WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



enfeoffed Robert (de Pavelv).' As PAVELY'S and 

 later TRESHAM'S MANOR these lands were held as 

 one knight's fee of the honor of Peverel, an overlord- 

 ship mentioned until i;47-" 



Robert de Pavcly, the Domesday tenant, gave to Len- 

 ton Priory at its foundation two-thirds of the tithes of 

 his demesnes here.' A later Robert died in 1 194, leav- 

 ing a son and daughters under age.* This son was pre- 

 sumably Geoffrey, who succeeded in 1198^ and was 

 tenant of this knight's fee in 1212.* The manor then 

 descended with the Pavelv manor of Paulerspury (q.v.) 

 until 1428,' when Sir Oliver St. John and Thomas 

 Mortimer held the Pavely lands in Paulerspury and 

 Great Houghton, Mortimer presumably having Great 

 Houghton, as St. John had Paulerspury. Moreover, in 

 141 3 Drew Barantyn, citizen and goldsmith of London, 

 and Margaret his wife made a fine of the manor with 

 Hugh Mortimer.* In 1436 Robert Andrews made a 

 fine of a manor of Great Houghton.' In 1448 

 Henry VI granted to his esquire 

 William Tresham the services of 

 certain tenants here.'" On the 

 attainder of SirThomasTresham 

 as a Lancastrian in 1460, this 

 manor was forfeit and granted 

 in 1462 with Rushton to John 

 Downe, ' ' and in 1 46 5 he was also 

 given the reversion of the site of 

 the manor, 5 virgates of land, and 

 20 acres of meadow, on the death 

 of Isabel wife of Sir William 

 Pecche, who held it in dower.' - 

 When Isabel Pecche died, however, it was granted in 

 1480 to her then husband Edward Brampton." John 

 son of Thomas Tresham recovered it shortly after the 

 accession of Henry VII,'* and alienated it with lands 

 in the towns of Northampton and .^bington, parcel of 

 the manor, to the yeoman family of Robins. William 

 Robins died seised leaving a son John,'^ who died seised 

 in I 541 of this manor, out of which he paid a rent to 

 Sir Thomas Tresham.'* The king granted the custody 

 of his son and heir George and the manor to Alexander 

 Belcher,in 1544." George Robins was sued by Thomas 

 Tresham of Rushton, who pleaded an entail that made 

 the grant to the Robins void.'' In i 572 George Robins 

 conveyed the manor to William Belcher;" but in 

 1584 Sir Thomas Tresham made a settlement.^" In 

 1 60 1 his son Francis (soon afterwards implicated in the 

 Gunpowder Plot) advised him to raise money from 

 the manor towards a heavy debt,-' and he seems to 



Tresham. Tarty saltire- 

 iviie sable and or ivith 

 six trefoils or. 



GREAT 

 HOUGHTON 



have done so in 1605.^^ James Smith, yeoman, died 

 seised of Tresham's Manor in 1635, leaving a son and 

 heir James.-' Edward brother of .Alexander Smith of 

 Great Houghton obtained the removal of a sequestra- 

 tion order on his royalist brother's estate in 1645.^* 

 William Ward of Little Houghton held Tresham's 

 Manor in 1696-' and in about 1720.^* William and 

 Thomas Ward conveyed it to Robert Meese in 1728.^'' 

 In 1788 John Blake and Elborough Woodcock con- 

 veyed one of the Great Houghton manors, not speci- 

 fied, to the Hon. Edward Bouverie and Edward 

 Bouverie jun.-* of Delaprc .^bbcy from whom it has 

 descended-' to Miss Mary Helen Bouverie, the present 

 owner. 



Robert de Pavely had amends of the assize of bread 

 and ale and view of frankpledge in 1 276." On the site 

 in 1 346 there were 2 dovecotes, a water-mill (called 

 Clak), a windmill (called Twygrist), a mill in Abington, 

 and a fishery in the Nene," and a court. '^ Abington 

 mill still belonged to the manor in i 526." Robert de 

 Pavely granted the tithe of Twygrist to St. James, 

 Northampton. ■>* 



In the Northamptonshire Survey Simon is entered 

 as holding i hide i virgate in Great Houghton." This 

 cannot be identified in the Domesday entries, but was 

 probably part of the Countess Judith's estates, as the 

 overlordship of the manor, which was later divided 

 into Green's and Houghton's manor, descended with 

 the honor of Huntingdon.'* 



Henry de Audley was mesne lord in 1241," and 

 James de Audley six years later.'* This mesne tenancy 

 is no more mentioned, though the occurrence of 

 Nicholas de Audley, parson of the church in 1265," 

 suggests a continuance of the family interest. 



WiUiam son of Simon, who was impleaded in 1200 

 by Elias son of Oger [de Lisurs] for J virgate in Hough- 

 ton,*" was probably son of the 1 2th-century tenant and 

 identical with WiUiam de Houghton, who married 

 Isabel the elder daughter of Robert Daubeney;*' he pre- 

 sented to the church in 1 230 and 1234,*- dying shortly 

 afterwards.*' His son William claimed the advowson 

 of the church and 2 carucates of land here in 1247.** 

 He took the name Daubeney and did homage in 1 263, 

 after his mother's death, for all the lands she held in 

 chief.*^ Two years later Henry de Hastings held the 

 manor as guardian of William's son and heir** Simon. 

 Simon Daubeney died in 1272 when his heirs were 

 Isabel or Elizabeth, Christine, and Joan, his sisters,*' 

 or daughters.** Isabel married Hugh de St. Croix, 

 tenant of this J knight's fee in 1284.*' Joan, wife of 



' y.C.H. Isorthants. i, 339a, and cf. 

 ibid. 375* and notr. 



2 Cal fat. Edw. VI, v, 314.. See Ct. 

 R. Ccn. Ser. portf. 195, no. 67. 

 ' Dugdale, Mon. v, 1 1 lA. 

 « Tipe R. 7 Ric. I (Pipe R. Soc.), 33; 

 8 Ric. I, 190. 



' Pipe R. 10 Ric. I, 107. 

 » Red Bk. ofExch. (RoUs Ser.), 585. 

 ' Bk. of Fees, 494, 944, 1 40 1 ; Feud. 

 Aids, \v, 6, l6, 43. 



• Feet of F. Northants. i Hen. V, 

 no. 2. 



' Ibid. 14 Hen. VI, no. 79. 

 '» Cal. Pat. 1445-52, p. 162. 

 " Ibid. 1461-7, p. III. 

 " Ibid. p. 431. 



" Ibid. 1476-85, pp. 194,416. 

 '♦ Chan. Pro<:.(Ser. 2),bdle. 175, no. II. 

 " Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. t), dcxc, 4; 

 Cal. Pat. Edtv. yi, V, 3 14. 



■* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixvi, 43; 

 ibid. Ixtv, 37. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, x\x (i), g. 1035 

 (35). " Chan. Proc. loc. cit. 



'• FeetofF. Northants. Hil. i4Elit. 



" Ibid. Hil. 26 Eliz. 



" Hist. MSB. Com. Rep. iii, 1 12. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 2 Jas. I. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxixviii, 

 142. ** Cal. Com. for Comp. 897. 



■" Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 8 

 Will. III. " Bridges, op. cit. 371. 



" FeetofF. Northants. Mich. 2 Geo.II. 



" Com. Pleas, D. Enr. Mich. 29 

 Ceo. Ill, m. 38; Recov. R. Mich. 29 

 Ceo. Ill, rot. 137. 



" Recov. R. Trin. 5 1 Ceo. Ill, rot. 279. 



>o Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 8. 



^* Cal. Inrj. p.m. viii, 666. Three of 

 the manors had a corridor to the Nene. 



>' Ibid.j ibid, ix, 219, p. 209. 



^^ Sec below. 



" Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 1S7. 



» V.C.H. Northants. i, 375A. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 6, 26, 42. 



" Cal. Close, 1237-42, p. 369. 



" Assize R. 614, m. 25. 



^' Hunter, Rot. Select. 145. 



<» Curia Regis R. i, 1 54. 



«■ r.C.H. Beds, ii, 321. 



*' Rot. Hug. de ff'elUt (Cant, i York 

 Soc.), 162, 178, 269. 



«J Exc. e Rot. Fin. 277 ; Cal. Close, 1234- 

 7, p. 91. *♦ Assize R. 614, m. 25. 



♦» Exc. e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 39OJ 

 Cal. Inf. p.m. i, 546. 



♦» Cal. Inj. Atlic. i, 256. 



*' Cal. Inij. p.m. ii, 1 1 j Fine R. i, lO, 

 20, 70. 



«' Cal. Close, 1272-^, p. 27; De Banco 

 R. 283, m. 81. 



*• Feud. Aids, iv, 6. 



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