A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Lamport with John son of Thomas in 1196-7,' and 

 the presentation to the church was made by Sir Peter 

 Malsover in 1217.^ He had been succeeded before 

 1242 by Guy Wake, who with his wife Isabel held a 

 fee here in that year,^ and in 1250 presented Richard 

 Trussell to the living.* The advowson was held with 

 the manor, which was in the hands of the Trussells in 

 1 2 60- 1, when a fine was levied of it between Richard 

 and Isabel Trussell. ' Dugdale considers that the Trus- 

 sells of Cublesdon in Staffordshire were the principal 

 male branch of the Trussell family, and the Trussells 

 who held Lamport seem to have belonged to that 

 branch, and to have had under them a younger branch 

 of the family as under-tenants. Richard Trussell, who 

 claimed view of frankpledge, &c., in Lamport in 1 276,* 

 was in 1284 holding a knight's fee in Lamport of 

 William Trussell, who held of John de Wahull.' Wil- 

 liam Trussell, who in 1 3 16 was holding Lamport with 

 Hanging Houghton,* had been succeeded in 1329 by 

 John Trussell, of whose demise Thomas Trussell was 

 then holding the manor for life.' In 1 339 John Trussell 

 'of Cublesdon' levied a fine of the manor and advow- 

 son,'" and in 1346 he held a fee in Lamport and a 

 quarter fee in Scaldwell." According to Dugdale, Mar- 

 garet daughter and heir of William Trussell of Cubles- 

 don married Fulk de Pembruge.'^ Fulk and Margaret 

 were dealing in 1383 with the manors of Marston 

 Trussell, Lamport, Thorp Mai- 

 sor, and Orlingbury.'^ Sir Fulk (VX\/\X/ 

 Pembruge died in 1408-9, seised /^\/^\/'^\ 

 of the manor and advowson, )v /0\ yO\Nc 

 which he was holding for life l\^//\ - /\^/. 

 jointly with his wife Isabel, with 

 remainder to Sir William son of 

 Lawrence Trussell and Margery 

 his wife.'"* The heirs of John 

 Trussell paid 6s. St/, subsidy in 

 1428 for the fee in Lamport for- Trussell. Argent frctty 

 111 • T 1 -T- gules bezanty. 



merly belongmg to John 1 rus- 



sell," but Fulk's widow Isabel held these manors until 

 her death on 9 October 1445.'^ Her own heir was her 

 son William Ludlow, but the manor reverted to the 

 Trussells, and on 5 May 1475 William Trussell granted 

 it to Humphrey Belcher and others for performance of 

 his last will, and died seised on 2 3 January 1 48 1 . " His 

 son and heir Edward died while still a minor on 10 July 

 1499.'* His infant son and heir John" died two years 

 after his father, according to Bridges, when his sister 

 Elizabeth evidently became his heir. Humphrey Bel- 

 cher was returned in 1500 as sole surviving feoffee 

 under a settlement of the manor and advowson to 

 the use of Elizabeth; and their value was given as 

 ^1813^4^.^0 



The marriage of the heiress Elizabeth to John de 

 Vere, Earl of Oxford, to whom and his brother, then 

 earl, her wardship and marriage had been granted in 



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IsHAM. Gules a fesse 

 nvwuy argent ivith three 

 piles ivaiy argent point- 

 ing to the fesse point. 



1 507, carried the manor and advowson to the Earls of 

 Oxford, by whom they continued to be held with 

 Marston Trussell, Thorp Malsor (q.v.), &c., for the 

 next fifty years, when they passed from them to the 

 Ishams. In 1556 the manor was 

 recovered against John, Earl of 

 Oxford, and his wife Lady Mar- 

 garet by John Isham,^' ultimately 

 the purchaser. According to the 

 Isham family records, of which 

 an abstract is given in the Gene- 

 alogist,''-^ Sir William Cecil of 

 Burghley purchased the manor 

 and advowson of John, Earl of 

 Oxford, for ^530 on 7 May 

 1559, and sold them to John 

 Isham for j^6io on 13 January 

 1 560.-3 Jt ij recorded on his 

 tombstone in Lamport church, which bears with the 

 Isham arms the arms of London, of the Merchant 

 Adventurers of Flanders, and of the Mercers' Company, 

 that 'John Isham, one of the 20 children of Euseby 

 Isham of Picheley and of Anne his wief, daughter of 

 Giles Pulton of Desborow Esquier, married Elizabeth 

 daughter of Nicholas Barker citizen of London, was 

 once Governor of the English Marchaunt Adventurers 

 in Flaunders, and thrice Warden of the Mercers of 

 London, purchased the mannor and parsonage of this 

 parish of Lamport, and was 22 yeares Justice of the 

 Peace-'' and once sheriff of this shyre of Northampton^' 

 and died the 17 day of March 1595'. This concise 

 record of a full life can be supplemented from notes left 

 by his son Thomas which have fortunately survived. 



John, kept by his father at school until he was 16, 

 was sent to London and bound apprentice in 1 541-2. 



At length he havinge gotten some good store of substance 

 with good credit and honest report he came and dwelt in 

 the year of our Lord God 1572 upon his land in Langport 

 which before he had purchased. Heer he aplyed himselfe 

 to plantinge, buildinge, making of pooles, including of 

 groundes and all other woorks of good husbandry as 

 though he had been brought up to them from his infansy. 

 Butt his company of ye Mercers perceiving him to forsake 

 them in this order, In the year of our Lord God 1577 

 being greatly effected unto him, called him out of the 

 cuntry and made him their Master Warden. Yit he havinge 

 settled himself heer in the cuntry woulde nott by any 

 meanes be drawne agayn to dwelle at London. Wherefore 

 his office being past, heer he continued till his dyinge daye 

 havinge as great good frendship of gendemen in this his 

 cuntry, as he had before of Cytesens among whom he was 

 bredd. ... He was a wise man though altogeither unlerned, 

 writinge and reading Inglish only excepted. ... In house- 

 keeping he was bountefuU. . . . Unto Thomas Isham, his 

 eldest son, being blind, he left such directions both by 

 speach and writynge as to him were instead of an eye.^* 



This son Thomas who had been born in London and 



' Feet of F. Northants. 8 Ric. I, no. 11. 



2 Rot. Hug. de IVelles (Cant. & York 

 Soc), i, 98; Bridges, Hist, of Northants. 

 ii, 1 12. 



3 Bk. of Fees, 94.0. 



* Rot. Rob. Grosseleste (Cant. & York 

 Soc), 241 ; Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 

 112. 



5 Feet of F. Northants. 45 Hen. Ill, 

 no. 741. Possibly the Richard Trussell 

 who, according to Dugdale, lost his life at 

 Evesham; Baronage, ii, 143. 



' HunJ. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 12. 



' Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



* Ibid, iv, 21. 



9 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 5 1 7. 



"> Feet of F. Northants. 13 Edw. III. 

 no. 191. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 446. 



^2 Baronage, ii, 143-4. See also G.E.C. 

 Teerage, Trussell. 



" FeetofF. Northants. 7 Ric. 11, no. 57. 



'•* Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. IV, no. 45. 



'5 Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Hen. VI, no. 9. 



" Ibid. 20 Edw. IV, no. 83. 



'8 Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VU, i, 414; ii, 

 326. 



■' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 53. 



2° Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, 407. 

 Cf. ibid, ii, 446; Cal. Pat. 1494-1509, 

 p. 446. 



'■' Recov. R. Hil. Phil, and Mary, 

 ro. 154. 



" Op. cit. (ist Ser.), 1878, ii, 241, &c.; 

 1879, iii, 274, &c. 



^5 Ibid, ii, 249. A paper endorsed 

 'Remembrances of Sir John Isham, first 

 baronet, entered May 30, 1627'. 



^* From 1576. 



« In 1581. 



^^ Genealogist, iii, 274, &c. 



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