FAXTON
Fextone, Foxton (xi cent.); Fauxston (xiv cent.).
Faxton lies to the east of Lamport and of the road
from Northampton to Market Harborough, its eastern
portion being formed by Mawsley hamlet. It lies high
for a Northamptonshire parish, much of the ground
being about 400 ft. The Nicolls family at one time lived
here in what Bridges describes as 'an antient manorhouse'. In his day there was under a stone dial over
the gate this inscription:
Anno primo (MDCXXV) Caroli primi
Ne dispar quid displiceat
Nam trium Consanguineorum tribus ac regnantibus
Hoc exiguum opus est.
and on the other side of the gate fronting the house:
Tres successivi possessores
Anna Augustinus et Franciscus
Tribus Principibus invicem succedentibus
Elizabetha Jacobo & Carolo.
Perhaps the Hall Ponds to the north of the church
indicate the spot near which this stood. Soldiers of
Charles I were quartered at Faxton the night before the
battle of Naseby. (fn. 1)
The Almshouses at a little distance north-east of the
church were erected by the last Nicolls heiresses.
Faxton Lodge lies to the south of the parish, where there
are also brickworks.
To the north-west is Short Wood, and at the extreme
north is Stonegrove Spinney. A very winding brook
forms the eastern boundary of the parish.
The parish contains 1,851 acres, principally pasture
land. There is no village, and the population, which
in 1801 was 54, in 1921 was only 37. Since 1935
Faxton has been included in Lamport parish.
Manor
FAXTON Manor was in Saxon times
royal demesne, and was entered among the
King's lands in Mawsley Hundred in the
Domesday Survey. There were 2 hides there, and
Wold and Walgrave (2 hides and 3½ virgates of land)
belonged to this manor. (fn. 2) In the 12th century the
2 hides above recorded, together with half a hide, taken
presumably out of either Wold or Walgrave, were
returned as held of the fee of Balliol. (fn. 3) In Moulton, in
the Hundred of Spelhoe, Guy de Balliol was holding
1½ hides and 1 small virgate of the fee of Faxton; (fn. 4) while
in Walgrave Henry de Tracy was holding 3 virgates
of the socage of Faxton. (fn. 5) Guy's descendant John
de Balliol by his marriage to Devorgild, elder sister
and co-heir to John le Scot, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon, became possessed of part of the honor of
Huntingdon in addition to the Balliol fee; (fn. 6) and
among his fees in 1236 and 1242 were four fees
which Adam de Periton held in Faxton, Walgrave, and
Moulton. (fn. 7)
Balliol. Gules a voided scutcheon argent.
Ingelram de Dumart about 1170 granted to Robert
Duredent his nephew the messuage in Faxton which
had belonged to Walter de Balliol
his uncle, and a fourth part of
Faxton with a quarterium in
Mawsley, Walgrave, and Moulton, for the service of one knight, (fn. 8)
Ingelram died in 1185 and Egelin
de Dumart, son of his sister Emma,
in 1201–2 conveyed to Thomas
de Periton a knight's fee in Faxton
and land in Northumberland and
Warwickshire. (fn. 9) This Thomas
was Egelin's nephew and succeeded him in 1219, himself dying in 1227, leaving a
son Adam. (fn. 10)
Adam de Periton, who appears to have been holding under John de Balliol practically the whole of
Faxton, was apparently identical with the Adam de
Faxton who in 1229 was in conflict with the Prior of
St. Frideswide about customs and services in Moulton. (fn. 11)
In 1266 Adam de Periton died seised of the manor of
Faxton (with rents of the free tenants of Moulton and
Walgrave), which he was holding of Sir John de
Balliol for 4 knights' fees and 4 marks rent. His heirs
were Robert, son of Sir William de Kaynes and of
Adam's eldest daughter; Isabel, late the wife of Sir
Robert de Welles, another daughter; and Katharine,
wife of John Paynel, a third daughter. (fn. 12) Isabel, the
widow of Robert de Welles, married as her second
husband William de Vescy, who in 1284 was holding
2 knights' fees in Faxton, Mawsley, and Walgrave of
John de Balliol (afterwards King of Scotland). (fn. 13) In
1288–9 William de Vescy and his wife Isabel conveyed
the manor of Faxton to John de Vescy, their son, presumably in view of his marriage with Clemence, a kinswoman of Queen Eleanor. (fn. 14) In August 1290 William
de Vescy gave the Queen an undertaking to ensure the
payment of Clemence's dower. (fn. 15) Clemence de Vescy
was holding a third of the manor of Faxton in dower
after the death of Isabel in 1314, worth £12 19s. 9¾d.
yearly. (fn. 16) She died abroad in 1344, (fn. 17) having previously
granted her third of the manor for her life for £8 yearly
to Adam de Welles who was then holding the remaining
two thirds, and to whom the reversion of her third
belonged. (fn. 18)
Welles. Or a lion sable with a forked tail.
Isabel de Periton's heir by her first husband, Sir
William de Welles, was their son Adam, who died in
1311 before his mother. He left a widow Joan. (fn. 19) The
custody of lands in Faxton and elsewhere belonging to
Adam de Welles, and the marriage of his son and heir
Robert, aged 16 at his father's death, was assigned to
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, on
8 December 1311; (fn. 20) and on 7 April 1313 this wardship
was sold by Gilbert to Richard le Vavassour and others. (fn. 21)
Isabel de Vescy died in 1314, when she was returned
as holding two parts of the manor of Faxton of John
of Britanny, Earl of Richmond, to whom, in return for
his services in Scotland, John Balliol's lands had been
granted, by service of 2 knights'
fees. (fn. 22) She had granted an annuity of £20 out of the manor to
her daughters Cecily and Aline de
Welles: and her heir was her
grandson Robert, aged 19 and in
the king's wardship. Robert, son
of Adam de Welles, did not long
survive his grandmother, but after
marrying Maud widow of Robert
de Clifford (who in her second
widowhood was found heir to
her nephew Thomas, only son and heir of Richard
de Clare, Lord de Clare), he died s.p. in 1320, holding
two parts of the manor of Faxton of the Earl of Richmond and Britanny. (fn. 23) His estate included a chief
messuage with buildings in ruins, and two parts of a
windmill. He was succeeded by his brother Adam,
aged 16, (fn. 24) who came into possession of the whole at the
death of Clemence de Vescy as above stated. He died
on 28 February 1345, his son and heir, John being
then aged 12. The manor was then held of the Countess
of Pembroke as of her manor of Fotheringhay as two
knights' fees, (fn. 25) the Balliol lands held by John of
Britanny at his death s.p. in 1333 having been granted
to her. John de Welles died on 11 October 1361,
leaving a son and heir aged 11, also named John. His
widow Maud survived, the manor being held by her
of the Earl of Pembroke, a ward of the king. (fn. 26) On her
death in 1389 her son John succeeded her at Faxton. (fn. 27)
He had seen considerable service in France and Scotland since making proof of his age in 1373, in which
year he was knighted. In 1388 he was summoned to
take his place in Parliament and reproved for previous
excuses. (fn. 28) In 1395, according to Dugdale (quoting
Stow), he was the hero of a picturesque episode.
Having been sent ambassador into Scotland, he was
present at a banquet where the Scots and English
fell to 'discoursing of arms', and he threw down the
challenge: 'Let words have no place: if ye know not
the chivalry and valiant deeds of Englishmen, appoint
me a day and place when ye list, and ye shall have
experience.' David, Earl of Crawford, accepted, and
trial of battle took place on St. George's day on London
Bridge, where Lord Welles was in the third course
thrown to the ground. (fn. 29) In July 1417 he settled the
manor on his grandson, Lionel, son of his deceased son
Eudes, and on Joan daughter of Robert Waterton, later
his wife, and died on 26 August 1421. (fn. 30) Lionel, Lord
Welles, then aged 15, succeeded him in the manor,
then still held of the manor of Fotheringhay (q.v.),
which had passed into the hands of the Dukes of York. (fn. 31)
He married, as his second wife, Margaret, widow of
John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. At his death on the
field of Towton, on Palm Sunday 1461, his heir was
his son by his first wife, Sir Richard Welles, who
through his marriage with Joan daughter and heir of
Robert, Lord Willoughby, was Lord Welles and Willoughby. (fn. 32) Lionel, Lord Welles, was included in the
act of attainder of 1461, but in 1468 when Richard
obtained restitution of his father's possessions, then in
the hands of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, (fn. 33) Faxton
was excepted. (fn. 34) When Richard Nevile, Earl of Warwick, raised his standard for the Lancastrian cause in
Lincolnshire in 1469, Sir Robert Welles, son and heir
of Lord Richard, joined him, with the result that both
father and son were beheaded. Faxton was still at that
date held by Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, and on
12 March 1475 the reversion of the manor after her
death was granted to the King's son Richard, Duke of
York. (fn. 35) On 21 August 1484 it was in the hands of
Richard III, who made a grant of the manor, advowson, mills, &c., to Sir Edward Brampton, (fn. 36) but John,
son of Richard, Lord Welles, by Margaret, Duchess of
Somerset, on the accession of Henry VII at once
obtained the reversal of the attainder and restitution of
the estates. (fn. 37) He was in possession of Faxton on 28 June
1486, when a field called Mawsley field, of which
Robert Kynnesman was seised, was returned as held
of Sir John, Lord Welles, as of his manor of Faxton. (fn. 38)
He married in 1487 Cecily, sister of Elizabeth, the
Queen Consort, and third daughter of Edward IV.
John, then Viscount Welles, bequeathed all his lands
to his wife and died in 1499, leaving an only daughter
Anne, who seems to have died s.p. (fn. 39) His wife married
as her second husband Thomas Kyme, and died on
24 August 1507, when Faxton passed to the representatives of the daughters of Lionel, Lord Welles,
empowered by Act of Parliament to hold his lands in
pourparty after the death of Cecily. (fn. 40) By this Act,
passed in 1503, part of the lands of the late viscount,
in which Faxton proves to have been included, were
to be held in co-parcenery by Sir Robert Dymock,
and Sir Thomas Lawrence, cousins and heirs of the
Lords Welles, and Katharine, wife of Robert Tempest,
one of the daughters and heirs of Lionel, Lord Welles.
This partition resulted in the manor being much subdivided during the next century.
Eleanor, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Lionel,
Lord Welles, married, as his third wife, Thomas, Lord
Hoo and Hastings, and left three daughters: Eleanor,
married to Sir James Carew of Bedington, whose
great-grandson Francis Carew had a tenth (fn. 41) of the manor
in 1555 (fn. 42) and still held in 1575; (fn. 43) Anne, married to Sir
Roger Copley; and Elizabeth, married to Sir John
Devenish. (fn. 44) After the death of Thomas, Lord Hoo and
Hastings, his widow Eleanor married James Lawrence, (fn. 45)
who was the father of Sir Thomas Lawrence, mentioned in the Act. The son of Elizabeth and of Sir
John Devenish (of Hellingly in Sussex) was Richard
Devenish, who with his son and heir Thomas (fn. 46) was
dealing with a third part of a third part of the manor of
Faxton in 1532. (fn. 47) In 1534 one whole third was in the
hands of Sir Roger Copley (husband of Eleanor's
daughter Anne), who settled it on himself and his wife
Elizabeth and their heirs male, with remainder to his
daughters Mary Shurley, widow, Brigit and Catherine
Copley. (fn. 48)
Robert Tempest was the second husband of
Katharine, daughter of Lionel, Lord Welles. Her
first husband was Sir Thomas de la Launde, (fn. 49) of Horbling, executed at Grantham, 1470, by whom she had
two daughters and co-heirs, Joan, married to William
Denton of Denton, and Margaret, wife of Thomas
Berkeley. (fn. 50) By Robert Tempest she had a son John, who
died 1509, leaving two daughters and co-heirs, Margaret, who seems to have died in infancy, and Anne who
married Sir Edward Bullen, uncle to King Henry VIII's
wife. (fn. 51) Katharine's grandson Thomas, the son of William Denton, (fn. 52) was holding the manor of Faxton in
1536, (fn. 53) and in 1541 conveyed one-ninth of it to Joseph
Saunders, (fn. 54) who in 1544 died seised of this ninth, held
of the king by knight service, leaving an infant son
Mark. (fn. 55) A ninth held by Katharine's other grandchild
Anne Tempest and her husband Edward Bullen was
dealt with by them in 1549; (fn. 56) and, in 1552, Thomas
Devenish, with his son and heir William, sold to
Anthony Pelham, of Mayfield in Sussex, their reversion
of the ninth part of Faxton Manor, of which Edward
Bullen and Dame Alice RadclyfF, widow, formerly wife
of Richard Devenish, were seised for life. (fn. 57) The Copley
ninth was in 1566 conveyed by Thomas Copley and
his wife Katharine to Sir Edward Dymock, (fn. 58) who had
inherited one third of the manor from his grandmother
Margaret, the third daughter of Lionel, Lord Welles,
and Sir Thomas Dymock (beheaded with Lords Richard
and Robert Welles), the parents of Sir Robert Dymock
mentioned in the Act of 1503.
Another share was inherited from Katharine Tempest, the daughter and co-heir of Lionel, Lord Welles,
by Margaret, the daughter and co-heir of Katharine by
her first husband, Thomas de la Launde. Margaret,
marrying Sir Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham, left a
son and heir Maurice, whose son and heir John died
s.p.; his share then passed to his sister Elizabeth, who
married Robert Pakenham, Clerk of the Green Cloth. (fn. 59)
Robert died on 30 August 1552, and Elizabeth in the
same year settled the manor on her son Robert Pakenham, and afterwards married Robert Lyvesey, of Tooting Bee, Surrey. Her son Robert Pakenham succeeded
her at her death on 24 October 1573. (fn. 60)
The Devenish share which had been acquired by
Anthony Pelham was in 1577 conveyed by his son
Herbert Pelham (fn. 61) to Thomas Morgan, (fn. 62) who with his
wife Mary was dealing with two-ninths of the manor
in 1578. (fn. 63) It seems possible that some additional portion
of the manor had passed into Saunders hands as early
as 1560, and before 1578 this also had passed to
Thomas Morgan.
The ninth acquired by Joseph Saunders from
Edward Bullen had passed at the death of Joseph's son
Mark in 1563, before his second birthday, to Joseph's
daughter Anne, then married to Philip Hanard, by
whom it was conveyed to Sir Edward Saunders, (fn. 64) Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, in 1566. (fn. 65) Joseph Saunders
evidently belonged to the family from which Sir
Christopher Hatton's mother came. (fn. 66) Sir Edward died
on 12 November 1575, when his heir was his daughter
Mary, wife of Thomas Morgan. (fn. 67) Thomas was the son
of Francis Morgan, judge of the King's Bench in Queen
Mary's reign, from whom he inherited a moiety of
Newbold, and brother of Anthony Morgan of Heyford (q.v.). His father-in-law, Sir Edward Saunders,
was apparently a brother of Francis Saunders of Welford who married as his first wife Elizabeth, daughter
of George Carew, by whom he had two sons, Edward
Saunders of Brixworth, and Francis. William (his son
by his second wife, Eleanor Chaloner), who succeeded
him at Welford, (fn. 68) also married a Morgan. The manor
was the subject of various transactions between these
families in the ensuing years, and in 1583 six ninths of
the manor were in the hands of Edward Saunders, (fn. 69) of
Brixworth. They were conveyed by him to Richard
Purefey, (fn. 70) who was returned with Francis Nicolls at
a court baron for Orlingbury Hundred held on 4 April
1586, as owing suit of court for their joint purchase of
Faxton Manor from Thomas Morgan. (fn. 71) But in 1587
the Privy Council wrote that Richard Purefey of
Faxton had received great sums of money from one
John Byrd of London for purchasing the manor of
Faxton, and undertaken to pay a rent-charge of £100
out of the manor to the said John Byrd, whom he now
required to transfer his interest in the same to a stranger,
and Thomas Morgan was ordered to make no conveyance of his interest in the manor to a stranger until the
matter had been settled in the Star Chamber, (fn. 72) and
apparently the sale to Francis Nicolls was not then
completed. In 1586 a fresh conveyance of six ninths
of the manor was made by William Saunders to Richard
Purefey, (fn. 73) and the whole manor had in 1596 come into
the possession of Thomas Morgan and his wife Mary. (fn. 74)
On 12 January 1599 Thomas Morgan made a settlement of the manors of Heyford, Faxton, and half of
Newbold on his wife Mary and on Anthony Morgan
of Aynho, his brother and heir apparent, upon the
occasion of the marriage of Anthony Morgan of Llanfihangel alias Michael's Church, co. Monmouth (afterwards of Church Over, co. Warwick) with Brigit,
daughter of the first said Anthony, with contingent
remainders in default of issue male to Francis Morgan
of Kingsthorpe; to Nicholas, brother of the said Francis;
to Thomas Morgan, citizen and grocer of London, son
and heir of John Morgan; to Francis, eldest son of
Augustine Crisp of Buskton, and to Ann wife of Francis
Lovett. (fn. 75) He died 5 September 1603, his wife Mary
surviving him. His heir, his brother Anthony of
Aynho, was aged fifty and more, and with Mary
Morgan, widow, and other members of the family
he conveyed the whole manor by fine to Augustine
Nicolls in 1606. (fn. 76)
Nicolls. Sable three broad-arrow heads or.
Sir Augustine died at Kendal while judge of assize
on 3 August 1616, in his 58th year. (fn. 77) He was succeeded
at Faxton by his nephew Francis
Nicolls of Hardwick, son and heir
of Francis Nicolls of the same,
Governor of Tilbury Fort. (fn. 78)
Francis was of the Middle Temple, M.P. for the county, and
sheriff, and was created a baronet
in 1641. He married Mary,
daughter of Edward Bagshawe.
Sir Francis Nicolls died on 4
March 1642, and was buried at
Hardwick, being succeeded there
and at Faxton by his son Sir Edward, who under
the Commonwealth appears to have enjoyed the high
regard of the local Puritans, (fn. 79) being appointed to the
Northamptonshire Committee 1644, and sheriff of
the county 1657–8. (fn. 80) Francis Morgan was holding
the manor in 1661, presumably for purposes of conveyance or settlement. (fn. 81) Sir Edward Nicolls died
28 February 1683, and was buried at Faxton. His heir
was Sir Edward Nicolls, 3rd baronet, his only son (by
his second wife Jane, eighth daughter of Sir Peter Soame,
bart.), (fn. 82) who died s.p. in 1717, when Faxton passed to
his two sisters, Susanna, wife of Sir John Danvers, and
Jane, first married to John Raynsford, and then to . . .
Kemsey. (fn. 83) Lady Danvers and Mrs. Kemsey were holding the manor when Bridges wrote; and it next passed
into the hands of the Raynsfords, the descendants of
Jane by her first husband. At the passing of the
Inclosure Act in 1744–5, John Nicolls Raynsford of
Brixworth was lord of the manor, and as such seised
of 1,135 acres in the Netherfield, Middlefield, and
Upperfield, 'in Faxton within the parish of Lamport'
then inclosed. (fn. 84) It remained in the hands of the Raynsfords of Brixworth (q.v.) until Nicolls Raynsford in
1785 with his wife Mary conveyed it to Sir James
Langham, bart., of Cottesbrooke, (fn. 85) with which manor
it has since then descended.
Mawsley Wood is referred to from an early date.
In 1292 Thomas de Lodinton received licence to
inclose with a small dyke and low hedge, bring into
cultivation, and hold in fee simple, 5 acres in Mawsley
Wood within the Forest of Rockingham. (fn. 86) An extent
of the manor of 1314 includes a wood, presumably this
wood, within the forest. (fn. 87) The hamlet of Mawsley in
which it lies gave its name to a hundred at the date of
the Domesday Survey, but before 1316 this had been
included in that of Orlingbury. (fn. 88) When Bridges wrote
it was 'an hamlet of one or two cottages and a wood'
and had always been held with the manor. (fn. 89) It was an
extra-parochial district until annexed by Act of Parliament to Faxton.
Church
The church of ST. DENIS stands in an
isolated position in the fields and consists
of chancel, 22 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 4 in.;
clerestoried nave of four bays, 42 ft. 8 in. by 18 ft. 6 in.;
and south aisle, 7 ft. 9 in. wide, all these measurements
being internal. Over the west gable is a bell-cote containing two bells.
The building is largely of 13th-century date, but
incorporates parts of a 12th-century chapel, the north
doorway being of that period, and possibly the jambs
of a doorway now in the aisle. New windows were
inserted in the chancel and one in the aisle in the 14th
century and the chancel arch was then reconstructed.
The clerestory is an addition of the 15 th century, as is
probably the double-gabled bell-cote. The chancel is
of coursed stone, without buttresses, and has a modern
slated eaved roof. The east window (fn. 90) is of three trefoiled
lights with geometrical tracery, but is wholly restored,
and there is a modern two-light window of the same
style in the north wall. The south wall is blank, except
for a plain lancet at its west end which has a transom
at about a third of its height, the lower opening, now
blocked, having formed a low-side window. The blocking consists of a single stone, through which a small
oblong hole (now glazed) has been cut. (fn. 91) In a similar
position opposite in the north wall is a rectangular
window of the same height, but slightly narrower and
undivided, and with slightly sloping sill. (fn. 92) In the usual
position in the south wall is a square-headed piscina with
projecting circular bowl moulded on the edge, and
above it, forming one composition, a cupboard for the
cruets. The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders
with hood-mould on each side, the inner order resting
on half-octagonal responds with moulded bases and
oak-leaf capitals.
The arches of the nave arcade are of two chamfered
orders springing from octagonal pillars with moulded
capitals and bases, and a moulded corbel at each end,
that at the east supported by a head. Two of the
windows in the north wall are double lancets and the
third a 15th-century insertion: the doorway has a
round arch of a single square order. At the east end
of the aisle is a double lancet with circle in the head, and
in the south wall a trefoil-headed piscina and two
windows, one with forked mullion and the other of two
trefoiled ogee lights. There is also a small roundheaded window high in the wall near the west end,
probably a later insertion. The clerestory windows are
square-headed and of two lights. The 15th-century
nave roof has moulded tie-beams, and wall-pieces on
carved stone corbels, but is now in a bad condition.
The west bay of the nave is partitioned off up to the
roof, and forms a vestry.
The font is a relic of the 12th-century church, and
has a plain circular bowl, short stem, and chamfered
base. On the north side of the bowl is a small rudelycut rectangular recess.
The pulpit is modern and the square deal pews are
in a very dilapidated condition. Services in the church
are infrequent.
Above the nave arcade, between the two clerestory
windows, is a black and white marble monument to
Sir Augustine Nicolls, kt., who 'having laboured in the
high and painful calling of a most revered and just
Judge for the space of four years fell under the heavy
burden at Kendall sitting there Justice of Assize and
coming to give judgement upon others, by his comfortable and Christian departure received, we assuredly
believe, his judgement with mercy, in the year of our
Lord 1616, the third day of August'. Sir Augustine is
represented in his judge's robes kneeling before a desk,
between the figures of Justice and Wisdom, and with
his shield of arms above. The monument was restored
in 1705.
There are also mural monuments to Sir Edward
Nicolls, bart. (d. 1682), Susannah Danvers, a benefactor (d. 1730), John Nicolls Raynsford (d. 1746), Mrs.
Hester Raynsford, widow of Francis Raynsford and
daughter of Sir Justinian Isham (d. 1763), Elizabeth,
wife of John Flamwell (d. 1781), and Elizabeth, widow
of the above John Nicolls Raynsford (d. 1810).
The two bells are dated 1703; the smaller, now
badly broken and long disused, bears also the name of
the founder, Henry Penn of Peterborough.
The plate consists of a silver cup and paten of 1670,
the former inscribed 'For Faxton Chappell 1671'.
There is also a pewter plate inscribed 'For Faxon
Chappel 1753'.
The registers before 1812 are contained in a single
volume, beginning with baptisms in 1753 and marriages
in 1756.
Advowson
The church was given to the priory
of Lewes, in Sussex, by Guy de
Balliol (fn. 93) in the 12th century, and about
1180 the prior complained that Thomas, rector of
Lamport, with the connivance of Simon Malesoures,
caused the bodies of dead parishioners of Faxton to be
buried at Lamport. The dispute was settled by the
priory giving up all their rights in Faxton in return for
an annual payment of 40s. from the rector of Lamport. (fn. 94)
About 40 years later payment of this sum, then stated
to be for two parts of the tithe of corn from the demesne
of Ingeram de Dumart, was enforced against William
de Walda, then rector. (fn. 95) It is probable that from its
foundation the church of Faxton was always, as after
1208 it certainly has been, a chapel of ease to Lamport
(q.v.), being served by the same incumbent.
An allotment in lieu of the glebe land (then containing about 36 acres) was made by the Inclosure Act of
1745; (fn. 96) when also instead of tithes from the three
Common Fields, and the swape of a piece of ground
called the Fallow Meadow, a rent-charge of £80 on the
lands of the lord of the manor was substituted.
Charities
Four tenements or almshouses were
erected in 1736 by Mrs. Jane Kemsey,
then a lady of the manor, for four poor
widows, for whom her sister, Dame Susannah Danvers,
the other lady of the manor, left a rent-charge in 1730
arising out of land in Pitsford. (fn. 97)