A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Peverel, of whom Eustace was then holding i hide 

 there, worth 68^. The soc pertained to 

 MANORS Higham Ferrers." In the Northampton- 

 shire Survey i hide was held by Harold, 

 and two other holdings were then recorded: 3 small 

 virgates held by Ralf de Foleville, and 3 small virgates 

 held by Richard and Roger de Costentj'n,^ these having 

 probably been included, in the Domesday Survey, in 

 Raunds, of which manor a manor of Hargrave was 

 a member in the 13th century.^ 



The fees of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, held 

 in 1 21 2 by him in chief of the king as of the honor of 

 Peverel included an eighth part of a fee in Hargrave 

 held by the Prior of Chicksand,* which with the other 

 Peverel fees was subsequently held as part of the Duchy 

 of Lancaster.' 



The chief manor, to which the church was attached, 

 seems to have been that held in the 12th century by 

 the Costantyns. The advowson was recovered in 1228 

 by Richard de Deseburg against the Prior of the 

 Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, who claimed as 

 guardian of John Bauzan. Richard proved that the 

 advowson had descended from Roger Costantyn to his 

 son and heir William, who had granted his lands in 

 Hargrave to one Frumbold to hold under him. 

 William's son Roger had died s.p., his heir being his 

 sister Amice, late the wife of Richard Deseburg, who 

 held in her right.* The Deseburgs or Desboroughs, 

 according to an inscription on the family tomb in 

 Desborough Church were lords of Desborough (q.v.), 

 Cransley, Kelmersh, Broughton, and Hargrave, and it 

 is from the presentations to the church that the Des- 

 borough owners of this manor can be traced. 



According to the Desborough 

 inscription previously quoted, 

 Jane daughter and heir of Richard 

 de Desborough' married John 

 Pulton, and so carried this Har- 

 grave property into the Pulton 

 family* about 

 century, John 

 Desborough, 

 church in 



on 2 February 148 1, Thomas Pulton. Argent a fesse 

 Pulton was holding the advow- befween three mokt! sahU 



son of the Prior of Chicksand,'" 



and his son William who then 



succeeded him died seised of lands in Hargrave and the 



advowson held of that priory in 1498, his heir being 



his son Giles" who presented in 1502. 



The eighth part of a fee in Hargrave held in 1242 

 by the Priory of Chicksand (Beds.)'^ was presumably 

 the virgate which in 1275 was said to have been 

 given to the priory by John Attemede of Hargrave.'^ 

 When the priory was surrendered on 22 October 



3Ut the end of the 14th V y\ , 



lohn Pulton, lord of V \ ^ y 

 ;h, presenting to the ^^.r^in^^ 

 1404.' At his death, ^*''*^''^ 



ivith three bezants on the 

 fesse. 



1538 the farm of the manor of Hargrave was returned 

 as £\ y. ^</.'* On 20 April 1553 the manor belong- 

 ing to the late monastery, together with the Prior's 

 Grange of Hargrave, held of the king as jg fee, 

 was granted to Anthony Browne, esq., and Richard 

 Weston, '5 by whom these lands were on 12 May 

 following conveyed to Thomas Catlyn'* and his son 

 and heir Robert to hold of the Crown." Robert died 

 seised of the manor at Raunds, where he was holding 

 Furnells Manor, on 20 March 1599,'* and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son William, who with his wife Ellen 

 was dealing with the manor by fine in 16 16," and with 

 her and Robert his son and heir apparent made certain 

 leases of lands in Hargrave which were the subject of 

 Chancery proceedings in 1623 and 1624.^° This manor 

 probably ceased to be held as a unit about this time. 



In 1660 a sixth part of the manor was conveyed 

 by fine by George Miles and Rebecca his wife and 

 Ephraim King and Dorothy his wife to Josiah King,^' 

 who in the following year with his wife Ann conveyed 

 the same property to Lawrence Joyce.^^ 



Bridges wrote that the king was then (<r. 1720) lord 

 of the waste, but that Lord Bolingbroke and Sir John 

 Langham had certain quit-rents in Hargrave,^^ and held 

 the advowson. By the Inclosure Act of 1802 it was 

 directed that an allotment equal to i of the waste lands 

 was to be made to the lord or lords of manors within 

 which they lay,^* but no lord was returned (though 

 Sir William Langham, bart., John Howson, and other 

 principal proprietors were referred to). The owner of 

 the rectory, apparently the lord, was not so described. 

 In 1864 the Rev. Wm. Lake Baker, M.A., appears as 

 patron and incumbent and lord of the manor, but the 

 Rev. Robert Sibley Baker was stated in 1885 to have 

 held the manor and living (which was in the gift of the 

 trustees of the Rev. W. Lake Baker) since 1865. He 

 was lord, patron, and incumbent in 1894^' arid died in 

 1 897. Lady Murchison is now lady of the manor, and 

 owner of the advowson. 



Katherine de Sawston held an eighth of a fee in 

 Hargrave in 1284 of Edmund of Lancaster^* and in 

 1297 of his widow.^'' This was probably the eighth of 

 a fee which had been held at some time by Walter de 

 Wasynglegh, subsequently divided equally between 

 Richard Rydel and Isabel de Mollesworth, and was 

 (apparently about 1330) in the hands of Henry de 

 Wivyle,-* but no more is known of it. 



In 1 189 Richard I confirmed to the abbey of Peter- 

 borough a knight's fee in Pytchley, Thorpe, and 

 Hargrave, then held by Richard Engaine,-' and this 

 probably descended with the Engaine fee of Pytchley 

 (q.v.). 



In 1 291 the priory of Huntingdon had a rent of 3/. 

 in Hargrave 'in the parish of Raunds', and the abbey 

 of Thorney one oC £i^. 'in the same'. 3° 



» V.C.H. Northanti.\, 338*. 



^ Ibid, i, 376*. 



3 Cal. Close, 1296-1302, p. 168. 



■• Bk. of Fees, 934. 



5 Feud. Aids, iv. 14; vi, 568 ; Hund. R. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 10; Cal. In(j. p.m. iii, 423, 

 vii, 63-4; Plac. de Quo IVarr. (Rec. Com.), 

 580; Cal. Close, 1296-1302, p. 168. 



' Curia Reg. R. 105, m. 9; Rot. Hug. 

 de ffelles (Cant. & Yorii Soc), ii, 151; 

 Bractons Note-Bk. no. 319. 



' Presumably Richard 'le Lord' : see 

 under advowson. 



' Northants. N. & Q.m, 11$. 



• Bridges, op. cit. ii, 168. 



"> Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. IV, no. 14. 



" Ibid. (Ser. 2), xiv, 54. 



'^ Bk. of Fees, 934. 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 10. 



'4 Dugdale, Mon. vi, 950. 



■5 Pat. R. 7 Edw. VI, pt. 7, no. 6. 



^^ In a return of chantry lands, a 'parcel 

 of land which was sold to Mr. Katlyn 

 which belonged to the priory' was included : 

 Northants. N. & Q. v, 240, quoting Misc. 

 Bks. Augm. Off., clxviii, fo. 38. 



'7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxiv, 139. 



** Ibid, cclviii, 95. 



" Feet of F. Northants, Mich. 14 Jas. I. 



^° Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), 346, no. 16. 



^' Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 12 

 Chas. II. 



" Ibid. Trin. 13 Chas. II. 



" Op. cit. ii, 169. 



" Priv. Act. 42 Geo. Ill, c. 37. 



^5 Kelly, Directories. The Manor House 

 was referred to in 1885 as in the occupa- 

 tion of John Lake Baker, farmer. 



^' Feud. Aids, iv. 14. 



^' Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, p. 296. 



28 Feud. Aids, vi, 569. The interpreta- 

 tion of this list of fees is obscure. 



29 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, p. 21 j ibid. 



1327-41. P- 277- 

 " Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 54. 



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