WINWICK
Wineuuiche (xi cent.); Wynwycke (xvi cent.).
Winwick lies on the western borders of Huntingdonshire, adjoining Northamptonshire; part of the
parish (about 959 acres) was formerly included in
Polebrook Hundred (Northants), but it was wholly
transferred to Huntingdonshire in 1888. (fn. 1) Hamerton
and Old Weston are situated to the south of it and
the Giddings to the east. The Alconbury Brook
forms the northern end of its eastern boundary,
the land along its banks being liable to floods.
The village is 4½ miles south-east from Barnwell
station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch
of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, 7
miles south-east from Oundle, and 7½ miles north of
Kimbolton; it lies near the centre of the parish on a
road running from north-west to south-east. At the
eastern side of the village is the church of All Saints,
and grouped nearby are the former vicarage house,
the school and the Congregational Chapel built in
1865 by Isaac Knighton. At the northern end is the
Three Horse Shoes Inn, a little to the north of which
is a homestead moat already described. (fn. 2) The Manor
House is also situated near the church, in a northwesterly direction. A short distance west of the
Manor House is Dalkeith House, and a little farther
west, on the main road, there is a windmill. About
a mile to the west of the village is Winwick Lodge.
The parish lies at a level of about 112 ft. to 225 ft.
above Ordnance datum, and has an area of 1,781
acres. Its soil and subsoil are stiff clay. The chief
crops grown are wheat, barley, and beans. The
population in 1921 was 169. The population of
Winwick seems to have suffered severely from plague
in the 16th century. The registers mention 'the
outbreak of plague at Winwick anno Dom[in]i 1546,'
when 40 people, including the vicar, were buried
between March and August.
Manors
Winwick was assessed in the Domesday Survey (1086) under both Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire. Five
hides of land in the former county were held of the
king by Eustace the Sheriff, but in the reign of
Edward the Confessor 2½ hides belonged to Aschil,
who had sake and soke, and 2½ hides were held by
Alwold, Leuwine and Eilaf, the soke belonging to
the king's manor of Alconbury. In Northamptonshire he held half a hide of the king, formerly in
the possession of Achi; the similarity of this name
to that of Aschil suggests their identity. The descent
of the lands in Winwick is difficult to trace, as Eustace
was also a sub-tenant of the Abbey of Peterborough,
which held most of the Northamptonshire lands in
Winwick, and other sub-tenants seem to have held
of both overlords. (fn. 3) The overlordship of the lands
Eustace had held in chief passed to the Lovetots
and descended until 1219 with Southoe (q.v.), the
caput of their barony. (fn. 4) On the death in that year of
Nigel de Lovetot, Winwick was included in the
pourparty of Alice, one of his three sisters and coheirs. (fn. 5) Her son William Patrick was holding her
third in 1236 (fn. 6) and before 1242 gave it to his sister
Margery, wife of Warin de Vernon. (fn. 7) She afterwards
married John de Littlebury and with him conveyed
her share of the Southoe barony to Richard de Clare,
Earl of Gloucester, in 1259. (fn. 8) The overlordship continued in the possession of the Earls of Gloucester and
their descendants, the Earls of Stafford and Dukes
of Buckingham, (fn. 9) until the attainder of Edward,
Duke of Buckingham, in 1521, when it was forfeited
to the Crown.
In 1086, Oilard was the sub-tenant of Eustace the
Sheriff in his two Huntingdonshire holdings, and
possibly Widelard, his tenant in Northamptonshire,
was the same man. (fn. 10) The next recorded sub-tenant
of the Lovetot fee in Winwick was William Cardun,
who held 1 knight's fee in 1166. (fn. 11) He probably
held one of the Huntingdonshire holdings and the
half hide in Northamptonshire, but, later, part of this
land seems to have been alienated, as his successors
did not hold a whole fee. (fn. 12) Thus when Margery de
Littlebury alienated her pourparty to Richard de
Clare, Earl of Gloucester, in 1259, the heirs of Geoffrey
de Caxton held part of the fee (fn. 13) and presumably
Geoffrey, who was also a tenant of the Abbey of
Peterborough fee in Winwick (q.v.), had previously
held it. In 1226–7, Peter Cardun subinfeudated
2½ hides of land in Winwick in Huntingdonshire and
half a hide in Northamptonshire in exchange for land
in Essex to William Cardun to hold of Peter as threequarters of a knight's fee. (fn. 14) Peter Cardun continued
to hold this part of Winwick as mesne lord. It was
known in the 14th century as the MANOR OF WINWICK and ultimately formed part of KNYVETS
MANOR. Peter died before September 1259. (fn. 15) His
heir seems to have been Isabel, the wife of Gredland de Bovariis. They were living in 1263–4, (fn. 16)
but in 1270 had been succeeded by Reginald de
Massingham and his wife Alice, (fn. 17) who granted the
service owed by Ralph Cardun in Winwick, which
was part of Alice's inheritance, to Theobald Broyl. (fn. 18)
It may be noted that Juliana, the widow of Peter
Cardun, was still living and holding dower in his lands.
The mesne lordship is mentioned in 1372, but disappears after that date. (fn. 19)
William Cardun, the grantee of 1226–7, held the
manor in demesne as late as 1243. (fn. 20) By 1263 he
had been succeeded by Robert Cardun, (fn. 21) and in 1270
the tenant was Ralph Cardun. (fn. 22) John Cardun suc-
ceeded him, probably before 1275, and certainly
before 1279. (fn. 23) A tenant of the same name appears
in 1316 and 1330. (fn. 24) In the latter year he proved his
right to claim one fish and one gallon of salt from
carts so laden passing through Winwick, as tribute
or custom paid as of immemorial right for passage
through his demesne, because the king's highway
passing between Thurning and Hemington was at
this point deep and dangerous and costly to maintain. (fn. 25) In 1331 John Cardun of Winwick acknowledged a debt of £300 to his son Ralph, (fn. 26) and was
dealing with lands in 1333. (fn. 27) He was presumably
succeeded by Ralph, but there is no further reference
to the family. The manor of Winwick was acquired
by Sir John Knyvet, who died seised in 1381 of a
manor in which was included both a manor belonging
to the Peterborough Abbey fee in Northamptonshire
(q.v.) and also 82 acres of arable, a separate pasture,
together with assized rents of free tenants of the
yearly value of £9 3s. 4d. and 3 capons, which were
held of the Earl of Stafford and lay in Huntingdonshire. (fn. 28) These latter were evidently the lands of
the Carduns' manor. He held jointly with his wife
Eleanor, who died seised of the composite manor
in 1388 and was succeeded by their son and heir
John. (fn. 29) The latter died in 1418 (fn. 30) and his son was
holding in 1428 as Sir John Knyvet. (fn. 31) He settled
the manor on his son John and Alice his wife, in
1430, to be held by them and their issue on condition
that if they were ever divorced or separated their
right to the property was to cease. Sir John died in
1445, when John, the son, inherited. (fn. 32) He was
succeeded by Sir William Knyvet, presumably his
son, who granted the manor to his younger son
Charles and Anne, his wife, for life. He died in 1515,
when Edmund, aged 7, his great-grandson, son of
Thomas, son of Sir William's elder son Edmund,
was declared his heir and next of kin. (fn. 33) Charles
Knyvet was still living in 1522. (fn. 34) The manor was
conveyed by Sir Thomas Knyvet, the son of
Edmund, (fn. 35) Edmund [Knyvet], Anthony Knyvet, and
John Cheetham and Katharine, his wife, to Thomas
Trice and his son Richard in 1565. (fn. 36) The Trices
were a Godmanchester family, (fn. 37) and as the Knyvets
seem to have been in financial difficulties, they may
have acquired it first on mortgage. In any case,
Richard Trice and his two brothers, with their wives,
sold the manor in 1583 to William Farren and John
Knight senior. (fn. 38) This sale seems to have resulted in
the breaking up of the manor. Edward Collyn, who
died in 1624 seised of tenements formerly parcel of the
manor, held houses with 200 acres of arable land of
the Crown as of the honour of Gloucester besides
meadow, rents and services, (fn. 39) and in 1619 one of
his tenants, Richard Knight, was said to hold of 'his
seigniory,' (fn. 40) but it is doubtful if he really had any
manorial rights. His son and heir was Edward, then
a minor, who died in 1685/6. (fn. 41) Richard Knight
also held lands formerly belonging to the Priory of
Huntingdon and other lands held of the honour of
Gloucester by military service. (fn. 42) Edward Knight,
apparently a cousin of Richard, who died in 1630,
also held a messuage, 72 acres of land and common
rights, which had been parcel of Knyvet's manor,
and had been held by Richard Trice. (fn. 43)
Knyvet. Argent a bend within a border engrailed sable.
Trice. Ermine a cheveron sable with a lion or thereon and a chief gules charged with three molets or.
A so-called manor appears in 1763, when it was
apparently in the hands of Rowland Hunt, D.D., who
with his wife Mary, and Sarah Wells, spinster, was
dealing with it then, while Mary Hunt and Sarah
Wells were the owners in 1794. (fn. 44)
Isaac Knighton purchased the Manor Farm in the
19th century, and it was stated in 1855 that he
claimed the manorial rights. (fn. 45) His widow was called
lady of the manor in 1885 and 1890. The Manor
Farm, with the manor or reputed manor of Winwick,
was put up for auction in 1916 by the trustees of the
late Bateman Brown. (fn. 46)
It seems probable that the third of the Huntingdonshire holdings of Eustace the Sheriff mentioned in
Domesday Book was granted in the reign of Henry I
to the Priory of St. Mary, Huntingdon, (fn. 47) which was
a tenant of the Lovetot fee in the 13th century (fn. 48) and
held land at Winwick valued at 47s. at its dissolution. (fn. 49) The Prior does not seem to have had manorial
rights in Winwick, although he paid separately for
his land to the sheriff's aid in the county (fn. 50) and was
said in 1285 to have withdrawn his tenants from the
shire and hundred courts for the last eight years. (fn. 51)
In 1619 Richard Knight of Winwick died seised of a
messuage and 60 acres of land there which had formerly belonged to the priory.
The Abbey of Peterborough had lands in Winwick
in Northamptonshire (Polebrook Hundred) in 1086
which consisted of half a hide held by Eustace, the
soke of which was in Oundle; 1½ hide held by Isenbard and Rozelin with the soke in Warmington; and
2 hides and 3 virgates held by two knights and two servientes and a sokeman, with the soke in Stoke Doyle. (fn. 52)
It appears impossible to identify these holdings,
with the exception of the half-hide held by Eustace
(who here also was the well-known Sheriff), which later
was the holding (q.v.) of the Abbey of Sawtry.
Another half-hide belonging to the Peterborough fee
in Winwick, recorded in 1125, has been tentatively
identified with land held in 1086 by the two serjeants,
but it is curious that no record of the land held by
the two knights exists in the many registers of the
Abbey. (fn. 53) The descent of this half-hide, which was
quit of the ward of Rockingham Castle on payment
at the rate of 4s. from each knight's fee, (fn. 54) is difficult
to unravel. In 1125 it was held by Eustace de Winwick and Brithwold, who were then said to 'serve
with the knights.' (fn. 55) In 1146, Pope Eugenius III
confirmed the tenement of Brithwold to the Abbey,
amongst fees from which tithes were paid. (fn. 56) This
and later entries suggest that Brithwold was the
immediate tenant of the holding; it was later
reckoned as a thirteenth part of a knight's fee, (fn. 57)
although he held only a quarter of a hide of land in
his own hands, the other quarter being subinfeudated
to Eustace de Winwick and his successors, (fn. 58) who did
the service due from it directly to the Abbey, but
paid their homage to Brithwold and his successors. (fn. 59)
Brithwold may have been succeeded by William de
Caxton, who gave 60 acres in Winwick to the Priory
of Huntingdon. (fn. 60) In 1189, (fn. 61) Geoffrey de Winwick
was the tenant and may probably be identified with
Geoffrey de Caxton, who was holding in 1200 and
1211. (fn. 62) The next tenant seems to have been Simon
de Caxton, presumably his son, to whom Saher de
Quincy, Earl of Winchester, granted land in Keyston,
of which he was overlord, between 1190 and 1216. (fn. 63)
The earl and his successors thereby claimed priority
of wardship of the succeeding Caxtons, which should
have belonged to the Abbots of Peterborough, in
right of the Winwick lands. (fn. 64) Another Geoffrey,
probably the brother of Simon, was the tenant in
1243, (fn. 65) but died before 1246–7, when his heirs were
his sister Ampholisa, the wife firstly of Geoffrey
Chamberlain of Hemingford and secondly of Sir
Nigel de Radwell, and his nephew Stephen de Titchmersh. (fn. 66) Their inheritance in Winwick consisted of
a messuage and 140 acres of land, a larger holding
than the half-hide of 1086. (fn. 67) In the partition of the
lands of Geoffrey, made in 1246–7, Stephen de Titchmersh granted all his moiety in Winwick to Ampholisa
and Nigel de Radwell and renounced his claim to the
tenements which Geoffrey had held in fee. In
return they granted to him and his heirs 80 acres of
land with pasture in Winwick together with the capital
messuage and the lands and services of their villein
tenants. (fn. 68) This partition was probably made on the
marriage of Ampholisa and Nigel de Radwell, since
previously during her widowhood she had granted her
land in Winwick and various homages and services
there, in particular those of her nephew and co-heir,
to her second son Simon Chamberlain. (fn. 69) This grant
was confirmed by her elder son, Warren Chamberlain,
to whom Simon and his heirs owed homage and
service. (fn. 70) After her second marriage, Simon also
obtained from her, as appears by a confirmatory
charter of Warren, the messuage which James de
Winwick formerly held, together with 42 acres of
land. (fn. 71) This charter, as copied in Henry de Pytchley's
Book of Fees, clearly records the grant of the messuage
and land. But it seems impossible that it was more
than a grant of the mesne lordship, since James de
Winwick's heirs still held Eustace de Winwick's
twenty-sixth part of a knight's fee in demesne. (fn. 72)
It may have been a confirmatory charter of land he
already held in demesne. The history of this mesne
lordship is obscure. In 1275 it was said to have
been quitclaimed by Warren Chamberlain's heirs,
his daughter Anastasia and her sister, probably
Isabel, the wife of Hugh le Marsh, to the Abbot of
Peterborough, to whom the sub-tenant then did
homage. (fn. 73) On the other hand, Simon Chamberlain's successor, John Chamberlain, did homage in
1290 to the new Abbot of Peterborough, Richard de
London, for the whole thirteenth part of a fee,
when he acknowledged that he held 80 acres of land
in Winwick. (fn. 74) He died, leaving another John Chamberlain as his heir in the wardship of Abbot Godfrey (fn. 75)
(1299–1311). John's son and heir Ralph was also a
minor, and his wardship and marriage were sold to
his mother by Abbot Adam de Boothby (1321–23),
but the boy was seized at Oundle by the overlord of
his Keyston tenements, who claimed priority. (fn. 76)
He was in seisin of a thirteenth part of a knight's fee
in 1346, when he appears as Ralph le Despenser, son of
John Chamberlain, but no further mention of the
Caxton inheritance at Winwick has been found.
No record of the other moiety of the half-hide,
which Eustace de Winwick held in 1125, appears till
1211, when James de Winwick held a twenty-sixth
part of a fee in Winwick. (fn. 77) In 1254, Stephen de Winwick was the tenant. (fn. 78) As has been said, these
tenants appear to have been responsible for the
service due to the Abbey of Peterborough and to have
paid feudal and shire aids themselves, but their
homage belonged to the Caxtons and the Chamberlains until after the death of Warren Chamberlain.
His daughter Anastasia and her sister, apparently
Isabel, wife of Hugh de Marsh, quitclaimed all their
right to the homage of Henry, son of Stephen de
Winwick, who consequently did homage in 1275 to
the Abbot. (fn. 79) In 1316, William, son of Stephen de
Winwick, was the tenant, (fn. 80) but no further record of
the holding can be traced.
Probably the whole thirteenth part of a knight's fee,
and other land in Winwick held of Peterborough,
of which the earlier history has disappeared, were
bought by Sir John Knyvet, who died in 1381 seised
of the manor of Winwick in Northamptonshire, which
he held jointly with his wife Eleanor. (fn. 81) At the time
of her death, she held it of the Abbey of Peterborough
by fealty.
The half-hide held by Eustace the Sheriff in 1086
of the Abbey of Peterborough may be identified with
the land in Winwick which formed part of the two
fees of the soke of Oundle held of the Abbey of Peterborough by the Lovetots. (fn. 82) Like their other holding
here (q.v.), it descended to the sisters of Nigel de
Lovetot in the early 13th century, but no share in
these two fees was assigned to Roysia, the wife of
Hubert de Bromford. In the next generation,
Margery de Vernon, in her widowhood, and Nigel de
Amundeville granted all the homage and service of
their tenants in these fees to John de Caux, Abbot of
Peterborough (1249–63), their overlord, (fn. 83) so that the
mesne lordship disappears.
The first sub-tenant of this land whose name is
recorded was Walter, son of Walter, who, in order to
avoid the succession of his nephew and heir Walter de
Gisney, the son of a sister whom he hated, granted
the reversion of the fee after his death to John de
Vaux. (fn. 84) The latter granted it to the Abbey of
Sawtry before 1211, when the abbot paid the scutage
due to Nigel de Lovetot (d. 1219), the mesne lord. (fn. 85)
After the extinction of the mesne lordship, the abbots
did homage to the Abbots of Peterborough, (fn. 86) and owed
suit to the court of Castor, for which they paid an
annual composition. (fn. 87) It may be noted that the
Abbey of Sawtry was also the tenant of land in the
fees of the Priory of Huntingdon and of the Carduns. (fn. 88)
At the time of the Dissolution, the Sawtry lands in
Winwick were valued at £3 a year. (fn. 89) The property
was granted in 1537 to Sir Richard Williams, alias
Cromwell, (fn. 90) and in 1540 he obtained licence to
alienate it to John Elryngton. (fn. 91)
In 1279, the Prior of the Hospital of Armeston held
one virgate of land in Winwick (Northamptonshire)
by the gift of Alice de Turberville. (fn. 92)
All the Winwick lands in Huntingdonshire owed suit
to the sheriff's turn, but after the Earl of Gloucester
acquired the pourparty of the Lovetot barony he
withdrew the suit of his tenants. (fn. 93) He and the
succeeding overlords held a view of frankpledge and
leet at Sawtry for their tenants there and in Winwick
and other vills in the county. (fn. 94) After the attainder
of the last Duke of Buckingham in 1521, the leet
remained in the Crown, until James I granted it to
George Whitmore and others, the fishing grantees. (fn. 95)
Church
The church of ALL SAINTS consists of a chancel (24½ ft. by 13½ ft.),
nave (44¼ ft. by 18 ft.), north aisle
(49¾ ft. by 10¾ ft.), south transept (16¼ ft. by 11½ ft.),
south aisle (39¾ ft. by 9¾ ft.), west tower (9½ ft. by
9½ ft.), and modern south porch. The walls are of
coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs
are covered with lead and stone slates.
The church is not mentioned in the Domesday
Survey (1086); but the 12th-century south doorway
points to a stone church at that period. The chancel,
nave and south aisle were rebuilt in the middle of the
13th century, and the north arcade was formed and
the aisle added about 1325. The chancel arch was
rebuilt, to the full width of the chancel, about 1340;
and the south aisle walls were probably raised and
reconstructed at the same time. The south transept
was built in the early part of the 15th century, and
the west tower towards the end of the century.
Early in the 16th century the clearstory was added to
the nave, the whole of the roofs were renewed, and
the north aisle largely rebuilt. The church was
drastically restored in 1864, when the south transept,
south aisle, clearstory, porch and the upper part of the
spire were rebuilt. (fn. 96) The spire (98 ft.) was struck by
lightning on 25 June 1935, and has been repaired.
The mid 13th-century chancel has a modern threelight east window with geometrical tracery in a twocentred head, and a mutilated stone bracket on each
side of it. The north wall has two 13th-century
lancet windows. The south wall has an early 14thcentury two-light window with simple tracery in a
two-centred head, and a blocked doorway only
visible inside. The chancel arch, c. 1340, is twocentred, of two hollow-chamfered orders, the lower
order resting on semicircular attached shafts with
moulded capitals and bases. The roof is modern.
The mid 13th-century nave has a north arcade, c.
1325, of four bays having two-centred arches of two
chamfered orders resting on octagonal columns and
semi-octagonal responds all with moulded capitals
and bases. The mid 13th-century south arcade is
of four bays having two-centred arches of two chamfered orders resting on one octagonal and two circular
columns and semi-octagonal responds, all with moulded
capitals and bases; the capitals all have the nail-head
ornament. The clearstory has three windows on the
north and two on the south, all modern cusped squares.
The early 16th-century roof is of flat pitch and has
moulded beams, jack-legs and braces.
The early 16th-century north aisle has an early
14th-century three-light east window with intersecting
tracery in a two-centred head. The north wall has
three early 16th-century square-headed windows, the
eastern of three lights and the others two lights; and
a blocked early 16th-century doorway with fourcentred head and continuous moulded jambs. The
west wall has an early 16th-century two-light window
similar to those in the north wall. The contemporary
pent-roof, much restored, has moulded beams with
carved bosses at the intersections; three of them have
carved scrolls, inscribed respectively 'Tom,' 'Rob'
and 'I. Elington Siv.'
The early 15th-century south transept has an
original four-light transomed south window with
vertical tracery in a depressed four-centred head;
and a 14th-century piscina with trefoiled ogee head
and octofoiled basin. On the west is an early 15thcentury half-arch to the aisle of two chamfered orders.
The very low-pitched roof, much restored, has early
16th-century moulded beams, jack-legs and braces,
and carved bosses. It has two modern shields of arms,
(1) the See of Ely impaling Bishop Turton; (2) a
stag trippant, the crest of the Duke of Buccleuch.
The 13th-century south aisle, altered in the 14th
century, has, in the south wall, two 14th-century
three-light windows with intersecting tracery in
two-centred heads, the western being nearly all
modern; and a 12th-century doorway, reset with a
pointed arch, the outer order having the chevron
ornament and the inner order having a roll moulding.
The west wall has a mid 14th-century two-light window
with flowing tracery in a two-centred head. The
roof is modern but retains a few old timbers.
The late 15th-century west tower (fn. 97) has a twocentred tower arch of two chamfered orders dying
into the side walls. There is no west doorway.
The west window is of two cinquefoiled lights with a
quatrefoiled spandrel in a four-centred head; and the
belfry windows are plain two-lights with four-centred
heads. The tower, which is built partly within the
nave, has diagonal buttresses at the north-west and
south-west corners rising nearly to the heads of the
belfry windows, and is divided into stages by three
string-courses. It is finished with a simple cornice
from which springs an octagonal broach spire having
two ranges of spire-lights, both on the cardinal faces;
the lower of two-lights with tracery in a gabled head,
and the upper of single-lights. The stairs are in the
south-west angle and have doorways both from the
outside and inside.
The modern porch has a two-centred outer arch
of two moulded orders carried on three circular
detached shafts having moulded capitals and bases.
The side walls have each a quatrefoiled circular window
in a square surround.
The early 13th-century font has a square bowl with
the angles taken off, on a square central shaft with
chamfered angles, and four octagonal angle shafts
with carved capitals and moulded bases.
There are five bells, inscribed: (1) 1716; (2) J:
Eayre fecit 1756 Thomas Wade Churchwarden;
(3) Preaes God only; (4) s. kateri; (5) J: Taylor
& Co: Founders Loughborough 1864. The first
is probably by Henry Penn, of Peterborough; the
third and fourth are by Newcombe of Leicester.
They were re-hung by John Taylor & Co., in 1864.
There were four bells in 1552, (fn. 98) but by 1709 there were
five bells and a clock. (fn. 99)
There is no chancel screen, although it would seem
that one remained until 1748, in which year Archdeacon Timothy Neve ordered it to be taken down. (fn. 100)
The south transept is inclosed by two modern oak
screens which have one traceried head and a few
pieces of brattishing from an early 16th-century
screen, which apparently existed in this position
in 1851. (fn. 101)
The early 17th-century Communion table has
turned and carved legs and carved rails. There is a
17th-century bench with turned legs in the tower.
There is a small brass plate with inscription to
Edward Collins, son of Edward Collins of Winwick,
d. 1685/6 this is now on the tower floor, but its
original slab lies outside the porch; a modern brass
slab to Sarah Ruff, 1721; and a War Memorial,
1914–18.
The registers are as follows: (i) baptisms, marriages
and burials 8 January 1538 to 16 January 1757;
(ii) marriages 12 August 1755 to 11 August 1812;
also, on some plain pages bound in at the end,
baptisms and burials 17 April 1757 to 15 September
1812.
The church plate (fn. 102) consists of a silver cup
inscribed 'for . the . towne . of . wynwyc . 1569'
no date-letter, but a Norwich maker's mark; a
silver cover paten for the same, inscribed '1569'
marked as the cup; a pewter flagon inscribed 'The
Parish of Winwick in Northampton and Huntingdonshire. Simon Peake Churchwarden 1737,' scratched
on base 'Winwick 1839.'
Advowson
A vicarage was ordained during the
episcopate of Bishop Hugh de Welles,
and the rectory and patronage of Winwick belonged, until the Dissolution, to the Prior and
Convent of Huntingdon, who presented Geoffrey
de Winwick to the vicarage c. 1218. (fn. 103) The rectory and
advowson were granted to John Whiting and others
in 1552 (fn. 104) and were sold in the same year to Sir
Edward Montagu, the Lord Chief Justice; (fn. 105) they
descended through his heirs the Dukes of Montagu
and Dukes of Buccleuch (fn. 106) until 1913, when the advowson was acquired by the Bishop of Ely, the
present patron.
Charity
Sarah Ruff, by will dated 18 Dec.
1721, gave the residue of her real and
personal estates to the poor of the
parish. The endowment of the charity now consists
of land containing about 6 acres let at a yearly rent,
and £431 5s. 8d. Consols with the Official Trustees.
The income is distributed in money to the poor of the
parish.