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Robert Lane had petitioned to sue in forma pauperis} 

 On 17 January 1648 the matter was still further com- 

 plicated by an order in Parliament that the Committee 

 at Goldsmiths' Hall should sell the estate of William 

 Bawde at Walgrave for his recusancy and delinquency 

 and apply the proceeds to pay Parliament's debt to 

 shoemakers of Northampton.^ In 1650 these claims on 

 the estate were under consideration: (l) that of Mon- 

 tague Lane son of Robert, who now begged examina- 

 tion of his title; (2) that of Thomas Atterbury and John 

 Gurney, tenants of William Bawde, who claimed 

 allowance for repairs to manor, mills, &c.; (3) that of 

 Thomas Knighton and Henry Wellden, tenants to the 

 state, who begged allowance for repairs from the rents 

 of Atterbury and Gurney; (4) that of the children of 

 William Bawde — Jeronima, William, and Ferdinand 

 — who begged one-fifth of their father's estate pending 

 the hearing of his appeal against sequestration as a 

 popish recusant in arms; and (5) that of Bawde himself 

 who desired to be admitted tenant to his own estate 

 while on his appeal. After further disputes the matter 

 was settled in 1653 by the discharge from sequestration 

 of the manor, on its purchase from the Treason Trustees 

 by Major John Browne, as forfeited by William 

 Bawde. ^ Eventually Browne and Bawde sold it for 

 ^^8,630 to John Langham,'* who was later created in 

 1660 knight, and then baronet, as Sir John Langham 

 of Cottesbrooke, Alderman of London.' 



In 1657 John Langham settled Walgrave on his 

 second son William at his marriage with Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Anthony Haslewood.* William Lang- 

 ham made his title to the manor secure by obtaining in 

 1664 conveyances of it to himself from Ferdinand 

 Bawde (one of the children referred to in the proceed- 

 ings of the Committee for Compounding') and Ann his 

 wife,' and from Charles Proger Herbert and Jeronima 

 his wife.' 



By the death without issue in 1699 of his elder 

 brother, Sir James Langham of Cottesbrooke, Dr. 

 William Langham succeeded to the baronetcy and 

 that manor, and it is with Cottesbrooke (q.v.) that 

 Walgrave has since then descended in the Langham 

 family.'" 



Haifa hide in Walgrave held freely before the Con- 

 quest by Martin was in 1086 held of the Count of 

 Mortain by Robert and had risen in value from 5/. to 

 lOi." This Robert was most probably Robert de Meu- 

 lan, whose son Robert Earl of Leicester'- was holding 

 this half-hide in the i zth century. '^ In 1 270 Roger de 

 Quincy, Earl of Winchester, was holding this half- 

 hide,''' which on the division in 1 204 of the Leicester 

 fief" between co-heirs, had descended to Amice or 

 Avice, daughter and co-heir of Robert Earl of Leicester, 



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and from Amice to her son Robert de Quincy Earl of 

 Winchester, and his son Roger.'* Ellen, (youngest) 

 daughter of Roger de Quincy, succeeded her father as 

 co-heir, and from her this quarter fee descended to her 

 son Roger la Zouche, whose son Alan la Zouche" died 

 seised of a fourth part of a knight's fee in Walgrave and 

 Nortoft in 13 14," leaving three daughters as co-heirs. 

 This quarter fee descended to his daughter Maud, wife 

 of Robert Holand, who in 1 3 29-30 proved her right 

 to view of frankpledge and other liberties in the hamlet 

 of Walgrave" as a member of the manor of Hawes 

 (q.v.). Maud, their grand-daughter and heir, married 

 John, Lord Lovel of Tichmersh,-" and the Lovels of 

 Tichmarsh next held this quarter fee, which in 1428 

 was returned as divided between Sir [WilliamJ Lovell 

 and Sir John Welles.-' It continued to be held by the 

 Lovels until, in 1 49 1, after the attainder of Francis 

 Lord Lovel in 1487, all the lands in Walgrave held by 

 him of the Winchester fee were 

 granted to John Moton,^- after 

 which the overlordship seems to 

 have lapsed. 



In 1 270 this quarter fee was 

 held under Roger de Quincy by 

 Alan de Romely, under whom 

 William de Turevill was holding, 

 of him William de Novencurt, 

 and of him Thomas le Lord.^' 

 It was still held by Thomas le 

 Lord in 1284 of William de 

 Novacurt or Novencurt, who 

 was then said to be holding of Robert de 'Romeny', 

 Robert of William de Turvill, and William de Turvill 

 of the Earl of Leicester.^* John son of Thomas le Lord 

 was holding it in 1314.^' 



A manor of Walgrave called BRJUNSPATHES 

 and later ELBOROIf''ES was possibly identical with 

 that just mentioned. In 1456 it was conveyed by John 

 Watford and Elizabeth his wife to Robert Isham and 

 others.^* This was appurtenant to the chief manor of 

 Walgrave held of the honor of Huntingdon, as in 16 17 

 Anne Elborowe, who died at Brixworth on I July i 594, 

 was said to have been seised jointly with her husband 

 Thomas Elborowe, but in her right, of a manor called 

 Braunespathes in Walgrave, and tenements in Brix- 

 worth, formerly parcel of the possessions of Anthony 

 Salisbury, her grandfather; this manor had been held 

 of Thomas Paget as of his manor of Walgrave, and at 

 the date of the inquisition was held of Ferdinand Bawde 

 as of that manor. ^' William Elborowe, her son and heir, 

 had been succeeded in 1657 by Thomas Elborowe, 

 clerk, and Frances his wife who with John Goodman, 

 clerk, and Isabel his wife conveyed it as the manor of 



Lovel, of Tichmarsh. 

 Barry v.'ai'y or andgutei. 



' Hill. MSS. Comrn. Rep. iv (i), 30, 92. 



' CtfA of Proc. of Com. fcr Comp. 1292, 

 1806—12. The manor was leased for 

 3 years at 1^400 a year. The rent proposed 

 for this manor in 1652 was £^7. 



^ Cat. of Proc. of Com. for Comp. 1808; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 1653, ro. 76; Feet of 

 F. Northants. Mich. 1653. 



* Bridges, Hut. of I^orthanti. ii, 128; 

 Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 1655. 



* G.F.C. Compute Baronetage^ iii, 30. 

 ' Bridges. Hiit. of Norihanii. ii, 128. 



' Cal. of Proc. of Com. for Comp. 1806. 



• Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 16 

 Chas. II. 



• Ibid. Jeronima, daughter of William 

 Bawde, was in 1653 wifeofCharles Proger. 

 (Deeds from book belonging to Ishams of 



Lamport, p. 74); cf. Cat. S.P. Dom, 

 1 664-5, PP- ' -7' -45- P"- R- ■ 7 Chas. II, 

 pt. 7, no. I 3. The family of Proger some- 

 times used the suffix ap Herbert. 



'" Com. Pleas, Deeds Enr. East. 13 

 Geo. III. mm. 3. 44, 46; ibid. 14 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 2; Priv. Stat. 16 Geo. Ill, cap. 68; 

 Recov. R. East. 35 Geo HI, ro. 18; Kelly, 

 Directoriet. 



" y.C.H. Northanli. i, 327-8. 



" G.E.C. /"fcrj^f, V, 40-1. 



■> y.C.H. Sortkanti. i, 381. 



'♦ Cal. Inj. p.m. not. T}Z, 776. 



■> For an account of the Meulans and 

 the Leicester fief sec y.C.H. Uorlkanlt. i, 

 360, &c. 



" Plac. de Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 

 550-1. 



■' Ibid. 550. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. v, no. 458. 



'» Plac. de Quo Ifarr. (Rec. Com.), 

 550. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage (2nd ed.), 

 vi, 530. 



" This return appears to have combined 

 this quarter fee with Lord Welles' fee in 

 Faxton, Walgrave, and Moulton. 



" Cal. Pat. 1485-94, p. 341. 



" Cal. Inf. p.m. i, no. 776. 



'♦ Feud, jlidt, iv, i. This should 

 evidently be 'the heir of the Earl of 

 Leicester*. 



" Cal. Irtij. p.m. V, no. 458. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 34 Hen. VI, 

 no. 140. 



" Chan. In<). p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclvii, 71, 



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