HUXLOE HUNDRED 



LOWICK 



MoRDAUNT. Argent a 

 cbeveron between three 

 stars sable. 



beth Vere, who had been created a baron by Henry VIII 

 in 1529. Lord Mordaunt was dealing with the 

 manors of Lowick and Drayton in 1560,** and died 

 in 1561.*' His son and heir John, who had been 

 created K.B. at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and 

 who was a Privy Councillor under Queen Mary, 

 married as his first wife a great heiress, Elizabeth 

 sister and heir of John, and only daughter of Sir 

 Richard Fitzlewis of Thorndon. He died in 1571. 

 His son Lewis Lord Mordaunt, who succeeded him, 

 was one of the 24 noblemen who tried Mary Queen 

 of Scots at Fotheringhay ; and he added considerably 

 to Drayton House. He married Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Sir Arthur Darcy, by Mary, daughter and co-heir 

 of Sir Nicholas Carew, and died at Drayton in 1601.** 

 His son Henry, who succeeded him as Lord Mordaunt, 

 and who in the year previous 

 to the Gunpowder Plot enter- 

 tained James I at Drayton 

 House, came under suspicion 

 of having been engaged in the 

 plot, and spent a long term of 

 imprisonment in the Tower. 

 He married Margaret, daugh- 

 ter of Henry, first Lord Comp- 

 ton, and died on 13 February 

 1610 seised of the manors of 

 Lowick and Drayton, Lowick 

 Mill, etc.** His heir, his son 

 John, later received pardon of 

 the fine of j^io.ooo which had been imposed on him.*' 

 John, Lord Mordaunt, was created Earl of Peter- 

 borough in 1627. In 1640 he settled his manors of 

 Lowick, Drayton, Slipton, I slip, Grafton, and Adding- 

 ton Magna, parcel of the forest of Rockingham dis- 

 afforested,** and died in 1642 seised of these manors, 

 the mansion house and park of Drayton, etc.*' His 

 wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William, Lord 

 Howard of Effingham, a zealous Puritan and great 

 beauty, survived him until 1671. His son Henry, 

 who succeeded him, died in 1697,^ his property then 

 passing to his daughter Mary, the wife of Henry, 

 later Duke of Norfolk.** The Duchess of Norfolk 

 was divorced from her husband in 1700,'^ and married 

 a Dutchman, Sir John Germain, bart, in 1701. 

 She died without issue in 1705 and was buried at 

 Lowick. She had settled the family estates on her 

 second husband, who married as his second wife 

 Elizabeth daughter of Charles, Earl of Berkeley, and 

 died without issue in 1718.'^ He bequeathed the 

 estates left to him by his first wife to her successor, 

 Lady Elizabeth Germain, who in accordance with his 

 wishes left them at her death to Lord George Sackville. 

 He was the third son of Lionel Cranfield, the Earl 

 of Dorset and Middlesex, to whom she had made a 

 conveyance of the manors of Drayton, Lowick, Islip 

 and Slipton in 1719,'* the year after her husband's 

 death. It was not until 1769 that " the divine old 

 mistress of Drayton," as Horace Walpole called 

 the aged Lady Betty Germain, died. In accord- 



ance with her will. Lord George Sackville (whose 

 succession was disputed by the family from whom 

 Drayton had been willed away) look the name of 

 Germain by Act of Parliament of 1770,*'' and was 

 seised of the manor and advowson of Lowick at the 

 inclosure of the parish in 1771,'* when about 1,150 

 acres were inclosed. By this Act an allotment was 

 made for tithes due from several homesteads, gardens, 

 orchards, home closes, ancient inclosures and woods, 

 Drayton Park, and certain old inclosures called Drayton 

 Old Park, and there was a saving of rights of the 

 lord of the manor of Lowick, and of the paramount 

 lord, the lord of the honour of Gloucester. Charles 

 Germain, Viscount Sackville, the son and heir of Lord 



^>**>»0 6^^/s^ 



Germain. Azure a 

 cross engrailed or. 



Sackville. Quarterly 

 or and gules a bend vair. 



George Sackville, succeeded in 1785, and was dealing 

 with the manors of Drayton, Lowick, Islip, Slipton 

 and Sudborcugh by recovery in 1788" and 1 791.** In 

 1815 he succeeded his cousin in the dukedom of 

 Dorset. At his death unmarried in 1843 Drayton House 

 and the above manors descended to his niece Caroline 

 Harriet, daughter of the Hon. George Germain and 

 wife of William Bruce Stopford,** J. P., D.L., who in 

 1870 assumed the additional name and arms of 

 Sackville. Mr. Stopford-Sackville was the third 

 son of the Rev. the Hon. Richard Bruce Stopford, 

 fourth son of the second Earl of Courtown. He was 

 high sherifT in 1850 and died in 1872, his widow 

 surviving him until 1908. Their son Sackville George 

 Stopford-Sackville succeeded them and died in 1926, 

 when the estate passed to his nephew, Mr. Nigel V. 

 Stopford-Sackville, the present owner. 



One and a half virgates in 

 Lowick which had been held 

 freely by Lefsi in King Ed- 

 ward's time was entered in 

 the Domesday Survey as held 

 by Sibbold of the Conqueror. 

 Its value had risen from 4J. to 

 loj.i This seems to be the I J 

 virgates held in the 12th cen- 

 tury Northamptonshire Survey 

 by Ralf Fleming of the fee of 

 David, Earl of Huntingdon,^ 

 and at a later date by the 

 family of Lowick of the honour 



of Huntingdon. Ralf, son of Sibbold de Lowick, 

 on becoming a member of the fraternity, gave his 



David, Earl of Hun- 

 tingdon. Or three ptlcs 

 gules. 



••Feet of F. Northanta. Mich. 1560, 

 ro. 1095. 



•* G. E. C. Complete Peerage (Mor- 

 daunt). »5 Ibid. 



•• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cccix, 200. 



"' O. E. C. op. cit. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 14 Chai. I, 

 ii; Pat. R. 15 Chai. I, pt. 10. 



"' Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Chas. I, no. 

 64. 



"> G. E. C. Complete Peerage. 



" Feet of F. Northants, Mich. 32 

 Chas. II. 



" G. E. C. op. cit. 



" C. E. C. Baronetage, It, 173. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 5 Geo. I. 



" G. E. C. op. cit. 

 »« Priv. Stat. II Geo. Ill, cap. 2. 

 " Recov. R. Mich. 29 Geo. Ill, 

 287. 



»«Ibid. 31 Geo. Ill, ro. 41. 

 "G. E. C. op cit. 

 ' V.C.H. Northants. i, 34v<'f 

 "Ibid. 365. 



