; Cal. 

 Imj. i, no. 10; Soc. Antiq. MS. 60, fol. 

 249. 



" Feud Aids, iv, 13. 



"Colt. MS. (B.M.), Vesp. E xxii, 

 fol. 112; Feud Aids, iv, 49; Cal. Inq. 

 Hen. f'J/, i, no. 297. 



" V.C.H. Norlbants. i, 317a. 



'* Ibid. 389. 



" Cal. Inq. i, no. 10 ; Egerton MS. 

 (B.M.) 2733, fol. 136,^; Feud Aids, 

 iv, 13; Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, fol. 152 

 (in another entry, in the same register 

 (fol. 128) John Daundelyn is said to hold 

 I \ fees in Cranford, but this is probably 

 a mistake). 



'• Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, fol. 152; De 

 Hanco R. 833, m. 324. 



*' Cbron. Petrob. 173 ; Sparke, op. cit. 

 C2 ; Cal. Chart, i, p. 20; iv, p. 277. 

 The dates are talicn from Mellows, 

 Pytebley's Bk.of Fees, 116 «, who quotes 

 authorities. 



*• Cal. Inq. i, no. 10; Egerton MS. 



(B.M.) 2733, fol. 1 36; Feet of F. Northants. 

 37 Hen. Ill, case 173, file 39, no. 627 ; 45 

 Hen. Ill, case 174, file 46, no. 805. 



'» Mellows, Pytchley's Bk. 0/ Fees 

 (North.ints Rcc. Soc), 116 », quoting 

 Swaflham, fol. 267*. 



"> Feud. Aids, iv, pp. 13, 29 ; Cott. MS. 

 Vesp. E xxii, fol. 1 12. 



•' Ibid. Cleop. C i, fol. 152; Cal. 

 Pat. 1350-54, p. 254. 



" Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, fol. 152. 

 " Feet of F. Northants, Mich. 33 

 Edw. Ill, case 177, file 81, no. 477 ; 

 ;o Edw. Ill, case 178, file 85, no. 696 ; 

 Cal. Close 13S5-S9. p. 143. 



" See below j Feet of F. Northants. 

 4 Hen. VI, case 179, file 93, no. 35 ; 

 Feud. Aids, iv, p. 49 ; Cal. Inq. Hen. VII, 

 i, no. 297 ; Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 587, 

 no. 40 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 27 

 Elii. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii) ccxiiv, 

 115. 



«' Wrottcsley, Ped. from the Plea R. 

 231, citing De Banco R. Mich. 4 Hen. IV, 

 m. 492. 



«• Ibid. 428, citing De Banco R. 9 

 Edw. IV, m. 324. 



187 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccxiiv, 115; 

 Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 37 Eliz. 



" Ibid. nil. 38 Eliz. 



" Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 227 ; 

 G.E.C. Baronetage, iii, 55. 



"" V.C.H. Northants. i, 317,1. 



>' Ibid. 3890 kb. 



" Colt. Ch. XXX, 2. 



'' Cf. Ch.in. Inq. p.m. iS Edw. I, no. 37. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), dcclxxt, 5S. 



"Ibid. 18 Edw. I. no. 37. 



s' Ibid. ; cf. Rot. Ric. Cramsend (Cant, 

 and Yoik Soc), 136; Feud. Aids, iv. 13. 



»' Cf. Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 166; Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. 150. 



'" Rot. Jn. Dalderby, cit. Bridges, ii, 

 228 ; Feud. Aids, iv, 19. 



" Cal. Close, 1327-30, 589. 



'"Northants. N. and Q. (New Ser.), ii, 

 12-13; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), xxxiii, 

 78. «'Ibid. 



"J. Metcalfe, yisit. of Northants, 20, 

 89; /,. and P. Hen. I'll I, xvil, g. 1012 

 (39) ; F'ect of F. Northants. Mich. 33 St 

 34 Eliz. ; East, 1 Jas. I ; Mich. 11 Jas. I j 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), dccii, 10; CUian. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), Misc. iii, 4;. 



