A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Waldegrave. Party 

 argent and gules. 



or de Waldegrave, a family owning property in Nor- 

 folk, Suffolk, and Essex, and according to a fabulous 

 legend in the Norfolk visitation of 1563' holding lands 

 in the county of Northampton from the time of the 

 Conquest. Hugh de Waldegrave had with Alice his 

 wife, and Robert de Warr and Isabel his wife, received 

 a grant of land in Walgrave from William de North- 

 ampton in 1252-3.^ John son of Walter was holding 

 Walgrave in 13 16,' and was 

 possibly the John de Walgrave 

 included in the list of persons for 

 whose souls Ralph de Walgrave, 

 parson of Walgrave,-* in 1328 

 founded a chantry in the parish 

 church. 5 John de Walgrave 

 was holding the manor in 1 329* 

 and 1346.'' He had been suc- 

 ceeded before 1384 by Sir 

 Richard de Waldegrave,^ to 

 whom free warren in his lands 

 in Walgrave, Hannington, and 

 Twyvvell was granted in that year.' In 1428 Richard 

 de Waldegrave was holding the fee in Walgrave for- 

 merly held by John Waldegrave.'" As Sir Richard 

 de Waldegrave, senior, he, with his wife Joan (Dore- 

 ward), settled the manors of Walgrave and Twy- 

 well in 1437-8 on his son Richard and Alice his 

 wife." Richard, the son, died (s.p.) on 20 June 1453, 

 seised of this manor, his heir being his (elder) brother 

 Thomas;'- the manor remained in the hands of Alice 

 his widow until her death on 12 June 1478, '■! when 

 William, son of the said Thomas, succeeded to it.'* 

 His son. Sir William Walgrave, in 1506 granted a 

 lease for 99 years of the manor at ,^20 rent to William 

 Lane, together with view of frankpledge, court baron, 

 &c. The grant contained permission for cutting timber 

 for the repair of the houses and buildings of the mansion 

 of the manor, 'which mansion is now set there in the 

 close called the Hall Close'. '5 William Lane, lessee of 

 the manor, died on 1 2 May 1527,'* having bequeathed 

 his lease of the manor to his wife Jane, with reversion 

 to his sons John, William, and Ralph. William Lane's 

 heir was his son Ralph, who had in 1 5 1 7 married 

 Maud daughter and co-heir of Sir William Parr. 

 Sir William Waldegrave died seised of the manor of 



' Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 (Harl. 

 Soc), 295-300. 



2 Feet of F. Northants. 37 Hen. Ill, 

 no. 609. 



3 Feud. Aids, iv, 21. 

 ■• Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 



269. 



5 Gal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 271. 

 ' Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 562. 

 ' ¥eud. Aids, iv, 446. 

 ' He is said in the Norfolk Visitation 

 to have been buried at Bures St. Mary 

 (SufF.) in 14.00. 



« Chart. R. 7 & 8 Ric. II, m. 13, 

 no. 15. 

 '0 Veud. Aids, iv, 33. 

 " Feet of F. Northants. 16 Hen. VI, 

 no. 81; Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Hen. VI, 

 no. 36. 



'^ Ibid. Thomas, as the eldest son, had 

 inherited Bures, where he was buried: 

 Visit, of Nor f. 1563 (Harl. Soc), 296. 

 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. IV, no. 22. 

 ^* Ibid. An inscription quoted in the 

 Norfolk Visitation shows that Sir Thomas 

 Waldegrave, Kt, had been buried in Bures 

 church in 1 500 and had married Elizabeth 

 eldest daughter and co-heir of John Fray, 



Walgrave on 30 January 1528." He was succeeded by 

 his son George, who died on the following 8 July.'* 

 George Waldegrave was succeeded by his son William," 

 who in 1 540, together with his brothers George and 

 William, and Mary Frances wife of George, sold the 

 manor to John Lane, the then lessee.^" John Lane made 

 a settlement of the manor on his marriage with Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of Robert Packington, and died on 

 1 2 September i 557."' His son William, who then suc- 

 ceeded him at the age of 13,-- died on 8 August 1559, 

 his heir being his brother John.--' Elizabeth Lane, their 

 mother, continued to hold the manor in jointure, and 

 married as her second husband Sir Richard Malory of 

 London.^* For many years the manor was the subject 

 of family disputes.^5 Her son John Lane, in i 566, on 

 his marriage with Agnes daughter of Edward Mon- 

 tagu of Boughton, settled the reversion of the manor 

 on Agnes for her life, with remainder in tail male to 

 the heirs of John and Agnes.-* Various conveyances 

 of the manor were made for the purpose of raising 

 money, to which John Lane and his wife Agnes, 

 Edward and Augustine his brothers. Sir Edward Mon- 

 tagu, and Sir Robert Lane-' were parties, together with 

 William Saunders of Harrington, who advanced money 

 on the manor and was in subsequent Chancery pro- 

 ceedings described as its purchaser for ^^3,000.^' The 

 manor was in 1576 conveyed by John Lane to his 

 brother Edward,-' which led to lawsuits succeeding 

 each other for more than half a century. In 1579 the 

 brothers John and Edward conveyed the manor to 

 William Saunders (of Harrington) and his son Ed- 

 ward.^" William Saunders died seised thereof on 14 July 

 1 5 82,^' and was succeeded by his son Edward, to whom 

 in the same year a conveyance of the manor was made 

 by John Lane and his wife Anne.'^ In 1 590 the manors 

 ot Walgrave and Northall were conveyed by Edward 

 Saunders to Thomas Pagitt,^^ ^-^q jn 161 1, with James 

 Pagitt and his wife Katharine, sold them to Ferdinand 

 Bawde and Lawrence Eyton.^-* The manor had been 

 confirmed to Thomas Pagitt by a decree of Chancery,^' 

 for the reversal of which Robert Lane appealed. Orders 

 in connexion with his petition were being issued in 

 1626,5^ but the case Lane versus Bawde (apparently then 

 William Bawde son of Ferdinand) respecting the manor 

 of Walgrave was still dragging on in 1 641, when 



chief Baron of the Exchequer. 



^5 Com. Pleas. Deeds Enr. Hii. 21 

 Hen. VII. 



*^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlvi, 16. 

 He held with the manor a chief messuage, 

 quarters of land called Austens and Sprotts, 

 a virgate called Houghton Yard Land or 

 Katheleen Yard Land, lands and rents 

 called Stanards, messuages and quarters of 

 land called Alens, Hoggis, and Petytts, 

 and a rent called Colpeper's Rent, &c. 

 " Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlviii, 79. 

 '8 Ibid. 85. 



^9 Exch. Inq. p.m. dccx, 12. The 

 Norfolk Visitation states that in 154.4 ^^ 

 'was captain of 200 Suffolk men in France. 

 He sold this manor of Waldegrave in co. 

 Northampton to one Lane of that county.' 



^o Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 32 

 Hen. VIII i Bridges, Hist, of Northants. 

 ii, 128. 



^' Exch. Inq. p.m. dccx, 12. 



" Ibid. 



23 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxvii, 27. 

 With the manor were then held 12 mes- 

 suages, I water-mill, and i windmill. 



^^ Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), cxxii, 24. 



« Ibid, cxiii, 80. 



-^ Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), ccxxviii, 24; 

 Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 8 & 9 Eliz. 



^^ This must have been Sir Robert Lane 

 of Horton. See Lane Pedigree, Visit, of 

 Northants. 186. 



28 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), ccxxviii, 24. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 18 Eliz.; 

 Pat. R. 17 Chas. II, pt. 7, no. 13. 



30 Feet of F. Northants. East. 21 Eliz. 



3' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccii, 172, 



32 Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 24 & 

 25 Eliz. 



33 Ibid. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz.; cf. Chan. 

 Proc. (Ser. 2), ccxxviii, 24. 



3* Feet of F. Northants. East. 9 Jas. I. 

 Lawrence Eyton was husband of Fer- 

 dinand's daughter Katharine : Metcalfe, 

 Visit, of Northants. 68. 



35 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. iv (i), 12. 



3^ Ibid. In the same year, 1626, the 

 Bishop of Lincoln (John Williams, rector 

 of Walgrave) requested Sir Thomas 

 Tresham and Sir John Isham to act as 

 arbitrators between him and Mr. Bawd 

 [Ferdinand] of Walgrave concerning a 

 sale of lands there. (Deeds from book 

 belonging to Ishams of Lamport, p. 83.) 



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