A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



passed to his surviving son Allen Edward Young, who 

 was succeeded at his death in 1835 by his eldest son 

 Allen Allicocke Young. He entailed the estate so that 

 at his death in 1895 it passed to his grandson Arthur 

 St. Leger Newton Young, the eldest son of his son 

 Richard Newton Young. Col. Arthur St. Leger New- 

 ton Young was killed during the Great War, when the 

 estate devolved on his only son, Richard Arthur Alli- 

 cocke Young, a minor. The trustees of the estate sold 

 it in 1920 to Mrs. Jacques of Orlingbury Hall, who is 

 the present possessor. 



In 1086 Fulcher Malesoures held of the Count of 

 Mortain 3 virgates in Ordinbaro.' At the later survey, 

 temp. Henry I, he held I ^ hides of the honor of de 

 Courcy.^ The overlordship of the fee remained with 

 this honor during the next three centuries, but some 

 time before 1 506-' appears to have come into the hands 

 of the Trussells of Lamport, intermediary lords of 

 Beaver's Manor mentioned above. 



The local tenants were the Loges family, from whom 

 the holding derived its name of LOGES MANOR. The 

 first recorded member is a Simon de Loges in 1242.'* 

 Richard de Loges, the successor of Simon, paid scutage 

 for half a knight's fee in Orlingbury, Harrowden, and 

 Isham in 1284 and 1296.5 A William de Loges is 

 recorded in 1 347 and 1 3 5 1 .* Either he or a successor 

 of the same name sold the manor in 1374 to William 

 Thurling.' Alice Thurling is recorded as owner of half 

 a fee, late William Loges, in 1428.* Within the next 

 few years, possibly by marriage, the manor passed to 

 the Withmales (see that manor), for in 1 506 Sir 

 Thomas Pulteney died seised of it in right of his wife 

 Rose, the heiress of the Withmales.' It then passed to 

 their grandson, another Sir Thomas Pulteney, whose 

 son, Michaelsolditin 1565 to William, 2nd Lord Vaux 

 of Harrowden.'" Edward, 4th Lord Vaux, died without 

 male issue in 1661, when the manor passed to his wife's 

 son Nicholas, titular 3rd Earl of Banbury." At his death 

 it passed to Charles, titular 4th earl, who, with Sir 

 John Briscoe, mortgaged the manor in 1688 to Lord 

 Ashburnham. Lord Ashburnham's executors seem to 

 have foreclosed on the property a few years later and 

 sold it to Richard Young of Orlingbury, who was in 

 possession some time before 1717.'- The history of the 

 manor then follows that of Beavers mentioned above. 



BJDSADDLE^^ is not mentioned in Domesday, 

 but at the survey temp. Henry I Fulcher Malesoures 

 held I hide in 'Bateshasel' of the fee of Wahull (Odell). '" 

 It descended, with the other Malesoures property, to 

 the Trussells. John Trussell was holding the manor in 

 1285, when it was stated that Badsaddle, Withmale, 

 and Orlingbury ought to be represented together as one 

 vill at the sheriff's tourn.'s William Trussell of Lam- 

 port was the tenant at the death of Thomas de Wahull 

 in 1303.'* The extent of the manor was then given as 

 one capital messuage, one water-mill, and certain cus- 

 tomary work. 



In the early part of the 14th century Sir John Trus- 

 sell sold it to Henry Green the younger and Isabel his 

 wife, the sale being confirmed by his son William Trus- 

 sell in 1349." Sir Thomas Green died in 1392 seised 

 of the manor, which was then held of Richard Cham- 

 berleyn.'* His son and heir Sir Thomas Green was 

 recorded as owner in 1395." The manor passed, like 

 Great Harrowden (q.v.), to Nicholas, ist Lord Vaux 

 of Harrowden, and Thomas, 2nd Lord Vaux, sold it 

 to Richard Humphrey of Barton Seagrave, who was 

 the owner at his death in 1558.^° The manorial rights 

 seem then to have lapsed, and a lawsuit of i 571 stated 

 that certain lands called Battsadell in Orlingbury, 

 which had long been common of pasture, had recently 

 been hedged and converted into a park by William 

 Humphrey of Barton Seagrave.^' Bridges stated that the 

 land at his time was owned by Osborne Fisher and 

 Lord Arran.^- Badsaddle Lodge was owned in 1 846 by 

 Lewis Loyd, at whose death in 1858 it passed to his 

 son Samuel Jones Loyd, created Lord Overstone. The 

 trustees of Lord Overstone's estate sold it in 1920 to 

 Mr. C. H. Tomkins, the present possessor. 



WYTHMAIL-^ can be traced as a hamlet from the 

 nth to the 15th centuries. Although a priest is men- 

 tioned in Withmale in 1086, this must refer to Orling- 

 bury, as the hamlet was always a parcel of Orlingbury 

 parish. It is true that in 1357 John de Wythmale 

 granted land to the parson of Orlingbury to provide for 

 services in Withmale chapel, but this was probably a 

 private chapel attached to his own manor-house. 



On the marriage of Rose, the heiress of the Wyth- 

 males, with Sir William Pulteney at the end of the 1 5th 

 century, the hamlet was allowed to decay, and the land 

 seems to have merged into the common fields of Orling- 

 bury — for Bridges states that when Wythmail Park was 

 made in 1614 the 300 acres inclosed were taken out 

 of the common fields. He adds that the land was dis- 

 parked in 1657; but the name has survived. Wyth- 

 mail alias Wilmer Park is mentioned frequendy in the 

 19th century and at the present time there is a moated 

 house called Wythmail Park Farm. 



WYTHMAIL MANOR. Widmale was rated at 2 J 

 hides in 1086 and was held by Fulcher (Malesoures) 

 of Walter the Fleming.^* A later survey, temp. Henry I, 

 assigns only i^ hides and I virgate to Withmale,^' the 

 other hide being in Orlingbury (see Beaver's Manor 

 above). The manor, like that of Beaver's, formed part 

 of the honor of Wahull (Odell), and was held by the 

 Malesoures, and later their successors the Trussells, as 

 part of the manor of Lamport. The Withmale family 

 were the local tenants. Nicholas de Withmale held 

 § of a fee here in 1284,^* and in 1305 he and his wife 

 Alice settled the manor on their son Nicholas.^' Another 

 John de Withmale was owner in 1346,^* and a survey 

 of the manor taken four years later showed that it was 

 worth £^ %s. \d. per annum.-' It was apparently this 

 John who in 1357 settled a messuage and \\ virgates 



' F.C.H. Korthanls. i, 32. 



^ Ibid. 381. 



3 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 88. The 

 manor was held of Eliz. Trussell as of her 

 manor of Lamport by fealty and 45. rent. 



■* Bk. of Fee!, ii, 931. 



5 Feud. Aids, iv, i. 



*• Bridges, Northamptonshire, ii, 121; 

 Chan. Extents for Debt, 24 Edw. Ill, 8/1 2. 



' Feet of F. Northants. file 85, no. 658. 



8 Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



» Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 88. 

 '» Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 12638. 



" See under Harrowden, p. : 8 1. 



'^ Deeds in possession of Mrs. Young. 



" Bateshasel (xii cent.); Badshasel, 

 Bateshasell (xiv cent.); Backsadell, Batt- 

 sadell (xvi cent.). 



■t V.C.H. Northants. i, 382. 



'5 Assize R. 619, m. 61. 



'^ Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, 219. 



"' Cal. Close, 1346-9, p. 524. 



■8 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Rich. II. 



'» Ibid. 19 Rich. II, 52. 



2» Ibid. (Ser. 2), iii, 3. The extent was 

 20 acres meadow, 200 acres pasture, and 



206 



20 acres wood. Service unknown. 



2" Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), 175 (15). 



^^ Bridges, Northamptonshire, ii, 121. 



" Widmale (xi cent.); Wymale, Wythe- 

 male (xiii cent.); Withmale (xvi cent.); 

 Wilmer Park (xviii cent.); Wythmail (xix 

 cent.). 



« F.C.H. Northants. i, 340. 



25 Ibid. 382. " Feud. Aids, iv, i. 



" Feet of F. Northants. file 60, no. 472. 



2^ Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 121. 



2« Chan. Extents for Debt 24 Edw. Ill, 

 8/12. 



