Boone Volume II Footnotes for Fermor-Farmer Family

Footnotes – Easton Neston & the Fermor-Farmer Family
77 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1898), 74; the tithe award (N.R.O., T 188). gives a figure of 1,703 a.
78 The help of Christian, Lady Hesketh, and Dr Dorothy Rice with this account is gratefully
acknowledged.
79 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 42.
80 V.C.H. Northants., i. 326.
81 P.R.O., E 179/155/31.
82 P.R.O., E 179/155/130 (30 names), E 179/155/140 (33 names).
83 Below, this section.
84 P.R.O., E 179/254/14.
85 Below, this section.
86 Baker, Northants, ii. 153; below, this section; econ. hist.
87 Eyre and Jefferys, Map of Northants. (1779).
88 35 Geo. III, c. CLIII.
89 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/9; Maps 2923/2967.
90 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/11; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1680- 1, 246.
91 S.C. Jenkins, The Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway (1990), 40.
92 Ibid., 101-4.
93 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 42.
94 Ibid., 42-3.
95 Below, manors and other estates.
96 Cal. Pat. 1494-1509, 163; below, Easton Neston House and Park.
97 Leadam, Domesday of Incls., 284-5.
98 Below, Easton Neston House and Park.
99 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 43-4.
1 Baker, Northants. ii. 153; R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 43-5.
2 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 44.
3 N.R.O., Map 2967.
4 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 46-7.
5 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/3/9, E/4/10, E/5/10-11, E/7/12, E/8/6, E/9/2-4, E/9/6, E/9/8, E/9/10,
E/9/12, E/11/ 1-2, E/12/3, E/12/9, E/13/4-6, E/14/2-3, E/14/5, E/14/9, E/ 14/12, E/17/7, E/19/4,
E/19/8, E/24/5, E/25/4.
6 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/3/4-8, E/4/4, E/4/8, E/5/ 4-5, E/5/9, E/7/10, E/8/1, E/8/7-8, E/10/7,
E/21/2, E/21/6a, E/22/1, E/23/2, E/24/5, E/27/2, E/29/1.
7 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, D/2/20, E/4/3, E/4/5-6, E/5/ 2-3, E/7/7, E/21/8, E/22/9, E/23/9a-b,
E/26/12, E/27/8, E/30/ 1. E/10/1-2 (a deed of exchange and its counterpart) convey land in the
fields of Easton Neston and other land in the fields of Hulcote, establishing beyond doubt the
point made here.
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8 Below, manors and other estates.
9 Below, econ. hist.
10 V.C.H. Northants., i. 326.
11 N.R.O., Map 2917.
12 Baker, Northants., ii. 138; below, econ. hist.
13 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 45-6.
14 N.R.O., Map 2923.
15 P.N. Northants., 99.
16 V.C.H. Northants., i. 326; see below, manors and other estates.
17 Below, manors and other estates.
18 P.R.O., E 315/398, f. 14; E 315/399, ff. 122r.-v.; E 315/ 289 passim.
19 Below, manors and other estates.
20 Below, econ. hist.
21 Below, Easton Neston House and Park.
22 Bryant, Map of Northants. (1827).
23 Below, educ.
24 Below, econ. hist.
25 Below, econ. hist.
26 O.S. Map, 1/10,560, Northants. LVI (1880 and 1900 edns.); below, econ. hist.
27 Below, econ. hist.
28 Cal. Pat. 1494-1509, 163-4.
29 Below, manors and other estates.
30 Leadam, Domesday of Incls., 284-5.
31 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xv. 309-10.
32 Ibid., xx (1), 271; P.R.O., E 318/28/1605, m. 4.
33 Eyre and Jefferys, Map of Northants.
34 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 46-7.
35 The Diary of Baron Waldstein, trans. G.W. Groos (1981), 115-17.
36 P.R.O., C 142/26/21.
37 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xv. 309-10.
38 Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 190.
39 Connoisseur, Nov. 1964, 143; the painting has not been located.
40 Pevsner, Northants., 204-5; the rainwater heads are dated.
41 Ibid., 205.
42 Below, econ. hist.
43 Northants. in the early 18th century, 52.
44 Bridges, Northants., i. 289.
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45 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, I/11; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1680- 1, 246.
46 Below, manors and other estates.
47 D.E.L. Haynes, The Arundel Marbles (1975), 14-15; B. Fairfax, A Catalogue of the Curious
Collection of Pictures of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingam (1758), 53-9.
48 The following account generally follows K. Downes, 'Hawksmoor's house at Easton Neston',
Architectural History, xxx (1987), 50-76; H.M. Colvin, 'Easton Neston reconsidered', Country
Life, Oct. 1970, 968-71; and Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 193-5.
49 Downes, 'Hawksmoor's house', 50-4.
50 Ibid., 54-5.
51 Morton, Nat. Hist. Northants., 495; N.R.O., Map 2967.
52 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/6.
53 Morton, Nat. Hist. Northants., 495.
54 Cf. Downes, 'Hawksmoor's house' 55; Colvin, 'Easton Neston', 969-70.
55 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
56 Datestone.
57 Downes, 'Hawksmoor's house', 57-8.
58 Ibid., 51.
59 As illustrated in Vitruvius Britannicus, i (1715).
60 S. Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789, (1984) 92-3.
61 Fairfax, Catalogue, 58.
62 Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 199.
63 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/6, for Mich. 1694, Mich. 1701 and Lady Day 1708, each of which
includes payments during the six months following the date on which the rental with which the
account begins was made up. These documents have not been referred to in previous studies of
Easton Neston.
64 Below, Paulerspury, econ. hist.
65 R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851 (1968), 122.
66 Cf. Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 10, 79 for the use of Hornton stone for
paving at Aynho Park.
67 Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 197- 200; Pevsner, Northants., 202-4.
68 i.e. Eyre and Jefferys, Map of Northants.
69 Below, econ. hist.
70 N.R.O., ZA 4207; Fermor-Hesketh, G/1.
71 Complete Peerage, x. 573n.
72 Eyre and Jefferys, Map of Northants.
73 Below, Stoke Bruerne, intro.
74 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/6.
75 Fairfax, Catalogue, 54-5.
76 Northants. in the early 18th century, 52.
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77 Below, econ. hist.
78 Above, intro.
79 N.R.O., Maps 2967 and 2923.
80 Bryant, Map of Northants.; and O.S. Map, 1/63,360 (1835).
81 O.S. Map, 1/10,560, Northants. LVI (1880).
82 Below, Stoke Bruerne, intro.
83 Bryant, Map of Northants.
84 Heward and Taylor, Northants. Country Houses, 200.
85 N.R.O., Faculty Regs., iii. 303-4.
86 Below, Paulerspury, manors and other estates.
87 H.M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (1975 edn.), 669; Country Life, 7
Nov. 1908, 635.
88 Below, manors and other estates; econ. hist.
89 Cf. N.R.O., Maps 2967 and 2923 (1806) with Map 2917 (1844).
90 N.R.O., ML 1116, p. 231; 364P/5 (newscutting, 8 Oct. 1853 pasted in).
91 Below, manors and other estates; econ. hist.
92 Country Life, 14 Nov. 1908, 666-8; Connoisseur, Oct. 1964, 75; Heward and Taylor, Northants.
Country Houses, 200; Pevsner, Northants., 203.
93 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
94 Dept. of the Environment, List of Buildings of Special Archit. and Hist. Interest; Lord
Aberdare, The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets (1980), 221.
95 Cf. O.S. Map, 1/10,560, Northants. LVI (1900 edn.); N.R.O., Map 2917.
96 Country Life, 7 Nov. 1908, 638.
97 Below, manors and other estates.
98 Country Life, 20 Aug. 1927, 268, 303; Connoisseur, Nov. 1964, 148.
99 N.R.O., ROP 1348; Connoisseur, Nov. 1964, 148.
1 V.C.H. Northants., i. 326.
2 Below, this section.
3 Baker, Northants., i. 120.
4 Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), 11; Cal. Inq. p. m., iii. 460.
5 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, A/19.
6 Below, this section.
7 V.C.H. Northants., i. 374.
8 Red Bk. Exch., ii. 728.
9 Bk. of Fees, ii. 939.
10 Ibid., i. 497.
11 Cal. Chart. R., i. 253; Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste (Cant. & York Soc. x), 198.
12 Below, church.
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13 N.R.O., FH 154.
14 Feud. Aids, iv. 5.
15 P.R.O., E 327/165.
16 B.L., Add. Ch. 21856.
17 B.L., Add. Ch. 21857.
18 B.L., Add. Ch. 21854.
19 P.R.O., E 143/159/10; Cal. Pat. 1327-30, 265.
20 P.R.O., E 143/199/15; E 326/2749.
21 B.L., Cott. Ch. xi. 41.
22 Cal. Pat. 1330-4, 518.
23 Cat. Anct. D., ii. 331-2; Cal. Pat. 1340-3, 445.
24 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, 445.
25 D.N.B., xiii. 574-5.
26 Cal. Close 1343-6, 429.
27 P.R.O., E 326/2748.
28 Cal. Pat. 1343-5, 543, 546, 548, 551; Cal. Close 1343- 6, 603, 606.
29 Black Prince's Reg., iv. 21, 39, 96.
30 Cal. Close 1369-74, 47.
31 Cal. Inq. p. m., xv. 75; Cal. Close 1377-81, 443.
32 Cal. Inq. p. m., xvii. 28-9; Cal. Close 1389-92, 391-2; P.R.O., E 136/146/12 m. 3.
33 N.R.O., FH 168, ff. 69v.-72v.
34 Feud. Aids, iv. 43.
35 N.R.O., FH 197, ff. 45-7.
36 Cal. Close 1476-85, 283-4.
37 P.R.O., CP 25/1/179/98/54; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh U/35/1.
38 Cal. Pat. 1494-1509, 163-4; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/35/5.
39 Bull. Inst. Hist. Res., lv. 35-49.
40 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh E/28/2, E/2/1, E/28/4-5, U/ 35/3-4, E/31/3, D/14/2; below, this section,
for Empson's purchases of the Bacon estate and the manor of Hulcote.
41 P.R.O., C 142/26/21.
42 L. & P. Hen. VIII, i. 524-5.
43 Statutes of the Realm, iii. 64-5.
44 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/32/3; P.R.O., C 12/12/37.
45 V.C.H. Oxon., vi. 292.
46 B.L., Eg. MS. 1938, ff. 98-106.
47 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, D/15/7-8, D/15/5; P.R.O., E 36/174.
48 P.R.O., STAC 2/15/44, STAC 2/32/22.
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49 L. & P. Hen. VIII, vi. 228, 398; ibid. vii, 348.
50 J. J. Scarisbrick, 'Religion and politics in Northants. in the reign of Henry VIII', Northants. P. &
P., v. 87-8; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xv. 309-10; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh F/25/11.
51 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvi. 464; ibid., xvii. 167-8.
52 Ibid., xvii. 12.
53 Ibid., xvii. 103; P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/2760-2762.
54 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xx (1), 675.
55 In 1545 Sir William Fermor made a request to purchase an unidentified manor, parsonage and
other premises, for which the particulars are lost (P.R.O., E 318/24/1316). It is possible that this
represented an earlier, unsuccessful attempt to recover Easton Neston.
56 Cal. Pat. 1547-8, 183.
57 Ibid. 1550-3, 22-3; below, this section, for Sewardsley priory.
58 P.R.O., C 1/1370/99-102.
59 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, F/23/4, D/28/13.
60 P.R.O., C 142/94/30; Cal. Pat. 1550-3, 228.
61 Cal. Pat. 1553-4, 281.
62 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, D/18/6.
63 Cal. Pat. 1569-72, 451.
64 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
65 P.R.O., C 66/1380, mm. 23-5; N.R.O., FermorHesketh, H/1/4; V.C.H. Beds., iii. 452.
66 P.R.O., C 142/335/9; C 66/2046, no. 13; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/1/5.
67 P.R.O., C 66/2032, mm. 28-31.
68 V.C.H. Beds., iii. 452.
69 P.R.O., C 66/2144, no. 6; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/1/6.
70 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/35/8-9.
71 Ibid., H/3/4-5; Baker, Northants., ii. 143.
72 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/9; G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, ii. 143.
73 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1640-1, 218.
74 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/9, H/1/8, H/3/8.
75 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, ii. 143.
76 Below, econ. hist.
77 Complete Peerage, vii. 613-14.
78 Ibid., x. 573.
79 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 74/15; Complete Peerage, x. 575.
80 Complete Peerage, x. 575.
81 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/1.
82 Complete Peerage, x. 575-6.
83 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, v. 122; N.R.O., ZA 1360; WFE 151; Fermor-Hesketh, V/10.
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84 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, v. 122.
85 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, S/5; Complete Peerage, xiii. 546.
86 N.R.O., Diocesan Recs., Transfer of Patronage 42.
87 Complete Peerage, xiii. 546.
88 Ibid., xiv. 721.
89 V.C.H. Northants., i. 348.
90 Bk. of Fees, ii. 499.
91 Cal. Inq. Misc., i. 52-3.
92 Feud. Aids, iv. 43.
93 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, D/17/8, D/19/9, E/26/10, E/ 1/5-6; P.R.O., CP 25/1/179/96.
94 V.C.H. Northants., i. 342; V.C.H. Bucks., i. 272; The Beauchamp Cartulary Charters 1100-1268
(Pipe R. Soc., N.S. xliii), p. xxvii.
95 Above, Cosgrove, manors and other estates.
96 V.C.H. Northants., i. 348.
97 Red Bk. Exch., ii. 728; above, this section.
98 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/5/8; Feud. Aids, iv. 43.
99 Bk. of Fees, ii. 939.
1 Below, church.
2 Bk. of Fees, ii. 931, 938.
3 Cal. Inq. p. m., ii. 47-8.
4 Feud. Aids, iv. 5.
5 N.R.O., FH 148, p. 68.
6 Baker, Northants., ii. 152.
7 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/22/2-3; Feud. Aids, iv. 43.
8 P.R.O., CP 25/1/177/80/446.
9 P.R.O., PROB 11/7, ff. 45r.-v.
10 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/20/2, E/29/2-4, E/31/5- 10, E/21/11, E/22/12, E/29/7-8, E/30/7-12,
U/35/6.
11 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/2/1, U/35/3-4, E/31/3; P.R.O., CP 25/1/179/97/3-5.
12 P.R.O., E 326/3229 (Robert de Chesney was bishop from 1148 to 1166); V.C.H. Northants., ii.
125-7.
13 P.R.O., E 210/10867.
14 P.R.O., E 326/2743.
15 P.R.O., E 326/8831.
16 Pipe R. 1180 (P.R.S. xxix), 84; Pipe R. 1181 (P.R.S. xxx), 72.
17 P.R.O., E 326/2733, E 326/2740, E 326/2741, E 326/ 1576.
18 P.R.O., E 326/3982, E 326/3989, E 326/8626.
19 P.R.O., E 326/2734, E 326/2739, E 326/1579, E 326/ 1580, E 326/1576, E 326/1577, E
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326/174, E 326/3990.
20 P.R.O., E 326/2738, E 326/2736.
21 P.R.O., E 326/15.
22 B.L., Add. Ch. 7540; P.R.O., E 326/4057, E 210/9131, E 210/3507, E 326/3977, E 326/8524, E
326/3994, E 210/1934; E 326/1577, E 326/2735, E 326/2750; Baker, Northants. ii. 153; Cal.
Pat. 1281-92, 382; Madox, Formulare, 424-5.
23 P.R.O., E 326/10373, E 326/6712, E 326/6393; Cat. Anct. D., i. 328, ii. 326, 333, 348, 381.
24 P.R.O., E 315/209, ff. 30r.-v.
25 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvii. 12.
26 Cal. Pat. 1550-3, 22-3; above, this section.
27 Cal. Pat. 1569-72, 150; 1578-80, 65; N.R.O., FH 148, p. 325.
28 Below, econ. hist.; Paulerspury, econ. hist.; Stoke Bruerne, econ. hist.
29 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
30 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 45-6; Assoc. Archit. Soc. Rep. & Papers, iv. 142-4; N.R.O., NAS
55/33.
31 R.C.H.M. Northants., iv. 45-6; Assoc. Archit. Soc. Rep. & Papers, iv. 139.
32 P.R.O., C 66/1058, mm. 30-1.
33 P.R.O., E 309/7/23/23 Eliz./4/11, reciting the lease of 1569, although that did not include
premises in Hulcote (unless there has been orthographic confusion between Hulcote and
Heathencote).
34 Cf. P.R.O., C 66/1058, mm. 30-1 and E 309/7/23 Eliz./ 4/11.
35 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/4/2.
36 Ibid., E/3/2.
37 Cal. Pat. 1557-8, 313-21.
38 P.R.O., E 143/314/2.
39 P.R.O., C 66/1289, m. 30.
40 V.C.H. Northants., i. 348.
41 Above, landscape and settlement.
42 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
43 P.R.O., E 36/174, pp. 86-9.
44 P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/2760-2762.
45 Above, Honor of Grafton.
46 P.R.O., E 310/5/1/73, 76, 77, 87; N.R.O., FermorHesketh, E/32/4.
47 P.R.O., E 315/365, ff. 35r.-v.
48 Cal. Pat. 1550-3, 22-3.
49 P.R.O., E 318/28/1605, m. 4.
50 Val. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 328; P.R.O., E 315/398, f. 14.
51 P.R.O., E 315/399, ff. 122r-v.
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52 P.R.O., E 315/209, ff. 30r.-v.
53 P.R.O., E 315/289, ff. 56, 62v., 67, 75, 80, 86r.-v., 91, 97v.
54 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvii. 12; above, manors and other estates.
55 P.R.O., E 318/28/1605, m. 12; Cal. Pat. 1550-3, 22-3; above, manors and other estates; below,
Paulerspury; Stoke Bruerne, manors and other estates.
56 P.R.O., C 142/162/126; N.R.O., FH 144, ff. 114-15; Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
57 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
58 Above, Honor of Grafton.
59 N.R.O, Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
60 P.R.O., C 142/335/9; C 66/2046, no. 13; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/1/5.
61 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/4-5; Baker, Northants., ii. 143.
62 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, ii. 143; N.R.O., FermorHesketh, H/3/9.
63 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1640-1, 218.
64 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/9, H/1/8, H/3/8.
65 Ibid., H/3/10-12.
66 Ibid., H/3/15-17.
67 Cal. Comm. Money, 663-4.
68 Cal. Comm. Compounding, 1063-4.
69 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/14A.
70 Ibid., H/3/13; G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, ii. 143.
71 Cal. Comm. Compounding, 1063.
72 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/14C.
73 Ibid., U/35/10-15.
74 Cal. Comm. Compounding, 1063.
75 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/35/12; H/3/20-21.
76 N.R.O., 112p/51; Glebe terriers, 1783-92.
77 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/14C.
78 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, ii. 143.
79 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/25-30.
80 Ibid., H/3/31-32.
81 Ibid., H/3/35.
82 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1680-1, 246; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/1/11.
83 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
84 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/33.
85 Ibid., H/3/29.
86 Ibid., H/3/35.
87 Ibid., 1/6; Sewardsley is not identified by name on this occasion but a partial rental of 1691
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(ibid., H/3/35) includes three tenements at Sewardsley, one of which (Widow Whitney, £95) is
presumably for the capital messuage there.
88 Ibid., 1/6.
89 Ibid.
90 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
91 Complete Peerage, x. 573.
92 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/3.
93 Complete Peerage, x. 573.
94 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/3.
95 Ibid., 1/6; below, this section, for the inclusion of the water-mill in this round of leasing.
96 N.R.O., Misc. QS 293, i. 55.
97 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/2, U/3; ZA 4207.
98 Ibid., U/2, U/3.
99 Ibid., I/6.
1 Ibid., U/2, U/3; G 103-G 149.
2 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, U/3; V.C.H. Beds., iii. 452.
3 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, box 75/2-3; box 74/23.
4 Ibid., box 74/3, 6, 16, 17, 22.
5 Ibid., I/6.
6 Complete Peerage, x. 574; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 74/21.
7 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, N/2.
8 Below, this section.
9 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, S/3. Anthony Bacon the iron merchant was also involved with this
affair.
10 Complete Peerage, x. 575.
11 V.C.H. Rutland, ii. 236-7.
12 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, G/1, Pomfret v. Pomfret, Lord Pomfret's answer. Lady Pomfret
claimed her family estate was worth £3,000 at the time of her marriage.
13 Ibid., 74/3, 18-19; 75/13; the terms and what was done under them were set out by Pomfret in
his answer to Lady Pomfret's Chancery bill (G/1).
14 Ibid., 74/14.
15 Ibid., G/1-2, papers relating to the Consistory Court divorce case and concurrent Chancery
action brought by Lady Pomfret in 1801-2, on which the following paragraphs are based. Mrs.
Browne's estate was stated by Lord Pomfret on different occasions as £47,500 and £42,700;
Lady Pomfret claimed it was £70,000.
16 Ibid., G/1-2, N/3, I/13.
17 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
18 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/30.
19 Ibid., G/2.
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20 Ibid., N/1.
21 Ibid., V/1; 74/16.
22 Ibid., T/10, U/24, V/24, V/37.
23 Ibid., V/1.
24 Ibid., V/4 notes that the 3rd earl made nine distinct purchases, but not all these can now be
identfiied.
25 Complete Peerage, x. 575-6.
26 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/2, V/5; T/1.
27 Ibid., V/2, 10; T/1.
28 Ibid., V/1-3, V/5-6, V/8, V/10-11.
29 Ibid., V/11, W/14.
30 Ibid., V/11.
31 Ibid., V/25.
32 Ibid., T/1.
33 Ibid., V/16, V/33.
34 Ibid., V/11, V/23.
35 Ibid., V/18.
36 Ibid., V/4, where this figure is given; only for those mentioned here have deeds or other papers
been located in the estate archive.
37 Ibid., V/26.
38 Ibid., V/11.
39 Ibid., V/14.
40 Ibid., V/34.
41 Ibid., V/1, V/4, V/8.
42 Ibid., V/1, V/8.
43 Ibid., V/5, V/1.
44 Ibid., V/8.
45 Ibid. The overall rate of interest on the mortgages was fractionally over 4 per cent because the
1857 mortgage of £5,000 was at 5 per cent. Earl Thomas's secretary was dead by 1866, bringing
to an end the annuity of £200.
46 Ibid., V/8, V/35.
47 N.R.O., T 188.
48 Complete Peerage, x. 575-6.
49 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/35.
50 Ibid., V/10.
51 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, v. 122; N.R.O., ZA 1360; WFE 151; Fermor-Hesketh, V/10.
52 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/10; ZA 1369-1370.
53 N.R.O., ZA 1372.
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54 N.R.O., ZA 1373.
55 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/10; Whellan's Dir. Northants. (1874), 566.
56 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/8, V/10, T/3, V/33.
57 N.R.O., ZA 1372.
58 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/10.
59 G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, v. 122.
60 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
61 Ibid., P/8, P/9, Q/6.
62 Complete Peerage, x. 576; G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, v. 122. There appear to have been no
sales at Easton between 1872 and 1883, and difference in acreage must arise from varying
treatment of land in hand. The North Riding property was the mineral estate acquired by the 2nd
Lord Pomfret at his marriage.
63 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1869), 43; Whellan's Dir. Northants. (1874), 566; Kelly's Dir.
Northants. (1877), 292; ibid. (1885), 335.
64 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/3, V/8, V10, V/33.
65 Ibid., T/1.
66 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1877), 292; C.M. Hesketh, 'Towcester Racecourse', in Towcester. The
Story of an English Country Town, ed. J. Sunderland and M. Webb (1995), 221.
67 N.R.O., ZA 1373.
68 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, P/9 (£730 for 458 a.).
69 Ibid., P/8.
70 Ibid., Q/6.
71 Ibid., P/9.
72 Ibid., T/1.
73 Ibid., Q/6.
74 Ibid., T/1. If the acreage remained unchanged from 1912 agreement, the new rent amounted to
24s. an acre.
75 Ibid., P/9.
76 Below, this section.
77 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, S/5.
78 N.R.O., ZA 3488.
79 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
80 Ibid.
81 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1854), 424; ibid. (1894), 74; ibid. (1898), 74; ibid. (1903), 77; ibid.
(1906), 81; ibid. (1910), 81; ibid. (1914), 83.
82 Ibid. (1920), 81.
83 N.R.O., Diocesan Recs., Transfer of Patronage 42.
84 Companies House, file no. 167530; Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1928), 81; (1931), 81.
85 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1924-40 edns.).
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86 Companies House, file no. 230773.
87 Hesketh, 'Towcester Racecourse', 221-2.
88 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
89 N.R.O., LG 31/8, 30 Aug., 25 Oct., 20 Dec. 1928; 4 July, 29 Aug. 1929; Hesketh, 'Towcester
Racecourse', 222.
90 Companies House, file no. 230773.
91 Mill House Investment Co. Ltd. (established c. 1935), Burcote Investment Co. Ltd. (1937),
Hayhurst Investment Co. (1939), Goldington Investment Co. (1938), Hulcote Holdings Ltd.
(1940), H.F. (Towcester) Ltd. (1944), Towcester Construction & Timber Co. Ltd. (1949):
Companies House, file nos. 167530, 230773.
92 Complete Peerage, xiii. 546.
93 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
94 N.R.O., ROP 1348.
95 Interview, Christian, Lady Hesketh.
96 Hesketh, 'Towcester Racecourse'.
97 V.C.H. Northants., i. 326.
98 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/4/1.
99 P.R.O., E 326/2743.
1 B.L., Add. Ch. 21855.
2 B.L., Add. Ch. 21852, 21853.
3 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, E/7/5.
4 Ibid., E/26/5.
5 Ibid., E/23/12, E/24/1.
6 P.R.O., C 142/26/21.
7 L. & P. Hen. VIII, i. 524-5; above, manors and other estates.
8 P.R.O., E 36/174; above, manors and other estates.
9 P.R.O., E 310/5/1/87.
10 P.R.O., E 318/28/1605, m. 4.
11 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, H/3/1.
12 N.R.O., 112p/1.
13 Ibid., H/3/13.
14 Ibid., H/3/25-30.
15 Ibid., H/3/32.
16 Ibid., U/3; I/6.
17 Ibid., I/6.
18 Ibid., E/3.
19 Ibid., U/3, referring to premises in Towcester, Easton Neston, Hulcote, Caldecote, Wood
Burcote and Shutlanger, of which only the first two had water-mills at that period.
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20 Baker, Northants., ii. 138.
21 Above, intro.
22 P.R.O., C 142/26/21.
23 Above, Easton Neston House and Park.
24 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, 1/6.
25 N.R.O., Map 2967; Bryant, Map of Northants.
26 N.R.O., T 188; Fermor-Hesketh, T/1; 112p/35.
27 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, V/22, V/31.
28 Ibid., W/14.
29 Ibid., V/11.
30 Ibid., V/33.
31 Ibid., T/1; ZA 1373; R. O'Rourke, 'Some Northants. brickworks', Bull. Ind. Arch. in C.B.A.
Group 9, no. 13 (1970), 24.
32 P.R.O., BT 31/1958/8270; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/8.
33 P.R.O., BT 31/1958/8270; E. Tonks, The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands, iii (1989), 62-4;
P. Riden and J. G. Owen, British Blast Furnace Statistics, 1790-1980 (1995), 105.
34 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/8.
35 P.R.O., BT 31/1958/8270.
36 P.R.O., BT 31/2464/12591; Riden and Owen, Blast Furnace Statistics, 105.
37 P.R.O., BT 31/2442/12393; C.C. Owen, 'The Greatest Brewery in the World' (Derby. Rec. Soc.
xix).
38 N.R.O., Main Series dep. plan 169; P.R.O., RAIL 1066/901.
39 P.R.O., RAIL 1066/901.
40 J. M. Dunn, The Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway (1952), 4-6.
41 P.R.O., BT 31/2442/12393.
42 P.R.O., BT 31/4597/30139.
43 Dunn, S.M.J.R., 4-6.
44 N.R.O., Main Series dep. plans 169, 187; FermorHesketh, T/1; Dunn, S.M.J.R., 4-6.
45 O'Rourke, 'Some Northants. brickworks', 24.
46 N.R.O., ZA 5643-ZA 5651.
47 P.R.O., BT 31/4597/30139; Tonks, Ironstone Quarries, iii. 64.
48 Tonks, Ironstone Quarries, iii. 60-1, 64.
49 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
50 Ibid.; Northampton Wills, xxv. 469-70; Tonks, Ironstone Quarries, iii. 64.
51 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, P/9; Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1910), 81; ibid. (1914), 83.
52 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, T/1.
53 Tonks, Ironstone Quarries, iii. 64.
54 P.R.O., RAIL 1167/274.
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55 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1928), 81; ibid. (1931), 81.
56 Tonks, Ironstone Quarries, iii. 69; there was never a registered company of this name, as Tonks
implies.
57 P.R.O., SC 2/194/52.
58 P.R.O., SC 2/177/21.
59 P.R.O., SC 2/195/28, 31.
60 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, A/19; above, manors and other estates.
61 N.R.O., 112p/36/1.
62 N.R.O., 112p/35; 112p/36/2.
63 N.R.O., 112p/34.
64 Youngs, Admin. Units, ii. 712-16.
65 Inf. from Lady Hesketh.
66 Rotuli Hugonis Welles, ii (Cant. & York Soc. iii), 119.
67 B.L., Add. Ch. 21856; Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, ii (Cant. & York Soc. iii), 119; Rotuli Roberti
Grosseteste (Cant. & York Soc. x), 198, 219.
68 The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, ii (Lincoln Rec. Soc. xliii), 57, 100.
69 P.R.O., E 210/11027; Cal. Pat. 1313-17, 335.
70 Baker, Northants., ii. 145; P.R.O., E 315/52/46.
71 P.R.O., E 326/2759; E 315/104/2, ff. 133r.-v.
72 P.R.O., E 326/11863.
73 Below, this section.
74 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 337; N.R.O., FermorHesketh D/22/3.
75 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xiii. 579.
76 P.R.O., E 315/104/2nd seq. ff. 133r.-v.; E. 318/49/135; Cal. Pat. 1549-51, 159, 161.
77 Cal. Pat. 1572-5, 471.
78 N.R.O., 112p/3; Fermor-Hesketh, D/22/3.
79 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xiii. 62.
80 Cal. Pat., 1550-3, 22-3; above, manors and other estates.
81 N.R.O., Diocesan Recs., Order in Council 263; Crockford's Clerical Dir. (2000-1), 31.
82 Baker, Northants., ii. 145; Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 38; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 331.
83 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 331.
84 Baker, Northants., ii. 146.
85 N.R.O., 112p/2; Glebe terriers, 1720 and later.
86 N.R.O., 112p/51; Glebe terrier, 1792.
87 N.R.O., 112p/3-4; Fermor-Hesketh, O/3; Baker, Northants., ii. 146.
88 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, P/8
89 N.R.O., 112p/9-12.
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90 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, O/5.
91 Ibid., U/13.
92 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, O/3.
93 N.R.O., T 188.
94 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh V/29.
95 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1894), 72; ibid. (1898), 74.
96 Ibid. (1914), 82; ibid. (1920), 81.
97 N.R.O., Diocesan recs., Order in Council 263.
98 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1928), 80; ibid. (1936), 82.
99 N.R.O., 112p/1.
1 Above, intro.
2 N.R.O., 112p/1.
3 N.R.O., 112p/2; Glebe terrier, 1720.
4 N.R.O., 112p/2; Glebe terrier, 1744.
5 N.R.O., Glebe terrer, 1744.
6 Baker, Northants., ii. 146.
7 N.R.O., 112p/10-11.
8 N.R.O., 112p/13.
9 Inf. from Lady Hesketh.
10 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1898), 74.
11 N.R.O., Diocesan Recs., Order in Council 263.
12 P.R.O., PROB 11/7, ff. 45r.-v.; N.R.O., 112p/2.
13 Baker, Northants., ii. 150-1.
14 Ibid., 150-1; N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, N/4.
15 Below, educ.
16 N.R.O., 112p/39-40; 364p/52.
17 Below, charities.
18 N.R.O., 112p/39-40; 364p/52.
19 N.R.O., ZB 181/29/1.
20 N.R.O., 112p/9-11.
21 N.R.O., 112p/4, 12-13.
22 N.R.O., 112p/4.
23 P.R.O., HO 129/165/22.
24 N.R.O., Diocesan recs., Order in Council 263.
25 Ibid.
26 Pevsner, Northants., 200-1.
27 N.R.O., 112p/2.
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28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 N.R.O., Law Plans, box 3; Pevsner, Northants., 200-1.
31 N.R.O., 364p/52.
32 N.R.O., Law Plans, box 3.
33 N.R.O., 112p/24.
34 V.C.H. Northants., i. 419.
35 N.R.O., 112p/23.
36 N.R.O., 112p/1.
37 N.R.O., 112p/2.
38 Baker, Northants., ii. 147.
39 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1940), 83.
40 N.R.O., 112p/24.
41 Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste (Cant. & York Soc. x), 214-16.
42 Registration certificates for 'Easton' in N.R.O., X 958 and ML 582 of 1804 and 1823-4 appear
to relate to Easton Maudit.
43 N.R.O., ZB 181/29/9; Baker, Northants., ii. 151.
44 Educ. of Poor Digest., ii. 648.
45 Baker, Northants., ii. 151.
46 Educ. Enq. Abstract, 662.
47 N.R.O., ZB 181/29/9.
48 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1847), 2071.
49 Whellan's Dir. Northants. (1849), 575.
50 N.R.O., NS/6, 1 Oct. 1849.
51 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1854), 424.
52 N.R.O., 112p/41.
53 N.R.O., NS/31/9; below, Wicken, educ.
54 N.R.O., NS/38b.
55 P.R.O., ED 21/13305.
56 Whellan's Dir. Northants. (1874), 565-6; Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1877), 292.
57 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1894), 72.
58 N.R.O., ZB 181/29/9.
59 Kelly's Dir. Northants. (1885), 336; ibid. (1894), 72; ibid. (1906), 80.
60 P.R.O., ED 21/13305.
61 P.R.O., ED 49/5669.
62 N.R.O., 112p/43; ZB 181/29/1, 9.
63 P.R.O., ED 21/13305.
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64 P.R.O., ED 49/5669.
65 Char. Com. Reg.
66 Above, intro.
67 N.R.O., 112p/39-40; 364p/52; P.R.O., ED 21/13305; above, educ.
68 N.R.O., Fermor-Hesketh, S/4; V/21.
69 Above, educ.
70 N.R.O., 112p/41.
71 N.R.O., ZB 181/29/1, 9.
72 Above, econ. hist.
73 Char. Com. Reg.
74 N.R.O., 112p/1; Bridges, Northants., i. 295.
75 Baker, Northants., ii. 150-1.
76 Whellan's Dir. Northants. (1849), 575.
77 Char. Com. Reg.
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