THE 

 HUNDRED OF HIGHAM FERRERS 



BOZEAT 



CHELVESTON-CUM-CALDECOTT 



EASTON MAUDIT 



HARGRAVE 



HIGHAM FERRERS BOROUGH* 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



HIGHAM PARK RUSHDEN 



IRCHESTER STANWICK 



NEWTON BROMSWOLD STRIXTON 



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IN the Geld Roll of about 1076 and in the following century the Hundred 

 of Higham Ferrers is given as one and a half hundreds.' In 1086 it was held 

 by \\'illiam Peverel, who also held the manor of Higham Ferrers,- and the 

 hundred and manor (q.v.) have subsequently remained in the same hands. 

 In the Domesday Survey the following 



lands belonged to it: Higham Ferrers, ;^. ^ 



Rushden, Chelveston, Caldecott, •'RiNosTEAo.-' 



Knuston, Irchester, Easton Maudit, \..^ __ _: 



Farndish, Poddington, Raunds,^ /. ' 



Bozeat, and Hargrave/ as well as 10^ 

 hides in Finedon^ and certain unnamed 

 lands, which by comparison with the 

 I 2th-century survey of Northampton- /: 



shire can be identified with Strixton.^ •*"* "•. ••..•>:- 



Newton Bromswold which belonged 

 to William Peverel in 1086 is returned ^/ ''•./" 



in Hamfordshoe Hundred^ but before /wouastonI 

 the Northamptonshire Survey of the s^^^ 



nextcenturyit was certainly in Higham y*' 



Hundred. 8 Farndish and parts of Pod- 

 dington lie in Bedfordshire, but in the 

 early i8th century the lands of the 

 Hundred of Higham Ferrers were 

 much interlaced with those of the neigh- 

 bouring county. 9 In 1602 both the 

 court leet and the three-weeks court 



were indiscriminately described in estreat rolls as the hundred court,'° but by 

 1674 they were distinguished as the court leet or view of frankpledge and the 

 court baron of the hundred." The courts were generally held at Higham 



■ r.C.H. Nortiann.i, 2<)j, 2j6i. ^ Ibid. 336^ 



' Ibid. 336^, 337<7. •• Ibid. 23^i- ' Ibid. 3081. 



' Ibid, i, 34z<7, 376*. 'Ibid. 311.7. « Ibid. 376-J. 



» Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 157. 

 '» Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 105, no. 1 502. " Ibid. nos. i 506, 1 5 16. 



* For Higham Ferrers Borough and Higham Park sec V.C.H. Nort/idnis. iii, 263-80. 

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Map of the Hundred 



