HUXLOE HUNDRED 



IRTHLINGBOROUGH 



•olution of the college in 1547, it seems to have been 

 possessed of manorial rights in Irthlingborough.'" 



A manor in Irthlingborough was settled by Sir 

 Thomas Cheyney, by his will dated 1512, on his wife 

 Anne for life with remainder in fee-tail on Elizabeth, 

 his daughter by his first wife,*^ Klizabcth Huddlcston. 

 Sir Thomas died seised in 1514 and was succeeded by 

 his daughter Elizabeth, then aged 9 years, and affianced 

 to Thomas, son and heir of Sir Nicholas V'aux,'" who 

 became second Lord Vaux of Harrowdcn. Elizabeth 

 died in 1556 and was succeeded by her son William, 

 third Lord N'aux,** who settled the manor in 1564.''* 

 He held lands inherited from liis mother in Irthling- 

 borough and those of the late College.''* In 1574 he 

 mortgaged the glebe lands of the rectory and parson- 

 age. He married M.iry, sister of Sir Thomas 

 Tresham, and was imprisoned as a recusant in 1583.'" 

 In 1 591 his second son Ambrose was accused of having, 

 at his father's instigation, carried ofT the barley of 

 Robert Gage, farmer of the parsonage.** Lord Vaux 

 died in 1595, having been predeceased by five weeks 

 by his son George, whose heir Edward was a minor.^" 

 For assurance of title he obtained a crown grant of 

 the manor in 1612 and 1613,'*' and in l6l6 he had a 

 fresh grant of free warren." The manor was settled 

 on him in 1628.*- In 1632 he married Elizabeth, 

 widow of the first earl of Banbury, and in 1646,** and 

 1655" he settled Irthlingborough manor on his 

 reputed son by her, Nicholas, who was born in 1632, 

 and had succeeded to the earldom of Banbury. 

 Nicholas inlierited the manor on the death of Lord 

 Vaux in l66l, and died in 1680,''* when Irthling- 

 borough manor passed to his eldest daughter Anne, 

 the wife of Sir John Briscoe, knight. By Sir John it 

 was sold before 1724 to John Underwood, attorney-at- 

 law, of Higham, who was succeeded by his son John, 

 a minor at this date.^ John Underwood settled the 

 manor on himself and his wife in 1738," and was 

 dealing with it in 1768.^' It subsequently passed to 

 the dean and chapter of Peterborough, who are the 

 present owners. 



The AfENEL FEE in Irthlingborough of one 

 knight was held of the abbot of Peterborough by 

 William .Avenel (11 25), whose son William was living 

 in 1 168.*' The second William left two daughters, 

 Amice, the wife of Richard de Vernon, and Elizabeth, 

 the wife of Simon Basset.*" The whole fee seems to 

 have passed to Simon Basset*' after William, son of 



Richard and Amice, had subinfeudated one 



Harang of their share. Simon Basset left a son John 

 Basset (12 1 2) and a daughter Mabel, the wife of Guy 

 Wake. Robert son of John Basset was succeeded by 

 his grandson Robert.*^ The last Robert had a son 



Robert Basset of Rushton, who did homage to the 

 abbot of Peterborough for his father's lands in 

 Irthlingborough of the fee of Avenel in 1291." John 

 Basset was holding in 1348, when we find that Hugh 

 Wake, John Ic Warde and Henry Green held the 

 knight's fee of him.** Hugh Wake was the great- 

 grandson of Guy and Mabel Wake, referred to above, 

 whose son Thomas had a son Hugh, whose son Hugh 

 was the holder in 1346.** John le Warde and Henry 



Green represented the interest of Harang, above 



referred to, whose share passed to Walkclin de Arderne, 

 and from his son Peter it seems to have been divided 

 between Richard le Warde, whose son John le Warde 

 was holding in 1346, and Hugh Heroun whose share 

 passed to Henry Green.** By 1428 the whole fee of 

 Hugh Wake and John le Warde, possibly including the 

 share of Henry Green, had been acquired by William 

 Braunspath.*' The later descent of this holding has 

 not been traced, but it was probably acquired by the 

 chief lords, the abbot and convent of Peterborough, 

 who were purch.ising much property about this time. 



Apparently the first feoflee of the G ARC ATE FEE 

 of one knight in Irthlingborough and Warmington 

 was Hugh Gargate, who was enfeoffed probably in the 

 reign of Henry II.** Hugh was followed by Gunfrid 

 Gargate, whose son David granted to Walter, abbot 

 of Peterborough (1233-45) 17 virgates of land with a 

 messuage in Irthlingborough.** About 1228 the fee 

 became divided, two-thirds of it in Warmington going 

 to the St. Liz family and one-third in Irthlingborough 

 to Robert de Meysy and John de Dene. In 1254 

 Ralph Fitz Henry paid aid on this part of the fee and 

 in 1315 it was held by Roger de Lisle and later by 

 John de Lisle.'" 



In 1 341 John de Seymour (St. Maur) died seised 

 of rents in Irthlingborough, held of Alan de Seymour, 

 leaving a son John," who in 1347 held of the abbot of 

 Peterborough in Irthlingborough one-third of the 

 knight's fee in Warmington and Irthlingborough 

 which had been in the tenure of Hugh Gargate.'^ 

 This John de Seymour died in 1349, leaving a son 

 John, a minor, but before his death he had demised 

 his holding in Irthlingborough to William de Seymour 

 of Hardwick." This conveyance may have been in 

 trust, for in 1357 Thomas de Seymour died seised of 

 messuages and land in Irthlingborough, held of the 

 abbot of Peterborough. The holding had been 

 settled on Thomas, in tail, by the grant of Warine 

 de Seymour, with remainders to his brothers, of whom 

 Nicholas alone survived and inherited, since Thomas 

 died without issue.'" In 1428 the tenants of the fee 

 in Irthlingborough once in the tenure of John de 

 Seymour were said to be William Braunspath, Richard 



♦' Falor Eccl (Rcc. Com.), iv, 309. 



" Coll. Top el Cm. v, 88 ; G. E. C. 

 ComfUie Peerage, viii, 18, 19. 

 . *■ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), xxix, 3. 



" G. E. C. Complete Peerage, viii. 19. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. East. 6 Elii. 



*• Chan. Proc. vol. ii, bdle. 225, no. loi. 



" Hut. MSS. Com. Rep. (Var. Coll.), 

 iii, pp. vii, 33,64, 65,72, 73. 



" ^cis oj Prtvy Council, 1590-1, p. 303. 



" G. E. C. loc. cit. 



*• Pat. R. 10 Ja». I, pt. 15 ; II Jai. I, 

 pt. 6, no. 13. 



" Pat. R. I4jai. I, pt. j. 



'• Feet of F. Northanti. Eait. 4 Chai. I. 



" Ibid. Chai. I, 22 March 1646. 



"Ibid. Mich. 1655. 



" G.E.C. 



" Bridget (who died in 1724) Wis/. 

 Nortbants, ii, 236. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. Mich. 12 

 Geo. II. 



'« Ibid. 8 Geo. III. 



" See Mellow, in Pytchley, Hk. of 

 Fees (Northant*. Rec. Soc), 128-9. 



•° Ibid. ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. (Bclvoir 

 Caitic), iv, 23. 



•' Cbron. Petrob. (Camden Soc), 174; 

 V.C.H. Northanti. i, 388* ; Cat. Cbart, 



Ui7-4'. P- J7S- 

 •« Pytchley, loc. cit. 

 •• Cbron. Petrob. (Camden Soc), 148. 

 '* Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, fol. 147, njd. 

 •' Pytchlej, loc cit. 



209 



•• Ibid. 



•' Feud. Aids, iv. 49. A Sir William 

 Bramspath of Bloreston (Co. Leicester) 

 and hi» brothers John and Thomas died 

 f.p. and their nephew, John Howell, 

 brought an action against William I sham 

 about Bloreston in 1474. Wrottesley, 

 Pcd.from Plea R. 437. 



" Sec Mellows in VytMiy,Bk.oJ Fees, 

 127H. 



" Reg. Rob. Swaflfham, cclxiiii. 



"> Pytchley, op. cit. 126, 127, 12711. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Ed. Ill (ist nos.), 



"Cotton MS. Cleop. C i, foil. 143* 

 and 144. 



'I Ca/. /»•/. ii, 281. '• Ibid. I, 437. 



