FLITT HUNDRED 



HAYNES 



The lands and buildings were rented from the Ventris 

 family by Edmund Lord Bray, and it was stated in 1 5 6 1 

 that the lease had yet thirteen or fourteen years to 

 run."" It is stated that George Rotherham died seised 

 of the lands and chapel in 1594, and shortly before 

 his death he brought an action against Anne Roth- 

 erham, widow, and Isaac Rotherham, from whom he 

 claimed the lands and chapel by descent from his 

 grandfather, George Rotherham, to whom they were 

 granted in 1554.;'" none of the Rotherhams, how- 

 ever, had any claim to the lands and chapel, as they 

 were alienated by the grantee George Rotherham to 

 John Ventris, in whose family they continued for 

 many years. 



Henry Ventris died in 1564, and left as his heir 

 a son Francis, then only a year old. He afterwards 

 became Sir Francis Ventris,"" and in 1623 conveyed 

 the chapel and lands, by the title of the manor, to 

 Robert Morgan of London, for the purpose of a settle- 

 ment on his second son Charles.'™ However, on the 

 death of Sir Francis in 1 627, his eldest son Francis 

 entered into the premises,'"' and on his death without 

 issue in 163 1 his brother Charles inherited the 

 manor."" Some time between 1657 and 1666, the 

 manor was alienated to the Luke family, who had 

 acquired Haynes manor in 1622.'°" 



The manor passed from the family of Luke to the 

 Lords Carteret, its descent being identical with that 

 of Haynes manor from the date of the transfer to 

 the Lukes. The last mention of it occurs in 1795, 

 when Henry Frederick, Lord Carteret, owned it,"" 

 the absence of all later mention of it doubtless in- 

 dicates that it was absorbed in Haynes manor ; the 

 name however survives in a wood known as St. Ma- 

 cute's Wood. 



The church of OUR LADT was 

 CHURCH practically rebuilt except the tower in 

 1850, and has a chancel 35 ft. 6 in. by 

 1 5 ft. 6 in. with vestry and north chapel, nave 

 60ft. by 20ft. Sin. with north and south aisles 

 7ft. Sin. wide, south porch, and west tower 10 ft. 

 square within the walls. The oldest masonry de- 

 tails are those of the south arcade of the nave, which 

 is good work of the early part of the fourteenth 

 century, with tall pointed arches of two chamfered 

 orders in the labels, piers of four engaged half-round 

 shafts, and moulded capitals and bases of excellent 

 detail. 



The chancel and tower arches are both of fifteenth- 

 century date, their detail being similar. The chancel 

 contains no ancient features, having a modern east 

 window of three lights, two two-light windows on 

 the south, a north window to the east of the vestry 

 door, and an arcade of two bays opening to the north 

 chapel which contains an elaborate monument of 

 Anne Constantia (Beresford) wife of Lord John 

 Thynne. On the south side of the chancel are 

 modern sedilia and a recess for the organ. East of 

 the vestry doorway is a small segmental-headed recess 

 retaining a little ancient stonework. 



The nave arcades are of four bays, that on the 

 north being a modern copy of the south arcade. All 

 the nave windows and the south doorway with its porch 

 are modern. The western tower, which is roughly 

 plastered on the outside, has an embattled parapet, 

 plain two-light belfry windows, and a much-restored 

 west window of two lights on the ground story. It 

 has a stair at the south-east angle, and opens to the 

 church by a pointed arch of two moulded orders with 

 a hollow between, the jambs having in place of the 

 hollow a rounded member which is continued ver- 

 tically above the capital and dies out in the hollow, a 

 curious and illogical detail characteristic of fifteenth- 

 century work in the district. This detail occurs 

 also in the chancel arch. The roofs are entirely 

 modern, that of the nave having at the plate-level 

 figures of angels bearing emblems of the passion. 

 The font is octagonal with plain fifteenth-century 

 detail. At the east end of the south aisle is the 

 Carteret chapel and vault, inclosed with a wrought- 

 iron screen. On the north wall of the chancel 

 is the brass of Anthony Newdigate, 1568, with 

 a figure kneeling at a desk, and a shield of arms 

 above. 



There are four bells, the treble by John Knight 

 1627, the second by Christopher Graye 1662, the 

 third is a fourteenth-century bell with a reversed 

 inscription in Gothic capitals reading ' Matris Messie 

 pie sum campana Marie,' and the tenor of 1658 

 bears three sets of initials ' C. G.,' ' T. T.,' and 

 'W. W.' reversed. The plate consists of a silver 

 chalice and paten of 1S49, given by Lord John 

 Thynne. 



The registers are contained in four books begin- 

 ning respectively in 1596, 1654, 1664 and 1754. 



The church of Haynes is first 

 ADVOWSON mentioned in 1150, when it was 

 given by Pain and Rose de Beau- 

 champ to the priory of Chicksands on the occasion of 

 the foundation of the latter.'"' The gift was con- 

 firmed by William, their grandson, in the thirteenth 

 century,"" and the church remained the property of 

 the priory until the Dissolution. The vicarage was 

 constituted before 1235 and appropriated to Chicksands 

 Priory ; it was then worth 4 marks, and the whole 

 church 12 marks {£i) ; the prior had to provide a 

 toft for the vicar, and to sustain all the charges of the 

 church, while the vicar had to pay the prior 1 5;."° 

 About 1291 the church was worth £6 ly. i^d. 

 apart from the pension of the prior, which was 

 j£i 6s. %d., while the 15/. from the vicarage was 

 still paid.'" The total value of the church in 1535 

 was again _£8, so that the value remained the same 

 during the whole period of 300 years.'" After the 

 dissolution of Chicksands Priory the advowson, with 

 the rectorial tithes, was granted by the king to Wil- 

 liam Ardern, who had apparently had the lease of 

 them in 1 535, for in that year he interfered on behalf 

 of Mr. Franklin, the parson of Haynes, who was 

 cited by the bishop of Lincoln before his chancellor. 



loP Exch. Dcp. Beds. 3 Eliz. E. 5. 



101 Chan. Proc. Eliz. R. rot. 8, No, 

 56. 



i»3 Chan. Inij. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 142, 

 No. 106, 



10s Feet of F. Beds. Trin. 21 Jas. 

 I. 



i»< Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 451, 

 No. 96. 



"» Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 464, No. 107. 



"« Recov. R. Hil. iSChas. II, rot. 16. 

 In 1633 Chas. Ventris and Mary his wife 

 conveyed the manor to Sir Samuel Luke 

 to hold for eighty-eight years eleven 

 months three weeks for peppercorn rent 

 (Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 9 Chas. I), but 

 the complete transfer must have taken 

 place later, as John the son of Charles 



343 



Ventris was holding the manor in 1657 

 (Feet of F. Beds. East. 1657). 



">' Recov. R. Mich. 36 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 145. 



"3 Harl. Chart. 45, 1, 7. 



MS Ibid. 45, I, 18. 



^'" hiher Antiquum 20. 



"1 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 35. 



"2 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 212. 



