A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



1249 Sarah, the widow of Walter do Dcnford, brought 

 an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert, son of 

 Walter, and others of a tenement in Sudborough." 

 Either Sarah herself or possibly a daughter of her 

 name may be indicated in a fine levied between Walter 

 do la Hyde and Roger de la Hyde and Sarah his wife 

 of a messuage and land in Sudborough in 1259-60.** 

 Before 1284 Sarah de Denford had granted the manor 

 to Reginald de Waterville and Extranea his wife when 

 Reginald was holding the vill of the abbot.** From 

 Reginald, who survived his wife, it descended to his 

 three daughters, Joan, the wife of Robert de Vcre, 

 Maud, sometimes given as Elizabeth, the wife of 

 Robert de Wykeham, and Margaret, the wife of Henry 

 de Tichmarsh.*^ 



Tlie third part which went to Robert de Vere and 

 Joan, his wife, passed to their son Robert, who 

 apparently forfeited for rebellion,*' and his lands in 

 1329-30 were in the hands of Henry de Percy and 

 Robert de Tolthorp,*' probably feoffees in trust fur 

 Maud his wife, who had an interest in the manor as 

 dower, witli reversion to Sir Nicholas de la Beche.'* 

 What Sir Nicliolas's interest was is uncertain, but he 

 and his wife Margery died without issue and it then 

 ceased. Tliis third seems to have passed to the 

 Mallorys. In 1358 William Mallory of Sudborougli 

 granted a rent of j^20 out of his manor of Sudborough 

 to John Pyel, citizen and merchant of London, and 

 Joan his wife,-" and in the same year .\nketyn Mallory 

 granted a rent of 20 marks to William de Sandford. 

 John Pyel's holding was conveyed by him in 1363 to 

 Henry Pyel, rector of Warkton and others,-* and in 

 1376 Henry Pyel, then archdeacon of Northampton, 

 and others conveyed the manor of Sudborough to 

 John Pyel of Irthlingborough, Simon Simeon and 

 others.22 In 1385-6 Simon Simeon with John 

 Curtcys granted to Joan, widow of John Pyel, a rent 

 of 50 marks out of the manors of Irthlingborough, 

 Cranford, Sudborough and elsewhere.^' It is doubt- 

 ful if John Pyel's estate ever comprised the manor or 

 a part of the manor. Ankctyn, who succeeded William 

 Mallory, in 1 360, settled a manor of Sudborough on 

 his daughter Ala and her husband, Thomas Green of 

 Isham, and their heirs.-' Another daughter, Kather- 

 ine, also brought to her husband Ralph Green, 

 nephew of Thomas Green, apparently a manor of 

 Sudborough. Sir John Dantrc and Alice his wife, 

 daughter of Randolph Boys and heir of Robert Vere, 

 in 1394 attempted unsuccessfully to obtain possession 

 of the manor from Thomas Green.^'' John Green 

 succeeded his father Thomas^" and died heforo I.)45. 

 His widow Isabel is said to have occupied with Richard 

 Stacy, since the death of Sir William Mallory in 1445, 



lands in Sudborough of which Sir William had died 

 seised, and left a son and heir Tliomas.^' This 

 Thomas Mallory dispossessed Thomas, son of John 

 and Isabel Green, of the manor of Sudborough, held of 

 the abbey of Westminster,^ but Thomas Green 

 later recovered possession. The manor continued to 

 descend in the Green family, of which Sir Thomas 

 Green, kt., who witnessed a charter of Edward, 

 Earl of Wiltshire, in 1494, dealing with the Wykeham 

 manor, was probably a member.^' In 1529-30 this 

 Green manor of Sudborough was in the hands of 

 Richard Rayne and Joan his wife, daughter and heiress 

 of Thomas Green, deceased, who settled it on their 

 son Thomas. In 1531 and again in 1534, Thomas 

 Rayne, son of Richard Rayne and Joan, with Dorothy 

 his wife, were dealing with this property,''" these 

 conveyances being probably preparatory to a con- 

 veyance of this manor to the owners of the other 

 manor of Sudborough representing the Wykeham 

 third, then held with Drayton in Lowick (q.v.). 



The third of Robert de Wykeham and Maud de 

 Waterville was conveyed by Robert, their son, and 

 his wife Eliz.ibeih, in 1309-10 and 1311-12, to Robert 

 de Ardcrn.^* The wife of Robert de Ardcrn was 

 Nichola, possibly the daugher or sister of Robert de 

 Wykeham.^ Ardcrn had grants of free warren in 

 his lands at Sudborough in 1317, 1327 and 1328 and 

 he was holding them in 1329-30.^ After his death 

 Nichola his widow married Sir Thomas de Wake or 

 Wade,** to whom this third of the manor passed. In 

 1345 Sir Thomas Wake and Nicliola conveyed their 

 tliird to Simon de Drayton,^ to whom it was confirmed 

 three years later by John de Wykeham, grandson of 

 Maud de Waterville, and Parnel liis wife.^ It passed 

 after the death of Simon de Drayton to his son John 

 de Drayton and his grandson Baldwin.*' From them 

 it went about 1362 to Sir Henry Green, who had 

 married Katherine, daughter of Simon de Drayton.'^ 

 From this time this third part, and from the middle 

 of the 16th century the Vere third part, passed with 

 the manor of Drayton in Lowick (q.v.) until the end 

 of the 17th century. 



When Bridges wrote it was in the hands of Lady 

 Torrington, relict of Thomas Newport, Lord Tor- 

 rington, by purchase from the Earl of Peterborough, 

 and according to him Lady Torrington owned vvitli 

 the manor all the parish except two or tluee small 

 freeholds. Lady Torrington died in 1735.'° 



In 1805 it was held by William Henry, Earl of 

 Darlington,'"' who was created Duke of Cleveland in 

 1833, and the Dukes of Cleveland were later in the 

 century lords of the manor.** 



The third of the manor which went to Henry de 



" Cal. Cloit, 1247-;!, p. Z27. 



" Feet of r. Northant«. 44 Hen. Ill, 

 caie 174, file 43, no. 732. 



" Feud. Aidi, iv, 12; Plac. de Quo Warr. 

 (Rec. Com.), 570. 



'• Ibid ; Pyuhley nk. of Fees, 43. 



'' C'j/. Pal. 1321-4, p. 156; Fine R. 

 1; Edw. II, pt, I, m. 12. 



" Plar. de Quo Ifarr. (Rec. Com), 570. 



'• Cal. Cloie, 133') 4', P- 129. 



"Clote R. 32 Edw. Ill, mm. 9, 11 ; 

 Cal. Cloie, 1354-60, p. 521. 



" Iliid. I3'>'>-4| p. 523. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. caic I78,file8;, 

 no. 696. 



'• Cloie R. 9 Rich. If.pt. i.m. S. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 and 10 EJw. IV, 

 no. 16; Feet of F. Northanti. caic 177, 

 file 81, no. 491. 



«' Cal. Close, 1392-6, p. 260 ; Cal. Pal. 

 i4oi-<;, p. 443. 



'• Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 and 10 Edw. I\^ 

 no. 16. 



" Ibid. 25 Hen. VI, no. 4. 



'" Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 and 10 Edw. IV. 

 no. 16, 



" Robert Ilalilead, Surcinrl Geneahgiei, 

 10(1. 



'" Feet of F. Northanti. Eait. 22 lien. 

 VIII; Mil. 26 Hon. VIII. 



"Feet of !■'. Northanti. caie 175, file 

 62, no. 50 ; file 64, no. 104. 



»« Wroltcslcy, /><■,/. from Vha R. 2S. 



"Cal. Chan. R. 1300-26, p. 366; 

 Chart. R. I Edw. Ill, m. 25, no. 45; 

 2 Edw. Ill, m. 10, no. 33. 



•* Wroltcslcy, loc. cit. 



" FeetofF. Northanti. case 177, file 77, 

 no. 298. 



" Ibid, file 78, no. 348. 



•' Cal. Pal. 1354-8, p. 2R4. 



'" Il.ililead, op. cit. 151. 



" llul. oj Norlhatils, ii, 254; G.E.C. 

 Complrle Peerage. 



•" Rccov. R. Trin. 45 Geo. Ill, ro. 



4r>8, 



•' Whellan, llisl. of Norlhanli. (1878 



Ed.), 774- 



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