A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



to be for two parts of the tithe of corn from the demesne 

 of Ingeram de Dumart, was enforced against William 

 de Walda, then rector.' It is probable that from its 

 foundation the church of Faxton was always, as after 

 1208 it certainly has been, a chapel of ease to Lamport 

 (q.v.), being served by the same incumbent. 



An allotment in lieu of the glebe land (then contain- 

 ing about 36 acres) was made by the Inclosure Act of 

 1745;^ when also instead of tithes from the three 



Common Fields, and the swape of a piece of ground 

 called the Fallow Meadow, a rent-charge of /^8o on the 

 lands of the lord of the manor was substituted. 



Four tenements or almshouses were 

 CHARITIES erected in 1736 by Mrs. Jane Kemsey, 

 then a lady of the manor, for four poor 

 widows, for whom her sister, Dame Susannah Danvers, 

 the other lady of the manor, left a rent-charge in 1730 

 arising out of land in Pitsford.3 



HANNINGTON 



Haniton (xi cent.); Hanygton (xiv cent.). 



Hannington lies between Walgrave and Holcot, 

 and is 5 miles south-east from Lamport station. Two 

 roads, from which other roads branch, run south 

 through the parish from Walgrave, and the village, 

 which is small and compact, lies on the easternmost of 

 these. It is very pleasantly situated, and has several 

 good houses and cottages, and a plentiful supply of 

 excellent water. 



The church stands high at the western end of the 

 village, with the rectory to the south of it. The school 

 (public elementary, mixed), to the north of it was built 

 in 1 87 1 for 35 children, at the sole expense of the lord 

 of the manor. A little east of the church is the Manor 

 Farm, on the farther side of a small Nonconformist 

 chapel erected in 186;, but now closed. Hanning- 

 ton Grange lies away by itself at the north-eastern 

 extremity of the parish. There is an old quarry at the 

 opposite end of the village. The parish has an area of 

 1,248 acres. Its soil is red marl and clay: its subsoil 

 shale and gravel. The chief crops grown are wheat and 

 barley, and there is some land in pasture. The popula- 

 tion, which in 1801 was 144 and was 222 in 1871, was 

 114 in 1931. 



A notable rector was Thomas Godwin (1517-90), 

 afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose son, 

 Francis Godwin, D.D. (l 562-1633), the historian. 

 Bishop of LlandafFand Hereford, was born here. 



Three virgates in HANNINGTON were 

 MANOR entered in the Domesday Survey among the 

 lands of the Countess Judith in Willybrook 

 Hundred.'' This property, increased to i\ hides, was 

 returned in the 1 2th-century Northamptonshire Survey 

 as held of the Countess Judith's successor King David^ 

 of Scotland, and the overlordship descended with 

 the honor of Huntingdon. 



In, or before, the first half of the 1 3th century the 

 family of Preston, of Preston Deanery (q-v.), had 

 obtained the lordship of two fees in Preston, Wootton, 

 Quinton, and Hannington, which in 1242 were held 

 of the honor of Huntingdon by Gilbert de Preston.* 

 These fees descended to Thomas de Preston, who was 

 holding half a fee in Boughton and Hannington in 

 1375,' but in 1428 the fee which Thomas de Preston 

 held in Wootton, Quinton, and Hannington was held 

 by John Longvile and Geoffrey Bald;* and after this 

 no more is heard of this intermediate lordship. 



In the inquisition taken in 1274 after the death of 

 Gilbert de Preston, three properties held under him in 

 Hannington were recorded: namely, 3 virgates held by 

 Simon son of Ralph de Hannington by homage and 

 suit of court; 2 virgates held by Simon de Seymour by 

 homage, service of a pound of cummin and suit of court; 

 and half a virgate held by Simon le Fu of Hannington 

 by the like service;' and these lands were assigned to 

 Gilbert's widow Alice in dower.'" 



Simon de Hannington, under-tenant of the Prestons 

 in 1274, came of a family which had probably been 

 present in Hannington from an early date. Sarah de 

 Hannington was dealing with lands in Hannington in 

 1227," as were Simon son of Herbert de Hannington 

 in 1258,'^ and William son of Simon de Hannington 

 in 1 268. '3 Simonsonof Ralph de Hannington, referred 

 to above,claimed view of frankpledge here in 1275-6.''* 

 Ralph de Hannington, who was recorded with William 

 Wardedeu as holding lands in Hardwick and Hanning- 

 ton in I3i6,'5 was probably the Ralph de Hannington 

 who enfeoffed of the manor of Hannington Master 

 Roger Broun, who enfeoffed thereof William Broun, 

 father of the William Broun by whom this manor was 

 held in 1329-30, when the said William claimed view 

 of frankpledge and assize of bread and ale, and other 

 liberties appurtenant to this manor, as held of the honor 

 of Huntingdon.'* The manor passed in some way to 

 Roger Wakyrley, whose son and heir John in 1381 

 granted all the lands he had in the vill of Hannington 

 by inheritance from his father to Sir Richard Walde- 

 grave," who had a grant of free warren in Walgrave, 

 Hannington, and Sj^-ell in 1383.'* Sir Richard Walde- 

 grave in 1428 paid subsidy for the quarter fee William 

 Broun formerly held." His successor Richard Walde- 

 grave was holding this manor as the manor of jffi?O^A^iS' 

 in Hannington in 1445, when with his wife Joan he 

 conveyed it to William Tresham,^" to whom in the 

 following year John Morys of Trumpington, co. Cam- 

 bridge, released all right in the manor of Hannington.^' 

 The attainder and forfeiture in 1472-3 of Sir Thomas 

 Tresham, to whom, with Sywell, this manor had 

 descended, resulted in its being granted on 2 May 1480 

 to the king's servant Edward Brampton. ^^ But it re- 

 turned to the Treshams on the reversal of his attainder, 

 and descended with Rushton (q.v.) in the Tresham 

 family until in 1597 it was conveyed to Valentine 

 Acton by Sir Thomas Tresham and Merilla his wife. 



• Anct. D., A. 7896. 



2 Priv. Stat. i8 Geo. II, c. 27. 



3 Whellan, Hist, of Northants. p. 867. 

 « ^.C.//. A'or//ian«. i, 351. 



5 Ibid. 383. 



' Sk. of Fees, g-ji. 



' Cal. Close, 1374-7, p. 189. 



' FeuJ. Aids, iv, 42. 



^ Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, 69. 



'» Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 222. 



' ' Feet of F. Northants. case 1 72, file 1 9, 



no. 149. 



'^ Ibid, case 174, file 42, no. 714. 



" Ibid, file 48, no. 857. 



"• Hmd. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 12. 



'5 Feud. Aids, iv, 21. 



"■ Flac. de Quo IVarr. (Rec. Com.), 597. 



■' Cal. Close, 1 38 1-5, pp. 92-3. 



'8 Cal. Chart, fi. V, 293. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



2° Feet of F. Northants. 23 Hen. VI, 

 no. 112. For an account of the de Walde- 

 graves see Walgrave. 



-' Close R. 24 Hen. VI, m. 17. 



" Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 194. 



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