A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



held it for life,'^ it passed to his son Edmund.^ 

 Lawrence Seymour was holding it in 1334^ presumably 



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as a trustee for settlements made on Thomas Eey» 

 mour,^^ but the latter sold it in 1 348 to Simon 

 Simeon,^ who thus became possessed of the whole 

 moiety of the manor. He settled it jointly on himself 

 and his wife Elizabeth Neville.'' He died without 

 heirs,^ and Elizabeth brought the manor to her second 



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husband John la Warre,'' who died seised of it in 

 1398.'"* She had predeceased him, and his heir was his 

 brother Thomas,'" who seems to have sold the moiety 

 of Finedon manor between 1400 and 1405 to John 

 Mulsho ; ■»- at the same time Mulsho obtained a 

 quarter of the other moiety of the manor (q.v.). He 

 was succeeded by his son, who died in 1478, and his 

 grandson, who died in 1536, both named John.''* 

 Thomas, the grandson of the third John Mulsho, 

 succeeded him^' and bought the remainder of the 

 other moiety of Finedon manor (q.v.), which had been 

 alienated by the Count of Aumale in 1246** so that 

 from this time the whole manor was held by the 

 Mulshos. Thomas's eldest son, another Thomas, sold 

 the manor in 1604 to his brother Robert'* from whom 



it passed in direct descent to William, Robert" and 

 Tanfield Mulsho.^ On Tanfield's death his heirs 

 were his daughters Anne and Elizabeth, who married 

 two brothers Gilbert and John Dolben, the sons of the 



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Archbishop of York, but Anne and Gilbert bought 

 Elizabeth's share.''* Gilbert was created a baronet in 

 1704^" and his successors were lords of the manor till 

 the death of Sir John English Dolben in 1837,^^ 

 when it passed to his daughter Frances, the wife of 

 William Mackworth, who took the name of Dolben."^ 

 She died in 1892, and the last owner of the manor was 

 her daughter Ellen Mackworth Dolben, on whose 

 death in 191 2, the whole estate was sold in separate 

 portions.^-* 



The moiety of the manor of Finedon which Lord 

 FitzWalter and his wife granted in 1246 to Richard de 

 Bolbec was held by the annual payment of a pair of 

 gilt spurs.^'' On the death of Richard's son Hugh in or 

 before 1262, it was divided between Hugh's four 

 daughters and heirs, Philippa, the wife of Roger de 

 Lancaster, Margery, the wife of Nicholas Corbet, 

 Alice the wife of Walter, son of William de Hunter- 

 combe, and Maud who was then unmarried.''^ 



Philippa's eighth part of the manor passed on her 

 death before 1294 to her son John de Lancaster,^" 

 who was holding it in 1321.^' It was then held in 

 demesne by John, son of Robert de Lancaster,'* but 

 probably before 1327 it had passed to Robert de 

 Sandford.^' In 1342, Robert gave it to his son 

 Thomas and Margaret Spryng,^ but in 1367 Thomas 

 de Sandford sold it to Simon Symeon of Grimsthorp," 

 and from that date it seems to have followed the 

 descent of the other moiety of the manor (q.v.) since 

 John Mulsho died seised in 1478 of one moiety and a 

 fourth part of the other moiety .*- 



The eighth part assigned to Margery and Nicholas 



" Teet of F. Div. Coi. Trin. 5 and 6 

 Edw. II ; Cal. Inq. Misc. Chan, ii, 

 no. 445. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. II, no. 20. 



•' Ptac. de Quo Ifarr. (Rec. Com.), 54;. 



" Feet of F. Div. Coi. Mich. 3 Edw. III. 



" Ibid. Northanti. Eait. 21 Edw. III. 



" Feet of F. Div. Coi. Trin. 30 Edw. 

 Ill ; Mich. I Ric. II i Cloie R. 9 Ric. II, 

 part I, m. 7. 



•• Chan. Inq. p.m. 11 Ric. II, no. 48. 



•• Cloic R,, 12 Ric. II, m. 38d. i 

 Feet of F. Div. Coi. Mil. 12 Ric. II. 



*" Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 53. 



«' Ibid. 



*■ Add. Chart. (B.M.) 22005 ; Feet of 

 F. Northanti. caie 179, file 90, no. 34; 

 Add. Roll (B.M.), 38983. 



*• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii) xx, 101; 

 l»il. III. "Ibid. 



" See above. 



" Metcalfe, Fisil. of Noribants. 38, 

 116; Feet of F. Northanti. Eait. 1 Jai. I ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cccvii, 98. 



" Mctcilfe, op. cit. 116. 



*» Recov. R. Eait. 13 Chai. II, ro. 196; 

 Feet of F. Northanti. Trin. 25 Chai. 

 II ; Norihants. N. and Q. (New Ser.) iv, 

 166-8. 



♦• Ibid. ; Feet of F. Northanti. Mich. 

 35 Chai. II. 



»» r..E.C. Complete Baronetage. 



"Ibid.; Recov. R. Trin. 6 Geo. I, 

 ro. 217; Feet of F. Div. Coi. Trin. 21 

 and 22 Geo. II ■, Recov. R. 42 Geo. Ill, 

 ro. 211. 



"Whcllan, Hist, of Northanti, 1874, 

 p. 752 ; Norihants N. and Q. loc. cit. 



" Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. Eait. 29 



Ilcn. Ill ; riac. de Quo H'arr. (Rec. 

 Com.) 545. 



" Cal. Inq. i, no. 528. In 1333/4 '" 

 a plea of Quo Warranto (cf. previoui note) 

 there ii a very full account of the deicent 

 of the manor, but the namci of Hugh'i 

 d.iughtcn are given as llawisia, Lora, 

 Cecilia and Joan. The names in the 

 inquisition appcir from otlier evidence to 

 be correct. 



•• Cal. Inq. ili, no. 177. 



*' Cal. Inq. Misc. Chan, ii, no. 445. 



" Cal. Close, 1318-23, p. 289. 



" i'lac. de Quo H'arr. (Rec. Com.), 

 54^ ; Plac. de Banco, no. 570. 



•" Cal. Close, 1 341-43, p. 680. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. East. 40 Edw, 

 III. 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), xx, 101 ; 

 Ivii, 112. 



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