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14 Boughfon, NoyiJiamptonshire.
a Mablethorp, but as Sir Henry, the Lord Chief Justice, was the only
Grene who achieved legal eminence, and the arms upon the tomb indicate
his family connections, it ma}^ safely be appropriated to Sir Henry Grene,
who always signed himself " de Buckton." In 1724, the church was in'
ruins, portions of the wall only remaining, but the churchyard was used as
a place of burial. The present church, a chapel, which consists of a western
tower, body, and chancel, stands about in the middle of the village and
was rebuilt in 1806 and consecrated in 1808.
Boughton Fair was granted by charter 28th February, 1351 (25
Edward HI.) to Sir Henry Grene, Chief Justice of England, and became the
most celebrated in that part of the kingdom. It is annually proclaimed in
the name of the Lord of the Manor, and is still held (1880) on the green con-
tiguous to the old church at Boughton on three days—the vigil, the day,
and the morrow of St. John the Baptist. In the time of Edward I. (1272-
1307), William de Nutricilla, Abbot of St. Wandregisile, made conveyance
of the lands which belonged to the Monastery of Boughton to John de
Boketon, from whom they descended to Sir Thomas Boketon. This John
(see Greenes of Northamptonshire, p. 5) was grandfather of the Sir Thomas
who first took the name of de la Grene, it is said, from the noted green at
Boughton Manor ( ?) . The stately Manor House has been entirely removed
and a large modern house takes its place. Of the original 1400 acres which
the Manor contained, 600 were held in small holdings; the remainder, 800
acres, falling into the possession of the Howard-Vyse family in the following
manner: Anne, eldest daughter of the sixth Sir Thomas Grene of Boughton
and Grene 's Norton, married Nicholas, Lord Vaux. The Manor remained in
the family till about 1700, when it was piorchased by Thomas Wentworth,
third Lord Stafford, whose second daughter married Sir George Howard.
They had issue: Anne Howard, only daughter and heiress, who married
Richard Vyse, Colonel of 3d Dragoon Guards, and in 181 2 Comptroller of the
household of the Duke of Cambridge. He was the son of Rev. Wm. Vyse,
Canon of Litchfield, buried in Litchfield Cathedral, 1770, with his wife,
Catharine (daughter of Richard Smallbroke, Bishop of Litchfield), who died
August I, 1 712. They had a son, Richard Howard-Vyse of Bruynston and
Stoke Place, County Bucks. He assumed the name Howard before Vyse;
was Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire, 1812, 1815, 1825. His
son, Rev. George Charles Ernest Adolphus Richard Howard-Vyse, was bom
at Stoke, July 27th, and baptized September 16, 181 2. He was Lord of
the Manor and rector of the church at Boughton. (Authorities: Baker's
Bridge's History of Northampton-
History of Northamptonshire, vol. i., p. 31 ;
shire; Notes of H. G. Somerby from London.)