ODSEY HUNDRED 



into the possession of John Goodman (whose family 

 had held land in Rushden for some time previously), 42 

 who with John Goodman, junior, and Grace his wife 

 then conveyed it to Sir William Smyth. 43 



From Goodman the manor seems to have passed 

 to Sir Thomas Stanley, kt., of Leytonstone (co. 

 Essex)." His wife was Mary Hammond, sister to 

 William Hammond and cousin to Richard Lovelace 

 the poet. Stanley held in 1648, when he settled 

 the manor on his son Thomas Stanley, 45 who is 

 known as a poet and as the author of the Lives of 

 the Philosophers, 46 on the occasion of his marriage 

 with Dorothy daughter of Sir James Enyon, bart., 

 of Floore (co. Northants). 47 Thomas Stanley died 

 in l678, 47a and his widow Dorothy Stanley and 

 his son Thomas sold the manor the following year to 

 Joseph Edmonds 48 of Cumberlow Green, son of 

 Simon Edmonds, alderman of London. 49 On the 

 death of Joseph Edmonds Rushden descended to his 

 daughter and heiress Anne, who married Sir Cleave 

 More, bart., in or before 1689.*° She died in 1720, 61 

 and Rushden was inherited by her son Sir Joseph 

 Edmonds More, 5 - who continued to hold it with his 

 wife until 1729, when it was bought by John 

 Spence i3 in trust with other lands under the terms 

 of the will of Luke Hodges, merchant of London, 

 who had married John's daughter Mary Spence in 

 1692. 54 This was proved in 1 7 1 5 by his widow, 55 

 who subsequently married Benjamin Avery, LL.D. 50 

 On her death in 1737 57 these lands passed by settle- 

 ment to the sons of Dorothy Mole, cousin of Luke 

 Hodges. The two eldest sons must have died without 

 children, for in 1779 Rushden had descended to 

 Christopher Hodges, formerly Mole, late of the Inner 

 Temple, only son and heir of Christopher Mole, late 

 of the East India Home, deceased, 58 third son of 

 Dorothy Mole. 63 In this year Christopher Hodges 

 sold it to Adolphus Meetkcrke the younger of 

 Julians. 00 He died in 178+, 61 and his son Adolphus 

 Meetkerke died in 1841. 69 He was succeeded by a 

 son of the same name, who on his death in 1879 left 

 two daughters. 03 The elder of these, Mary Florence, 

 married in 1878 Frederick Morehouse Metcalfe of 

 Inglethorpe Hall (co. Norfolk), who died in 1893. G4 

 Mrs. Metcalfe inherited her father's estates in 

 Rushden, and is the present owner of the manor, 

 residing at Julians. 06 



BRJDFIELD GRANGE anas FRTERS 

 GRANGE** originally formed part of the manor of 

 Broadfield, but there seems no doubt that it lay in 

 Rushden. 07 In the days of Edward the Confessor 

 Broadfield was divided between the men of the Arch- 



RUSHDEN 

 h. Qe In 1086 



bishop of Canterbury and Queen Edi 

 one of these holdings, a hide and a quarter of a 

 virgate, had passed into the possession of Hardwin de 

 Scales and was held of him by Theobald." 9 In 115a 

 Theobald, probably grandson 

 of the former Theobald, with 

 consent of his brother William, 

 granted 30 acres of land in 

 Broadfield (i.e. in the manor 

 of Broadfield) to Warden 

 Abbey (co. Beds.). 70 This 

 estate, according to a later 

 confirmation of the grant, in- 

 cluded the grange of Bradfield 

 and a wood named Filden- 

 wode. 71 In 1291 the abbot W^crK A 



was assessed at £1 191. %\d. Awe a cwier . 

 for his lands in Rushden. 7 - three -warden pea 

 These remained with 

 di 



1543 they were 

 Bradfield Grange in the parish of Rushden ' 

 of Hailes (co. Gloi 



abbey 1 



granted 



to Richard And. 



who in the same year alienated the Grange to John 



Newport, who for many years had held a lease of it 



under the abbey of Warden. 76 



John Newport died in 1552 and his lands passed 

 to his son and heir Robert, aged thirty. 73 Robert 

 acquired the manor of Rushden (q.v.), and on his 

 death in 1583 Edward Newport inherited his lands. 77 

 In 1603 Edward Newport alienated Bradfield Grange 

 to John and William Rowley, 76 who sold it to 

 John Stone of co. Hunts., 79 son of William Stone of 

 Segenhoe (co. Beds.). After this there seems no trace 

 of it as a separate property. The situation of Brad- 

 field or Fryers Grange is marked by a large wood 

 called Friars Wood in the north-east of the parish, 

 which has Friars Farm on its north side. 



JULIANS was a capital messuage or farm which 

 Richard and William, sons of John Stone, bought in 

 1603 from Edward Newport, who had acquired it in 

 1586 by purchase from William Wilson of Walkern. M 

 Richard Stone was knighted, and in 165 1, with 

 Elizabeth his wife and John Stone, was holding land 

 in Rushden. 31 On his death his heir was his son 

 Thomas Stone, who died in i6o,6. 8a He left no 

 son, and his elder daughter and co-heir Penelope 

 inherited Julians. 83 She married in 1699 Adolphus 

 Meetkerke, who was descended from Sir Adolphus 

 Meetkerke, President of the High Court of Flanders 

 in the latter half of the 16th century. 94 He was 

 an adherent of the Reformed religion and took part 

 in an endeavour to surrender Lcyden to the Earl of 



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