A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Catlyn. Fartycheveron- 

 luhe azure and or three 



seems to have passed into the possession of Eleanor 

 de Trailly;' possibly she was a sister of Roger de 

 Furneus and had obtained it as her marriage portion. 

 'The fee of Walter de Trailly', her husband, in Raunds, 

 is mentioned during the lifetime of Roger de Furneus,^ 

 but on Walter's death in 1289 he had no fees in the 

 county.^ Eleanor held it in 1 3 14,'* and her descendants 

 continued to hold it until 1398.5 Reynold de Trailly 

 died in 1402 without heirs^ and the manor may have 

 been acquired by Thomas Chamberleyn, who held 

 twenty pounds' worth of land in Raunds in 1412.'' 

 The Catlyn family, who held a manor called Furnells 

 in Raunds in the i6th century, claimed descent from a 

 daughter of Chamberleyn ; she may perhaps be identified 

 with Sara the wife of John Catlyn, whose great-great- 

 grandson Robert* died in 1588 seised of this manor, 

 which he is said to have bought of John Parmenter; 

 his heir was his son William, then aged 30.' In 163 1 

 William Catlyn, with Helen his 

 wife and their son Robert, con- 

 veyed the manor to Sir Robert 

 Ducie and Anthony Biddulph, 

 who sold it to Judith Edwards.'" 

 She settled it on her daughter 

 Judith on her marriage to Roland 

 Litton, who is mentioned about 

 this lime as a freeholder of Raunds, 

 holding in right of his wife a parcel 

 of the manor of Furnells and other 

 lands late Catlyn 's and previously 

 Avenelles's."Ini639theLittons '"'P'"'''' ""'•'^/"'"•"■^'i 



r^i ITT- and a Chief argent. 



conveyed it to Dr. Thomas Wm- 



ston, whose estates were afterwards vested in trustees by 

 Act of Parliament and sold to Matthew Johnson.'^ 

 The manor was acquired in 1675 by Sir William Lang- 

 ham, bart.,'3 whose descendant. Sir Herbert Charles 

 Arthur Langham, bart., is the present owner. 



A manor called Furnells was held on lease from the 

 Crown in 1649 for a rent of 18/. by John Ekins of 

 Stanwick.'* It continued in the possession of the Ekins 

 family at least as late as 1721, when Thomas Ekins and 

 Elizabeth his wife dealt with it by fine." This seems to 

 have been the site of the manor, without any manorial 

 rights, and may be identified with the farm held by 

 George Ekins in 1875. 



Robert, who held one hide in Raunds of the Bishop 

 of Coutances in 1086,'* also held lands in Barton 

 Segrave and Cranford, where his successor, in the time 

 of Henry I, was Geoffrey de Clinton the chamberlain." 

 This freehold appears to have been held together with 

 those lands as two fees until 1398.'* In 1402" these 

 fees were held by Richard Cloun (at Barton-"), the heirs 

 of John Fosbrooke (at Cranford-'), and the heirs of Sir 

 John Trailly, this last portion being probably amalga- 

 mated with the Trailly manor. 



^ Cah Inq. p,m. v, 538, p. 344. 



^ Hitnd. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 10. 



3 Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, no. 791. 



^ Ibid. V, no. 538, p. 344. 



5 Cal. Fine R. ii, 250; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 18 Ric. II, no. 43; 21 Ric. II, no. 46. 



« V. C.U.Beds, iii, 176, 24.3. 



' Feud. Aids., vi, 497. A moiety of the 

 manor of Emberton (Buclcs.) had been 

 granted to him and his wife Sara in 1379 

 by Katharine, widow of John the brother 

 of Sir Richard Chamberleyn and great- 

 grand-daughter of Robert de Tolthorpe, 

 to whom Thomas de Furneus and Eleanor 

 had granted it: De Banco R. 452, m. 225; 

 610, m. 107. 



* Metcalfe, Visitations of Northants. 

 9 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclviii, 

 no. 95. 



'° Bridges, A'orM^in/i. Ii, 186. 



" Finch-Hatton DceAi{penes Northants. 

 Rec. Soc), 3454. '^ Bridges, loc. cit. 



" Ibid.; Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 

 27 Chas. II. 



^■* Duchy of Lancaster Pari. Survey, 

 no. 58. 



's Cal. S.P. Dom. 1658-9, p. 54; Feet 

 of F. Northants. Hil. 6 Anne; Trin. 

 7 Geo. I. 



"> F.C.H. Northants. i, 309. 



" Ibid. 389. 



'* Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 538, p. 344; Chan. 



COTES BID UN. William, who claimed one hide 

 and half a virgate from Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, 

 in 1086,^^ was probably William, the bishop's sewer, 

 whose representative John, son of Halenath de Bidun, 

 held i\ hides and li virgates in COTES in the reign 

 of Henry I.^^ John de Bidun was the founder of the 

 abbey of Lavendon (co. Buckingham), and married 

 Alice sister of William Mauduit, the chamberlain, of 

 Hanslope. He died in 1 1 80 or 1 1 8 1, leaving a son and 

 heir John, who died in 1 184. The overlordship of the 

 fee was granted by King John to William Briwerre,^* by 

 whose grand-daughter and co-heir it was carried to the 

 Wakes of Liddell, passing from them by marriage to the 

 Earls of Kent. 



The younger John de Bidun had been married to 

 Maud daughter of Thomas fitz Bernard; she was only 

 10 years old in 1185, and afterwards married John de 

 Rochford.^5 she died in 1254 and the property was 

 divided among the representatives of the five sisters of 

 John de Bidun. ^* Amice, the eldest sister, had married 

 Henry de Clinton, and left three daughters: Amabel, 

 who had married Luke de Colum and died childless; 

 Isabel, who had married Ralf fitz John of Merston 

 and died before 1254, leaving a son Henry; and Agnes 

 the wife of Warin de Brageham, who was still living in 

 1254. Amabel the second sister of John de Bidun 

 married Miles de Beauchamp and died before 1254, 

 leaving a son Miles. The third sister, Sara, married 

 Richard de Beauchamp and had three daughters: Isabel, 

 who was still living in 1254; Maud, who had died, 

 leaving as her heir a daughter Sara, wife of Robert de 

 Walton; and Philippa, whose heir was her son John de 

 Croxton. Maud, the fourth sister, married Geoflrey 

 the son of Geoffrey; her representative in 1254 was her 

 grandson, Thomas the son of Robert. Ermingard, the 

 youngest sister, who was still unmarried in 1185, 

 married before 1201 Aldulf de Gatesden, of Gaddesden 

 (Herts.), and was holding half a fee in Newton and 

 Cotes in 1242.^' She left two sons, John and Richard; 



the elder, John, had died before 1254, leaving a son 

 John.^8 



John de Gatesden the younger married Hawise de 

 Nevill, and died on St. Katharine's Day 1258, leaving 

 as his heir his daughter Margaret.^' She married Sir 

 Ralph de Camoys and, secondly. Sir William Paynel;^" 

 but the John de Gatesden who seems to have acquired 

 the whole of the Bidun manor in Cotes before 1284^' 

 was presumably her cousin. In 1284 he is said to have 

 held it of the Earl of Lancaster, and Newton Bromswold 

 (in co-parcenary with Richard de Croxton) of the heirs 

 of Baldwin Wake; but on his death in 1296 the jury 

 found that the manor of Cotes was also held of John 

 Wake.^-^ The heir of John de Gatesden was his daughter 

 Joan the wife of Richard Chamberleyn, who had livery 

 of her land in January 1292.^3 In 13 14 Richard and 

 Inq. p.m. 18 Ric. II, no. 43; 22 Ric. II, 

 no. 46. " Ibid. 4 Hen. IV, no. 41. 



^0 F.C.H. Northants. iii, 177. 



" Ibid. 187. 



2^ F.C.H. Northants. i, 309. 



" Ibid. 376; Farrer, op. cit. I, I. 



2* Ibid. 4. 



" Rot. de Dom. (Pipe R. Soc), 43, 45, 

 49, 55. ^* Cal. Inq. p.m. i, 323. 



" Bk. of Fees, 935. 



^^ Ibid.; Farrer, loc. cit. 



^' Cal. Inq. p.m. i, 454, 706. 



3" Suss. Arch. Coll. Iv, 31-2. 



3' Feud. Aids, iv, 14. 



3^ Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 20, p. 12. 



" Ibid.; Cal. Fine R. i, 302. 



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