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younger branch of the family; there are inscriptions in 

 the parish church to Laurence Chej-ne who died in 

 165 1 ' and to Edward Cheyne in 1662.^ Thomas 

 Roane, who owned Cogenho Fee,' died in 1676, 

 leaving a daughter Margaret as his heir.* She left 

 various benefactions to the town and at her death in 

 17175 the manor was presumably sold, George Went- 

 worth holding it about 1720.* John Frederick is 

 reported to have been the lord of a manor in Welling- 

 borough at this period and this may have been Cogenho 

 Fee.' He died in 1775 leaving his property to his wife.* 



WELLING- 

 BOROUGH 



The market is still held on Wednesday. The abbot 

 held a market court called 'Curia Selde', but as early 

 as 1 3 19'5 the profits were farmed with the tolls.'* The 

 court is not mentioned at the dissolution of the Abbey. 

 In the 1 8th century the tolls were let on lease," but in 

 1782 the Earl of Warwick, as lord of the manor, gave 

 up his rights of tolls and stallage and all goods were 

 admitted freely.'' The tenants of the manor formerly 

 belonging to Irthlingborough College had always been 

 free of toll for their goods." Queen Elizabeth appears 

 to have granted two fairs at Wellingborough to Sir 



■ c 1180-90 

 Ccl'iSO-QO 

 Oc 1300-1350 

 fUjr 1385-1400 

 ■"Ir 11.20-30 



.\ IcjDERN 



Plan of Wellingborough Church 



She died in 1788 and left her property in Welling- 

 borough to different nieces, but Cogenho Fee is not 

 mentioned in her will.' 



In 1086 there were two mills paying 16/. a year and 

 a fishery on the abbey manor.'" In 1267, these two 

 water-mills and the fishery were farmed out." In 1539, 

 one mill was called East mill; another and a fulling-mill 

 were called Staple Mills.'- In 1674, when the town 

 was growing and a great deal of corn coming into it, 

 an attempt was made by the lessees of these mills to 

 force the inhabitants not to use certain other mills, 

 which had been established in some cases for a long 

 time." 



A weekly market at Wellingborough 



MyfRKET every Wednesday was granted in 1201 by 



King John to the Abbey of Crowland'* and 



the privilege passed with the abbey's manor (q.v.). 



Christopher Hatton,^" but during the 1 8th century,^' as 

 at the present day, three fairs were held, the dates 

 being the Wednesdays in Easter and Whit weeks and 

 the 29th October. 



The church of JLL HJLLOfTS'^ 

 CHURCHES stands in the middle of the town, north 

 of the market-place, and consists of 

 chancel, 58 ft. by 20 ft. 6 in., with north and south 

 chapels and north vestry; clerestoried nave, 59 ft. by 

 17 ft. 6 in.; north aisle, 20 ft. 3 in. wide; south aisle, 

 15 ft. wide; south transeptal chapel, 13 ft. 3 in. by 



11 ft. 6 in.; north and south porches, and west tower, 



12 ft. 9 in. square, all these measurements being 

 internal. The tower is surmounted by a stone spire. 

 The Corpus Christi chapel on north side of the chancel 

 (now in part used as an organ-chamber) is 35 ft. 

 long by 20 ft. in width, and the Lady Chapel on the 



' Cole, op. cit. 86. 



' Ibid. 83. 



' Bridges, op. cit. ii, 1 50. 



« Cole, op. cit. 80. ' Ibid. 



* Bridges, loc. cit. 



' Cole, op. cit. 126. 



• Ibid. 63; P.C.C. 138 Alexander. 



' Cole, op. cit. 63 i P.C.C. 243 Cilvert. 

 ■» y.C.H. Noriianls. i, 319. 

 " Wellingborough Acct. R. 



" Min. Accts. Hen. VIII, 2020. 



" Exch. Dep. by Com. Trin. 26 Chas. II, 

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



'•• Chart. R. 2 John, m. 6. 



'5 Add. MS. 5845, fol. 107. 



"' Cf. Manor Accts. (Queens' College, 

 Cambridge), 1283, 1322. 



" Cole, op. cit. 242. 



■« Ibid. '• Ibid. 



" Pat. 37 Eliz. pt. 18. 



'■ Bridget, op. cit. ii, 149; Roy. Com. on 

 Atarkel Ri/^hll. 190. 



'' The proper dedication is to All Saints, 

 but during the 19th century the church 

 became known as St. Luke's, and in 1867 

 a new church in the Midland road was dedi- 

 cated to All Saints. When the invocation 

 to St. Luke was found to be wrong, the 

 parish church became known as All 

 Hallows. 



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