A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



of the parish and has Scaldwell Spinney to the west of 

 it, and to the south-east Oak Spinney. In the south of 

 the parish is Rectory Farm. There is an old quarry 

 in the south-west, and in 1914 several ironstone pits 

 were opened and are now worked by the Lamport Iron- 

 stone Company. In parts of these workings Roman 

 pottery and other objects have been found.' 



The population was 276 in 1801, and 368 in 1871; 

 in 193 1 it was 286. The area is 1,247 acres; the soil, 

 clay and red marl; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are 

 wheat and barley, and some land is in pasture. 



Among the lands of the Countess Judith 

 MANOR in Mawsley Hundred, 2 hides and i virgate 

 in SCALD ir ELL were held in 1086 by 

 Hugh.^ By the 12th century this had passed with the 

 rest of the Countess Judith's lands to King David of 

 Scotland, and had increased in extent to 2^ hides and 

 I virgate.' 



Among the fees of the honor of Huntingdon in 1235 

 was half a fee in Scaldwell, Houghton, and Hothorpe 

 held by Simon Major,'' and this half fee was held in 

 1242 by Simon son of Simon,' who was succeeded at 

 Brixworth, and evidently here also, by his nephew John 

 de Verdun in 1280.* 



A return of knights' fees for 1284 includes 13 vir- 

 gates held by Richard Trussell in Scaldwell of William 

 Trussell,' by William of John de Verdun, and by John 

 of John de Hastings.' John de Verdun was succeeded 

 by his son Thomas, returned as holding a quarter 

 of a fee in Lamport, Houghton, Scaldwell, and Ho- 

 thorpe in 1 3 12.' As this Thomas died in 1315,"' 

 his heir being his son John, it was presumably 

 John's brother" Thomas who held a third of a fee in 

 1325;'^ and this third was in the hands of his heirs 

 in 1376.'' 



These heirs may have been the family of Seyton of 

 Maidwell, one of whom, Sir Nicholas, living about 

 1320, is said to have married Susan daughter of Sir 

 John Verdun.''' They had certainly acquired the Trus- 

 sell interest before 1428, when 

 John Seyton held a quarter fee 

 in Scaldwell formerly belonging 

 toJohnTrusselh'^and from them 

 the manor acquired its name 

 of SETONS. The manors of 

 Maidwell and Scaldwell were in 

 the hands of trustees from about 

 1464 to 1472, when a rent of 

 40J. from Scaldwell was paid by 

 them to Alice widow of Thomas 

 Seyton.'* Some fifty years later 

 Joan daughter and co-heir of 



Everard Seyton and wife of Francis Metcalf appears 

 to have sold a moiety of the manor to Edmund 



Seyton. Gules a bend 

 betzueen six martlets or. 



Hasilwode'^ whose son John subsequently sold Seton's 

 Manor to William Hochison, rector of Scaldwell, 

 who died in March 1545, his heir being his brother 

 Richard. '* The rector had acquired other properties 

 in the parish, to which reference is made below, 

 and constituted them into one manor subsequently 

 known as Setons alias HUTCHINS. Its later history 

 is obscure, but it was conveyed in 1608 by George 

 Watkin and Mary his wife and John Watkin to 

 Christopher Greene, clerk;" and in 1658 by Edward 

 Palmer and Mary his wife to Thomas Sprigge.-" In 

 17 1 7 one third of the manor was sold by Edward 

 Mackeness and Elizabeth his wife to John Langford 

 and Nathaniel Pyewell;^' and in 1772 Martin Nunn and 

 Mary his wife with Mary Davis conveyed a moiety to 

 Thomas Wayte.'^ 



In 1086, 3 virgates in Scaldwell, appurtenant to 

 'Wadenhoe',^3 were held by Aubrey [de Vere] of the 

 Bishop of Coutances.^'' In the Northamptonshire Sur- 

 vey 3 great virgates in Scaldwell were held by Aubrey's 

 heir and namesake of the fee of Oxford, and probably 

 became part of the manor of Wold (q.v.).-5 This estate 

 seems to be represented by the barn, messuage, and 

 2 J virgates of land which William Hochison had pur- 

 chased of the Master and Guardians of St. Mary within 

 the parish church of All Saints in Northampton-* and 

 which were held of the Earl of Oxford by William 

 Hochison at his death, as part of his manor of Scald- 

 well, and by him bequeathed to his brother Thomas 

 Hochison and John son of the said Thomas.^' 



In the Domesday Survey i hide and 3 virgates in 

 Scaldwell, which had been held before the Conquest 

 by Earl Algar, and after the death of Queen Maud were 

 bestowed on St. Edmund's Abbey by the Conqueror 

 for the soul of the queen, were among the lands 

 of the abbey.^* It was returned in the Northampton- 

 shire Survey as i J hides and i great virgate of the fee 

 of St. Edmund,^' and in 1 2 84 the Abbot of St. Edmund's 

 held 12 virgates in Scaldwell. 30 Of this property 9 vir- 

 gates were held of the abbey in I 5 1 6 by William Lane, 

 and at his death on 12 May i 527 descended to his son 

 Ralf Lane." This also had been acquired by William 

 Hochison, clerk, and formed part of the manor of which 

 he was seised at his death, being held of Sir Edward 

 Montagu as of his manor of Warkton, formerly owned 

 by the abbey of St. Edmund's. '^ 



Bridges states'^ that when he wrote the courts for 

 Scaldwell were held at Lamport, and the lands divided 

 among fifteen or sixteen freeholders. In the Inclosure 

 Act of 1775, when about 1,000 acres were inclosed, 

 Sir Justinian Isham, bart., was returned as lord of the 

 manor of Scaldwell, and saving of rights was assured to 

 him 'or other lords of the manor'.''' At a more recent 

 date the rights of the Montagus were also exercised 



^ Ex inf. the Rector ; and see The 

 Northampton Independent, 4 Sept. 1926. 



2 F.C.H. Northants. i, 353A. 



^ Ibid. 380*. 



'• Bk. of Fees, 495, 501. 



5 Ibid. 938. 



<> Cal. Close, 1179-88, p. 50. 



■? Cf. Lamport. A William Trussell, 

 temp. Henry III, granted a rent in 

 Scaldwell towards a chantry at Marston 

 Trussell for the souls of his father Richard 

 and Maud his wife: Harl. Ch. 57 A. 53. 



^ Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



^ Cal.lnq.p.in.\,\\z, 

 >» Ibid. V, 596 . 

 " Cal. Fine R. iv, 408. 



'^ Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, 612. 



" Cal. Close, 1374-7, p. 189. 



'* Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 46. 



'5 Feud. Aids, \\, '^■^. John Trussell was 

 holding in 1346; ibid. 446. 



'^ Add. Ch. 22413; cf. ibid. 22292, 

 22295. For the pedigree of Seyton see 

 y. C.H.Rutland, ii, 217. 



" Add. Ch. 22307; cf. Bridges, op. cit. 

 ii, 46. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 55. 



'» Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 6 Jas. I. 



2° Ibid. Mich. 1658. 



" Ibid. Hil. 3 Geo. I. 



" Ibid. Mich. 13 Geo. III. 



" Probably an error for 'Wold': V.C.H. 

 Northants. i, 362. 



^■i Ibid. 309A. 



« Ibid. 380. 



-^ Apparentlya gild,otherwiseunknown. 



^^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 55. 



=^8 F.C.H. Northants. i, 318a. See also 

 ibid. 282-5. '^^^ abbey had acquired 

 Algar's lands in Warkton and in Boughton. 



" Ibid. 380*. 



3" Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



3' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlvi, 16. 



-" Ibid. Ixxii, 55. 



^-i Hist, of Northants. ii, 125. 



^* Priv. Stat. 15 Geo. Ill, cap. 24. 



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