A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



a priest, &c.' John Ekins was fined £ioo, this fine 

 being reduced in 1635 to ^^20.^ It is interesting to 

 note that the decree ordering him to pay this fine and 

 to make submission in Isham Church was procured 

 against John Ekins by Robert Weldon, rector of Stony 

 Stanton. John Ekins succeeded in 1 64 1 in obtaining 

 relief from this decree and in recovering damages, 

 Robert Weldon praying to be excused from personal 

 attendance when Ekins's petition for relief was heard.' 

 It seems possible that Robert Weldon may have had 

 personal reasons for objecting to the transactions 

 between John Pickering and John Ekins more weighty 

 even than his objections to the manner and place of 

 the above payment. 



The moiety of this manor held in 1575 by the 

 Sacheverells appears to have passed to the Lanes, who 

 were already holding lands in 

 Isham in 1502, William Lane 

 dying in that year seised of a toft 

 and a virgate of land there held 

 of Sir Nicholas Vaux, in which 

 he was succeeded by his son and 

 heir Ralph, aged 36.'' After 

 Ralph Sacheverell presented in 

 1502 the presentation was next 

 made by the king by reason of 

 the minority of Robert son of ^ane. P^'riy guhs o„d 



„. r» , , T I L azure three saUires 



Sir Ralph Lane, who may be ardent. 



assumed therefore to have held a 



moiety of the Bernak inheritance. Owing to the sales 

 and subdivisions indicated in the assessment of 1428 

 it is not easy to distinguish the manors of Isham in the 

 1 5th-l6th centuries, but Sir Robert Lane subsequently 

 transferred a manor of Isham which was probably this 

 moiety to the Lanes of Kettering, by whom a manor of 

 Isham was held which had its origin in lands, part of the 

 L'Isle fee of Isham, originally held by a branch of the 

 Green family, from whom it had come to them through 

 the Culpeppers and Harringtons. Three branches of 

 the Green family were represented in 1428 among the 

 tenants of the fee of William de L'Isle in Isham, and 

 they had held lands there for some time. 'Henry del 

 Grene of Isham' was in 1337 appointed to buy wool 

 in the county of Northampton^ and in 1337, 1338, 

 1 343,* and subsequent years received allowances of 

 wool, &c. Simon Felbrigge in 1428, in right of his wife, 

 held the lands of these Greens of Isham.^ Thomas 

 Green, who was described as of Isham in 1339 when 

 Richard de Toryngton of Berkhamstede acknowledged 

 a debt to him of j^^oo, was the predecessor of Sir 

 Thomas Green who died seised of a manor of Isham 

 in 1420 and was succeeded by Thomas Green his 

 son and heir,* who held in 1428. Nicholas Green of 

 Isham, who in 1350 witnessed a grant by Sir Robert 

 de Morlee of lands in Wellingborough,' was the 

 owner of lands which in 1428 appeared in the hands 

 of Sir Thomas Colpeper in Isham, and which were 

 later held by the Lanes of Kettering. On 14 February 

 1367 Athelina or Alana de Bruys quitclaimed to 



Nicholas Green and his wife Joan the manors of Exton 

 (co. Rutland) and Conington (co. Huntingdon) in a 

 deed dated at Isham.'" In 1378 Sir Thomas Colepeper 

 and his wife Eleanor, who was the daughter and heir 

 of Nicholas Green", acquired all the lands of the said 

 Nicholas in Isham, Pytchley, and elsewhere in North- 

 amptonshire.'^ Sir Thomas Colepeper appeared in 

 1428 as one of the tenants among whom the fee of 

 William de L'Isle was divided, and in 1433" a manor 

 of Isham was in the hands of his son Sir John Colepeper, 

 who with his wife Juliana then made a conveyance of it 

 with the manors of Exton and Conington. This manor 

 of Isham was in 15 13 settled by John Harrington of 

 Exton, son of Katharine daughter of Sir John Colepeper,'* 

 and his wife Alice, on their son John at his marriage 

 with Elizabeth Mutton.'' This manor was described 

 at the inquisition taken on 20 October 1524 after the 

 death of John Harrington the elder on 6 November 

 1523 as held of Thomas, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, 

 who had inherited the estates of Thomas Green, as of 

 his manor of Harrowden.'* In I 541 John Harrington 

 and James his son and heir conveyed the manor of 

 Isham to John Lane and Elizabeth his wife.''' This 

 was John Lane of Kettering, who in the inquisition 

 taken after his death on 8 March 1546 was stated to 

 have bequeathed a life interest in the same to his wife 

 Elizabeth, who survived him, with remainders to his 

 son and heir John, his two daughters, to John Lane of 

 Walgrave, to the latter's brother William Lane, to 

 Ralph Lane second brother of Robert Lane, a younger 

 son of Sir Ralph Lane, deceased, to William Lane 

 third brother of the said Robert, and to the testator's 

 brother George Lane, in tail male.'* It was apparently 

 not this manor, but the manor which he had inherited 

 from his father Sir Ralph, of which Sir Robert Lane 

 made a conveyance in I 5 58 to Elizabeth Lane, widow, 

 and John Lane her son." John Lane of Kettering 

 presented to the church in 1561 and had died before 

 1576 leaving a son and heir Basil, and the Lanes still 

 held the manor in 1616, in which year David Lane 

 was dealing with it by fine.^" 



The presentations to the Upper Fee suggest that this 

 manor (or moiety) may have been held in 1637 by 

 William Hodges of Daventry who then presented.^' 

 Apparently this manor in 17 12 was in the hands of 

 John Allicocke of Loddington (son and heir of Thomas 

 AUicocke of Sibbertoft), who with his wife Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heir of Moses Bathurst, formerly of 

 Hothorpe, and their son Benjamin Allicocke, was then 

 dealing with the manors of Loddington and Isham. ^^ 

 Bridges wrote that the manor was in dispute between 

 the Allicockes, who had a good estate in Isham (several 

 farm-houses with 3, 4, and 5 yardlands are mentioned 

 in this deed of 171 2), and the daughters of Lady 

 Robinson.^-' 



A part of the manor of Isham was in 1778 in the 

 hands of Brook Bridges, clerk, and Anne his wife, who 

 sold to George Huggit, clerk;-"' the latter appears as an 

 owner of lands in the parish in the Inclosure Act passed 



' Cal. S.P. Dom. 1634-5, pp. i;:, 226, 

 264, &c. ^ Ibid. 1637-8, p. 550. 



3 Hist. MSB. Com. Rept. iv, 97, 98. 



* Cal. Inq. p.m. Ben. FII, 11, no. 621. 



5 Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 480. 



6 Ibid. 269, 425; ibid. 1343-6, p. 591. 

 ' Cal. Close, 1339-41, p. 254. 



* Ch.in. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. V, no. 39. 

 ' Cal. Close, 1349-54, p. 493. 



'o Ibid. 1364-8, p. 366. 



" Suss. Arch. Coll. xlvii, 56. 

 '2 Cal. Close, 1377-81, p. 117. 

 " FeetofF. Div. Co.Trin. iiHen. VI. 

 ■" Suss. Arch. Coll. xlvii, 56. 

 '5 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xli, 73. 

 >" Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 33 

 Hen. VIII. 

 'S Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxv, 40. 

 '» Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 5 & 6 



Ph. and M. 



" Ibid. Trin. 13 Jas. I. 



2' Inst. Bl<s. (P.R.O.). 



22 Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 

 Anne; Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 

 Anne, rot. 3. 



^' Hist, of Northants. ii, 107. 



^•» Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 

 Geo. III. 



190 



