ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



H.'^NNINGTON 



Francis Tresham, esq., Lewis Tresham, gent., and 

 Williara Tresham, gent., sons of Sir Thomas. ' In 1 6 1 5 

 Valentine Acton and his son Nathaniel conveyed the 

 manor to William Wilmer^ of Sywell, and Hannington 

 again descended with Sywell,^ with which manor it was 

 held in 1725 by William Wilmer and his wife Mary.* 



The manor came later into the hands of the Fre- 

 mcaux of Kingsthorpe and was devised under trust by 

 Peter John Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe, %vho died in 

 1784,5 to Thomas Boddington (who on 16 March 

 1764 married Maria Catherine Fremeaux) and others. 

 Thomas Boddington was returned as lord of the manor 

 at the Inclosure Act of 1802,* and died, aged 85, 

 in 1821.' Susanna, daughter and heir of Peter John 

 Fremeaux, married in 1799 Thomas Reeve Thornton 

 of Brockhall' and died in 1846, her husband in 1862. 

 Their second son and ultimate heir, the Rev. Thomas 

 Cook Thornton, M.A., of Brockhall, held the manor 

 until his death unmarried in 1884. Hannington then 

 passed to his nephew Francis Hugh Thornton, of 

 Kingsthorpe, the third son of his brother the Rev. 

 William Thornton of Kingsthorpe Hall,» and Francis 

 H. Thornton is now lord of the manor. 



A quarter fee in Hannington held of the honor of 

 Huntingdon in 1241 by Ingram Wardedieu'" had come 

 to him from his brother Richard." They may have 

 been sons of WiUiam 'Warde Deu', who was dealing 

 with lands here in 1227.'- Ingram must have died in 

 or before 1242, when his son William was holding the 

 quarter fee;'^ and William's son Henrj', who had suc- 

 ceeded his father but was under age in i26o,''» was 

 holding in 1 284. '5 Henry had been succeeded in 13 12'* 

 by William Wardedieu, who was still holding this 

 quarter fee in 1316," but in 1325 had given place to 

 Henry Wardedieu.'* Simon de Kclmarsh and his wife 

 Sarra, widow of William Wardeu, were holding the 

 manor of Hannington in 1329-30, for life of Sarra, 

 with reversion to John Wardeu, son and heir of William, 

 then a minor." A John Wardeu was holding this quar- 

 ter fee in 1 348,^" and again in 1 376.^' These were prob- 

 ably the two Johns referred to in a covenant of 1347 

 for the marriage of John son and heir of John Wardeu 

 to Margaret daughter of Sir Waryn Latimer, and for a 

 settlement of the manor on them.-^ The Hannington 

 manor was settled in 1378 on Sir Edward Dalingrigge 

 and his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John 

 Wardedieu. ^-J Sir Edward's son Sir John in 1394 

 granted, or mortgaged, these manors to Thomas Beston 

 and Hugh Catesby.^* The quarter fee which John 

 Wardeu had formerly held was in 1428 in the hands 

 of Richard Waldegrave and William Tresham and 

 held severally by them.^' William Tresham on 10 

 November 1441 received a grant of free warren in all 

 the lands and woods which he held in demesne and in 



reversion in Rushton, Sywell, and Hannington and 

 elsewhere in the county,^* and when Browns Manor 

 was conveyed to him by Richard Waldegrave, in I445> 

 this presumably completed the transfer to him of the 

 whole of Hannington, which from that date appears in 

 one ownership. 



Half a hide in Hannington was held before the 

 Conquest by Edwin freely, and in 1086 was held of the 

 Count of IVIortain by William [de Cahagnes].^^ This 

 half hide was returned in the 1 2th century as held of 

 the fee of the Earl of Leicester,^' and in 1 236-42 was 

 entered among the fees of Simon de Montfort, Earl of 

 Leicester, as a quarter fee held by Henry de Mawr or 

 Seymour.^' According to a return of 1235a small fee 

 in Creton, Holdenby, and Hannington was held by 

 William le Faukener of the fee of Keynes,J° but there 

 is no other trace of this Faukener lordship. 



William de Seymour, who had acquired from 

 Gerard de Dudinton 6 J virgates of land, as a quarter 

 of a knight's fee, in Hannington in 1195-6,^' was the 

 father^- of the Henry de Seymour holding under Simon 

 de Montfort. They seem to have held part of their 

 estate under the chief manor from the Prestons, as in 

 1293 Simon de Seymour was holding 2 virgates in 

 Hannington from Gilbert de Preston." A William de 

 Seymour complained against John Waldegrave and his 

 brother Richard in 1324 that they, with William, par- 

 son of Chalfont,and others, had assaulted him at Milton 

 when on his way to his home at Hannington from the 

 court at Northampton. 3 ■» On 28 September 1326 

 William son of William de Seymour of Hannington 

 received pardon for breakingthecastleof Rockingham,^' 

 and in the following year the King committed to 

 William de Seymour of Hannington the county and 

 castle of Northampton. ■!* 



Robert Seymour of Hannington went on campaign 

 in France with Edward III, and a general pardon, for 

 good service in the war in France, was granted him at 

 Calais by the King on 4 September 1 346 on condition 

 of his remaining in the King's service 'so long as he shall 

 stay this time on this side the seas'. '^ 



In 1 364 complaint was made by William Sywardly 

 that Thomas Seymour had poached in his fishery of 

 Hannington, taking bream, perch, tench, and pike to 

 the value of 100/.^' This is the last record of a Han- 

 nington Seymour that survives. 



The church of ST. PETER AND 

 CHURCH ST. PAUL stands on high ground above 

 the road in the middle of the village and 

 consists of chancel, 29 ft. 9 in. by l 5 ft. 2 in.; nave, 

 44 ft. by 30 ft.; north porch and embattled west tower, 

 these measurements being internal. The plan of the 

 nave is unusual, being divided longitudinally into two 

 equal aisles" by a lofty arcade of three pointed arches 



' Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 39 Eliz. 



' Ibid. East. II Jjs. I. 



> Ibid. Hil. i6Jas. I. Mich. i7Cha5. I; 

 Trin. 1654; Trin. 10 Wm. and M.; East. 

 3 Geo. I. 



* Ibid. Trin. 1 1 Ceo. I. 



* Musgravc, Obituary (Marl. Soc.). 



* Priv. Stat. 42 Geo. Ill, cap. 112. 



' Familitr Almcrum Gentium (Harl. 

 Soc.), ii, 1 1 10. This was Thomas Bodding- 

 ton, the banker. 



•* Burke, Z.dfr</r</Crn/r)f (1925), Thorn- 

 ton of Brockhall. « Ibid. 

 "> Cal. Claie, 1237-42, p. 369. 

 " Assize R. 616, m. 24 d. 

 " Feet of F. Northants. 12 Hen. III. 

 '> Bk. 0/ Fees, <)i%. 



'♦ Assize R. 616, m. 28 d. 



" FeuJ. AiJi, iv, I. 



"' Cal. In J. p.m., v, 412. 



" Feud. Aidi, iv, 21. 



" Cal. Inij. p.m., vi, 6 1 2. 



'» flat, de Quo Ifarr. (Rec. Com.), 5 1 3. 



"> Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. Ill (istnos.), 

 47. " Cal. Close, 1374-7, p. 189. 



" Cott. Ch. xxvi, 38. 



» Feet of F. Div. Co. East. I Ric. II. 

 See Suss. Arch. Coll. \x, 283, 287. 



" Cal. Close, 1392-6, pp. 388-96. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



" Cal. Chan. R. vi, 30. 



" f^.C.H. Korthants. i, 325. 



" Ibid, i, 383. 



" Bk. of Fees, 603, 939. 



" Ibid. 502. 



" Feet of F. (Pipe Roll Soc. vol. 17), 

 no. 92. " Assize R. 614, m. 25 d. 



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



'* Cal. Pat. 1 32 1-4, p. 450. 



" Ibid. 1324-7, p. 331. 



"> Ahbrev. Ret. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 4. 



" Cal. Pat. 1345-8, pp. 484, 525. 



" De Banco R. Trin. 38 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 216 d. 



*** The only other medieval example in 

 England of the bisected nave type of plan 

 is the parish church of Caythorpe, Lines. 

 Upper Clatford, Hants, results from an 

 early- 1 7th -century alteration (A'.C.//. 

 Hants, iv, 364). The plan occurs, how- 

 ever, at Wisby (Gothland) in the late- 



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