THE HUNDRED OF ORLINGBURY 



BRIXWORTH 



BROUGHTON 



CR.\NSLEY 



FAXTON 



HANNINGTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



HARDWICK 

 HARROWDEN, GREAT 

 HARROWDEN, LITTLE 

 ISHAM 

 LAMPORT 



OLD a/ias WOLD 



ORLINGBURY 



PYTCHLEY 



SCALDWELL 



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AT the time of the Domesday Survey these parishes were divided between 

 /\ two hundreds, the eastern portion, containing the parishes of Brough- 

 / % ton, Cransley, Hannington, the Harrowdens, Orlingbury with the 

 -^ -^hamlet of Withmale, and Pytchlev, being the Hundred of 'Ordinbaro'. 

 The western half, containing Brixworth, Faxton, Lamport with the hamlet of 

 Hanging Houghton, Old <7//V/j- Wold, 

 Scaldwell, and Walgrave, constitu- 

 ted the Hundred of 'Maleslea'. This 

 latter hundred took, its name from, 

 and doubtless had its meeting-place 

 at, Mawsley in Faxton, described by 

 Bridges as 'a hamlet of one or two 

 cottages and a wood'.' The two 

 hundreds were united before the 

 middle of the 13th century, occur- 

 ring in 1 246 and 1252 as the Hun- 

 dred of Orlingbury and Malesle,- 

 but from i 275^ onwards the name 

 of Mawsley is omitted. 



In 1329 it was reported that the ancient farm of the hundred had been 

 4 marks until John de Aston when he was sheriff raised it to 8 marks 'to the 

 impoverishment of the people'.'* This statement appears to be inaccurate, as 

 John de Aston was sheriff in 1303, and again in 13 16, but in 1252 the value of 

 the hundred was returned as 8 marks.' Six years earlier it had been 6 marks.^ 

 The hundred was still in the hands of the Crown when Bridges wrote, but 

 later in the i8th century was acquired by the family of Young who held 

 Orlingbury Manor.' 



■ Hist, of Norihanti. ii, 96. Thomas dc Lodinton had licence to inclose 5 acres in 'Malislewode', within the 

 metes of the forest of Rockingham, in 1 291: Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 488. 



* Assize R. 614, m. 41 ; ibid. 615, m. J. 



^ Rot. Hundr. (Rec. Com.), ii, 12. ■• Assize R. 632, m. 26 d. 



' Ibid. 61 5, m. 5 d. In 1 264 the fixed receipts accounted for by the sheriff were worth £(i 61. oJ. : L.T.R. 

 Misc. file 5, no. 5. 



' Ibid. 614, m. 41. 



^ Court Rolls in the possession of the family : ex inf. Miss Joan Wake. 



ORLINGBURY 



Map of the Hundred 



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