A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



William Latimer appearing among the tenants then 

 enumerated.' 



On 3 November 1328 a grant of free warren was 

 made by Edward III to William Latimer in the manors 

 of Scredington (co. Lincoln) and of Bozeat.- He 

 claimed view of frankpledge in 1329 as having been 

 held with the manor by Lucy de Bruce, who enfeoffed 

 of the manor his father William Latimer. ^ 



After the death of William Latimer in 1335 the 

 manor was held in dower by his widow Elizabeth until 

 her death on 11 April 1384.'* Her son Sir William 

 Latimer predeceased her, dying on 28 May 1381, and 

 his heir was his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John de 

 Neville Lord of Raby.' The manor was thep assigned 

 in dower to his widow, also named Elizabeth,* who at 

 her death in 1389 was returned as holding it of the 

 Earl of Pembroke by service of half a knight's fee, of 

 the inheritance of her daughter Elizabeth.'' Lady Eliza- 

 beth Neville married as her second husband Sir Robert 

 de Willoughby of Eresby, and died seised of the manor 

 of Bozeat in 1395.* Lady Elizabeth's heir by her first 

 husband was their son John Neville, but after her death 

 the manor was held by her second husband Sir Robert 

 de Willoughby until he died on g August 1396.' It 

 was then returned as held of the honor of Huntingdon, 

 but by what service was not known.'" In 1428 Bozeat 

 was assessed for feudal aids as i fee held by Lord 

 Latimer of the honor of Huntingdon." John de 

 Neville, Lord Latimer, died s.p. 

 in 1430— I, having entailed the 

 manor on Ralf Earl of Westmore- 

 land, his step-brother, i.e. the son 

 of his father John Lord Neville by 

 his first wife Maud daughter of 

 Lord Percy.'^ By Earl Ralf it was 

 bestowed on his third son. Sir 

 George Neville, who with his 



wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rich- Neville, Lord Latimer, 

 ard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Gules a saltire argent 

 made settlement of it in 1444.'^ '^"'^ " ^'"Z "*'^ /»'' 

 He, as Sir George Neville Lord d'ffereme. 



Latimer, died seised of it jointly with his wife Eliza- 

 beth on 30 December 1469, his heir being his grandson 

 Richard Neville, son of his son Henry, who had been 

 slain that year. In the inquisition taken on the following 

 10 May'* he was said to have held the manor of the 

 heirs of Thomas d'Evreux by half a knight's fee, but 

 this was evidently a confusion with the manor of 

 Marshes (q.v.). Elizabeth, his widow, died on 27 

 October 1480, when it was returned that she had 

 granted the stewardship of the manor to Richard 

 Maryette.'^ Her grandson Sir Richard Neville of Lati- 

 mer succeeded her. On 3 April 1500 he and his wife 

 Anne made a settlement of this and other manors.'* Sir 

 Richard was succeeded by his son John Lord Latimer, 

 whose son John Lord Latimer next succeeded, and died 

 at Snape in Yorkshire on 22 April 1577 leaving four 

 daughters as his co-heirs: Catherine, wife of Henry 



Earl of Northumberland; Dorothy, wife of Sir Thomas 

 Cecil; Lucy, wife of William CornwaUis, esq.; and 

 Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Danvers." These ladies, 

 with their husbands, were dealing by fine with the 

 manors of Bozeat, Church Brampton, Stowe, and Kis- 

 lingbury in 1 579,'* and in 1 580 the manors of Bozeat 

 and Church Brampton were conveyed to Sir Thomas 

 Cecil and his wife Dorothy by Richard Neville and his 

 wife Barbara." Sir Thomas Cecil in right of his wife, 

 the Lady Dorothy, subsequently took proceedings 

 against Robert Johnson, steward of Lord Latimer and 

 of Sir Thomas Cecil in these properties, to cause him 

 to surrender court rolls and other evidences, and con- 

 fess what he had cut or otherwise defaced in the same.^" 



These proceedings may possibly be connected with 

 preparations for a sale of the manor, as in i 598 a con- 

 veyance of the manors of Bozeat Latimers and of 

 Bozeat Marshes (q.v.) was made by Sir Thomas Cecil 

 and his wife Dorothy to John Wiseman and his wife 

 Margery,^' and both these manors were after this date 

 held by the Wisemans. 



In 1603 John Wiseman settled the two manors of 

 Bozeat and the rectory and advowson on his nephew 

 Henry, younger son of his brother Richard, at the 

 marriage of the said Henry with Mary Burley, daughter 

 of Richard Burley of Elsenham, co. Essex, with con- 

 tingent remainder to Richard, elder brother of the said 

 Henry.*- John Wiseman died at Bozeat on 1 1 Decem- 

 ber 1615, his heir being his brother Richard's son 

 Richard, and was succeeded in the Bozeat manors by 

 his nephew Henry and the latter's wife Mary.^-' His 

 own wife Frances survived him, and his nephew 

 Richard died seised of the reversion of this property on 

 1 5 October 1616, leaving a wife Dorothy and a son and 

 heir Mark.^'* 



In 1630 Henry Wiseman and his wife Mary were 

 dealing^' with the manors, rectory, and advowson, all 

 settled on the said Mary for life, with remainder to 

 their son John and his wife Elizabeth. John Wiseman 

 of St. Leonard's in Shoreditch, London, died seised 

 of the manors, rectory, and ad- 

 vowson on 7 April 1637, leaving 

 a son and heir John aged 2,"^* who 

 in 1656 conveyed them to John 

 Gundry,^' apparently a settle- 

 ment on attaining his majority, as 

 the manors remained in the Wise- 

 man family, and when Bridges 

 wrote were in the hands of Hester 

 and Elizabeth Wiseman,^* by in- 

 heritance from their brother John 

 Wiseman, their mother being, ac- 

 cording to Bridges, Catherine, 

 daughter of Sir Edward Alston 

 of East Barnet. In 1729 Hester 

 and Elizabeth Wiseman presented to the church. In 

 1737 Elizabeth Wiseman, spinster, conveyed the 

 manors of Bozeat Latimers and Marshes to Sara 



Spen'cer. Quarterly ar- 

 gent and gules fretty or 

 ivith a bend sable over all 

 charged tvith three scal- 

 lops argent. 



' Feud. Aids, iv, 30. 



2 Chart R. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 5, no. 22; 

 Cal. Chart. R. 1327-41, p. 94. 



3 Plac. de Quo VVarr. (Rec. Com.), 575. 

 ^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, no. 52. 



5 Ibid. 4 Ric. II, no. 34. 



' Ibid. 5 Ric. II, no. 35. 



' Ibid. 12 Ric. II, no. 34. 



8 Ibid. 5 Hen. IV, no. 28. 



« Ibid. 20 Ric. II, no. 54. 



'» Ibid. 5 Hen. IV, no. 28. 



'* Feud. Aids, iv, 45. 



■^ Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 159. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 22 Hen. VI. 



"■• Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 and 10 Edw. IV, 

 no. 28. 



'S Ibid. 20 Edw. IV, no. 73. 



■* Pat. R. 1 5 Hen. VII, pt. ii ; Cal. Pat. 

 1494-1509, p. 198; Feet of F. Div. Co. 

 Trln. 15 Hen. VII. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), clxxviii, 57. 



'8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 21 Eliz. 



'9 Ibid. Hil. 22 Eliz.; Recov. R. Mich. 

 1580, ro. 119. 



2» Ct. of Req. xxxiii, 77. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 40 Eliz. 



-- Ibid. East, i Jas. I. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxxiii, 

 no. 



^■* Ibid, ccclviii, 104. 



« Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 6 Chas. I; 

 Recov. R. Hil. 6 Chas. I, ro. 41. 



^' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxi, 4. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 1656. 



-8 Hist, of Northants. ii, 160. 



