A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



and Elizabeth his wife (d. 1594) with three shields of 

 arms, and the other commemorating Thomas Isham 

 (d. 1605) and other members of the family.' There is 

 also a blue stone slab, now against the north wall, to Jane 

 Garrard, wife of Justinian Isham, esquire (d. 1638). 



There are four bells, the first a recasting by Taylor 

 in 1872 of a bell by Christopher Graye 1663, the 

 second and third by Hugh Watts of Leicester 1 64 1, and 

 the tenor by Toby Norris of Stamford 1616. There is 

 also a priest's bell.- 



The plate consists of a silver cup and cover paten of 

 1653 given by Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd baronet; a 

 paten of 1720 with the Isham arms; and a flagon made 

 by William Fawdery in 17 17, but inscribed '1718'.' 



In 1907 Sir Vere Isham presented to the church a 

 gilt latten processional cross, c. 1470-80, which had 

 been in his family from at least the time of the first 

 baronet. It is an unusually good exampleof a type which 

 can be used either as a processional or an altar cross. 

 The base only is wanting.* It was discovered during 

 some building operations in the time of Charles II. ^ 



The earlier registers are as follows: (i) baptisms and 

 burials 1 587-1688, marriages 1 587-1687, but with no 

 entries 1644-8; (ii) baptisms and burials 1653-62, 

 marriages 1655-61, being a duplicate in parchment of 

 part of the first volume; (iii) baptisms and burials 

 1688-1806, marriages 1692-1753; (iv) marriages 

 1754-1806. There are churchwardens' accounts be- 

 ginning in 1699. 



The church of Lamport, a rectory 

 ADVOlf'SON to which the chapelry of Faxton is 

 annexed, and in former times the 

 chapelry of Hanging Houghton,* was valued in 1 291 

 at £23 6j. %d. with pensions deducted.' In 1535 the 

 profits of the rectory in tithes great and small, with 

 issues from the mansion and glebe land, were ;^48 13/. 

 annually.^ 



The advowson has always been held with the manor 

 (q.v.). 



Bridges wrote that there had been formerly a chapel 

 in the hamlet of Hanging Houghton of which no trace 



then remained. As early as 1228 two-thirds of the 

 tithes from the demesne of Philip Bosce in Houghton 

 had been granted to Stephen de Axebridge, clerk, with 

 leave for the rector of Lamport to hold the same on 

 lease from him at a rent of one mark.' This may pos- 

 sibly indicate the foundation of this chapel. In 1269 

 Richard de Lamport, chaplain, was presented by Dom. 

 Richard Trussell, rector and patron of Lamport 

 church, to the chantry of the chapel of Hanging 

 Houghton in the parish of Lamport, and to all the 

 altarage of the chapel, with 20/. annual rent from the 

 parishioners of the said chapel.'" 



By the Inclosure Act of 1794 an allotment was made 

 instead of the glebe lands and right of common belong- 

 ing to them, and instead of the Church Hadley (about 

 half an acre of land vested in the rector and church- 

 wardens for the repair of the church, under the will of 

 Sir Edward Montagu), while a rent-charge was placed 

 on Sir Justinian Isham's lands in lieu of tithes." 



The Isham Charity regulated by a 

 CHARITIES scheme of the Charity Commissioners 

 dated 1 1 February 19 10 comprises the 

 Charity of Sir Justinian Isham, bart., will 30 December 

 1670, and the Charity of Sir Edmund Isham, bart., 

 codicil to will dated 16 November 1762. 



The endowment consists of a farm of 46 a. 3 r. 6 p. 

 at Brixworth let for ^^70 yearly and stock producing 

 about £44 yearly. The scheme directs that a yearly 

 sum of ^5 shall be applied for the benefit of poor mem- 

 bers of the Church of England who have been for not 

 less than two years resident in one of the ancient town- 

 ships of Lamport and Hanging Houghton. The residue 

 of the income is applicable in apprenticing to some use- 

 ful trade or occupation poor children resident in one of 

 the aforementioned townships. There are six trustees, 

 one being Sir Vere Isham. 



The United Charities are regulated by a scheme of 

 2 May 191 3. They comprise the building known as 

 the Almshouses at Faxton, founded in 1736, and the 

 Charity ofDame Susannah Danvers, will of about 1730, 

 consisting of a rent-charge out of a field at Pitsford. 



OLD alias WOLD 



Walda, Walde (xi cent.); Waud, Waude, Wauld 

 (xiii cent.); Wolde, Welde (xiv cent.); Olde, Woold, 

 Owlde, Wold or Old (xvi cent.). 



The parish of Wold'- contains 2,076 acres and is 

 situated between 300 and 400 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum. The subsoil is stone, and the soil on the north 

 side is a cold black clay, on the south, red clay and 

 gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley, and some 

 of the land is devoted to pasture. There are several 

 natural springs in the parish. The population in 193 1 

 was 291. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 2 hides and 

 3^ virgates of land in Wold and Walgrave belonged to 



' The inscriptions are given in Bridges, 

 ii, 113-15. 



^ North, Ch. Belli of Norlhanti. 324. 

 Watts's bells are both inscribed 'IHS 

 Nazarenus Rex Judeorum Fill Dei miserere 

 mihi*; the tenor 'Non clamor sed amor 

 cantat in aure Dei*. The priest's bell is 

 blank. 



3 Markham, Ch. Plale of Norlhant!, 175. 



** Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond. xxii, 41, where 

 the cross is figured. The arms end in 

 roundels enclosing plates engraved with 



the emblems of the four evangelists. The 

 figure of our Lord is silvered over, but the 

 hair, crown of thorns, and loin-cloth are 

 gilt. The images of St. Mary and St. John 

 stand on curved arms. 



s Ex inf. Gyles Isham, esq., quoting a 

 contemporary letter. 



' Rot. Ric. Gra-vesend (Cant. & York 

 Soc), iii, 113. 



' Tax. P. Nick. (Rec. Com.), 39. 



' Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 306. 



9 Rot. Hug. de rVelles (Cant. & York 



Faxton manor. It seems probable that the zf hides 

 held by Aubrey de Vere of the Bishop of Coutances, 

 given in Domesday Book under Wadenhoe, were 



actually in Wold, for at the time of the 

 MANORS Northamptonshire Survey (12th cent.) 



Aubrey de Vere held there 4 hides and 4 

 virgates of the fee of Oxford.'-' The next mention of 

 WOLD occurs on the Pipe Roll of 1 191, when Osbert 

 de Glanvill owed to Aaron the Jew of Lincoln ^^40 for 

 his land there.'* 



Osbert 's son Ranulf, who was a minor in 1 199'' but 

 apparently came of age before 1 201'* and died shortly 

 afterwards, seems to have left three daughters: Isabel, 



Soc), ii, 137. 



■0 Rot. Ric. Gravesend. (Cant. & York 

 Soc), iii, 1 1 3. 



" Priv. Stat. 34 Geo. Ill, cap. 75. 



'^ Although the modern fashion is to use 

 the form Old, it seems preferable here to 

 use the older and more correct form Wold. 



" y.C.H. Northants. i, 306, 309, 362, 

 380. 



■♦ Pipe R. 3& 4 Ric. I (Pipe R. Soc), 

 p. 159, ^5 Curia Regis R. i, ^6, 



•<• Ibid, ii, 78. 



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