THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY 



BLISWORTH 



BR,'\FIELD-0\-THE-GREEN 



CASTLE ASHBV 



COGENHOE 



COLLINGTREE 



COURTEENHALL 



DENTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



GRENDON 



HARDING STONE 



HORTON 



GREAT HOUGHTON 



LITTLE HOUGHTON 



MILTON MALZOR 



PRESTON DEANERY 



QUINTON 



ROTHERSTHORPE 



WHISTON 



WOOTTON 



YARDLEY HASTINGS 



PIDDINGTON with HACKLETON 



IX the Northamptonshire geld-roll of c. 1074 Wymersley figures as a 

 hundred and a half;' but in the Domesday Survey the western portion 

 (including the parishes of Blisvvorth, Collingtree, Courteenhall, Harding- 

 stone, Milton, and Rothersthorpe, and probably Wootton) constituted the 

 hundred of 'Colentreu' or 'Col- 



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WYMERSLEY 



Map of the Hundred 



trewestan'.- This subordinate 

 hundred is not mentioned in the 

 12th-century Survey, in which 

 all the parishes are entered under 

 Wymersley ;3 but as late as 1329 

 'the hundred of Colvngtreston 

 within the hundred of Wymers- 

 ley' was said to have been 

 formerly leased at 40J., which 

 sum had been raised 20 years 

 before to 10 marks,** and com- 

 plaint was also made that the 

 inhabitants of the hundred were 



compelled to attend the three-weekly court of Wymersley; the jurors alleged 

 that this practice first began in the time of Henry III under Henry de Hastings.s 

 Wymersley Hundred, of which the original meeting-place was probably 

 at a field called Wymersley Bush in Little Houghton,^ apparently belonged in 

 1086 to the Countess Judith and was certainly held by her representatives, the 

 family of Hastings and their successors, with the manor of Yardley Hastings.^ 

 The lordship of the hundred seems to have become divided, possibly when 

 Richard Earl of Kent disposed of his estates, as Richard P^ermor owned the 

 hundreds of Towcester and Wymersley when he was attainted in 1540 and 

 recovered them in 1551,^ and they descended to his heirs, the Earls of Pomfret,'> 

 whose present representative is Lord Hesketh; but Sir William Compton died 

 seised of the hundreds of Hamfordshoe and Wymersley in 1528,'° as did his 

 grandson Sir Henry, first Lord Compton in 1591." 



^ V.C.H.Northants.\,i<^f). Mbid. 305, 337, 345, 347- Mbid.375. ■• Assize R. 632, m. 61 d. Mbid. 



* Place-Names of NortJiants. (Engl. P.-N. Soc), 142. About 1720 the courts were held at Cotton End in 



Hard ingstone: Bridges, A^or//}j»//. i, 334. ^ Ibid. » Cj/. Pd/. i 550-3, p. 22. 



» Bridges, loc. cit.: Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), cccixiv, 9; Rccov. R. Trin. 33 Geo. Ill, ro. 360. 



'° Bridges, loc. cit. " Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), ccxiix, 130. 



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