HUXLOE HUNDRED 



FINEDON 



CRtvaTocK. Barry ar- 

 gent and azure three 

 wreaths gules. 



Corbet was granted to Robert Burnel, Bishop of 

 Bath and Wells,*^ presumably as trustee of a settlement 

 on Margery, daughter of Nicholas and wife of Ralph 

 fitz William of Greystock.*' The latter enfeoffed his 

 son Robert and his wife Elizabeth with all his lands in 

 Finedon.^ Robert died seised in 1315"' and his 

 widow was the tenant in 1 334.''' Their direct descen- 

 dants in the male line held this 

 part of Finedon till the death 

 of Ralph, Baron Greystock, in 

 1487.*" It then passed to his 

 granddaughter Elizabeth, who 

 married Thomas, Lord Dacre 

 of Gillesland.** The Dacres 

 seem to have sold or demised 

 it to James Harrington, who 

 brought an action for recovery 

 of the manor against Sir 

 William Dacre.'" Two years 

 later Harrington conveyed it 

 to Sir Robert BrudeneU." The 

 latter left it to his son Anthony,'- but it came into 

 possession of Sir Robert's eldest son and heir 

 Thomas,'^ who sold it in 1542 to Thomas Mulsho,''* 

 the lord of the other moiety of Finedon Manor (q.v.). 



The share in the Bolcbec moiety of Finedon, 

 assigned to Alice, wife of Walter de Huntercombe,'* 

 was demised by them to Master Giles de Barinton, 

 who, presumably for his own life, granted it to 

 Robert Burnel, Bishop of Bath and Wells.'* The 

 latter died seised in 1292 and his heir was his nephew 

 Philip." Barinton was apparently holding it as 

 trustee for Amice de Shepey, possibly the daughter 

 of Alice de Huntercombe,'* and when Philip Burnel 

 died about 1294, except for a small holding," it 

 was in the hands of William de Shepey. In 1 321, 

 it had passed to John Poleyn and his wife Amice,*" 

 who had also come into seisin of the fourth and last 

 share of the moiety of Finedon manor (q.v.). 



The youngest daughter of Richard Bolebec, Maud, 

 married Hugh de Laval, who after her death, gave her 

 pourparty, during his life-time, to Robert Burnel, 

 Bishopof Bathand Wells, who thus held a quarter of the 

 manor of Finedon.*' On the Bishop's death, it passed 

 to his nephew Philip Burnel.*'- Hugh de Laval died 

 about 1 301 and his wife's share passed to her nephew 

 John de Lancaster.*^ The latter, however, only held 

 as a mesne lord, as this share passed with the other 

 eighth share held by the Bishop to Amice de Shepey 

 and William de Shepey.** In 1321, the quarter part 



of the manor had passed to John Poleyn and his wife 

 Amice,** who is said to have been the daughter of 

 Amice de Lacey,"' but she was presumably descended 

 from the Shcpeys. In I412, a lady Poleyn had a 

 rent of 10 marks in Finedon,*' but in 1415, the fourth 

 part of the manor had passed to Rose, the wife of 

 John Fish of Bishop's Hatfield.** Rose was a descendant 

 of the daughter of John and Amice Poleyn.*" In 

 1415, she and her husband sold it to William Sack- 

 ville."" A hundred years later, it is said to have been 

 in the hands of Thomas Sackville, who sold it about 

 15 15 to Michael or possibly, more correctly, to 

 Nicholas Boughton." In 1521, Edward, the son of 

 Nicholas Boughton, granted it to John Docwra and 

 Thomas Sackville."'- In 1569, Thomas Docwra and 

 his wife sold the quarter part of the manor to Thomas 

 Mulsho,^' who thus became lord of all the pourparties 

 of the manor of Finedon. It should be noted, 

 however, that in a Chancery case of 1533-38, John 

 Saby is said to have been lord of the manor of Fine- 

 don,"* while about 1542, Gabriel Shaller and Robert 

 Plante and his wife Margaret sold a quarter part of 

 the manor to William Franklin, who had been suc- 

 ceeded before 1 579 by his son Nicholas."^ What 

 right these tenants had in the manor does not 

 appear. 



A manor called THINGDEN and BURTON 

 LATIMER may be traced in part to two holdings, 

 one of half a hide in Finedon and the other of one and 

 a half hides in Burton Latimer, which Burred held in 

 the time of Edward the Confessor.'* Burred also held 

 two hides and three virgates of land in Burton, but 

 whether these formed part of the later manor is not 

 certain."' 



The three holdings passed to the Bishop of Cou- 

 tances,'* and the first two seem certainly to have 

 passed with much of his Northamptonshire land to 

 the Clares, as the manor was subsequently held by 

 knight's service of the Honour of Gloucester."" In 

 1086, the bishop's sub-tenant in the two small 

 holdings was named Richard.' In the Northampton- 

 shire survey, William de Houton held one and a half 

 hides in Burton,^ but the half hide in Finedon is not 

 mentioned. In 1222, Robert, son of Richard, granted 

 a messuage and 27 acres of land in Finedon and rents 

 from 7 virgates of land in Burton and Finedon to the 

 Abbot of Croxton in frankalmoin.^ In 1250, this 

 grant was confirmed by Richard, Earl of Gloucester.* 

 After the dissolution of theAbbey,Henry VIII granted 

 the manor of Thingden and Burton Latimer in 1539 



•• Cal. Inq. vi, no. 51. 



•« Ibid. ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. 

 Com.), 545 ; G.E.C. Complete Pierage 

 itates that Ralph FitzWilliam was the 

 iccond husband of Margery Bolcbec, but 

 this does not »cem to be borne out by the 

 two documents mentioned. 



•' Cal. Inq. vi, no. 51. 



" Ibid. ; G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



•' Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 545. 



•' Feetof F. Div. Cos. Hil. i8Edw. Ill ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 48 Edw. Ill (ut nos), 

 no. 33 ; 6 Hen. V, no. 37 ; 14 Hen. VI, 

 no. 34; Harl. Chart (B.M.), 112 H 52 ; 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



" Ibid. 



'• Bridges, Hist, of Northants. cit. 

 Dolben papers, ii, 250. " Ibid. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), Hi, 64 ; 

 Fett of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 24 Hen. VIII. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), lii, 64. 



"' Feet of F. Northants, Trin. 34 

 Hen. VIII. 



" Cal. Inq. i, no. 528. 



"• Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 545. 



" Cal. Inq. iii, no. 65. 



'• Amice may have been one of Robert 

 Burnel's illegitimate children, of whom he 

 had several. 



" Ibid. no. 194. 



" Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 545. 



*' Ibid. ; Cal. Inq. iii, no. 65 \ iv, 

 no. 81. 



" Ibid, iii, no. 65. 



'" Ibid, iv, no. 81. 



'* Ibid, iii, no. 194; Plac. de Quo Warr. 

 (Rec. Com.), 545. 



" Cal. Close, 1 3 18-23, P- 189. 



" V.C.H. Herts, iii, 63, 64. 



" Feud. Aids, vi, 501. 



199 



«« Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 2 

 Hen. V. 



" y.C.H. Herts, loc. cit. 



'" Feet of F. Northants, Mich. 2 Hen.V. 



" Bridges, op. cit. ii, 258. 



" Ibid. 



•» Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 1 1 Elii. 



'* Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 851, no. 20. 



"■ Chan. Proc. (Ser. ii), bdle. 68, no. 24. 



" y.C.H. Northants.u iio. 



•' Ibid. 



»« Ibid. 



" Book of Fees, ii, p. 937 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 ; 10 Ric. II, no 38 ; 

 4 Hen. IV, no. 4. 



' y.C.H. Northants. i, 310. 



» Ibid. 389. 



• Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 6Hen. III. 



* Nichols, Hist, of Leicester, ii, pt. t, 

 p. 156. 



