A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



The advovvson of the church of 

 JDI'Oll'SOy Twyvvell was held hy the Abbey of 

 Thorncy '- and afterwards passed 

 with the manor to Robert Dallyson,*' w-ho sold it to 

 John Richardson, clerk, in 1592." In 1628,^ the 

 archdeacon of Northampton and John Gage presented, 

 and in 1637^* William Gardner, the vicar of Slipton, 

 possibly as trustee, as the advowson seems in the 

 same year to have passed to Nicholas Richardson." 

 In 1660 it was in the possession of Agnes Webb, 

 widow, who seems to have sold it in 1664.** Presen- 

 tations were made in 1665 by Edward Trott, clerk, in 

 1668 by the Earl of Exeter, in 1705 by Thomas 

 Ekins, and in 1737 by William Smith, who presented 

 William Scriven, who was patron and rector in 1765.^' 

 In 1769 John Scriven was patron and incumbent,^ 

 and in 1793 Elizabeth Scriven, spinster, probably 

 his daughter, presented to the benefice.*'- In 1794 

 Henry Leete and William York appear,*- but in 1795 

 Elizabeth Scriven, together with Benjamin White- 

 house and his wife Ann, sold it to John \\ illiamson.*^ 

 In 1799 the latter presented tlie Rev. William Aling- 

 ton,** who had married his daughter Sarah. The 

 advowson passed to Rev. John Alington, son of 

 William and Sarah, who died in 1863. His son William 

 died in 1874''* and was succeeded by his brother 

 Julius, whose son, Mr. Charles Alington, is the present 



owner.** A pension of 20/. was payable from the 

 rectory to the Abbey of Thorney in 1291*' and was 

 recorded among its possessions at the Dissolution.** 

 It Was granted by Henry VIII to Lord Parr*' and 

 was sold with the advowson by Robert Dallyson in 

 1592.™ 



Thomas Ekins by will dated 



CHARITIES 26 May 1709 gave 20s. yearly to 



trustees out of his house and close 



in Twywell to the poor. This rent-charge is now paid 



by the Islip Iron Co., Ltd. 



John Harris in 1753 gave ^^lo to the poor. A piece 

 of land in Ringstead now let for ^^l 4.1. yearly was 

 purchased with this gift. 



The Charity of Thomas Archer founded by will 

 dated I Dec. 1829 is now represented by a sum of 

 £36 14J. id. Consols producing i8.f. 4d. yearly in 

 dividends. 



The income from these three charities is distributed 

 by the rector and churchwardens in bread to about 

 12 recipients. 



The Bell Rope Charity. A sum of %s. is payable to 

 the churchwardens by an Inclosure Award out of a 

 piece of land in Twywell. The payment was awarded 

 in lieu of land formerly appropriated to the use of the 

 church, and the money is carried to churcii expenses 

 account. 



WARKTON 



Werchinetone (xi cent.) ; Werketon (xii cent.) ; 

 Werkenetone (xiii cent.) ; Warkyngton (xvi cent.) ; 

 Wotton (xvii cent.). 



Warkton parish, covering an area of 1,921 acres, 

 rises from the eastern bank of the River Ise to a hciglit 

 of 338 ft. above ordnance datum. Tiic soil is of 

 limestone, clay and red loam, and is, and in mcdia-val 

 time was, for the greater part under pasture. The 

 village stands on the brow of a hill and from it fine 

 avenues of trees run in the direction of Weekley and 

 Grafton Underwood. These avenues the parish owes 

 to John, Duke of Montagu, known as Duke John the 

 Planter, from the miles of sucli avenues he planted 

 in this and adjoining parishes. Buried beneath the 

 road at the east end of the bridge over the Ise, is a 

 medieval arch (? 14th century) wliichoriginally crossed 

 the stream, the old course of which can still be seen 

 in the field to the south of the road. 



The church lies in the centre of the village, and 

 the houses are grouped for the most part in its 

 vicinity. Opposite the church, on the other side of 

 the main road, is the rectory, which was built by the 

 Duke of Buccleuch in the middle of the 19th century 

 to replace the old thatched rectory house then pulled 

 down, which occupied a lower and less favourable 

 position. In 1922 the ecclesiastical parish of Warkton 



was united to that of Weekley under the name of 

 Warkton-cum-Weekley. The incumbent of the 

 united benefices resides at Weekley, and the rectory 

 house at Warkton with part of the glebe was in the 

 same year sold to Mr. Charles Edward Lamb, who 

 has since occupied the house. To the north of 

 the church is the school built in 1S67 by the Duke 

 of Buccleuch. Even in this somewhat remote 

 spot the effects of the Civil War were being felt 

 in 1643. Nicholas Estwick, rector of Warkton, in a 

 letter to Edward Montagu prays that peace may 

 come, adding ' We do already taste the miseries of 

 Civil War.'i 



Bridges writes of a close with a petrifying spring, 

 where a petrified human skull was found, and of two 

 quarries of excellent stone. In the west of the parish 

 is a long and deep trench. Just over the southern 

 boundary is Warkton Spinney, and in the south is 

 Warkton Lodge, while Cinquefoil Lodge is in the east. 



The population in 1921 was 192. 



An Inclosure Act was passed in 1807, and an award 

 made in 1810, when an allotment was made for tithes. 

 The common and open fields in the parish and manor 

 were then about 1,300 acres in extent. The glebe 

 lands were 34 acres ; the inclosed glebe land, including 

 the churchyard, was 3 acres in extent.^ 



" Rm. Rob. Groiieleile (Cant, and VotV 

 Soc), 182 ; Cal. I'al. 1301-7, p. 381. 



"Pat. R. 17 Ellz. pt. 5 ; Iict o( F. 

 Northanti. Mich. 34 & 35 Elii. 



" Ibid. 



" Initil. Bit. (P.R.O.). 



M Ibid. 



*' Rccov. U. llil. 13 Cbai. I, ro. 6. 



" Iniiil. nkt. (P.K.O.), 1660, Ififii ; 

 Rfcov. R. Eail. 16 t'hai. II, ro. 37. 



" Inilit. Ilki. (P.R.O.); U.icon, Litirr 

 Rfgii, 828. 



•" Inilit. Bin. (P.R.O.). 



•' Ibid. 



•» Ibid. 



"" Feet o( F. North.mti. Mich. 35 

 Geo III. 



" Initit. Bk.. (P.R.O.). 



"* llurke, LanJrJ Grnlry, 1925. 



" Imp from ihr Riv. I'. 11. \,-M\f,. 



" Pope Nich. Tax. (Rcc. Com.), 39b. 

 •" I'ulor litdn. (Rec. Com.), iv, 291. 

 " I., and 1: Hen. VIll, xix, pt. i, g. 141 



(75)- 



'» Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 34 & 35 

 VXtr. 



< lliu. MSS. Com. Rep. (Lord Montagu 

 of Hc-au)icn), 160. 



■ Priv. Slat. 47 Geo. Ill, Sees. II, 

 cap. (>. 



