A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



MUSCOTE. 



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succeeded by his son John Muscote' who in 1566 

 alienated the manor to Sir John Spencer,^ who died in 

 1587, having settled the manor on his son Richard.^ 

 On the death of Sir Richard in 

 1624 his manor came to his 

 second son Brockett.* No 

 ther mention has been fou 

 this family holding a manor in 

 Earls Barton, but like Great 

 Doddington (q.v.) in 1719 it 

 was in the hands of the Earl of 

 Northampton^ and from him it 

 descended to his grand-nephew 

 Charles* Lord Compton, who 

 held it in 1780.' In 181 1 

 Charles, then Earl of Northamp- 

 ton, still held this manor,* but by 

 1 8 1 2 it had been transferred to William Whitworth' 

 and followed the same descent as Barnard's Manor 

 (q.v.), with which it then became merged. 



The Abbey of Delapre held an estate or manor 

 known as DELAPRET MANOR in Barton. At an 

 early date Roger son of Saer de WoUaston gave property 

 in Barton to this house.'" Subsequently Henry de 

 Pynkeny gave 8 virgates in Barton," and in 1 3 1 3,'- and 

 again in 1 349,'^ a half fee was returned as held jointly 

 by Robert de Pynkeny and the Abbess of Delapre. In 

 1329 the abbess successfully claimed frankpledge from 

 her tenants in her manor of Barton.'* In 1392 Robert 

 Holdenby granted land in Barton to the convent,' ^ and 

 about the same time grants were made to it by John 

 Mauntell and Thomas Bray.'* The value of these lands 

 held by Delapre in 1535 was ^^9 5/. annually." At the 

 Dissolution this estate passed to the Crown, and in 

 1537 Henry VIII granted /^20 of rent out of this and 

 other estates in Earls Barton to William Lee.'^ The 

 lands, which had been leased to various tenants, were 

 granted in 1553 to Anthony Brown and Richard 

 Weston," and ten years later Anthony Brown quit- 

 claimed the whole estate to Richard Weston.-" By 1604 

 Delaprey Manor was in the hands of Sir Richard 

 Spencer, owner of Holdenby's, and the two manors 

 descended together-' until 1812, when Delaprey was 

 among the manors held by William Whitworth. -- 



Another manor or estate named DR UEUS MANOR 

 was held of the Earl of Kent in 1495, when John 

 Druel of Newton Bromswold (q.v.) died seised of it and 

 was succeeded by his brother Richard.-^ It had been 

 held by John's grandmother Joan Druell alias Burne, 

 widow, until the previous year. The manor is not 



mentioned by name again, but in 1540 Thomas 

 Carowe and John Knight alienated a third of a 'manor' 

 in Earls Barton to John Brown and Audrey his wife 

 and their son George.-'* This may refer to Druel's 

 Manor. In 1557 George Brown granted certain lands 

 to John Lord Mordaunt.-^ In 1609 Henry Lord Mor- 

 daunt, grandson ot John,-* died seised of a rent of 

 33^. 25^2'. issuing from lands in Earls Barton.^' No 

 further trace of this estate has been found. 



THORP MANOR in the hamlet of that name seems 

 to have been 'Widetorp', in which, at the Domesday 

 Survey, Robert held of the Countess Judith 3 virgates 

 of land. ^* The overlordship descended with the honor 

 of Huntingdon. No further mention of the manor has 

 been found until 1375, when the manor of Thorp by 

 Barton was conveyed by Thomas Seymour, of Hard- 

 wick, to Robert Drakelowe and his wife Catherine and 

 their heirs.-' In 1491 Roger Salisbury died seised of 

 Thorp and left his son WiUiam as heir.^" William died 

 about 1 51 1 and the manor descended to his daughter 

 Mary, then married to Sir William Parre.^' In 1 5 19 

 Sir William Parre and his wife settled the manor on 

 Ralph Lane, who married Sir WiUiam's daughter 

 Maud.'^ In 1558 Sir Thomas Tresham held lands^^ in 

 Barton which had belonged to Sir William Parre, then 

 deceased, whose daughter Mary he had married.^* 

 Before the year 1580 the manor had been conveyed 

 to Thomas Tyringham, who in that year ahenated 

 it to Thomas Throckmorton^ ^ probably in trust for 

 Thomas Tresham, grandson of Sir Thomas Tresham 

 and Mary Parre, and his wife Muriel, daughter of Sir 

 Robert Throckmorton. 5* Nothing further has been 

 found in connexion with Thorp Manor. 



At the time of the Conqueror's Survey there 

 MILLS were three mills in Earls Barton; these 

 rendered 28/. 6d. annually and were held by 

 the Countess Judith.^' In 1580 two water-mills were 

 held with Thorp Manor^* and in i 592 one was ap- 

 purtenant to the rectory then held by Clement Lewis. 3' 

 There was formerly in Earls Barton a 

 COURT court called the Baron's Mote held every 

 month by the Earls of Huntingdon.'"' To this 

 court aU who held of the honor of Huntingdon owed 

 suit and service.'" 



The church of ALL SAINTS stands 

 CHURCH conspicuously on a prominent spur of land 

 that commands the road running up to the 

 village from the ford and mill in the valley below,''- and 

 occupies part of the site of a mote castle, or mound 

 fortress, the ditch of which remains on the north side. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxv, 13; 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), 127 (7). 



^ Feet of F. Northants. East. 8 Eliz. 

 3 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxv, 58. 

 * Ibid, ccccxviii, 95. 



Bridges, Northants, ii, 138. 



G.E.C. Complete Peerage (ist ed.), vi, 



6 



7+- 



Recov. R. Trin. 21 Geo. Ill, ro. 385. 

 8 Ibid. Hil. 51 Geo. Ill, ro. 212. 

 » Ibid. East. 52 Geo. Ill, ro. 4.23. 

 '" Dugdale, Mon. v, 210. 

 " Ibid. 213. 



'- Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 39 1. 

 '3 Cal. Close., 1346-9, p. 582. 

 '" Viae, de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 573. 

 ■5 Add. Chart. 21525. 

 ■'' Cal. Pat. 1391-6, p. 160; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. ii, 42. 

 *7 Valor Eccles. (Rec. Com.), iv, 321. 

 '8 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiii, pt. i, 583. 



"> Pat. 7 Edw. VI, pt. 7, m. 6. 



2» Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 5 Eliz. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 2 Jas. I; 

 ibid. East. 5 Chas. I; ibid. Hil. 4 & 5 

 Wm. and Mary. 



" Recov. R. East. 52 Geo. Ill, ro. 423. 



^5 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xi, m. 53. 



^-t Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 31 Hen. 

 VIII. Audrey was still holding in 1553 : 

 Recov. R. Hil. i Mary, ro. 415. 



^5 Com. Pleas. D. Enr. East, i Edw. VI, 

 m. 4 d. 



■'> G.E.C. Peerage, v, 366. 



■^^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccix, 200. 



28 y.C.H. Northants. i, 354. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 49 Edw. III. 



3» Cal. In<j. p.m. Hen. FII, i, p. 341. 



3' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxviii, 38. 



32 Burke, Extinct Peerages, 419. 



'3 Pat. 5 & 6 Ph. and M. pt. iii, 10. 



3-* Burke, loc. cit. 



118 



3S Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 21 & 22 

 Eliz. 



'*• Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, iv, 373. 



^^ V.C.H. Northants. i, 351. 



'8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 21 & 22 

 Eliz. 



J' Pat. 35 Eliz. pt. 5. 



•"' Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. i, 70. 



■•' Bridges, Northants. ii, 138. 



■♦- G. Baldwin Brown, Arts in Early Eng. 

 i, 297. The late Prof. Baldwin Brown's 

 account of the Saxon tower is, with permis- 

 sion, made use of in our description. The 

 site is about 170 ft. above the River Nene. 

 Sir William Hope explained the nearness 

 of the mount to the church by the fact that 

 the nave was originally aisleless and the 

 graveyard on the north side of it of small 

 extent, thus leaving plenty of room for the 

 mount and ditch: Arch. Jour. Ixix, 513. 



