A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



ther settled on Henry Green by John de Drayton and 

 his son Baldwin in 1372-3.*' In 1385 he received the 

 grant of a market every Thursday in his town of 

 Lowick, and of a fair there yearly at Whitsuntide, 

 together with free warren in his lands in Lowick and 

 Islip.*'- His faithful service to Richard, by whom he 

 was knighted, won him various rewards, including the 

 house of the Lord Cobham in London with all its 

 furniture. He shared the king's downfall, and was 

 executed with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John 

 Bushey on 29 July 1399 after the treacherous surrender 

 of Bristol Castle.*^ He left two sons, Ralf and John, 

 and upon the petition of Ralf his forfeited property 

 was restored to his family by Act of Parliament in 

 1400." In the same year he was returned as seised of 

 the manor and advowson of Lowick, held of the Earl of 

 Stafford, and of the manor of Drayton held in chief.^ 

 His heir Ralf complained in 1401 that his houses at 

 Lowick had been broken into and his property 

 damaged.*" After his brother John had in 141 5 released 

 his right, he settled Drayton and Lowick and the ad- 

 vowson of Lowick on his wife Katherine, daughter of 

 Anketill Mallory,*' who survived him. At his death in 

 141 7 she was holding the manor of Drayton of Joan 

 Queen of England as of her manor of Geddington, and 

 the manor of Lowick of Sir Thomas Green, kt., by 

 knight service.** She married as her second husband 

 Simon Felbrigge, who in 1428 was holding of the honor 

 of Gloucester the half- fee in I slip, Drayton, Great Ad- 

 dington and Twywell which had formerly belonged to 

 Simon de Drayton.*' Ralf was succeeded by his 

 brother John, who inherited all the lands his father 

 Henry had held except those which fell to Ralf's 

 widow Katherine in dower. He married Margaret, 

 daughter of Walter Green of Bridgnorth, and died in 

 1432-3, leaving issue Ralf, wlio died young, Henry 

 afterwards lord of Drayton, Margaret wife of Sir 

 Henry Huddlestone, and Isobel the wife of Sir 

 Richard Vere of Thrapston and Addington.'" Henry, 

 son of John Green, who was sheriff of Northamptonshire 

 in 1455, was dealing with the manor in 1454." In 1457 

 he settled the manor on the marriage of his daughter 

 and heir Constance, one of the richest heiresses of 

 England, with John Stafford, younger son of 

 Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, who was afterwards 

 created Earl of Wiltshire.'- By his will dated 3 Sep- 

 tember 1467 Henry Green directed that the feoffees 

 of his lands and tenements in Lowick called Coles 

 Thynge and Bcsviles Thynge should grant them 

 tf) Sir John Stafford and his wife on condition they 

 did not hinder the performance of his will, and 

 also his woods of Langliill, Farthingshaw, and Tolke- 

 thorp. He left directions for the disposal of his pro- 

 perty and of a chantry for two chaplains in the parish 

 church of Lowick. He was succeeded by his son-in- 

 law, John Stafford, who though a Lancastrian was 

 made Earl of Wiltshire in 1469-70. The earl died in 

 1473 leaving a son and heir Edward, aged three years. 



Edward Earl of Wiltshire married Margaret daughter 

 of John Viscount Lisle, on whom he settled Lowick, 

 I slip, Sudborough, Ringstead, and other manors 

 and died without issue on 24 March 1498-9, follow- 

 ing on a sickness said to have been contracted when 

 on his way to fight for the king (Henry VII) at 

 Blackheath Field against the Cornish rebels." The 

 succession after his death was the subject of a 

 long dispute between the Earl of Shrewsbury, his 

 cousin, and the heirs of his grandfather, Henry Green.'* 

 His heirs were Elizabeth Clieney, late wife of Sir 

 Thomas Cheney, kt., and daughter and heir of Mar- 

 garet (who had married Sir Henry Huddlestone), a 

 sister and heir of Henry Green, father of his mother, 

 Constance Green, and the four daughters of her sister, 

 the other sister and co-heir of Henry Green, Isobel, 

 who had married Sir Richard Vere of Addington. 

 These last were Elizabeth, wife of John Mordaunt, 

 serjeant-at-law ; Amy or Anne, late the wife of Hum- 

 phrey Browne ; Constance, late the wife of John Parr ; 

 and Audrey or Etheldreda Vere, who married John 

 Browne.'^ 



In consequence of the death s.p. on 3 April 1502 of 

 Elizabeth Cheney, and in August 1502 of Constance 

 Parr, followed on 5 September 1506 by that of Anne 

 wife of Humphrey Browne, who left a son George, an 

 inquisition as to the property held by the Earl of 

 Wiltshire at his death was held in 1513-14,'* in which 

 it was returned that the manor of Drayton was held 

 in chief, and the manor and advowson of Lowick of 

 the abbot of Peterborough ; and that Thomas Mon- 

 tagu, William Pembcrton and others had been en- 

 feoffed of these manors to the uses of the Earl's will. 

 After judgment for John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his 

 wife, George Browne, John Browne and Audrey 

 his wife," an award by Robert Brudenell and Richard 

 Elliott assigned the lands of the Earl of Wiltshire to 

 John Mordaunt, Esq., and his wife Elizabeth ; 

 Humphrey Browne, Esq., husband of the late Amy 

 Browne, and George Browne, his son and heir ; Sir 

 Wistan Browne, kt., and John Browne, his son and heir, 

 and Audrey his wife, on the ground that deeds had 

 been produced giving thein in tail to the ancestors 

 of Constance, mother of the Earl of Wiltshire, and 

 that no will had been produced devising them to the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury. The Earl of Slircwsbury was to 

 receive 200 marks to be paid to him at St. Paul's in 

 London.'* In 1515 he released to the successful 

 claimants all his right in the manor of Drayton.'* John 

 Browne and Audrey his wife were dealing with one- 

 third of the manor and park of Drayton, and of the 

 manor and advowson of Lowick in 1526,*" and in 1537 

 a conveyance of these manors was made by George 

 Browne to Humphrey Browne.*' In Easter term of 

 1544 Sir Humphrey Browne and Elizabeth his wife 

 and their son George Browne with Mary liis wife 

 conveyed their third of this property to Sir John 

 Mordaunt, Lord Mordaunt,*^ the husband of Eliza- 



*' Book of Dccdi belonging to Ishams 

 of Lamport, p. 17; Halitcail, op. cit. 

 p. 170. 



••Chart. R. 9 6- 10 Ric. II, m. 14, 

 DO. 21. 



" Ilalitrad, op. cit. 154, 183. 



•"■ Ibid. i85,cit. /nj/>«imi(j, 13 Hen. IV. 



•* Chan. Inq. p.m. file 155, no. 15. 



"Cat. Pal. i3<)q-i4oi, p. 551. 



"Cloic R. 3 Hen. V, m. 24; ibid. 



4 Hen. V_ m. 20; Feet of F. Div, Cos. 

 4 Hen. V, no. 4;. 



*' Chan. Ini). p.m. 5 Hen. V, no. 41. 



'" Frud. Atdi^ iv, 49. 



'" Haljtead, op. cit. 154. 



" Ibid. 193-5. 



" Ibid. 197, 201. 



" llridgcn, lliit. Norlhanli. ii, 250. 



" Halitead, op. cit. 210-21 1, 217, <S-c. 



"Ibid. 223. 



"Ibid. 



" Ibid. 225. 



" Ibid. 225-7. 



'• Ibid. 227. 



"" Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 18 

 Hen. VIII. 



"Com. Pleai D.Enr.Trin. 29 Hen. VIII. 



"• Feet of I'. Norlhanti. Ea»t. 

 35 Hen. VIII ; Recov. R. Trin. 35 

 lien. VllI, ro. 149. 



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