WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



QUINTON 



his allegiance the next year, however, his lands being 

 restored to him.' His son Gilbert de Preston held 

 2 fees in Quinton and elsewhere of the honor of 

 Huntingdon.- This appears as one knight's fee in 

 Quinton held by Laurence de Preston in 1284' of 

 John de Hastings, who had also 2 carucates in Quin- 

 ton held by Edmund de Stoginges and of him by 

 Humphrey de Hayttinge.* As Quinton in this re- 

 turn is miswritten 'Suenton' it is possible that 'Hayt- 

 tinge' is a blunder for Hastang and that Humphrey 

 was the father of Philip de Hastang' who held ot John 

 de Hastings a messuage and 1 50 acres in Quinton, 

 which is described in i 3 16 as a manor,* in free socage 

 by ser\'ice of a ^J. rent yearly. On Philip's death in 

 1 3 17 his wife .■Mice inherited the land for her life, with 

 remainder to her daughter Beatrice who came of age 

 in 1 3 29.' She married Thomas son of John de Longue- 

 ville and in 1 349 George Longueville, whose wife was 

 daughter of Sir Laurence de Preston, and Thomas 

 Preston held land in Quinton of the Earl of Pembroke.' 

 Thomas Preston, son of Laurence, was still in posses- 

 sion ofthelandin Quinton in 1 376,' but by 1428 it had 

 passed to John Longueville and Walter Bald.'" These 

 estates came into the possession of John Dyve, who had 

 married Elizabeth sister and heir of John Longue- 

 ville," and who levied a fine on BALD'S MJNOR in 

 Quinton in 1464.'^ 



The Philip who occurs in the Northamptonshire 

 Survey was probably father of John son ot Philip de 

 Quenton who in 1199 e.xchanged with Walter de 

 Quenton land in Cotes for other land in Quinton. '^ 

 Walter de Quenton died seised of the vill, held of 

 Walter de Preston, in 1 2 16. The wardship of his heir 

 Philip was assigned to Philip de St. Helen to whom the 

 king had granted all the lands forfeited by Walter de 

 Preston on his rebellion.'* The family of Quenton 

 continued to hold land in the parish of the Preston 

 family, Philip de Quenton holding a knight's fee there 

 in 1284 of John Kauveyl who held of Laurence de 

 Preston. '5 Philip de Quenton, probably his son, was 

 one of the two chief tenants in Quinton in 1 316,'* and 

 a Sir William conveyed the reversion of the manor, 

 after his death and that of his wife Isabel, to Edmund 

 fitz John and Richard de Leicester in 1369." He died 

 in 1375, his wife surviving him,'* but on her death the 

 manor passed to Sir William's heir Laurence Dyve, the 

 son of his sister Margaret, " in spite of the fine of i 369. 

 His grandson John Dyve married Elizabeth daughter 

 of Sir George Longueville^" and had also possession 

 of Bald's Manor in 1464, and for the next two hun- 

 dred years the Dyves were the chief landowners in 

 Quinton. 



Sir John Dyve the grandson of John died in Septem- 

 ber 1536 having settled the manor of Quinton on his 

 younger son John in tail male.^' He died without heirs 

 on 4 October 1 545 and Quinton passed to Lewis Dj^ve 



Dyve. Gules a /esse 



dancetty or betvjeen three 



scallops ermine. 



the son and heir of his elder brother William who had 

 predeceased him.-- Sir Lewis died in 1592 having 

 settled Quinton on his son John soon after his marriage 

 with Douglas daughter of Sir Anthony Denny. -^ John 

 Dp'e was about 50 years old in 

 1592 and died in December 1 607 

 holding the manor of W^illiam, 

 LordCompton.asof his manor of /\^A. A "A 

 Vardley Hastings in free socage. ^■^ / \/ \/ \/ \ 

 His son and heir Lewis, who was a a a a >• 

 a minor at the time of his father's 

 death, sold the manor to William 

 Lane in 1641.-* On his death in 

 1649 the manor was sold in ac- 

 cordance with the provisions of 

 his will, being purchased by 

 John Langham of London, mer- 

 chant.-* From the Langham family it passed to George, 

 Ear! of Halifax, the owner in 1721.-'' It remained with 

 the Montagues until about 1787,^' but by the early 

 years of the 19th century it had come into the posses- 

 sion of Robert Henry Gunning,^' and has been held 

 since by that family. Sir Charles Vere Gunning, bart., 

 being the present lord of the manor. 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCH fiy/ZT/iSr consists of chancel, 19 ft. 9 in. 

 by 15 ft. 3 in.; clerestoried nave, 32 ft. 

 4 in. by 13 ft. 6 in.; south aisle, 8 ft. 3 in. wide; south 

 porch, and west tower, 11 ft. by 10 ft. 8 in., all these 

 measurements being internal. The width across nave 

 and aisle is 24 ft. There was formerly a transeptal 

 chapel on the north side, the roof-line of which remains 

 at the east end of the nave wall outside.^" 



The greater part of the church as it now exists be- 

 longs to the 13th century, but it has developed from a 

 Iate-I2th<entury building which had an aisleless nave 

 the same size as the present, and of this earlier structure 

 the south-west angle and the west window, now open- 

 ing into the lower stage of the tower, still remain ; this 

 window is a tall lancet, the wide internal splav of which 

 is taken round the head in semicircular form. Some time 

 in the 1 3th century a south aisle and tower were added 

 and the chancel probably rebuilt, and in the 15th cen- 

 tury the tower was heightened by the addition of a new 

 bell-chamber stage, the clerestory erected, and new 

 windows inserted in the aisle. In the i8th century the 

 chancel and porch were remodelled in their present 

 form. 



The roofs of the chancel and nave are slated, the 

 aisle leaded, and there are straight parapets throughout. 

 The walls of the chancel and of the lower part of the 

 tower are plastered internally, but elsewhere the plaster 

 has been removed. There are Hat plaster ceilings to the 

 chancel and nave. The aisle roof is open. 



The western part of the chancel to a distance of 

 7 ft. 6 in. apparently retains its original walling, but 



' Rcl. Lit. Claus. (Rcc. Com.), i, 297. 

 ' Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, 69. 

 ' Feud, jiiji, iv, 7. * Ibid. 



' Philip was ton of Humphrey dc 

 Hastang and Cicely: Cut. Pal. 130 1-7, 



' Cal. Inq. p.m. V, 6oz. 



' Ibid, vi, 96; vii, 251. She was born 

 at Quinton in her father's manor in a 

 chamber at the upper end of the hall to- 

 wards the west. 



* Ibid. i<, 118, p. 122. 



' Cal. Close, 1374-7, p. 189. 

 "> Feud. Aids, iv, 42. 



" Baker, Hist, of Norihanis. i, 83. 



" Feet of F. N'orthants. 4 Edw. IV, file 

 96, no. 7. 



" Pipe R. Soc. xxiv, no. 247. 



'* Roi. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 258. 



'* Feud. Aids, iv, 7. No other reference 

 to a Favel mesne lordship is known. 



■" Ibid. 27. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 42 Edw. Ill, file 

 84, no. 608. 



'» Chan. Inq. p.m. 48 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.). 54. 



'• Baker, llist. nf Kortkants. i, 82. 



" Ibid. 



283 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), lix, 22. 



" Ibid. Ixxv, 39. 



" Ibid, ccxxxvii, 120. 



'* Ibid, cccix, 171. 



2» Rccov. R. East. 17 Chas. I, ro. 2. 



" Ibid. Hil. 1649, ro. 24; Bridges, Hist. 

 IS'orlhanIS, i, 384. 



^' Bridges, loc. cit. 



" Recov. R. East. 29 Geo. Ill, ro. 172. 



" Ibid. Hil. 59 Geo. Ill, ro. 29. 



'° It was standing in Bridges' time. He 

 describes it as 'a cross-ile or chantry 

 chapel tiled, in the north side': Hist, of 

 Northants. i, 384. 



