WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



HARDINGSTONE 



pledge at St. Leonard's were attached to the manor of 

 Yardley Hastings in 1325.' 



The priory of St. .Andrew's, having obtained all the 

 Senlis demesnes in Hardingstone, gave back to Earl 

 Simon II for a yearly rent of 60/. a site on which to 

 build the monastery of St. Mary in about 1 14;.- This 

 was the beginning of Delapre .Abbey, which had its 

 home manor here, the manor of COTTON alias 

 WEST COTTON AND HARDINGSTONE. Earl 

 Simon the founder gave it the church of Hardingstone, 

 in which the abbey was established,' all the tenements 

 in Hardingstone of Hugh Grimbald, Walter Dak and 

 Outus sometime porter of the King of Scots, and the 

 service of Hugh Gobion from two dwellings by the 

 bridge of St. Leonard, and the meadow called .Alf- 

 woldesholm.* Other donors made small grants in the 

 parish.' The manor, or half manor, apparently came 

 from the Vipont family. William de Vipont, believed 

 to be grandson of Hugh de Morville, was enfeoffed 

 of lands in Cumberland by King David,* and that king 

 or, more probably, William the Lion granted him 

 2 hides (i.e. half the manor) in Hardingstone. He was 

 in possession in 1194.' His son Ives succeeded, but 

 joined the rebels in 12 17, and the manor was handed 

 over for a while to his brother Robert.* In 12 19 the 

 abbess of Delapre claimed 2 hides against William 

 Vipont, stating that the Abbess Odierda was seised of 

 it in the time of Henry II; and William called to war- 

 rant .Alexander, King of Scotland. .As the last-named 

 called to warrant the King of England the plea was 

 respited until his majority-.' In 1236 the case was 

 resumed, by William Vipont's claiming 20 virgates 

 against the abbess;'" and as late as 1253 the itinerant 

 justices had instruction for the record of a plea of 

 Robert Vipont against the abbess concerning half the 

 manor." In 1242-3 the BeseviUe family held \ and 

 St. Mary of Delapre \ of the 

 second knight's fee here;'^ later 

 they were returned as sharing 

 half a fee," all of which was in 

 the possession of the abbey in 

 1428, '* and until its surrender 

 in 1538." The Crown still re- 

 tained the manor in 161 5, when 

 the two royal manors were said 

 to comprise the greater part of 

 the parish or all of it.'* .As with 

 the St. .Andrew's manor, various 

 leases were made, including a life 

 grant by Edward VI to Princess Elizabeth, under her 

 father's will. '^ The site of Delapre .Abbey came into the 

 possession of the Tate family in i 590, when the queen 



Tate. Six piecet or and 



gules %uith three Cornish 



choughs. 



granted to Bartholomew Tate the rectory and the 

 manor and grange of Cotton, in fee.'' He died seised 

 in i6or and his son and heir Sir William, who married 

 Eleanor daughter and co-heir of William Lord Zouch 

 of Harringworth and was brother of the antiquary 

 Francis," was living there in 1612.-° He died seised of 

 the 'manor or capital messuage and grange commonly 

 called Cotton manor alias Cotton Grange', in 1617, 

 leaving a son and heir Zouch, aged 11,*' ward of Lord 

 Zouch. ^- He became a noted Roundhead and author 

 of the Self-Denying Ordinance. William, son of Zouch, 

 made a settlement of the manor on his marriage with 

 Mary Stedman,-' in 1673, ^■' and others 1685 and 

 1695.-' He and his son Bartholomew lived at Delapre. 

 The latter's son Bartholomew-* was living about 1 7 20 in 

 a house built on the site of the abbey, of which there 

 remained what was supposed to have formed part of a 

 chapel.^' By 1722 he had left the house but was still 

 impropriator of the rectory.^' Edward Long, theauthor, 

 married his daughter and co-heir 

 Mary;" but this property came 

 to the Clarkes. John Clarke held 

 some estate here in 1722;'° and 

 Bartholomew Clarke, merchant 

 of London,' ' acquired the manor. 

 Sir JacobdesBouverie, bart., mar- 

 ried in 1723 Mary his daughter 

 and sole heir. He was created 

 Viscount Folkestone in 1747, their _ t> r 



ixnr 17 1 ro J • Bouverie. Parly feise- 



son William Earl of Radnor m ^,„ „,. g„j a^^„, ^„ 

 1765.-'^ The second son Edward, eagle viiih i-wo heads 

 of Delapre Abbey, had this manor »''*'' charged on the 



dj- J • ,0^0 1 : „ „ breast zuith a scutcheon 



died in iocs leaving a son , , j ■ 



^^ , „ -* , _^,.,,.° ^ gules a bend vatr. 



General Lverard Wilbam, ot 



Delapre Abbey, who died childless in 1871 and was 

 succeeded by John Augustus Sheil Bouverie of Delapre 

 Abbey, son of his brother Francis Kenelm Bouverie. 

 He was succeeded in 1894 by his son John Augustus 

 Sheil of Delapre ."^bbey who died unmarried 1905.'' 

 His sister Miss Mary Helen Bouverie is now lady of 

 the manor, as tenant for life. 



The BeseviUe family, parceners of Delapre Abbey 

 to the amount of \ of their joint half fee here, made 

 early grants to both .Abbey and priory. Richard de 

 BeseviUe and Richard his son witnessed an agreement 

 in 1 1 99.''* The latter's son Ralph, who succeeded after 

 1 227, '5 gave the abbey his right in the fish-pond of 

 Lachemere'* and was tenant here 1242 and 1284." 

 Richard de Besevile was lord 13 13 and 1325,'' and in 

 1356 William Besevile died at Cotton seised of a mes- 

 suage and rents, leaving a sonand heir Richard, aged 3," 

 who died a minor. His heir was Elizabeth wife of 



' Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 612, p. 388. 



' Stenton, Facsimiles of Early Chart. 

 (Northants. Rcc. Soc), 144. 



' Presumably the existing church was 

 built subsc<)ucntly for the use of the 

 parishioners. 



* Cal. Chart. 1327-41, p. 86; Dugdale, 

 JUon. V, 208. » Ibid. 



* Diet. Sal. Biog. which gives him as 

 lord here in ■ 199. 



' Abbre^: Phc. (Rcc. Com.), 9. 



' Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rcc. Com.), i, 299*. 



* Pipe R. 3 Hen. Ill, m. 7, 4 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 4; Bain, Cal. Docts. Scotland, i, 74:, 

 768. 



"> Cal. Close, 1234-7, p. 333. 



" Ibid. 1251-3, p. 445. 



" Bh. of Fees, CfiS. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 6, 27; Cal. Inj, p.m. 



V, p. 235, vi, p. 391 ; Cal. Close, 1396-9, 

 p. 179. 



'* Feud. Aids, iv, 43. 



'» f^.C.U. Northants. ii, 116. 



"' Eich. Dcp. Mich. 13 Jas. I, no. 14. 



" L. and P. Hen. rill, xviii (i), g. 226 

 (38), «i (2), g. 476 (p. 2+5); Cal. Pat. 

 Edtv. yi, i, 332, iii, 240-1, iv, 90. 



'« Pat. 32 Elii. pt. xvii. 



" Bridges, op. cit. 365-6. 



» Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, p. 118. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccliv, 149. 



" Cal. S.P. Dom. 1619-23, p. 68. 



^' Bridges, op. cit. 361 seqq, 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 25 

 Chas. II. 



" Ibid. Trin. 36 Chas. II, Trin. 7 

 Will. III. 



"" Eich. Dep. Mich. 9 Ceo. I, no. 13. 



" Bridges, op. cit. 364-6. 



** Exch. Dep. loc. cit. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. 



'" Exch. Dcp. loc. cit. 



" r.C.H. Berks, iii, 129. 



" Burke, /'<-<-/-j?<- (1934). "Ibid. 



'♦ Cott. MS. Vcsp. E. xvii, fol. 113d. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 1 1 Hen. Ill, file 

 19, no. 144. 



J' Chart. R. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 15, no. 47; 

 see also Harl. Chart. 46, D. 30. 



" Bk. of Fees, 938; Feud. Aids, iv, 6; 

 Abbm: Plac. (Rec. Com.), I 54. Geoffrey 

 BeseviUe of Cotton made a grant about 

 1298 (.■Xdd. Chart. 47075, 47077-8) and 

 wa!i perhaps elder son of Ralph. 



" Cal. In<f. p.m. v, no. 412, p. 235, vi, 

 no. 6 1 2, p. 391 i Cal. Close, i 323-7, p. 433. 



'"> Cal. Inq. p.m. x, no. 287. 



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