A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



worth of land and rent in Wold held of the Earl of 

 Oxford.' His daughter and heir Maud was then 

 aged I year. Eventually she married Robert Holdenby 

 of Holdenby, who held the 'manor' in 1375.^ On his 

 death in June 141 1 he was succeeded by his son John, 

 from whom the manor passed to his second son John. 

 He was succeeded by his son William,^ whose son 

 William died seised of a sixth of a knight's fee in Wold 

 held of the Earl of Oxford in July 1498. His son and 

 heir John was then about 10 years old.'' He died 

 without surviving male issue, and on the death of his 

 wife Joyce in 1 5 1 1 the manor passed to Elizabeth 

 Giles, the sister of William Holdenby.^ Elizabeth 

 married as her first husband Henry Hatton, and was 

 succeeded by her son George Hatton. By 1 532 he had 

 been succeeded by his son William,* who died in 1 546 

 when the manor passed to his sons Francis, who died 

 without male issue, and Sir Christopher Hatton suc- 

 cessively. On the death of Sir Christopher in 1591 

 his property was left to Sir William Newport alias 

 Hatton, the son of his sister Dorothy by John Newport, 

 with remainder to John Hatton, his cousin-german. 

 Sir William died without male issue in March 1597 

 and was succeeded by Sir Christopher, son of John 

 Hatton,'' but the manor is not mentioned among his 

 lands at his death in 16 19.' 



John Malory of Welton held a manor of Wold in 

 1427,' to which his daughter Eleanor, wife of Sir John 

 Bernard of Isleham (co. Cambs.), had succeeded by 

 1437.'° Her daughter Margaret married Thomas 

 Peyton and their son Thomas about 1484 sold the 

 manor of Welton, and probably that of Wold, to 

 William Catesby." After his attainder 'Peyton's 

 manor' in Welton and 'Gawgis manor' in Wold, as 

 already mentioned, were given to Sir David Owen. 



The half fee of Jordan le Breton was held in 1284 

 by Hugh le Breton'- and in 1332 by John.'^ It had 

 passed by 1 371 to the heirs of Robert 'Bret','* and by 

 1428 the estate had become split up into a number of 

 small tenancies. '5 



Henry son of Robert de Hastings in 1285 gave the 

 advowson of the church of Wold to Theobald son of 

 Sir Philip son of Sir Robert de Pitsford," and he at 

 once transferred it with looi-. of rent in Wold to his 

 brother William de Landwathe." Bridges,'^ quoting 

 Knightley deeds, says that Aubrey de Vere, Earl of 

 Oxford, had given Langwath in Wold to Sir Robert de 

 Pitsford as one knight's fee and that his son Philip was 

 father of William de Landwathe, who married Isabel 

 daughter of Sir Nicholas de Withmale. There is no 

 further trace of this knight's fee, but in 1284 William 

 de Landwathe replaces Robert de Hastings as the 

 fourth tenant of the two fees." His son John^° held in 

 1316-' and 1332^^ and Andrew Landwath held half 

 a fee there in 1360,^^ but at his death, lacking male 



issue, it descended to his daughter Isabel, the wife of 

 William Harrowden of Harrowden.^* She was suc- 

 ceeded by her son William who was holding part of 

 the half fee in 1428-^ and died in 142 3,^* his heir being 

 his son William by his wife Margaret daughter and 

 heir of Sir Giles de St. John of Plumpton.^' William 

 Harrowden died in 1447,^* and the manor remained 

 in the possession of his wife Margaret during her life- 

 time, but on her death in i486 passed to her daughter 

 Marger)',-' who was twice married, first to Henry 

 Skennard and secondly to William Garnon. Her 

 successor was Joan, the child of her first marriage 

 and wife of Sir Richard Knighdey of Fawsley.^" On 

 her death in 1539 her third and eldest surviving son, 

 Sir Edmund Knightley, inherited KNIGHTLET'S 

 MANOR in Wold. In April 1 542 he gave all his land 

 in Wold to the king in exchange for other property." 

 From the king Knightley's Manor passed to Thomas 

 Reeve of London and Giles Isham, who sold it to 

 Thomas Dallison.^^ He died in April 1562 and was 

 succeeded by his son Edward. ^-^ In 1608 Thomas 

 Dexter died seised of the manor, leaving it to his wife 

 Elizabeth during her lifetime, with remainder to their 

 son Stephen and his son Gregory. Stephen was at that 

 time 50 years old.-'* 



In March 1497 John Smith died seised of a manor 

 in Wold, which he held of the Earl of Oxford in socage. 

 From the descent of the advowson it appears probable 

 that he had acquired this manor by marriage with a 

 Harrowden. He was succeeded by his cousin Margaret, 

 the wife of Thomas Spencer,^' who at her husband's 

 death married Edmund Belcher. On her death in 

 March 1501-'* the manor passed to her son William 

 Spencer. He married Agnes, daughter and heir of 

 Thomas Heritage, and their son Thomas succeeded 

 to the manor in 1531.^' Thomas Spencer married 

 Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Spencer of Althorp, 

 and on his death in 1 576 the manor passed to his third 

 and eldest surviving son William, who conveyed it to 

 John Cotton, Anthony Roper, and three others early 

 in 1577.^^ 



Land in Wold was also held of the honor of 

 Huntingdon as part of a quarter fee in Wold and 

 Holcot (q.v.). 



The church of ST. ANDREW stands 

 CHURCH on the south side of the village, and con- 

 sists of chancel 28 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 9 in., 

 clerestoried nave of four bays 52 ft. 6 in. by 24 ft. 3 in., 

 south aisle 13 ft. 6 in. wide, north porch, and west 

 tower 13 ft. by 12 ft. 2 in., all these measurements 

 being internal. 



The building was extensively restored in 1874-5, 

 when the chancel was almost entirely modernized and 

 a vestry and organ-chamber added, one on either side. 

 The restoration also included the removal of a west 



' Cal. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 321. 



2 Feet of F. Northants. 49 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 675. 



3 Baker, Hist. Northants. 196. 



•♦ Cal. Inq. Hen. FII, ii, no. 232. 



s Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xivi, 4.9. 



' Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 23 Hen. 

 VIII. 



' Bridges, Hist, of Northants. i, 528. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),ccdxxvi, 100. 



' Cat. Anct. Deeds, iv, 176. 

 '» Close R. 5 Edw. IV, m. 21. 

 " Cal. Pat. 14.85-94, p. 275. 

 " Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 

 " Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 498. 



'•• Chan. Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill (ist 

 DOS.), 45. 



'S Feud. Aids,\w, 33. 



'^ K-nightley Charters {penes Northants. 

 Rec. Soc), nos. 22, 24. 



" Ibid. no. 23. 



'* Hist, of Northants. ii, 131. 



'0 Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



2° Knightley Charters, no. 49. 



^' Feud. Aids, iv, 21. 



^^ Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 498. 



23 Cal.Inq.p.m.yi, 518. 



" Baker, Hist. Northants. ii, 97; and 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill ( I St nos.), 45. 



^5 Other tenants of the half fee were 



William Malory and John Cranesle: 

 Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



-* Baker, Hist. Northants. ii, 97. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Hen. VI, 19. 



2» Ibid. 26 Hen. VI, 27. 



2» Cal. Inq. Hen. FII, i, no. 295. 



30 V.C.H. Northants. i, 416. 



3' L. and P. Hen. Fill, xvii, g, 285 (6). 



32 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxxv, 5 1 . 



33 Ibid. 



s-* Ibid, ccciv, 32. 



35 Cal. Inq. Hen FII, ii, no. 244. 



3^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xv. 56. 



3' Ibid. Ixxix, 290. 



38 Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 19 Eliz. 



202 



