A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Hugh de Lacy in 1272, had married Roger Dakeney 

 by 1286, when Christine, then wife of Peter de la Stane, 

 Hugh de St. Croix and Isabel granted him ^ virgate 

 here, one-third of the advowson and one-third of the 

 tenements that Robert de Noers had held.' His grand- 

 son Roger apparently enfeoffed Richard de Houghton 

 of his share, ^ which descended as Houghton's Manor.^ 



GREEN'S alias FAUX and MORD AUNT'S 

 MANOR. Christine had children by Peter de la 

 Stane; but in 131 2 she had the manor (these thirds 

 appear later as maneretta) settled on herself and her 

 then husband John de Gaddesden'* for life with re- 

 mainder to Edith their daughter. ^ John de Gaddesden, 

 returned as lord of the whole in 1316^ and 1325,' 

 died seised in 1338-9. Edith had died childless and 

 Christine had been dead 20 years. Her lawful children 

 (by Peter de la Stane) were Elizabeth, Margery, and 

 Christine, and the heirs in 1 3 3 8-g were Sir Thomas de 

 Norton, son of Elizabeth, Brian SaiTrey or Savory, son 

 of Margery, and John Biddick* son of Christine, who 

 had married Anthony Biddick and died in 1326.' 



Brian Saffreydid homage for his pourparty in 1339,'" 

 i.e. \ oi\ of this \ knight's fee or \ of the manerettum, 

 of little value, owing to floods and the Black Death, 

 when he died in 1 349 leaving a daughter Alice aged 

 2." Alice died next year, her uncle and heirThomas'- 

 in 1 361, and his sister and heir Joan SafFrey then had 

 livery of ^^4 rent here and the ninth turn to present to 

 the church.'^ This may be the share conveyed by John 

 son of Richard to Henry Green (of Drayton) two years 

 later."* 



John Biddick leased his 'third' (i.e. 9th) to Thomas 

 de Stretton, and in 1344-5 con- 

 veyed the reversion to Henry 

 Green, reserving | of the advow- 

 son. '^ Shortly afterwards John 

 Bifle died seised of tenements;'* 

 and Thomas Bifle died seised of 

 if virgates as ggofa knight's fee in 

 1360, when John de Stretton was 

 his kinsman and heir." Whether 



this property had any connexion 



with Henry Green's share is not Green, of Drayton 



1 c '-T'l 1 -KT T 1 Arpent a cross enpratted 



clear. Sir Ihomasde Norton died ^ i^^ * 



seised of | of the manor in 1347 

 leaving a son and heir Ralph aged 11,'* and the king pre- 

 sented to the church in 1349 as his guardian." Ralph 

 entailed his 'third' in 1359,-° b"' leased it for life to 



Peter Neubolde, clerk, and in 1 367 alienated the rever- 

 sion of it (i carucate, 2 virgates of land, two parts of the 

 advowson, and other tenements) to Sir Henry Green-' of 

 Drayton, who died in 1 369. He settled his ninth of the 

 manor on his younger son Henry ;-^ but it reverted to the 

 elder son Thomas, whose son and heir Thomas had livery 

 in 1 391 of J and g of the manor and the advowson.^^ 

 This estate now descended as a 'manor' or 'third' or 

 tenements, together with part of the advowson, with the 

 Greens' manor of Lowick (q.v.) until the i6th century, 

 when it was again divided among many heirs. Like 

 Lowick it came to the Huddlestons, Mordaunts, and 

 Browns,^"* and like Irtlingborough (q.v.) the Huddles- 

 ton share descended to the Vaux family. Thomas,-' 

 ist Lord Vaux of Harrowden, made a settlement of 

 both manor and advowson in 1530.^* The Vaux family 

 continued in possession of this part until 161 2,^^ when 

 for assurance of title Edward Vaux, Lord Harrowden, 

 obtained a Crown grant;''* but by 1614 the manor of 

 Vaux had become absorbed into Tresham's Manor. ^' 



In the preceding century George Browne settled 

 various estates on his wife Elizabeth including one third 

 of this manor, and about 1558 she, as widow of Sir 

 Henry Hublethorne, with her son-in-law William Price, 

 brought a suit against her stepson Wistan Browne.^" 

 The Prices and their kinsfolk, the Flamesteds and 

 Lawes," were subsequently concerned with both manor 

 and advowson; ■'■'and in 1590 John Flamstede conveyed 

 two thirds of the manor to Lord Mordaunt,'^ with 

 various remainders. In 1 601 Sir Thomas Tresham 

 and his sons conveyed this to Daniel Ward^* of Little 

 Houghton, who joined in a settlement of the manors 

 of Mordaunt and Parke in 161 2, ^^ but in 1623 con- 

 veyed Mordaunt's Manor to Henry, Lord Danvers 

 of Dauntsey.3* 



The Irish family of Scudamore seem to have been 

 connected with this county through the marriage of 

 James Scudamore (ob. 1619) with Anne Throckmor- 

 ton.^'andin 1656a James Scudamore conveyed '5 of the 

 manor of Houghton Magna, a/ias Mordaunt's manor', 

 to John Thornicroft and John Cartwright,^* to whom 

 Katharine Gargrave widow (daughter of John Danvers, 

 created a baronet 1 66 1 ^') made the same grant in 1 660.*'' 

 Her daughter and co-heir Elizabeth with her husband 

 Sir Thomas Derham, bart., Sir Edward Baynton, John 

 Osborne and Eleanor his wife, both of them Danvers 

 descendants,'" Richard Walmesley, and Thomas Colt 

 made a settlement of the manor in 1 664,''- as did Richard 



' Harl. Chart. 56 E 9. 



2 De Banco East. 22 Ric. II, m. 208 d. 

 The suit, by which Richard de Houghton 

 recovered against Thomas Green the next 

 presentation to the living, was probably 

 fictitious, as the pedigree produced in 

 support certainly was. 



3 See below. 



* In 1318, on Christine's death, it was 

 found that John de Gaddesden had never 

 married her and that Edith their daughter 

 was illegitimate: Cal. In^. p.m. vi, 163. 



5 Feet of F. Northants. 5 Edw. II, 

 no. 108. 



^ Feud. Aids., iv, 26. 



' Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, 612, p. 391. 



* Ibid, viii, 192; F.C.H. Beds, ii, 321. 

 » Ibid. 



'" Ahhrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 130. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. ix, 282. 



'2 Ibid. 574. 



" Ibid, xi, 200; Ahbrev. Rot. Orig. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 269. 



'♦ Feet of F. Northants. case 178, file 

 82, no. 54.1. 



'5 Feet of F. Northants. case 1 77, file 77, 

 no. 2 85. The Chetwynds (of Stretton, Staf- 

 fordshire) had land here in 1 340 : Cal. Close, 



'339-4'. P-+4I- 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. ix, 266. 



" Ibid. X, 556. >8 Ibid, viii, 638. 



'» Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 362. 



20 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 33 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 50; ibid. East. 33 Edw. Ill, no. 53. 



^i Ibid. Northants. Mich. 41 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 590. 



22 Cal. Close, 1369-74, p. 48. 



" Ibid. 1389-92, p. 392; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 15 Ric. II, pt. I, no. 24. 



« Cal. Close Hen. V, i, 496; Feet of 

 F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Hen. VIII; ibid. 

 Northants. Hil. and Mich. 27 Hen. VIII, 

 Hil. 31 Hen. VIII, Mich, i & 2 Eliz. 



^s Chan. Inq. p.m (Ser. 2), xli, 60. 



26 Recov. R. Trin. 22 Hen. VIII, rot. 

 419. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Mich, i & 2 



Eliz.; ibid. East. 4 Eliz.; ibid. Div. Co, 

 Trin. 27 Eliz. 



28 Pat. R. lojas. I,pt. 15. Cf. Irthling- 

 borough. 



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



3» Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 82, no. 15. 

 Cf. V.C.H. Bucks, iv, 490. 



3' See Oundle: V.C.H. Northants. iii, 

 94. 



32 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 2 & 3 Ph. 

 and M.; Trin. 27 Eliz.; ibid. Northants. 

 Mich. 18 & 19 Eliz. 



33 Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 32 Eliz. 



34 Ibid. Trin. 43 Eliz. 



35 Ibid. Trin. 10 Jas. I. 

 3<' Ibid. Mich. 21 Jas. I. 



3' G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, i, 1 46. 

 38 Feet of F. Northants. East. 1656. 

 3» G.E.C. op. cit. iii, 206. 

 *° Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 12 Chas. 

 II. 

 ■" G.E.C. op. cit. iii, 243. 

 12 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 1 6 Chas. II. 



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