A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Montagu. Argent a 

 Jesse indented of three 

 points gules in a border 



sable, quartered ivitk or 

 an eagle vert. 



of Henry were his sisters Katharine Cotton, widow; 

 Frances, wife of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton; 

 and Rebecca, wife of William Mulsho of Finedon, 

 aged, respectively, 24, 23, and 22 at their brother's 

 death.' The manor was next held in thirds by these 

 heirs and their representatives. 

 In March 161 7-1 8 Sir Edward 

 Montagu and Frances his wife, 

 and William Mulsho and Re- 

 becca his wife were dealing 

 by fine with two-thirds of the 

 manor, advowson, frankpledge, 

 &c.;^ and by his will proved on 

 16 June 1646 Sir Edward Mon- 

 tagu bequeathed his third to his 

 grandson Sir Edward Montagu, ^ 

 who in 1659 conveyed it to 

 Thomas Kipps.'' A conveyance 

 was made in 1628 of the manor 

 of Broughton by JohnTullakerne 

 to Thomas Tullakerne,^ and in 1665 by John TuUa- 

 kerne and Martha his wife and Thomas Cory and 

 Elizabeth his wife to Thomas Harris and John Neale.* 

 According to Bridges, Rebecca Gooday, widow, for- 

 merly wife of William Mulsho, and William Mulsho 

 her second son sold the Mulsho third of the manor in 

 1648 to Edward Lord Montagu.' It was presumably 

 therefore Katharine Cotton's third which had been 

 dealt with by the TuUakernes, and which in 1702 John 

 Farrow and Dinah his wife, Ellis Farrow, Theophilus 

 Dillingham and Mary his wife, John Bigg and Rebecca 

 his wife, Samuel Watts and Elizabeth his wife, and 

 Robert Miller conveyed to Benjamin Styles and Robert 

 Hewett,^ with one-third of the advowson, and of which 

 John Farrow and Dinah his wife and Benjamin Styles 

 and Elizabeth his wife made a conveyance in 1704 to 

 William Farrow.' Two-thirds of the manor and advow- 

 son were dealt with by recovery in the same year by 

 Ralph Earl of Montagu and John Montagu, his son 

 and heir apparent,'" the whole ultimately being in the 

 hands of the Duke of Montagu. John Duke of Montagu 

 (d. 1749) married Mary the fourth and youngest 

 daughter and co-heir of the great Duke of Marl- 

 borough, and the death without issue of their only son 

 in his father's lifetime resulted 

 in the division of this property 

 between their daughters and co- 

 heirs: Isabella who married first 

 the Duke of Manchester and 

 second Edward Hussey-Mon- 

 tagu, created Baron Beaulieu of 

 Beaulieu in 1762, and Mary who 

 married George Brudenell, 3rd 

 Earl of Cardigan, subsequently 

 created Duke of Montagu. As 

 George Earl of Cardigan the 

 latter was in 1760 holding one 

 moiety of Broughton with his son 

 John, who also died s.p. in 1770 in the lifetime of his 

 father. Elizabeth, the only daughter and heir of George 



Scott, Duke of Buc- 

 CLEUCH. Or a bend 

 assure ivith a molet 

 betiueen tivo crescents or 

 thereon. 



Duke of Montagu (2nd cr.), married Henry Scott, 3rd 

 Duke of Buccleuch, and one moiety of Broughton was 

 held in 1776 by George Duke of Montagu and by 

 his son-in-law Henry Duke of Buccleuch, and his wife 

 Elizabeth," the other half being then, and in 1786,'* 

 in the hands of Edward Earl of Beaulieu and his wife 

 Isabella. By the death s.p. on 25 November 1802 of 

 Edward Earl of Beaulieu, the two moieties came to- 

 gether again under the Dukes of Buccleuch, the present 

 owner being the 8th duke. 



In an inspeximus dated 1 8 May 1 3 2 8 for the abbess 

 and nuns of St. Mary's, Northampton, or Delapre, 

 lands in Broughton, given by Reynold son of Thomas 

 de Broughton, and by Alexander son of Reynold de 

 Broughton, were included, '^ and rents from Broughton 

 Mill. These were granted on 21 December 1545, as 

 theNUNLJNDS, in the occupation of John Hichecok, 

 3 selions of which lay in Middlefield, to Thomas 

 Thoroughgood and John Foster,'"* a fresh grant of the 

 same property and of the rectory and advowson being 

 made to Sir Thomas Tresham and George Tresham in 

 i55i.'5 



A rent of 4f. yearly in Broughton was granted by 

 Hugh son of Alfred de Dingley to the nuns of Sewards- 

 leye.'* 



The church of ST. JNDREfF consists 

 CHURCH of chancel, 33 ft. 9 in. by 16 ft. 3 in.; 

 clerestoried nave, 44 ft. 9 in. by 17 ft.; 

 north aisle, 10 ft. 6 in. wide; south aisle, 12 ft. 10 in. 

 wide; north and south porches, and west tower with 

 broach spire, 9 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 3 in., all these measure- 

 ments being internal. The width across nave and aisles 

 is 44 ft. 9 in., the 'body' of the church being thus 

 exactly square. 



The original church was a 12th-century aisleless 

 building with nave covering the same area as at present, 

 the north-east and south-east quoins of which remain 

 in situ, but the south doorway was moved outward 

 when the aisle was added. A flat buttress at the south- 

 west angle of the nave, close to the tower, is also part 

 of the early building. The doorway has a semicircular 

 arch of two orders and hood-mould, the outer order on 

 nook-shafts and ornamented with a plain chevron, the 

 inner with lozenge and pellet ornament, on plain jambs 

 and chamfered imposts; the capital of the east shaft is 

 carved, the other scalloped. 



The north doorway is of the 13th century, and there 

 is a blocked lancet above the south porch towards the 

 west, but whether either of these is in its original posi- 

 tion is uncertain, though aisles may have been added" 

 at this period and subsequently rebuilt. In their present 

 form the aisles and arcades are of the early part of the 

 14th century', and appear to have followed the rebuild- 

 ing of the chancel c. 1290— 1300, and the erection of 

 the tower c. 1300—10. The clerestory and north porch 

 are of the 14th century, but the south porch has been 

 largely rebuilt and its front is modern. The chancel was 

 rebuilt in 1828,'* but much of the old work was 

 retained, the windows and other architectural features 

 being re-used. The church was restored in 1854. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxlvii, 19. 

 Feet of F Northants. Hil. 15 Jas. 

 Bridges, Hist. 0/ Northants. ii, 85. 

 Notes of F. Northants. East. 1659. 

 Feet of F. Northants. East. 4 Chas. I. 

 Ibid. Mich. 17 Chas. II. 

 Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 85. 

 Feet of F. Northants. Hil. i Anne. 

 Ibid. Mich. 3 Anne, 



■0 Recov. R. Hil. 3 Anne, ro. 223. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 16 Ceo. 

 III. 



" Priv. Stat. 26 Geo. Ill, cap. 45. 



■3 Chart. R. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 15, no. 47. 



■< L. and P. Hen. Fill, xx (2), g. 1068 

 (40); Pat. R. 37 Hen. VIII, pt. 9. 



'5 Ibid. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 7. 



■* Anct. D. 7162. 



160 



" The difference in the width of the 

 aisles may be the result of their having been 

 first added in the 13th century, the south 

 aisle being subsequently widened on its 

 rebuilding. 



" A panel on the upper part of the south 

 wall is inscribed "Rebuilt 1828. The HonU 

 & Revd J. Douglas, Rector.' 



