WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



its foundation in the gift of demesne by Earl Simon I 

 and his wife Maud;' later 2 virgatcs here were given 

 to them by David de Quenton.^ In 1 284 the Hastings 

 fee in Hackleton comprised 4 carucates, 2 held by 

 Geoffrey de Sandiaker of the Prior of St. .Andrew's and 



2 by Henry de Hackleton of Edmund de Stokynges.^ 

 The holding of the Bishop of Coutances appears in 



the 12th-century survey as 8 small virgates of Walter 

 fitz Winemar and J hide of William de Lisurs of the 

 fee of Olney.'* In 1274 Sarah de Scrimplingford held 



3 virgates here of Gilbert de Preston with her 4J vir- 

 gates in Horton.^ Ten years later these fees, belonging 

 to the Countess of Arundel as of the honor of Chester, 

 were held respectively as 6 virgates held by Henry de 

 Alcot and Adam de Strempling, tenants of Laurence 

 de Preston, and 5 virgates by Thomas de Lisurs tenant 

 of Humfrey de Bassingburne.* From this date the part 

 held by the family of Preston appears to have become 

 merged with their other lands of the Huntingdon honor. 

 On the death of Ralph Basset of Drayton, in i 343, his 

 tenant in Hackleton was Thomas de Lisurs.'' 



It is impossible to trace clearly the separate descents 

 of land in Piddington and Hackleton from the 14th 

 century. In 1 3 1 3 John de Hastings died seised of a 

 knight's fee in these two places held by Gilbert de 

 Ekwell and Richard de Lutterington.' Gilbert de 

 Ekwell surrendered to the Prior of St. Andrew's his 

 manor of Hackleton which he held by grant from Maud, 

 widow of Robert de Ver, for term of the life of Maud.' 

 This must be the manor surrendered to the king as ' the 

 manor of Hackleton' by the prior in 1538.'° 



In 1 349 the tenants of the Hastings fee were 

 Richard de Caysho, presumably holding for a term of 

 years from St. Andrew's, and Hugh de Lutterington." 

 Hugh settled his property on himself, his wife Joan 

 and their son Richard;'- on the deaths of Joan and 

 Richard, it was settled on Richard, brother of Hugh,'^ 

 but he also appears to have predeceased Hugh, who 

 died of the pestilence in 1 349 leaving a daughter 

 Katharine, aged 3.''' In 1351 the escheator was ordered 

 to answer for the issues of the manor of Hackleton late 

 of Hugh de Lutterington, held of Vardley Hastings, 

 because the Hastings heir was a minor. '^ This manor, 

 in an inquisition of 1 360, is merely described as a 

 messuage, l carucate and 8 half virgates in the hands 

 of customers, and 10/. rent, in Hackleton, Piddington, 

 and Horton, to which the heir was Katharine daughter 

 of Hugh de Lutterington, aged 15.'* Possibly she 

 married Andrew Brown of Clapthorn, for in 1375 with 

 his wife Katharine he conveyed his right in the manors 



' Dugd»lc.A/M. V, 190. Qi.Cal.Cliarl. 



' 3-7-4'. P- i'9- 



' tott. MS. Vcsp. E. ivii, fol. 71. Other 

 grants comprised \ virgatc from Alan de 

 Alccote son of Helyas de Cogcnhoe, 1 acre 

 from Hugh son of John de Hackleton: 

 ibid. fols. 70i, 71 A. 



' Ftud. AiJi, iv, 7. 



* y.C.H. Northanii. i, 376.1. 



* Cal. In(j. p.m. ii, 69, p. 49. 

 ' Ftud. Aids, iv, 6. Humphrey had 



inherited ] virgates in Hackleton from his 

 father in 1280: Cal. Intj. p.m. ii, 350. 

 For the connexion between the families of 

 Lisours and Basfingbourne see Abington, 

 above, p. 66. 



' Cal. In(j. f.m. viii, 473. 



• Ibid. V, 412, p. 235. 



• MS. tott. Vcsp. E. xvii fol. 72. 

 Farrer, ii, 4 1 4, calls her the wife of Gilbert. 

 This not shown in Cott. Vesp. For other 

 grants to the priory of St. Andrew in Pid- 



Stafford. Oracke-v- 

 eron gules. 



dington see Vesp. E. xvii, fols. 73 h-'j^b. 



'» i. and P. Hen. yill, xiii (i), 404; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit. 29 Hen. VIII. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. ix, 118. 



" Ibid. no. 563. " Ibid. no. 301. 



" Ibid. I, 553. 



" Cal. Fine R. 1347-56, p. 295. 



" Cal. Intj. p.m. x, 553. 



" Feet of F. case 178, file 85, no. 687. 

 The clause of warranty includes the heirs 

 of Katharine. 



'» Cal. Close, 1374-7, p. 228. 



" His descent from Ralph de Clendon 

 is given in Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Ric. II, 

 no. 9. 



'" Cal. of And. Deeds, v, A. 1298. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, no. 27; 

 ibid. 18 Ric. II, no. 43; ibid. 22 Ric. II, 

 no. 46; 4 Men. IV, no. 41. 



^' Common Pleas R. 521, m. 441. 



" G.E.C., Peerage. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Hen. VI, no. 59; 



PIDDINGTON 

 WITH HACKLETON 



of Hackleton and Thorp Lubenham to John Parker of 

 Olney and others." .At the same time John Vincent 

 of Rothwell quitclaimed these manors to the same 

 trustees.'' In 1405 a dispute between a John Vincent 

 of Rothwell and Thomas Xewbottle" as to the lands 

 late of Hugh de Lutterington in the count}' was settled ; 

 Vincent was enfeoffed for life with remainder in tail 

 to his daughter Lavinia, subject to a rent-charge of 14 

 marks to Newbottle and his heirs and on condition 

 that Newbottle be allowed to sue for voidance of the 

 fine of 1376.'° The estate probably included at 

 least part of the Lisours lands, as from 1 390 the 

 Earls of Stafford, as heirs of the 

 Bassets of Drayton, were said to 

 hold the reversion of certain 

 messuages and land in Horton, 

 Hackleton, and Piddington after 

 the death of John Vincent.-' 

 The manors of Hackleton and 

 Thorp Lubenham were named 

 among the Basset lands in a 

 case concerning the deeds of 

 his propert)'.^- Earl Humph- 

 rey, who was created Duke of 

 Buckingham in 1444 and was killed at the battle 

 of Northampton in 1460,--' settled the manor upon 

 his son John, afterwards Earl of Wiltshire, and his 

 wife Constance, daughter of Sir Henry Green of 

 Drayton. -■♦ On the death of their son Edward, Earl of 

 Wiltshire, without issue, in 1499,-5 the manor reverted 

 to Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, great- 

 grandson of Humphrey, but was forfeited to the Crown 

 on hisattainderand execution for high treason in 1521.^' 

 In the inquisition after his death-' and the grant, a year 

 later, to Roger Ratcliffe for life, it is styled 'the manor 

 of Hackleton and Piddington', worth 100/. 4//'. yearly.^* 

 The death of Roger Ratcliffe in 1537^' resulted in a 

 new grant to Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Keeper of the 

 Privy Seal,3°whose heir retained his property in spite of 

 his attainder and execution in 1540.^' From his son 

 Gregory who married Elizabeth, sister of Jane Sey- 

 mour, the manor descended in 1 55 1 to their son 

 Henry,^- who married Mary daughter of John, Mar- 

 quess ot Winchester, and from whom it passed in I 575 

 to Maurice Osborne and his son .'\nthony.3J The latter 

 died seised of it in 1605, having added to his estate 

 by purchase of property late of Thomas Chipsey and 

 Robert Hartwell.^* He was succeeded in turn by 

 Maurice, who died in 1630,'" and Edward,^* his sons 

 by his second wife Anne daughter of Thomas Catesby, 



ibid. 13 Edw. IV, no. 13 ; ibid. 15 Edw. 

 IV, no. 44. 



'5 Cat. Inq. p.m. Hen. Vll, ii, no. 796. 



" G.E.C.; Diet. Sat. Bwg. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sir. 2), Ixxx, 177. 



^» L. and P. Hen. nil, iii (l), g. 2356 

 (16). 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 67. 



w L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (i), g. 1519 

 (i)i g- 967 (54)- " Diet. Aai. Biog. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xciv, 35. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 17 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. East. 17 Eliz. m. 523; ibid. Hil. 

 41 Eliz. m. 30. They acquired view of 

 frankpledge in 1582: Feet of F. Northants. 

 Trin. 24 Eliz. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxviii, 

 128. 



^' Ibid, cccclviii, 100. 



"> He was succeeded by his son John in 

 1645: Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dcclxxvi, 

 88, for Kent. 



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