A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



A second holding in Woodford, which appears later 

 to have been called JRJILLT PLACE or NOR- 

 WICWS MAXOR, belonged in the reign of Edward 

 the Confessor to the soke of Peterborough Abbey.** 

 It consisted of a hide and a virgate of land, which were 

 held by Burred, but in 1086 it had been granted to 

 the Bishop of Coutances who held it in chief of the 

 king.^ In the 12th century survey, it appears as a 

 holding of li- hides belonging to the fee of Peter- 

 borough,*^ but this probably represented an attempt 

 by the abbey to recover the land after the bishop's 

 forfeiture. It was unsuccessful and at some subse- 

 quent date the land was granted to the Clares and was 

 held of the honour of Gloucester as half a knight's 



In 10S6, the bishop's tenant was named Ralph,** 

 but early in the 12th century Guy de Trailly was the 

 sub-tenant.*^ Either the name Guy is a mistake for 

 Geoffrey, or else the mesne tenant's name is omitted 

 and Guy was the tenant in demesne and the ancestor 

 of the Trailly s of Woodford. The mesne tenants 

 under the Clares were undoubtedly the Traillys, 

 who held the manor of Yelden in Bedfordshire,*' 

 and Sir John Trailly was holding the half-fee in 1398,** 

 but after this date the mesne lordship disappears. 

 The tenants in demesne be- 

 longed to another branch of 

 the family, of which Guy may 

 have been the first. In 1241, 

 William de Trailly seems to 

 have been the tenant,*' and he 

 was probably the father of 

 Richard and Geoffrey Trailly, 

 who obtained by marriage two 

 shares of the manor of Wood- 

 ford (q.v.). Certainly the half- 

 fee passed to Richard Trailly 

 and his heirs, represented in 

 1403 by Walter Ilger.*" It 

 passed shortly afterwards to Sir Jolin Holt, who died 

 seised of Trailly Place in 1419,'* and was succeeded by 

 his two sons Hugh*^ and Richard. The latter died in 

 1429, when his heir was his cousin Simon Norwich.*^ 

 John Norwich died seised in 1504, when the manor 

 was said to be held in chief of the king.*^ His great- 

 grandson, Simon, sold it in 1570 to Simon 

 Mallory,'* who was lord of the chief manor of Wood- 

 ford (q.v.). 



All the tenants in Woodford did suit of court at 

 the abbot's court for tlie Hundred of Huxloc and 

 were geldable, but Richard de Clare, Earl of Glou- 

 cester, withdrew the suit of his Woodford tenants 

 to his Icet at Denford.** He also claimed certain 

 privileges that were held by the Abbey in the Hundred, 



Trailly. Or 

 between four 

 gules. 



a cross 

 marllets 



namely, the return of writs, pleas de vaviio vetito, 

 view of frank-pledge, gallows and the assizes of bread 

 and ale." In the l8th century. Lord St. John 

 of Bletsoe had a court leet and court baron in the 

 manor of Woodford.'* 



A mill was attached to Roger Maufe's manor in 

 Woodford in 1086, when it paid 2s. a year,*' and a 

 water-mill was attached to the manor in 1718.^ When 

 Simon Mallory sold his Woodford possessions to 

 Sir Rowland St. John in 1621, three water-mills were 

 included in the sale.* These were probably the three 

 mills of which his father died seised, called Dodcs 

 Mills.^ Two other water-mills, called WiUicoat mills, 

 seem to have been in the Crown in the reign of Henry 

 VIII, and were granted in 1544 to William, Lord Parr 

 of Horton.* They had reverted to the Crown before 

 1560, when Elizabeth granted them to William 

 Garrard and others, but this grant was surrendered 

 two years later.* They were afterwards granted to 

 Sir Robert Lane and Anthony Throckmorton, who 

 sold them to Henry Gierke of Stanwick. He died 

 seised of them in 1574, when his heir was his son 

 William.' They passed, however, to Gabriel, the 

 brother of William, and on his death in 1623 he 

 was succeeded by their nephew Christopher, a 

 minor.' 



A free fishery is mentioned as appurtenant to the 

 manor of Woodford, after its division amongst the 

 daughters of Robert Maufe. Thus in 1332 a quarter 

 part of a fishery in the Nene worth 4/. a year was 

 included in the settlement made by Henry Trailly 

 of his share of the manor.* Again in 1592, a free 

 fishery was sold with Woodford or Pycl's manor by 

 Lord Vaux to Simon Mallory,® and is frequently 

 mentioned after the manors had passed to the St. 

 Johns." 



The church of ST. MART-THE- 

 CHURCH VIRGIN consists of chancel 40 ft. 

 by 17 ft. 6 in., clearstoried nave 79 ft. 

 by 14 ft. 3 in., north and south aisles 12 ft. 6 in. wide, 

 north and south porches, and west tower 11 ft. by 

 12 ft. surmounted by a spire. The width across 

 nave and aisles is 44 ft. 10 in., and the total length of 

 the church 138 ft. 6 in., all these measurements 

 being internal. There is a modern vestry and 

 organ chamber on the north side of the chancel. 



The church, which is of rubble throughout, was 

 restored in 1867. The chancel was then partly rebuilt, 

 and has a modern high-pitched tiled roof, but all the 

 other roofs are leaded and of flat-pitch behind plain 

 parapets. Internally, with the exception of the tower, 

 all the walls are plastered. 



The architectural history of the building appears to 

 be briefly as follows : the original structure was an 



•• V.C.U. Norlhants. i, 311. 



" Ibid. 



•• Ibid. 388A. 



'* Feud. Aids, iv, 12; Chroti. Pelrob. 

 p. 114; Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edv/. II, no. 68 ; 

 36 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 36; 46 Edw. Ill 

 (ut nos), no. 6i ; 16 Ric. II, no. 27; 

 22 Ric. II, no. 46 ; 4 Hen. IV, no. 41. 



" V.C.II. Sorihanii. i, p. 311. 



•• Ibid. 338ft. 



•' y.C.II. Brdi. iii, 176; Feud. Aids, 

 iv, 12; Cat. Fine, vii, 212; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 4'i F.dw. Ill (lit not.), no. 62. 



" Ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 46. 



" Rol. Rob. C'rosirleiie (Cant, and York 

 Soc.) 203 ; Bh. of Fees, ii, 937. 



"" Feud. Aids, iv, 12 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 36 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 36 ; 4 Hen. IV, no. 

 41 ; Crt/. Ftnr, vii, 212. 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Ilcn. V, no. 43. 



" Ibid. 8 Hen. V, no. 103. 



" Ibid. 30 Hen. VI, no. 13. 



" Ibid. (Ser. ii), xviii, ;ii. 



■" Ibid. (Ser. ii), Ixxxix, 99 ; cxii, 111;; 

 Feet of F. NorthanU. Hil. 12 Eli/. ; 

 W. C. Metcalfe, ^111/. of Norlhanls. pp. 

 35, 112. 



■* Kol. Hund. (Rcc. Com.), ii, 7 j Cbron. 

 Pelrob. p. 114. 



" Rol. Hund. (Rcc. Com.) ii, 7. 



•" Recov. R. Trin. 4 Ceo. I, ro. 1 28 j 

 Mich. 21 Ceo. Ill, ro. 372. 



258 



»» y.C.II. Korlhanls. i, 317*. 

 ' Rccov. R. Trin. 4 Geo. 1, ro. 128. 

 " Ibid. nil. 19 Jas. I, ro. 17. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cclxxxviii^ 

 109. 



* L. and P. lien. VIII, xix, pt. i, g. 141 



(75)- 



» Pat. R. 2 Klir,. pt. 13. 



• Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), clxxi, loi. 

 ' Ibiil. ccccvi, 4. 



" Colt.MS. Cleop. Cii,fol. ijirf. 



• Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 34 Eliz. 



'" Ibid. Hil. 22 Elir.. ; Recov. R. Trin. 

 4 Geo. I, ro. 128 ; Mich. 29 Ceo. HI. ro. 

 564. 



