SPELHOE HUNDRED 



WESTON FAVELL 



grandson, both of the name of Alexander,' the second 

 of whom acquired Tyringham's Manor in Weston 

 Favell by his marriage with Rebecca one of the daugh- 

 ters and co-heirs of Martin Hervey.^ In 166+ he 

 petitioned the King for a letter to the mayor and alder- 

 men of Northampton, to elect him to the stewardship 

 of the corporation, alleging that he lost most of his 

 estates during the war for adherence to the sovereign,^ 

 and in 1666 he was appointed deputy to James Earl 

 of Northampton, Master of his Majesty's Leash, with 

 authority to take as many greyhounds within 10 miles 

 of Weston Favell as he should think fit.* Alexander 

 died in 1676,' leaving Weston to his son Her^'ey Ekins, 

 Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1681, upon whose 

 death in 1730 the manors were inherited by Rebecca, 

 his only surviving child, wife of Justinian Ekins, her 

 cousin.* As Rebecca died without issue, Justinian 

 settled the estate on his nephews Hervey Ekins, Jus- 

 tinian, William, and Robert Kerr>' respectively in tail 

 male' but all dying without issue within a few years of 

 one another,* the manors reverted to Elizabeth Ellen, 

 the widow of Hervey Ekins, nephew of Justinian, who 

 demised them to trustees to be sold for the benefit of the 

 representatives of her husband's sisters.' In accordance 

 with the terms of her will, Weston was sold in 1 8 14 for 

 ^23,970, the two principal farms being purchased by 

 Edward Bouverie of Delapre Abbey'" from whom they 

 have descended to Miss Bouverie, now of Harding- 

 stone," while the manors were acquired by Thomas 

 Butcher, solicitor, of Northampton. After this date 

 the manorial rights appear to have lapsed; for, although 

 in 1874 Mr. H. B. Whitworth is described as lord of 

 the manor,'^ there is no trace of them at the present 

 day. 



One hide in Weston in 1086 was appendant to the 

 manor of Torp (Kingsthorf>e), part of the ancient 

 demesne of the Crown,'-' and was so held in the 12th 

 centur)'.'* It was probably comprised in the estate held 

 by Alan de Stokes who died in 1393 seised of 5 mes- 

 suages, I J carucate of land in Weston Favell held of the 

 King in chief, and for 8/ yearly 

 paid to Kingsthorpe Manor. 

 Alan left two nieces as his heirs, 

 Maud wife of William Smith 

 and Agnes wife of Thomas 

 Knight,'' but there is no fur- 

 ther mentioh of this estate. It 

 is possible that it reappears in 

 TrR/NGHJM'S MANOR. 

 John Tyringham of London 

 and Northampton, lord of the 

 manor of Tyringham, Bucks.,'* 

 in his will, dated 1 2 July 

 1484, mentions his nephew Thomas Tyringham 

 of Weston and his daughters, of whom Elizabeth is 

 named;" but this manor is first mentioned by this 



Tyringham. Axure a 

 satrire engrailed argent. 



name in i 509 as a moiety held by Richard Higham 

 and .Anne his wife who in that year alienated it to 

 Thomas Edon.'' This Anne was apparently one of the 

 daughters and co-heirs of Sir William Chamberlain, 

 who had held the manor; her sister Mary had married 

 John Higham." A moiety was in the possession of 

 Richard Edon in 1 523.^° Thomas Edon with Griselda 

 his wife held, apparently, the whole manor in 1 5 37,-' and 

 conveyeditin i 546 to John Davenport.-^ Thelatterwith 

 Anne his wife in 1555 sold their right in the manor to 

 Edmund Tyringham of Stanton Wj-\-ille, Leicester- 

 shire,-^ probably a descendant of the original owners. 

 Edmund was succeeded by his son Francis,^* who 

 alienated this estate in 1 6 1 5 to Thomas Pentlowe,-' and 

 when the latter in 1620 conveyed it to Stephen Hervey 

 Joseph Tyringham the son of Francis released any claim 

 he might have in the manor.-* In 1635 Stephen Hervey 

 and Elizabeth his wife settled it on their son Martin 

 on his marriage with Rebecca the daughter of George 

 Strode,-' and on Martin's death before 1670 it was 

 inherited by his three daughters, of whom Rebecca the 

 second daughter acquired her other sisters' moieties,-* 

 and brought the manor into the family of her husband 

 Alexander Ekins, lord of the principal manor of 

 Weston, with which Tyringham's Manor was after- 

 wards held. 



In addition to the Count of Mortain's land, Gunfrid 

 de Cioches had J virgate in Weston in 1086 which was 

 held of him by John.'' This small estate passed to the 

 Prestons of Little Billing (q-v.), who held that manor 

 of the same overlord, and is found in their possession 

 in 1273,^° but after that date no further mention has 

 been found of this land. 



Weston Favell appears to have possessed many mills 

 at one time, and in i 562 four are mentioned^' while the 

 number had increased tosix in 1567.^' In 1580 Edward 

 Griffin brought an action against William Raindford, 

 Henry Nelson and his wife for arrears of rent due from 

 two water-mills, one a corn-mill and the other a fulling- 

 mill, and for damage done to the groundwork and 

 floodgates of the mills. '^ A mill was purchased by 

 George Spokes at the sale of the Ekins estate in 1 8 14^'* 

 and is apparently the one situated on the Nene at the 

 present day. 



The church of ST. PETER consists of 

 CHURCH chancel, 29 ft. 3 in. by 16 ft. 4 in., with 

 north vestry and organ-chamber, nave of 

 three bays, 41 ft. 6 in. by 22 ft., north aisle, 13 ft. 6 in. 

 wide, north and south porches, and west tower, 9 ft. 

 6 in. square, all these measurements being internal. 



The tower is of late-i2th-century date, of Transi- 

 tional Norman character, and the chancel belongs 

 mainly to the first half of the 13th century, being a 

 rebuilding at that time of a 12th-century chancel, the 

 priest's doorway of which was retained. This doorway 

 is earlier than the tower and indicates the existence of 



' Feet of F. N'orthanH. Trin. 6 Chis. I ; 

 ibid. Hil. 23 Chas. I. 



' Metcalfe, yiiilaliont of Norlhanls. i, 



178-9- 



> Cal. S.P. Dom. 1 664-5, P- 127 i Ca/. 0/ 

 Com. for Compounding^ iii, 2091. 



< Gents. Mdg. Uxxiii (i), 195. 



* From mural monument in church. 



' Baker, Northanti. i, 73. 



7 Ibid. 



» P.C.C. 492 Stowe. 



' P.C.C. 776 Pilt. 

 "> Baker, A'or/*a>i«. i, 73. 

 " Back, Commoneri, ii, 7. 



" Whellan, Northanti. 



" A'.C.//. Kortkanti. i, 306. 



'♦ Ibid, i, 381. 



■< Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Rich. II, no. 37. 



'» r.C.H. Bucks, iv, 483. 



" P.C.C. Logge 10. 



" Feet of F. Uiv. Co. Mich. I Hen. 

 VIII ; E. Chan. Proc. bdle. 503, no. 10. 



" Karly Chan. Proc. 337, noj. 73-6. 



" Bridgn, Northanls. i, 468. 



'■ Feet of F. Nortluntt. Mich. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



" Ibid. Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. 



» Ibid. Mich. 2 4 3 P. and M. 



•* Metcalfe, Fisitatiom of Norihanlt. 

 144-5. 



» Notes of F. Northints. Trin. 1 3 J»». I. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 18 Ja». I. 



" Ibid. Div. Co. Mich. II Cha». I; 

 Metcalfe, f^isitations of Northants. 98—9 ; 

 Baker, S'onhants. i, 75. 



'» Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 22 Chas. 

 II. " r.C.W. Northants. i, 348. 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Edw, I, no. 25. 



>' Feet of F. Uiv. Co. Hil. 4 Elii. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cilv, 51. 



" Clian. Proc. (Ser. 2). bdle. 2io,no.62. 



'♦ Baker, Norlhanls. i, 72. 



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