FLITT HUNDRED 



BARTON 



The manor, which belonged to the abbey of 

 Ramsey at the time of the great Survey, had been in 

 the possession of the abbots for some time previous to 

 that date. It was given to the abbey in 1044 by 

 Eadnoth, bishop of Dorchester ; '" and the grant was 

 confirmed by Edward the Confessor in 1066," by 

 William the Conqueror in 1078," and by Edward III 

 in 1334." The manor was of considerable extent at 

 the time of the Domesday Survey for it was assessed 

 at 1 1 hides and was worth £ I o ; the abbot claimed 

 1 2 acres more, held at that time by Nigel de Albini 

 and Walter the Fleming, of which the abbot had 

 been unjustly dispossessed by John des Roches." The 

 annual value of the manor, which was again con- 

 firmed to the abbey of Ramsey in 1 178 by the Pope 

 Alexander III," was ^^26 at the beginning of the 

 thirteenth century." The abbey, in 1 201, received 

 a grant of free warren in its demesne lands of Barton," 

 and was called upon to account for the exercise of 

 this right in 1286 and also in 1330'* and each time 

 justified its claim by the production of the charter of 

 Henry III. The value of the manor varied but little 

 during the thirteenth century as towards the close it 

 was worth [^%6 %s. \\d}^ In 1336 it was leased 

 out at a yearly rent of £s°'° and at the time of the 

 Dissolution the rents and farms within it amounted 



to £60 6s. 6d.^^ The manor was enlarged by several 

 grants and purchases ; in the middle of the thirteenth 

 century Abbot Hugh of Sulgrave granted to it, for the 

 upkeep of the shrine of St.Ives, the whole tenement pur- 

 chased from Robert Peveril " and about the same date 

 John de Baxter released to the 

 abbey fields in Barton called 

 Bakeworthe and le Hacche.*' 

 In 1278 8§ acres of land were 

 purchased by the abbey from 

 Walter de la Haye and his wife 

 Matilda " and the same amount 

 was bought the next year from 

 Richard de Caddington and 

 his wife Sibyl."' The latter 

 also granted to the abbey one- 

 third of a messuage and a croft 

 in Barton *' and 3 messuages ; 

 50 acres of land were given to 

 the abbey by Thomas Turford, 



a mason, in 1 3 54." In 1 301 permission was obtained 

 to let the manor for ten years, for the discharge of the 

 abbey's debts ^* and in 1336 it was leased out to Sir 

 William de Hale, Robert de Caddington and Master 

 Robert de Bergh, rector of Houghton.*' The abbey 

 continued to hold the manor until the dissolution of 



Ramsey Abbey. Or 

 a bend assure 'with three 

 rams' heads argent cut off 

 at the neck thereon ha-ving 

 their horns or. 





Barton in the Clay: The Rectory 



10 Chron. Mon. Ramesei. (Rolls Ser.), 159. 

 " Chartul. Mon. Ramesei. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 74 ; Kemble. Codex Dipl. iv, 141. 



^^ Chartul. Mon. Ramesei. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 



9;. 



" Chart. R. of Edw. Ill, No. 29. 



" y.C.H. Beds, i, 228. 



15 Chartul. Mon. Ramesei. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 136. 



18 Ibid, iii, 169. 



17 Chart. R. 35 Hen. Ill, m. 3. 



18 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 10, 

 65. 



19 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.) 49. 

 ™ Anct. Deeds. A. 139. 



fl Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) iv, 272-3. 

 ^ Chartul. Mon. Ramesei. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 228. 



" Anct. Deeds. A. 1375. 

 i^Add. Chart. 33,047; Feet of F, 

 Beds. 6 Edw. I, No. 3. 



!» Ibid. Beds. 7 Edw. I, No. i. 



™ Anct. Deeds, A. 5494. 



W Cal. Inq. a.q.d. (Rec. Com.), 326. 



28 Pat. 29 Edw. I, m. 26. 



2' Anct. Deeds. A. 139. 



