SPELHOE HUNDRED 



WESTON FAVELL 



reversion to her son Andrew Hackett junior and his 

 children. Francis Beynon died shortly after, in 1778, 

 and the advowson was inherited by Elizabeth Anne 

 Hackett,' and passed to her second but eldest surviving 

 son, Francis Beynon Hackett, who was patron in 1 8 16.- 

 Before 1820 the patronage of the church was pur- 

 chased of F. B. Hackett by John Bartlett of Bucking- 

 ham,^ in whom it was still vested in 1874,'' but it was 

 resold between that date and 1903 when Mr. H. 

 Roberts of London owned the presentation and by 

 1906 it was in the possession of the Rev. Humphrey 

 Gordon Roberts Hays-Boyd of Towend, Symington, 

 who in 1925 transferred it to the Bishop of Peter- 

 borough. 



After 1673 the rectory was severed from the advow- 

 son and was sold in portions, half apparently being 

 bought from the Manleys by .Arthur Goodday,' as in 

 1695 it belonged to William Goodday, probably his 

 son.* Another quarter was vested in Laurence Hadden, 

 Elizabeth his wife and others in 1690,' but was after- 

 wards purchased by William Goodday who with Mary 

 his wife, held | of the rectory in 1 706.* On William's 

 death in 1 7 1 5 his right to the rectory was inherited 

 by John his son who died in 1755,' leaving two daugh- 

 ters and co-heirs, Millicent the wife of the Rev. Thomas 

 Hide and .\nne the wife of John Walker, who at the 



inclosure of part of the parish 



765 were each 



certified to hold ^ of the great tithes, the remaining | 

 or J being the property of Francis Beynon, patron of 

 the vicarage.'" Millicent Hide seems to have died with- 

 out issue, for her share passed to her sister's daughters 

 Anne the wife of Thomas Beet, of Great Houghton, 

 and Rebecca, who held the lands in 1793" and by 1820 

 they were vested in the representatives of the late 

 Thomas Beet and of the Rev. George Beetof Harpole.'- 

 The other lands allotted to Francis Beynon descended 

 with the advowson to Francis Beynon Hackett who 

 held them in 1820.'^ 



By his will dated 1505 John Chambers left a mes- 

 suage called the Bedehouse and other property in 

 Spratton and Holdenby to found a chantry in the 

 chapel on the north side of the chancel lately rebuilt 



by him; prayers were to be offered up for the souls of 

 his brother William, his wife Elizabeth, his parents, 

 and of himself '* In 15 34 and 1545 the lands belonging 

 to it were worth £^,'^ and at its dissolution in 1548 

 £^ \2s. a year, paid to the priest as salary.'* Silvester 

 Tavcrner of London and Joseph Hinde obtained the 

 property, " and they doubtless sold it afterwards in small 

 portions. 



The Tov\'n and Charity Estate. It 

 CHARITIES appears by a decree of the Commis- 

 sioners for Charitable Uses issued in the 

 i6th year of King Charles II that one John Pearson 

 bequeathed j^io for the poor, that a cottage and 3 a. 

 I r. of land had been given for the reparation of the 

 church, that the rents of certain other lands had been 

 applied for the reparation of the highways and bridges, 

 and that several sums of money had been given for the 

 relief of the poor. In a deed dated 7 December 1694 

 it is stated that [,^0 had been bequeathed by one 

 Arthur Goodday towards binding poor children 

 apprentices. The sums of money mentioned were laid 

 out in the purchase of land, and the property now con- 

 sists of 29 a. or. 25J p. let in allotments. A house 

 and garden acquired at the same time have since been 

 sold and the proceeds invested, the whole producing 

 about £75. 



An Order of the Charity Commissioners dated 28 

 September 1909 directed that three-quarters of the net 

 income should form the endowment of the Town 

 Charity and the remaining quarter the endowment of 

 the Church Charity. The Town Charity is adminis- 

 tered by a body of trustees and the Church Charity 

 by the vicar and churchwardens and additional trustees. 



Thomas Hill by his will proved in P.R. 16 August 

 192 1 gave ;^ioo, the income to be applied by the 

 vicar and churchwardens in the purchase of coal for the 

 poor, the charity to be called 'Thomas and Sarah Hill's 

 Charity'. The money was invested and produces about 

 L^ yearly. 



The vicar of Spratton receives annually ^^30 from 

 the trustees of Sir Edward Nicoll's Charit)', which is 

 described under the parish of Kettering. 



WESTON FAVELL 



Westone (xi cent.); Weston Fauvelle (xiii cent.). 



Weston Favcll is a large parish, covering an area of 

 nearly 2,000 acres and, since 1900, including part 

 of the parish of Abington. Owing to the expansion of 

 Northampton the population of the ecclesiastical parish 

 had risen to 1,094 in 193 1. Much of the land consists 

 of permanent pasture, but cereals and beans are grown. 

 The lower part of the parish, which lies by the River 

 Nene, the southern boundary, is covered with trees 

 which border the lane ascending from the Billing Road 

 to the village, but the northern part, which lies much 

 higher up, is more open in character although broken 

 by one or two spinnics. The north of the parish is crossed 

 by the main road from Northampton to Kettering, while 

 the Wellingborough road, off which lies the village, 

 divides the upper and lower parts. Two roads lead off 



' Priv. Act II Cfo. Ill, cap. 25. 



' Rccov. R. nil. 56 Geo. Ill, m. 328; 

 Close R. 58 Geo. Ill, pi. 33, m. 1 1. 



^ Baker, Norihunii. i, 68. 



* Whellan, l^orikanti. 1 874. 



» Feet of Fine», Nortbints. Trin. 28 

 Cbis. II. 



» Rccov. R. East. 7 Will. Ill, m. 166. 



' Feet of Fines, Northants. East. 

 7 Will. III. « Ibid. Trin. 5 Anne. 



» Uarl Soc. Puhl. liv, 663. 



'° Pnv. Act 5 Geo. Ill, cap. 43. 



" Recov. R. Mil. 33 Geo. Ill, m. 333. 



" Baker, Sorihanti. i, 65, 68. 



the highway to the centre of the village where stands 

 the church, one of them forming the main street of the 

 village, with a public house and Methodist chapel, while 

 the other skirts the high stone wall which inclosed the 

 grounds of where the Ekins's mansion formerly stood, 

 and passes by the small cemetery and picturesque group 

 of thatched cottages with stone muUioned windows 

 opposite the church. There are several good stone 

 houses clustered round the church, while the rectory, 

 a red-brick house built by the Rev. James Hervey just 

 before his death in 1758, stands slightly to the south. 

 To the north of the parish, just off the Kettering 

 road, lies Weston Favell House, a stone house built by 

 Mr. James Manficld in 1900, with a small park. The 

 ground reaches here an altitude of 400 ft., and a fine 

 view is obtained over the sloping fields of the Nenc 

 " Ibid. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. l), xx, 15. 



" i'alor Ecclei. (Rec. Com.), iv, 323; 

 Composition Books, iii, 53. 



"* Chant. Cert., Nortlunts. 36, no. 13; 

 ibid. 35, no. <. 



" Pat. R. : Edw. VI, pt. iii, m. 21. 



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