A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



of the fee of Chester.' No more is heard of the Scrimp- 

 lingford tenancy, but part, at least, of the lands may 

 have been acquired by Aubrey de Whittlebury.- 



The history of the mesne tenures of the fee of King 

 David which passed to the honor of Huntingdon is 

 obscure because the land became attached to holdings 

 elsewhere.-' In 1284. the tenants of John de Hastings 

 were Henry de Hackleton for one carucate and the 

 Abbot of St. James by Northampton for 2 virgates.'* 

 The carucate probably represents part at least of the 

 former holding of Turgis de Quenton, as in 1246 

 Roger de Hackleton had acquired land here from John 

 Passelewe and Mabel his wife,^ who seems to have 

 been the daughter of Sewal de Quenton.* Its subse- 

 quent descent is unknown. 



The WahuU overlordship by 1235-6 had descended 

 to William fitz Warin in right of his wife Agnes the 

 daughter of John de WahuU. ' He was then holding 

 half a knight's fee in Horton and 3i fees in Evenley, 

 Horton, Charlton, and Astwick,^and his su b-tenant for at 

 least part of the land was Hugh son of Richard Gubion.' 

 In 1 23 1 this Hugh had been impleaded in respect of 

 land in Horton,'" and in 124.2 he shared with John de 

 Shirington and Ralph Dayrel the one knight's fee in 

 Horton held of Saer de WahuU." Land in Horton 

 had been acquired by John de Shirington in right of 

 his wife Joan from Ralf de Evenley in 1232.'- Dayrel's 

 part was probably included in the 2 carucates. Sec, in 

 Horton, Hackleton, and Quinton which passed to him 

 by fine from WiUiam de Horton in 1242, confirmed 

 by Nicholas de Horton three years later.'^ 



In 1284 the mesne tenants of this fee were John 

 Morteyn and Laurence de Preston for half a knight's 

 fee, John Sherington for one carucate, and .■\ubrey de 

 Whittlebury for one carucate held of Laurence de 

 Preston. '■* In 1304, under Thomas de Wahull, ^ fee 

 was held by Ralf le Botiler, Henry de Sewelle and the 

 heirs of Richard Gubion, J fee by John de Sheryngton 

 and J fee by John de Whittlebury. '^ Henry de Sewelle 

 was probably tenant in right of his wife Joan, the widow 

 of John Morteyn.'^ Nothing more is known of the 

 Sheryngton tenure. 



On the death of Sir Richard Gubion, son of Hugh 

 Gubion, in 1300, it was found that he held in Horton 

 10 J acres assart of the king, also ^ of a fee; his heirs 

 were his daughters Avice, wife of Ralf le Botiler of 

 Northbury, co. Stafford, and EUzabeth, aged 13,'' and 

 in 1 3 16 Ralf was returned as lord of Horton."' On the 

 death of his widow in 1361 his grandson Edward, son 

 of John Botiler, was the heir to 4 messuages and 4 half- 

 virgates of land in Horton." He died without heirs, so 

 that the estate passed to Sir Philip Botiler of Woodhall, 

 CO. Hertford, the grandson of Ralf, second son of Ralf 



■ Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, no. 128, p. 84. 



^ See Piddington, below, p. 277. 



3 e.g. in 1325 and 1376 half a fee in 

 Brafield, Great and Little Houghton, 

 and Horton, and another half fee in Great 

 Houghton and Horton : Cal. Inij. p.m. 

 vi, p. 391 ; Cal. Close, 1 374.-7, p. 189. 



•• Feud. Aids, iv, 7. 



s Feet of F. Northants. 31 Hen. Ill, 

 no. 510. 



* Ibid. 24 Hen. Ill, no. 421. 



' Farrer, op. cit. i, 64. 



8 Bk. t,f Fees, 495, cf. 500. 



' For this family see Farrer, i, 83-5. 

 Richard Gubion, 'Dominus de Horton', 

 granted the church to the Abbot of St. 

 James, Northampton : Harl. Chart. 50 

 H. II. 



and Avice. ^^ He died in 1420 leaving his son Philip a 

 minor, who was succeeded in 1453 by his son John, 

 aged 18.^' The subsequent history of this estate is 

 obscure. 



The portion of the WahuU fee held in 1284 by 

 Aubrey de Whittlebury seems to represent that held 

 by Ralph Dayrel in 1 242, as in 1 262 Sybil Dayrel 

 conveyed to Aubrey the reversion of 2 carucates in 

 Horton ;^^ and this can be traced back to 1 241, when 

 William de Horton conveyed the property to Ralph 

 Dayrel." On the death of Aubrey de Whitdebury from 

 drowning in 1290 a capital messuage with 5 virgates 

 comprised \ fee held by him of John de WodhuU by 

 service including i8</. yearly for the castleguard of 

 Rockingham. -+ The John de Whittlebury named above 

 as tenant in 1 304-5 was later succeeded by his son 

 Aubrey. ^^ In 1369 the Escheator was ordered not to 

 meddle with the manor of Horton with appurtenances 

 in Piddington which Joan, widow of Aubrey, held at 

 her death jointly with her husband.^' Her heir was her 

 son John, whose proof of age had been taken in 1353 

 on the death of his brother Thomas.^' This John died 

 in 1 400 seised of the manor, called IFTTTELBERTES 

 PLACE, worth (^\, and said to be held of the king in 

 chief.^' On the death of his son Aubrey six years later 

 the land was said to be held pardy ot the barony of 

 WahuU and partly of Reynold de Grey of Ruthin. 3" 

 His heir was his daughter Isabel, who later married 

 Sir Henry de Plessington, but there is no record that 

 they continued to hold land in Horton. 



In 1452-3 the manor of HORTON was in the hands 

 of John Mortimer of Grendon;^' and Roger Salisbury 

 of Grendon died seised of it in 1492, when it was said 

 to be held of George, Earl of Kent, as of the manor of 

 Cotton beside Northampton. 3- From Roger's son 

 WiUiam in i 5 1 1 it passed to his daughter Mary.-'-' She 

 married Sir William Parr, who, being made chamber- 

 lain to his niece Queen Catherine, was created Baron 

 Parr of Horton in 1543.^'' The manor, including one 

 windmill and appurtenances in Piddington and Hackle- 

 ton, was settled on them for life and afterwards on their 

 daughter Maud and her husband Sir Ralph Lane.^' 

 Sir William Parr died in 1 546 and his widow in i 555,-'* 

 when the estate passed to their grandson Sir Robert, 

 son of Maud and Sir Ralph Lane, 5' and he with his 

 wife Catherine was party to a fine concerning the manor 

 in 1557.5' Their son Sir William Lane, who married 

 Mary daughter of Sir Thomas Andrew, in 1 597 settled 

 the manor upon himself and his wife with remainder 

 to their son Robert and his wife Theodosia.^' Robert 

 died before his father, and Theodosia then married 

 Edward Thynne, esquire, before 161 6, when Sir 

 WiUiam Lane was succeeded by his grandson WiUiam, 



*'' Cal. Close, 1227-31, p. 602. 



^' Bh. of Fees, 940. 



'^ Feet of F. case 172, file 25, no. 294. 



'3 Ibid, case 173, file 32, no. 462} case 

 I73,file33, no. 493. 



'♦ Feud. Aids, iv, 6. 



^5 Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 219. 



"* F.C.H. Beds, iii, 433. 



^7 Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 375 Cal. Fine, 

 1,438. " Feud. Aids, iv, 26. 



*' Cal. Fine, vii, I 50. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. V, no. 78; 

 6 Hen. VI, no. 30. 



2' Ibid. 31 Hen. VI, no. 27. 



22 Feet of F. Northants. Hen. Ill, 

 no. 82812. -•> Ibid. no. 462. 



-* Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, no. 784. 



^5 Ibid, iv, no. 219. 



26 F.C.H.Rutland,\\, 1 60. 



" Cal. Close, 1369-74, p. 19. 



2® Cal. Inq. p.m. X, no. 20I. 



^■^ Chan. Inq. p.m. i Hen. IV, no. 41. 



3" Ibid. 8 Hen. IV, no. 48. 



3' Bridges, i, 367. 



3- Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 341. 



33 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxviii, 38. 



3* Did. Nat. Biog. 



3S Feet of F. Northants. East. 32 Hen, 

 VIII; Common Pleas R. 1 105, m. 107. 



3* M.I. in Horton church. 



3' Sir Ralph Lane died in 1540 : VCH. 

 Bucks, iii, 399; W. C. Metcalfe, p'isitation 

 of Northants. 185-6. 



38 Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 3 & 4 

 Ph. and M. 



3' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxiii, 209. 



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