ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



SCALDWELL 



to members of the Washbourne family, ranging from 

 i68; to 1782.' 



There are five bells, the treble a re-casting in 191 3 

 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon, the second by 

 Hugh Watts of Leicester 162 1, the third, undated, by 

 Robert Newcombe of Leicester, and the fourth and 

 tenor by Hugh Watts 1622.- 



The plate consists of a silver cup and cover paten of 

 1570 and a flagon of 1877.' 



The registers before 1 8 1 2 are as follows: (i) baptisms 

 1717-44, marriages 1697-1744, burials 1695-1744; 

 (ii) ijaptismsand burials 1745-1812, marriages 1745- 

 60 ; (iii) marriages 1 7 5 4- 1 8 1 2 . 



The church was valued in 1291 at 

 ADVOIVSON iT.o,'' and in 1535 the profits of the 

 rectory were returned as £"^0 1 8/. \J., 

 and the pension paid to the Abbot of Peterborough as 

 6/. %d> The rectors were presented by the abbey of 

 Peterborough.' In 1547 Edward VI granted the ad- 

 vowson of the rectory and church to the Bishops of 

 Coventry and Lichfield,' who retained it till the close 

 of the 19th century, when it was transferred to the 

 Bishopric of Peterborough.* 



The last rector appointed, according to Bridges, was 

 Robert Isham (presented by Dame Mary Parr), after 

 whose death in 1564 incumbents were presented, ac- 

 cording to this authorit}', to the vicarage.' But the 

 Institution Books at the Public Record Office describe 

 Pytchley as a rector)- until the Commonwealth, and it 

 is after the Restoration it appears as a vicarage. 



A lease for 60 years of the rectory made by the 

 Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield on 23 July 1555, 

 during the incumbency of 'one Isham', was the subject 

 of Chancery proceedings instituted by Lewis Mont- 

 gomerie of Gray's Inn against Edmund Twynhoe.'" 

 The residue of this term was in 1582 granted to Francis 

 Nicholls of Hardwick." 



The Parsonage House, with closes belonging to the 

 rectory called the Pound Ground, and Scott Mill 

 Close, with common of pasture and the tithes of the 

 said rectory, which had been leased in 1634 by the 

 Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to William Lane for 

 the lives of William Lane, second son of the said Wil- 



liam, and of Katharine and Maud his daughters at 

 a yearly rent oi £1"] lis. to the bishop and £10 to the 

 vicar thereby reserved, were sold in 1654 by the 

 trustees for selling lands of bishoprics to John Gifford 

 of London, merchant.'^ 



In 1292 John atte Wylewes of Finedon and Ralph 

 Gerrerde of Pytchley received licence to grant a mes- 

 suage and land in Pytchley to Henry de Nassington, 

 chaplain celebrating in the church of Pytchley, and his 

 successors.'^ A reference occurs in 1439 '° '^^ cottage 

 in Pytchley called the 'Presthous', the garden belonging 

 to it, and the adjoining vacant plot called 'le armerye', 

 enjo}ed from time immemorial by the parson of the 

 church.'* 



Edward Hunt's Charit>- is described 

 CHARITIES under the parish of Warkton. About 

 ;^4 10^. yearly is distributed in money 

 at Christmas. 



Church allotments. An allotment of i 5 a. 2 r. 19 p. 

 was set out on the inclosure in this parish in lieu of 

 lands formerly appropriated to the repairs of the church. 

 The land is let for about £2^, which is applied by the 

 vicar and churchwardens to church expenses. 



Miss Rosanna Panther by her will proved i 5 January 

 1908 gave £^0 to the churchwardens upon trust to 

 apply the interest in the maintenance and repair of the 

 parish church. The endowment produces £1 16/. io</. 

 yearly in dividends. 



In 1920, 33 acres of land were purchased by the 

 Allotment Association to be used for allotments. 



The public elementary school, built in 1770 and 

 enlarged in 1 870 and 1 890, was endowed under the will 

 of William Aylworth (died 10 .'\ugust 1661), which 

 devised for its benefit £20 yearly from his manor of 

 Gumley in Leicestershire, and a messuage in Pytchley 

 used partly for the school, partly for master's residence, 

 with garden, orchard, and school close. This property 

 and annuity were secured to the school by deed of 

 26 January 1826, when it was stated that the original 

 deeds conveying them could not be found." 



A Provident Association, or Benefit Society, was 

 established in 1836 for Pytchley, Isham, and Brough- 

 ton. 



SCALDWELL 



Scaldeswelle (xi cent.); Esaldewell, Schaldewelle, 

 Scardewelle, Scaudeswell (xiii cent.). 



Scald well lies to the east of the road from Northamp- 

 ton to Market Harborough, a branch of which road 

 runs through the parish and is crossed by another road 

 running from south-west to north. 



It lies mostly at a height of about 300 to 400 ft., 

 and the picturesque village is situated near the junction 

 of the roads which intersect the parish. 'Fhis is grouped 

 round a village green, and has at its centre a well, dated 

 1685 but rebuilt in 1874, kept in repair under a bequest 

 dating from Elizabethan times. The church stands high 



at the north-western end of the village, the smithy and 

 school being across the road on the opposite side of the 

 green. There is a Congregational chapel built in 1868. 

 There are brickworks to the north of the village. The 

 rectory" lies away from the church at the southern end 

 of the village. 



A windmill had stood in the parish from the 13th 

 century, probably in 'the Mill field' in the north-cast 

 of the parish. The picturesque ruins of another wind- 

 mill stood until 19 16 near where the road which 

 branches east from the Northampton road enters the 

 parish. Scaldwell Lodge stands alone at the northern end 



■ Five of these inscriptions >re given in 

 Bridges's ///;/. of Aor/Aanti. ii, 125. 



' North, CA. Belli of Aoriianlt. 387, 

 where the inscriptions arc given. All the 

 bells were rehung in 191 3. The old treble 

 was by Hugh Watts. North gives its date 

 at 161$, but on the re-cast bell it is 1628. 



' Markham, CA. Plate of Norlhanit. 

 246. ♦ Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 39. 



» P'akr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 304. 



» Reg. Swaffham, fol. lixviii; Rot. Rob. 



Grotstleile (Cant, and York Soc), 200; 

 Cal. Pat. 1 361-4, p. 57, ice. 



' I'at. R. I Edw. VI, pt. I. 



» Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



• Hilt, of ti'orthanti. ii, 1 24. Bridges 

 speaks of this presentation being made in 

 154.8 by Lady Parr (in whose hands the 

 fee farm was), but the advowson had 

 already been given to the Bishopric of 

 Coventry and Lichfield. 



'» Chan. Proc. (Scr. 2), cxxvii, 29. 



" Pat. R. 24 Eliz. pt. 7. 



'^ Close R. 1654, pt. 23, m. 17; cf. 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), ccccxKxix, 65. 



'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Kdw. I, no. 110. 



'• Cal. Pat. 1426-41, p. 241. 



'S Char. Comm. Rcpt. 1830, xxiv, 169; 

 see also Coll. Tofog. it Ctn. iii, ch. 32, 



P-330- 

 " Over the doorway is the date 1716 



and the initials of T. Douglas Scott, then 

 patron. 



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