HUXLOE HUNDRED 



LOWICK 



berlain and was held by the latter in the reign of Henry 

 I.''* On his death in 1 141, this manor passed to 

 Robert his younger son, who undertook to keep to the 

 agreement made by his father as to the tithes of 

 certain lands in Drayton.-' As shown under Great 

 Addington (q.v.), Robert married twice and had a 

 family by each wife, Drayton passing on his death to 

 Henry, his son by the second wife Maud, daughter of 

 Robert de Furnell. Henry died about 1 193-4, •''"'^ ''■' 

 son, who was known as Walter son of Henry son of 

 Robert, succeeded him. Walter married Lucy daughter 

 of Gilbert Basset of VVeldon, and either he or his son 

 Henry discarded the name of Vere and took that of 

 Drayton. Walter-** died in 1210-11, leaving a son. Sir 

 Henr)' de Drayton, who granted lands to the Hospital 

 of St. John the Baptist, Northampton.-' He died in 

 1253 seised of 2 carucates and 3 acres of land in 

 Drayton and Islip held of the king in chief, and a toft 

 held of Robert son of William de Lowick by the rent of 

 iJ. yearly. He was succeeded by his son Baldwin, 

 then aged 30 years.^ Baldwin died in 1278, seised of 

 a capital messuage, fishpond, 2 dovecots, a mill, 6 vir- 

 gates of land, £^ 4J. yd. rent of freeman at Drayton 

 and Islip, perquisites of court and 19 acres of land at 

 Lowick, all held of the king in chief, by the service of 

 finding a Serjeant at his own cost when the king was 

 with his army.^* His son John, aged 24 years and 

 more at his father's death, did homage for his father's 

 lands before 14 August 1278,^ and in 1284 he was 

 returned as holding 4 J hides in I slip and Drayton of the 

 king in chief by serjeanty.'' 



John died in 1 291, seised of the manor of Drayton, 

 held of the king as half a knight's fee, doing suit at the 

 court at Gcddington.** Simon his son was a minor in 

 1299,^ but in 1302 he had done homage without prov- 

 ing his age, and he had seisin.^' Simon settled Drayton 

 Manor on his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John 

 Lindsey, in 1321-2.^' He was frequently engaged in 

 public aflfairs.^ He served on a mission to the abbey 

 of Cluny in 1323,'' and attended the king witli men at 

 arms for service against Roger de Mortimer and other 

 rebels in 1326,'"' and for an expedition to Gascony in 

 1 331,'" and represented Northamptonshire in the par- 

 liaments of 1322, 1329^- and 1336." He had licence 

 to impark 30 acres at Drayton and in 1327 had received 

 3 grant of free warren in Drayton, Islip, Lowick and 

 Irthlingborough." In 1331 he was appointed forester 

 of Brigstock and Geddington in Rockingham Forest.^ 



In 1338 Simon settled the manor,^' and was returned 

 in 1346 as holding half a fee in Drayton, Islip, Adding- 

 ton and Twywell." He made a further settlement 

 of lands in Brigstock and Lowick in 1355 on his wife 

 Margaret, with remainder to his grandson Baldwin 

 son of John de Drayton and his wife Alice in tail, and 

 then to Gilbert, brother of the said Baldwin.'"* Earlier 

 in the same year he had been indicted for the death of 

 Sir Ralf Darcy,'*' but on 3 May 1355 received the 

 king's pardon.*"" He died on 31 May 1357,^' and on 

 4 August following the manor of Drayton held of the 

 king in chief, and messuages, land and rent in Lowick 

 held of the Earl of Gloucester,^- were delivered to Mar- 

 garet his widow. Margaret died in 1358,-^^ and was 

 succeeded by her son John in the manor of Drayton, 

 the messuages, land, etc., slie had held in Lowick 

 being delivered in 1359 to Baldwin, son of John de 

 Drayton and Alice his wife.^'' In the same year John 

 de Drayton settled the manor of Drayton, held of the 

 king in chief, on Baldwin and Alice.^* From John 

 and Baldwin de Drayton the manor passed in 1362 to 

 Henry Green,*" son of Thomas Green of Boughton, 

 who married Katherine, the sister of John and 

 daughter of Sir Simon de Drayton.*' He was Lord 



Drayton. Argent a 

 cross engrailed gules. 



Green. Azure three 

 harts tripping or. 



Chief Justice of England and the father of two sons, 

 Thomas his heir, and a younger son Henry, described 

 by Halstead as ' the delight and hopes of his old 

 father,' who endowed him with Drayton, Lowick, 

 Islip and Slipton, and procured his marriage with 

 Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Mauduit, lord 

 of Warminster and other manors. Sir Henry Green 

 settled the manor and advowson of Lowick on the 

 younger Henry in 1367,*' and died in 1369.*" Thomas 

 the son succeeded, but his homage was respited 

 because he was fighting in France.^ Drayton was fur- 



•• V.C.H. Nortbanli. i, 365a. 



"Dugdale, Man. Angt. ii, 603. 



" He wai probably the Waher de 

 Drayton who held half a fee in Northanti 

 in 1 194-5: Red Bk. oj Excheq. (RoUi 

 Ser.), 81. 



" Drayton Chart. 63, 96, 105, 106. 

 Among the Drayton charter! of about 

 thit date there are reference* to Henry, 

 •on of Thomas de Drayton (105) ; William 

 de Drayton and Geoffrey his brother (105); 

 Henry ion of Walter de Drayton (63). 



» Cal. Inq. Hen. HI, i, no. 284. 



" Ibid. Edw. I, vol. ii, no. 260; Cal. 

 Fine, i, 97. 



" Ibid, i, 99. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 12. 



** Cal. Inq. Edw. I, iii, 10. 



" Cal. Close, 1302-7, p. 396. 



■• Ibid. 1296-1302, pp. 567, 609. 



" Cal. Inq. Edw. Ill, X, no». 369,446. 



'• Cal. Close, 1318-23, p. 556. 



••Ibid. 716. 



"Ibid. 1323-7, p. 651. 



*' Ibid. 1330-3, p. 267. 



*' Ibid. 1327-30, p. 527. 



*'Ibid. 1335-7, P- 66i- 



*• Ca/. Pat. 1327-30, p. 319; Cal. 

 Chart. 1327-41, p. 13 ; Chart. R. I Edw. 

 Ill, m. 29, no. 51 ; Plac. de Quo If'arr. 

 (Rec. Com.), 543. 



*^ Cal. Pat. 1330-34, p. 53. 



" Ihid. 1338-40, p. 128 ; inq. a.q.d. 

 f. ccxlvi, 16. 



*' Feud, .lids, iv, 449. 



" Cal. Pat. 1354-8, p. 284. 



"Ibid. 236. 



•^ Ibid. 210. In hit earlier days he, as 

 also Henry de Drayton, Oliver de Nowers, 

 and William le Deen of Lowick, had ap- 

 peared ai guilty of deeds of great violence. 

 Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 582 ; 1317-21, pp. 

 82, 177, 192; Cal. Close, 1318-23, p. 71. 



" Cal. Inq. Edw. Ill, x, no. 369. 



"Cal. Close, 1354-60, p. 369. 



•• Cat. Inq. Edw. Ill, vol. x, no. 446. 



237 



** Cal. Closej 1354-60, p. 553. She wai 

 probably the daughter of William Cran- 

 ford. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.). 68. 



" Bk. of Deeds belonging to I»ham« 

 of Lamport, p. 17. 



^' Halstead, Succinct Genealogiei, 151. 

 (An account of the owncri of Drayton 

 manor, printed in 1685 by Henry, Earl 

 of Peterborough. Only about 24. copiet 

 arc said to have been printed, but the 

 volume was reproduced in facsimile .is far 

 as the Greens of Drayton are concerned, 

 fnr private distribution by Francis \'inton 

 Green of New York in 1895. ^"^ ^^py 

 of the original is at Drayton and two are 

 in the B.M.) 



** Halstead, op. cit. 153-4. 



*• Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill (pt. i), 

 48. 



*" Cal. Close, 1 369-74, p. 48 ; see also 

 P- 53- 



