HAMFORDSHOE HUNDRED 



The manor was held in demesne by the abbey until 

 its dissolution in 1539' and was held by the king until 

 1550-1,^ when Edward VI granted it to Princess 

 Elizabeth.' The mansion house and demesne lands 

 had been let by the abbey, the last tenants being William 

 Peke and his son John.* The latter had been succeeded 

 by 1 547 by his widow Alice and her second husband 

 Thomas Warner,' and in 1568 Queen Elizabeth gave 

 another lease to Edward Cawton.* The manor itself 

 she seems to have retained till 1590, but in 1 574 

 she granted a considerable part of its lands to Robert 

 Dudley, Earl of Leicester,' and another grant of lands 

 was made in 1576 to Sir Christopher Hatton.* The 

 manor is not mentioned in either grant, but in 1579 

 Hatton appears to have bought a large estate in 

 Wellingborough including view of frankpledge and 

 stallage rights from Roger Charnock and his wife 

 Elizabeth,' and this possibly represented Leicester's 

 holding. The Chamocks continued to live there,'" 

 presumably as tenants of Hatton. In 1590 Elizabeth 

 sold the Crowland manor of Wellingborough, and 

 other property there to Richard Knolles and William 

 Doddington," presumably mere speculators, as Hatton 

 died seised of the manor of Wellingborough in 1591.'^ 

 His heir was his nephew Sir William Newport alias 

 Hatton, the son of his sister Dorothy,'^ but he apparently 

 intended to settle it on his cousin John Hatton.'* 

 Whether he did so seems to have been uncertain in 

 1616," but the situation was complicated by the fact 

 that Sir Christopher died heavily in debt to the Crown 

 and in 1 594 the Queen granted the manor for twenty- 

 one years to William and Francis Tate for the settlement 

 of his debts.'* Sir William Hatton died in 1596-7, 

 having settled the manor on his elder daughter and heir 

 Frances," who married Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of 

 Warwick.'* Finally, in 161 6 

 a division was made between 

 Robert Rich and his wife on one 

 hand and Christopher son of John 

 Hatton on the other. ' ' From this 

 time the manor was held in two 

 separate portions known as the 

 manor of Wellingborough and 

 the manor of Wellingborough- 

 Hatton. 



The manor of WELLING- Grevilli. SabU a crois 



BOROUGH WZS sold in 1620^0 m <i iord^r tngr^.kJ cr 



by the Earl of Warwick and 



his wife to Fulke Greville, Lord 



Brooke, who left it in his will dated 1627/8 to his cousin 



Robert Greville.^' His family held it till the 19th 



tvith fi'vt roundels table 

 on the cross. 



WELLING- 

 BOROUGH 



century,-^ but sold it to John Vivian. From him it 

 passed to Quintus Vivian, who was lord of the manor 

 in 1 837=' and died in 1877. Major Quintus Vivian left 

 a daughter Flora, who married William Frederick Byng, 

 second son of the Earl of Strafford. Their daughter 

 Violet married Dr. Edmund Distin Maddick, C.B.E., 

 whose son. Major Edmund Cecil Strafford Byng-Mad- 

 dick, is now lord of the manors of Wellingborough. 



IVESTHALL FEE was a small manor held by 

 Crowland Abbey at the time of its dissolution; it was 

 let at farm to John Peke, with the demesnes of the chief 

 manor of Wellingborough,-* into which it was evidently 

 absorbed. This may possibly represent the virgate held 

 in 1086 by the Bishop of Coutances, appurtenant to 

 Harrowden.^s The sub-tenant at that date was Norgot, 

 and in 1 199 one Hugh 'son of Norgaut' granted half 

 a virgate in Wellingborough to the Abbot of Crow- 

 land.^* 



The manor of fVELLINGBOROUGH-HATTON" 

 was assigned to Christopher Hatton of Kirby, probably 

 in 1616.^' He was created Lord 

 Hatton of Kirby in 1643,^' but 

 in 1649, in order presumably 

 to meet the heavy cost of com- 

 pounding for his estates with the 

 Commonwealth, he sold Well- 

 ingborough-Hatton to Francis 

 Gray,'" a royalist who in 1642 

 had been seized by the Parlia- 

 mentarians for not contributing 

 to the defence of the kingdom. 

 The town rose in arms in his 

 defence and reinforcements had 

 to be hurried from Northampton to put down the dis- 

 turbance." He must, however, have made his peace 

 with the Parliament before he purchased the Hatton 

 manor. His son, another Francis Gray, settled the manor 

 on his nephew Charles Shepherd in 1703,'^ who held in 

 17 19,'' and afterwards the manor passed to George 

 Shepherd.'* In 1 805, it seems to have been in the hands 

 of heiresses,'^ from whom it was presumably bought by 

 John Vivian, the lord of Wellingborough manor.'* 



In the 1 2th century a hide of land, which was 

 apparently omitted from the Domesday Survey, was 

 held by the Earl of Leicester." In 1265 Simon de 

 Montfort, Earl of Leicester,'* forfeited a yearly rent of 

 ;^io in Wellingborough, which had been seized by 

 Gilbert de Clare. The overlordship of the honor of 

 Leicester is mentioned in I488"and 1535.*° In 1205 

 the sub-tenant of the manor was Robert de Harcourt, 

 whose lands were seized by King John and granted to 



Hatton. Azureacheve' 

 ron between three sheaxres 



' Feud. Aids, iv, i6, 26; Tax. Feel. 

 (Rcc.Com.), S4j P.R.O. Min.Accts. Hen. 

 VUI, no. Z020; Dugdalc, Mon. ii, iz6. 



' Ct. R. (P.R.O.), portf. 195, nos. 94, 



95. 97- 



* Cj/. Pj/. 1549-51, p. 239 and 1550- 



3. P- 90- 



* Proc. Ct. of Augs. bdlc. 19, no. 27. 



5 Pat. 10 Eliz. pt. I. » Ibid. 



^ Ibid. 16 Eliz. pt. i, mm. 8, 12. 



* Ibid. 18 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. 10. 



' Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 21 Eliz. 



'*• S.P. Dom. Eliz. vol. cicii, no. 41. 



" Pat. 37 Eliz. pt. xviii, m. 19. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), cccxxix, 

 no. 193. 



" Ibid.; C. Metcalfe, yiiilationt of 

 Aorthants. 27. 



'♦ Add. MS. 37939. 



" Ibid. Sir William certainly held 



courts for the manor in 1593: Finch- 

 Hatton Deeds, 541 (penes Northants. 

 Rec. Soc.). 



•« Pat. R. 37 Eliz. pt. 18. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccjxix, 

 no. 193. 



'• G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



'» Add. MS. 37939. 



» Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 17 Jas. I. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxix, 

 no. 90; ibid, di, no. 63. 



" Recov. Mich. 12 Chas. II, r. 191; 

 ibid. Mich. 3 Geo. I, r. 308; ibid. Hil. 

 14 Geo. II, r. 241 ; ibid. Hil. 12 Geo. Ill, 

 r. 323; ibid. East. 40 Geo. Ill, r. 370; 

 Norihanii. N. & Q. ii, 224; Priv. Act of 

 Pari. 5 Geo. Ill, c. 28. 



^' Cole, op. cit. 33. 



'♦ Proc. Ct. of Augs. bdle. 19, no. 27; 

 Min. Accts. Hen. VIII, no. 2020. 



" l^.C.H. Northanli. i, 31 1. 



" Fcetof F. Northants. 10 Ric. I, no. 39. 



" The name occurs as early as 1593, 

 when Sir William Hatton held a 'Court of 

 the sokcmcn* : Finch-Halton Deeds, 929 

 (fenes Northants. Rec. Soc). 



" Add. MS. 37939. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage (2nd ed.), vi, 

 396. '" Close 1649, pt. ix, m. 26. 



J' MSS. of Duke of Portland. (Hist. 

 MSS. Com.), i, 82. 



'^ Close, 4 Anne, pt. xiv, no. 10. 



" Cole, op. cit. 126. 



^* Bridges, op. cit. ii, 1 50. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil.40Gco.III. 



"* Cf. Cole, op. cit. 33. 



" y.C.H. Northants. i, 382. 



'• Cal. Intj. Mite, i, no. 833. 



" Cal. ln<i. p.m. Hen. ril, i, 297. 



« fator Eccles. (Rec Com.), iv, 310. 



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