HISTORY OF 
 
 THE MANOR AND TOWNSHIP OF 
 
 DODDINGTON 
 
 OTHERWISE 
 
 DODDINGTON-PIGOT, ( 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, 
 
 AND ITS SUCCESSIVE OWNERS, 
 WITH PEDIGREES; 
 
 BY 
 
 R. E. G. COLE, M.A., 
 
 Rector of Doddington. 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 JAMES WILLIAMSON, PRINTER, 290 HIGH STREET. 
 1897. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter I. 
 
 Doddington and the Pigots 
 
 1-29 
 
 Chapter II. 
 
 Doddington and the Burghs ... 
 
 30-52 
 
 Chapter III. 
 
 Doddington — Savile and Tailor 
 
 53-69 
 
 Chapter IV. 
 
 Doddington and the Husseys ... 
 
 70-122 
 
 Chapter V. 
 
 Doddington and the Delavals ... 
 
 123-147 
 
 Chapter VI. 
 
 John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval . 
 
 148-183 
 
 Chapter VII. 
 
 Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunman 
 
 
 Family 
 
 1 84-207 
 
 Chapter VIII. 
 
 The Jarvis Family 
 
 208-215 
 
 Chapter IX. 
 
 Doddington Hall 
 
 216-227 
 
 Chapter X. 
 
 The Church, Church Plate, Registers, 
 
 
 
 Rectors, Churchwardens, &c. 
 
 228-242 
 
 Chapter XI. 
 
 Village, Farms, Woods, &c 
 
 243-248 
 
 Appendix ... 
 
 
 249-252 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 The Hall from South-east . . . 
 Fac-similes of Signatures . . . 
 Bird's Eye View, circ. 1700 
 Lt.-Col. G. R. P. Jarvis 
 The Hall from North-west . . . 
 Scold's Bridle 
 
 Drawing-room at the Hall j 
 Long Gallery ... ) 
 Earl and Countess of Mexborough, by 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds ... 
 
 The Church j 
 Rectory ) 
 
 Frontispiece 
 -Page 93 
 To face Page 106 
 209 
 216 
 ^217 
 
 To face Page 222 
 
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 229 
 
 PEDIGREES OF THE FAMILIES OF 
 
 Burgh 
 
 Delaval 
 
 Gunman 
 
 Hussey 
 
 Pigot ... 
 
 Tailor 
 
 Page 
 5°> 5 1 
 182, 183 
 205 
 
 84, 120, 121 
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HISTORY OF DODDINGTON. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 DODDINGTON AND THE PIGOTS. 
 
 THE Township and Manor of Doddington, otherwise 
 Doddington-Pigot, is situated in the County of Lincoln, at 
 the extreme north-western point of the Parts of Kesteven, about six 
 miles south-west of the City of Lincoln itself. Church, Hall, 
 Rectory, and village cluster together in true old English fashion on 
 the slightly rising ground which here forms a watershed between 
 the river Witham on the east and the Trent on the west. Its 
 height above the sea at the Church is 94 feet, falling thence to 
 30 feet towards Harby on the west, and to 2 1 feet at the Carrs on 
 the north. The township contains 2,515 acres, of which the 
 higher part is gravel and moorland, while the lower ground is the 
 underlying Lower Lias clay. According to the Census of 1891 it 
 had 29 houses, with a population of 147 ; and together with the 
 township of Whisby, which adjoins it on the south and contains 
 1,634 acres and 86 inhabitants, it forms the ecclesiastical Parish 
 and Rectory of Doddington, which is bounded on the west and 
 north by Harby and Brodholme in the County of Nottingham, 
 and on the east and south by the Lincolnshire parishes of 
 Skellingthorpe, Hykeham, Thorpe-on-the-Hill, Eagle, and Swine- 
 thorpe. 
 
 It has been said that the earliest history of a place is commonly 
 recorded in its name ; this undoubtedly is the case with Doddington. 
 Within near view on the east rises the " sovereign hill " on which 
 stood the Roman Colony of Lindum, as well as the British 
 stronghold which preceded it. Within short distance on the 
 south-east the Roman Foss-way, now known as " the rampire," 
 passes on its way from Lincoln to Leicester. At a like distance, 
 three miles, on the north the Roman Fossdyke was cut, connecting 
 the waters of the Witham and the Trent. But we have no trace 
 of British or Roman occupation here. There is no sign of its 
 having been the seat of human habitation until the arrival of our 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Anglian forefathers in Britain, when it became the "town"* or 
 settlement of the Dodings, the family or clan of some ancestral 
 Doda. The name must have been a common one, or the clan 
 numerous and widely spread ; for at least 1 1 places of the name 
 remain, scattered throughout England in almost as many counties. 
 Lincolnshire itself has another, known as Dry Doddington, for 
 distinction's sake. Shropshire in the west has two, no less than 
 Lincolnshire in the east. Northamptonshire in Mid-England has 
 one, dignified as Great Doddington ; but far more important is the 
 Doddington of Cambridgeshire, which with its 38,000 acres enjoyed 
 the distinction, before its sevenfold division in 1855, of being the 
 richest benefice in England. Northumberland in the far north, 
 Kent in the south-east, Somerset, Gloucester, and Cheshire in the 
 west, have each one place of the name. The more part of these 
 have adopted the spelling Doddington, but some retain the 
 Dodington which is the original form of all, the form Doddington 
 appearing only in quite recent times. 
 
 As the country became more settled, and ideas of order and 
 government prevailed, Doddington became united with its neigh- 
 bouring townships in a Hundred for purposes of common defence 
 and administration of justice. The Hundred of Graffoe, as it was 
 called, doubtless took its name from some notable burial mound 
 (Graff-hoe or Grave How), then well known, but whose name has 
 long survived all memory of its site, which served as a common 
 meeting-place for the freemen and warriors of the district. Its 
 original extent we may perhaps trace even now, as represented by 
 the Deanery of Graffoe. Later, after the irruption of the Danes 
 had taken place, when newer settlements bearing the characteristic 
 Danish terminations of by and thorpe had intruded themselves 
 amongst the Anglian tons and hams, and Danish names and customs 
 were introduced, Lincoln being the chief of the five Danish Burghs, 
 Doddington became part of the larger Wapentake of Boothby 
 Graffoe, t to which it still belongs. 
 
 * The term town is still locally used in its original sense for any collection 
 of houses, however few, a real town being distinguished as a market-ton n : 
 thus we speak of "going to the town " and of the " town-end " and "town- 
 street " of Doddington, though there are scarcely a dozen scattered houses in it. 
 
 t Apparently Boothby and Graffoe, signifying the combination of two 
 districts, as the uncouth name Longoboby is similarly formed by a junction of 
 two names, Langoe and Boothby ("Langhou el Boby," Tax. Eccles., 1291). 
 The townships comprised in the Deanery of Graffoe are Aubourn, Bassingham, 
 Boultham, Carlton-le-Moorland, Doddington, Eagle, Haddington, Hykeham, 
 Norton Disney, North Scarle, Skellingthorpe, Stapleford, Swinderby, Thorpe- 
 on-the-Hill, Thurlby, and Whisby ; to these, Skinnand was transferred from 
 Longoboby in the last century. Besides these, the Wapentake of Boothby- 
 Graffoe includes Boothby, Bracebridge, Coleby, Harmston, Navenby, Wad- 
 dington, Welbourn, and Wellingore. In the Testa de Neyill Boothby, 
 comprising the last-mentioned places, is given as a separate district, Graffoe 
 appearing under the strange form of Hrapelu. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
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 The earliest documentary record that we have of Doddington 
 is in Domesday Book., compiled about a.d. 1085. Here, under 
 the heading of " Land of St. Peter's Abbey, Westminster," we find 
 set down the manor of Doddington (Dodinctune), together with a 
 Berewick or dependent manor in Thorpe-on-the-Hill. This was 
 the only possession of the Abbey in Lincolnshire, and had been 
 given by its former possessor Ailric or Elric, son of Mariete (spelt 
 also Meriete and Marsete), to the newly built Abbey of King 
 Edward the Confessor. But besides this estate Ailric had owned 
 other lands of considerable extent in the adjoining parishes which, 
 in the language of Domesday Book, were "Inland and Soke of 
 Doddington," that is, either held in the lord's own hands, or let 
 out to tenants on payment of rent or other services. Of this there 
 was as much as 8£ carucates, or (taking the carucate at 120 acres) 
 1,020 acres in Haddington ; 4 carucates, or 480 acres, in South 
 Hykeham; 12 carucates, or 1,440 acres, in Skellingthorpe ; 6 
 carucates, or 720 acres, in Whisby. All these lands, 3,660 acres 
 in all, then of the annual value of 140J. were at the Survey in the 
 possession of Baldwin of Flanders, one of the foreign adventurers 
 who since the Conquest had become landowners in England. 
 He claimed to hold it in chief of the King. The Abbot of 
 Westminster, however, claimed it " for the service of St. Peter," 
 as having been the property of Ailric, and given by him to the 
 Abbey with the Manor of Doddington to which it belonged. As 
 the custom was, the matter in dispute was referred to the decision 
 of the men of the Wapentake, as most likely to be acquainted with 
 the facts. Their verdict was that they themselves had heard that 
 Ailric had given the land in question to St. Peter, though they 
 knew not whether he gave the whole or the half of it; but that the 
 whole of the land belonged to the capital Manor of Doddington, 
 and therefore was rightly claimed by the Abbot for the service of 
 St. Peter. So the jury of the whole county abundantly testify, it 
 is said.* It does not appear, however, that the Abbot ever 
 obtained possession of these lands, which subsequently were in 
 the hands of the Wakes, and were held by them in chief of the 
 King. Only Doddington and Thorpe are enumerated among the 
 possessions of the Abbey ; and they continued to be held of the 
 Abbot and Convent as long as there was an Abbot and Convent 
 of Westminster, on payment of a fee farm rent. 
 
 The Abbot indeed had taken steps to secure from the 
 Conqueror a confirmation of the Convent's possession of Dodding- 
 
 * "Hsec terra omnis pertinet ad Dodintune Man. S. Petri. Westmon. 
 Hanc tenet Balduinus de Rege. Abbas vero clamat ad opus S. Petri testimonio 
 nominum totius comitatus." "Totum hoc clamat Abbas de Westmon. quia 
 capitale Manenum datum est S° Petro. Omnis comitatus fert S Q Petro 
 testimonium." Domesday Survey. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 ton, as it is shown by the following charter printed by Dugdale, 
 whereby King William grants to God, and to St. Peter of 
 Westminster, and to the Abbot Vitalis, the Manor of Doddington 
 with its soke in Thorpe, which Ailric, the son of Mariete, had 
 given to the Church of Westminster : — 
 
 " Manerium de Dudinton cum soca de Thorp. Willelmus Rex 
 Angl. R(emigio) episcopo, H. vice comiti, et aliis baronibus de 
 Lincolnescire salutem. Sciatis quod ego concessi Deo et sancto 
 Petro Westm. et abbati Vitali manerium Dudinton quod Ailricus 
 Marieti sune dedit eidem ecclesiae, et unam soccam quse dicitur 
 Thorp pertinentem ad ipsum manerium, sicut ipse Ailricus earn 
 habebat. T. G. episcopo Const. Walcelino episcopo Winton. 
 Willelmo de Warenna. R. fil. G. comitis apud Wich." 
 
 Vitalis became Abbot of Westminster in 1076, and died in 
 1085* which fixes the date of this charter at least as early as that 
 of the Domesday Survey. If he, or any of his monks, ever visited 
 their distant Lincolnshire property, the name of the adjoining 
 parish of Thorney would remind them of the original state and 
 name of the site which the Confessor had selected for their own 
 great Church and Abbey. 
 
 From the description in Domesday Book, however, we may 
 gather some details of the condition of Doddington at this time. 
 There was already there a priest and a church j and it was doubtless 
 from its connection with the great Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster 
 that our church gained its own dedication to St. Peter, which it 
 has retained for 800 years. Ailric before the Conquest had had 
 6 carucates of land, some 720 acres, under cultivation there, and 
 liable to the Dane-gelt, levied at the rate of 2s. on each carucate ; 
 but now, 20 years later, the arable land was only 4 carucates, or 
 480 acres. On this the Abbot and Convent had but one plough- 
 team, 14 villeins or serfs, and 6 bordars or cottagers who had 
 4 plough-teams between them- Besides the arable land there was 
 a tract of meadow, half a mile long and half a mile broad, equal 
 to 160 acres ; and a wood affording pasturage, one and a half mile 
 in length, and half a mile in breadth, equal to 480 acres more. 
 In King Edward the Confessor's time the annual value of the 
 manor with all its appurtenances had been £20, but now what 
 St. Peter's Abbey had was only worth £4. The woodland is 
 probably represented at the present day by the several detached 
 
 * Vitalis was buried in the South Cloister of Westminster, with the 
 following epitaph : — 
 
 " A vita nomen qui traxit, morte vocante, 
 Abbas Vitalis transiit, hicque jacet." 
 Which we may translate as follows : — 
 
 ' 1 Our Abbot Vital death hath mortal shown, 
 Vital no more, he lies beneath this stone.," 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
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 oak woods situated on the clay soil to the north of the village, the 
 woods being constantly spoken of in all descriptions of the lordship. 
 The arable land, however, meadow and woodland together, 
 mentioned in Domesday, only make up a total of 1,360 acres, 
 whereas the actual extent of the lordship is 2,515 acres; we must 
 suppose that the remainder was then open, uncultivated moorland, 
 as indeed a great part continued to be until far in the last century. 
 In the adjoining township of Whisby, 550 acres of moorland were 
 only enclosed in 1842, and Black Game are recorded to have been 
 seen there up to that year. 
 
 As for the property of Ailric, and afterwards of Westminster 
 Abbey, in the parish of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, we are not concerned 
 with it farther than to remark that it continued attached to the 
 Doddington property at least to the middle of the sixteenth century. 
 At the time of the Domesday Survey it consisted of 6 carucates 
 and 2 bovates of land, i.e., 750 acres, liable to Danegeld; 6 
 carucates of this were arable, and 30 sokemen, or tenants of the 
 manor, had there 7$ plough-teams. There was meadow land 2 
 furlongs in length and as much in breadth. 
 
 It was doubtless the distance of Doddington from Westminster, 
 and the difficulty of occupying it with profit to themselves, that 
 prevented its connection with the Abbot and Convent from 
 becoming closer, and caused them to be content with receiving 
 from it a fixed Fee Farm rent, which from at least the time of 
 King John onwards amounted to £\2 a year. Even the church 
 retained the status of a Rectory under the patronage of its lay lords, 
 instead of sinking into a Vicarage served by a stipendiary of the 
 Abbey, while the great tithes went to swell the Convent revenues. 
 The family which for many generations, until their extinction in 
 1450, occupied the position of lords of the manor and virtual 
 owners of Doddington, holding it from the Abbot, who held it in 
 free alms, was a family of knightly rank, whose name, after passing 
 through all the varieties of mediaeval spelling — as Picot, Pycot, 
 Piket, Pikot, Pykot, Pygot — settled down into Piggot or Pigot, a 
 name which, in virtue of their long tenure, became affixed as a 
 distinctive mark to the place itself. It was a name apparently of 
 foreign origin, brought into England at the Conquest. The Roll 
 of Battle Abbey (Leland) couples together in its alliterative rhythm 
 the names of 
 
 Deyville et Darcy, 
 Pygot et Percy ; 
 
 and one bearing the name, Othemyles Picot, with his wife Hugoline, 
 is said to have come over in the retinue of the Conqueror, and to 
 have been rewarded with a grant of 29 manors in Cambridgeshire. 
 One would fain claim for the Lincolnshire Pigots a more honour 
 able descent from Picot, the son of Colswegen, son of Cole, whose 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 father, Colswegen or Colsweyn. was the great citizen of Lincoln 
 in the reign of the Conqueror, to whose care for his tenants 
 displaced by the clearances above hill for the Norman castle and 
 minster, we owe the twin towers of St. Mary-le-Wigford and St. 
 Peter-at-Gowts. Picot himself fully maintained his father's great 
 position at Lincoln, Henry I.'s Lincoln charters being addressed, 
 " Osberto vice-comite, et Picoto filio Colsueni,et omnibus baronibus 
 suis et fidelibus et Francis et Anglis de Lincolscire." He was 
 present with his family at Spalding in May, im, when he granted 
 the tithes of Lutton and Sutton to the monks of Spalding Priory. 
 But in fact the name was a personal one, which only gradually 
 was adopted as that of a family. Of its earlier personal use we 
 have many such examples as those of Picot de Toni, John son of 
 Picot, and the Picot and Eustace who had to pay the Sheriff of 
 Lincolnshire a fine of two marks for a duel in 1160. Lower, in 
 his Patronymica Britannica (p. 267), "can find no less objection- 
 able derivation for this widely diffused and very ancient name, to 
 which our heraldic dictionaries assign no less than 30 different 
 coats, than that of Camden, viz. the old French, Picote, the small- 
 pox ; Picote, pock-marked or freckled." 
 
 It had already become a surname when we have our first 
 documentary evidence of the connection of the Pigots with 
 Doddington. We cannot tell how or when their tenure of it 
 commenced, but it was at least before 11 94. For on the Sunday 
 before the Feast of All Saints in that year, 6 Rich. I., John Pigot 
 came before the King's Court, and sued the Abbot and Convent 
 of Westminster, claiming to hold the Church of Doddington of 
 them for an annual payment. " Johannes Piket venit et advocavit 
 Abbatem et Conventum de Westmonasterio de Ecclesia de 
 Dodington, quod ipse debet earn tenere de Abbate et Conventu 
 per annualem pensionem" {Rot. Curia Regis, i. 19), says the brief 
 official record, not giving the grounds on which he based his plea. 
 That he established his claim is evident from the fact that his 
 descendants continued to exercise the right of patronage. Other 
 possessions came to the family, or passed from it, through heiresses, 
 but the Manor and Advowson of Doddington continued in the 
 male line of the Pigots until their extinction in the middle of the 
 fifteenth century. The ancient Survey, known as the Testa de 
 Nevill, thus describes their tenure shortly after this date : " Abbas 
 de Westm : tenet Dodington et Torp' in libera elemosina ante 
 conquestum, et Will 8 Picot tenet illam terram de eodem Abbate 
 pro xii libris per ann : " i.e., The Abbot of Westminster holds 
 Doddington and Thorpe in free alms (frank-almoigne) from before 
 the Conquest, and William Picot holds that land of the Abbot for 
 ^12 a year. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
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 With 1 216 we come to the last troublous year of King John's 
 reign, which was so closely connected with Lincolnshire. William 
 Picot, the then owner of Doddington, was evidently siding with the 
 barons, for on 15th January of that year, 17-18 John, an offer was 
 made to the King, then at Berwick, by Walter de Killingholme to 
 supply another knight for the King's service, if he might have 
 William Picot's land in Lincolnshire and Herts. : " Walterus de 
 Killinghulm serviet domino Regi altero milite pro habenda terra 
 quae fuit Will' Picot in Line, et Hertford" {Rot. de Oblatis et 
 Finibus temp. R. Joh.). On 28th February, 1216, the King, who 
 had been at Lincoln from February 23rd to 27th, was at Stamford, 
 and William Picot had succeeded in making his peace, agreeing 
 to pay a fine of 60 marks, by two equal payments at Mid-lent and 
 Whitsuntide, and to give a palfrey to regain the King's goodwill, 
 besides surrendering his son Alexander as a hostage for his fidelity. 
 Here is the record of the agreement : " Line' Willelmus Picot finem 
 fecit cum domino Rege per sexaginta marcas et unum palefrenium 
 pro habenda gratia et benevolentia domini Regis, unde reddet 
 ad mediam Quadragesimam anno domini Regis xviii 0 unam 
 mediaetatem, et aliam mediaetatem ad Pentecostem proximo 
 sequentem anno dom* Regis xviii 0 . Et mandatum est vice-comiti 
 quod cum idem Willelmus liberaverit ei in obsidem Alexandrum 
 filium suum pro fideli servicio suo, et cartam ei tradiderit de 
 fideliter dom° Regi serviendo, et securitatem vice-comes ceperit de 
 praedicto fine ad terminos praedictos dom° Regi reddendo, ei 
 plenariam saisinam habere faciat de tota terra sua cum pertinentibus 
 in balliva sua. Mandatum est eidem vice-comiti quod ex quo 
 recepit ab eodem Willelmo denarios illos mittat eos vice-comiti 
 Notinghamensi, scil. Phil. Marc',* et quod acceptis securitatibus 
 predictis tradat eidem Willelmo literas dom 1 Regis pro eodem 
 Willelmo vice-comiti Noting, et Hertford', quas penes eum habet. 
 Teste Rege apud Stamford' xxviii 0 die Feb." {Rot. de Oblatis et 
 Finibus, temp. R. Joh) William Picot does not seem to have 
 fulfilled these conditions, but to have openly taken part with the 
 barons, for on the 18th September a peremptory mandate was 
 issued by the King to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, directing him 
 without delay to put William Briwer in possession of William 
 Picot's land in Doddington and Thorp, as he was said to be with 
 the King's enemies : — 
 
 " Rex Vice-comiti Lincoln' &c. Praecepimas tibi quod sine 
 dilatione habere facias dilecto et fideli nostro Willelmo Briwer 
 terram quae fuit Willelmi Picot in Dodinton et in Thorpe, quia 
 cum inimicis nostris est ut dicitur, et nisi idem W. Picot finem et 
 conventionem quam nobis fecit tenuerit quam ei concessimus, quae 
 
 * Philip Marc was one of those who the barons in Magna Charta 
 expressly stipulated should be removed from his office. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 est de feodo Baldwini Wac, cujus terra? et hereditatis custodiam 
 eidem W. commisimus. Teste me ipso apud Clar(endon) xviii 0 
 die Sept." {Rot. Litter. Claus., 18 K. John.) 
 
 On September 22nd King John was again at Lincoln, remaining 
 there until October 2nd; on October 19th he died at Newark 
 Castle, and with him disappears also Wm. Picot, slain perhaps in 
 the capture of Lincoln by the King, or in the defeat of the 
 Dauphin Louis and the insurgent barons, known as the Lincoln 
 Fair, on the 19th May following. 
 
 At all events it is with his son and heir, Hugh Pikot, that the 
 young King Henry III. has to deal on coming to the throne. A 
 mandate was directed by him in 1 2 1 7 to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 
 ordering him to take possession of Hugh Pikot's land at Doddington 
 with all goods and chattels upon it, because Hugh had not yet 
 given security for his allegiance, and had deceived the court in 
 obtaining the former letters which gave him, as against Wm. Briwer, 
 seisin of the land as his father had held it at the beginning of the 
 war. This is the text of the mandate : — 
 
 " Rex Vice-comiti Lincoln' salutem : Scias quod Hugo Pikot 
 nondum fecit nobis securitatem de fideli servitio suo per cartam 
 suam, Et ideo tibi precepimus quod sine dilatione terram suam de 
 Dodinton cum pertinentibus et catallis in ea inventis in manum 
 nostram capias, et salvo-custodias donee aliud tibi mandaverimus, 
 quia dilectus et fidelis noster W. Briwer inde dissaisitus fuit 
 occasione precepti quod tibi fecimus de tali saisina eidem Hugoni 
 facienda, qualem pater suus inde habuit in initio guerrae, cujus 
 haeres ipse est, quia bene intelligimus quod idem Hugo decepit 
 curiam nostram in impetratione literarum illarum " {Rot. Litter. 
 Claus., 2 Hen. III.) 
 
 Notwithstanding this mandate, Hugh Picot evidently made his 
 peace with the King and retained his estate, for in a Final Concord 
 entered into 22nd February, 12 18, between himself and his father's 
 widow, the latter styled Agnes de Nevill, either by her maiden 
 name or as already married again, remised to him her right of 
 dowry in her late husband Wm. Picot's lands in Doddington, 
 Clifton, and Thorpe, in return for which Hugh acknowledged 
 certain lands and rents of his father's in Wheathamstead to be her 
 reasonable dower. {Feet of Fines, 2 Hen. III.) 
 
 From the episcopate of Bishop Hugh de Wells in 1209, the 
 Bishop's Registers at Lincoln are preserved, and in these we find 
 him as Sir Hugh Pycot, Knt., presenting to the Rectory of 
 Doddington in 1222, and again in 1229. The presentee on the 
 former occasion was Adam de St. Alban ; on the latter, Alexander 
 Pikot, very probably his brother or half-brother, the stipulated 
 hostage of 12 16. As late as 1239 he presented to the Rectory of 
 Thorpe, which from his possession of it is distinguished as 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
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 Thorpe Pycot in Bishop Grostete's Register. Sir Hugh had a son, 
 Baldwin, of whom we hear no more, and a daughter, Margery, who 
 married Peter de Champagne (Petrus de Campania) ; he held lands 
 and tenements in North Clifton of the gift of Hugh Pigot, his 
 father-in-law, and as lord of the manor of Saxilby confirmed various 
 gifts made to the Premonstratensian Nunnery at Brodholme. He, 
 and his son by Margery Pigot, another Peter de Champagne, who 
 died without male heirs, 24 Edw. I., 1295, were also themselves 
 benefactors of the Nunnery. (Inquis. p. mortem, 24 Edw. I.) 
 
 Apparently another daughter and coheiress of this Sir Hugh 
 was Isabel, of whom Thoroton {Notts, i. 379-380, 385, iii. 99, 108) 
 speaks as daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh Pigot, of Dodington, 
 Knt. ; she married, as his second wife, Sir Robert Sutton, Knt., 
 (d. 1286) son of Roland Sutton of Averham, and by him was 
 ancestress of the Suttons of Averham, Lords Lexington. She 
 brought into the Sutton family a Manor in Kirklington, Notts., 
 called Pigot's Manor or Pigot Hall, and certain rents and other 
 appurtenances of the same Manor in Hardeby (Harby), and 
 North Clifton. These continued in the Sutton family until i443, 
 22 Hen. VI., when by means of a fine and recovery Richard 
 Sutton, Esq., and Katharine his wife, transferred the ownership to 
 Sir Thomas Chaworth, Knt., granting him together with the rents, 
 the homage and services of the then Sir John Pigot, Knt., and 
 his heirs for the tenements which he held of them in Harby. 
 Previously to this, in 1402, "at the Assizes held at Nottingham, 
 4 Hen. IV. Robert Sutton recovered his seizin of the Manor of 
 Herdeby, and Elizabeth who had been the wife of John Pigot was 
 cimcrcccl " 
 
 Once again, later in Henry III.'s reign, the possession of 
 Doddington by the Pigot family was in jeopardy, for in an other- 
 wise undated list of rebels' lands given to the King's faithful 
 subjects, " Terrse rebellium data? Fidelibus, temp. Reg. Henr. III.," 
 we find John Pikot's Manor of Dodinton granted to Richard de 
 Brelins. (Rot. Selecti., 204.) 
 
 In 1272, on the death of Henry III., Edward I. came to the 
 throne, and at once on his return from the Holy Land set himself 
 to redress the disorders of his father's unsettled reign. In 1274 
 he issued a Commission of enquiry into the rights and revenues of 
 the Crown, and the claims of other lords and landowners in each 
 county. We have the result in the Hundred Rolls, so called, in 
 which jury-men of each Hundred or Wapentake give their replies to 
 the various questions submitted to them. This is the reply of the 
 jurymen of the Wapentake of Graffoe as regards Doddington and 
 John Pigot its owner. 
 
 " Wapentak' de Grafhow in Ketstevene in Com' Lincoln'. 
 
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 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 " Dicunt quod Johannes Picot tenet unum feodum militare in 
 villa Dodinton et Thorp per medium de Abbate de Westmonasterio, 
 per quod servicium et quo waranto nesciunt, et idem Abbas tenet 
 illud de Rege in capite per servicium militare, quo waranto nesciunt. 
 
 "Item dicunt quod Johannes Picot de Dodincton clamat 
 habere furcas apud Dodincton, et eas habuit per tempus centum 
 annorum, quo waranto nesciunt. 
 
 " Dicunt quod Johannes Picot clamat habere liberam chaciam et 
 warennam in bosco suo de Dodincton, et habuit per duos annos 
 et dimidium elapsos, ad dampnum patente per annum xiid. quo 
 waranto nesciunt." (Rotuli Hundredorum, 3 Edw. I.) 
 
 In other words the jurymen report that John Pigot held one 
 knight's fee in Doddington and Thorpe in mesne of the Abbot of 
 Westminster, who himself held it by knight service in chief of the 
 King. He claimed also to have his own gallows at Doddington, 
 he and his ancestors having had one for 100 years past; it was 
 one of three such claims to capital jurisdiction in the neighbourhood, 
 William D'Isney having his gallows at Norton Disney, and the 
 Abbot of Thornton a third at Carlton le-Moorland ; though neither 
 of these could boast of so long an exercise of the right as the owner 
 of Doddington. John Pigot claimed moreover the right of chase 
 and free warren in his woodland at Doddington, which he had 
 exercised for 2\ years. What became of his gallows we do not 
 know ; it is not likely that so strong a King as Edward I. would 
 allow such a claim, but he received a confirmation of the much 
 coveted right of free warren in 128 1. {Rot. Chartarum, 9 Edw. I.) 
 Sir John Pigot, together with Sir Ralph de Trehampton and Sir 
 Simon de Dryby, was one of the chief collectors for the county in 
 1274 of the twentieth penny, or tax of 5 per cent., granted to King 
 Edward I. ; and the jurymen of several Wapentakes, as well as Of 
 the towns of Torksey and Louth, declare that they have paid over 
 the amount due from them to the three collectors at Lincoln, 
 though they cautiously add that they cannot say whether these 
 have paid it over to the King. (Rot. Hundred.) 
 
 In 1273 Sir John Pygot presented Hugh Pygot, Subdeacon, 
 to the Rectory of Doddington, which he held for the long period 
 of 40 years; and at the same time he presented Henry de Islep, 
 also a Subdeacon, to the Rectory of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, the 
 patronage of which he exercised as his predecessor, Sir Hugh Pygot, 
 had done. Both these vacancies were caused by the death of 
 Stephen de Hastinges, who had held the two benefices conjointly. 
 Sir John Pigot also presented to Thorpe in 1276, and again in 
 1278, the reason for this latter appointment being given, that 
 Peter de Mottington, the presentee of 1276, had not been ordained 
 priest within a year of his institution. In 1281, on the death of 
 the last incumbent, John de Horlaston, Sir John presented Roger 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 Picot, Subdeacon, who held the Rectory of Thorpe until 131 7, 
 when he exchanged with John de Dalderby for Skellingthorpe. 
 Shortly after this the patronage of Thorpe passed away from the 
 Pigot family, and came into the hands of the Dean and Chapter of 
 Lincoln. From the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of Pope Nicholas IV., 
 in 1 29 1, we learn that the value of the Rectory of Doddington at 
 this time was ^13 6s. 8d., and that of Thorpe £12, which 
 considering that land then let for 6d. an acre, would make the 
 comparative value of the benefices quite as large as at present. 
 
 It was about this time, 28th November, 1290, that Eleanor of 
 Castile, the Queen of Edward L, died in the adjoining parish of 
 Harby, at the house of Sir Richard de Weston, to which she had 
 removed from Clipstone, where the King was holding a Parliament. 
 Her funeral procession must needs have passed over the then open 
 fields and moors of Doddington on its way to St. Katharine's 
 Priory at the entrance of Lincoln, where her body was embalmed 
 previous to its conveyance in state to Westminster. A Chantry 
 was founded at Harby with a stipend for a priest to say masses for 
 her soul ; while the grant of free-warren over his demesne at Harby 
 made to Sir Richard de Weston in the year following the Queen's 
 death may well have been in recognition of the hospitality shown 
 to her in her last illness. 
 
 Meanwhile a great match brought a considerable accession of 
 property and importance to the Pigot family. This was the 
 marriage of Michael Pigot, apparently a son of the last- 
 mentioned Sir John Pigot, by his wife Lucia, daughter of 
 Michael Belat, and himself styled " Myghell Pygot, Lord of 
 Dodyngton," in the Yorkshire Visitation of 1564, with Joan, 
 daughter of Baldwin Wake, the great lord of Bourne and Deeping, 
 who held the Manor of Skellingthorpe as part of his Barony 
 of Bourne, together with all those lands in the adjoining parishes 
 which had formerly been in dispute between the Abbot of 
 Westminster and Baldwin of Flanders. But the importance of the 
 match arose from the fact that Joan Wake and her two sisters 
 were coheirs of their mother, Ela de Beauchamp, the first wife of 
 Baldwin Wake, Ela in turn and her two sisters, Maud and Beatrice, 
 having been daughters of William de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford, 
 and sisters and eventually coheirs of their brother, John de Beau- 
 champ, last Baron of Bedford. He was slain, fighting on the side of 
 the Barons, at the Battle of Evesham, in 1265, and for a while his 
 estates were confiscated and conferred upon Prince Edward, but 
 eventually they were restored to his sisters and coheirs. Thus the 
 marriage brought to the Pigots a share in her inheritance of the 
 Barony of Bedford, consisting chiefly of Manors at Cardington* and 
 
 * Lysons describes Cardington as "a very neat village about 2.\ miles S.E. 
 of Bedford in the Hundred of Wixantree, " and adds, " The Manor belonged to 
 
12 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Ronhale, now Renhold, and a moiety of the advowson of the 
 Church of Houghton-Conquest, all in the county of Bedford. 
 Michael Pigot presented to the mediety of the Parsonage of 
 Houghton-Conquest, known as Houghton-Gildable,f in 1273, and 
 was found, together with Beatrice de Beauchamp, his wife's aunt, 
 to be in possession of the feudal rights of View of Frank-pledge 
 and Assize of Bread and Beer at Cardington in 1274, 3 Edw. I. 
 Joan Wake married as her second husband, Sir Ralph de Paynell, 
 who died 131 7 ; but her son by Michael Pigot , Sir Baldwin Pigot, 
 styled " Lord of Doddington and Cardington " ( Visit, of Yorks. 
 1564), inherited Doddington and Thorpe, as well as the Bedford- 
 shire manors already mentioned, as did his descendants for some 
 generations. 
 
 By an indenture enrolled in the King's Chancery at Westminster, 
 25 February, 1308, Baldwin Pycot acknowledges that he owes to 
 John de Drokenesford % £20, to be levied, in default of payment, 
 of his lands in co. Lincoln. (Close Roll, 2 Edw. II.) He paid 
 his debt however, and his bond is duly cancelled. 
 
 Hitherto the Pigots had borne three Picks, or pick-axes, as 
 their armorial bearings in canting allusion to the name of Piket or 
 Picot. But now in commemoration of their alliance with the great 
 family of Wake, who bore Gules, 2 Bars, Or, and 3 Bezants in 
 chief, they adopted a similar coat, only changing the tincture of the 
 ground from Gules to Azure. Thus in a Roll of the Names and 
 Arms of the Bannerets of England, compiled early in the reign of 
 Edward II. and entitled, Ces sont les Nons et les Armes a Bannerez 
 de Engleterre, we find : — 
 
 " Sire Huge Wake : de Or a II Barres de Goule, en le Chef 
 III Rondels de Goule, et un Baston de Azure. 
 
 " Sire Huge Wake, le oncle : de Goule a II Barres de Argent, 
 en le Chef III Rondels de Argent. 
 
 the Beauchamps and was parcel of their Barony of Bedford. After the death 
 of the last heir male of that family it became divided, and seems to have formed 
 several manors, which passed to the families of Munchensi, Wake, Pigott, 
 Botetourt, Latimer, and Nevill. James Gascoigne, a son of the celebrated 
 Chief Justice by his 2nd wife, settled at Cardington in the reign of Hen. VI. 
 and became possessed of a Manor which seems to have been the principal 
 Manor by marrying the heiress of Pigott." — Magna Britannia, vol. i., p. 64. 
 Cardington became notable in the last century as the property and residence of 
 John Howard the philanthropist. 
 
 t "The Church of Houghton-Conquest was formerly divided into two 
 portionable Parsonages, called Houghton- Franchise and Houghton-Gildable ; 
 there were two Parsonage Houses, one of which was moated : the Parsonages 
 were united bv the King's special command in 1637 into one Rectory, called 
 Houghton-Conquest. " Lysons' Magna Britannia, vol. i. , p. 99. 
 
 J John de Drokenesford was presented by the King to the Prebend of 
 Nassington in Lincoln Cathedral in 1305 ; in 1309 was made Bishop of Bath 
 and Wells, and died 1329. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 13 
 
 " Sire Baudewyne Pycot : de Azure all Barres de Or, en le 
 Chef III Rondels de Or." 
 
 The changes in their armorial bearings are thus described by 
 Christopher Barker, Garter, temp. Edw. VI., in a MS, compiled by 
 him, {Hart. MSS., 1364) :— 
 
 " Gules, a Chevron between 3 Pick-axes, Arg. — This Shield was 
 borne by the Pigotts, of Doddington, in Com. Lincoln, near Trent, 
 as appears by the Seals and other evidence of them. I find in y e 
 Records at the Tower that Hugo Pigot, sive Pikett, non fecit 
 securitatem de servitio suo Regi de terra sua de Dodington, ideoque 
 rapta est in manus Regis. (Rotul. Claus., Secundo Anno Hen. III., 
 1217.) 
 
 "The issue of Doddington Pigot married with an heir of 
 Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford, and had the Manor of Cardington 
 in that County with other great inheritance ; of whom came Sir 
 Baldwyn Pigot, lent., whose nephews put by the Chevron, I know 
 not upon what occasion, and bare only the Silver Pick-axes on a 
 Gules Shield, as appeareth in the glass windows of Cardington 
 Manor-house and other places. 
 
 " Thirdly, Sir John Pigot, knt. and another Sir Baldwin, his 
 son, left the Pickaxes, and bare 2 Bars, Gold, 3 Bezants in chief, 
 on an Azure field, as appeareth by the inscription of their Seals, 
 being the mark of Sir Hugh Painol, or the Lord Baldwin de Wake, 
 their Ancestors, and in divers heralds' books is termed Pigot of 
 Dodington's Arms. The heire generall of this line was married to 
 George Gascoigne of Bedfordshire, temp. Edw. IV." 
 
 So far the pedigree of the Pigots, as will be seen, is somewhat 
 fragmentary. The family had become extinct before the earliest 
 Heraldic Visitation of Lincolnshire, which makes no mention of it; 
 but from Michael Pigot downwards, the several generations are 
 recorded in the Visitations of Bedfordshire and Yorkshire as part 
 of the pedigree of the Gascoigne family which came by marriage 
 with the heiress of a younger branch to represent it. Further 
 details may be gathered from the Inquisitiones post mortem and 
 other similar records. 
 
 Sir Baldwin Pigot above-mentioned died in 13 14, {Inquis. ad 
 quod damnum, 8 Edw. II.) and was succeeded in his Lincolnshire 
 and Bedfordshire estates by his son John, — " John, son of Baldwin 
 Pigot," as he is constantly styled, in order to distinguish him from 
 another Sir John Pigot, his uncle apparently, to whom he obtained 
 leave in 13 15 to convey his Bedfordshire Manor of Ronhale, or 
 Renhold, then valued in all its issues at ^14 for his life, with 
 reversion to himself. In the same year he became possessed of 
 another portion of the great Beauchamp inheritance on the death 
 of his great-aunt, Elizabeth Wake, who had been married to John 
 de Horbury. This We learn from an order, dated at Westminster, 
 
14 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 ii July, 1315, addressed to Master John Walewayn, escheator this 
 side Trent, bidding him make partition of the knights' fees and 
 advowsons of churches of Elizabeth Wake, and to assign equal 
 purparties thereof to John, son of Baldwin Pycot, and John, son 
 of Isabella Stayngreve, her kinsmen and coheirs, the King having 
 taken their homage, and delivered to them their purparties of the 
 lands of the said Elizabeth, their great-aunt, (amita). (Close Roll, 
 9 Edw. II.) On 8 Oct. 1315, he presented Robert de Langton to 
 the Rectory of Doddington ; and in 13 16 he is returned as holding, 
 as his predecessors had done, the Manors of Dodington and Thorpe 
 " Othehyll " of the Abbot of Westminster for a fee farm rent of £1 2. 
 In a deed enrolled at Nottingham, 25 July, 131 7, we find the two 
 John Pigots — " John Pycot, son of Michael Pycot, and John, son 
 of Baldwin Pycot " — joined in an acknowledgment that they owe 
 to Queen Isabella ,£73 gs. $d., to be levied, in default of payment, 
 of their lands and chattels in cos. Lincoln and Bedford, an 
 acknowledgment which was cancelled on payment. (Close Roll, 
 11 Edw. II.) Soon after this Sir Ralph Paynell, the second 
 husband of his grandmother, Joan Wake, died, and by an 
 Inquisition taken at Cardington, 19 March, 13 18, this John, son 
 of Baldwin Pigot, is found to be the next heir, and of the age of 
 27 years and more. By an indenture enrolled at Whitchurch, 
 4 May, 1 3 18, he acknowledges that he owes to Richard de Carlton, 
 of Lincoln, and Walter de Cranden, executors of the will of Ralph 
 Paynel, ^67 13J. 10^., to be levied, in default of payment, of his 
 lands and chattels in cos. Lincoln and Bedford. (Close Roll, 
 11 Edw. II,) 
 
 The year following, by a deed enrolled at York, 20 July, 1319, 
 John, son of Baldewyn Pygot, together with Peter de Lekeburn, 
 Henry de Halton, John de Wynceby, and other Lincolnshire 
 gentlemen, acknowledges that they owe to Roger Damory the great 
 sum of ^2,420, to be paid quarterly at the rate of ^440 a year, 
 to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in 
 co. Lincoln. As late as 1323 this debt was unpaid, and as mean- 
 while Roger Damory had been in rebellion and his goods forfeited, 
 the King, February 23, directs his treasurer to levy the arrears for 
 the royal exchequer, as well as the future instalments as they fall 
 due. An entry on the original acknowledgment informs us that it 
 was eventually cancelled on payment. ( Close Rolls, 13,16 Edw. II .) 
 
 There is no record of the manorial rights of the Pigots at 
 Doddington having been called in question, probably because it 
 was not held in chief of the King, who therefore had no interest 
 in enquiring into them. In 1330, 4 Edw. III., however, the 
 present Sir John, son of Baldwin, Pigot was called on to show by 
 what warrant* he claimed to have View of Frank-pledge and 
 
 * Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edw. Ill, 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 15 
 
 Assise of Bread and Beer in his Manor of Cardington, paying 
 therefor to the King's exchequer a yearly sum of 4s. $d. The 
 proceedings are worth noting as an example of the practice of the 
 age. We read then that Sir John Pigot answered by John de 
 Cringilford his attorney, that he and all his ancestors, seised of 
 that manor, possessed these rights as belonging to the manor, and 
 therefore he claimed to exercise them. Richard de Aldeburgh, 
 who conducted the case for the Crown, asked if he had pillory and 
 tumbrel by which offenders against these rights might be punished. 
 On his answer that he had, Richard demanded on the King's 
 behalf that enquiry should be made in what manner the said John 
 and his ancestors had exercised these rights, and from what time. 
 A jury summoned for the Friday fortnight after Michaelmas declared 
 on oath that the said John and all his ancestors from beyond the 
 memory of man had been seised of such View and Assize, as 
 belonging to their manor, but subject to a yearly payment of 4^. 6d. 
 to the Sheriff for the King. Being asked if he had tumbrel and 
 pillory, they replied that he had tumbrel but not pillory ; and that 
 he used to punish offenders by fines and amerciaments, instead of 
 corporal punishment. Being asked again how much John Pigot 
 had received for this sort of offence, they say 2s. 6d. Since however 
 it appeared that he punished transgressors by fines only in cases 
 where they deserved corporal punishment, it was decreed that the 
 said View of Frank-pledge should be taken into the hands of the 
 King. Subsequently John Pigot sought to have his right restored, 
 and offered the King 10s. for it ; and it was re-granted to him on 
 payment of that fine. 
 
 At the same Assize at Bedford, John Pigot, of Ronhale 
 (Renhold), was also summoned to show by what warrant he held his 
 View of Frank-pledge* and Assise of Bread and Beer f in his Manor 
 of Ronhale, paying 2s. to the King for the right. He answered 
 that he claimed them for his life by demise (" ex dimissione ") of 
 John, son of Baldwin Pigot, and was allowed to retain them on 
 payment of a fine of half a mark. 
 
 It is in his case that we find the sole instance of an ecclesiastical 
 foundation in the Pigot family, when on 27 January, 1333, licence 
 was granted at the request of Thomas Wake, of Lydell, the King's 
 kinsman and his own, for the alienation in mortmain by John 
 
 * View of Frank-pledge, Visus Franc-plegii, was the right of the Manorial 
 Court to enquire whether each tenant of the manor was duly provided with the 
 proper number of sureties who were mutually answerable for each other's good 
 behaviour. 
 
 t Assise of Bread and Beer, Assisa Panis et Cerevisia, was the privilege of 
 fixing and adjusting the weights and measures by which bread and ale were 
 sold within the manor. It was an offence to break the Assise, i.e., to sell by 
 any other weight or measure. 
 
i6 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Pygot of two messuages and a virgate and a half of land in Ronhale, 
 held in chief, to a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in 
 Ronhale Church for the soul of the said John and the souls of the 
 faithful departed. {Patent Roll, York, 7 Edw. III. 
 
 Property had, however, in those days very plainly its duties as 
 well as its privileges, and for all those who held their land by 
 knight service the principal duty was that of following the King to 
 his wars. For instance in 1322 this same John, son of Baldwin, 
 Pigot was summoned as Sir John Pycot, Banneret and Knight, in 
 pursuance of a writ* tested at Bishop's Thorpe, 20 June, 15 Edw. II., 
 to perform military service in person against the Scots, the muster 
 to be at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the Eve of St. James' Day, 24 July, 
 1322. Two others of the family, Adam Pigot (of Wotton ?), and 
 John Pigot (of Ronhale ?), were similarly summoned as esquires 
 and men at arms. Two years later, in 1324, Sir John Pigot was 
 summoned by the Sheriff of Bedfordshire, pursuant to a writ* 
 tested at Westminster, 9 May, 17 Edw. II., as one holding lands 
 but not resident in the county, to attend the Great Council of the 
 realm. Again the very next year, 1325, by a writ* tested at 
 Westminster, 20 February, 18 Edw. II., he is summoned as " Johan 
 Pigot de Dodyngton," as from the county of Lincoln, to pass into 
 Guyenne under the command of John, Earl of Warren, he having 
 been previously required to perform this service by letters of Privy 
 Seal. The muster is appointed at Portsmouth, on the Sunday 
 next after Mid-Lent, and he and others are directed to appear there 
 " bien et nettement mountez et armez et appareillez." t When 
 we remember that the service of a knight included not only that 
 of the knight himself, but of his retinue of esquires and yeomen, 
 it will be seen what opportunities of adventure and of seeing the 
 world were afforded to the inhabitants of our country villages by 
 these frequent calls to take part in Scotch or French campaigns. 
 The name of the Butt Closes still borne by the fields on the gentle 
 slope northward of the village preserves for us the memory of the 
 spot where the parish butts were set up, and archery practised in 
 preparation for these campaigns. Together with the more peaceful 
 pilgrimages to noted shrines, whether in this or other lands, they 
 supplied the place of the earlier Crusades, or even of the facilities 
 for travelling of our own days. 
 
 John, son of Baldwin Pigot, survived his expeditions both to 
 Scotland and to Guyenne; and in 1328, on the death of Robert 
 de Langton, he presented William Bangard, otherwise known as 
 William de Ounesby, to the Rectory of Doddington. In 1331, 
 15 Edw. III., as Sir John Pygott, of Dodyngton, Knt, he was 
 
 * Parliamentary Writs, 15-18 Edw. II. 
 t Rymer's Fcedera, vol. ii., pt. I., p. 591. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 among the neighbouring knights and esquires from whom a jury 
 was to be chosen to hold an inquest on the weights and measures 
 of the City of Lincoln. In 1333 he did not attend the King in 
 person to Scotland, but on 7 July in that year a Commission was 
 issued to him and three others to make inquisition in the Parts of 
 Kesteven as to those who had broken the peace and created 
 disorders since the King went to resist the invasion of the Scots. 
 (Patent Roll, York, 7 Edw. III.) He died early in 1337, and the 
 usual mandate was issued to the then escheator on this side Trent, 
 William Trussel, " de terris quae fuerunt Johannis filii Baldewini 
 Pycot, de Dodyngton." In pursuance of a writ dated at Windsor, 
 24 March, 11 Edw. III., an Inquisition was held at Doddington, 
 15 April, 1337, by which it was found that by means of an enfeof- 
 ment of Robert de Langeton, Parson of Doddington, he had 
 entailed his lands there on his son John and Matilda his wife and 
 their heirs. A further Inquisition into his Bedfordshire property 
 was held in the same month, but this we need not go into. The 
 following are the terms of the Lincolnshire Inquisition. (Chancery 
 Inq. p.m., 11 Edw. III., No. 54.) 
 
 " Inquisition taken at Dodyngton 15 April, 11 Edw. III. (1337). 
 John son of Baldewin Picot of Dodyngton held no lands or 
 tenements in fee on the day of his death in the co. of Lincoln, but 
 he was jointly enfeoffed, with John his son and Matilda (or Maud) 
 his son's wife, of the Manor (manerium) of Dodyngton and Thorpe 
 with the advowson of the Church of Dodyngton, which they held 
 of the Abbot of Westminster at fee-farm, yielding ^12 yearly at 
 the Feasts of S. John Baptist and S. Michael by even portions ; 
 viz. to the said John son of Baldewin, and John his son and 
 Matilda, and the heirs of the bodies of John and Matilda issuing 
 by the gift and feoffment of Robert de Langeton, Parson of the 
 Church of Dodyngton. 
 
 "The capital messuage there is worth by the year ioj. as in 
 herbage and fruit of the garden. A dove-house is worth 40^., a 
 wind-mill io.r. There are six-score acres of arable land, of which 
 four-score may be sown yearly, — an acre worth when sown 6d. — 
 40J. and the remainder lies fallow and in common. There are 
 10 acres of meadow, worth 20s. as in the hay season (ut in tempore 
 fenagii), price of an acre 2s. A wood, for herbage and underwood 
 cut down, is worth yearly 66s. $d. 
 
 " Rent of assize from freemen with four bondmen ^12 at the 
 feasts of S. John Baptist and S. Michael equally. Perquisites of 
 Court are worth yearly 10s. 
 
 "John, son of the said John, son of Baldewin Picot, is his 
 next heir, aged twenty-three years and a half." 
 
 As the foregoing Inquisition shows, this Sir John Pigot, the 
 second in succession of the name, "John, son of John, son of 
 
 B 
 
i8 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Baldwin Pigot," as he is styled, was 23! years of age when he 
 succeeded his father in 1337. He had married Matilda, or Maud, 
 daughter of Sir Peter de Scremby, Knt, by whom he had a son, 
 another John. He also had dealings with his namesake, Sir John 
 Pigot, of Ronhale, respecting that manor, and in October, 1339, 
 13 Edw. III., paid a fine of 30s. to the King for leave to make a 
 fresh settlement of it, which was effected by means of a grant to 
 William de Ounesby, Parson of Doddington. {Chancery Inq., 
 
 13 Edw. III., No. 2.) Some years later, in 1351, 25 Edw. III., 
 he made an exchange of his Manor of Ronhale with Elizabeth, 
 wife of William Latymer, for a manor which she also held at 
 Cardington, as part of the Barony of Bedford, which she inherited 
 through her descent from Beatrice, sister to Ela de Beauchamp. 
 {Chancery Inq., 25 Edw. III., No. 51.) In 18 Edw. III., on the 
 Friday after S. Lucy the Virgin, i.e., 13 December, 1344, Sir John 
 Pigot, with his neighbour Sir William D'Isney and other knights, 
 and Richard Fitz-Martin, Mayor of Lincoln, was witness to the 
 grant by Guy Martell of his Manor of Canwick to Master Walter 
 de Stauren, Treasurer of the Cathedral.* Before November, 1341, 
 Sir John Pigot's first wife, Matilda, had died ; and he was desirous 
 of making provision for his second wife, Isabel, and her children. 
 To effect this he paid a fine of £20 to the King, after Inquisition 
 held 18 November, 1341, for leave to enfeoff William de Ounesby, 
 the Rector of Doddington, with his Manor of Cardington, and the 
 Advowson of two -thirds of a moiety of the Church of Houghton- 
 Conquest, for the benefit of his wife Isabel, and his heirs by her. f 
 He retained, however, his Bedfordshire property for his life, and 
 was one of those of that county to whom a Commission was 
 addressed, 33 Edw. III., to array men for the protection of the 
 realm during the absence of the King.J Edward III.'s French 
 Wars issued in the great victory of Poitiers, in which John, the 
 King of France, was taken prisoner. From 4 August, 1359, until 
 
 14 February, 1360, he had been detained in honourable captivity 
 at Somerton Castle. But at this latter date it was deemed advisable 
 to convey him to the Tower of London ; and instructions § were 
 issued for his safe conduct on the journey under the style of " our 
 Adversary of France," as he was quaintly designated from reluctance 
 to give him the title of King of France, which Edward claimed 
 for himself. As a Bedfordshire landowner, John Pigot was directed 
 
 * Calendar of Ancient Deeds, vol. i. 
 ■f* Inquis. p. mortem, 15 Edw. III. ; Abbrevatio Rotul. Ori%., vol. ii., p. 151. 
 
 % De hominibus arraiandis pro salvatione regni in absentia Regis. Rymer's 
 Fcedera, vol. iii., pt. I., p. 457. 
 
 § Super conductione Adversarii Francise a castro de Somerton usque ad 
 civitatem London. Rymer's Fcedera, vol. iii., pt. I., p. 476. 
 
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 with two others to be at Woburn Abbey with 10 men at arms and 
 12 archers before sunrise, on Tuesday, March 24, to conduct 
 thence on the same day " our said Adversary " as far as the town 
 of St. Albans, and thence on the Wednesday to the City of London. 
 
 This second Sir John Pigot died 2 8 April, 1 3 6 1 , and the following 
 Inquisition as to his Lincolnshire property was taken in pursuance 
 of a writ dated at Westminster 4 May of that year, 35 Edw. III. : — 
 
 " Inquisition taken at Lincoln on Wednesday after the Feast 
 of the Holy Trinity, 35 Edw. III. (25 May, 1361), before Walter 
 de Kelby, escheator. 
 
 " John Pygot held in fee on the day of his death the Manors 
 of Dodyngton and Thorpe o' the hill with the appurtenances by 
 the gift and grant of William de Ounesby, parson of the church 
 of Dodyngton, Henry Balle, parson of a moiety of the Church of 
 Houghton, and Geoffrey de Burgh, chaplain, to the said John 
 and his heirs begotten of the body of Matilda (or Maud) his first 
 wife, So that if he should die without issue by her then the said 
 Manors should remain to Isabel, second wife of John for her life, 
 with remainder after her decease to the heirs of John begotten of 
 her : remainder, in default of such issue, to the right heirs of the 
 said John for ever. 
 
 " The said Manors are held of the Abbot of Westminster by 
 the service of ^12 a year, and they are worth yearly in all issues 
 beyond the rent 20 marks.* 
 
 "John died 28 April in the 35th year of the King (1361) and 
 John, his son begotten of the said Matilda, is his next heir, aged 
 22 years and more." {Chancery Inquisition J>,m., 35 Edw. III., 
 No. 36.) 
 
 At his death his Bedfordshire property became- separated from 
 that in Lincolnshire, passing, according to the settlement of 
 November, 1341, to his second wife, Isabel, who held accordingly 
 the Manor of Cardington and a portion of the Advowson of the 
 Church of Houghton-Conquest till her death in 1373, as is shown 
 by the following inquisition : — 
 
 "Inquisition taken at Bedford 28 Jan. 48 Edw. III. (1373-4). 
 Isabel who was wife of John Pygot, Knight, held on the day on 
 which she died the Manor of Kerdyngton with the Advowson of 
 two parts of a moiety of the Church of Houghton-Conquest with 
 their appurtenances in fee tail, jointly with the said John her 
 husband deceased, and the heirs of their bodies begotten, by the 
 feoffment of William de Ounesby, parson of the Church of 
 Dodyngton, — of the King in chief by knight-service, as parcel of 
 the Barony of Bedford, and by the service of 2s. yearly for hidage. 
 
 * A mark, 13s. 4^., was only money of account, not a coin ; at this time 
 it represented about £8 of present money. 
 
20 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 " Isabel died on Friday after Christmas Day in the year afore- 
 said (30 December, 1373), and Baldwyn Pygot her son is next 
 heir of her and of the said John in the tail above said, aged 21 
 years at the Feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist last past 
 (24 June, 1373)," (Chanc. Inq.f.m., 48 Edw. III., No. 53.) 
 
 Her son, Sir Baldwin Pigot, of Cardington, married Margery, 
 daughter of William Franke, but had issue only a daughter and 
 heiress, Joan.* She married James Gascoigne, a son by his 
 second wife, Dame Joan (daughter of Sir William Pickering), of 
 Sir William Gascoigne, the Chief Justice noted for his supposed 
 committal of Prince Henry, afterwards Henry V., who at all 
 events promptly superseded him on his coming to the throne, on 
 29 March, 1413, eight days after his accession. James Gascoigne 
 died in 1434, and his wife on 21 June, 1435, when their eldest 
 son, James, was but four years old. Another son, John Gascoigne, 
 born 8 September, 1433, was heir-at-law to the last Sir John Pigot 
 in 1453. Both these sons are said in the Heraldic Visitations to 
 have been slain in the Wars of the Roses. t But a third son, 
 George Gascoigne, remained, and handed down the Manor of 
 Cardington to his descendants, who quartered with the arms of 
 Gascoigne those of Pigot, Gules, 3 Pickaxes Arg. ; of Wake, Az. 
 2 Bars, Or, 3 Plates in chief ; and of Beauchamp of Bedford, 
 Quarterly, Or and Gules, a Bend of the second. Finally, at the 
 beginning of the seventeenth century, by the marriage of the two 
 daughters and coheirs of John Gascoigne — Elizabeth Gascoigne 
 to Sir George Blundell and Dorothy Gascoigne to Sir Gerald 
 Harvey — Cardington passed into the possession of those two 
 families, who also quartered the arms of Gascoigne and Pigot 
 with their own. 
 
 To return to Doddington, it was inherited by Sir John Pigot, 
 the third of the name in succession, the son of the last Sir John 
 Pigot by his first wife, Matilda, who was 22 years of age and more on 
 his father's death, 28 April, 1361. A deed still remains among 
 the documents at Ford Castle, % dated at Doddington on the Sunday 
 
 * She is called Dorothy in the Visitation of Beds., 1634, but Joan in the 
 Visitation of Yorks., 1564, which is confirmed by the better authority of the 
 Inquis. taken after her death, 14 Hen. VI. 
 
 + The Visit, of Yorks., 1564, says, "James Gaskon, slene at Barnet Fyld, 
 sans issu : John, 2nd son, there slene also, sansissu." The Visit, of Beds., 1634, 
 says, " 1. James Gascoigne, ob. s.p. 2. John Gascoigne, ob. s. p. slaine at ye 
 Battaile of St. Albans." 
 
 % The ancient deeds and documents relating to Doddington were taken to 
 Seaton-Delaval when Doddington became part of the Delaval property, and 
 were thence removed to Ford Castle for greater security in case of invasion. 
 They were not restored either when Ford became separated from the rest of the 
 Delaval estates on Lord Delaval's death, or when Doddington was separated 
 from Seaton-Delaval in 18 14. The MSS. at Ford Castle have been reported 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 21 
 
 next after the Feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, 27 August, 
 1369 (Dat : Dod n die dfiica pxpost f m Sti Barthi Apli 43 Edw. III.), 
 whereby "John Pygot, lord of Dodyngton 'juxta Skeldinghop,' 
 grants to the lord John de Welbourn, Canon and Treasurer of the 
 Church of St. Mary of Lincoln and to Geoffrey le Skrope, Canon 
 of the said Church, his Manors of Dodington and Thorp with 
 the stream ( ' gurgite ') of Trent, and 70^ acres of meadow lying 
 in Clyfton and Gretton, co. Notts., also lands in the vill of 
 Heredby (Harby) co. Notts, with all meadows, pastures, vineyards 
 (' vinariis '), woods, mills, moorlands, and marshes of Dodyngton 
 and Thorp, with the Advowson of the Church of Dodyngton, for 
 ever. Witnesses, John de Watton, Prior of S. Katharine without 
 Lincoln ; John Brett de Thornhagh ; Sir William de Belesby, Sir 
 Ralph Paynell, and Sir John Paynell, Knights." On the same 
 day John Pygot appoints his " beloved in Christ " John de Leeke 
 of Coleby, and John de Welbourn and Geoffrey le Skrope appoint 
 their "beloved in Christ" John de Newton, their respective 
 attorneys, to give and receive seisin of the Manors of Doddington 
 and Thorpe. The purport of this grant was no doubt the same 
 as that of similar ones we have already noted, viz., to appoint the 
 Canons named Trustees of a fresh settlement of the estate, probably 
 on Sir John Pigot's marriage. It is evident that it conveyed no actual 
 possession of estate, for in 1372 he himself, as Sir John Pygot, of 
 Dodington, Knt., presented John de Thorp to the Rectory, on 
 the resignation of William Bangard de Ounesby, who had held it 
 since 1328. He was dead before 30 Aug., 1383, when his widow, 
 Elizabeth Pigot, died, and in pursuance of a writ dated at West- 
 minster, 24 September, 7 Ric. II. (1383), the following inquisition 
 was taken : — 
 
 " Inquisition taken at Lincoln before William de Skipwyth the 
 younger, the King's escheator in the county of Lincoln, on Monday 
 after the Feast of S. Michael the Archangel, 7 Ric. II. (5 October, 
 1383). 
 
 " Elizabeth, who was wife of John Pygot, and jointly enfeoffed 
 with him, held of the Abbot of Westminster (whose temporalities 
 are for certain reasons in the King's hands) the Manor of 
 Dodyngton with the appurtenances by knight's service, to the said 
 John and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the body of John 
 issuing, Yielding to the Abbot every year £,12. The manor with 
 
 on by the Hist. MSS. Commission, xi. 7,App., but unfortunately were only 
 partially examined, the expert stating that he opened no more than 1 5 out of 
 the 23 boxes in which they are contained. We are indebted for much the 
 greater part of the valuable information respecting Doddington which has been 
 gathered from them to the courtesy of Mr. Walter B. Thomas, of Newcastle- 
 on-Tyne, who has liberally allowed us to make use of the notes which he was 
 permitted to take while the late Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, was the 
 owner of Ford Castle. 
 
22 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 appurtenances is worth by the year beyond reprises 40s. There 
 are 15 acres of meadow worth 7s. 6d. In the water of Trent are 
 three 1 Fysshe-garthes,' worth $s. There are 400 acres of under- 
 wood, worth by the year when they can be cut 70J. 
 
 "The said Elizabeth died 30 August last (1383) and John, son 
 of the said John Pygot and Elizabeth, is their next heir, aged 10 
 years." (Chancery Inq. p.m., 7 Ric. II., No. 63.) 
 
 The fact mentioned in the above Inquisition that the tem- 
 poralities of the Abbey of Westminster were at this time for some 
 reason in the King's hand, accounts for another Inquisition taken 
 at Lincoln before the same escheator, only 5 months previously, 
 19 May, 1383, in which "the Jurors say upon their oath that the 
 Abbot of Westminster held no land or tenements in the county of 
 Lincoln, but the Manor of Dodyngton with the appurtenances is 
 held of the Abbot by knight-service, and by £12 rent to be paid 
 at the usual terms, that is to say, at Michaelmas and Easter, by 
 even portions. (Chancery Inq. p.m., 6 Ric. II., No. 78.) 
 
 The heir of Doddington, afterwards the fourth Sir John Pigot, 
 Knt., was only 10 years old when he succeeded to it on his mother's 
 death ; and we have at once an evidence of his minority in the 
 fact that King Richard II. presented Thomas Sedeyn to the 
 Rectory of Doddington in 1393. In the following year he must 
 have attained his majority, so it is not so easy to see why Sir John 
 de Etton, who held the Manors of Laxton and Egmanton on the 
 other side of the Trent, in right of his wife, should have presented 
 Thomas Thorpe in 141 7, and William Jolyf in 1421. No explana- 
 tion of his right of patronage is given in the Bishop's Registers, 
 nor in Sir John's will, proved at York, 30 March, 1433, nor in the 
 Inquisitions taken after his death. Sir John Pigot himself during 
 his long life presented three times to the Rectory, viz. : Alan 
 Alforth in 1429, William Dyghton in 1440, and Robert Pye in 
 1449. He held the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1433, 
 when his coat of arms is given as Sable, 3 Pick-axes, Arg ; and 
 in the Lay Subsidy granted by the Parliament held at Lincoln, 
 14 Hen. VI., 1436, he is entered as holding lands and tenements 
 in the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham of the yearly value, 
 beyond charges and reprises, of £60, on which the Subsidy 
 assessed at 6d. in the is 30*. (Exchequer Lay Subsidies, 1 36-1 98.) 
 Before 1429 he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas de 
 Belesby, of Belesby, Knt., who inherited from her father and her 
 brother Thomas the Manors of Belesby, Thorganby, Horsington, 
 Branx-fee and Swynford-fee in Harlaxton, and lands and tenements 
 in a dozen Lincolnshire parishes besides. Sir Thomas de Belesby 
 died 20 September, 1415, 3 Hen. V., leaving his son and heir 
 Thomas, a child of 4, whose mother Hawise, with her second 
 husband, Godfrey Hilton, held the manors and enjoyed the 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 23 
 
 proceeds until her death, 24 March; 1422, 10 Hen. V. The young 
 Thomas died, still under age, in i429,when his sister Elizabeth, aged 
 18, and already married to John Pigot, became heiress to the estates. 
 (Inq. p.m., 8 Hen. VI.) Her husband, the fourth and last Sir 
 John Pigot, died without issue, 24 October, 1450, when according 
 to the dates given in the Inquisitions, he must have been 77, an 
 age much less frequently attained in those days than now. For 
 some reason— perhaps owing to the troubles of the time, for 1450 
 was the year of Jack Cade's insurrection— the Commission to 
 enquire into his possessions was not issued till 15 July, i45 2 > an ^ 
 the Inquisition was not held till 30 October, 1453, when the 
 following report was made in which his title is carefully traced 
 down from the settlement made by his grandfather in 1341 :— 
 
 " Inquisition taken at Lincoln Castle 30 Oct. 32 (sic) Hen. VI. 
 (1453) before Commissioners. 
 
 "One William, parson of the church of Dodyngton near 
 Skeldyngthorpe, Henry Balle, parson of a moiety of the church of 
 Houghton, co. Bedford, and Geoffrey de Burgh, chaplain, were 
 seised in fee of the Manor (manerio) of Dodyngton and Thorpo- 
 thehill, together with the Advowson of the Church of Dodyngton, 
 and also of all other lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and 
 services of all bond-tenants with all their sequels, which were late 
 of one John Pygot in the town of Dodyngton and Thorpothehill 
 aforesaid, and by their charter indented (shown to the jurors) gave 
 and granted the same to the said John Pygot, then Knight, To 
 have and to hold them to him and his heirs begotten of the body 
 of Matilda, daughter of Peter de Scremby, Knt., his wife, of the 
 chief lords of the fee by the services therefor due and of right 
 accustomed. If John die without issue by Matilda, all the said 
 manors &c. to remain to Isabel, then his wife, for her life, with 
 remainder to the heirs of John begotten on the body of Isabel. 
 In default of such issue remainder to the right heirs of the said 
 John for ever. By virtue whereof John Pygot was seised thereof 
 in fee-tail, and had issue John by Matilda, and died seised of such 
 estate ; after whose death the Manors &c. descended to the afore- 
 said John, issue and heir by the body of the said Matilda, who 
 was seised thereof in fee-tail, and died seised of such estate. Which 
 John, son of John, had issue John named in the Commission, who 
 was seised in fee-tail as son and heir of John, son of John and 
 Matilda, and died so seised without an heir of his body begotten. 
 After his death the Manors &c. descended to one John Gascoigne, 
 son and heir of Joan, daughter and heir of Baldwin Pygot, son and 
 heir of the aforesaid John Pygot, Knt. and Isabel, and heir of John 
 begotten of the body of Isabel, and heir of John, father of John, 
 father of the said John, named in the Commission. 
 
24 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 " The Manor (manerium) of Dodyngton and Thorpothehill is 
 worth by the year in all issues beyond reprises £10. The lands 
 and tenements, that is to say, 12 messuages, (each worth by the 
 year 2s.) 100 acres of land at 4^., 40 acres of meadow at Sd., 200 
 acres of pasture at id., 100 acres of wood at 2d., divers tenants at 
 will who yield by the year 10s. are held of the Abbot of Westminster, 
 but by what services is not known. 
 
 " Dame Elizabeth Pygot, late wife of John Pygot, named in the 
 Commission, now wife of William Vaux, together with her husband 
 (William) has received the issues and profits of the manor, lands 
 and tenements aforesaid, and occupied them from the time of the 
 death of her late husband, but by what title the jurors know not. 
 
 "The said John named in the Commission died seised in fee- 
 tail as abovesaid, without an heir of his body begotten on 24 Oct. 
 29 Hen. VI. (1450) : and John Gascoigne is his cousin and next 
 heir, aged 20 years and more at the Feast of the Nativity of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary last past (8 Sept. 1453 ?) who is in ward to 
 the King by reason of his minority, and by reason of certain lands 
 and tenements at Kerdyngton in the county of Bedford, which are 
 held of the King in chief by knight-service ; as by an Inquisition 
 taken after the death of Joan, his (John Gascoigne's) mother, 
 whose heir he is, and remaining in the King's Chancery, more fully 
 doth appear. 
 
 " The same John Gascoigne is heir general and next of kin to 
 the John named in the Commission, aged 20 years and 8 weeks at 
 the date of this Inquisition. 
 
 " The John named in the Commission did not die seised of 
 any other lands or tenements, either in demesne or in service, nor 
 had he any other heir. 
 
 "In witness thereof the said Robert ShefBelde and Roger 
 Fauconberge, as well as the Jurors, have set their hands the afore- 
 said 30th day and year." 
 
 It will be seen that the jurors state that they know not by what 
 title Dame Elizabeth Pigot held the Manor of Doddington and 
 received its profits from the time of her late husband's death. But 
 it seems that they might have known, had they made proper 
 enquiries. For the following release conveying the possession to 
 her had been executed at Doddington, 15 August, 1451, and 
 enrolled in Chancery August 18, not by John Gascoigne, of whom 
 we hear no more, but by John Bendysshe, who in a subsequent 
 Inquisition is said to be cousin and next heir of Sir John Pigot 
 " and no other." 
 
 " Release by John Bendysshe, of Hadeley, co. Suffolk, of all 
 claim in the Manor of Dodyngton, co. Lincoln. 
 
 "To all, &c. John Bendysshe, of Hadeley, co. Suffolk, Esq. 
 cousin and heir of John Pygot of Dodyngton, in co. Line. Knt. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 25 
 
 now deceased, Greeting in the Lord. Know ye that I, the afore- 
 said John Bendysshe, have remised, released, and altogether for 
 me and my heirs have quit-claimed to Elizabeth Pygot, late wife 
 of the said John Pygot, John Matheu of London, Esq. Henry 
 Hanley of Keleby, Gentilman, and William Mundson, Chaplain, 
 their heirs and assigns, all right and claim which I have, had, or in 
 any wise soever might have in the Manor of Dodyngton, in the 
 counties of Lincoln and Nottingham, and in all lands &c. in the 
 said counties, which formerly were the said John Pygot's, So that 
 neither I, the aforesaid John Bendysshe, nor my heirs, shall hence- 
 forth demand or vindicate any right or claim in the said manor, 
 lands &c, but shall be excluded for ever by these presents from 
 any action of right or claim therefor. And I, the said John 
 Bendysshe and my heirs, will warrant the said manor, lands &c. 
 to the said Elizabeth, John Matheu, Henry, and William, their 
 heirs and assigns against all people for ever. In witness whereof 
 to this my present writing I have set my seal. Given at Dodyngton 
 aforesaid on the Feast of the Assumption B.V.M. in the 29th year 
 of the reign of Henry VI. (15 August, 1451). 
 
 "The said John Bendysshe came into Chancery at Westminster 
 1 8th day of August in the present year, and acknowledged the 
 writing aforesaid, and all things therein contained." {Close Roll, 
 29 Hen. VI., No. 8 dorso.) 
 
 This release was followed by a final agreement, which shows 
 us the price which Dame Elizabeth, through her trustees, paid 
 John Bendysshe for the estate : — 
 
 "Final Agreement in the King's Court at Westminster on the 
 morrow of the Ascension of our Lord, 31 Hen. VI. (3 May, 1453) 
 before John Prysot, Thos. Fulthorpe, Wm. Ayscoughe, John 
 Portington, Nicholas Ayshton, Peter Andrew, and Robert Dawson, 
 Justices &c. Between John Leeke, clerk, Thos. Hundon, chaplain, 
 and Wm. Mundson, chaplain, Complainants, and John Bendish, 
 esq. Deforciant, of the Manor of Dodyngton-Pygott and Thorpe 
 on the Hill, with appurtenances &c. John Bendish acknowledges 
 the said Manor &c. to be the right of the said William, as those 
 which the said William, John Leeke, and Thomas have of the gift 
 of the aforesaid John Bendish, and he quit-claims to the aforesaid 
 William and his heirs for ever. And for this acknowledgment the 
 said John Leeke, Thomas, and William give to the aforesaid John 
 Bendish .£300 sterling." 
 
 Before October, 1453, Dame Elizabeth Pigot was already 
 married to her second husband, William Vaux, in conjunction 
 with whom she presented John Fawkener to the Rectory of 
 Doddington in 1458. He was probably the Sir William Vaux 
 attainted for high treason by Act of Parliament, 4 November, 
 1 Edw. IV. (1461), and at all events he was dead, and Dame 
 
26 
 
 Htstoty of Doddington. 
 
 Elizabeth married again before 1466, when she and her third 
 husband, John Stanley, together presented John Leeke to the 
 Rectory of Doddington. 
 
 Two years later, Dame Elizabeth, still the wife of John Stanley, 
 sold the reversion of Doddington after her own death to Sir 
 Thomas Burgh, of Gainsborough, Knt, as is testified by the 
 following abstracts of documents preserved at Ford Castle : — 
 
 "Indenture, 15 Dec. 8 Edw. IV. (1468): Dame Elizabeth 
 Pygott, wife of John Stanley, Esq. grants to Sir Thomas Burgh, knt. 
 the reversion of the Manor of Dodyngton Pygote, with Thorpe 
 upon y e hill, Hardby, and all other appurts. and members within 
 the shires of Lines, and Notts : and the Advowson of the Church 
 of Dodington, immediately after her death :— Sir Thos. Burgh to 
 pay 300 marks, of which £\o is paid at this date, at times 
 appointed. Signed by Dame Elizabeth Pygott, at Golthawe 
 (Goltho) : Sir Wm. Skipworth, knt : John Stanley, Esq : Walter 
 Taylbos : Thomas Pigge, Auditor : and Richard Ripley, Receyvour, 
 the said Sir Thomas Burgh, knt. and Thomas Halley, Gent, and 
 William, Bailiffe of the said lordship and manor, servant unto the 
 said Dame Eliz. Pygott, being present." 
 
 Immediately after this indenture, the following grant was 
 executed, transferring the trusteeship of the estate : — 
 
 "Grant 25 Dec. 8 Edw. IV. (1468) We, Rich. Welleys, Lord 
 of Welleys and Wy'llughby, Knt. Godfrey Hilton, Esq. Richard 
 Thymylby de Howton in le more, Esq. Wm. Mundson, Clerk, and 
 Thos. Hundon, Chaplain, demise, deliver and confirm to 'Bernard 
 Myssendyn, Walter Taylbos, John Saynton, and Thomas Grove, 
 Chaplains, our Manor of Dodington Pygot, and Thorpe on the 
 Hill, with appurts : in co. Line, and Notts, and our Manor of 
 Hareby, otherwise called Hardby, in co. Notts, aforesaid, with 
 appurts : and the Advowsons of Church, Chapel, and Chantry, 
 with appurts : in Dodington, Thorpe, and Hareby and Spalsforth 
 in the parish of South Clyfton in the said co. of Notts : — To have 
 &c. to the aforesaid Bernard, Walter, John, and Thomas, and their 
 heirs for ever ; and they appoint ' dilectos nobis in Christo ' Richard 
 Ripley, Hugh Balfront, Thomas Halley, and William Vesey, their 
 attorneys to give entry &c. Witnesses, — Thomas Moigne, William 
 Cote, Thomas Pigge, Robert Taylbos, Thos. Gylby, and others," 
 
 Dame Elizabeth Pigot herself died 3 November, 1473, without 
 issue by any of her three husbands, all of whom she survived. She 
 was aged 62 at the time of her death, and had lived through all 
 the Wars of the Roses, from the first fight at St. Albans in May, 
 x 455> to the decisive defeat of the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury in 
 May, 1 47 1. In pursuance of a writ dated at Westminster 
 20 November, 13 Edw. IV. (1473), the following Inquisition, 
 
Doddington and the Pigots. 
 
 27 
 
 wherein her dealings with the property are set forth, was taken at 
 Spital-in-the-Street : — 
 
 " Inquisition taken at the Hospital « super strat ' in the co. of 
 Lincoln 20 June, 14 Edw. IV. (1474)- 
 
 "Thomas Hundon and William Mundson, Chaplains, were 
 seised together with John Leeke, Clerk, now deceased, to them 
 and to the heirs of the said William, of the Manors of Dodyngton 
 Pygot and Thorp in le hill with their appurtenances, in the co. of 
 Lincoln, by the gift, remise and quit-claim of John Bendyssh, 
 Esquire, by whom a Fine was levied in the time of Henry VI. late 
 king, (as more fully appears in the same Fine shown to the jurors 
 in evidence) for ^300 sterling, paid to him by the said John Leeke, 
 Thomas Hundon, and William Mundson to the use of Elizabeth, 
 who was wife of John Stanley, Esquire, and also late wife of John 
 Pygot, Knight. And Thomas Bendyssh is cousin and next heir 
 of the' said John Pygot, knt. and no other. Thomas Hundon and 
 William Mundson, so seised of the said manors and other the 
 premises by charter, (likewise shown in evidence) demised at the 
 request of the said Elizabeth named in the Writ to Barnard 
 Messyndene, Walter Tailbois, John Saynton. and Thomas Grove, 
 chaplain, their heirs and assigns, their manors of Dodyngton Pygot 
 and Thorpe in le hill with their appurtenances to the intent that 
 she might receive the issues and profits of the same for her life, 
 and after her decease that Thomas Burgh, knt. should enjoy the 
 same to him, his heirs and assigns for ever to his and their own 
 use, for 300 marks paid by him to her in her life-time, By virtue 
 whereof the said Barnard, Walter, John, and Thomas were seised 
 thereof in fee, and so continued their estate and possession thereof 
 during the life of Elizabeth ; and Barnard, John, and Thomas yet 
 continue their possession, but Walter Tailbois at the time of this 
 inquisition is dead. The said manors and other the premises are 
 worth by the year £20, and they are held of the Abbot of West- 
 minster, but by what services is not known at present." (Chancery 
 Ing._p.rn., 13 Edw. IV., No. 26.) 
 
 The remainder of the Inquisition is taken up with the details 
 of estates which she inherited from her father in Belesby, 
 Thorganby, &c, with which we have here no concern j but which 
 in pursuance of an arrangement made by Sir John Pigot and herself 
 descended to one Richard Thymolby. The Inquisition concludes : 
 "The said Elizabeth died on the 3 Nov. last (1473) and J ohn 
 Martyn is her cousin and next heir, aged 40 years at the time of 
 taking this Inquisition." 
 
 Thus the family of Pigot of Doddington became extinct after 
 being in possession of the place for at least 300 years. It was not 
 so long an ownership as that of their neighbours, the Disneys at 
 Norton-Disney, but it was long enough, as in that case, to attach 
 
28 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 their name as a distinctive adjunct to that of the place which they 
 had so long possessed. We have seen an instance of its use in the 
 Inquisition of 1474, just as the family itself had become extinct. 
 Rather earlier than this, frequent mention of it by the name of 
 Dodyngton Pygot is found in the various Commissions of Sewers 
 issued in the reign of Edw. IV., 1461-71 : as e.g., 7 Edw. IV., 
 1466, where the Commission is for the repair of all banks and 
 sewers from Staunford (Stamford) in this county to Dodyngton 
 Pygot, and thence through these two provinces (Kesteven and 
 Holland) to the sea. In other Commissions the extreme limits are 
 specified as from Skegnes and Dodyngton Pygote to Tydd Gote, 
 Doddington being evidently mentioned as the extreme north-west 
 point of Kesteven, and therefore the limit of the Commissioners' 
 jurisdiction in this direction. Henceforth the place continued to 
 be so called in all deeds and formal descriptions, as in the Parish 
 Register and on the Church Plate. One small farm also at 
 Doddington has for some reason had appropriated to it the name 
 of the Pygot farm. No other memorials exist to show that they 
 ever resided here. It is not to be expected that any remains of 
 their Manor House should be found, for the present Hall, built 
 1593-1600, doubtless occupies its site; but the oaken woodwork 
 under the leads, which has been previously worked up and roughly 
 carved, evidently was taken from some former house. Their 
 Manorial Chapel which may be seen in its original shape in the 
 engraving of 1700, was converted during the rebuilding of 177 1 into 
 the north aisle of the present church ; all traces of their monuments 
 have disappeared, but the curvilinear eastern window dates back 
 to their later days. A shield bearing their 3 pick-axes may be seen 
 amongst coats of arms of the De Albini, or Daubeny, family on 
 the font of the Church of Saxilby. Two other English parishes, 
 Abingdon Pigotts in Cambridgeshire, and Framingham Pigot in 
 Norfolk, as well as the Manor of Acton Pigot in Shropshire, attest 
 in like fashion with Doddington Pigot their former connection 
 with families of the same name. 
 
Doddington and the Pigots 
 
 29 
 
 PIGOT, OF DODDINGTON-PIGOT. 
 
 John Pigot, = 
 claimed Advn. of Doddington, 
 6Ric. I., 1 194' {R°t- Cur - Reg ) 
 
 = William Pigot, = Agnes (de Nevill), 
 
 held Manor of Doddington living 22 Feb., 1218. 
 and Thorpe, 17 Joh., 1216. 
 {Rot. de Obi.) 
 
 Sir Hugh Pigot, = 
 s. and h. 121 7 ; pres. to ' 
 DoddingtonR. 1222, 1229. 
 
 I 
 
 Alexander Pigot, 
 hostage 12 16; Rector 
 of Doddington 1229. 
 
 Baldwin Pigot. 
 
 Margery Pigot ; md. Peter 
 de Champagne ; son Peter 
 d, 1295. 
 
 Isabella, d. and coh. of Sir Hugh 
 Pigot, of Doddington, ; md. Sir 
 Robert Sutton, of Averham, who 
 d. 1286. 
 
 Sir John Pigot, = Lucia, d. of 
 held Doddington and Thorpe Michael 
 1274 (Rot. Hund.) ; pres. to | Belat. 
 Doddington R. 1273, and to 
 Thorpe R. 1281. I 
 
 Hugh Pigot, 
 Rector of Doddington 
 I273-I3I5- 
 
 Roger Pigot, 
 Rector of Thorpe-on- 
 the-Hill 1281-1317. 
 
 Michael Pigot= Joan, d. of Baldwin Wake, and coh. of her 
 
 "Lord of Doddington 
 pres. to Houghton R. 1273 
 
 mother, Ela de Beauchamp ; md. 2nd Sir 
 Ralph Paynell, who d. 1318. 
 
 I 
 
 Sir Baldwin Pigot = 
 ' ' Lord of Doddington & Cardington " ; 
 d. before 1314. I 
 
 I 
 
 Sir John Pigot = 
 ("John, son of Baldwin"); pres. to 
 Doddington R. 1315,1328, and to Hough- 
 ton R. 1323 : d. 1337. (inq. p.m.) 
 
 John, son of Michael Pigot, 
 ? Sir John Pigot, of Ronhale, 
 co. Beds., living 1317- 
 
 1st Maudes 
 d. of Sir Peter de 
 Scremby ; d. before 
 I34I- 
 
 I 
 
 Sir John Pigot, = 
 ("John, son of John, 
 son of Baldwin ") aged 
 23 in 1337 ; d. 1361. 
 (Inq. p.m.) 
 
 2nd Isabel held 
 
 Cardington till her 
 death, 1373. (Inq. p.m.) 
 
 Sir John Pigot, = Elizabeth 
 
 of Doddington, aged 22 in 
 1 361 : pres. to Doddington 
 R. 1372 : d. before 1383. 
 
 held Doddington 
 till her death 1383. 
 (Inq. p.m.) 
 
 Sir Baldwin Pigot, = Margery, d. of 
 of Cardington, Beds., Wm. Franke. 
 aged 21 in 1373. 
 
 Sir John Pigot, = Elizabeth, d. and h. of Sir Thos. 
 of Doddington, aged 10 in de Belesby, aged 18 in 1429 ; 
 1383 ; High Sheriff of Lines, pres. to Doddington 1458, 
 1433; pres. to Doddington 1466; d. 1473. (Inq. p.m.) 
 R. 1429, 1440, 1449 ;d. s.p. Md. 2nd Wm. Vaux, Esq.; 
 1450. (Inq. p.m.) 3rd John Stanley, Esq. 
 
 Joan Pigot, d. and h. ; d. a 
 widow 21 June, 1435, having 
 md. James Gascoigne, son of 
 Sir Wm. Gascoigne, C.J., 
 from whom the Gascoignes, 
 of Cardington. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 DODDINGTON AND THE BURGHS. 
 HE family of Burgh (variously spelt Borough, Boro, Borowe, 
 
 JL Bourgh, Brough, Brughe, and not unfrequently appearing 
 in the form of k Burgh, or A-Borough), which thus came into 
 possession of Doddington, claimed descent from a younger son of 
 the celebrated Hubert de Burgh, Chief Justiciary of England, 
 Constable of Dover Castle, and Earl of Kent, in the reigns of 
 Richard I., John, and Henry III. Richard Burgh, Esq., of this 
 family, whose will dated 6 December, 1407, was proved 20 January, 
 1408,* died possessed of the Manors of Cowthorpe, Bickerton, 
 and Cowseby, in Yorkshire. By his wife Margaret, daughter of 
 Thomas Roos, of Kendal, he left several children, of whom the 
 eldest son, John Burgh, married Isabella, daughter of Sir Nicholas 
 Monboucher, and coheiress of her brother, Ralph Monboucher, 
 at whose death, in 141 5, she was aged 40 ; she died s.p. possessed 
 of the Lincolnshire Manors of Swinhope, Willoughton, &c, on 
 24 January, 1450, when her sister Maude, wife of John Kevermond, 
 then aged 73, was found to be her heir.f Thomas Burgh, the second 
 son, made a still greater match. He married Elizabeth Percy, who 
 was aged 20 at her father's death in 143 2, X and was one of the two 
 daughters and coheirs of Sir Henry Percy, Knt., known as Percy 
 d'Athol, as having inherited through his mother Elizabeth, daughter 
 and coheir of David de Strabolgi, Earl of Athol, a share of the estates 
 of the Scottish family of Strabolgi, to whom Gainsborough had 
 descended through marriage with an heiress of the De Valences, 
 Earls of Pembroke. On Thomas Burgh's death, his widow 
 Elizabeth (Percy) married Sir William Lucy, Knt., killed at the 
 Battle of Northampton, 10 July, 1460. She was without issue by 
 him, and on her own death which had taken place 16 October 
 {al. 28 September) i455,§ her son by her first husband, also called 
 Thomas Burgh, and then aged 24, became possessed of the 
 Manor of Gainsborough, and her other great estates in Yorkshire, 
 
 * Testamenta Eboracensia, i., 347. 
 t Chancery Inquis. p.m., 29 Hen. VI., No. 35. 
 X Chancery Inquis. p. m. , 1 1 Hen. VI. , No. 37. 
 § Chancery Inquis. p.m., 34 Hen, VI. 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
 3i 
 
 Northumberland, and elsewhere. She was buried in St. James' 
 Abbey, Northampton, and her son bequeathed ;£io in his will 
 (1496) for a stone to be laid over her there, " somewhat raised in 
 height," with her coat-of arms and his father's, and an inscription. 
 Coheiress with her on their father Sir Henry Percy's death in 1432 
 had been her sister Margaret, then aged 17, then or soon after- 
 wards the wife of Henry, sixth Baron Grey, of Codnor, (d. 1443) 
 to whose share, with other lands, fell the Manor of Dunham in 
 Notts., just across the Trent ; but through failure of her issue, 
 Dunham also came subsequently into possession of the Burgh 
 family. 
 
 Thomas Burgh married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lord 
 Roos, (by Eleanor, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of 
 Warwick), styled Lady de Botreaux, as having been the second 
 wife and widow of William Lord Botreaux. And it was this 
 second Thomas Burgh, now Sir Thomas Burgh, Knt., and later 
 Lord Burgh, of Gainsborough, who purchased the Manor of 
 Doddington from Dame Elizabeth Pigot, and began a connection 
 with the place which lasted for 120 years. 
 
 We have already given one Indenture relating to his purchase 
 of Doddington ; here is the abstract of another, dated two months 
 later, also preserved at Ford Castle ; it is dated, as will be seen, at 
 Goltho, which Sir Thomas Burgh had acquired on the death and 
 attainder of Sir William Tailbois in 1464. 
 
 " Indenture : Last day of Feb. 8 Edw. IV. (1469) at Golthawe ; 
 Sir Thomas Burgh, Knt. agrees to pay Dame Elizabeth Pygott 
 £200 for purchase made of her of the reversion of the Manor of 
 of Dodington Pygott, Thorpe-on-the-Hill, and Hardby, with 
 appurtenances, after the decease of Dame Elizabeth, as per two 
 Indentures between them, viz. paying at the Feast of the Annunci- 
 ation of our Lady next ^50, — which ^50 is paid her the day of 
 sealing this, — and £20 at the Feast of St. Martin in winter next 
 following, and £20 at Whitsunday next following, and so yearly 
 at Martinmas and Whitsunday by equal portions until the said 
 sum of £2 00 be paid." 
 
 Sir Thomas Burgh's name is repeatedly found on the various 
 Commissions of Sewers issued for Lincolnshire during the reign of 
 Edward IV., as in those for the Parts of Kesteven and Holland 
 in 1 46 1, 1466, and 147 1, already mentioned, wherein Doddington- 
 Pygot is given as the north-western point of Kesteven ; and in that 
 of 1464 for the Parts of Lindsey and the Isle of Axholme. In the 
 Wars of the Roses, Sir Thomas Burgh, who was a knight attached 
 to Edward's household, was a zealous partisan of the House of 
 York ; and in 1469 he, with Sir William Stanley and others, had 
 personally aided Edward to escape from his detention at Middleham 
 Castle by the Kingmaker Earl of Warwick. Consequently in the 
 
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 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 Lancastrian rising in Lincolnshire in the spring of 1470 under 
 young Sir Robert Welles, son and heir of Richard Baron Welles 
 and Willoughby, styling himself " the captain of the Commons of 
 Lincolnshire," Sir Thomas Burgh was driven out of the county, 
 his manor-house pulled down, and his lands and goods laid waste. 
 This is the account in Warkworth's Chronicle : — " In the moneth 
 of March the lorde Willowby, the lorde Welles his sonne, sere 
 Thomas de la Lond, Knyght, and sere Thomas Dymoke, Knyght, 
 the kynges champion, droff out of Lyncolnschyre sere Thomas a 
 Burghe, a knyght of the kynges howse, and pullede downe his 
 place, and toke all the comons of the schyre to the nombre of 
 xxx thousand, and cryed Kynge Henry, and refused kynge Edward." 
 Edward, however, promptly advanced with a force in support of 
 his servant, and at once put down the rebellion by the defeat, on 
 March 1 3, of Sir Robert Welles and his following at Loose-coat 
 Field at Empingham, near Stamford. Sir Robert's father, Richard 
 Lord Welles and Willoughby, who, up to December, 1462, was 
 one of Dame Elizabeth Pigot's trustees for Doddington, had been 
 executed before the battle, together with Sir Thomas Dymoke, the 
 King's champion. In the following spring, after the landing of 
 Edward at Ravenspur to recover the crown, Sir Thomas Burgh 
 joined him "with his aids" at Nottingham, 14 March, 1471, and 
 took part in the decisive Yorkist victory at Barnet, on the Easter 
 Sunday, 14 April, of that year, and for the rest of his life enjoyed 
 the advantages of having espoused the winning side. On the 
 attainder of Sir William Tailbois, beheaded after the Battle of 
 Hexham, as a Lancastrian partisan, he had a grant of part of his 
 possessions, including the Manors of Croft, Thorpe, Golthawe, and 
 Skellingthorpe ; while by the will * of Margaret, Lady Hungerford 
 and Botreaux, who died 1477, the daughter and eventually sole 
 heir of William Lord Botreaux, a number of manors in Cornwall, 
 Devon, and Somerset, were left to Sir Thomas Burgh and Margaret 
 his wife for their lives, the latter being the second wife and widow 
 of the testatrix's father. Lady Hungerford had seen her eldest 
 son and grandson perish for their adherence to the Lancastrian 
 cause, and it has been suggested that her liberality to Sir Thomas 
 Burgh and his wife was prompted by a desire to secure the 
 remainder of her property to her still surviving grandsons, whom 
 she enjoins to be faithful to the House of York. 
 
 In 1474, after the death of Dame Elizabeth Pigot, on his 
 coming into full possession of Doddington, a conveyance of the 
 estate was made to him by her trustees ; the following is an abstract 
 of the original, now at Ford Castle : — 
 
 "Dodington, 1 Oct., 14 Edw. IV. (1474). We, Bernard 
 Messendyn, John Saynton, and Thomas Grove, chaplains, sell, 
 
 * Nicolas' Testamenta Veiusia, p. 310-22. 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
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 demise and confirm to William Haystings,* lord of Haistings, 
 Tho. Burghe, Kt. Tho. Moungomery, Kt. John Donne, Kt. Wm. 
 Skipwith, Kt. John Gunthorp, ' decano de Welles,' Brian Rocliff, 
 Guy Fayrefax, Wm. Paston, Wm. Husey, and Robert Sheffield, 
 our Manor of Dodyngton Pygott and Thorp on the Hill, with 
 appurts. in co. Line, and Notts, and our Manor of Hareby, alias 
 Hardby, in said co. Notts, and the advowsons of said Church, 
 Chapel, and Chantry, with appurts. in vill of Dodington, Thorp, 
 and Hareby, and Spalford in the parish of South Clyfton, which 
 they lately held conjointly with Walter Taylboys, now deceased, 
 of the gift and enfeoffment of Richard Welles, lord of Welles and 
 Willoughby, Kt. Godfrey Hilton, Esq. William Mundson, Clerk, 
 and Thomas Hundon, Chaplain, — To have and to hold the afore- 
 said Manor with all the lands and tenements, rents, reversions 
 and services, meadows, pastures, woods, moors, warrens, fisheries, 
 liberties, Court Leets, suits, Knights-fees, advowsons, churches, 
 chapels, and chantries, with all and singular their appurtenances, — 
 to the aforesaid Haistings, Burghe, &c. &c. their heirs and assigns 
 for ever, of the chief lord of that fee by services from thence owing 
 out of right customary. They appoint ' dilectos nobis in Christo ' 
 William Dysney and Richard Ripplay their attorneys to give seisin 
 and possession of the same. Witnesses, — Robert Fleming, Dean 
 of the Cath. Church of B.V.M. Lincoln. Robert Tonge, Kt. 
 Bailiff of Eagle. Robert Wymbush, Sub-dean of the aforesaid Cath. 
 Church. Ralph Hudlestone, Mayorof the City of Lincoln. John 
 Topclyffe, Esq. Thomas Grantham. William Hardben. John 
 Dysney, Esq. and many others." 
 
 Sir Thomas Burgh was one of the Knights in attendance on 
 Richard III. at his Coronation at Westminster, 5 July, 1483, and 
 was with him as one of his Council at Nottingham Castle, 
 12 September, 1484; a month later Richard visited Gainsborough 
 10-12 October, 1484, on his way from York to Lincoln. The 
 change of dynasty which ensued on Richard's defeat and death on 
 Bosworth Field, 22 August, 1485, seems to have made little 
 difference in Sir Thomas Burgh's favour at court. He was one of 
 those appointed to hold the pall over the new King, Henry VII., at 
 his Coronation, 30 October, 1485 ; and in the third year of his reign, 
 1 September, 1487, he was summoned to Parliament as Baron 
 Burgh, of Gainsborough; in the same year he was created a 
 Knight of the Garter. The Old Hall at Gainsborough, the princi- 
 
 * This was the William Lord Hastings beheaded by Richard III., 13 June, 
 1483 ; his brother, Sir Richard Hastings, married Joan daughter and heiress 
 of Richard Lord Welles, and sister of Sir Robert Welles, mentioned above. 
 The Welles and Willoughby estates were re-granted to her after the attainder 
 of her father and brother, and her husband Sir Richard Hastings was summoned 
 to Parliament as Lord Welles. 
 
 C 
 
34 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 pal Manor house of the Burgh family in Lincolnshire, still remains ; 
 "one of the best existing specimens in the country of a baronial 
 hall as opposed to the older castles ; of brick and oak framing, 
 with a stone front on the north side, and occupying three sides of 
 a quadrangle." The greater part of it, as we see it now, dates from 
 the reigns of Edward IV. and Henry VII., and there can be little 
 doubt but that it was thus rebuilt by this first Lord Burgh after 
 the damage done to it by the Lancastrians in 1470. Leland, 
 indeed, who visited Gainsborough in 1 538, in the time of his grand- 
 son, the third Lord Burgh, records how " the grandfather to the 
 Lord Borow that now is made most of the motid (moated) Manor 
 place by the W. end of the Churchyard." He notes, too, how 
 richly he lay buried in the church with his wife, the Lady de 
 Botreaux, so called from her former marriage, who had pre- 
 deceased him in 1488. For his own burial there he made special 
 provisions in his will (dated 18 February, 1495-6, proved 19 May, 
 1496), directing that his body should be buried in his new Chapel 
 within the Parish Church of All Saints, Gainsburgh, a tomb being 
 made at the north end of the altar, with figures of himself and his 
 wife, with their arms and the days of their obits ; his own figure 
 to be in armour, with the mantle of the Garter and a garter about the 
 leg. Gervase Holies in Charles I.'s time, 140 years after, saw the 
 tomb, which he describes as " Tumulus marmoreus cum Effigiebus 
 Alabastris Thomse Burgh, Militis aurese Periscelidis, et Uxoris 
 ejus." He describes also the coat of arms of this Lord Burgh, 
 then in stained glass in the windows of the church : " Burgh and 
 his Quarterings within y e Garter," viz. : " Blew, 3 Floures de Liz, 
 Erm. a Label with 3 files, Arg. Burgh," quartering "Or, a Lyon, 
 ramp. Blew. Percy : and Or, 3 Palletts, Sable. Comyn," (rather 
 De Strabolgi) : " Empaling, Quarterly, Gules, 3 Water Bougets, 
 Arg. Pos: and Gules, a Fesse between 2 Bars gemells, Arg." 
 Badlesmere. Other coats commemorated the marriages of his 
 daughters into the noble families of Tailbois, Fitz-hugh, and 
 Willoughby; one of them, Margaret, had married Sir George 
 Tailbois, Knt, of Goltho, grandson of the Sir William Tailbois 
 before mentioned, now restored in blood ; she died s.p., and Sir 
 George had married again and become a lunatic before 1531, when 
 custody of himself and lands was granted to Thomas Lord Burgh 
 for the use and support of Sir George himself, his wife Elizabeth, 
 and family. Another daughter, Elizabeth Burgh, married Richard, 
 sixth Baron Fitzhugh, who died 20 November, 1487, leaving by 
 her a son and heir, George, seventh Baron Fitz-hugh, then aged 
 1 year; she married secondly, Sir Henry Willoughby, Knt., of 
 Wollaton, who died 1528. Similar coats of arms formerly adorned 
 a window of Lord Burgh's gift in the Parish Church of Newark * 
 
 * Thoroton's Notts. , v. i., p. 391. 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
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 doubtless owing to his marriage with a lady of the Ros family, but 
 all have now disappeared ; as has also a coat of his arms surrounded 
 with the garter which Bishop Sanderson mentions as in the south 
 aisle of Lincoln Cathedral. Great part of his lengthy will is taken 
 up with the foundation and endowment of a Chantry and Bedehouse 
 at Gainsborough, and has been printed in Nicholas' Testamenta 
 Vetusta, and in Starke's History of Gainsborough. To his son 
 Sir Edward he left his Barony of Gaynesburgh ; to his son Thomas, 
 should he be living on the day of his burial, ^40 to his chamber, 
 half in plate, half in household stuff. To his daughter Lady Fitz- 
 hugh, a book of gold enamelled which had been his wife's. To 
 his godson Thomas, Sir Edward's eldest son, a cross of gold set 
 with an emerald, which had been his mother's ; to his daughter 
 Anne a cross of gold set with stones and a great ruby in the midst 
 which had been his wife's. And he wills that his son Sir Edward's 
 three sons, Thomas, George, and Humphrey, remain in the keeping 
 of his executors until they each be 20 years old. To many of the 
 Churches round Gainsborough, as to Stow, Willingham, Upton, 
 Knaith, Lea, Heapham, Springthorpe, Corringham, Pilham, Blyton, 
 Laughton, and Kirton-in-Lindsey, he leaves vis. viiid. each, as 
 well as to the Nuns of Heynings, Fosse, and Brodholme, and to 
 " the Ancoresse of Lincolne." Of more immediate interest to us 
 are the following bequests which are not printed in either of the 
 above-mentioned works, but which are found in the original will 
 (Somerset House, Vox. 30), viz. : " To my son Thomas as much 
 Wood yerely of the Woodes of Dodington as shalbe worthe iiii 11 
 by yere to find him feuel, and for default of payment to have doble 
 as much the next yere"; and "To the Parson of Dodington for 
 Tithes forgotten xl s , and to the Church Worke of the said 
 Dodington. xl s ." The Parson of Doddington who received this 
 bequest was John Fawkener, who died 1506, but no part of the 
 present church seems to be of the Perpendicular style, which was 
 in use at that date, unless it be the battlemented parapet with 
 which the present north aisle is surmounted. 
 
 On the death of Thomas, first Lord Burgh, in 1496, he was 
 succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, Sir Edward Burgh, Knt. 
 then aged 32 ; he, however, was never summoned to Parliament, 
 being as it is somewhat quaintly said, " destracted of memorie." 
 He had been married in 1477 to Anne, daughter and heiress of 
 Sir Thomas Cobham, and niece and heiress of Sir Reginald Cobham, 
 of Sterborough, co. Surrey, whose wardship his father had obtained 
 from King Edward IV. She had been already married as a child 
 to Edward Blount, Baron Mountjoy, who died aged 8, in 1475; 
 and her marriage brought into the Burgh family not only a claim 
 to the Barony of Cobham, of Sterborough, but Sterborough Castle, 
 with its estates in the county of Surrey, which continued in its 
 
36 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 possession until they were sold by the sisters and coheiresses of the 
 last infant Lord Burgh. Sir Edward Burgh's mind apparently 
 had not always been affected, for in 1478 he joined Henry VII. 
 with his troops at Nottingham, previous to the Battle of Stoke ; 
 and he was probably the Sir Edward Abarow who was returned as 
 Knight of the Shire for Lincolnshire in 1492. In the same year he 
 was appointed to act as interpreter to the Count ofVendome when he 
 came with other French Ambassadors to treat of Peace. In the 
 grand Tournament held at Westminster, 9-13 November, 1494, on 
 the creation of Prince Henry (afterwards Henry VIII.) Duke of 
 York, Sir Edward greatly distinguished himself, running many 
 courses with the Earl of Suffolk, and breaking his spears courage- 
 ously and well. His appearance on the second day is thus 
 described : "After this tourney Sir Edward a Borough entered into 
 the field, his horse trapped with cloth of gold bordered with black 
 velvet, embroidered with letters of gold, covered with sarcenet white 
 and green voided. Sir Edward ran that day well and courageously, 
 and brake a spere well broken." * On the last day " After supper 
 began the dances, which done two right noble ladies, the Lady 
 of Northumberland and the Lady Herbert, presented the right 
 noble knight, Sir Edward a Borough, to the right high and excellent 
 princess the Lady Margaret, eldest daughter to the King, to whom 
 she gave the prize, i.e., a ring of gold with a dyamant." In 1508, 
 24 Henry VII., he inherited the Manor of Dunham, co. Notts., 
 as heir at law to his cousin Henry, Lord Grey of Codnor, who 
 had died without legitimate issue. But in 15 10, by an inquisition 
 held at Deptford, co. Kent, 14 June, 2 Henry VIII., it is found 
 that "Sir Edward Borough, knt. through divers infirmities and 
 sicknesses had become a lunatic. He enjoys lucid intervals, but 
 he is unable to govern himself, or to take care of his manors and 
 tenements, or of his goods and chattels." They were taken 
 consequently into the King's hand, but were restored in 15 15, 
 probably on the coming of age of his eldest son. This accounts 
 for the fact of Henry VII. having presented to the Rectory of 
 Doddington in 1506; but Sir Edward's name appears together 
 with that of his son on the Commissions of Sewers from 151 1 to 
 i5i4forthe district from " Dodyngton Pygott to Tydd Gott"; 
 and the presentation to the Rectory in 1522 was made in his own 
 name as " Edward Borow de Gaynesburgh." He died 20 August, 
 20 Hen. VIII. (1528), his wife Anne having died 26 June, 1526, 
 as is shown by an Inquisition for the cos. of Surrey and Sussex, 
 taken November, 1528, 20 Hen. VIII. Leland apparently refers 
 to his burial in the choir of Gainsborough Parish Church, when he 
 notes in his Itinerary, temp. Hen. VIII. " This Lord Borow's 
 
 * Letters 0/ Ric. Ill, and Hen, VII, Rolls Series, vol. i., p. 388, 
 
Doddington atid the Burghs. 
 
 37 
 
 father lies in the Choir." Gervase Holies at least describes his 
 arms in the window of the south aisle there : " Quarterly, Blew, 
 3 Floures de Liz, Erm. a Label, Arg. Burgh. Or. a Lyon, ramp. 
 Blew. Percy. Or, 3 Pallets, Sable. Comyn, Comes Atholice ; 
 Empaling, Gules, on a Chevron, Or, 3 Estoiles, Sable. Cobham of 
 Sterborough." But whatever of these memorials of the family 
 escaped destruction during the Civil War finally disappeared at 
 the rebuilding of the church in 1740-8. Only a mutilated figure 
 in alabaster, supposed to be that of the first Lord Burgh, was 
 subsequently found thrown out and half buried in the ground. 
 
 Sir Edward Burgh was succeeded by his eldest son Sir 
 Thomas, third Baron Burgh, who is variously described as aged 
 34 or 40 in 1528 ; the former is probably correct as it agrees with 
 his coming of age in 1515- He was summoned to Parliament 
 3 November, 1529, and took his place in the House of Lords 
 2 December, 1529, as " Lord Borough de Gaynesboro " ; and a 
 writ was issued to him as late as 1 March, 1552, though this was 
 two years after his death. As Sir Thomas Burgh, junr., of Gains- 
 borough, Knt., he had filled during his father's life-time the office 
 of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1519 and 1525; and in 1520, 
 together with Sir John Hussey and Sir William Hussey, was 
 among those appointed to attend Hen. VIII. at the Field of the 
 Cloth of Gold, each being entitled to bring in his retinue one 
 chaplain, eleven other attendants, and eight horses. In the Livery 
 of Lands to him on his father's death, dated at Greenwich, 
 19 February, Westm. 22 February, 20 Hen. VIII. (1529), his 
 pedigree is elaborately traced, both on his father's and mother's 
 side, as " son and heir of Sir Edw. Burgh, and kinsman and heir 
 of Sir Thos. Burgh, senr., viz. son of the said Edward, son of the 
 said Thos. Burgh, senr. ; and as kinsman and heir of Margaret, 
 formerly wife of Henry, Lord Grey of Codnor, one of the daughters 
 and heirs of Sir Henry Percy D'athell, deed., viz. s. and h. of the 
 said Edward, s. and h. of the said Sir Thomas Burgh, senr., s. and 
 h. of Thomas Burgh and Elizabeth his wife, who was sister and 
 heir of the said Margaret, wife of Henry Lord Grey, and another 
 of the daughters and heirs of the said Sir Henry Percy Dathell. 
 Also as son and heir of Anne, late wife of the said Sir Edward 
 Burgh, d. and h. of Sir Thomas Cobham, deed., and kinswoman 
 and h. of Sir Reginald Cobham, also deed., viz. d. of the said Sir 
 Thomas, uncle and h. of Margaret, formerly Countess of West- 
 morland, d. and h. of Reginald Cobham, elder brother of the said 
 Sir Thos. Cobham, s. and h. of the said Sir Reginald Cobham, 
 the said Sir Reginald having died during the life of the said 
 Reginald his father."* 
 
 * Calendar of State Papers, 1529. 
 
38 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 He proceeded at once to make a fresh settlement of his 
 Doddington estate. The following is an abstract of the original 
 deed now at Ford Castle, which supplies, it will be seen, not only 
 the names of many contemporaries, most of them, as the Constables, 
 Tyrwhitts, and Topcliffs, connected by marriage with the Burgh 
 family, but also those of most of the tenants then occupying land 
 at Doddington : — 
 
 "31 March. 20 Hen. VIII. (1529). Thomas Burghe, Knt. 
 son and heir of Edward Burghe, Knt. and kinsman and heir of 
 Thomas Burghe, Knt. gives, grants, and confirms to Robert Con- 
 stable, Robert Tirwhitt, William Constable, Marmaduke Constable, 
 senr., Knts. William Skipwith, senr. Thomas Portyngton, John 
 Constable, William Tirwhitte, John Bassett, senr., John Monson, 
 Robert Tirwhitte, Thomas Dymoke, John Topclif, Robert Constable 
 ' de hawe juxta Hemesley,' Robert Constable ' de Cliff,' William 
 Monson, John Bussy, Robert Topclif, George Lascells, Henry 
 Portington, William Skipwith, junr., Esquires, Robert Dighton, 
 Gent., Robert Cowper and Richard Weston 'de Kyrton in 
 Lyndsey,' the manor of Dodington Pigott and Thorp upon the 
 Hill with appurts. in co. Line, and Notts, and the manor of 
 Hareby, alias Hardby, in aforesaid co. Notts, as well as all lands 
 and tenements, rents, reversions and services, meadows, pastures, 
 woods, moors, warrens, fisheries, franchises, liberties, leets, view 
 of Franc-pledge, suits, Knights -fees, advowsons, church, chapel 
 and chantry with all appurts. which ever belonged (' que usquam 
 fuerunt '), to Bernard Myssendyne, John Saynton, and Thomas 
 Grove, chaplain, in the vill of Dodington, Thorp upon the Hill, 
 Hareby alias Hardby, and Spalford in the parish of S. Clyfton, 
 or afterwards to Wm. Haistings, lord of Haistings, Thos. Burghe, 
 Knt. otherwise me the aforesaid Thomas, Thomas Moungomery, 
 John Donne, Knt. William Skipwith, Knt. John Gunthorpe, Dean 
 of Wells, Brian Rocliff, Guy Fayrefax, Wm. Paston, Wm. Hussey, 
 Robert Sheffield &c, &c. To the use of me the aforesaid Sir 
 Thomas Burghe, Knt. &c. &c. 
 
 " Mem: that 1 April, 20 Hen. VIII. (1529) seisin was delivered 
 at Dodyngton, co. Line, and Hareby, co. Nott. by the within 
 named Thos. Burghe, Knt. to the within written John Monson, 
 Robert Topcliff, Wm. Monson, and Robert Dighton, in presence 
 of Edward Whyte, Gent. John Woodde, Robert Kepers, Clerk, 
 William Collys, Ralph Grene, John Lillye, Adam Bell, James 
 Glentworth, John Gibson, William Corting, Edmund Grene, 
 Nicholas Gragorye, and many others, ' Attornand: tenentibus ibidem, 
 Viz ,' Thomas Knight, senr. Thomas Knight, junr. John Knight 
 senr. William Cortyng, Edmund Grene, Thomas Kyrke, Henry 
 Gybson, John Bracebrig, Cressen Gelston, John Collyns, John 
 Johnson, William Croke, and .... Shawe, and others, tenants 
 in the same." 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
 39 
 
 On 8 September, 1529, Thomas Spencer was instituted on 
 Lord Burgh's presentation to the Rectory of Doddington, which 
 he appears to have held through all the changes of the Reforma- 
 tion to the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth. He had been 
 Rector for six years when in 1535 the Commission was issued for 
 making a valuation of church property in order to the transfer of 
 the payment of tenths and first-fruits from the Pope to the King, 
 the result of which we have in the Valor Ecdesiasticus. The chief 
 of the three Commissioners for conducting the enquiry in these 
 parts was Sir Robert Hussey, Knt., younger brother of John, Lord 
 Hussey, of Sleaford, and grandfather of Sir Edward Hussey, Knt. 
 and Bart., whose wife afterwards inherited Doddington. Their 
 report of the benefices in the Deanery of Graffoe states that 
 Thomas Spencer held the Rectory of Doddington, having there a 
 dwelling-house, with land belonging to it valued at 28*., tithe of 
 corn valued at 66s. Sd., tithe of lambs and wool 135-. 4^., of pigs, 
 geese, fowls, hemp, and flax, Ss. 4^., as well as all oblations at 
 Easter and other seasons, which they estimate at 43^. 4^., making 
 a total gross value of jQj 19s. Sd. From this is deducted 10s. 2d. 
 paid to the Archdeacon of Lincoln for synodals and procurations, 
 and there remains a clear value of ^7 9 s. 6d., on which the tenths 
 are reckoned as 14s. u^d. In the February of the next year, 
 1536, followed the suppression of the lesser monasteries, when the 
 white-robed Nuns of the Premonstratensian Order, with Joanna 
 their Prioress, were expelled from Brodholme after an occupation 
 of 400 years. Theirs was the first house founded in England for 
 women of that Order — the "candidus ordo" of St. Norbert — and 
 as lately as 1496 they had received a legacy under the first Lord 
 Burgh's will. The site of their little Nunnery, with its four-score 
 acres of demesne, adjoining Doddington on the north, and valued 
 in 1564 at £10 10s. 4^., passed into lay hands, and has since by 
 purchase come to form part of the Doddington estate. On the 
 southern border of Doddington the Ballivate of Eagle, with its 
 lands at Eagle and Swinethorpe, and the site of their Preceptory 
 of New Eagle, now known as Eagle Hall, granted to the Templars 
 by King Stephen, were lost to their successors, the Knights of 
 St. John of Jerusalem, who thus had their hands weakened and 
 their resources cut off at a most critical time of their struggle with 
 the Turks.* It might well be, as was said, that the last Grand 
 Prior of the Order in England, Sir William Weston, died of a 
 
 * Both the names of Borough and of Hussey were represented in the 
 gallant defence of Rhodes against the Turks in 1522. Sir Nicholas Hussey, of 
 the Dorset family, was one of the eleven English Knights, and was in command 
 of the English bastion, which was the post of the greatest danger. Sir John 
 Borough was Turcopolier of the Order, and was appointed to bring succour to 
 the Spanish and English bastions whenever either should be too hotly pressed. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 broken heart. The Knights' estates at Eagle were transferred to 
 Thomas, first Earl of Rutland, and Sir Robert Tyrwhit, both 
 connected by marriage with the Burgh family. Lord Burgh him- 
 self was one of those who profited by the suppression of the 
 monasteries, for by letters patent dated 2 July, 28 Hen. VIII. 
 (1536), the site and demesne lands of the Abbey of Louth Park 
 were granted to him for his life, though two years later the grant 
 was transferred to that insatiable devourer of church property 
 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. With what feelings the 
 common people regarded these confiscations, from which they 
 were the principal sufferers, may be gathered from the general 
 insurrection of the Commons of Lincolnshire, which broke out in 
 October, 1536, and which cost Lord Hussey his head for his sup- 
 posed complicity in it. Lord Burgh was more fortunate. He 
 was with the Commissioners at Caistor when the insurgents from 
 Louth came upon them and seized Sir Robert Tyrwhit, Sir Wm. 
 Ascue, Thomas Portington, and others ; Lord Burgh " escaped by 
 reason of a good horse," but his servant Nicholas, who warned 
 him of the insurgents' approach, was mortally wounded by the 
 mob, and shriven on the field.* They sent after Lord Burgh to 
 " be their captain, or else they would pull him out of his house at 
 Gaynysburrowe," and burn his house and all the town, but he 
 escaped again by night, and survived to sit in judgment on his 
 fellow peer.* In a list of those that were " great offenders and 
 
 put to bail " we find " Sir , Parson of Doddington,"* " Sir " 
 
 being the title then commonly given to a beneficed clergyman. 
 This may show that Thomas Spencer, the then Rector of Dodding- 
 ton, was implicated in the insurrection, or it may possibly be a 
 mistake for the Vicar of Donington, William Smyth, who had 
 taken a prominent part in it. He, however, was condemned to 
 death, and executed at Lincoln 6 March, 1537, and would hardly 
 have been allowed out on bail. Amongst the insurgents we find 
 the name of Thomas Spencer, but apparently as a layman. 
 
 In the Computus of the possessions of St. Peter's, Westminster, 
 taken 32 Hen. VIII. (1540), the Fee Farm Rent of ^12 payable 
 from Doddington and Thorpe was still reckoned amongst the 
 revenues of the Abbey. But from this time the connection, which 
 had begun before the Conquest, ceased. The Fee Farm Rent 
 was appropriated by the Crown, and was retained by it until 1672, 
 when, under an Act of Parliament of 1661 giving Charles II. 
 power to sell Crown Rents, it was sold to Sir Edmund Turnor, of 
 London, for ^"719 14^, 2d. It was then described as "then or 
 late'.y paid by Thomas Taylor of Doddington." From Sir Edmund 
 Tumor it descended to the late Christopher Turnor, Esq., of Stoke 
 
 * Calendar of State Papers, October, 1536 — March, 1537. 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 4 1 
 
 Rochford, from whom and from his son, the present Edmund 
 Turnor, Esq., it was redeemed by the late G. K. Jarvis, Esq., of 
 Doddington, in i860. 
 
 Thomas, Lord Burgh, had taken a prominent part at the 
 Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn, 29 May, 1533, riding next 
 after the Queen and supporting her train as her Chamberlain, and 
 on the 10th September following he was present at the christening 
 of the Princess Elizabeth. Three years later, in May, 1536, he 
 was one of the twenty-six Peers summoned for Anne Boleyn's trial. 
 In 1539 he was one of the King's own retinue at the reception of 
 Anne of Cleves; and in 1541 he was called on to entertain the 
 King and yet another of his Queens, the ill-fated Katharine 
 Howard, at his Manor House, the Old Hall, at Gainsborough, 
 which he appears to have had redecorated for their reception. 
 The King, Queen, and their retinue were his guests for four days 
 from August 12, on which day they arrived from Lincoln. It was 
 an unfortunate visit, for in the course of it and during their previous 
 stay at the Bishop's Palace at Lincoln certain of those acts of 
 criminality on the part of Katharine Howard were alleged to have 
 taken place, for which she was shortly afterwards (February, 1542) 
 beheaded. It has been suggested that during this visit King Henry 
 may have met his next and last Queen, Katharine Parr, whom he 
 married 12 July, 1543. Her first husband, to whom she had been 
 married when only fifteen, had been Sir Edward Burgh, son and 
 heir of Thomas, Lord Burgh; but he had died in 1532, and at 
 this time she was already married to her second husband, John 
 Nevil, Lord Latimer, who also died (will dated September, 1542, 
 proved n March, 1543) shortly before her marriage to the King. 
 
 Lord Burgh himself married, first, Agnes, daughter of Sir 
 William Tyrwhit, of Ketilby, Knt., by whom he had a numerous 
 family; and second, Alice, widow of Edmund Rokewood. By 
 many authorities, from Dugdale downwards, it is said that she was 
 married secondly to Rokewood after Lord Burgh's death, but the 
 mention by the latter in his will of two Rokewoods, sons of his 
 wife Lady Alice, is sufficient proof that Edmund Rokewood was 
 her first husband. 
 
 His eldest son by his first marriage was the Edward Burgh above- 
 mentioned, who was married about 1528 to Katharine Parr, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal, by Matilda, daughter and coheiress of 
 Sir Thomas Green, of Green's Norton. He is mentioned as Sir Edward 
 Burgh in grants made to him jointly with his father, and on the 
 Commission of the Peace for Lindsey in I53I-I53 2 - But he dl J d 
 before April, 1533, when fresh patents were issued, renewing the 
 grants to Thomas, Lord Burgh, and to Thomas his son and then 
 heir apparent in place of Edward deceased. This next son, Sir 
 Thomas Burgh, was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir David 
 
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 Owen, Knt. She, however, was unfaithful to him, and as early as 
 1535 Lord Burgh was taking steps to bastardize her children, on 
 the ground that his son was not their father. Among the State 
 Papers of 1535-37 are several letters from this Elizabeth, Lady 
 Burgh, to Thomas Cromwell, begging for his protection and 
 asserting her innocence. He seems to have used his influence in 
 her behalf while he lived, but after his execution in 1540 and the 
 death of young Sir Thomas Burgh an Act of Parliament was 
 obtained by Lord Burgh, 34 and 35 Hen. VIII., declaring these 
 children illegitimate and barring their succession to his title and 
 estates, though, as will be seen, he provided for one of the 
 daughters in his will. 
 
 Henry Burgh, the younger son of Thomas, third Lord Burgh, 
 to whom his father bequeathed his estates at Stow and the neigh- 
 bourhood, was ancestor of a junior branch of the family which 
 remained seated at Stow Hall for four generations. 
 
 [Henry Burgh himself died at Stow 22 April, 1557, leaving by 
 his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Constantine, of Bewdley, 
 co. Salop, a son and heir, Richard Burgh, aged one year and more 
 on 5 October, 1558. Richard Burgh petitioned for the title of 
 Lord Burgh in 1606 as next heir male on the death of the infant, 
 Robert, sixth Lord Burgh; and he and his wife are thus com- 
 memorated on a brass affixed to the north-east pier of the central 
 tower of Stow Church :— 
 
 "Aspice, Respice, Prospice. 
 In this Chauncell lyeth buryed ye Bodies of Richard 
 Burgh of Stow Hall, Esq. and Amy his wife, which 
 Said Richard was descended from ye noble and auntient 
 Familie of the Lord Burgh, Baron of Gainesborough, 
 And next heyre male of that familie, and ye said Amy 
 
 Was theldest daughter of Anthonie Dillington of 
 Knighton in ye Isle of Wight, Esq. who had togeather 
 4 Sonnes, Vizt. that noble and valeant Souldyer Sir John 
 Burgh, Colonell Generall of his Ma ts Forces to ye Isle of 
 Rhe in France, where he was slaine A 0 D ni 1627 : Tho: Rich: 
 & Edward : & 5 Daughters, Marie, Martha, Dillington, Jane, & Anne. 
 The said Richard dyed in A 0 D ni 1 6 1 6, & the said Amy in A 0 D ni 1 63 2. '» 
 Richard Burgh was buried in Stow Church 19 October, 1616, 
 as was "M rs Amye Burgh, widow," 5 December, 1632. Their 
 eldest son, Sir John Burgh, was knighted at Greenwich 4 May, 
 1623, and was Colonel of one of the six regiments sent to the 
 Palatinate in December, 1624. He was slain while besieging the 
 citadel of St. Martin, in the Isle of Rhe, the nth or 20th of 
 September, 1627, and was buried at the King's charge in West- 
 minster Abbey the 23rd October following. His brother, Thomas, 
 
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 43 
 
 is said to have been slain also in the Isle of Rhe, and Richard 
 was apparently buried at Stow 30 March, 1622. Of the five 
 daughters, baptized at Stow between 1590 and 1599, Anne, the 
 youngest, baptized 5 July, 1599, married Roger Holbeach, of Stow. 
 The surviving son, Edward Burgh, of Stow, who proved his brother 
 Sir John's will on 26 October, 1627, entered his pedigree at the 
 College of Arms on 13 January, 1637, as "now heire male to that 
 familie, being s. and h. of Richard, s. and h. of Henry, younger 
 son of Thomas, 3rd Lord Burgh." He married Aquila, daughter 
 of Martyn Basill, of Colchester, and was buried at Stow, 7 May, 
 1642. Of their three sons, John Burgh, the eldest, was buried at 
 Stow, 22 July, 1644; Frankendale Burgh, the second, was dead 
 before 1641 j Edward Burgh, the last male representative of the 
 family, was buried 12 August, 1659, at the age of 26, leaving by 
 his will a benefaction of ^10 per annum charged on his estate, 
 which is still paid for the benefit of the school and poor. His 
 surviving sisters and coheiresses were : Martha, married at Stow, 
 8 October, 1646, to John Tathwell, of Stow, buried there 28 March, 
 1692, as his widow was 6 July, 1703; Amy, who married first, 
 William Tomlinson, of Upton, second, Francis Eastland, of Stow; 
 Aquila, married John Lilly, Rector of Willingham-by-Stow, whose 
 will she proved in 1659.] 
 
 Lord Burgh's daughters were :— 1, Anne, who married, first, 
 John Bussy, of Hougham, Esq., who died 31 January, 1541, and 
 second, before 1550, Sir Anthony Nevile, Knt, who by his first 
 wife was an ancestor of the Neviles of Thorney and Wellingore j 
 2, Margaret, the wife of Robert Topcliffe, of Somerby, Esq., who 
 died 12 July, 1544, and was buried at Corringham, while she was 
 buried at Louth, 26 February, 1552 ; 3, Agnes, who married John 
 Basset, of Fledborough, Esq., who died 10 May, 1544, leaving a 
 son Edward Basset, then aged 12 years and more ; 4, Eleanor, the 
 wife, first, of Sir William Musgrave, Knt., and second, of Edmund 
 Croft, Esq., of Suffolk ; while Elizabeth and Dorothy were nuns. 
 
 Lord Burgh himself died in 1550, his wi\\ (Somerset House, 
 Coode, 27) having been proved 28 November, 1550. He makes 
 no mention of Doddington in it ; but leaves to his son, Henry 
 Burgh all his lands, messuages, &c, in Stow, Sturton, Normanby, 
 and Corringham, co. Lincoln., and in Kendal, &c, co. Westmore- 
 land ; to his son John Burgh his manors in Northumberland ; to 
 Richard Burgh an annuity of £10 out of Benington, Leverton, 
 and Leeke ; to the Lady Alice, his well-beloved wife, all his goods 
 and chattels, movable and immovable, she to pay his daughter 
 Dorothy 500 marks towards her marriage, so that she will be 
 ordered in it by his wife and his son-in-law Sir Anthony Nevyll, 
 Knt., and Sir John Constable, Knt. " And whereas I, the said 
 Lord Burgh, and William Burgh my son stand bound for payment 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 of 700 Marks towards the marriage of one Margaret, daughter of 
 Dame Elizabeth Burgh, late wife to Sir Thomas Burgh, my son 
 deceased, to be paid when she is 14,— my executors to raise the 
 sum out of my Woods at Gainsborough." His wife, Lady Alice 
 survived him until 1558 ; when, by her will dated 24 March, 1^8 
 proved 1559, she directed that her body should be buried in the 
 Parish Church of Euston by her first husband, Edmund Rokewood 
 Also I will that my Executors make another tomb where the 
 Lord Burgh my husband lieth buried." 
 
 On .the death of Thomas, third Lord Burgh, he was succeeded 
 in his title and estates by his eldest surviving son William, fourth 
 Lord Burgh. He was then 28 years of age, and was summoned 
 to Parliament 8 September, 1552, 6 Edw. VI., and in the following 
 year was one of the Knights dubbed at Westminster on October 2 
 the morrow of the Coronation of Queen Mary. He married 
 Katharine, daughter of Edward, eighth Lord Clinton and Saye 
 K.G, created Earl of Lincoln in 1572, her mother being the 
 beautiful Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir John Blount, who after 
 being the mother by Henry VIII., of the short-lived Henry Fitz-roy 
 Duke of Richmond, had been married to Gilbert Lord Tailbois 
 (d. 1530) previously to her marriage with Lord Clinton. Katharine 
 Lady Burgh was a lady of the court, and her portrait was sketched 
 by Holbein; a writer in the Genealogist, ii. 50, 52, remarks 
 concerning it, "Lady Borough's portrait by Holbein forms one of 
 the superb collection lately engraved. How much is there wanting 
 of her beautiful mother ! " William Lord Burgh was one of the 
 Peers who sat on the Trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572 On 
 30 September, 1560, as William Brughe, Knt., Lord Brughe he 
 presented Henry Toward to the Rectory of Doddington, and again 
 Edward Germm * on 18 July, 1580, as William Burghe, Knt. 
 Lord Burghe. He died at Lambeth, 10 September, 1584, t aged 
 about 60, and was buried October 2 at Lingfield, the parish in 
 which Sterborough Castle is situated ; administration of his effects 
 being granted 21 October of that year to his son Thomas, Lord 
 Burgh, of Sterborough, as he is styled. He was the eldest surviving 
 but by birth the second son, his elder brother Henry having died 
 without issue in his father's lifetime, slain apparently in a duel at 
 
 T JnllnrTv?^ 111 ^' S,T ; P -' Was C0lIated t0 the Prebend of Brampton in 
 Lincoln Cathedral 16 November, 1593, and installed 14 January, 1594. 
 
 t By most authorities William Lord Burgh is said to have died in 1562 on 
 the ground that the summons to Parliament in that year is issued to Thomas 
 Lord Burgh ; but there is evriently a mistake in the writ, as is plain from the 
 proofs of his being a hye after this date mentioned above, and from the date of 
 his death given in his Inquisition, confirmed by the date of administration. 
 His son Thomas, being 26 m 1584, would be only 4 in 1562, and could not 
 then have been summoned to Parliament. 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
 45 
 
 Hampton near Kingston, 29 January, 1578, by a Mr. Holcroft, who 
 himself was " sore hurt," and was " condemned of Manslaughter " 
 the 22nd February following.* 
 
 A third son, Sir John Burgh, was a distinguished military and 
 naval commander. On 25 August, 1585, he embarked at Hull 
 with a body of men raised in Lincolnshire, and commanded them 
 in the campaigns in the Netherlands, where he was knighted by 
 the Earl of Leicester, and appointed Governor of Doesburg. In 
 September, 1589, he commanded one of the regiments sent to 
 France with Lord Willoughby in support of Henri IV. from whose 
 hand he received, for the second time, the honour of knighthood 
 on the field of Ivry in recognition of his conduct in the battle. 
 On his return to England he was appointed by Sir Walter Raleigh 
 in 1594 to command his ship the Roebuck, in which, on August 3, 
 after a fight of 16 hours, he captured the great Spanish Carrack, 
 the Madre de Dios, valued with her freight at ^500,000. Out of 
 the division of the spoil a quarrel arose with Mr. John Gilbert, 
 followed by a duel with rapiers, in which Burgh was killed. He 
 died 7 March, 1595, in the 33rd year of his age, and was buried in 
 St. Andrew's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, "morte immatunt 
 prsereptus," as his epitaph there recorded. 
 
 The daughters were : — 1, Mary, the second wife of Sir Richard 
 Bulkeley, of Beaumaris, Knt., who died 1621; 2, Elizabeth, who 
 married John Rede, of Suffolk, Esq., to whom William Lord Burgh 
 conveyed the Manor of Oxted, part of the Sterborough estate, in 
 1572; 3, Mary, who married Sir Henry Ashley, of Dorset, Knt., 
 and was buried at St. Michael's, Cornhill, 20 July, 1608. 
 
 Their mother, Lady Katharine Burgh, long survived, and was 
 buried at Lingfield, 14 August, 162 1, administration being granted, 
 Aug., 1622, to her daughter Elizabeth Rede, and to her grand- 
 daughter (" nepti ex filio ") Elizabeth Burghe, alias Rede. 
 
 An Inquisition taken after the death of William Lord Burgh 
 proves incontestably the date of his death, and gives an account 
 of the possessions of the family in this neighbourhood before its 
 collapse in the time of his son. It is as follows : — {Chancery Inq. 
 p.m., 27 Eliz., No. 170). 
 
 " Surrey. Inquisition taken at South warke, co. Surrey, 9 June, 
 27 Eliz. (1585) before Henry Knevitt, Knt., Thomas Knevitt, Esq., 
 and Arthur Kelton, Gent, feodary of the Queen, by virtue of a 
 Commission to them directed, dated at Westminster 24 May, 
 27 Eliz. after the death of William Lord Burgh. 
 
 " He was seised in fee of the Castle of Scarborough, and the 
 manors of Starborough and Prinkham , co. Surrey, &c. , &c. (Mention 
 of Katharine his wife.) He was also seised in fee of the manor of 
 
 * Calendar of State Papers, 1578. 
 
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 History of Doddtngton. 
 
 Doddington Pigot in co. Line, and the Rectory of Doddington, 
 12 messuages, 8 cottages, 100 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 
 400 acres of pasture, 200 acres of wood, 300 acres of furze and 
 heath in Doddington, Whisby and North Hykeham, co. Line, 
 and the manor of Skellinthorpe, otherwise Skeldingthorpe, with 
 appurtenances, and a windmill, 20 messuages, 12 cottages, 300 
 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 100 acres 
 of wood, 500 acres of furze and heath in Skellingthorpe, Hartes- 
 holme, Bowltham and Bracebridge, co. Line, and the manors of 
 Lee and Gate Burton, and 30 messuages, 14 cottages, 400 acres 
 of land, 300 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 60 acres of 
 wood, 100 acres of furze and heath, in Lee, Gate Burton, Knaith 
 and Marton ; and the manor of Gainsborough with appurtenances, 
 and 30 messuages, 20 cottages, 300 acres of land, 200 acres of 
 meadow, 140 acres of pasture, 50 acres of wood, and 30 acres of 
 furze and heath in Gainsborough and Morton, co. Line. 
 
 "The Manor of Doddington Pigot and other the premises in 
 Doddington, Whisby, and North Hykeham are held of the Queen, 
 as of the Abbey of Westminster, by fealty only, and by rent of 
 ■£\2 yearly for all services and demands: and they are worth 
 (clear) Twenty Pounds per annum. 
 
 "The Manor of Skellinthorpe or Skeldingthorpe with appur- 
 tenances, and other the premises in Skellingthorpe, Hartesholme, 
 Bowltham, and Bracebridge, are held of the Queen, as of the 
 Barony of Bourne, by knight-service, — part of fee not known, — 
 and are worth per ann. ^40 35-. 4^. (clear). 
 
 " The Manors of Lee and Gate Burton and other the premises 
 in Lee, Gate Burton, Knaith and Marton are held of the Queen 
 in chief, and are worth per ann. (clear) Sixty Pounds. 
 
 "The Lordship and Manor of Gainsborough with appur- 
 tenances, and other the premises in Gainsborough and Morton 
 are held — but of whom the jurors know not, — by the service of 
 two knights' fees, and are worth per ann. (clear) Forty-two Pounds. 
 
 " William Lord Burgh, so seised of the aforesaid manors &c. 
 died 10th Sept. last (1584) at Lambeth, co. Surrey ; and Thomas, 
 now Lord Burgh; is his son and next heir, aged at the time of 
 taking this Inquisition Twenty-six years and more.", 
 
 Thomas, who thus succeeded as fifth Lord Burgh, was bom, 
 according to Fuller, "at his father's fair house at Gainsborough." 
 He was admitted a member of Gray's Inn 2 February, 1586, and 
 was summoned to Parliament until 24 October, 1597, some days 
 after his death. Fuller, who numbers him amongst the Worthies 
 of Lincolnshire, ( Worthies!!., 13), adds, "Mr. Camden doth thus 
 character him, Vir acer et animi plenus, sed nullis fere castrorum 
 rudimentis." He was much employed in the public service by Queen 
 Elizabeth, who visited him at his house at Lambeth in December, 
 
Doddington and the Burghs. 47 
 
 1 58 5, and again in 1595. He was appointed by her Governor of the 
 Brill in the Netherlands, 6 February, 1587, an office which he 
 held for ten years, until his successor was appointed, 9 February, 
 1597. Meanwhile, from February to April, 1593, he was sent as 
 ambassador to Scotland, his office being, according to Fuller, 
 " to excuse Bothwell's lurking in England, to advise the speedy 
 suppression of the Spanish faction, and to advance an effectual 
 association of the Protestants in that Kingdome for their King's 
 defence : which was done accordingly." By letters patent, 
 34 Elizabeth, 1591, the Queen had granted to him and his heirs 
 to hold two Fairs or Marts yearly at Gainsborough; and in 1593, 
 the year of his embassy to Scotland, she created him Knight of 
 the Garter (elected 23 April, installed 25 June), being the second 
 of the family who had attained to that high honour. On 8 January, 
 1596, the Queen writes to him at Brill, " hearing from his wife of 
 his great sickness and other causes requiring his presence,'' and 
 " gives him licence to leave his government of Brill, and to repair 
 to England." In March, 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy 
 of Ireland in succession to Sir William Russell, with a grant of 
 ^1,200 for his journey and transportation thither, and was sworn 
 in as such on May 22, his salary being fixed at ^2,000. He held 
 the office but for a few months, and his proceedings in it and the 
 despatches which passed between him and the Queen's Council 
 are fully recorded in the Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1597. 
 He arrived in Ireland in the midst of the rebellion of O'Neil, 
 Earl of Tyrone, against whom he had at once to take the field, 
 marching northward with such forces as he could raise. But after 
 some successes he fell sick and died, as is thus related by the 
 Lord Chancellor Loftus to the English Council : — " The Ford 
 Deputy being on a journey to re-victual the fort of Blackwater, 
 fell dangerously sick of an Irish ague at Armagh on 6th Oct. and 
 passing on nevertheless to the fort, meaning to pass further into 
 the traitor's county, was driven by his sickness to return in a litter 
 to the Newry," where he died on October 13, and now, he adds, 
 " it is no small grief to us all to transmit these heavy news to your 
 Lordships of the death of this nobleman, a worthy member for 
 her Majesty's service of this realm." Sir Henry Wallop writes of 
 him to Sir Robert Cecil from Dublin, 18 October, as " being one 
 of the noblest gents that ever I knew," and " bitterly laments her 
 Majesty's loss and the kingdom's, for surely his care and industry 
 promised to us all great matters from him." Sir Henry Bagenall, 
 who was with him as his marshall at the Newry when he died, 
 writes also to Sir Robert Cecil the same night, October 13, and 
 asks how Her Majesty would please to dispose of his body, " for 
 that since my remembrance no Deputy hath died before in this 
 kingdom." With his letter he sends Lord Burgh's will, though 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 owing to his illness he had been unable to sign it. It was to the 
 following effect. 
 
 " The last Will and Testament of Thomas, Lord Burgh, Baron 
 of Gainsborough, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, 
 and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Bequeaths his soul to God, and 
 his body to be buried where and how her Majesty pleases. 
 Presents to the Queen his best Garter and George together with 
 his letter and instructions concerning Ireland and his own private 
 estate. Hopes her Majesty will receive his wife and children into 
 her protection, he having spent his patrimony and ended his days 
 in her service. Appoints Sir Robert Cecil and Sir Henry 
 Bagenall as the overseers of his Will, and bequeaths to each of 
 them one of the best pieces of plate that he has as a token of his 
 love. Bequeaths to his wife, Lady Frances Burgh, all his goods, 
 household stuff, horses, plate, and whatsoever is his, either in 
 England or Ireland, nothing doubting that she will bring up his 
 children in the fear of God. 1597, Oct. 12." 
 
 His body was brought to England for burial, and on 1 March 
 following Lord Burghley remitted to the Mayor of Chester ^50 
 which the Mayor had advanced for the "victualling of her Majesty's 
 ship that brought over thither the bodie of the Lord Burgh." 
 According to his age given in the Inquisition above he could not 
 have been more than 40 at the time of his death. A whole length 
 portrait of him in his robes as Lord Deputy was formerly at 
 Sterborough Castle. He was " a great patron of literature," says 
 Camden ; and many of his letters, dated from 1587 to 1595, have 
 been preserved and are printed among the Hatfield MSS. They 
 are written by him as Governor of Brill, and addressed respectively 
 to Lord Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil, and Robert, Earl of Essex, 
 and show him, in the opinion of a modern reviewer,* to be " a 
 good and vivacious letter-writer," in spite of the depressing 
 influence of " melancholy Brill," as in the heading of one of his 
 letters he styles it. 
 
 Doubtless his high offices in the service of the thrifty Queen 
 had brought him great expenses. To meet these he sold Dod- 
 dington to John Savile, Esq., in 1586, and Gainsborough to 
 William Hickman, Esq., in 1597 ; but notwithstanding these sales 
 and the mortgage of his Surrey estates he left his widow and 
 family sadly impoverished. His wife was Frances, daughter of 
 John Vaughan, Esq., of Golden Grove, co. Carmarthen, and by 
 her he left two infant sons and four daughters surviving. His 
 son Robert, "my son Robin," as he calls him in a letter to Sir 
 Robert Cecil, 22 June, 1597, so named after Robert (Devereux), 
 Earl of Essex, whom he thanks for " the honour he had done him 
 
 * The Times, 20 November, 1894. 
 
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Doddington and the Burghs. 
 
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 in naming a young Burgh," was born shortly before September, 
 1 595, and was a child of three at his father's death. The follow- 
 ing pitiful appeal was addressed in his name, as " Robert Lord 
 Burgh, Baron of Gainsborough, Her Majesty's Ward," to Lord 
 Cobham in February, 1598:— "The unexpected, I will not say 
 over-hastened, death of my father has brought me to such a 
 straight that for want of help to redeem his land in reversion, 
 mortgaged for his better furnishment in Ireland, I am deprived of 
 all means to be brought up and made fit for her Majesty's service. 
 Pray join with Mr. Secretary my protector in a suit to her Highness 
 for me that she would redeem my land which lies but for ,£2,500, 
 and take it into her own hands until she may be repaid out of the 
 profits. This favour she has formerly extended to other Wards, 
 very mean both in respect of birth and ancestors' defects ; thus 
 she may raise me, her poor Baron, out of the dust to serve her, 
 whom otherwise, though a Peer and Councillor born, the want of 
 means may suppress."* A grant was made 11 January, 1598, to 
 his mother Frances, Lady Burgh, of £4°° a year charged on the 
 Government of Brill,* but during the succeeding reign she had 
 great difficulty in obtaining it, and it was often in arrear. In 
 16 13 she had what must have been a short-lived appointment, to 
 reside with the Electress Palatine, daughter of James I., the 
 Winter-Queen of Bohemia, with an allowance of £500 a year.* 
 But in 1626 the poor lady writes to Secretary Conway, that "on 
 her husband's death she and her six children were left without a 
 house or one penny to help them," and that "the pension of 
 ^400 which Queen Elizabeth had bestowed upon her had now 
 been detained for a whole year to her utter ruin." In the same 
 year it was proposed in Council that a grant of the right of making 
 a Baron should be conferred upon her in extinguishment of her 
 pension.* She died in Westminster in 1647, "very aged, and 
 famous," says Fuller, "for 'her charity and skill in chirurgery : ' 
 her burial is recorded in the Parish Register of St. Margaret's on 
 July 19 as " The Hon ble Lady Frances Burroughs." 
 
 Robert, the sixth and last Lord Burgh, died still a child before 
 1 60 1 : probably the Burial entry in the Parish Register of Gains- 
 borough, "1599, July 3, Robert Burgh of Gainsburgh," refers 
 to him, and indicates his burial in the vault of his ancestors there. 
 The barony fell into abeyance between his four sisters and co-heirs. 
 These were — 1. Elizabeth, who married, 1599, George Brooke, 
 fourth son of William Brooke, Lord Cobham, who, with his eldest 
 brother, Henry, Lord Cobham, was executed for the Raleigh 
 conspiracy in 1603; she re-married Francis Rede, Esq., and 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 was living in 1622; 2. Anne, who married, at St. Margaret's, 
 Westminster, n October, 1604, Sir Drew Drury, Knt., of Rollesby, 
 co. Norfolk; 3. Frances, wife of Francis Coppinger, Esq., of St. 
 Giles-in-the-Fields, whose descendants took the name of Burgh ; 
 4. Katharine, who married at St. Mary-le-Strand, 28 February, 
 1620, Thomas Knyvett, Esq., of Ashwelthorpe, co. Norfolk, 
 called on his tombstone there, 1658, "hereditary Lord Berners"; 
 she died 1 May, 1646, and was also buried at Ashwelthorpe. 
 
 In the Visitation of Lincolnshire of 1592 the arms of the 
 Burgh family are given as — Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, 3 Fleur-de- 
 lys, Erm. Burgh ; 2. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a Lion ramp. Azure, 
 charged with an Annulet, Arg. Percy ; 2 and 3, Or, 3 Pales, Sable. 
 De Strabolgi. 3. Gules, on a Chevron, Or, 3 Estoiles, Sable ; on 
 the fess point a Rose, Gules. Cobham. 
 
 On the brass of Richard Burgh (d. 1 616) in Stow Church is 
 depicted a shield of 12 quarterings, viz.: — 1. (Az.) 3 Fleurs-de- 
 lys, Erm. Burgh; 2. (Or,) a Lion ramp. (Az. Louvaine) ; 3. (Az.) 
 5 Fusils in fesse, (Or. Percy); 4. (Or,) 3 Pallets, (Sable. De 
 Strabolgi.) ; 5. (Gules,) 3 Garbs within a double tressure, flory and 
 counterflory, (Or. Comyn); 6. Barry of 10. (Arg. and Az.) an Orle 
 of Martlets, (Gules. De Valence.); 7, (Or,) 3 Escutcheons, barry, 
 Vair (and Gules. Monchensi.) ; 8. Per pale, (Or and Vert) a Lion 
 ramp. (Gules. Bigot.); 9. (Gules,) a Bend, lozengy, (Or. Mares- 
 chall); 10. (Or,) 6 Chevronels, (Gules. Clare) ; 11. (Sable,) 3 
 Garbs, (Arg. Macmorough.) ; 12. (Gules,) on a Chevron, (Or) 3 
 Etoiles, (Sable. Cobham). 
 
 Supporters. — Two Hawks, ducally gorged. 
 
 Crest. — Upon a wreath, an Arm, with hand, in armour, em- 
 bowed and resting on the elbow, Arg. tied above with a ribbon, 
 Or. The same is said in a MS. of 1592, now in the College of 
 Arms, to have been represented frequently in the windows of the 
 old Church at Gainsborough. 
 
 Motto. — Nec parvis sisto. 
 
 Lord Burgh's Badge is described, temp. Henry VIII., as a 
 Fleur-de-Lys, Ermine. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 DODDINGTON— SAVILE AND TAILOR. 
 
 WE have continued our account of the Burgh family down 
 to its extinction in the male line, as this so shortly 
 occurred ; but in fact its connection with Doddington had ceased 
 a few years previously. William, the fourth Lord Burgh, had 
 presented to the Rectory of Doddington in 1580, and had died 
 possessed of the estate in September, 1584. But in April, 1586, 
 the Manor, &c, of Doddington was sold by his son and successor, 
 Thomas, fifth Lord Burgh, the same who sold Gainsborough in 
 1596, and died Lord Deputy of Ireland in October, 1597. Its 
 purchaser was John Savile, Esq., of Howley, near Leeds, son and 
 heir of Sir Robert Savile, of Howley, Knt., by his first wife Anne, 
 whom he had married 1 March, 1554, and who was the widow 
 of Matthew Thimelby, Esq., and one of the daughters of Sir 
 Robert Hussey, of whom we have already spoken, and shall have 
 to speak again. Sir Robert Savile held the Manor of Poolham, 
 near Horncastle, in right of his wife on whom her first husband, 
 Matthew Thimelby, had settled it, and had bought other lands at 
 Tetford and the neighbourhood; he served as High Sheriff of 
 Lincolnshire in 1573, and died 7 July, 1587, his son John Savile 
 being charged that year in place of his father to supply two Lances 
 and two Light Horse for the defence of the county.* At this time 
 he was still John Savile, Esq., but later on he became " the famous 
 Sir John Savile,"t who was several times Knight of the Shire for 
 Yorkshire in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., and was created 
 by the latter monarch Lord Savile of Pontefract, 21 July, 1628. 
 He was the first honorary alderman of Leeds, when that town 
 was incorporated by Royal Charter, 2 Car. I., and in his honour the 
 owls from the Savile coat of arms, {Arg. on a Bend Sable, 3 Owls 
 of the first), were adopted as supporters to the arms of the 
 Borough. He died 31 August, 1630, having married, as his first 
 wife, Katharine, daughter of Charles, Lord Willoughby of Parham, 
 by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Sir Edward Cary, Knt., by whom he had a son and heir, Thomas, 
 Lord Savile, Controller and Treasurer of the Household to 
 Charles I., by whom he was created Earl of Sussex in 1644, a 
 title which became extinct in 167 1. 
 
 * Melbourne Hall MSS. Hist. MSS, Commission. 
 t Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 156. 
 
54 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Here is the legal record of his purchase of Doddington from 
 the Lincolnshire Feet of Fines > 28 Eliz., 1586, now in the Record 
 Office :— 
 
 " This is the Final Agreement &c. fifteen days from Easter 
 Day, 28 Elizabeth, (18 April, 1586) ;— Between John Savile, Esq. 
 plaintiff, and Thomas Burgh, Lord Burgh, and Frances his wife, 
 deforciants, of the Manor of Doddington, otherwise Doddington 
 Pygott with the appurtenances; And of 16 messuages, 6 cottages, 
 6 tofts, 1 windmill, 3 dove4iouses, 30 gardens, 400 acres of land, 
 20 acres of meadow, 600 acres of pasture, 460 acres of wood, 500 
 acres of furze and heath, 500 acres of moor, and 20 shillings 
 Rent, with the appurtenances in Doddington, otherwise Dodding- 
 ton Pygott, Whisbye and Northicham, and also of the advowson 
 of the church of Doddington, otherwise Doddington Pygott ; 
 whereupon a plea of Covenant was summoned between them in 
 the same Court, that is to say, that the aforesaid Thomas and 
 Frances have acknowledged the said manor and tenements, with 
 the appurtenances and advowson aforesaid, to be the right of him 
 the said John, as those which the said John hath of the gift of the 
 said Thomas and Frances, and those they have remised and quit- 
 claimed from them the said Thomas and Frances and their heirs 
 to the aforesaid John and his heirs for ever : And moreover the 
 said Thomas and Frances have granted for them and the heirs of 
 the said Thomas that they will warrant to the said John and his 
 heirs the aforesaid manor and tenements, with the appurtenances 
 and advowson aforesaid, against all men for ever. And for this 
 acknowledgment remise quit-claim warranty fine and agreement 
 the said John hath given to the aforesaid Thomas and Frances 
 Eight Hundred Pounds sterling." 
 
 We get more particulars of the estate at this time from the 
 following Terrier or survey of it, taken in 1585, probably with a 
 view to its sale, and still preserved at Ford Castle. It only 
 accounts, however, for some 1,300 acres out of the 2,500 which it 
 actually contains. 
 
 " A Tarrall made the Two and Twentieth day of July in the 
 Seven and Twentieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady 
 Elizabeth the Quenes Majestie that nowe is, and in the yeare of 
 our Lord God 1585, of All my Lord Burghes his Landes in 
 Doddington and Skellingthorpe : 
 
 " Doddington Wooddes, Three Hundred Three Score and Ten 
 Acres. Doddington Parke, One Hundred and Four Score Acres, 
 the yearly Rent paied by Mr. Savill for the same xUi. ; for the 
 Ortyarde and Doue-house, the yearly rent paied by Mr. Savill for 
 the same iii/z. 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 55 
 
 The Closes that Mr. Thimilby paies Rent for, being the 
 demesnes of Doddington house, be these hereafter following : — 
 
 The Butt Close conteyninge Fiftene Acres yearly Rent thereof vli. 
 
 The Kowe Close . . . Fiftene Acres vli. 
 
 The Butcher Close. . . Thirtie Acres x)li. 
 
 (Note in another hand : These Closes are let since Mr. 
 Thimbelby occupied them to Mr. Savill, and improved 
 with Doddington house to x\s.) 
 Dunstall Close that Anthony Oldfield paies Rent for con- 
 teyninge Eight and Twenty Acres, the yearly Rent 
 
 thereof xiiij//. 
 
 Powdales, that Bartholomew Deane paies Rent for con- 
 teyninge Eleven Acres, the yearly rent thereof . . . iij//. 
 The Carres, that Mr. Conyers paies Rent for, conteyninge 
 
 Four Score Acres, the yearly Rent thereof .... xvj//. 
 Doddington Moore, that William Shorte paies Rent for, 
 conteyninge Three Hundred Acres, the yearly Rent 
 
 thereof v)li. x\\)s. \\i}d. 
 
 The whole Summe of these Percells is ciij//. xiij*. \\\)d. 
 Out of this Summe theyr is to be deducted for y e Carrs and 
 Powdales being sold, xixli., and for y e improvement of y e demeanes 
 to be added x\s. 
 
 Y e just Summe now is ni]xx. ii//. xiijs. ivd. 
 
 The Tennants of y e Towne : — 
 Myles Dixon, Fiftie and Nine Acres, yearly Rent thereof vj//. 
 
 Henry Chambers, Fyve and Thirtie Acres iij//. xij-f. 
 
 Robert Heathe, Thirtie and Seven Acres iiij//. xij^. 
 
 Robert Chambers, Thirtie and Nyne Acres iiij//. vijj. 
 
 Richard Payee, Seventene Acres xxxvj^. 
 
 Thomas Peele, Seventene Acres xxxvjj. 
 
 William Shorte, Thirtie and Fyve Acres iij//. xijx. 
 
 William Freare, Sixe Acres xx]s. 
 
 Thomas Quidale, Seven Acres xxiiijx. 
 
 John Shepherd, Sixe Acres xxiij*. 
 
 Kircian Knight, Thirtene Acres xxxiiijx. 
 
 Richard Lawson, Sixe Acres xvujs. 
 
 The Cot'gers :— 
 
 Christopher Pople, One Cotage, the Yearly Rent thereof. xs. 
 Cicilie Grene, One Cotage, „ „ vs. 
 
 The whole Rent of Doddington Towne is xxxvi//. xiiij^." 
 
 It will be seen that part of the estate known as the Carrs and 
 the Powdales (the latter a name now lost,) had been already sold, 
 — no doubt to Mr. George Anton, as will hereafter appear ; and 
 that Mr. Savile had rented a part previous to his purchase of it. 
 The Mr. Thimelby, who had rented another portion, was Stephen 
 
56 
 
 Histoiy of Doddington. 
 
 Thimelby, Esq., appointed Recorder of Lincoln in 1573, and who 
 in 1585 represented that city in Parliament. He was half-brother 
 to John Savile, through the marriage of their mother, Anne, 
 daughter of Sir Robert Hussey, to Matthew Thimelby, Esq., and 
 he is frequently mentioned as a relative in the Wills of the Hussey 
 family about this date ; on his death, which occured 2 August, 
 1586, John Savile had administration of his estate. It was doubt- 
 less through this relationship that John Savile's connection with 
 Doddington arose. He succeded Stephen Thimelby as M.P. for 
 Lincoln in 1586, and served the office of High Sheriff of Lincoln- 
 shire as John Savile, of Doddington, in 1590. Though he lived 
 till 1630 he did not long retain possession of Doddington, but 
 sold it after seven years' possession. He had, by Indenture dated 
 18 November, 1587, 29 Eliz., made another disposition of it to 
 which Edward Carye, Esq., and Thomas Knyvett, Esq., two of 
 the gentlemen of H.M.'s Privy Chamber, and George Anton, 
 Gent, of Lincoln's Inn, had been parties. This prior disposition 
 he revoked and disannulled by a deed dated 10 May, 35 Eliz., 
 1593, Edward Carye giving his written consent. The Final Agree- 
 ment for its sale has been preserved both at the Record Office 
 and at Ford Castle; it is dated 11 June, 35 Eliz., 1593, and its 
 terms are nearly identical with those of the Final Agreement under 
 which he purchased it in 1586. Only in this case the plaintiffs 
 or virtual purchasers are Thomas Tailor, the elder, Esq., Thomas 
 Tailor, the younger, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas 
 Tailor, Leon Hollingworth, and Henry Christopher, while the 
 deforciants are John Savile, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife. {Lincoln- 
 shire Feet of Fines, Trinity, 35 Eliz..) It is not easy to say 
 whether the ^800 in either agreement represents the actual 
 purchase money, or is merely a nominal sum inserted to satisfy 
 legal requirements. At all events the Final Agreement was accom- 
 panied by the other documents given below, which testify to 
 further monetary transactions between the parties to it. 
 
 " Indenture made 1 June, 35 Eliz., 1593, between John Savyle, 
 of Howley, co. York, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife, of one part, 
 and Thomas Taylor, the elder, of the City of Lincoln, Esq., 
 Thomas Taylor, the younger (son and heir apparent of the said 
 Thomas Taylor), Leon Hollingworth, of the same City, Draper, 
 and Henry Christopher of the Bayle of Lincoln in the County of 
 Lincoln, public Notary, of the other part ; — In consideration of 
 ^4850 paid to Savyle, he sells the Manor of Doddington, other- 
 wise Doddington Pigotts, to Thomas Taylor and the others. 
 Acknowledged by John Savyle on the day and year aforesaid. 
 Inrolled 17 June, 1593." 
 
 {Close Roll, 35 Eliz., part 4.) John Savile, of Howley, co. 
 York, Esq., entered into a recognizance for ^2,000 to be paid to 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
 57 
 
 Thomas Taylor, the elder, of the City of Lincoln, Esq., and 
 George Anton, of the same City, Esq , to be paid on Midsummer 
 Day after the date (i.e., 24 June, 1593). Dated at Westminster, 
 19 June, 35 Eliz. 
 
 A MS. account of the state of the Diocese of Lincoln, temp. 
 Eliz., preserved in the British Museum (Harl. MSS. 618) gives 
 the number of families in Doddington about this time as 18, and 
 those in Whisby as 13. 
 
 It has been commonly assumed that Thomas Tailor (so he 
 himself and his son spell the name), who thus became the owner 
 of Doddington, and who has left his mark on the place in the 
 stately mansion which he erected there, was a wealthy merchant 
 of Lincoln. But in fact he was Registrar, or, as it was then written, 
 Register, to the Bishop of Lincoln, and is so described in the 
 Visitation of 1634, which is signed by his son In the documents 
 relating to his purchase of Doddington in 1593 he is styled 
 Esquire, but in his will, dated 1606, he calls himself Gentleman. 
 We cannot say who his father was, nor what was the origin of his 
 family, but through his own two marriages, and those of his three 
 daughters, he was connected with several prominent families both 
 of the County and of the City of Lincoln. It is evident, however, 
 from the mention of them in his will that the position of his 
 brothers and sisters was not equal to his own. His own wealth 
 is shown not only by his purchase of Doddington and many other 
 landed estates, and by the handsome mansion which he built for 
 himself, but by the many loans of money which he had made to 
 private persons, and by his subscription of ^50 to the fund raised 
 for the defence of the country in 1589, only two persons in the 
 County of Lincoln contributing a larger sum. 
 
 His first wife was Bridget, daughter of Sir William Hansard, 
 of South Kelsey, Knt. : she had been married first to the unfor- 
 tunate Thomas Moigne, Recorder of Lincoln, who suffered death 
 for the Lincolnshire rising of 1536; after his execution, 7 March, 
 1537, she married, second, Vincent Grantham, of St. Katharine's, 
 Esq., who died 1550, and was buried in St. Martin's, 4 November 
 of that year; when she married, third, Thomas Tailor;— it was a 
 short-lived union, for as the Register of St. Martin's informs us, 
 " There was buryed on y e xx tb day of December Misteris Brydget 
 Tallyer, wife of Mr. Thomas Tallyer, Anno Dni 1552." He held 
 land, however, in the City of Lincoln in her right, 20 April, 1558. 
 Her children by Vincent Grantham, of whom she was the third 
 wife, must have been young at the time of her re-marriage to 
 Thomas Tailor; and we have an instance of the affectionate 
 relationship which existed between them and their step-father in 
 the wills of one of them, Faith (Grantham) and her husband, 
 Sir Thomas St. Paul, of Snarford. Sir Thomas in his will, proved 
 
58 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 1 8 September, 1583, after leaving to his "father Taillor cl/z," 
 which he apparently owed him, adds, "I desire most hertelie my 
 most assured frende Mr. Thomas Taillor, whose frendship I must 
 confess hathe been to me of a stranger most wonderful, that he 
 will take execution of my testament, and then I give him xxlt. 
 more."* His widow, Dame Faith St. Paul, in her will, dated 
 9 June, 1589, bequeaths " To my father Taylor a ring."* Thomas 
 Tailor himself does not omit in his will to bequeath remembrances 
 to Mrs. Katharine Rokeby, a sister of Dame Faith's, and to two 
 of their nieces, Mrs. Faith Mussendine and Mrs. Jane Allington. 
 
 Thomas Tailor's second wife was Jane Hollingworth, whom he 
 married at St. Martin's, 10 February, 1562. She was daughter of 
 Martin Hollingworth, of St. Peter-at-Arches, Draper, a second son 
 of Reginald Hollingworth, of Hollingworth Hall, co. Chester, Esq., 
 who, according to a common practice of those days, was appren- 
 ticed and became a Draper at Lincoln, where he held the office 
 of Mayor in 1560, and dying in 1589 left Thomas Tailor super- 
 visor of his will. One of his sons, Leon Hollingworth, was also 
 a Draper, and Mayor of Lincoln in 1594 and 1604. By Jane 
 Hollingworth, who was buried in St. Martin's, 12 November, 1583, 
 Thomas Tailor had a family, though one son only survived him. 
 
 Before his purchase of Doddington he resided in the Parish of 
 St. Martin, Lincoln, and in the registers of that parish the follow- 
 ing entries relating to his family are found : — 
 
 "1552. There was buryed ye xx th day of December Misteris 
 Brydget Tallyer wife of Mr. Thomas Tallyer Anno dni 1552. 
 
 1561(2). Mr. Thomas Tallare and Jayne Hollyngworthe was 
 maryed the x th day of Februarij. 
 
 1568. Elsabeth Taler, daugh. to Mr. Thomas Tailor, bapt. iiii 
 July. 
 
 1569. Jayn Taler, daugh. to Mr. Thomas Talor, bapt. ix die Oct. 
 
 1570. Thomas Tailor, son to Mr. Thomas Talor, bapt. xxv 
 die Oct. r 
 
 1576. Judith Talor, daugh. of Mr. Thos. Talor, bapt. xi Nov. 
 1 5 79- (80). Thomas Talor, son of Mr. Thomas Talor bapt. 
 vnj° Feb. v 
 
 1583. Misteris Jayne Taler that was wyfe to Mr. Thomas 
 Taler was buryed upon the xii^ day of November, Anno dni 1583. 
 
 I 5 8 9-(9°)- Mr. George Anton and Mistress Jane Taller was 
 maryed the Eight day of January, 1589. 
 
 1590. M ris Elizabeth Ascough, the wife of Mr. William 
 Ascough, was buryed the viij day of November. 
 
 i59°-(i)- Elizabeth Anton, dau. of Mr. George, bapt. xv° Jan. 
 
 1 59 1. Thomas Anton, son of Mr. George, bapt. xij° Dec. 
 1598. Mistress Fitzwilliams, wife to Mr. Robert Fitzwilliams, 
 
 was buryed the xxv day of Aprill, A° Dni. 1598.'' 
 
 * Rev. A. R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Wills, 1st Series, 1500-1606. 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
 59 
 
 Thomas Tailor became the purchaser of Doddington in 1593, 
 and it must have been between that year and his death in 1607 
 that the present Hall was built. A leaden plate, with the initials 
 I.W. and the date 1600, was found on the top of the central 
 cupola when re-leaded in 1858, and marks no doubt the date of 
 the completion of the exterior. We may well believe that the 
 old Manor House of the Pigots, probably of no great size and largely 
 built of timber, had fallen into decay during the 120 years of its 
 possession by the Burghs. At any rate it would be unsuitable for 
 a person of Thomas Tailor's evident wealth and importance ; and 
 he proceeded to erect a mansion for himself. The site, doubtless, 
 was that of the former Manor House, closely adjoining the church 
 and village; and the ground plan adopted was that E shape, 
 which was in fashion at the time, and has been fancifully supposed 
 to have been chosen in allusion to the initial letter of the Queen s 
 name. A somewhat similar mansion had already been built in 
 the neighbourhood by the Jermyn family at Torksey, the ruined 
 front of which, mis-named Torksey Castle, still stands close on 
 the edge of the Trent. But if that were the more picturesque, 
 with its shallow angular projections and stepped gables between, 
 Thomas Tailor's had greatly the advantage, not only in site but 
 in size, being fully a third longer, and with its square outline and 
 boldly projecting wings affording far more accommodation. A 
 gabled gate-house in front, with connecting walls, added to its 
 security. The whole was built of bricks, which, as tradition says, 
 were made close at hand, in what is known as the Lawn Paddock, 
 the second field westwards from the Hall, which is crossed by the 
 footpath to Harby, and still bears traces of having been used for 
 the purpose. The bricks are of small size, made of unsifted clay, 
 so as to be full of small pebbles (locally "coggles"), and many of 
 them over-burnt, but they have stood well for 300 years. 
 
 We may presume that the house was sufficiently finished for 
 Thomas Tailor to take up his residence in it before his death. 
 He presented Richard Pollard to the Rectory, on the resignation 
 of Ralph Bethel, 21 March, 1605, in which year the parish is 
 stated to have had 140 communicants, representing no doubt its 
 whole adult population. At this time he is described as of 
 Doddington Pigott, as he also described himself in his will, dated 
 24 June, 1606, in which he desires to be buried in the parish 
 church. There is no trace of any monument remaining to his 
 memory, nor indeed is there any evidence of his burial, the present 
 Parish Registers not going so far back, and the transcripts of the 
 earlier ones, if they still exist in the Bishop's Registry, not having 
 been found. A portrait of him at the Hall represents him as a 
 middle-aged man, dressed in brown, with wide lawn collar and 
 cuffs, seated at a table with a pen in his hand and a paper, 
 perhaps an official document, before him. 
 
6o 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 By his wife, Jane Hollingworth, (buried at St. Martin's, 12 
 November, 1583), Thomas Tailor had one son, Thomas Tailor, 
 baptized at St. Martin's Church, Lincoln, 8 February, 1580, who 
 succeeded him at Doddington ; and three daughters, who all died 
 before him, viz. : 1. Elizabeth, bapt. at St. Martin's, 4 July, 1568, 
 who married at South Kelsey, 27 Sept., 1590, William Ayscough, 
 son and heir of Edward, afterwards (1603) Sir Edward Ayscough, 
 of Kelsey; she died however the same year, and was buried 
 Nov. 9, in St. Martin's Church. Gervase Holies records the 
 inscription on her tombstone there :— " El : filia Thomse Taylor 
 uxor Will : Aiscogh de Stallingborough, filii et hseredis Edw : 
 Aiscogh de Kelsey, obiit 6° die Novembris, An 0 Dom. 1590." 
 William Ayscough married, secondly, Katharine, d. of William 
 Heneage, of Hainton, Esq., and died 4 Feb., 16 10, predeceasing 
 his father who survived till 9 March, 161 2 : they both were buried 
 at Stallingborough; 2. Jane, baptized in St. Martin's Church, 
 9 October, 1569, and married there 8 January, 1589-90, to Mr. 
 George Anton, Counsellor-at-Law, elected Recorder of Lincoln, 
 22 August, 1587, who was also M.P. for that City in 1588 and 
 1592; she had one daughter, Elizabeth, baptized 15 January, 
 1590-1, eventually the heiress of Doddington, but she died in child- 
 birth of her second child, a son named Thomas, baptized 12 
 December, 159T, who was buried with her in old St. Martin's 
 Church, 11 March, 1591-2. Gervase Holies thus describes her 
 monument and its inscription : " On the E. side of the same 
 Chancel is a Monument of freestone raysed up to a mean height, 
 on which is written : — 
 
 CARISSIME ATQ : HONESTISSIME 
 VXORI SVAE JANAE FILIAE THOME 
 TAYLERI, QVAE OBIIT II 0 DIE MARTII 
 A.D. MDXCI. EX PVERPERIO THOME 
 FILII SVI, HIC JVXTA MATREM SVAM 
 SEPVLTI, GEORGIVS ANTON, HVIVS 
 CIVITATIS RECORDOR, IN VERI ATQ : 
 INVIOLATE CONIVGALIS AMORIS 
 TESTIMONIVM HOC PONI VOLVIT. 
 FIDE POST FVNERA SERVO." 
 
 Mr. George Anton, her husband, was of a family of Yorkshire 
 origin* but his father, Thomas Anton, had been Clerk of the 
 Court of Wards and Liveries ; and his grandfather, also Thomas 
 Anton, was Chamberlain to Queen Katharine of Aragon. He 
 himself was a member of Lincoln's Inn, and had become purchaser 
 of part of Doddington, but afterwards sold his share to his father- 
 in-law, Thomas Tailor, as well as the Manor and Advowson of 
 
 * Visitation 0/ Lincolnshire, 1592. 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
 61 
 
 Tetford in 1593 ; he presented to the Benefice of Fairforth with 
 Maiden well in 1605. As early as 1588 the reversion of his office 
 as Recorder on his death or departure had been granted to Mr. 
 William Ellys; and in 1603 leave had been given him, in regard 
 of his business in London and other places, to nominate a deputy. 
 But in 161 2, on account of his prolonged absence from Lincoln, 
 he was removed from the Recordership, the following minute 
 being entered on the Records of the Corporation: — "1612, 
 Feb. 29 — Whereas this city hath not had for these many years 
 past any help or advice of George Anton, Esq., Recorder there, 
 either in keeping their sessions of the peace or otherwise in their 
 courts or affairs, though they have had many great occasions to 
 stand in need thereof and to crave the same, and yet have borne 
 with his not using the said place and office, though the fees of 
 the same have been continually paid to him, and thereby have 
 been enforced to be very troublesome to divers others learned in 
 the law to no small charge of this city j now, for that the said 
 Mr. Anton is clear removed from this city, and hath left to himself 
 no place of dwelling or residence therein, neither is likely to 
 return thither again, it is ordered and agreed that the said Mr. 
 George Anton shall be no more nor longer Recorder of this city."* 
 William Ellys, Esq., who had the former reversionary grant, was 
 appointed Recorder in his stead ; and of Mr. Anton we hear no 
 more, unless, perchance, he was the George Anton, of St. 
 Dunstan's-in-the-West, London, administration of whose effects 
 was granted to his son, George Anton, 25 June, 1652. After the 
 death of his first wife, Jane Tailor, he had married Bridget, fourth 
 daughter of William Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe ; by her he had a 
 son George.t who succeeded to his estate at Fairforth, worth 
 ^1280 a year, and who was buried at St. George's, Stamford, 
 11 January, 1653, and two daughters, who, under their married 
 names of Frances Knight and Bridget Dye, were legatees, both 
 under the will of their brother and that of their half-sister, 
 Elizabeth, Lady Hussey. The former was the wife of William 
 Knight ; while Bridget, then a spinster aged 23, was married at 
 St. Swithin's, 22 January, 1627, to Charles Dye, of Messingham, 
 clerk, aged 26. Charles Dye was a trustee and legatee under 
 
 * Registers of the Corporation of Lincoln, Hist. MSS. Com., Rep. xiv., 
 App. pt. viii. 
 
 t In his will, proved at Westminster, 5 February, 1653, George Anton, 
 the younger, leaves several legacies to members of the Hussey family, with 
 whom he was connected through his half-sister's marriage : as "To my cousin 
 William Husse ,£40, when he shall be 21 ; to my cousin Sir Robert Marcom 
 and his lady ,£3 each ; to my cousin Sir Robert Bowles and his lady £3 each ; 
 to my cousin Edward Husse, Esq., a Four Pound Piece of Gold ; to my Lady 
 Fairfax a 30s. Piece of Gold ; to my cousin Bridget Husse a 30s. Piece of Gold. 
 
62 
 
 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 Lady Hussey's will, and we find Bridget Dye, perhaps her daughter 
 of the same name, holding the office of churchwarden of Dodding- 
 ton in 1672 and 1683. 
 
 The 3rd daughter of Thomas Tailor was Judith, who was 
 baptized at St. Martin's, 11 Nov., 1576, she married Robert 
 Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe, the elder brother and predecessor in 
 the estate of the William Fitzwilliam mentioned above ; he was 
 aged 19 in 1592, and was buried at Witham 5 Sept., 1602 ; Judith 
 pre-deceased both him and her father, having been buried at 
 St. Martin's, 25 April, 1598. 
 
 Thomas Tailor, the elder, died 24 November, 1607 ; and his will, 
 dated 24 June, 1606, and proved at Lincoln by his son and 
 executor, 30 November, 1607, is in the Registry at Lincoln. The 
 following is an abstract of it, as given in Rev. A. R. Maddison's 
 Lincolnshire Wills, 2nd Series, 1600-17. 
 
 "Thomas Tailor of Doddington in the Countie of Lincoln, 
 Gent. I will my bodie to be buried in the parishe Churche of 
 Doddington aforesaid. Towards the reparations of the Cathedrall 
 Churche of Lincoln iiij//. I bequeath for tokens of remembrance, 
 viz. — to my late sonne-in-lawe Mr. William Aiscough an old 
 Royall, to Mris. Katherine Ruckby, to Mris. Faithe Mussendine, to 
 Mris. Jane Allington, to Mr. John Jon, of Barrowe, to Mr. Leon 
 Hollingworth, to Mr. Edmond Shuttleworth, to Mr. Amos Bedford, 
 parson of Hanworthe, and to my late servante Mr. John Pregion, 
 — to everie one of them an old Angell. I forgive my brother 
 James Tailor one hundred pounds of the cclxxx// which he oweth 
 me. To my brother Edward Tailor cli. of the residue of the said 
 cclxxx//. To the children of my brother George Tailor xli. 
 To the children of my sister Dolitle xli. To mye sister Jane 
 Heywarde xli., and to the children of my sister Katherine xli. 
 All which said legacies to be paid of the said residewe of the 
 cclxxx//. which my said brother James dothe owe me. To 
 William Plumtree, my late servant, x\s. To Elizabeth Anton, my 
 grandchilde, One Thousand Pounds, and Three Hundred which 
 Sir Roger Aiscough, knt. doth owe me. Also I constitute and 
 appoint George Anton, Mr. Thomas Randes, and Mr. George 
 Allington, Esquyers, supervisors of this my last Will &c. and I 
 give to everie one of them Fyve Marks. Residue to Thomas 
 Tailor my sonne whom I make my sole Executor. The 24 June, 
 1606. Prob. at Lincoln 30 Nov. 1607 by Executor." 
 
 If we gain an idea of his wealth from the personal property 
 disposed of in his will, this is infinitely increased by the account 
 of his real property as given in the Inquisition taken after his 
 death, which shows him to have purchased manors, houses, and 
 upwards of 9,000 acres of land in different parts of Lincolnshire. 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor 
 
 63 
 
 These possesions are described at such length in the voluminous 
 Inquisition, that it is necessary to summarise the details of them, 
 other than of Doddington itself. 
 
 {Chancery Inquisition, p.m., 6 James I., pt. 1, No. 127.) 
 " Lincoln. Inquisition taken at the Bail, Lincoln, 24 March, 
 6 James, 1607-8, before Thomas Grantham, Knt, Nicholas 
 Cholmeley, Esq., feodary, and Arthur Porter, Esq., Escheator of 
 the Co. of Lincoln, by virtue of a Commission, dated 1 1 Feb. 5 
 James, 1607-8, in the nature of a writ of diem clausit extremum, 
 to inquire into the death of Thomas Tailor, late of Doddington 
 Pigot, Esq." 
 
 " He was seised either in fee, or jointly with his son Thomas 
 Tailor the younger, of the following, viz. : — 
 
 " Cottages, mills, rent, and 145 acres of land in Gonerbie, 
 Manthorpe and Hareby, lately purchased by him of Robert 
 Dymoke, Esq. deceased, and held of the Lady Anne, now Queen 
 of England, as of her manor and soke of Grantham, by fealty only, 
 in free socage; and worth per ann. (clear) 20s. : — 
 
 " Cottages, 354 acres of land, mostly wood, in Bardney, lately 
 purchased of Thomas (?) Morryson, Esq., deceased, and John 
 Bagshaw; held of the King, as of his Manor of East Greenwich, 
 by fealty only, in free socage ; and worth per ann. (clear) 40J : — 
 
 "Messuages, 188 acres of land, io.y. rent, in Fotherby, together 
 with the Rectory and the Advowson of the Vicarage, lately pur- 
 chased of William White, deceased ; held of the King, as of his 
 Manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only, in free socage; and 
 worth per ann. (clear) £4. : — 
 
 " Messuages, and 36 acres of land in Whaplode, lately pur- 
 chased of — Pulvertofte, Gent, deceased ; held of Adam Claypole, 
 Esq., as of his Manor of Hagbitchall, by fealty and suit of Court ; 
 and worth per ann. (clear) \os. : — 
 
 "The Manor of Riby, with messuages, cottages, and 900 
 acres of land in Ribie, Swallow and Healing, lately purchased 
 of Francis Sedgwicke, Gent: with other houses and 140 acres of 
 land, formerly parcel of the Manor of Riby lately purchased of 
 William, Henry, and Robert Scott ; held of the King as of his 
 Honour of Bullingbroke, parcel of his Duchy of Lancaster ; and 
 worth per ann. (clear) ^10. 
 
 " The Manor of Askebie or Ashebie near Partney with 
 messuages, 400 acres of land, and the Advowson of the Church ; 
 held of Robert Lord Willoughbie, as of his manor of Earesbie, 
 by fealty and rent of a penny; and worth per ann. (clear) 
 £6 ly. 4d.:— 
 
 " Messuages and 80 acres of land in Hogsthorpe, Mumby and 
 Mumby Chapel, held of the lord of the Manor of Grenefeilde by 
 fealty ; and worth per ann. (clear) 1 3$. \d. 
 
6 4 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 " The Manor of Brinkhill with messuages, and 200 acres of 
 land ; held of the lord of the late Monastery of Coventry, dissolved, 
 by fealty only; and worth per ann. (clear) 26s. Sd. 
 
 "A cottage and 31 acres in Ulceby and Fordington, lately 
 purchased, as was the Manor of Brinkhill, of Ambrose Sandon, 
 Esq., and Thomas Darnell, Esq., (now Knight) : held of Edward 
 Cuppledike, Esq., as of his Manor of Fordington ; and worth per 
 ann. (clear) 10s. : — 
 
 "A capital messuage, with crofts, kilne-house and 2 bovates of 
 land in Great Limber, lately purchased of Richard Doughtye ; 
 held of Sir William Pelham, Knt., as of his Manor of Great 
 Limber, by fealty and rent of lod. : and worth per ann. (clear) 
 6s. 8d. :— 
 
 "The Manor of Roxton, with messuages, windmill, and 524 
 acres in Roxton, Immingham, and Killingholme, lately purchased 
 of Francis Mussenden, Esq. : held of Sir Henry Glemham, Knt. 
 as of his Manor of Calceby, by fealty only : and worth per ann. 
 (clear) 100s. : — 
 
 " Messuages and 78 acres in Mablethorpe, lately purchased of 
 Robert Fitzwilliam, Esq., deceased; held of Sir Henry Glemham, 
 Knt. as of his Manor of Calceby : and worth per ann. (clear) 
 13*. 4d. :— 
 
 "Also the Manor of Tetford, with messuages &c. 1460 acres, 
 6or. rent, and the Advowson of the Rectory, purchased by him 
 and his son from George Anton, Esq., by indenture dated 26 March, 
 1593; held of the King, as of his Honour of Bullingbroke, by 
 fealty : and worth per ann. (clear) ioo^. : — 
 
 " Also the Manor of Riby with messuages &c. and 15 10 acres 
 in Riby, Stallingborough, Healinge, Alesby, and Waltham, lately 
 purchased of Godfrey Fuljambe, Esq. deceased : and other 
 messuages &c. and 540 acres in Riby, formerly parcel of the Manor 
 and belonging to Godfrey Fuljambe, Esq. but purchased of Sir 
 George Heneage, Knt. deceased, and William Heneage, Esq. : 
 held of the King as of his Honour of Bullingbroke ; and worth per 
 ann. (clear) £i>- 6- 8. 
 
 Also "certain closes of pasture with appurtenances in Dod- 
 dington Pigott, commonly called Doddington Carrs and the 
 Pawdalles, formerly parcel of the manor of Doddington, otherwise 
 Doddington Pigott, lately purchased by Thomas Tailor of George 
 Anton, Esq. Leon Hollingworth, and Edmund Shutleworth, 
 Gentlemen." 
 
 " And further the said Thomas Tailor and Thomas Tailor the 
 younger were jointly seised in fee of and in the Manor of Dodding- 
 ton, otherwise Doddington Pigott, with appurtenances, in the said 
 Co. of Lincoln, and 16 messuages, 6 cottages, 6 tofts, a windmill, 
 3 dove-houses, 20 gardens, 400 acres of land, 600 acres of pasture, 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
 65 
 
 460 acres of wood, 500 acres of furze and heath, 500 acres of 
 moor, and 20s. rent in Doddington, alias Doddington Pigott, 
 Whisbie, and Northikam, co. Line, together with the Advowson 
 of the Church of Doddington to the said manor belonging . . . 
 They being so seised, Thomas Tailor, (in the Commission) died, 
 and Thomas Tailor his son survived him, and held by right of 
 accruer, and is yet seised thereof in fee. 
 
 " The said Thomas Tailor (in the Commission) was seised in 
 fee of a capital messuage, 2 other messuages, 2 gardens, 3 acres 
 of land or pasture in the parishes of St. Martin and St. Peter-at- 
 Arches in the City of Lincoln in the County of the City of Lincoln ; 
 a capital messuage or tenement, 120 acres of land, meadow and 
 pasture with appurts. in Franch, alias Franish, in the parish of 
 Kidderminster, co. Worcester; 2 messuages and 2 cottages in 
 Milne-street in Kidderminster; and he died so seised of the 
 premises 24 November last (1607). 
 
 "The manor of Doddington, alias Doddington Pigott, and all 
 and singular the premises aforesaid with the appurtenances in Dod- 
 dington, alias Doddington Pigott, Whisbie and Northikam, and the 
 closes called Doddington Carres and the Pawdalles, at the time of 
 the dissolution of the Abbey of Westminster, were held of the 
 Abbot of Westminster by rent of ^12 only, and at the time of 
 the death of Thomas Tailor named in the Commission were held 
 of the King by the same rent of jQ\2 only; and they are worth 
 per ann. (clear) £6. 13. 4. 
 
 " The capital messuage, 2 other messuages and other premises 
 in the City of Lincoln are held of the mayor, sheriffs, citizens and 
 commonalty of the City of Lincoln, in free burgage, by payment 
 yearly for each messuage a penny ; and they are worth per ann. 
 (clear) 20^ 
 
 "The capital messuage &c. in Franch, alias Frainsh, and 
 Kiderminster, are held of the Lord Aburgavenney, as of his manor 
 of Kidderminster, in free socage, by fealty and suit of Court, and 
 are worth per ann. (clear) 13J. 4^. 
 
 " The said Thomas Tailor seised of all and singular the afore- 
 said manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, died on the 
 24th November last (1607) : and Thomas Tailor is son and next 
 heir of the said Thomas Tailor named in the Commission ; and 
 at the time of his father's death he was aged 27 years." 
 
 It was no doubt this Thomas Tailor the younger who thus 
 succeeded to Doddington and the other estates on his father's 
 death in 1607, whose name has been handed down in the parish 
 in the saying, " One large, one small, like Tommy Tailor's 
 buttons " ; and of whom are told such stories as these, taken down 
 from the mouth of an old inhabitant : "Tommy Tailor once told 
 his steward who was going to Lincoln to market to bring him a 
 
 E 
 
66 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 goose. On his return he asked about it, and the man told him 
 they were so dear he had not got one. So Tommy shut him up 
 in a room with a lot of money on the table, and kept him there 
 two days, asking him when he came out, if he had now discovered 
 that the use of money was to buy what one wanted with it, not to 
 keep to look at. Another day he met a woman on the road 
 carrying some butter ; he asked what it was a pound. The woman 
 told him, and he bought it of her, taking it and putting it on the 
 branch of a tree. She walked on, but soon turned back to take 
 it away. However he was lying in wait, and pounced on her just 
 as she had taken it down, and said he had bought and paid for it, 
 and he should put it where he liked. Another person on whom 
 he had played the same kind of trick, took away the chicken he 
 had bought, threw his money at him, and called him an owd fule. 
 He kept his money in a great chest, and hid it away, and unfor- 
 tunately died very suddenly of small-pox before he explained 
 where he had put it." Some have fancied that his ghost still 
 walks the Hall in anxiety for his hidden money; and it was 
 commonly believed of the late Mr. G. K. Jarvis, who was fond of 
 employing his leisure in working in the woods, that he was in 
 search of Tommy Tailor's " chist." 
 
 Thomas Tailor,* the younger, presented John Crofte to the 
 Rectory of Doddington in 1618, and he filled the office of Sheriff 
 of Lincolnshire as Thomas Taylor, of Doddington Pigot in 1620. 
 In the Visitation of Lincolnshire in 1634, he signs his name as 
 "Tho. Tailor" to the meagre pedigree of two generations, 
 his father and himself. It was perhaps a sign of his eccentricity 
 that though he had served as High Sheriff of the county, he had 
 not cared to apply for a grant of Arms to display on the occasion. 
 It was so at all events in the eyes of the Herald by whom the 
 Visitation was taken, and who has added the following note : — 
 " He had beene high shreife, but had no coate." A similar 
 pedigree of the Tailor family is given in the same Visitation, 
 included in that of the Husseys of Honington, who came to 
 represent it through the marriage of Sir Edward Hussey, of 
 Honington, Knt. and Bart., with Elizabeth, only child of George 
 Anton by Jane Tailor, and niece and heir apparent, as she is styled 
 in the pedigree, to Thomas Tailor, of Doddington Pigott, Esq. 
 The pedigree here given is made up from these two, with additions 
 from other sources. 
 
 * The Register of St. Martin's contains a marriage entry of "Thomas 
 Taler and Dorothie Wetherilde, 3 July, 1614," which Mr. A. Larken in his 
 admirable Lincolnshire Pedigrees, now in the College of Arms, assigns to this 
 Thomas Tailor ; but the name is a very common one, and the fact that no 
 marriage is assigned to him in the Visitation Pedigree of 1634, which is signed 
 by himself, seems conclusive against it, 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Amongst the documents at Ford Castle is a lease by this 
 Thomas Tailor, dated 26 June, 1633, of his land at Whaplode to 
 William Saull, of Doddington Pygott, yeoman, for 2 years at 2s. 
 per acre, Robert Cooke, apparently agent, signing on the part of 
 Tailor. It was in his time that the claim for Ship Money began 
 to be made, which was one of the chief causes of the dissensions 
 between Charles I. and his Parliament. Here is an Assessment 
 made for this purpose on the inhabitants of Doddington in 1636. 
 
 " Doddington Pygott. An Assessment made by the Cheiffe 
 Constable of the Wapen. of Boothby Graffo and the Inhabitants 
 of Doddington Piggott the 4th of January 1636 for and towards 
 the ppaireing and setting forthe of a Shipp of Warre for his Mat's 
 s'vice and the defence of the Kingdome by us whose names are 
 
 hereunder wrytten : — 
 
 Lincoln Kesteven. £ s. d. 
 
 Impmis Tho. Tayler, Esq re 05 00 00 
 
 John Croft, Clarke, for his Ecclesiasticall Estate 00 14 00 
 
 John Croft, Clarke, for his Temporal! Estate . 00 10 00 
 
 Willm Harduish 00 10 00 
 
 Willm Collins 00 15 00 
 
 Mich. Cole 00 10 06 
 
 Robert Dawson 00 12 00 
 
 George Taylor 00 10 00 
 
 Tho. Suell 00 10 00 
 
 Robt. Cooke 00 03 09 ob. 
 
 Sum .... 10 5 30b. 
 
 Thomas Sewill ) . 
 William Collins ) Assessors - 
 Robert Dawson, Constable, 
 ffran. Allen, Cheife Constable." 
 
 The tradition that Thomas Tailor's death took place unex- 
 pectedly is so far confirmed that he left no written will, and 
 probate had to be taken out of his nuncupative will, or will made 
 by word of mouth before credible witnesses. This was to the 
 following effect : — 
 
 " Memorandum, That Thomas Taylor, late of the Citty of 
 Lincoln, Esq. whilst hee lived and was in perfect mind and 
 memory, spetiallie uppon or about the 13th day of December in 
 the year of our Lord 1652, did make and declare his last Will and 
 Testament as followeth, viz. Hee having with his own hand 
 formerlie written and sett downe in a Note hereunto annexed 
 certaine Legacies to be bequeathed and given to severall persons 
 in the said Note, viz. to Mr. Leon Hollingworth ;£ioo, William 
 Taylor ^50, Robert Cooke ^50, Robert Boston ^40, Edward 
 
Doddington — Savile and Tailor. 
 
 69 
 
 Lilly ^40, Thomas Cooper ,£20, William Thew £50, Mr. George 
 Anton p£"ioo, Edward Hussey ^"100, Augustine Smith ^£"40, 
 Mr. Catnor (?) his bill again of ^40, Luke Bolton ^50, — the 
 said Thomas Taylor did by word of mouth afterwards, viz. uppon 
 or about the said 13 Dec. 1652, with a purpose then to declare 
 his last Will, signifie affirme and declare that he had written a 
 Note wherein he had sett downe certaine summes of money which 
 his will and minde was should be given unto his friends named 
 after his decease, And soe speaking to Robert Cooke his servant 
 he wished him to coppie out the said Note, and soe ordered and 
 declared alsoe that it was his minde and will that his keyes should 
 be delivered unto the Lady Elizabeth Hussey his niece after his 
 death, and hee alsoe affirmed and declared that hee neither had 
 nor would give anything from her the said Lady Hussey but what 
 was in the said Note, And that it was his minde and will that the 
 said Lady Hussey should after his death pay the said Legacies sett 
 downe in the said Note, and the rest of his Estate and Goods he 
 did give to the said Lady Elizabeth Hussey his niece and heire 
 apparent, And did declare that it was his will and minde that the 
 said Lady Hussey shall have all the rest and residue of his estate 
 and goods after his decease, or to such effect in substance, And 
 willed some person or persons present with him to tell the said 
 Lady Hussey thereof, and to desire her to pay and discharge the 
 Legacies in the said Note, And that for all the rest of his Estates 
 it was his minde and will that shee should have it, and that hee 
 had and did leave all to her, or to such effect in substance, — in 
 the presence and hearing of creditable witnesses." {Somerset 
 House.) 
 
 Letters of Administration were issued to Dame Elizabeth 
 Hussey, as niece and residuary legatee, on 30 September, 1653. 
 It was unfortunately after the period when Inquis. p.m. were taken, 
 so that we cannot tell how much of his father's great possessions, 
 besides Doddington, remained for Lady Hussey to inherit. 
 Tetford, with Riby, Fotherby, and other of the elder Thomas 
 Tailor's purchases, of which in 1653 she covenanted to stand seized 
 for the benefit of her younger sons, appear to have been settled on 
 the marriage of her youngest son, afterwards Sir Charles Hussey, 
 the first Bart, of Caythorpe, who disposes of them in his will, dated 
 1664, and whose widow presented to Tetford as late as 1676 and 
 1690. 
 
 Thomas Tailor's age at his death was 72 ; he apparently died 
 at his house at Lincoln, but there is nothing to show where he 
 was buried. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 DODDINGTON AND THE HUSSEYS. 
 HE marriage of Elizabeth Anton, grand-daughter of the elder, 
 
 J_ and niece and heiress of the younger Thomas Tailor, to 
 Sir Edward Hussey, which took place about 1609, was the means 
 of eventually bringing the Doddington estate into the possession 
 of that distinguished Lincolnshire family, which was then settled 
 at Honington, near Grantham. The Husseys claimed a descent, 
 probable indeed, but as yet unproved, from the ancient Barons 
 de Hoese, of Harting, co. Sussex, who were summoned to Parlia- 
 ment in the reigns of Edward I., II., and III., 1295-1345; and 
 many of the name of knightly rank are mentioned from time to 
 time in our country's annals. The Dorsetshire family of the 
 name assumed a boot or buskin as their crest in punning 
 allusion to the name, as though it were Hose-y, " quasi Hosatus, — 
 hosed or booted." But, as Mr. Lower (Patron. Brit.) remarks, 
 the territorial prefix De which is affixed to it in early times, plainly 
 proves that the name is of local origin, derived from the lordship 
 of Hosse, Heuz4 or Heusse, in France : or as has been suggested 
 from the French Houssaie, a place full of holly — I/oux* The 
 title of Vicomte and Comte de Heussey is still extant amongst 
 those of the French nobility. But the virtual founder of the 
 Lincolnshire family of the name was Sir William Hussey, Knt., 
 Lord Chief Justice in the reigns of Edward IV. and V., Richard 
 III, and Henry VII. He was a son of John Hussey, Esq., who was 
 already settled at Old Sleaford in 1440, 19 Hen. VI., and was one 
 of the Commissioners for Kesteven to raise money for the defence 
 of Calais, 33 Hen. VI. He married Elizabeth Nessfield or 
 Neffeile, of Yorkshire, who appears to have been an heiress, as 
 her family's arms {Arg. a Bend, wavy, cottised, Sable) continued to 
 be quartered by the Husseys. Their son, afterwards Sir William 
 Hussey, was a student at Gray's Inn, and rose to eminence in the 
 profession of the law. He was Commissioner of Sewers for the 
 
 * In old French the Holly is called Houset, Med. Lett., Hoseia. Ducange, 
 on this latter word, mentions a village called La Houssaie or Hosseia, 
 " cognominatus a copia Aquifolise quam vulgo Hossum vel Hussum nostri 
 vocitant." In a Grant, temp. Edw. I., 1287, relating to the Forest of 
 Macclesfield Husseia seems to be used for the undergrowth of Holly. J. A. 
 Picton, in Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, x. , 287. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 71 
 
 Parts of Kesteven, 7 Edw. IV., 1467, and in the same year was 
 returned to Parliament as Burgess for Grantham. Four years 
 'later, 16 June, 147 1, he was appointed Attorney General, and as 
 :such he conducted the impeachment of the Duke of Clarence for 
 high treason. He was called to the degree of Sergeant-at-Law, 
 9 June, 1477, 17 Edw. IV., and was made Lord Chief Justice 
 21 Edw. IV., in which office he was continued by successive 
 patents on the accession of the three following monarchs. On his 
 re-appointment on the accession of Edward V., 1483, the emolu- 
 ments of his office are thus recorded : — " 2 1 April : To Sir William 
 Hussey, Knt. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a fee of 40 
 marks and a Cask of Wine from the Port of London yearly ; " and 
 "To the same, a further Fee of 180 marks per ann. with, at 
 Christmas io6j\ \\\d. and the 6th part of a Half-penny for a 
 Robe and Fur thereto, and at Easter 66^. 6d. for a Robe and 
 Lining." In September, 1484 he was with King Richard III. at 
 Nottingham Castle, and was one of the Commissioners appointed 
 to treat with the King of Scotland about the marriage of his son. 
 By King Henry VII., in 1488, he was appointed one of the 
 Commissioners for the array of archers in the County of Lincoln 
 to be sent to the relief of Brittany ■ and in 1489 and 1491 he was 
 employed by the same King as one of his Commissioners to 
 treat for peace with France. Fuller has given him a place among 
 the Worthies of Lincolnshire, and a dictum delivered by him as 
 Lord Chief Justice in 1492, is still referred to by the advocates of 
 Free and Open Churches, viz., that the Church is common to 
 every one, therefore it is not reason (or right) that one may have 
 his seat and two stand, for no place belongs to one more than 
 the other." Year Book, 8 Henry VII., 12. 
 
 The records of our own Cathedral have preserved the following 
 entries of his admission to a confraternity in it, as well as that of 
 Reginald Gayton, who had married his wife's sister, and of John, 
 afterwards Lord Hussey, his son : — 
 
 " 1490. Nobilis vir Will mus Husy, miles, et Capitulus Justici- 
 arius Anglise : et Reginaldus Gayton, eodem die. 
 
 " 1492. Joh es Husy, arm. films Will 1 Husy, militis." 
 
 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Esq., of 
 Wymondham, co. Leicester, and sister of Sir Maurice Berkeley, 
 Knt., and died 8 September, 1495, 11 Hen. VII., his will dated 
 15 December, 10 Hen. VII., being proved 4 July, 1496. Dugdale 
 (Orig. Jurid., p. 302, 309) describes his Arms as remaining in his 
 time in the windows both of the Hall and Chapel of Gray's Inn ; 
 the former, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a Cross, Vert ; 2 and 3, Barry 
 of 6, Erm. and Gules> with the inscription : " W, House, Miles, 
 Capitalis Justiciarius de Banco Regis, Temp. R. Hen. 7 " ; the 
 latter, the above arms impaling those of Berkeley, and inscribed : 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 "Will. Husse, Capitalis Justic. ad Placita coram Rege, et Elizabetha, 
 Uxor ejus, Filia Thomas Berkeley, Arm." Of these memorials 
 there now remains only a small shield with the Hussey Arms in one 
 of the windows of Gray's Inn Hall, and this during some restora- 
 tion has been carelessly reversed so that the quarterings appear 
 transposed. Gervase Holies records in his Notes, temp. Chas. I., 
 that a similar coat of arms, Or, a Cross, Vert, Hussey, impaling 
 Berkeley, Gules, a Chevron between 10 Cinquefoils, Arg. was in his 
 time in the nave windows of Sleaford Church. It would seem 
 that the double coat of arms represents the bearings of different 
 branches of the Hussey family, Or, a Cross Vert, being the special 
 coat of the Lincolnshire branch ; but that either family combined 
 with its own the bearings of the other, and the double coat was 
 ratified to the Husseys of Lincolnshire by Camden, Clarencieux, 
 as declared in the Visitation 0/1634. His widow survived him 
 until 1504, when by her will, dated 6 August, 1503, proved 
 6 December, 1504, (Somerset House, Ho/grave, 22) she desired to 
 be buried in the Monastery of Sempringham under her husband's 
 tomb, with no pompous funeral and no month's mind, but that 
 ^40 should be spent on the day of her burial at the discretion of 
 her executors, with further payments for masses. Legacies are 
 left by her ; to her son, Sir John Hussey, Knt., (" all the implements 
 of my house in Old Sleefurth ") ; to her son Robert (20 marks) ; 
 to her daughters, Lady Gray and Lady Willoughby ; to her brother 
 and sister Marmion, and her brother and sister Gayton ; and to 
 Vaudie Abbey ^5 ; and " Whereas my son William Huse hath 
 aforetime sold to me for 400 Marks the ward and marriage of 
 George Huse, son and heir apparent to him and Anne his wife, 
 daughter and heir to Sir John Silvain, Knt. I will that this 
 wardship and marriage be sold for the payment of mine and my 
 husband's debts, and the residue remain unto my son William 
 Huse." " Item, I will that my neighbours at Old Sleefurth have 
 ^5 to be disposed among them in recompense of hurtes done to 
 them by my lorde or me in some or other wise." Her eldest son, 
 Sir John Hussey, Knt., her brother Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knt., 
 and William Chubis were her executors. 
 
 Their three sons were, 1, John, afterwards Lord Hussey, of 
 whom we shall speak below. 2, Sir William Hussey, Knt., 
 mentioned above, who married Anne, daughter and heiress of 
 Sir John Salvaine, of Thorpe Salvin, co. York, afterwards the wife 
 of Ralph Hungate, Esq., and became ancestor of a Yorkshire 
 branch of the family, which continued there for a few generations. 
 The son and heir, George Hussey, whose wardship and marriage 
 his grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Hussey, had bought of his 
 father, and by her will directed to be sold again, was eventually 
 married to Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Constable, of Flamborough, 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 73 
 
 Knt. He died i o August, 1537, seised of the Manors of Harsweil , 
 North Duffield, Otteringham, and Thorpe in the Street, and leaving 
 William, his son and heir, aged 14 years and 9 months. William 
 Hussey and his wife Agnes, daughter of Sir William Babthorpe, 
 Knt., were parties to a matrimonial cause in the Court of the 
 Archbishop of York in 1541. His next brother, John Hussey, 
 "the last Hussey of Yorkshire," died 10 July, 1589, seised of the 
 Manors of Harswell and North Duffield, and leaving only a 
 daughter and heir, Anne, aged 20,* who had been already married 
 to John Ryther, of Temple Belwood, Esq. (a/. Sir John Ryther, of 
 Ryther, Knt.), but was then the wife of Sir Robert Constable, 
 of Flamborough, Knt., who died 1600 • and afterwards married as 
 her third husband, William Skipwith, Esq., son and heir of Sir 
 Richard Skipwith, of Ormsby, and was buried at Ormsby, s.p., 
 9 February, 1609, as Wm. Skipwith was on 1 October, 1622.! 
 3, Sir Robert Hussey, Knt., called sometimes the second, but 
 evidently from the order in which his name occurs in Lord Hussey's 
 will, the third son, ancestor of the branches settled at Honington 
 and Caythorpe, of whom we must treat more fully. The two 
 daughters also made great matches : Elizabeth married Richard 
 Grey, Earl of Kent, K.G., who died 1523, having wasted his 
 estate by gaming ; while Mary was the first wife of William, ninth 
 Baron Willoughby de Eresby, who died 1525; but neither had 
 any issue. 
 
 In Sir William Hussey's eldest son John, afterwards Sir John 
 Hussey, Knt, and Baron Hussey of Sleaford, the family attained 
 its greatest height and experienced its most disastrous fall. At 
 his father's death he was 30 years of age ; like him, he was a 
 member of Gray's Inn, and he had already been in arms for the 
 King, Henry VII., at the Battle of Stoke, near Newark-on-Trent, 
 fought 6 June, 1487, against John, Earl of Lincoln, and the 
 adherents of Lambert Simnel. In 1494, as John Hussey, of 
 Sleaford, he served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and was 
 dubbed Knight by Henry VII. at the Battle of Blackheath, 
 22 June, 1497, when he assumed as his crest a Hind at gaze, Arg. 
 He rose in favour with this King, becoming Controller of his 
 Household, and was in attendance on him and his Queen, 
 Elizabeth, at Calais, 22 May, 1500. He was one of the retinue 
 who attended Queen Margaret into Scotland on her marriage, 
 8 August, 1503. According to his own deposition, taken with 
 those of many others in 1529, when he was 63 years of age, as 
 to the circumstances of the marriage of Prince Arthur and 
 
 * Chancery Inq. p.m., 31 Eliz., part i., No. 16. 
 t Hist, of Ormsby, by Rev. W. O. Massingberd. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Katharine of Aragon, he himself was present at their marriage, 
 and was at the Court at Richmond when Henry VII. died in 
 1509, and was present at his burial at Westminster. On the 
 accession of Henry VIII. Sir John Hussey shared for a while in 
 the odium which attached to the late King's Councillors; but 
 more fortunate than Empson and Dudley, he received the King's 
 pardon, 22 May, 1509, and soon rose as high in favour with the 
 young King as with his father. He was at once (before 15 July, 
 1509) made Knight of the Body to the King, and in the following 
 year Master of the King's Wards with a fee of ^100, and received 
 numerous grants of manors and stewardships in Lincolnshire and 
 Huntingdonshire. He was Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum 
 for Lincolnshire, and his name appears on all Commissions of 
 the Peace for the three parts of the County, and on all Com- 
 missions of Sewers during these years for Kesteven and Holland, 
 the district being described as extending "from Dodyngton 
 Pygott to Tydd Gott." We have mentioned his admission to a 
 religious Confraternity in Lincoln Cathedral in 1492; in 1507 he 
 was Alderman of Corpus Christi Guild in Boston ; and he and his 
 second wife, Lady Anne Hussey, were admitted members of St. Mary's 
 Guild in the same town in 15 16, and gave lands to it in Leverton 
 and Leeke in 1522. In 1513 he accompanied the King in his 
 invasion of France, landing at Calais 13 June, and passing out of 
 it with the Rear Ward on June 30, at the head of 340 men. In 
 1 5 14, October 9, he was amongst the lords and gentlemen of 
 England present at the marriage of the Princess Mary, the King's 
 sister, to Louis XII., having accompanied her for that purpose to 
 France. In 1520, Sir John Hussey was one of the Knights 
 appointed to attend the King at his reception of Charles V. at 
 Canterbury, as well as at his meeting with Francis I. at the Field 
 of the Cloth of Gold, when he and the other knights in attendance 
 had permission to bring each one chaplain, eleven servants, and 
 eight horses. Cardinal Wolsey, who nominated him as one of 
 the retinue who were, to accompany him to France in 152 1, writes 
 of him to the King as one of the King's " best knights." We 
 cannot say in what year Sir John Hussey became Knight of the 
 Shire for Lincolnshire, as the Parliamentary Returns for these 
 years have not been preserved, but he continued to represent the 
 County in Parliament until 1529. An incident is recorded of his 
 behaviour there, showing his devotion, or as we should now call 
 it, his subserviency to the King : the question was of a grant to 
 enable the King to carry on the war with France, for which Sir 
 J. Hussey made a resolute stand " Let us gentlemen," he said, 
 £$° hind and upwards give to the King of our lands is. in 
 the pound to be paid in 3 years." When the question was put 
 ten or twelve Gentlemen said Yea ; and when the Nay was put, 
 
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 the Commons, i.e., the Members for the Boroughs, declined to 
 vote upon the question, leaving the gentlemen to tax themselves, 
 if they pleased j and so by. ten or twelve persons the gentlemen 
 were burthened with is. more than others ; for which grant Sir J. 
 Hussey had much ill-will.* This motion was carried 21 May, 
 
 1521, and Sir J. Hussey was appropriately named one of the 
 Commissioners to collect the subsidy in Lincolnshire, and on 
 1 April, 1524, Sir John Wyatt, as Treasurer, accounts for ^4254 
 collected in this county by Sir J. Hussey and others as a loan for 
 the war with France. By patent, dated 1 June, 13 Henry VIII.. 
 
 1522, Sir John Hussey was advanced to the dignity of Chief 
 Butler of England; and he took his seat as Baron Hussey, of 
 Sleaford, on 1 December, 1529, in the Parliament which met at 
 Westminster on 3 November of that year. Writs continued to be 
 directed to him from 5 January, 1533-4, 25 Henry VIII., to 
 8 June, 1536, 28 Henry VIII. Together with his neighbour, 
 Lord Burgh, he was one of the Peers who, on 13 July, 1530, 
 signed the address to Pope Clement VII., praying him to consent 
 to the King's desire in the matter of the divorce. He was present at 
 the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn on 29 May, 1533, and 
 subsequently bore the canopy over the Princess Elizabeth at her 
 christening. During these years he filled the office of Chamber- 
 lain to the Princess Mary ; his wife also, Lady Anne Hussey, was 
 in attendance on her while she was allowed the title of Princess 
 and a separate establishment, and they seem to have shared 
 Mary's feelings of aversion to the King's proceedings in matters 
 of religion. In June, 1536, Lady Hussey was committed to the 
 Tower on a charge of having given the title of Princess to the 
 Lady Mary after the King had deprived her of it. 
 
 This was Lord Hussey's second wife, Anne, daughter of George 
 Grey, Earl of Kent, K.G., and the Imperial Ambassador, Eustace 
 Chapuys (the Capucius of Shakespere's Henry VIII.) writing to 
 the Emperor Charles V. on 1 July, 1536, thus describes her 
 arrest : " One of the Princess Mary's attendants, the wife of her 
 Chamberlain, herself issued of a noble house, and one of the most 
 virtuous women in England, has actually been sent to the Tower, 
 where she is still in confinement." Though Sir Thomas Audeley, 
 the Lord Chancellor, writes to Cromwell that " her offence was 
 nought," she was kept in confinement until August, and was then 
 released on begging the King's forgiveness, and declaring that she 
 had offended only by inadvertence. But the foreign diplomatic 
 correspondence recently published shows that before leaving 
 London in September, 1536, Lord Hussey himself, and his friend 
 Lord Darcy, of Templehurst, had had interviews with Chapuys, in 
 
 * Brewer's Hist, of Henry VIII. , i., 477- 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 which they had represented to him their own discontent and the 
 general indignation of the nation at the King's proceedings in 
 Church affairs, and had urged the Emperor to despatch some 
 small force to England, assuring him that it would be the signal 
 for a general rising of the people, nobility, and clergy. " ' The 
 world will never mend until we fight for it,' Lord Hussey had 
 been heard to say, writhing under the rule of Cromwell, whom 
 they looked upon as a low-born upstart." * Scarcely could Lord 
 Hussey have reached Lincolnshire when, on i October, 1536, the 
 popular outbreak broke out at Louth and Caistor, 35 miles from 
 his house at Sleaford, as he pleads in his defence in a letter to the 
 Council. It was a spontaneous up-rising of the Commons, as they 
 styled themselves, that is, of the common people who were the 
 chief sufferers by the suppression of the religious houses, and were 
 further exasperated by reports of other changes and charges about 
 to be made to their detriment ; they forced such of the country 
 gentlemen as they could lay hold of to become their nominal 
 leaders. However much Lord Hussey sympathized with their 
 grievances and shared their sentiments, f he must have seen that 
 such a movement, begun without leaders or preparation, with no 
 help from abroad nor concert with other parts of the kingdom, was 
 doomed to failure. He temporized therefore, writing to Robert 
 Sutton, Mayor of Lincoln, and Vincent Grantham to see the City 
 surely kept, but remaining himself in his house at Sleaford 
 without taking any such active measures against the rebels as 
 his position in the county required. He protested that though 
 his own tenants and the men of Sleaford declared that they 
 would live and die with him, yet he could not trust them to fight 
 with the rebels. At length, when on Saturday morning, October 7, 
 the rebels sent a party of 500 men under Sir Christopher Ascue to 
 Sleaford, to fetch him to Lincoln, it was found that he had left 
 his house, disguised in a priest's gown and cope, and had betaken 
 himself to Sir John Markham's, at Colwick, in order to join the 
 Earl of Shrewsbury, who had advanced as far as Nottingham with 
 
 * Green's Short History, v. ii., 171. 
 
 t The Rev. A. R. Maddison, in a Paper on the "Lincolnshire Gentry 
 during the 16th Century," calls attention to the connection that existed between 
 the country gentry and the religious houses owing to the custom of neighbouring 
 noblemen and gentlemen acting as Stewards to administer the monastic estates, 
 and receiving a stated fee. Lord Hussey himself held no less than 20 of such 
 Stewardships, the fees of which amounted to upwards of £40, His younger 
 brother, Sir Robert Hussey, held five, the fees amounting to £7 13s. 
 
 Altogether, Mr. Maddison adds, "the Hussey family had a considerable 
 interest in monastic property. How far this may have influenced Lord Hussey 
 in the line he took in the rising it is not possible to say." Arckit. Soc. Vol.. 
 1894, p. 205-6. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 77 
 
 his forces to put down the insurrection. Lady Hussey remained 
 at home, and that night and the next day, Sunday, whether from 
 favour or fear — for they threatened to fire her house — she supplied 
 victuals (beer, bread, and salt fish) to the rebels who passed the 
 night at the Bishop's Castle at Sleaford, which they sacked. 
 Before the end of the week the Lincolnshire rising had collapsed ; 
 and on October 18th, the Earl of Shrewsbury, then at Newark, 
 under express orders from the King sent Lord Hussey and two 
 others in strict custody to London. In his accompanying letter 
 he states that nothing had appeared in his conduct since he joined 
 him to show that he was not the King's true subject, and that he 
 had brought for the King's service 200 men well horsed and 
 harnessed, whom Shrewsbury had committed to Sir William Hussey 
 his son. Arrived in London, Lord Hussey was committed to the 
 Tower, where the charge for his maintenance and that of Lord 
 Darcy was 20s. a week, that of the other Lincolnshire prisoners 
 being but \od. Meanwhile the Yorkshire Pilgrimage of Grace had 
 been overthrown, and those who had taken part in the Lincolnshire 
 Rising condemned and executed in various Lincolnshire towns ; 
 and on 15 May, 1537, after a True Bill had been found against 
 hinn by a Lincolnshire Grand Jury, of which Sir Robert Tyrwhit 
 was the foreman, Lord Hussey was brought to trial for High 
 Treason at Westminster, before a Court of Peers. This consisted 
 of the Marquis of Exeter, acting as High Steward for the occasion, 
 and twenty other Peers, among whom was Lord Burgh, Hussey's 
 neighbour in Lincolnshire, and the then owner of Doddington, the 
 Rector of which had possibly been implicated in the rebellion. 
 Lord Hussey pleaded not guilty, but guilty was the unanimous 
 verdict of the Peers, which was followed by the usual judgment in 
 cases of High Treason. At the same time Lord Hussey's great 
 friend and ally, Lord Darcy, was also condemned for conduct in 
 Yorkshire similar to his own. Some time in June, Lord Hussey 
 addressed from the Tower a dignified letter to the King, in which 
 he requests of his charity: (1) That the King will discharge his 
 sureties for the payment of certain sums still due, as he never 
 offended his Grace in will, thought, or deed, "by the death that I 
 shall die." (2) " I have paid his Grace the sum of ^3000 as will 
 appear by my book signed by the Treasurer of the Chamber, for 
 the which sum his Grace gave me his pardon ready to be showed. 
 Notwithstanding my pardon, my Lord Cardinall compelled me to 
 pay it ; at that time I moved his Grace, and his Highness promised 
 me that I should have remedy. Now in the honour of Christ's 
 Passion have pity on my sinful soul, and forgive all my defaults 
 and negligences but treasons, and for that I will ask no pardon, 
 for as I be saved I never offended his Grace in treason." (3) That 
 the King will pay his debts, of which he gives a catalogue : — 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 " Item, I beseech his Grace to be good unto a daughter of mine, 
 which is called Dorothy Huse, which was handfasted and 
 bytrawthid to one Thomas Wymbusshe by their own accords and 
 agreements before sufficient record ; which Thos. Wymbushe was 
 ward unto his Grace, and I bought him of his Highness, beseeching 
 his Grace that the said marriage may take effect for the discharging 
 of their consciences." " Your humell servant, John Huse." * 
 This last request it seems was not granted, for Dorothy Hussey 
 was subsequently married to Edward Docwra. The King, indeed, 
 who had been thoroughly frightened by the outbreak, which 
 provoked him to call Lincolnshire the " most brute and beastly 
 shire of the realm," was in no mood for mercy. On June 28, 
 Lord Hussey, Sir Robert Constable, and Robert Aske were 
 delivered out of the Tower to Sir Thomas Wentworth, Captain of 
 Carlisle, who, with an escort of 50 horsemen, conducted them 
 northward, Hussey to be executed at Lincoln, Constable to be 
 hanged at Hull, and Aske at York. The King writes on the 
 occasion to the Duke of Suffolk at Lincoln : — " Furthermore we 
 send unto you the late Lord Hussey whom you shall cause to be 
 beheaded at our city of Lincoln at such time soon after his arrival 
 as you shall appoint, taking order that you, with a suitable number 
 of gentlemen, shall be at his execution, which we desire may be 
 done notably with a declaration that of our clemency we have 
 pardoned all the rest of his judgment."* The execution took 
 place before July 8th, 1537, when Cromwell writes to Sir Thos. 
 Wyatt : — " The traitors have been executed, Lord Darcy at Tower 
 Hill, and Lord Hussey at Lincoln, Aske hanged upon the dungeon 
 at York Castle, Sir Robt. Constable hanged at Hull, and the rest 
 at Thyfbourne ; so that all the cankered hearts are weeded away." * 
 A local tradition says that for some time after the insurrection 
 Lord Hussey lay hid in a house of his, the so-called John of 
 Gaunt's Stables, at Lincoln ; but that his hiding-place was betrayed 
 by his servant, Robert Carre, when he was dragged violently out 
 of the window and beheaded in the Castle Yard, Robert Carre 
 being rewarded by a grant of his house and estate at Old Sleaford. 
 The State Papers, however, show that the only grain of truth in 
 this tradition is that it was the evidence of Robert Carre, who 
 was not a servant, but a neighbour of his, and a rich merchant of 
 Sleaford, that was most damaging to Lord Hussey. It is marked 
 with most evident animosity against him. Cromwell has noted 
 the deposition with the ominous words, — " My lord Hussey, this 
 
 * These Letters, and most of the other events recorded of Lord Hussey 's 
 life and of the Lincolnshire Rising, will be found in the Calendar of State 
 Papers, 1509-1537 ; his will and the list of his debts have been printed in full 
 by Mr. W. j. Hardy in Notes and Queries, 6th ser., iv., 529. 
 
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 79 
 
 is perused deliberately " ; and it is plain that it must have gone 
 far to ensure his condemnation. Carre subsequently became 
 owner of Old Sleaford, but it was by purchase from Lord Clinton 
 to whom it had been granted. 
 
 At his father's death, in 1496, Lord Hussey was 30, and in 
 1529 he deposes that he was 63 years of age, so that he must 
 have been 71 at the time of his execution in 1537. The portrait 
 on panel at Doddington Hall which is said to represent him, 
 pictures him as an old man with white hair and short pointed 
 white beard, dressed in a blue coat with buff sword-belt across 
 his shoulder, evidently not in court dress, nor as a peer of the 
 realm, but as he may have appeared when, in Robert Carre's 
 words, he rode forth to sessions or assize, or came out to parley 
 with the men of Sleaford at the gate of his Manor Place. A 
 similar portrait of him, but on canvas, and inscribed " The Right 
 Hon. Lord Hussey," is preserved at St. George's Hospital, in 
 London. His name is included in a List of English Martyrs in 
 Tudor times, recently sent to Rome with a view to their canon- 
 isation. Banks, in his Baronage, v. 11, p. 289, tells the following 
 story : — " Some few years since, on digging in a place which had 
 formerly been a garden, in the City of Lincoln, the stone coffin 
 of this John, Lord Hussey, was discovered with a stone near it in 
 an old wall, which had on it an inscription purporting whose body 
 lay there interred. But as the workmen were employed to fill up 
 a well, they cast the coffin therein, along with other rubbish and 
 materials to complete the job." This, however, as the late Mr. 
 Brooke, in his Lincoln Tracts and Miscellanies remarks, is " a 
 discovery which, if it ever occurred, seems unknown on the spot." 
 
 A will had been prepared for the unfortunate Lord Hussey, 
 dated 22 October, 1535, on the occasion of some sickness. This 
 was no doubt seized with his other papers and has been preserved 
 in the Record Office ; and though rendered abortive by his 
 attainder, and indeed never signed by him, it is of interest to us 
 from the mention which it makes of his family and the disposal 
 of his property which he contemplated. He desires that his 
 body may be buried in the Church of Sempringham, as those of 
 his father and mother had been, should he die within seven miles 
 of it, and that not more than 100 marks should be spent on his 
 burial and funeral expenses. After providing for the jointure 
 and dower of his " wellbilovid wif, the Lady Anne Huse," he 
 settles his estates in succession on his sons, Sir William Hussey, 
 Thomas Hussey, and Gilbert Hussey, and their heirs male, and 
 the heirs male of his son, Sir Giles Hussey ; and for default of 
 such on the heirs male of his brother, Sir William Hussey, and 
 on his brother, Sir Robert Hussey, and his heirs male : — Subject 
 to the payments of his debts, and of two sums of 500 marks each 
 
8o 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 towards the marriage of his daughters, Mary and Bridget Hussey. 
 He constituted his brother, Sir Robert Hussey, executor, until 
 his son and heir apparent, Sir William Hussey, should give security 
 for the payment of his debts and legacies. All these provisions 
 were frustrated by his attainder, by which his title also was 
 forfeited. His Manor House at Old Sleaford, which Leland, 
 writing about 1546, speaks of as "the Manor place lately almost 
 new builded of stone and timbre by the Lorde Hussey," and as 
 one of the "ornamentes" of Sleaford, was confiscated to the 
 King's use, together with his extensive estates situated in more 
 than thirty parishes of Lincolnshire, Rutland, Huntingdonshire, 
 and Nottinghamshire, and valued at ^5,000 a year. His estate 
 at Boston was granted shortly afterwards to the Corporation, and 
 of his residence there one brick tower, known as the Hussey 
 Tower, alone remains. 
 
 He had been twice married,* first to Margaret, daughter and 
 heiress of Sir Simon Blount, Knt., of Mangotsfield, co. Gloucester, 
 widow of Sir John Barr, of Barr's Court ; she was but two years old 
 at her father's death in 1477, and she was dead before 1515, when 
 her husband and her son, Sir William Hussey, aliened the Manors 
 of Bitton and Mangotsfield, which were her inheritance, Before 
 1 5 16, Lord Hussey had married his second wife,* the Lady Anne, 
 daughter of George Grey, Earl of Kent, K.G. She survived him 
 until the end of 1545 or beginning of 1546. In her will, made 
 at Ufford, co. Northants., 1 March, 1545, proved 11 February, 1546, 
 {Somerset House, Allen, 4) she showed her continued attachment 
 to the older forms of religious worship by bequeathing vestments 
 to the Churches of Ufford and Bainton ; to the Church of Ufford 
 a canopy, in honour of God, of black satin and crimson velvet, also 
 a vestment of yellow sarsnet, and a cross of green ; to Bainton 
 Church a vestment of white Baudekyn ; and she directed that her 
 body should be buried in what she still calls the Monastery of 
 Peterborough, though it had become a Cathedral in 1540. She 
 appoints " my Lord of Peterborough," the former Abbot, now 
 Bishop, one of her executors, together with her stepson Sir William 
 Hussey, and her "trusty servant Nicholas Fetherston," (mentioned 
 also in Lord Hussey's will), by whom she wills that her two 
 daughters should be ordered and ruled. A portrait of her, a 
 companion picture to that of Lord Hussey, and also at Doddington, 
 represents her as an aged lady in black, evidently during the years 
 of her widowhood. 
 
 * Dugdale, on the authority of Glover's Collections, states that Lady Anne 
 Grey was Lord Hussey's first wife, and Margaret Blount the second ; but their 
 wills and the other facts mentioned above clearly show that Lady Anne Grey 
 was his second wife. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 81 
 
 Of their children, Sir Giles Hussey, of Caythorpe, was knighted 
 by the Earl of Surrey, at the sacking of Morlaix, in 1522, and was 
 apparently dead at the date of his father's will, in 1535. He 
 married Jane, fourth daughter of Thomas Pigot,* Esq., coheiress of 
 him and of her uncle, Sir Ranulph Pigot, of Clotheram, co. York ; 
 she married second, Thomas Falkingham, ofNorthall, near Leeds, 
 Esq.. and was buried in St. Peter's, Leeds, 29 October, 1597, 
 having by Sir Giles Hussey a son, Thomas Hussey, who married 
 Bridget, daughter of Richard Bowes, Esq., of Aske, and sister of 
 Sir George and Sir Robert Bowes, Knts. ; he was steward to the 
 Earl of Northumberland, and was implicated in the Rising of the 
 Northern Earls, temp. Eliz., for which he was put on his trial at 
 the Durham Assizes of 1570. Of two other sons of Lord Hussey, 
 Thomas and Gilbert, we can say no more than that they were 
 mentioned in their father's will of 1535. The daughter Bridget, 
 for whose marriage Lord Hussey had provided 500 marks, married 
 November, 1546, Sir Richard Morrison, of Cashiobury, Knt, and 
 afterwards in succession Henry Manners, second Earl of Rutland, 
 who died 1563, and Francis Russell, second Earl of Bedford, who 
 died 1585, and as "the old Countess of Bedford," she represented 
 Quieen Elizabeth as chief mourner at the funeral of the Queen of 
 Scots, at Peterborough, on 1 August, 1588. She died 1600, aged 
 75, and on the monument of her son, Sir Charles Morrison, in 
 Watford Church, she is commemorated as " illustrem Heroinam 
 Dominam Brigidiam, Johannis Baronis Hussey filiam, Rutlandiae 
 et deinde Bedfordise dotali jure Comitissam." Another daughter, 
 Elizabeth Hussey, was the wife, first, of Walter, Lord Hungerford, 
 of Heytesbury ; and second, of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Knt, 
 who died 1569; she died 23 January, 1571, and was buried 
 at Weston Underwood, co. Bucks., where there still remains a 
 brass with her effigy, and her five daughters represented at her 
 feet.f A third daughter, Anne, who had been contracted to her 
 cousin John, son of Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Wymondham, in 
 1522, when he was but one year old, married as his second wife, 
 Sir Humphrey Browne, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 
 Mary Hussey, for whose dowry also her father bequeathed 500 
 marks, became the wife of Humphrey Dimock, of Warwick, Esq. ; 
 while Dorothy, who had been betrothed to Thomas Wymbish, 
 married Edward Dockwra, Esq. 
 
 *Gen. Plantagenet Harrison, in his Hist, of Yorkshire, i. 518, traces the 
 Pi gots of Yorkshire, with those of Doddington and of Cambridgeshire, to a 
 common ancestor in the Picot who held lands in Richmondshire and at Mordun, 
 co. Camb., temp. Domesday. 
 
 t Lipscomb's Hist, of Bucks, iv., 400, 405-6. 
 F 
 
82 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Lord Hussey's eldest son and heir apparent was Sir William 
 Hussey, Knt. He had served with his father in the Wars in 
 France, 3 Hen. VIII., 1512, and was knighted by the King under 
 his banner displayed after Mass in the great Church of Tournai, 
 on 25 September, 15 13, the day after its capture by the English. 
 On this occasion we are told that the crest he used was, A Hind 
 at lodge, Arg. collared, Or.* His name frequently appears on 
 Commissions of the Peace, or of Sewers, in Lincolnshire ; and he 
 is conjoined with his father in a Grant from the Bishop of Lincoln, 
 
 2 J ul Y> i5 l6 > of the office of Seneschal of Sleaford Castle. He 
 represented Grantham in the Parliament of 1529, and served as 
 High Sheriff of the county in 1531. All the great inheritance, 
 however, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere, to which he was heir, 
 was forfeited by his father's attainder, except such as had been 
 settled on him at his marriage. He is henceforth described as 
 of Beauvate, co. Notts., the Carthusian Priory there with most of 
 its estates, valued at the Dissolution at ^"196, having been granted 
 to him and his heirs male, 8 July, 1541, though by a later grant, 
 22 November, 1550, 4 Edw. VI., it was transferred to his half- 
 sister Bridget, and her then husband, Sir Richard Morrison, and 
 their heirs. By Act of Parliament, 4 November, 3 Edw. VI., 1 549, 
 Sir William Hussey was restored in blood, but not to the title or 
 estates. Inquisitions held after his death, at Southwell, 4 September, 
 and at Lincoln Castle, 29 October, 1556, find that he died 
 19 January, 1556, without male issue, seised, besides lands in 
 Notts., of the Manors of Leeke, Leverton, Skirbeck, and Holywell, 
 in Lincolnshire, of Dagnams and Cockerells in Essex, and of 
 Stretton in Rutland. By his wife, Ursula, daughter and coheir of 
 Sir Robert Lovell, Knt., he left two daughters his coheirs,— 1, Nele, 
 aged at the date of the last-named Inquisition 41, the first wife of 
 Richard Disney, of Norton Disney, Esq., who died 30 December, 
 1577 ; and 2, Anne, aged 40, wife of Francis Columbell, of Darley, 
 co. Derby, Esq , who was living his widow in 1568, and who died 
 without issue. The elder, Nele, is depicted in half-length, together 
 with her husband, Richard Disney, and his second wife, Jane 
 Ayscough, and her own 12 children on the well-known brass in 
 Norton Disney Church, t But for Lord Hussey's attainder she 
 
 * Visitation of Lines., 1634. 
 t A scroll describes her as Nele, daughter of Sir William Hussey, Knt., 
 and over her head is a shield of her Arms, or rather her father's, with those of 
 Lovell,— Arg. a Chevron, Az. between 3 Squirrels sejant, Gules,— on an 
 escutcheon of pretence. But it is difficult to account for the quarterings 
 assigned to the Hussey family : they are as follows ; — 1. Or, a Cross, Vert. 
 Hussey. 2. Az. 5 Fusils in fess Arg., each charged with an Escallop, Gules. 
 Plompton. 3. Arg. a Bend wavy, cottised, Sable. Neffeile or Nessfteld. 
 4. Barry of 6, Erm. and Gules. Hussey. 5. Per pale, Az. and Gules, on 
 
 3 Chevrons, Arg. as many couped, and counter-changed of the field. Say. 
 6. Arg. a Chevron between 3 Garbs. Of these, 2 and 5, Say and Plompton 
 quarterly, were rightly impaled by Sir Robert Hussey on his tomb at Blankney. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 83 
 
 and her descendants would have been heirs to the Barony of 
 Hussey of Sleaford. One of them, Molyneux Disney, the then 
 representative of the family, addressed a petition to the King and 
 Parliament, 21 March, 1680, claiming the title on the ground that 
 the restoration in blood included the right of inheritance to the 
 honours. But owing probably to the fact that his only son, William 
 Disney, was compromised in the Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, 
 for which he was executed 29 June, 1685, his petition was no 
 further proceeded with. A statement of his claim was, however, 
 printed at Edinburgh as lately as 1836. 
 
 No account of the Hussey family would be complete without 
 some notice of the history and tragic end of John, Lord Hussey, 
 which might have been told at much greater length. But we are 
 here more nearly concerned with his younger brother, Sir Robert 
 Hussey, Knt, the third son of the Lord Chief Justice, who is 
 described as of Lin wood, in the parish of Blankney, and of Halton 
 Holgate, near Spilsby. Like his father and brother he was a 
 member of several religious fraternities. The original letters * are 
 still at Ford Castle, dated 14 December, 1507, of Robert, Prior of 
 Belvoir, and the convent thereof admitting Master Robert Husy, 
 Esquire, into their fraternity; and others dated 17 April, 15 12, by 
 which * Thomas, Chief Prior or Master of the Order of Sempring- 
 ham, admits Robert Husye, Esquire, and Anne, his consort, to all 
 the benefits of that Order j and yet others,* dated in the General 
 Chapter at Chartreuse, 30 April, 1532, by which Friar William, 
 Prior of the Greater Chartreuse, admits Master Robert Huse of 
 the realm of England to participate in all the privileges of the 
 Order, during life and after death. In 15 16, together with his 
 brother, Sir John Hussey and his wife, he was admitted a Member 
 of the Corpus Christi Guild at Boston. He was Commissioner of 
 Sewers for the Parts of Kesteven in 1525, and from that year 
 onwards his name appears regularly on the Commission of the 
 Peace. In 1535 he was one of the Commissioners for taking in 
 the King's behalf the value of the tenths of spiritual benefices in 
 the county and city of Lincoln, the result of whose labours we 
 have in the return known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus ; as such 
 Commissioner he received in that year the revenues of the Ballivate 
 of Eagle, confiscated from the Knights of St. John. As Sir Robert 
 Hussey, of Halton, Knight, he held the office of High Sheriff of 
 Lincolnshire in 1543, 34 Hen. VIII., and died on 28 May, 1546. 
 He was buried at Blankney, and part of his epitaph there has been 
 preserved as follows : — " Hie jacet Robertus Husse, nuper de . . 
 tertius filius Will 1 Husse, Mil. qui duxit in uxorem Annam, unam 
 Hasredum . . Thome Saye, de Lyston, Mil. que quidem . . 
 obiit 28 0 die Maii A 0 Dn\ M°DX . . ." t 
 
 * Historical MS S. Commission, nth Report, part vii., p. 66. 
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Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 85 
 
 He also was twice married ; his first wife being Anne, daughter 
 and coheir of Sir Thomas Say, Knt., of Lyston Hall, co. Essex, 
 
 who was aged 20 in 1509, and who died 2 September, ; by 
 
 her he had a son and heir Thomas, and five daughters, who were 
 eventually coheirs to their brother. These were : — 1, Margaret, 
 who died 1577, having married first, Henry, son of Robert Sutton, 
 Esq., of Wellingore, who died 6 January, 1537; and second, 
 as his second wife, William Thorold, Esq., of Marston, by whom 
 she had issue ; he died 20 November, 1569, as stated on his tomb, 
 still remaining in Marston Church, on which is a shield bearing 
 the Thorold arms, impaling, Quarterly, x and 2 the two coats of 
 Hussey, 3 Say, 4 Nesfield. 2, Anne, who married first, Matthew 
 Thimelby, of Polam, Esq.,* who died 1550 ; and second, 1 March, 
 1554, Sir Robert Savile, of Howley, co. York ; she died 1 December, 
 1562, having been by her first marriage mother of, amongst others, 
 Stephen Thimelby, Recorder of Lincoln 1572-86, and M.P. for 
 the city in 1585, who rented in that year a part of Doddington 
 under Lord Burgh ; and by her second marriage of John Savile, 
 afterwards Lord Savile, of Pontefract, owner of Doddington from 
 1586 to 1593. 3, Mary, who married John Monson, of South 
 Carlton, Esq , who died 1552, s.p.; she re-married Simon Hall, 
 and died in 1573. 4, Dorothy, the wife first, of Ralph, son of 
 William Quadring, of Irby; and second, of John Massingberd, 
 Esq., who died 1580. And 5, Elizabeth, who married Robert 
 Horsman, Esq., but died about 15 January, 1553, leaving a son, 
 Thomas Horsman, aged 14 in 1559, as her heir. All these sisters 
 are described as aged 30 years and upwards at the time of their 
 brother's death in 1559. 
 
 Sir Robert Hussey married, secondly, Jane Stydolfe, of a 
 Surrey family, by whom also he had several children, viz. : — 
 1, Robert, who died s.p. ; 2, Charles, the elder, of Linwood, after- 
 wards Sir Charles Hussey, of Honington, Knt. ; 3, Charles, the 
 younger, who was of Belton, through his marriage to Elizabeth, 
 widow of John Porter, of Belton, but who died s.p. before 
 8 February, 1587, when his will proved ; 4, William ; 5, Nicholas ; 
 6, John ; besides 3 daughters, Elizabeth, Katharine, and Alvered, 
 of whom we can only say that they were living and unmarried in 
 1545. He died 28 May, 1546, leaving Thomas, his eldest son by 
 his first wife, his heir, as is found by an Inquisition taken at 
 Sleaford, 7 November, 2 Edw. VI. In his will dated 7 November, 
 
 * Matthew Thymylby, of Polam, Esq., died seised of the Manor of Tetford 
 in 1550, (Inq, p.m., 4 Edw. VI.) leaving a son Thomas as heir, but his estates 
 to trustees to the use of his wife Anne for life, of Richard his son and his issue, 
 then of Denis Thymylby for life, then of Stephen Thymylby for life, then of 
 Katherine Thymylby for life. Matthew Thymylby himself was son and heir 
 of Robert Thymylby, but succeeded his uncle, Thomas Thymylby, Clerk, in 
 the possession of the Manors of Polam, Tetford, &c. 
 
86 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 1545, proved 14 August, 1546 {Somerset House, Allen. 16), in 
 which he styles himself Sir Robert Hussey, of Lynwood, co. Line, 
 Knt, he recites his possession of Liston Hall, co. Essex, and many 
 other Manors in the counties of Essex, Cornwall, Suffolk, Somerset, 
 Bark (sic), and Devon, apparently the inheritance of his first wife, 
 Anne Say, of Liston, which descended to Thomas Hussey, his 
 only son by that marriage : — Whereas his Lincolnshire Manors 
 and lands of Great Hale, Little Hale, Heckington, Old Sleaford, 
 Bassingham, Haddington, Roxton, Cranwell, Halton, and Little 
 Steeping, he bequeathed to Dame Jane Hussey, his second wife, 
 for her life, with remainder to her own sons in succession, except 
 the Manors of Halton and Little Steeping, which were to pass to 
 Thomas Hussey, his eldest son and heir. 
 
 Thomas Hussey was aged 37 when he thus succeeded his 
 father. His name is found as one of the Lincolnshire gentlemen 
 who in 1553-4, 1 and 2 Mary, paid a composition to avoid the 
 honour of knighthood, then obligatory on all gentlemen of £40 a 
 year. He was M.P. for Peterborough in 1556, and there are 
 several notices of him in the State Papers in conjunction with his 
 nephew, Richard Thimelby, whom he talked of making his heir. 
 He died without issue 31 May, 1559, and by an Inquisition taken 
 at Grantham 5 October of that year, 1 Eliz., he was found to have 
 been seized of the Manors of Halton, Little Steeping, Bassingham, 
 Great and Little Hale, of which Charles Hussey, his brother of the 
 half-blood, was devisee and heir in tail ; while his four surviving 
 sisters, with the son of one who had predeceased him, as already 
 stated, were his next heirs at law, and coheirs of their mother's 
 inheritance. 
 
 Charles Hussey, styled the elder, of Linwood (in the parish of 
 Blankney), to distinguish him from his brother of the same name, 
 Charles Hussey the younger, of Belton, thus became the head of 
 the family. He was the eldest surviving son of Sir Robert Hussey 
 by his second marriage, and his own marriage in 1582 to Helen 
 or Ellen, daughter of John Byrch, one of the Barons of the 
 Exchequer, is thus recorded in the Parish Register of St. Gregory- 
 by-St. Paul's, London: — " 1582. Cha 8 Hussey, Gent, and Hellen 
 Byrch marr d 6 July." In 1587 he inherited Honington, which 
 henceforth became the chief seat of the family. This was under 
 the will of his cousin, John Hussey,* who had been steward to 
 
 * In his lengthy will John Hussey, of Honington, speaks of the two Charles 
 Husseys and the other members of Sir Robert Hussey's family as his cousins, 
 but we cannot say who his father was, so as to connect him with the family 
 pedigree. Possibly he may have been the John Hussey, son of Gilbert Hussey, 
 a younger brother of the Chief Justice, who died s.p. ; but if so, it is strange 
 that among the many relatives to whom he leaves legacies in his will he should 
 make no mention of Jane, the wife of John Baude, of Somerby, and Anne, the 
 wife of Bernard Angevine, of Theddlethorpe, who, in this case, would have 
 been his sisters, or of their children. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 87 
 
 Bridget, daughter of Lord Hussey, and then Countess of Bedford, 
 " my good Ladie and M ris ," as he calls her in his will ; and in 1583 
 had bought the Manor of Honington of William Smith, its former 
 owner. (Feet of Fines, Easter, 1583.) By his will dated 4 August, 
 1583, proved 5 September, 1587, (Somerset House, Spencer, 55), 
 he left his Honington estate after the death or second marriage of 
 his wife, first to Charles Hussey, the younger, of Belton, who died 
 a few months before him, and then to Charles Hussey, the elder, 
 of Linwood, who succeeded to it, and their heirs : — all on the 
 condition of paying £20 a year to the poor of Honington and 
 Caythorpe, a dole which was paid in 1698 by Sir Thomas Hussey, 
 Bart., of Doddington Pigott, and which has continued to the 
 present day. His will is curious from the number of legacies he 
 leaves in kind, e.g., 40 sheep to one, 1 quie and 5 sheep to another, 
 1 yoke of oxen and 20 sheep to a third ; and from the precautions 
 he takes that his charity should be continued, entailing his estate 
 on condition of its payment, first on his wife, then on Charles 
 Hussey, the younger, and Charles Hussey the elder, and on 
 Gilbert Hussey, of Oundle, and their heirs ; in default of such 
 heirs, or on failure of payment, then with a further condition of 
 paying £20 a year to provide an able and sufficient preacher of 
 God's Word to preach 24 sermons yearly in the Parish Churches 
 of Honington and Caythorpe, 12 in each, he settles the estate 
 successively on Charles Moryson, Esq., son and heir to the 
 Countess of Bedford, on Stephen Thymilbie of the City of Lincoln, 
 on William Thorold, son and heir of Sir Anthony Thorold, and 
 his second son, John Thorold, on Daniel Disney, of Norton Disney, 
 and finally on the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. His will was 
 proved by his wife Elizabeth as executrix, the two other executors, 
 Stephen Thymilbie and Charles Hussey, junior, being dead. 
 John Hussey himself was buried, in accordance with his will, in 
 Honington Church, the first of many members of the family. A 
 small brass plate, inserted in a large stone slab in the chancel, 
 which originally bore the effigy of a priest, still records : — " Here 
 lyeth John Hussey, Esquier, and Eliz : his wife, sometyme Lord 
 of this manor, who in his life-tyme was a professor of the Ghospel, 
 a counsellor for the poore, a father of the fatherless, and faithful 
 and constant to his friends, who dyed the 22nd of August, Anno 
 Dom. 1587. Job xix. 23-27." His wife Elizabeth, who was also 
 buried at Honington, 31 March, 1597, by her former husband, 
 Thomas Trigge, of Stamford, was the mother of Mr. Francis Trigge, 
 Rector of Welbourn, who, together with her. gave ^3 65-. Sd. 
 yearly to the poor of Grantham, and who was also in 1598 the 
 donor to the Alderman and Prebendaries of Grantham of the 
 library, which is now kept over the south porch of Grantham 
 
88 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Church, each book chained to the shelf on which it stands.* 
 
 Charles Hussey subscribed £$o towards the defence of the 
 country against Spain, 1 May, 1588. In 1591, as Charles Hussey, 
 of Hunnington, he held the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. 
 He subsequently received the honour of knighthood. He died 
 29 January, 1609, and his burial as Sir Charles Hussey, Knt., is 
 recorded on the 30th January in the Parish Register of Honington. 
 By an Inquisition taken at Lincoln, 30 April, 1609, 7 James I., he 
 is found to have died seised of the Manors of Honington, Great 
 and Little Hale, Halton Holgate, and Little Steeping, and to have 
 left his son Edward, then aged 29^ years, his heir. By his will, 
 dated 20 January, 1608, proved 9 February, 1609, he left to his 
 eldest son, Sir Edward, his Manors of Great Hale, Little Hale, and 
 Heckington, with his lease of the Manor of Caythorpe, and the site 
 of the Priory of Thornholme ; to his second son, Charles, he 
 confirms a conveyance already made by Indenture, 5 July, 1606, 
 of the Manors of Halton Holgate and Little Steeping ; and to his 
 third son, Robert, he leaves an annuity of ^30 per annum, with a 
 sum of ^1,500 at the age of 21. 
 
 Of these two younger sons, the second, Charles became after- 
 wards Sir Charles Hussey of Halton Holgate, Knt., but was 
 residing at Dunholme when he signed the Heraldic Visitation of 
 1634. A marriage bond at Nottingham testifies to the marriage 
 at Ordsall, 15 Jan. 1612, of Chas. Hussey, of Grantham, Esq., and 
 Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Bevercotes, of 
 Ordsall, co. Notts. By her he had four daughters .— 1, Matilda, 
 who died 7 March, 1635, a ged 21, and was buried in Lincoln 
 Cathedralf ; 2, Anne; 3, Margaret; 4, Hellen, baptized at Haydor, 
 
 * He died 12 May, 1606, and is buried in the chancel of Welbourn Church. 
 His gift of the Grantham Library was commemorated on the wall there by 
 some Latin lines beginning, 
 
 • ' Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus, 
 Welburnise quondam concionator amans." 
 t Bishop Sanderson in his Survey of Lincoln Cathedral, 1641, describes her 
 monument as, "On a free-stone a portraiture of a lady in brass. An escroll 
 over her head, in which, "Non refert quanta sit vitse diuturnitas, sed qualis 
 sit administratio." At her feet a plate, whereon — 
 
 "Matildse Hussey, Caroli Hussey equitis aurati et Margarets ejus 
 consortis, unius e Samuelis Bevercotes armigeri defuncti cohseredibus, filise 
 natu maximse, vijo Martii, Anno Domini MDCXXXV., et setatis suae 21 vita 
 functse . . hoc monumentum qualecunq : pater amantissmus moerens posuit. 
 " Hie generosa latent formosa? virginis ossa, 
 
 Matildas merito nomine req : pise, 
 Quaeque ex illustri Hussseorum stemmate nata, 
 
 Natarum Caroli maxima jure fuit, 
 Quod genus & forma insignis, Matilda, nequirent, 
 
 Nec medici pietas, ne moriare dedit. 
 Hinc tibi perpetuo in terris fama ampla manebit ; 
 Hinc simul in ccelis vita perennis erit." 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 89 
 
 6 Jan.. 1619. Like his brother. Sir Edward, Sir Charles was an 
 active Royalist, and a Commissioner of Array for the King, to 
 whose aid he undertook to contribute two horses in July, 1642. 
 Later he was one of the defenders of Newark for the King ; he 
 died there probably of the pestilence which destroyed more than 
 the war, and was buried 14 Dec, 1645. His two surviving 
 daughters, Anne and Hellen, who. were then living with their 
 aunt, Elizabeth, Lady Hussey, at Honington, had to compound 
 for their father's delinquency by a fine of ;£no, June 18. 1646. 
 The third son, Robert, died unmarried, and was buried at 
 Honington, 23 July, 1615. An abstract of his will, dated 7 June, 
 proved at Lincoln, 18 Sept., 16 15, has been printed by Rev. 
 A. R. Maddison in his Lincolnshire Wills, Second Series, p. 105. 
 His personalty was ^i,6oo, of which ^1,400 was still due to 
 him under a bond from his brother Sir Edward ; to him he gives 
 ^400 ; to his two sisters-in-law, the wives of Sir Edward and of 
 Charles Hussey, £20 apiece ; towards the buying of a "Chussen " 
 clotth for Honington Church 10s, and the rest to his brother 
 Charles, whom he makes executor. 
 
 The eldest son, Sir Edward Hussey, aged 29 J in 1609, had 
 been admitted a member of Gray's Inn, 6 Nov., 1607, and was 
 already a Knight at the time of his father's death, having received 
 that honour at Whitehall, 24 March, 1608. On 29 June, 1611, 
 9 James I., he was advanced to the dignity of Baronet. A short 
 time previously he had married Elizabeth, daughter of George 
 Anton, Esq., Recorder and M.P. for Lincoln, by Jane, daughter of 
 Thomas Tailor, the elder, the purchaser of Doddington in 1593, 
 and the builder of the present Hall. She was thus niece and heir- 
 apparent to his son, Thomas Tailor, the younger, as she is 
 described in the Lincolnshire Visitation of 1634, signed by Sir 
 Edward Hussey himself. She was baptized in St. Martin's 
 Church, 15 Jan., 1591, her parents having been married there, 
 8 Jan., 1590, and her mother dying in child-birth of her second 
 child in March, 1592 ; and it was her marriage about 1609 which 
 eventually brought Doddington into the possession of the Hussey 
 family. Among the few old documents remaining at the Hall are 
 certain connected with Sir Edward Hussey's creation as a baronet, 
 one being the original Bond, dated 14 June, 161 1, and cancelled 
 by being cut into shreds, by which he bound himself to furnish 
 ;£a,o95 for the maintenance of thirty foot-soldiers for three years, 
 at the rate of 8d. a day, for the King's service in Ireland, and 
 especially for the defence of the Province of Ulster. This sum was 
 
 Her brass, with its effigy and description, could not have been more than 
 nine years old when with the rest it was torn up by the Parliamentary troops 
 after the storming of Lincoln in 1644, 
 
90 
 
 Histoty of Doddington. 
 
 payable by three yearly instalments, the receipt for the last of 
 which runs as follows : — 
 
 " In Pelle recept' in Termino Pasche a 0 xi° R. Jacobi, Sabb* 
 xv° Maii. 
 
 " Lincoln. D. Edwardo Hussey Mil. et Baronett. tres- 
 centas sexagint' quinque libras in plen' solucione M iiij xx xv u 
 per ipsum dno Regi Jacobo dat' et concess' ad manutend' triginta 
 viros in cohortibus suis pedestribus in regno suo Hibernie pro 
 defensione ejusdem, et p'cipue p securitate Plantacionis Provincie 
 Ul'tonie ibm p spatium trium annorum secundum ratam viij^. p 
 quolibet hujusmodi pedite per diem durante termino predicto 
 solubil' per recognitionem suam quinto die Junii prox' future 
 ccclxv 1 sol. Edw. Wardonr." 
 
 With these are certain letters and petitions to the King and 
 Council as to the privileges and precedency of the newly-created 
 baronets.* 
 
 Sir Edward was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1618, 
 16 Jac. I., and again in 1637, 12 Car. I., and he served as Knight 
 of the Shire in the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster, 
 13 April, 1640. When the Civil War broke out between the 
 King and Parliament he exerted himself zealously on the royalist 
 side, being one of -the King's Commissioners of Array, and as was 
 afterwards charged against him, "very forward and active in putting 
 his Commission into execution, and in contributing money and 
 horses to the King's forces." In 1642, when the Loyal Gentry of 
 Lincolnshire resolved to provide 168 horses for the King's service, 
 Sir Edward Hussey undertook to furnish six, and his brother, 
 Sir Charles Hussey, two, no other gentleman promising more than 
 six, except Sir John Monson, who undertook to supply twelve. 
 So obnoxious had Sir Edward made himself to the opposite party 
 that in the Propositions for the Treaty of Uxbridge, Jan.— Feb., 
 1644, it was expressly stipulated on the part of Parliament that 
 he, among others, should be removed from the King's Council, 
 and restrained from coming to Court, or holding any office or 
 employment without the advice and consent of both Houses of 
 Parliaments When Newark became the chief stronghold for the 
 King in these parts, Sir Edward Hussey, with his brother, Sir 
 Charles, and other loyalist gentry of Lincolnshire and Nottingham- 
 shire betook themselves there to aid in its defence. He was in 
 Newark at the time of its relief by Prince Rupert after his defeat 
 of Sir John Meldrum at Beacon Hill, 21 March, 1644; and as 
 has been said, Sir Charles Hussey died there. Newark was 
 finally surrendered by the King's command 9 May, 1646; but a 
 short time previously we find Sir Edward Hussey at Homngton 
 
 * These papers have been printed in Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, Jan., 1895. 
 t Rush worth's Hist. Collections, v. 11., p. 11 1., 851. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 91 
 
 endeavouring to make his peace with the victors. The Parliament 
 on its part was in sore straits for money, and was anxious to raise 
 as much as possible for its own needs out of the estates of the 
 delinquent Royalists. Committees were sitting for the Advance 
 of Money, and for Compounding with the Royalists for their 
 sequestrated estates. On 29 November, 1645, Sir Edward writes 
 to the latter that having fallen ill at Honington on his way to the 
 Committee, and being very aged and infirm, he begs that his wife 
 may be allowed to compound for him. On 16 December he 
 pleads that he has the Speaker's pass to come into the Parliament's 
 quarters ; his delinquency was that he lived in Newark, but he was 
 never in arms ; he had taken the National Covenant and Oath ; 
 and his estate was but for life, being wholly settled before the 
 Wars upon his children. Meanwhile the Committee for the 
 Advance of Money had assessed him on 10 December, 1645, at 
 ^3,000, with respect to which the various resolutions of the 
 Committee are thus summarised. 
 
 1646, January 5. Respited on giving security to abide the 
 Committee's orders as to his when the sequestration is taken 
 off his estate. 
 
 1646, May 22. To be brought in custody to pay his assess- 
 ment, his sequestration being taken off. 
 
 1646, June 29. He is to satisfy the Committee as to his in 
 14 days. 
 
 1646, August 12. He being still on his composition at Gold- 
 smith's Hall, his assessment respited till the sequestration is taken 
 off his lands. 
 
 1647, March 15. His rents and estates to be sequestered, he 
 being assessed at ^3000. 
 
 1647, March 17. The former order suspended if he pay one- 
 half in a month. 
 
 1647, April 14. Being still on his composition, his assessment 
 respited till his sequestration is taken off, or till further order. 
 
 1647, December 24. Ordered to pay £600 in discharge of 
 his assessment, half in 14 days, and the rest when the Committee 
 appoint. 
 
 1648, January 5. Having paid in ^300, order for his discharge 
 on paying £150 in 6 weeks, the abatement made because he 
 maintains many children of Thomas Hussey who died in Parlia- 
 ment Service, and the Committee desire that the favour he has 
 received from them may be extended to the children. 
 
 It shows the straits for money to which the Parliament was 
 reduced that on the same day on which it was received Sir Edward 
 Hussey's £300 was paid over to Nich. Loftus towards ^5,000 
 wanted for Ireland. 
 
 Meanwhile negotiations were carried on with the Committee 
 for compounding for his sequestrated estates, the original docu- 
 
9 2 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 ments of which are preserved in the Record Office. On 28 July, 
 1646, he presented a petition to the Committee, in which he states, 
 That his delinquency was that he was a Commissioner of Array, 
 and very forward and active in putting the Commission into 
 execution, and had contributed money and horses to the King's 
 forces, and continued in actual rebellion against the Parliament 
 from the beginning of these wars till about the beginning of 
 December last; That he is excepted in the Propositions of 
 Uxbridge, and when Leicester was taken by the King's forces, he, 
 with other Lincolnshire Commissioners then at Newark, petitioned 
 the King to draw down against the Parliamentary forces then at 
 Grantham, and wrote to the Earl of Lindsey to further their petition. 
 He states that he had taken the Negative Oath before the 
 Committee of Examination, 8 December, 1645, an d took before 
 them the National Covenant ; That he had a tenancy for life with 
 remainder to his sons in tail in the Manors with appurts., &c, of 
 Bloxholme, Honington, Caythorpe-with-Frieston, Northall, West- 
 hall, and Easthall, in the Manor and Castle of Somerton, and in 
 lands in Great and Little Hale, Heckington, Boothby, Coleby, 
 Carlton-in-Moorland, Navenby, Bassingham, Martin, Timberland, 
 North Hickham, and Waddington, of the yearly value before these 
 troubles of £2,112, iu. 4^. But the Manor of Honington and 
 certain lands in Caythorpe of the yearly value of £"603 19.5-. od. 
 are settled as jointure on his wife. That he has a life tenancy by 
 demise from the Prebends : of Corrington {sic) and Stow, dated 
 15 February, 13 Car. of the yearly value before these troubles of 
 £"160. That he was also seised of the Manor of Gonerby, and 
 lands in Gainsborough, Corrington (sic) and Springthorpe, not 
 valued in his estate, because settled in December, 9 Car., upon 
 Thomas Hussey, his eldest son, who died a Member of the Honble. 
 House of Commons, upon his marriage, whose widow now enjoys 
 this estate, having 2 sons and 3 daughters living by her said 
 husband, all of the yearly value before these troubles, of £600. 
 He asks to be allowed certain rent-charges, fee farm rents, and 
 quit rents charged on his estate ; and humbly prays it may be 
 considered, — That he hath 2 younger sons and 2 daughters un- 
 provided for; — That he hath sustained £6,000 loss by souldiers and 
 plunderings ; — That the Committee makes but £"6oo a year out of 
 the whole estate, and that he hath been out of it for some years 
 past;— That he is an aged and infirm man of body, and not likely 
 to live, and hath not power to raise money, and hath only an 
 estate for life, and cannot sell. In spite of his pleading the full 
 fine was imposed of £"10,200, reckoned as one-third of the value 
 of the estate, or £"9,000, if the £"6oo settled upon the son were 
 allowed. Already a fine of £"ioo had been inflicted on Sir Charles 
 Hussey's two daughters, then residing with their uncle and aunt 
 at Honington ; and another inhabitant of Honington, William 
 Knight, was fined ,£60, February 24, 1645, f° r h* s delinquency in 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 93 
 
 that he had attended his master, Sir Edward Hussey, in Newark 
 until April last at several times. 
 
 Through the exertions of Lady Hussey who, 5 January, 1647, 
 obtained leave to " farm her husband's estate another year, as she 
 had done 2 years past, to keep it from ruin, paying more than 
 another would," and who sold the greatest part of her jointure, and 
 after renewed applications to have the fine reduced, which resulted 
 in its reduction to ^8,750, a moiety of the original great fine was 
 paid 13 December, 1647. Collins, in his Baronetage, vol. i., 260, 
 prints a copy of the original acquittance which, he says, is still 
 (17 13) in the hands of the family. Three months after, on 
 22 March, 1648, Sir Edward Hussey died ; and it devolved on his 
 widow and daughter-in-law, Rhoda, now Lady Fairfax, to devise 
 means to clear the estate. On 15 April, 1648, Lady Hussey 
 presented the following petition to the House of Lords * : — 
 
 " Petition of Dame Elizabeth Hussey, widow and relict of Sir 
 Edward Hussey, late of Honnington, co. Line Knt. and Bart. 
 Her husband's Fine was assessed at Goldsmiths' Hall at ^8750, 
 of which sum in Dec 1- last he paid in ^4500, and secured the 
 remainder by bond, hoping for an abatement when his case should 
 be presented to the House. He is now dead, and the greater part 
 of his estate goes to his grandchild, a portion to the Petitioner for 
 her jointure, and the remainder to two of his younger sons. He 
 died leaving 2 daughters unmarried and wholly unprovided for, 
 and was indebted to several persons by bonds to the extent of 
 jQbooo. He only had an estate for life in his lands, though part 
 was subject to a power of revocation by his personal act, which by 
 reason of his death cannot now be executed. Petitioner therefore 
 prays that what has been already paid may be accepted in full of 
 his fine, and that the bond entered into for the remainder may be 
 delivered to her to be cancelled." 
 
 Though her petition was favourably received by the House of 
 Lords, she obtained no remission of the fine, and a subsequent 
 petition was presented by her in conjunction with her son's widow, 
 Lady Fairfax, 25 May, 1650. 
 
 These are fac-similes of their signatures taken from the original 
 petition, now in the Record Office. 
 
 * House of Lords MSS. ; Hist. MSS. Com., Report VII., I., 20. 
 
94 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 To this also on June 4, the Committee for Compounding reply 
 that they can give no relief; and at length on 1 August, 1650, the 
 remainder of the fine was paid, and an order made for the 
 restoration of the bond. Money was then about four and a half 
 times its present value, and in estimating the difficulty which the 
 Royalist gentry experienced in paying these enormous fines, we 
 must remember the exertions they had already made in support of 
 the King, as well as the ravages and plunderings which their estates 
 had undergone, and the fall of rents caused by the Civil War. 
 
 Lady Hussey had not inherited Doddington at the time of her 
 husband's death, so that there is no mention of it amongst his 
 sequestrated estates. It was still in the posssession of the younger 
 Thomas Tailor, and the newly built Hall seems to have been 
 fortunate in escaping serious damage during the Civil War. The 
 neighbouring house at Torksey, at the junction of the Fossdyke 
 with the Trent, then belonging to Sir Thomas Jermyn, was burnt 
 by the King's troops from Newark. The Parliamentary Gazette 
 of the day, the Civis Mercurius, records that — " Qn Tuesday, 
 1 August, 1645, 200 of the enemy fell upon Torksey House, and 
 took all our men prisoners, saving Capt. Cotton who was that night 
 at Lincoln, plundered the whole town, fired the house, and ran 
 away." If the interest of the Hussey family in Doddington 
 preserved it from a like fate at the hands of the Royalists, this 
 would only expose it the more to the vengeance of the other party. 
 Oliver Cromwell with his troops must have passed close to it on 
 the west, when after resting on the night of Thursday, 27 July, 
 1643, at North Scarle, he started at 2 o'clock the next morning for 
 Gainsborough, where he defeated the Royalists who were attacking 
 it, their commander, Col. Charles Cavendish, and Captain John 
 Hussey, a son of Sir Edward, being slain. On two later occasions, 
 20 October, 1643, ar >d 3 May, 1644, when the Earl of Manchester, 
 the Parliamentary General, stormed Lincoln, and " most cruelly 
 plundered the town, leaving it not worth a farthing," Doddington 
 could not have been beyond the range of his operations, nor have 
 escaped the " frequent plunderings, free quarters, and deep assess- 
 ments to both parties " of which the inhabitants of Stow about this 
 time piteously complain.* Indeed, on 31 January, 1644, a 
 
 * " 28 Nov. 1646. The inhabitants of Stowe beg. that provision may be 
 made for the Ministry there out of the Impropriation, two-thirds of which is 
 sequestrated for Sir Edw. Hussey's Delinquency. Their Parish, consisting of 
 Stowe, Stowe Park, Sturton, Bransby, andNormanby, with 600 Communicants, 
 has long been destitute of a Preaching Minister, and of means to maintain one, 
 there being no endowment to the Vicarage, but only a Stipend of £\o a year 
 issuing out of the Impropriation, worth £\do a year. The Inhabitants are 
 impoverished by frequent plunderings, free quarters, and deep assessments to 
 both parties." Cases for Compounding. As long previously as 1634, the Curate 
 of Stow had petitioned to much the same effect. Calendar of State Papers. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 95 
 
 Remonstrance of His Majesty's Commissioners in Newark, signed 
 amongst others by Sir Edward and Sir Charles Hussey, represents 
 how within a few days after the taking of Lincoln, the rebels 
 plundered all the estates of the loyal gentry which lay near.* 
 
 Sir Edward Hussey was about 68 at the time of his death. 
 He died intestate, and administration of his effects was granted 
 to his widow in 1649. In 1653 she succeeded to Doddington on 
 the death of her uncle, Thomas Tailor, administration of whose 
 will was granted to her as his niece and residuary legatee on 
 30 September, 1653. The following declaration was made by the 
 tenants : — " We willingly become tenants to y e Lady Elizabeth 
 Hussey, widow, y e relict of S r Edwd. Hussey, Kt. and Bt. late of 
 Honington, Cosn. and heire to Thos. Tailor of Doddn. Piggott, 
 Esq., for the year 1653. (Signed) Augustin Smith, John Grant, 
 Richard Dixon, John Lee, John Holies, Thomas Johnson, Thos. 
 Lillie, Robart Holies, William Woode, John Osier, Thos. Flintam, 
 Thos. Lee." 
 
 She only lived for some five years in possession of the estate, 
 dying before May, 1658, when she also was aged 68. She was 
 buried at her own desire by the side of her husband in Honington 
 Church, where the inscriptions, "Sir Edw. Hussey, Bart., created 
 so in King James ye First," and " Eliz. Hussey, wife of Sir Edw. 
 Hussey, Bart." cut on white diamonds of the alternate black and 
 white pavement of the Hussey Chapel, alone testify that they are 
 buried in the vault beneath. 
 
 Her will, dated 25 January, 1657, was proved 22 May, 1658, 
 by Sir Thomas Hussey, her grandson and sole executor. (Somerset 
 House. Wootton, 239.) It gives the impression that the property 
 had by no means recovered from the disasters of the Civil War ; 
 and as it is so closely connected with Doddington, we give the 
 following full abstract of it : — 
 
 "1657, Jan. 25. Dame Elizabeth Hussey, of Doddington 
 Pigott, co. Line, relict of Sir Edward Hussey, Kt. and Bart. Deed. 
 
 " To be buried at Honington by my husband, hoping to be 
 saved by no other means than by the meritte of my blessed Saviour, 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 " Whereas by an Indenture, dated 1 8 Deer, last, between me 
 on the one part, and Thomas Cape, William Thornton, Charles 
 Dye, and Thomas Rande of the other part, I have demised unto 
 th em divers lands and hereditaments therein mentioned lying in 
 Doddington Pigott aforesaid, to be held for the term of 10 years 
 after my decease, without impeachment of waste, Upon Trust that 
 they, their assigns &c. shall out of the profits of such Lands, or by 
 sale of any Wood or Timber, satisfy and pay all Legacies and 
 Sums of Money disposed of by my Will : 
 
 * Rushworth*s Hist. Coll., iv., 305. 
 
9 6 
 
 History of Doddinglon. 
 
 " Now I charge and appoint to be paid out of the said Lands, 
 &c. the several Legacies hereinafter mentioned, viz. 
 
 " To my Daughter Mary Bolles ;£8oo, to be paid within 4 
 years after my death, and if she should die before it becomes 
 payable, that it be divided equally between her children : 
 
 "To my Daughter Rebekah Markham ^800, on same 
 conditions : 
 
 "To Elizabeth Bolles, my Grandchild, .£150, to be paid when 
 she attains the age of 13, and if she shall die before that, then to 
 be divided equally amongst her brothers and sisters : 
 
 "To Frances Markham, my Grandchild, ^150, on same 
 conditions : 
 
 "To Sir Thomas Williamson, my Grandchild, ^100, and to 
 his two brothers, Robert and John Williamson, ^50 a-piece, to be 
 paid within two years after my decease, and if any of them die before 
 payment, then to the survivor or survivors : 
 
 "To Jane Hussey, my Grandchild, ;£ioo, to be paid within 
 12 months after my decease. 
 
 "And whereas I have a Lease of certain Lands in Caythorpe 
 from my son Edward Hussey for security of ^1250, which is to 
 be paid 26 March, 1660, I give to my Grandchild Mary Hussey 
 ;£6oo of that money, and to her brother William Hussey ^150 of 
 it, to be paid when it shall become due : 
 
 " And whereas there is reserved a Rent of ^60 out of the 
 said Lease after my decease till the said money shall become due, 
 my will is that my Grandchild Mary Hussey shall have ^30 a year 
 out of it for her maintenance, — the rest of the money to my 
 Executors. 
 
 " Item, I give to my Daughter Bridgett Hussey the Furniture 
 of the Chamber where she lies, the great Glasse in the best Parlor, 
 my Silver Powder Box, and the Bracelett she gave me, and my 
 Wedding Ring : 
 
 "Item, to my Daughter Anne Hussey the Furniture of the 
 Chamber where she lies : and to my Son Edward Hussey the 
 Furniture of the Chamber where he lies 
 
 " To the Lady Fairfax to buy her a Ring : 
 "To my Grandchild Amcotts £\o to buy her a Ring : 
 " To my Daughter-in-law Elizabeth Hussey to buy her a 
 Ring: 
 
 "To my son Bolles, — my son Markham, — my son Charles 
 Hussey, £\o each to buy them Rings : 
 
 "To my Grandchild Sir Thomas Hussey my best Suit of 
 Damask for the Table, and all the Table linings (linens ?) in the 
 pastrie chamber, and 4 paire of the best linnen Sheets with Pillow- 
 beares for his owne bed, and fower paire of the strongest hempen 
 Sheets for Servants ; the remainder of the linnen belonging to the 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 97 
 
 house I give unto my Daughters Bridgett Hussey and Anne Hussey 
 to be equally divided between them : 
 
 " To my Grandchild Mary Hussey the Third part of my wearing 
 lininge (linen) for my body, and my best Gowne and Peticoat, and 
 my satin Peticoats : the rest of my wearing lininge and apparell I 
 give, the best of them to my woman and chambermaid then being, 
 and the worst among my other maid-servants : 
 
 " Item, I give to my Sister Knight and my Sister Dye a 20s. 
 piece of Gold each for a remembrance. 
 
 " Item, to every one of my Grandchildren who have no other 
 Legacy a Gold Angell for a remembrance : 
 
 " Item, to Charles Dye, £20 ; to Luke Boulton, £20 ; to 
 Augustine Smith, £20 ; and to Edward Lilly, £10 : 
 
 " To every one of my Household Servants that have no other 
 Legacy, Half-a-Year's Wages besides what is due to them : 
 
 " Item, to the Poor of Lincoln, £1 o ; to the Poor of Honington, 
 £10 ; to the Poor of Doddington, ^5 ; to the Poor of Grantham, 
 
 ; to the Poor of Whisbie, 20s. ; to the Poor of Skellingthorpe, 
 20s. ; to the Poor of Harbie, 20s. 
 
 " Towards the repairs of the Quire at Honington where my 
 Husband and Children were buried, ;£io; for a Pulpitt and 
 Cushion for the Church of Honington, ^10. 
 
 "The rest of my Goods whatsoever undisposed of after 
 discharging my Debts and Legacies, I give unto my Grandchild 
 Sir Thomas Hussey, whom I make sole Executor. 
 
 "(Signed) Elizabeth Hussey. (Witnesses) John Joynes, 
 Thomas Taylor (his Marke). Richard Dixon. Thomas Lillie.' 
 
 Sir Edward and Lady Hussey had a numerous family, many 
 of their children dying young, whose baptisms and burials are duly 
 recorded in the Parish Register of Honington from 1610 to 1633. 
 Those who grew up were nine in number, four sons and five 
 daughters, viz. : 1. Thomas, the eldest son, baptized at Honington, 
 3 May, 16 1 3, of whom we must speak again. 2. John, the Royalist 
 Captain of Horse, killed in the fight at Gainsborough, 28 July, 
 1645, who died unmarried. 3. Charles, baptized at Honington, 
 30 Oct., 1626, and admitted a Member of Gray's Inn, 31 Oct., 1646. 
 He was Knight of the Shire for Lincolnshire in 1661, and was 
 created a Baronet by Charles II. on his Restoration, 21 July, 
 1 66 1, in consideration of the eminent loyalty and sufferings of 
 his family. He is described as Charles Hussey, of Somerton, 
 co. Line, Esq., bachelor, aged 22, in the licence, 10 April, 1649, 
 for his marriage at St. Bartholomew-the-Less, to Mistress Elizabeth 
 Brownlowe, spinster, aged 17, eldest daughter of Sir William 
 Brownlowe, of Humby, co. Line, Knt. and Bart., who consents. 
 By her he had seven sons and eight daughters, and was ancestor 
 
 G 
 
9 8 
 
 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 of the Caythorpe branch of the family. He died in London while 
 serving in Parliament, n December, 1664, in the thirty-ninth 
 year of his age, and was buried at Caythorpe, where together with 
 his wife, who survived him until 1698, and others of their family, 
 he is commemorated on a marble mural monument in the church. 
 With the exception of Doddington the other estates of the elder 
 Thomas Tailor seem to have been settled on him, as he 
 disposes of them in his will, dated 3 December, 1664, {Somerset 
 House, Bruce, 131), with an ultimate remainder to his nephew, 
 Sir Thomas Hussey, and his heirs. 4. Edward, baptized at Honing- 
 ton, 21 July, 1629, who was admitted into Gonville and Caius 
 College, Cambridge, 7 August, 1645, and became a Fellow- 
 Commoner of St. John's, 3 July, 1647 ; he died at Caythorpe, 
 unmarried, 1659. By his will, proved 26 January, 1659 (Somerset 
 House, Wotton, 15) he left to his " loving nephew Sir Thomas 
 Hussey £500," and similar large legacies to his sisters and brothers- 
 in-law ; and to his " loving brother Mr. Charles Hussey " all his 
 lands, &c, in "Catrope, Freyston, Carletonne in Moore Land, 
 and Bassingham ; " and to the " Poor of Hunnington, Doddington 
 and Catrope, to each place." He desired that he might be 
 buried at Hunnington, next to his brother John, room being left 
 for his brother Charles ; and that Mr. John Joynes, to whom he 
 left £5 and a Mourning Cloke, might preach his Funeral Sermon. 
 The daughters were: 1. Jane, baptized at Honington, 26 January, 
 1612, and married there, 27 August, 1633, to Thomas Williamson, 
 Esq., created a Baronet 3 June, 1642, of East Markham, Not- 
 tinghamshire ; he was one of the Cavaliers in Newark, and was 
 fined .£3,400 for his loyalty. 2. Mary, baptized at Honington, 
 16 July, 1617, and also married there, 14 October, 1637, to 
 Robert Bolles, Esq., afterwards Sir Robert Bolles, of Scampton, 
 Bart., M.P. for Lincoln 1661, who died 1663. 3. Rebecca, 
 baptized at Honington, 16 October, 1622, who married, 21 April, 
 1642, as his second wife, Sir Robert Markham, of Sedgbrook, 
 Knt, created Bart. 15 August, 1642, whose name appears in the 
 list of loyal gentlemen of Lincolnshire in 1642 as engaging to 
 provide four horses for the King's service ; he also served at the 
 defence of Newark, and was duly fined ^1,000 for his loyalty. 
 She died June, 1664, leaving issue. 4. Bridget, baptized at 
 Honington, 1 November, 1626, and still unmarried in 1658, but 
 who subsequently became the wife of Sir Thomas Clifton, of 
 Lytham, co. Lane, Baronet. 5. Anne, baptized at Honington, 
 13 June, 1633, who in 1657 married as his first wife Charles 
 Pelham, of Brocklesby, Esq., by whom she had one daughter, 
 Anne. 
 
 Thomas Hussey, the eldest son of Sir Edward, born in 16 13, 
 was admitted, as so many others of the family had been, a Member 
 
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 99 
 
 of Gray's Inn, n March, 1631. He married in December, 1633, 
 the following being the licence for the marriage issued by the 
 Bishop of London : 
 
 " 1633, Dec. 4. Thomas Hussey, Esq. of Hannington, al. 
 Honnington, co. Line. Bach r . 20, son of Sir Edward Hussey, Kt. 
 and Bart, who consents, and Rhoda Chapman, of the City of 
 London, Spr. almost 17, d. of Thomas Chapman, Esq. dec d ; 
 consent of her mother Jane Chapman : in Chapel of Bp. of Ely, 
 in par. St. Andrew's, Holborn, or at St. Mary Wolnoth." 
 
 That the latter was the Church chosen for the marriage is 
 shown by the following extract from its Parish Register : — 
 
 "1633, Dec. 11. Thomas the son of Sir Edward Hussey of 
 Hunnington in Lincolnshire, and Rhoda, d. of Thomas Chapman, 
 in Soper Lane. By Licence." 
 
 Rhoda Chapman was coheiress of her father together with her 
 sister Rebecca, the wife successively of Thomas Playters, Esq., of 
 Richard Lucy, Esq., of Charlecote, and of Sir Rowland Lytton, of 
 Knebworth, Knt. Sir Edward Hussey settled on his son's 
 marriage the Manor of Gonerby, and divers lands in Gainsborough, 
 Corringham, and Springthorpe, to the value of £600 a year. It 
 was this marriage which first introduced into the Hussey family 
 the name of Rhoda, which has been handed down through the 
 families of Delaval and Astley to the present day. Thomas Hussey 
 was returned as M.P. for Grantham in 1637, and it would seem 
 from the stress laid on his Membership by his father, and the 
 allowance of his claim by the Parliamentary Committee, that he 
 was inclined to side with the Parliament in opposition to the 
 Royalist principles of his father, as was so often the case in families 
 during the Civil War. Any decided partisanship, however, was 
 prevented by his early death, which took place before 25 March, 
 1 64 1, on which day letters of administration to his estate were 
 issued to Rhoda Hussey, his widow. She re-married, as his second 
 wife, at St. Giles in the Fields, London, on 16 October, 1646, 
 Ferdinando, second Baron Fairfax, of Cameron, the celebrated 
 General of the Parliamentary forces in the north, who was in 
 command at Marston Moor. He lived only till 13 March, 1648, 
 and by his will, proved 11 October, 1649, he gave to his wife 
 " Lady Roda Fairfax " the Manor of Hartlington, and lands at 
 Owlston, co. York, in satisfaction of her dower. By him she had 
 an only daughter, Ursula, who married, in 1 669, William Cartwright, 
 Esq., of Aynhoe, Northants. Owing to this marriage not only 
 was Lady Fairfax, who died 11 October, 1686, aged 70, buried at 
 Aynhoe, but also her sister Dame Rebecca Lytton, who died 1685, 
 and her daughter, Jane Hussey, who died unmarried 1720, aged 
 83. They are commemorated on mural monuments with long 
 epitaphs in Latin and in English, setting forth their pedigrees and 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 their virtues, in the chancel of Aynhoe Church. The Hussey 
 coat of arms, Or, a Cross, Vert, bears on an inescutcheon that of 
 Chapman, Per chevron, Arg. and Gules, a Crescent counter-changed ; 
 on a Chief of the 2nd, an Unicorn's Head, erased, between 2 Leopards' 
 faces, Or. 
 
 The children of Thomas and Rhoda Hussey were : 1. Elizabeth, 
 baptized at Honington 12 October, 1634, and buried there 
 
 23 December, 1641. 2. Rhoda, baptized at Honington 21 Sept., 
 1635, married at Corringham, 20 December, 1652, to John Amcotts, 
 of Aisthorpe, Esq. ; he died in London at the age of 25, and was 
 buried at St. Andrew's, Holborn, 26 January, 1655, leaving an only 
 child, Rhoda, baptized at Corringham, 2 December, 1653; his 
 widow also was dead before July, 1672, when Rhoda Amcotts, 
 their only daughter, then aged 19, with the consent of her grand- 
 mother and guardian, Rhoda Lady Fairfax, was married at St. Paul's, 
 Covent Garden, to Thomas Broughton, aged 24, afterwards Sir 
 Thomas Broughton,* of Broughton, co. Staff., Bart., and thus 
 brought the estate of Aisthorpe, and the name of Rhoda, 
 into the Broughton family. In 1671, shortly before her marriage, 
 she made the gift to our church of a silver alms-dish, bearing the 
 arms of Amcotts on a lozenge, with an inscription. 3. Jane, 
 baptized at Honington 13 November, 1636, who died unmarried 
 
 24 April, 1720, in her 83rd year, and was buried as her mother had 
 been, in the Church of Aynhoe, where a tablet was dedicated to 
 her memory by her sister " Mrs. Mary Balle, becoming by her 
 Death as it were a Widow the second time." 4. Edward, baptized 
 at Honington 13 November, 1637, and buried there 20 January, 
 1638. 5. Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas Hussey, baptized at 
 Honington, 14 January, 1639, of whom hereafter. 6. William, 
 afterwards Sir William Hussey, Knt. He became a merchant of 
 London, and is described as " William Hussey, of St. Ethelborow, 
 London, Merchant, Bach, about 36," in the allegation for his 
 marriage dated 21 August, 1682, with "Mrs. Mary Buckworth, of 
 St. Peter's Poor, London, Spr. about 22, with consent of her father 
 Sir John Buckworth, Knt." He was knighted by William III., at 
 Whitehall, 17 April, 1690, when he was sent as "Ambassador 
 Extraordinary to Vienna and Constantinople to mediate a Peace 
 between the Emperor and his Allys and the Grand Signior." He 
 died, however, without issue, at Adrianople, 13 September, 1691, 
 
 * Sir Thomas Broughton, of Aisthorpe, was the son of Sir Bryan Broughton, 
 of Broughton, created Bart., 10 March, 1660; on his father's death in 1708, 
 aged 90, he succeeded to the Baronetcy, and died 1 7 10, having by his wife, 
 Rhoda Amcotts, two sons : 1, Amcotts Broughton, born 1675, died 1700 ; 
 2, Sir Bryan Broughton, of Aisthorpe, third Baronet, who died 12 September, 
 1725, having married Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Thomas Delves, of 
 Doddington, co, Cheshire, Bart. 
 
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 in the 52nd year of his age. His body was subsequently brought 
 home and buried, 16 October, 1695, with his ancestors at Honing- 
 ton, where a marble mural monument with a Latin inscription was 
 placed by his widow, brother, and sisters to his memory. His 
 widow re-married in 1695, John Evans, merchant, her first husband's 
 partner, and together with him, in Queen Anne's reign, claimed 
 ^10,863 13J. od. as extraordinary expenses due to the late Sir 
 William Hussey. She died 10 June, 1731, and was buried in her 
 second husband's grave in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey. 
 7. Mary, who married, 7 July, 1668, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 
 William Balle, Esq., of Mamhead,* co. Devon, he being then, 
 according to the marriage licence, a bachelor about 30, and she a 
 spinster about 24 ; she had a son, Thomas Balle, and was still 
 living in 1720. 
 
 The eldest son, Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart., baptized 14 January, 
 1639, was little more than 9 years old when he succeeded to the 
 title and what remained of the estates on the death of his grand- 
 father, Sir Edward, in March, 1648. His long minority, and the 
 addition of his grandmother's inheritance of Doddington, must 
 have done much to restore the shattered fortunes of his family. 
 Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State to King Charles II., in 
 his Notes on the Gentlemen of Lincolnshire, remarks of the Hussey 
 family that " each branch, that of Caythorpe, and that of Donington 
 (Doddington) and Honington, hath about ,£2500 a year." At the 
 Restoration we find Sir Thomas and his mother, Lady Fairfax, 
 then a second time a widow, living at Doddington, where they 
 appear in 1661 as contributing, Sir Thomas ;£6o, and Lady 
 Fairfax ^30, towards a loan for the restored King. Shortly after, 
 24 February, 1 661-2, Sir Thomas Hussey was married, the following 
 being the marriage licence issued : 
 
 " 1661, Feb. 20. Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart, of Doddington, 
 co. Line. Bachr. and Sarah Langham, Spr. 21, d. of Sir John 
 Langham, Kt. and Bart, of Cottesbrooke, co. Northants. who 
 consents ; at Gt. St. Helen's, London." 
 
 The Parish Registers of Doddington previous to 1690 are 
 unfortunately lost, so that we are deprived of the light which they 
 throw in so many instances on the condition of parishes during the 
 Commonwealth, t The last Rector of whom we have mention, 
 
 * Mamhead was built by Sir Peter Balle, an eminent loyalist, who died 
 1680, and was first adorned with beautiful and extensive plantations by his son, 
 William Balle, Esq., an eminent merchant retired from trade. The last of the 
 family bequeathed it to Thomas Hussey Aprice, of Washingley, Esq., who 
 soon sold it. Gough's Camden's Britannia, i. 57. 
 
 t Thus in the adjoining parish of Eagle the Vicar, John Cooke, makes the 
 following pathetic memorandum of his return to the benefice from which he 
 had been ejected : — " My first cominge again with my family to live at Eagle 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 John Crofte, who was instituted on the presentation of Thomas 
 Tailor, in 1618, and who still held the living in 1639, has disap- 
 peared during the interval, probably by death. On the Restoration, 
 Sir Thomas Hussey at once presented to the Bishop of Lincoln, 
 Robert Sanderson, for institution John Joynes, A.M., who had 
 been one of the witnesses to the will of his grandmother, Dame 
 Elizabeth Hussey, in 1657, and whom his uncle, Edward Hussey, 
 had chosen to preach his funeral sermon in 1659. In the same 
 year, 166 1, Mr. Joynes was also appointed to the Rectory of 
 St. Peter-at-Arches, which he held until his death. He soon 
 resigned Doddington, however, on his institution to the Rectory 
 of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, 22 March, 1662, and that in turn for South 
 Hykeham in 1667. Meanwhile he had been installed in the 
 Prebend of Buckden in Lincoln Cathedral, 30 August, 1664; he 
 exchanged it for the stall of Brampton in 1670, and died in 1672. 
 
 On his cession of Doddington Sir Thomas Hussey presented 
 a new Rector, John Cocke, A.M., instituted April, 1662. Of him 
 we are able to give a fuller account, thanks to a memoir of him 
 prefixed to a volume of his Sermons by his friend Dr. George 
 Hickes, Dean of Worcester, the celebrated non-juring Divine and 
 Bishop. We learn that he was the youngest son of Henry Cocke, 
 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, merchant, by his wife Isabella, daughter 
 of Mr. Ralph Cole, and sister of Sir Nicholas Cole, of Brancepeth 
 Castle, Bart. His mother dying at his birth, and his father about 
 a year after, he was brought up by his grandfather, Mr. Ralph 
 Cole, under Mr. Snape, a sequestered clergyman, who had set up a 
 school near Newcastle. In spite of the grievous oppression the 
 Church at that time lay under he chose the study of divinity, and 
 " his grandfather was pleased to comply with his choice, prophesy- 
 ing, as it fell out, that the times might be better e'er he was ready 
 to take Orders." In 1655 he was admitted a pensioner of Christ's 
 College, Cambridge, where he took his A.M. degree; "after which 
 
 was on the 5th day of December, 1660, wch God of his mercy grant me a 
 joyful and coumfortable living there, that itt may be to God's glory, my 
 coumfort, and both to the coumfort and p'fett of my neighbours. Amen, amen, 
 good God." At North Scarle, the Rector, William Clerke, who had been 
 fined and imprisoned, read himself in again, 12 October, 1662. Less fortunate 
 than these, the Rector of Bassingham, George Stratford, a Fellow and Vice- 
 President of C.C.C., Oxford, had died of destitution, after a fruitless journey 
 on foot to Bassingham in the endeavour to obtain from his supplanter the fifths 
 nominally allowed for his maintenance ; his successor, after the Restoration, 
 records in a series of Latin notes the sad fate of his predecessor, and how his 
 place had been usurped by order of Parliament by an intruder, "invadens 
 magis quam incumbens," without any Orders, it was believed, either Episcopal 
 or Presbyterian. In many neighbouring Parish Registers are notices of the 
 appointment of a Lay Registrar to supersede the Incumbent in recording births 
 (not baptisms), marriages, and burials, as well as entries of marriages before 
 a Justice of the Peace, when the marriage service in the Church was prohibited. 
 
T)oddington and the Husseys. 
 
 103 
 
 he was entertained by Sir Thomas Hussey at Doddington-Piggot 
 in Lincolnshire to read Prayers to his Family, having some time 
 before received both Deacon's and Priest's Orders at the hands of 
 Bishop Sanderson ; and not long after was by Sir Thomas presented 
 to that Rectory upon Mr. Joynes' leaving it for another Living." 
 He was called from Doddington to Durham in 1667 on his 
 presentation by the Dean and Chapter to the Vicarage of St. 
 Oswald's there, where he gained " the character of being one of 
 the best Parish Priests the Church of England ever had," and 
 received many proofs of Bishop Cosin's high opinion of him. In 
 February, 1689, however, not being able in conscience to take 
 the oaths of allegiance to William III. he was deprived of all 
 preferment, and retired to London, where he was still living, old 
 and infirm, in 17 10, when his friend, Dr. Hickes, edited for him 
 the little Volume of twelve of his Sermons, which he left as his 
 dying legacy to his former parishioners, from whom he had been 
 separated for twenty years, desiring that the book might be kept 
 as an heirloom in each house of his former parish.* 
 
 On Mr. Cocke's removal to Durham Sir Thomas Hussey 
 presented William Moore to the Rectory of Doddington. He 
 was instituted 31 October, 1667, and exhibited his Letters of 
 Ordination as Priest by Robert (Sanderson) Bishop of Lincoln, 
 17 July, 1662. A MS. " Return of the Population of the Parishes 
 in the Province of Canterbury over 16 years of age," dated 1676, 
 and now preserved in the W. Salt Library, at Stafford, gives the 
 numbers for Doddington Piggott as ninety-two Conformists, and 
 four Non-conformists. It was, no doubt, to qualify Sir Thomas 
 Hussey under the Test Act of 1673, for one or other of his public 
 
 * The following passage from his Sermon on Psalm cxxn., 6, 7, "O pray 
 for the peace of Jerusalem, &c. " in which he describes what he had seen in the 
 evil days of the Civil War and Commonwealth, will serve as a sample of his 
 style : — " God knows we of this nation have of late years had most lamentable 
 experience of the sad effects and consequents of both these conditions. For 
 we were without peace both in Church and State, and consequently were 
 exposed to all imaginable miseries. We were without peace in the State ; and 
 the sad effects of that was the raising of an army against the King, the seizing 
 upon his person, and depriving him of his life by as horrid a murder as was 
 ever committed by any subjects upon their Prince. We were without peace 
 in the Church, and the sad effects and consequents of that were the casting 
 out of Bishops, the abolishing the Book of Common Prayer, the disuse of the 
 Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (for very seldom was it administered in many 
 places,) the turning of Churches into stables, and the permitting Websters and 
 Coblers and Taylors and such like mechanics to usurp the Pulpit and turn 
 Preachers, as though they had been inspired persons, and endued with as 
 miraculous a donation of the Spirit of God, as the Prophets and Apostles were 
 of old." Page 100. We are indebted to the Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson, 
 Vicar of St. Albans, Felling-on-Tyne, for the gift of the little volume contain- 
 ing the Memoir of our predecessor, and his Sermons. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 offices that the following Certificates written on parchment and 
 preserved at Ford Castle, were given by Mr. Moore and his 
 Churchwarden of his having communicated in his Parish Church : — 
 " We, y e Minister and Churchwarden of Doddington Piggot 
 in the County of Lincolne doe certify that Sr. Thomas Hussey, 
 Baronett, did receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper on 
 Sunday y e 24 day of June last past in the parrish Church of 
 Doddington aforesaid according to the Rubrick of the Church of 
 England as it is now by law established. In witness whereof we 
 have hereunto set o r hands this — day of July in y e yeare of o r 
 Lord God 1677.— Wm. Moore, Rector. Thos. Johnson, Ch.- 
 warden." 
 
 " We whose hands are hereunder written doe testifie upon oath 
 yt we did see the above sayd Mr. William Moore, Minister, and 
 Thos. Johnson, Churchwarden, set their hands to the above 
 written Certificate. Witness our hands this — day of July in y e 
 yeare of our Lord God 1677. Augustine Jordan. Thos. Inkersall." 
 
 The Rev. Wm. Moore had scarcely begun our earliest existing 
 Parish Register at Lady Day, 1690, before his death, his own 
 burial being entered in it 5 January, 169^, as is the baptism of his 
 son Thomas, 4 June, 1691, and of Mary, his "posthume daughter," 
 16 June, 1692, and her burial, July 3rd. His widow, Mrs. Anne 
 Moore, long survived him, and was buried here 26 March, 1720. 
 
 Sir Thomas Hussey was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1668, 
 and had a dispensation on 27 November of that year to repair to 
 London or elsewhere as his occasions require. He had purchased 
 the Freedom of the City of Lincoln, 21 March, 1664, and in 1681 
 he was elected M.P. for the City in conjunction with Sir Thomas 
 Meres ; and it was as such that he took a prominent part in the 
 reception of a new charter in the last year of Charles II. 's reign, 
 as is thus described in the Corporation Records : — 
 
 "1685, Jan. 1. This morning, about 8 o'cl. Mr. Mayor (Thomas 
 Kent) and the aldermen in their scarlet gowns, the sheriffs, common 
 council-men, and chamberlains, all in their gowns, attended with the 
 company of trained bands and several gentlemen, and inhabitants to 
 a considerable number, walked from Mr. Mayor's house to Barr gates 
 and so against St. Katherine's, and upon the green there Mr. Mayor 
 received the new Charter from Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart., who had 
 it sent to him by the Earl of Lindsey, the city's new Recorder. 
 So soon as Mr. Mayor received the charter and the key of the box 
 where the same was, he opened the box and took the charter out, 
 and he, the aldermen, sheriffs, common councilmen, chamberlains 
 and most of the gentlemen and company there, kissed the seal, 
 and after loudly shouted God save the King. Then Mr. Mayor 
 delivered the charter to the Town Clerk (Original Peart), who was 
 present in his gown, and ordered him to carry it open before him 
 to the Guildhall. Thereupon Mr. Mayor, with Sir Thomas Hussey 
 
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 105 
 
 and several other gentlemen, the aldermen and all the rest of the 
 body and company walked up the city to the Guildhall, the trained 
 bands going before to make way ; the street was filled with people, 
 the city's waits playing before Mr. Mayor, and the bells ringing. 
 In this manner they came to the Guildhall, where the charter was 
 openly read by the Town Clerk, and the hall was crowded with 
 people. Then Mr. Mayor was sworn mayor and justice of peace, 
 which being done they came out of the Guildhall, and so went to 
 the great conduit, which ran claret wine, and there drank the 
 King's and the Duke of York's health. After that, the gentlemen 
 and company went along with Mr. Mayor to his house to a great 
 dinner. After dinner, in their way Mr. Mayor and the company 
 drank the King's and the Duke of York's health at the lesser 
 conduit, which ran likewise claret wine &c. The bells rang all the 
 day, and music played, drums beating, &c. and the night concluded 
 with bonefires and ringing of bells clear through the city. 
 
 " Mem : The Bishop of Lincoln gave £20, and Sir Thomas 
 Hussey, Sir Henry Monson, Sir Thomas Meres, knt. and Henry 
 Stone, Esq. each J~io towards the charges of renewing the charter."* 
 
 In 1685 Sir Thomas Hussey was returned as Knight of the 
 Shire for the county to the first Parliament summoned by James II., 
 and as such he continued to sit in the Parliaments of 1688, 1690, 
 and 1695. On 11 December, 1688, a month after the landing of 
 the Prince of Orange, the Earl of Lindsey writes to the Earl of 
 Danby that a meeting of gentry is appointed at Sleaford, and that 
 " if Sir Thomas Hussey weds the cause of the Revolution, his 
 interest will do much to make this county unanimous." 
 
 A document relating to his ownership of Doddington is the 
 following indenture of a lease, also at Ford Castle, endorsed 
 "Goodman Brown's Agreement," whereby "1 Oct. 1689, the 
 Rt. Hon. Sir Thos. Hussey, of Doddington, co. Line, in con- 
 sideration of an annual Rent of £39. 12. 5, payable at Michaelmas 
 and Lady-Day, lets to John Brown of Swinerby (Swinderby) in 
 said co. husbandman, a dwelling-house in Doddington, late in 
 tenancy of Mr. John Smith, together with ' home-yard or bac-side,' 
 barn, stable and other out-houses ; also pastures called Long Close, 
 Whisby-dale, John H aires Pingle, Little Pingle, abutting on Calf 
 Close, now in tenancy of Gabriel Skinner, " demeane land " called 
 West Dunston Close, other demeane land called East Dunston 
 Close, — from 25 March next for one year. Brown covenants to 
 maintain buildings, hedges and ditches ; Sir T. Hussey covenants 
 to allow timber and hedge-wood. Witness, — John Priestley." 
 
 Though Honington continued to be the family burying place, 
 Sir Thos. Hussey seems to have made Doddington his chief resi- 
 dence ; and it was in his time that the well-known engraving of the 
 Hall was made, inscribed " Doddington, in the County of Lincolne, 
 
 * Lincoln Corporation Records, p. 390, Hist. MSS. Com., xiv., App. viii. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 the Seate of the Hon ble Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart.," with a shield 
 of the Hussey arms impaling those of Langham. It is one of 
 a series of engravings of gentlemen's seats, forming a Britannia 
 Illustrata, executed by the Dutchman, John Kip, after a drawing 
 made by his countryman, Leonard Knyfif ; and as the former came 
 to England but shortly before the Revolution of 1688, and Sir T. 
 Hussey died in 1706, we may fix its date well within twenty years. 
 It represents the Hall with its Gate-house and other detached 
 buildings much as at present, with an open grassy court-yard in 
 front, and gardens formally laid out behind, and rows of young 
 trees occupying what is still the orchard. To the west an avenue 
 of trees is represented as stretching towards Harby across an open 
 park with herds of deer. It is difficult to say how much of this is 
 due to the artist's imagination. "Doddington Parke, 180 acres," 
 is mentioned in the Terrier of 1585, and in many other docu- 
 ments, but there is no sign of either park or avenue in the map of 
 the estate, as it was in 1749. Possibly the park was no more than 
 the then unenclosed grass land bordering on Swinethorpe, which 
 is still known as the Old Parks. 
 
 Sir Thomas Hussey died 19 December, 1706, in the 69th year 
 of his age, and was buried at Honington December 24. He is 
 commemorated there by a marble mural monument with an 
 inscription in Latin placed against the east wall of the Hussey 
 Chapel by the piety of his three surviving daughters. It bears his 
 coat of arms in colours, and his bust in white marble, which has 
 a striking resemblance to his portrait in the gallery at Doddington 
 representing him with flowing wig, in the costume of his day. 
 This is his epitaph : — 
 
 " Hie jacet 
 Thomas Hussey, Bar tus , 
 Filius Tho : Hussey, Filii Edwardi 
 Hussey, Bar* 1 , Ex antiqua et nobili 
 Familia Husseyorum, Uxoram (sic) 
 Duxit Saram 
 Filiam Johannis Langham de London, Bar* 1 , 
 Juxta hie sepultam, e qua x genuit liberos, 
 vi Filios, iv Filias, e quibus plures, 
 Vivis parentibus mortui, subtus hie requiescunt. 
 in solum superstites reliquit Filias cohseredes, 
 
 Rebeccam, Saram nuptam Rob* 0 
 ap Rice, de Washinley in Com. Hunt. Arm 0 , 
 et Elizabetham, quae hoc Monumentum 
 Pietas (sic) ergo charis parentibus posuere. 
 Ilia obiit xix die Julii 
 
 A 0 D* MDCLXXXXVII, iEtat. LXII. 
 
 Ille xix die Decembris 
 mdccvi, iEtat. LXIX." 
 
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 167 
 
 His wife, Dame Sarah, daughter of Sir John Langham, of 
 London and Cottesbrooke, Bart., who pre-deceased him 19 July, 
 1697, at the age of 62. and was also buried at Honington, is 
 doubly commemorated there, both on her husband's monument 
 as above, and by another on the north wall of the chapel erected 
 1 730 to her memory and that of her two daughters by Mrs. Apreece, 
 then the only survivor. It bears the full coat of arms, Quarterly 
 of 6, viz. : 1 and 6, Or, a Cross Vert j Hussey. 2, Arg. a Bend, 
 wavy, cottised, Sable j Nessfield or Neffeile. 3, Barry of 6, Erm. 
 and Gules j Hussey. 4, Azure, a Fess, Or, within a Bordure, Erm. ; 
 Anton. 5, Per chevron, Arg. and Gules, a Crescent counter- 
 changed ; on a Chief, Gules, an Unicorn's head between 2 Leopards' 
 faces, Or j Chapman ; Impaling ; Arg. 3 Bear' heads, erased, Sable ; 
 Langham. 
 
 The inscription is as follows : — 
 
 " Here lies interr'd the Body 
 of Dame Sarah Hussey, 
 Daughter of Sir John Langham, of Cottesbrooke, 
 in the County of Northampton, Baronet, 
 And Wife of Sir Thomas Hussey, Baronet, 
 Who departed this life July 24 (sic) 1697 ; . 
 
 Whose excellent Piety, Charity and other Virtues, 
 
 Here also are deposited 
 Rebecca her 2nd, and Elizabeth her youngest daughter, 
 the former of which 
 After a life spent principally in Devotion and Acts of Charity, 
 Died unmarried, Aug. 21, 17 14. 
 The latter was married to Richard Ellys, Esq. 
 Son and Heir of Sir William Ellys, Baronet, 
 Who after many afflictions 
 Endured with Christian Fortitude and Patience, 
 Resigned her soul to Almighty God, Aug. 11, 1724." 
 
 Of their seven children who died in the lifetime of their parents, 
 Thomas, the eldest son, died 4 February, 1677, aged 15, and was 
 buried at Honington, February 16 ; his early death and his parents' 
 grief being recorded on a black marble altar tomb in the Hussey 
 Chapel in the following lines of Latin prose and verse : — 
 
 " Quicquid mortale fuit dilectissimi maximseque spei juvenis, 
 Thomge Husssei, Armigeri, filii primogeniti honorabilis viri, Dni. 
 Thomge Husssei, Baron'ti, msestissimse autem matris unici in vita 
 solatii, hie placide requiescat, donee dulcem tandem excutiat 
 somnum expectatissima ultimse tubse melodia. Natus fuit 2 6° die 
 Dec. 1 66 1. Obiit 4 to Feb. 1676. ' 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 " Finge animo quodcunque potest natura, parentes 
 
 Quodcunq : in votis vix habuere suis. 
 Par fuit hie Juvenis, fato prseruptus acerbo, 
 
 Mors negat in puero plus licuisse sibi. 
 In pretio nunc sis, marmor, quod contegis ossa, 
 
 Auro vel gemmis quae meruere legi." 
 
 Rhoda, the eldest daughter, baptized at Honington 15 March, 
 1664, was buried there 4 May, 1689, aged 25 ; as were John, the 
 second son; Edward, the third son, buried 27 March, 167 1; 
 Henry, the fourth son ; Robert, the fifth j and William, the sixth, 
 the only son who lived to be of age, dying in 1698, — all alike 
 commemorated by their names simply cut on the marble pave- 
 ment of the Hussey Chapel. The three surviving daughters, of 
 whom we must speak at length, were Rebecca, Sarah (Mrs. 
 Apreece), and Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Ellys. 
 
 Sir Thomas Hussey died intestate, and administration of his 
 effects was granted 8 February, 1707, to Sarah Apreece and 
 Elizabeth Hussey, two of his three daughters and coheiresses of his 
 estates. His Baronetcy, created in 161 1, devolved on his first 
 cousin, Sir Edward Hussey, of Caythorpe and Welbourn, who 
 already held the Baronetcy granted by Charles II. to his father, 
 Sir Charles Hussey, in 1661. Both creations became extinct on 
 the death, without issue, of Sir Edward's son, Sir Henry Hussey, 
 of Caythorpe, Bart, in 1729; and the family is now represented 
 through the female line by Hussey Packe, Esq., of Caythorpe, and 
 of Prestwould, co. Leicester. 
 
 It was doubtless in memory of Sir Thomas Hussey that the 
 silver patten and large silver flagon were presented to our Church 
 in the year after his death. They bear the Hussey arms, with 
 a baronet's inescutcheon, and the inscription, "Given to the 
 Church of Doddington Piggot, in the County of Lincoln, Anno 
 Domini, 1707." We obtain a view of the ecclesiastical condition 
 of Doddington at this time from the Speculum Diceceseos, a MS. 
 Survey of the Diocese preserved in the Bishop's Registry at 
 Lincoln, originally compiled from Returns made in reply to the 
 Visitation Questions of Bishop William Wake in 1705, to which 
 later additions have from time to time been made. It tells us 
 that there were then twenty families in Doddington and Whisby, 
 the Rector being Mr. William Carleton, who had been ordained 
 Priest by Bishop Barlow in 1686, and was presented to the Rectory 
 of Doddington by Sir Thomas Hussey in 1692. He records his 
 own institution and induction in the Parish Register thus : — 
 "Gulielmus Carleton, Rector Ecclse. Parochialis D. Petri in 
 Doddington-Pygott, in Rectoriam predict : eccles : institutus et 
 inductus erat, Anno Domini, 1692." He resided at Doddington, 
 
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 but held with it the Vicarage of Canwick, which is stated, not 
 very accurately, to be but three miles distant. There was then 
 service at Doddington once only on Sunday, the people being 
 said to go to Skellingthorpe the other part of the day. Holy 
 Communion was celebrated but four times a year ; on the other 
 hand there was Catechizing throughout the whole summer, and 
 indeed through almost the whole of 17 18 at all seasonable times, 
 as a later addition states, — "fere per totum 17 18 omnibus temp' 
 opportunist The revenue of the living is stated at from ,£33 to 
 ^45 ; the tenths being 14J. n|^., and procurations 10s. A note 
 is added, "Sir Thomas Hussey lives here." Doddington was 
 one of the benefices discharged from the payment of first-fruits 
 under Queen Anne's Bounty, when its clear yearly value is returned 
 at £tf, its value in the King's books having been £i 9*. 6d. 
 The Rev. William Carleton held the living till his death in 1726 ; 
 his wife, Mrs. Anne Carleton, died in 17 19, a year in which there 
 were seventeen burials here, the average number being two, and 
 she is buried under a slab in the chancel of our Church. 
 
 The eldest of Sir Thos. Hussey's three surviving daughters and 
 coheirs was Rebecca Hussey, who, as her epitaph in Honington 
 Church records, "after a life principally spent in Devotion and 
 Acts of Charity died unmarried 21 August, 1714-" She took care 
 that her acts of charity should not end with her life. The following 
 are certain provisions of her will {Somerset House. Fagg, 91), 
 written with her own hand in 17 13 at her house in Stratton Street, 
 in which she describes herself as " Rebekah Hussey, of the Parish 
 of St. Martin's in the Fields in London, d. to Sir Thomas Hussey, 
 of Lincolnshire, Bart." " I appoint my Body to be buried where 
 my Executors shall think best, and would have good Books instead 
 of Gloves distributed, as my Trustees shall judge most proper :— 
 To the Poor of the Parish where I am buryed £20, and to each 
 of the several Parishes where our estate lyes in Lincolnshire ^5 :— 
 To the Redemption of Slaves, if it may be effected, or else to the 
 easement of their slavery ^1000,— those who are redeemed to be 
 baptized as soon as possible :— My Trustees to enquire what in 
 my estate doth justly belong to Church Lands, and restore the 
 same, or lay it out in charitable uses :— To my Cousin Hannah 
 Howard that lives with me .£200 and the use of my house in 
 Stratton Street for the remainder of the Lease, and the Furniture, 
 except my Plate, Family Pictures, Wrought Bed, and Blew and 
 White China that stands upon the Jappan Cabinet in the Dyning 
 Room. The above Legacies to take precedence of what follows. 
 To every Domestic Servant with me at my death a Year's Wages : — 
 For the use of the real French Protestants that are very needy, 
 ^ 500 : _For the Poor Palatines, ,£50 :— For Prisoners in Lincoln 
 or adjoining counties that are confined for small debts ^1000, and 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 £60 a year to a worthy Church of England Clergyman that will 
 preach every Sabbath day to the Prisoners at Lincoln, and pray 
 daily with them, and endeavour to discourse frequently what may 
 be to their eternal happiness :— For the relief of Old Maids that 
 are of good reputation .£3000, either as a yearly Fund, or to be 
 distributed as my Trustees see fittest :— For publishing and propa- 
 gating Spiritual and Religious Books at the sight and by the 
 consent of my Trustees, ^2000 :— To my Nephew, Master Thomas 
 Apreece, his Father's and Mother's Pictures, and my Sett of 
 Tumblers ; also my Diamond Loop that I wear over my Hood or 
 Handkerchief : — To my Niece Rhoda Apreece my Sister Betty's 
 and my Brother William's Pictures, and my Blew and White China 
 that stands upon my Jappan Cabinet; also my best Chocolat 
 Dishes that has covers and saucers to them ; and my Gold that 
 was my Father's which I have at Doddington j I leave also to her 
 my Silver Tea Kettle and Stand to it, and my last new Candlesticks 
 with Snuffers and Snuff-pan, and I give her the carved Crucifix of 
 our Blessed Saviour: — To Mr. Henry Apreece, my Brother 
 Apreece's Brother* ^500 :— To Mr. Thomas Hussey, my Godson, 
 during his father Sir Edward Hussey's life, ^12 a year for his 
 pocket expenses. . . I desire Mr. and Mrs. Carleton to accept 
 of 5 Guineas apiece. . . Lastly, all my overplus Estate to my 
 Sisters whom I constitute Executors ; and I appoint Robert Nelson, 
 Esq. Henry Hoare, Esq. and George Cheyne, Esq. to be my 
 Trustees for laying out my charitable uses." 
 
 Rebecca Hussey died, as has been said, 21 August, 17 14, and 
 administration of her effects was granted 10 May, 1715, to Thomas 
 Marriott, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., her sisters, Sarah Apreece and 
 Elizabeth Ellys, having renounced execution. Two, at least, of 
 her Charities, Rebecca Hussey's Charity for the Relief of Poor 
 Debtors, and Rebecca Hussey's Book Charity, have carried on her 
 good intentions, and kept her name in remembrance down to the 
 present day. The former continued to be paid during Lord 
 Delaval's life out of the rents of the Doddington estate to a 
 Clergyman " for serving the Curacy of Lincoln Castle." It is now 
 represented by a sum of ^3,192 Reduced Annuities, the interest 
 of which the Visiting Justices of H.M. Prison at Lincoln are 
 authorised, under a scheme approved by the Court of Chancery, 
 17 January, 1880, to apply for the benefit of criminals discharged 
 from Lincolnshire gaols. Rebecca Hussey herself is represented 
 in a full length picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which now hangs 
 in the Long Gallery at Doddington, as a companion picture to that 
 of her sister, Mrs. Apreece, by the same painter. Her burial at 
 
 * Henry Apreece, younger brother of Robert Apreece, was baptized at 
 Lutton, 16 October, 1680, and buried there, 1 February, 1741. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 in 
 
 Honington is recorded in the Register there, on 27 August, 17 14, 
 and a mural monument to her memory, and that of her mother 
 and sister, Mrs. Ellys, was erected in the Hussey Chapel by her 
 surviving sister, Mrs. Apreece, in 1730. 
 
 Sir Thomas Hussey's youngest daughter and coheir, Elizabeth, 
 was unmarried at the time of his death, but in 17 14 she married 
 Richard Ellys, Esq., son and heir of Sir William Ellys, of Nocton, 
 Bart. Their marriage licence was applied for 21 May, 17 14, and 
 in the allegation the parties are described as " Richard Ellys, of 
 Nockton, co. Line, aged 30, Bachelor, and Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Hussey, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, aged 26, Spinster: To be 
 married in the Church of St. Thomas, Southwark, or in the 
 Chapel of St. Thomas' Hospital." Richard Ellys had been 
 returned as Burgess for Grantham in 170 1-2 together with his 
 father who represented that borough for many years, and he after- 
 wards sat in three Parliaments, 1714, 1722, 1727, as M.P. for 
 Boston. He was a zealous Non-conformist, and author of a book 
 called Fortuita Sacra. Elizabeth Ellys died without issue 11 
 August, 1724, "after many afflictions endured with Christian 
 fortitude and patience," as is stated on her epitaph in Honington 
 Church, where she was buried August 27. In the partition of 
 their father's property, which took place.between the two surviving 
 sisters after Rebecca Hussey's death in 17 14, Doddington fell to 
 the share of Mrs. Ellys. In her will, dated 12 September, 1722, 
 proved 3 December, 1724 {Somerset House, Bolton, 266), in which 
 she describes herself as " Elizabeth Ellys, wife of Richard Ellys, 
 of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Esq.," she thus disposes of Dodding- 
 ton and her other property :— " I doe first give and devise all that 
 the Manor or Lordship of Doddington, alias Doddington Pygot, 
 co. Line, with all appurts., and the Advowson of the Parish 
 Church, and the Park of Doddington aforesaid, and all messuages, 
 cottages, arable lands, pastures, woodlands, moors &c. to which 
 my late father, Sir Thos. Hussey, Bart., was entitled at the time 
 of his death; and all Messuages and Grounds in the Parishes of 
 St. Pancras, Soper Lane, and St. Edmund the King in the City 
 of London; and all those lands and Fishery at Frencham, co. 
 Surrey, of which I was seised before my marriage, . . . Unto 
 John Forster, of Castle Yard, London, Gent. In Trust for the use 
 of my dearest Sister Sarah, wife of Robert Apreece, Esq., during 
 her life, and after her decease I give the same to my Nephew 
 Thomas Apreece and my Niece Rhoda Apreece, and their heirs, 
 in equal moieties, as tenants in common : In default of such 
 issue, to the heirs of my Sister Sarah Apreece, and in default of 
 such to my kinsmen, Thomas Cartwright, of Aynhoe, co. Northants. 
 Esq. and Thomas Ball, of Mamhead, co. Devon, Esq. in equal 
 moieties. And whereas there is now remaining in the hands of 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 my husband Richard Ellys several considerable sums arising out 
 of the sale of Wood or Timber within the said Manor of Dodding- 
 ton, and from certain Arrears of Rent and other Debts, the same 
 to be paid unto the said John Forster, In Trust for the sole and 
 separate use of my sister Sarah Apreece, and I direct her to pay 
 out of them all my just Debts, and the Legacies following, viz. — 
 To my Cousin Mary Howard, ^500 ; to Dr. Bradford, the Bishop 
 of Carlisle's two Daughters, .£100 apiece ;— To my Cousin Dorothy 
 Williamson, ^200, and to my Cousin Elizabeth Williamson, 
 ;£ioo;— To Jane Phillips, ^50;— To Elizabeth Rosswell, ;£io. 
 And I will that my Sister Sarah Apreece dispose of ^"ioo for 
 discharging poor Prisoners for debt in Lincoln Gaol; and ^50 
 more amongst such poor inhabitants of Doddington aforesaid as 
 she shall think the greatest objects of Charity; and £\o amongst 
 the Poor of Honington ; and £\o amongst the Poor of the 
 Parish where I shall die." Her portrait, perhaps that mentioned 
 as "my Sister Betty's Picture," in Rebecca Hussey's will, and left 
 by her to her niece, Rhoda Apreece, afterwards Mrs. Blake- 
 Delaval, is still to be seen at the Hall. 
 
 Her husband, Sir Richard Ellys, Bart., as he became on his 
 father's death in 1727, long survived her. He married, secondly, 
 Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Gould, Esq., of Ivor, 
 co. Bucks., who subsequently became Baroness Le Despencer 
 through her second marriage with Sir Francis Dashwood, who 
 inherited that Barony in 1763. He died, however, without issue 
 in 1742, when the Baronetcy became extinct. Nocton and his 
 other estates to the value of ,£4,000 a year were left by him to his 
 relatives of the Hampden family, who did not obtain possession 
 till after a law-suit with his next of kin. 
 
 By the death of Rebecca Hussey in 17 14, and of Elizabeth 
 Ellys in 1724, the third sister, Sarah, became the only surviving 
 daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Hussey. Already in 1700, 
 before her father's death, at the age of twenty-two, she had been 
 married at St. Margaret's, Westminster, to Robert Apreece, Esq., 
 of Washingley, co. Hunts. As the name shows, his family was 
 of Welsh extraction, claiming descent from Rhys, or Rees, Prince 
 of South Wales, tire. 1200, though now for many generations 
 settled as English landowners at Washingley, Many of their 
 monuments remain in the Parish Church of Lutton, to which 
 Washingley is united, though in the adjoining County of Northants. 
 Isaac (son of John, son of Matthew, son of John), ap Rhys, a 
 noble Welshman,— " nobilis Wallus," as his sons epitaph at 
 Lutton styles him,— married Joan, sister of Sir Reginald Bray, 
 Knt, Privy Councillor to King Henry VII. Their son, Robert 
 ap Reece, became the owner of Washingley through his 
 marriage with Joan, daughter and heir of John Otter, and was 
 
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 the first of the family to take up his residence there. From him 
 the Visitation of Hunts, of 1613 traces four generations to Sir 
 William Apreece, then living, to whom a shield of ten quarterings 
 is assigned, and from whom third in descent was the Robert 
 Apreece who married Sarah Hussey. He was the eldest 
 son of Robert Apreece, of Washingley, by his wife Ursula, who 
 died 1699, the daughter and heir of Henry Bexwell, of Bexwell, 
 co. Norfolk, Esq. The Parish Register of Lutton records his 
 baptism on 25 April, 1677, though in his Marriage Allegation 21 
 Dec, 1700, he is described as aged 25, a bachelor, of St. Martin's- 
 in-the-Fields. The children of their marriage were a son, Thomas 
 Apreece, who inherited Honington and Washingley, and a daughter, 
 Rhoda, who became the wife of Francis Blake Delaval, Esq., 
 Captain R.N. in 1724, and on whom Doddington was settled. 
 Besides these, another daughter, Mary, had died young, and was 
 buried in the Hussey vault at Honington, but is commemorated 
 on a grey marble slab within the altar rails of the Church of Lutton, 
 bearing the Apreece and Hussey arms, quarterly, on a lozenge, 
 and the following epitaph : — 
 
 " Here lyes the body | of Mary, Daughter | of Robert Apreece, 
 Esq. [ by Sarah his wife, | whose innocent Soul | washed by 
 Baptism | from original Corruption | and not polluted by actual | 
 Transgression, hasten'd to | the Region where only | undefiled 
 Spirits dwell, | not dying, but made Immortal, | in the Seventh 
 Year | of her age, Dec. 5, 1711." 
 
 In the partition of Sir Thomas Hussey's estates, between his 
 daughters Mrs. Apreece and Mrs. Ellys, in 171 7, Honington 
 became the property of the former; and by Mrs. Ellys' will in 
 1724 she became possessed of Doddington also for her life, with 
 remainder to her son and daughter as tenants in common. In 1 7 2 7, 
 however, Mrs. Apreece bought up the reversion of her son's 
 moiety of Doddington, described in the legal language of the 
 document enrolled in the King's Silver Office, Trin. Term, 
 13 King George, 25 November, 1727, as "a moiety of the Manor 
 of Doddington, otherwise Doddington Pygott, with the appurts. 
 and the Park of Doddington aforesaid; also 10 messuages, 5 
 cottages, 800 acres of land, 150 acres of meadow, 500 acres of 
 pasture, 300 acres of wood, 400 acres of furze and heath, 200 
 acres of moor, and 20s. Rent : also of Common of pasture for all 
 cattle, and Common of Turbary, and of a moiety of View of 
 Frank-pledge and whatsoever to View of Frank-pledge belongeth, 
 Goods and Chattels of Felons, Fugitives and Outlaws, Deodands, 
 Waifs and Estrays, with the appurts : also of the Advowson of the 
 Rectory of the Parish Church of Doddington, otherwise Dodding- 
 ton Pygott." The plaintiff for this purchase was John Stillingfleet, 
 Gent, acting for Mrs. Apreece, while the defendants or vendors 
 were her son Thomas Apreece and Amicia his wife. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Mrs. Apreece, together with her husband, presented to the 
 Eectory of Doddington, in 1726, the Rev. William Hammond, 
 whose wife had formerly lived with her. A memorandum in the 
 Parish Register, under 1729, records, "This year the East end 
 and South side of the Chancel was rebuilt, and a new window put 
 in, and new ceil'd by Wm. Hammond Rector." He died and 
 was buried in the chancel in 1738, the only one of the many 
 Rectors of whom there is any memorial in the Church. On bis 
 death she presented, through her trustee, John Forster, of Gray's 
 Inn, the Rev. William Singleton, who only held the Living for 
 six years : his daughter, " Mary, d. of Wm. Singleton, Rector, and 
 Martha his wife," was buried here 1 August, 1740; but on his 
 own death he was buried in St. Peter-at-Arches, Lincoln, where 
 a slab in the south aisle records, " Here lies interred The Reverend 
 Mr. William Singleton, Rector of Doddington, who departed this 
 life January the 10th, 1744, aged 40." Mrs. Apreece again presented 
 in her own name, 6 February, 1744, the Rev. George Wilson, 
 Rector of Caldicot, Hunts., who never resided, the duty being 
 performed by the Rev. R. P. Hurton, as Curate, until, on Mr. 
 Wilson's death in 1770, he was appointed Rector. The ecclesias- 
 tical condition of the Parish continued much the same as was 
 described in the Speculum Diceceseos of Bishops Wake and Gibson, 
 1 705- 1 7 23. In the Returns made to Queries issued for the 
 Primary Visitation of Bishop John Thomas in 1743, there was 
 still said to be Divine Service once on the Lord's Day, and Holy 
 Communion four times a year, as continued to be the practice 
 till nearly a century later; but there was Catechizing all the summer. 
 
 Robert Apreece died 26 October, 1744, and was buried at 
 Honington, November 3; he left by his will, proved 17 January, 
 1 745, all his personal estate to his widow. She survived him until 
 23 April. 1749, and in accordance with her own direction she was 
 buried, 6 May, in the family vault in Honington Church, to which 
 she was the donor in 1736 of the handsome communion plate 
 still in use. A marble mural monument in the Hussey Chapel 
 bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 Sarah Hussey, wife of Robert Ap Reece, 
 of Washingley, in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire. 
 She was the Daughter and Heir of 
 Sir Thomas Hussey, of Hunington, Bart, 
 descended from the 2nd Brother 
 of the Rt-Hon. John Lord Hussey, Baron of Sleeford, 
 and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. 
 This Family did derive their descent 
 from the ancient Barons Hoese or Huse, 
 Temp. Hen. 111. and Edw. 1. 11. and in. 
 She died the 23 April, 1749." 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
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 Below on a lozenge are the arms, — Quarterly, 1 and 4, Sable, 
 3 Spears' heads, Arg. goutte de sang ; Apreece : 2 and 3 Gules, a 
 cross patonce, Or ; Latimer : Impaling, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a 
 Cross, Vert : 2 and 3 Barry of 6, Erm. and Gules : Hussey. 
 
 In her will, dated 4 June, 1747, and proved 5 May, 1749* 
 by her daughter and sole executrix, she recites that whereas the 
 Manor of Doddington Piggot, with the advowson, and capital 
 messuage or manor house, and the park there, and all the 
 messuages, &c, &c, formerly her father's estate, by her sister 
 Ellys' will had vested in her for her life, and after her death as to 
 one moiety in her son Thomas Apreece, and the other moiety in 
 her daughter Rhoda, now the wife of Francis Blake Delaval, of 
 Seaton Delaval ; and whereas she had purchased the reversion of 
 her son's moiety, she now settles the said moiety on her daughter 
 for her life, and after her death on her second son, John Blake 
 Delaval, and his heirs male, with remainders to Edward third, 
 Thomas fourth, Robert fifth, George sixth, Henry seventh, and 
 Ralph eighth, son and their heirs male successively ; and in default 
 of such on Rhoda Blake Delaval, the eldest daughter ; Provided 
 that each of them so succeeding should take the surname of 
 Hussey, and in case of any of them succeeding to his father's 
 estates, their interest in Doddington should cease and pass to the 
 next in remainder. Together with the moiety of Doddington she 
 settled certain woods called Harby Woods, lying near Doddington, 
 and held under a lease renewable every seven years from the Dean 
 and Chapter of Lincoln ; and she willed that " Four Dozen Silver 
 Plates bought with the money of my late Sister Ellys, having on one 
 side the Arms of my Husband Robert Apreece, and on the other 
 the Crest of the Hussey family, which cost ^300 within a few 
 shillings, should remain as Heirlooms in the Mansion House of 
 Doddington for the use of the person in possession." We cannot 
 say what has become of these silver plates, the ownership of which 
 was a subject of correspondence between Mr. Edward Hussey- 
 Delaval and Sir Jacob Astley in 1808. The Minsterhold Woods, 
 containing 35 acres, adjoining Doddington, but in the parish of 
 Harby, were held of the Dean and Chapter at an out-rent of 
 xos. 8d. per annum on a seven years' lease with a fine on renewal, 
 which in 1786 was £20, and in 1818 ^99. The oak wood was 
 felled in 1779, and the land has been long enfranchised, and still 
 forms part of the Doddington estate. Mrs. Rhoda Blake Delaval 
 and her husband had already made a like settlement of the other 
 moiety of Doddington, to which she was entitled under Mrs. Ellys' 
 will, only whereas Mrs. Apreece left an ultimate remainder of her 
 moiety, in the event of all the sons dying without male issue, to 
 their eldest sister Rhoda, afterwards Mrs. Astley, Mrs. Blake 
 Delaval gave the ultimate remainder of her half between their two 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 younger sisters, Ann Hussey Delaval (Lady Stanhope) and Sarah 
 Delaval (Countess of Mexborough). Their evident object was to 
 preserve the name of Hussey, and to prevent the Doddington 
 estate from being swallowed up in the larger property of the 
 Delavals. This intention was sadly frustrated by the course of 
 events. It could not have been expected, as actually happened, 
 that all the eight sons and grandsons on whom Doddington was 
 settled would die without a male heir. 
 
 Amongst many other legacies Mrs. Apreece left : — " To my son 
 in law Francis Blake Delaval, ;£ioo; To my God-daughter Ann 
 Hussey Delaval, ,£1000; To the Poor of each of the Parishes of 
 Doddington and Honington, £20 ; To my Trustees, William 
 Cartwright, Armstead Parker, and John Forster, 20 Guineas apiece ; 
 To Jane Coe, of Doddington, widow, (buried here June, 1751) 
 £10 a. year, paid quarterly, and 3 Guineas besides ; To Mrs. Susan 
 Potter, wife of John Potter, Esq. (afterwards Lady Delaval) 20 
 Guineas ; To the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Rector of Caldicot, and to 
 Mrs. Wilson, 5 Guineas each; To Mr. William Hitchings of 
 Swinethorp, 2 Guineas; To the Widow of the late Rev. Mr. 
 Hammond, of Doddington, who formerly lived with me, 5 Guineas ; 
 To Miss Sarah Hammond, daughter of Mr. Hammond, and my 
 God-daughter 5 Guineas; To Sarah Rawlins, who lives at my 
 House at Doddington half a year's Wages, besides what other- 
 wise shall be due at my death," &c, &c. The Miss Sarah 
 Hammond above mentioned is frequently alluded to in the letters 
 of the Delaval family, and Mrs. Astley speaks of her probable 
 marriage to Dr. Walgrave, " now that he has got so fine a living," 
 in 1752. 
 
 In a Settlement of Doddington, made by Francis Blake 
 Delaval and his wife Rhoda (Apreece), in 1732, the names of the 
 tenants occupying lands or houses on the estate are enumerated. 
 They were : — John Crook, William Andrew, John Brown, Anthony 
 Arrowsmith, George Arrowsmith, Henry Booth, Matthew Wright, 
 Gervase Frith, William Rawdon, William Carleton, clerk, Isaac 
 
 Farnsworth, Eastwood, widow, Joseph Pickworth, Mr. Bell, 
 
 Mr. Lintin, Widow Smalley, Christmas Smith, Anthony Burstain, 
 Christopher Burstain, Robert Husband, and Richard Ardin. As 
 the Rev, W. Carleton died in 1726, this list evidently refers to an 
 earlier date than 1732. Not one of these names now remains in 
 the Parish ; one family only, that of Pickworth, continued in it 
 till past the middle of the present century. Even in 1761 and 
 1 79 1 very different lists of names are found. 
 
 On Mrs. Apreece's death the ownership of Honington became 
 separated from that of Doddington, the former passing to her only 
 son, Thomas (Hussey) Apreece, born at Honington in 1702, and 
 buried there 9 October, 1763. He was the Mr. Apreece whose 
 
Doddingtoti and the Husseys. 1 1 7 
 
 portly figure and ungainly manner and Welsh surname were 
 caricatured by Foote, who was intimately acquainted with him 
 and the Delaval family, in the character of Mr. Cadwallader in 
 his farce called The Author, which he brought out in 1757. After 
 bearing the joke good-humouredly for a time, and even showing 
 himself prominently in the theatre that the audience might see 
 the resemblance of the caricature to the original, he found the 
 notoriety so intolerable that he had to exert his influence with the 
 Lord Chamberlain to have the Play suppressed. He was twice 
 married, first, in 1739, to Elizabeth Dover, only child and heiress 
 of William Enfield, Esq., of Whitley, co. Wilts., who died s.p. 
 26 December, 1740, and was buried at Honington; second, 10 
 March, 1742, to Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Sir Nathan 
 Wright, Bart., of Cranham Hall, co. Essex. His eldest son by 
 her, Sir Thomas Hussey Apreece, born 15 November, 1744, was 
 created a Baronet in 1782; he married, 15 April, 1771, Dorothea, 
 daughter and coheir of Shuckburgh Ashby, of Quenby Hall, co. 
 Leic, Esq., and died 27 May, 1833, in the eighty-ninth year of 
 his age. On a tablet to his memory in Effingham Church, Surrey, 
 where he had bought an estate, he is described as " late of 
 Washingley Hall, co. Hunts., of Honington, co. Line, of Cranham 
 Hall, co. Essex, and Effingham House, co. Surrey." His eldest 
 son, Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece, born 17 December, 1773, died 
 s.p. in his father's life-time at Malvern, 5 December, 1807 ; he 
 had married, in 1798, Jane, daughter and heir of Charles Kerr, Esq., 
 well known in society in her widowhood as Mrs. Apreece, and sub- 
 sequently as Lady Davy, having re-married Sir Humphrey Davy, 
 11 April, 181 2, and survived till 8 May, 1855. Sir Thomas Hussey 
 Apreece's second son, Sir Thomas George Apreece, succeeded 
 his father as second Baronet ; he died, unmarried, 30 December, 
 1842, aged 51, and was buried at Honington, when the baronetcy 
 became extinct. He left all his property to St. George's Hospital, 
 London; but his will was disputed by his sister Amelia, Mrs. 
 Peacock, afterwards Mrs. Freeman, as his next of kin. Judgment 
 was delivered in favour of the Hospital, but an appeal being 
 threatened a compromise was agreed to, by which the estates were 
 divided. Under this agreement Honington and Washingley were 
 sold, but the family portraits, including that of Lord Hussey 
 already mentioned, were bought in by the Governors, and are now 
 preserved at St. George's Hospital. 
 
 With the kind permission of the Rev. H. Dodwell Moore, 
 Vicar of Honington, R.D., we are enabled to append a list of 
 such entries relating to the Hussey family as are contained in the 
 Parish Registers of Honington. These begin in 1 561, but there 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 are gaps from 1617 to 1625, and from 1639 to 1673, which are 
 partially supplied by extracts from the transcripts in the Bishop's 
 Registry at Lincoln, for which we are indebted to Alfred Gibbons, 
 Esq. ; these last are added within brackets below. 
 
 1587. Mr. John Husey, Esq. was buryed the xxvii daye of 
 August. 
 
 1597. M ris Elizabeth Husey, widowe, was buryed the last 
 daye of March. 
 
 1597(8). Mr. John Husey, the sonne of Charles Husey, Esq. 
 was buryed the xiiij daye of March. 
 
 1608(9). S r Charles Hussey, Knyght, was buried the xxx daye 
 of Januarie. 
 
 1 6 10. Elizabeth Hussey, the daughter of S r Edward Hussey, 
 Knight, was Baptized the xxviij daye of Aprill. 
 
 . Elizabeth Hussey, the daughter of S r Edward Hussey, 
 
 Knight, was Buried the xxviij daye of Aprill. 
 
 1611(2). M ris Jane Hussey, the daughter of S r Edward 
 Hussey, Knight and Barronet, was Baptized the xxvij daye of 
 Januarie. 
 
 1613. Thomas Hussey, the sonne of S r Edward Hussey, 
 Knight and Baronet, was baptized the third of Maye. 
 
 1614. M ris Elizabeth Hussey, the daughter of S r Edward Hussey, 
 Knight and Barronet, was baptized the xxvj day of Aprill 
 
 1 6 14. M ris Elizabeth Hussey was buried the xxx day of 
 October. 
 
 1 6 1 5. Robert Hussey, Esq re . was buried the xxiij daye of July. 
 [16 1 7. Marie Hussey, d. of Sir Edward Hussey, Knt. and 
 
 Bart, was bapt. xvi July. 
 
 16 1 9. Sarah, d. of do., bapt. xv June : Bur. xxii Nov. 
 
 1620. William, s. of do., bapt. xxiii June : Bur. xv March, 1621. 
 
 162 1. Susan, d. of do., bapt. ii Aug. : Bur. xxiiij Dec. 
 
 1622. Rebecca, d. of do., bapt. xvi. Oct.] 
 
 1625. Bridget, the daughter of S r Edward Hussey, Knight 
 and Barronet, was baptized the firste daye of November. 
 
 1626. Charles, the sonne &c. was baptized the xxx daye of 
 October. 
 
 1629. Edward, the sonne &c. was baptized the xxvj daye of 
 
 July- 
 
 1630- (i). Robert, the sonne &c. was baptized the vj daye of 
 January. 
 
 1631- (2). Robert, the sonne &c. was buried the xxx daye of 
 January. 
 
 1633. Anne, the daughter &c. was baptized the xiij daye of 
 June. 
 
 1633. Thomas Williamson, Esquier, and M ris Jane Hussey, 
 the daughter of S r Edward Hussey, knight and Barronett, were 
 marryed the xxvij daye of August. 
 
Doddington and the Husseys. 
 
 119 
 
 1634. Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Hussey, Esq. and 
 Rhoda, his nowe wife, was baptized the xvj day of October. 
 
 1635. Rhoda, the daughter of Thomas Hussey, Esq., and 
 Rhoda, his nowe wife, was baptized the xxj day of September. 
 
 1636. Jane, the daughter of M r Thomas Hussey and Rhoda, 
 his nowe wife, was baptized the xiij day of November. 
 
 1637. Robt. Boules, Esq. and M ri8 Mary Hussey, the daughter 
 of S r Edward Hussey, Kt.and Barronett, were marryed [xiv October]. 
 
 1637. Edward, the sonne of Thomas Hussey, Esquire, and 
 Rhoda his wife, was baptized the xiiij day of November. 
 
 1637(8). Edward, the sonne of do., was buried the xx day of 
 January. 
 
 1638(9). Thomas, the sonne of Thomas Hussey, Esquire, 
 and Rhoda his wife, was baptized the xiiij day of January. 
 
 [1641. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Hussey, Esq., buried xxiiij Dec. 
 
 1662(3). John, the sonne of Sir Charles Hussey, Knt. and 
 Elizabeth his wife bapt. Jan. 6. 
 
 1664. Roda, the d. of Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart, and Dame 
 Sarah his wife, was bapt. March 15. 
 
 167 1. Edward Hussey, s. of Thomas Hussey, Bart. bur. 
 March 27.] 
 
 1676(7). Thomas Hussey, Esq. the sonne of S r Thomas 
 Hussey, Bart, and Sarah his wife, was buried February the 10 th . 
 
 1 68 1. M r Robert Hussey, son of S r Thomas Hussey, Knight 
 and Barronett, was buried October the 4 th . 
 
 1689. Rhoda, daughter of Sir Thomas Hussey, Barronett, 
 was buried May the 4 th . 
 
 1695. His Excellency Sir William Hussey, Knight, was 
 buried May the 16 th . 
 
 1697. The Hon ble Lady Sarah Hussey, Wife of the Hon ble 
 Sir Thomas Hussey, Barronett, was buried July the 24 th . 
 
 1698. M r William Hussey, sonne of Sir Thomas Hussey, 
 Baro**, was buried July 29 th , 1698. 
 
 1706 Sir Thomas Hussey, Barronett, was buried December 
 the 26, 1706. 
 
 1 7 14. M rs Rebekah Hussey was buried August y e 27 th -. 
 
 1724. M rs Elizabeth Ellis was buried August the 27 th . 
 
 1 740(1). Elizabeth Dover Apreece, wife to M r Thos. Apreece, 
 was interred Jan. y e 5 th , 174^. 
 
 1744. Robt. Apreece, Esq. of Washingley in the County of 
 Huntingdon, was inter'd November y e 3 rd , 1744. 
 
 1749. Dame Sara Apreece, wife of Robt. Apreece, Esq. of 
 Washingley, and Daughter of Thos. Hussey, Bart. Night {sic) was 
 inter'd May y e 6 th , 1 749. 
 
 1763. Thomas Hussey Apreece, Esq. of Washingley, October 
 the 9 th , 1763. 
 
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 Htstoty of Doddington. 
 
 The Hussey vault at Honington was filled in at a recent 
 restoration of the church. The following were the inscriptions on 
 the coffins then found in it : — 
 
 Mary Apreece, daughter of Robert and Sarah Apreece, and 
 grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart, of Doddington in the 
 County of Lincoln. 
 
 M rs Elizabeth Dover Apreece, died Dec. y e 26, 1740, aged 25 
 years (on coffin-plate; and on lead coffin itself), Elizabeth Dover 
 Apreece, Beloved Wife of Thomas Apreece, Esq. of Washingley 
 in the County of Huntingdon : died Dec. 26, 1740 : aetat. 25. 
 
 Robert Apreece, of Washingley in the County of Huntingdon, 
 Esq. : died October 26 th , 1744. 
 
 M rs Sarah Apreece, daughter of the late Sir Thomas Hussey, 
 Bart, of Doddington in the County of Lincoln, died April y e 23, 
 1749. 
 
 Thomas Hussey Apreece, of Washingley in the County of 
 Huntingdon, obiit 24 Sept. 1763, aged 61 years. 
 
 Sir Thomas George Apreece, Bart, died 30 th Dec. 1842, aged 
 51 years. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 DODDINGTON AND THE DELAVALS. 
 
 WE have said that Mrs. Apreece, the sole surviving daughter 
 and heiress of Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart., settled the 
 moiety of Doddington, which she purchased of her son, Thomas 
 Hussey Apreece, on her only daughter, Rhoda, on whom the 
 other moiety had already been settled by her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Ellys. On 6 August, 1724, Rhoda Apreece, then described as aged 
 above 21, was married in the Church of St. Anne's (Soho), West- 
 minster, to Francis Blake Delaval, of Seaton Delaval, co. Northum- 
 berland, Esq., Captain R.N., then aged 30. This marriage was the 
 means of adding Doddington to the already large possessions of 
 that ancient Northumbrian family. Genealogists indeed, such as 
 Thomas Challock, Bishop of the Orkneys, temp. James III., 
 traced for this family a mythical descent from the Lords of Gould- 
 brandsdall in Norway, one of whom migrating thence to Normandy, 
 gained there the lands and surname of De Laval by marriage 
 with the heiress of that lordship situated on the borders of 
 Normandy and the Maine. Possibly we are on surer ground 
 when we come to the Norman Conquest, in which we are told 
 that Sir Henric, second son of Guy, Lord De Laval, with his son, 
 Sir Guy, related to the Conqueror through a marriage with his 
 niece, Dionysia or Denise, took a prominent part, bearing one 
 of the chief banners at the Battle of Hastings. Certainly very 
 shortly afterwards the family was in possession of their North- 
 umbrian barony, consisting of the Manors of Seaton and Newsham 
 in the Parish of Earsdon, and those of Dissington and Callerton 
 in the Parish of Newburn, all in the County of Northumberland. 
 As early as the reign of William Rufus, Hubert De Laval gave the 
 tithes of his estates at Seaton, Callerton, and Dissington, to the 
 Monks of Tynemouth,— a gift confirmed by charter of Henry I. 
 Gilbert De Laval, son of Hugh Fitz-Roger who had a grant of Free- 
 warren from Henry II. was one of the barons in arms against King 
 John ; in 12 15 he was one of the twenty-five Conservators chosen 
 by the barons amongst themselves to secure the King's observance 
 of Magna Charta and his other engagements. He is said to have 
 held his barony as his ancestors had done since the Conquest, 
 and from him the descent can be traced down to present times. 
 In the fifteenth century, however, there occurred a break in the 
 
124 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 direct male line on the death of Sir John De Laval, of Newsham, 
 Knt. He left, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Mitford, 
 an only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, who married John 
 Horsley, of Ulchester, Esq. Their son, James Horsley, or Delaval, 
 suceeded to his mother's estates as well as to that of Seaton, and 
 together with the inheritance assumed the name and arms of the 
 Delavals. By the name of James Delaval, of Seaton Delavale, 
 Esq., alias James Horsley, he received a pardon from King 
 Richard III. for all offences committed before i February, 1484. 
 The original Letters Patent, with the Great Seal of Henry VII. 
 attached, confirming his son John Delaval in his possession of the 
 name and estates, was one of the documents recently discovered 
 at Seaton, and happily rescued from destruction by Mr. John 
 Robinson, of Newcastle. It belongs rather to the history of 
 Northumberland to trace more particularly the renewed line of 
 Delavals, as they filled in successive generations the offices of 
 High Sheriff, and frequently that of Knight of the Shire. In 
 1660 Sir Ralph Delaval, Knt., the eighth in descent from James 
 (Horsley) Delaval mentioned above, was created a baronet by 
 Charles II. He represented Northumberland in six Parliaments, 
 and was the first to interest himself in the construction of the 
 harbour at Seaton Sluice, afterwards so greatly improved by his 
 descendants. In recognition of this King Charles made him 
 collector and surveyor of his own port, as well as Admiral of that 
 coast.* Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty, writing from 
 Newcastle, 26 May, 1682, mentions his being interrupted by "Sir 
 Ralph Delaval just now coming in and forcing us away to a seat 
 of his some few miles from this place, where he will have us eat 
 with him before we sail." {Diary vi., 230.) More celebrated, 
 however, in naval matters was his namesake and first cousin, 
 another Sir Ralph Delaval, son of his uncle, William Delaval, by 
 Mary, daughter of Sir Peter Riddell, of Newcastle. This was the 
 Admiral, Sir Ralph Delaval, who figures conspicuously in the 
 naval history of King William IIL's reign and his warfare by sea 
 against the French. Having been promoted to the rank of 
 admiral he was knighted by that monarch, 31 May, 1690, and 
 served as second in command under the Earl of Torrington in 
 the disastrous sea-fight with the French off Beachy Head on 30 
 June, 1690. But that no blame attached to Admiral Delaval for 
 the disaster is shown by his being appointed President of the Court 
 
 * Captain Christopher Gunman, then in command of the Orange frigate, 
 and employed in convoying a fleet of colliers to and from Newcastle, enters in 
 his Log-book, now at Doddington, how, on 7 December, 1666, he made ready 
 to saile from Tynemouth, but there came an express from Sr. Ralph Delavale 
 that there were 14 sail of Dutch men of war off Flamborough Head, and so 
 he durst not proceed. 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 125 
 
 Martial by which Lord Torrington was subsequently tried. In the 
 great Battle of La Hogue, 19 May, 1692, in which the French fleet 
 was destroyed in the sight of the deposed James II., whom it was 
 designed to aid, Sir Ralph Delaval served as vice-admiral under 
 Admiral Russell, and distinguished himself with the squadron 
 under his immediate orders by driving the French admiral's flag- 
 ship, the Soleil Royal, and two other ships of the line on shore 
 near Cherbourg, where he gallantly attacked and burnt them. 
 The following year, 15 April, 1693, he and Admiral Killigrew 
 were placed on the Board of Admiralty, and entrusted with the 
 command of a great fleet to convoy some 400 sail of merchant- 
 men, the Smyrna fleet as it was called, to the Mediterranean. But 
 from some cause or other, whether the negligence of the admirals, 
 or from party intrigues, or the impracticable orders of the Ministry, 
 this great fleet effected nothing, and suffered its valuable convoy 
 to be dispersed ; so that, as is said in the Biographia Navalis, 
 " in the short space of a single summer Sir Ralph Delaval was in 
 the highest credit, lost it, and was actually set aside." He died 
 1707, leaving, by his wife, Dame Hester, daughters only, and was 
 buried, January 23, in Westminster Abbey, towards the east end 
 of the nave. Of one of these two Sir Ralph Delavals, nearly 
 contemporary, and both connected with the sea, there is a portrait 
 in the Hall at Doddington. It represents him, in three-quarter 
 length, standing clad in armour, with a flowing wig on his head, 
 and his helmet on a table by his side, with a view of the sea in 
 the distance. It is perhaps more probably the likeness of Sir Ralph, 
 the first baronet, the owner of Seaton-Delaval, where such a 
 portrait is mentioned in an Inventory of 1744, and is described 
 in The Beauties of England and Wales, as that of " Sir Ralph 
 Delaval, coasting Admiral in the time of Charles II." 
 
 This Sir Ralph Delaval, the first Baronet, died 29 August, 
 1691, and "was buried in his own sepulcre at ye Chappell of 
 Seaton Delavall, Sept. 1." He had married, 2 April, 1646, Lady 
 Anne Leslie, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Leven, the Lord 
 General of the Scottish army in England. It was owing to this 
 connection that when Lord Leven was taken prisoner by the 
 English forces and confined in the Tower, Sir Ralph Delaval 
 obtained his release on parole on condition that he should be 
 detained at Seaton Delaval, Sir Ralph himself, with John Delaval 
 of Peterborough, and John Delaval of Dover, Merchant, being 
 bound in a sum of ^20,000 for his safe custody. His eldest 
 surviving son, also Sir Ralph, born 1648, succeeded as second 
 Baronet ; he married Diana, daughter of Lord Delamere, but died 
 29 August, 1696, leaving only a daughter, Diana, the wife of 
 William Blackett, Esq. His next brother, Sir John Delaval, born 
 1654, M.P. for Morpeth, 1700, and the County of Northumber- 
 
126 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 land, 1 7 14, succeeded as third Baronet. His wife was Mary, 
 daughter of Edward Goodyer, Esq., of Dogmersfield, co. Hants., by 
 whom he had an only daughter, Anne Delaval, who married John 
 Rogers, Esq., of Denton and Newcastle, but died without issue 
 within a year of her marriage, in 1723. On Sir John Delaval's 
 death, 4 June, 1729, the baronetcy became extinct, and the male 
 representation of the family devolved on a branch which had been 
 settled at Dissington since the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century, and to a member of which, Admiral George Delaval, Sir 
 John had already, in 17 17, sold the family estate of Seaton 
 Delaval. 
 
 It was in the sixth generation after the Horsley-Delaval 
 marriage mentioned above, that the branch of the family seated 
 at Dissington diverged from the main line. This was in the 
 person of Sir John Delaval, Knt, a second son of Sir Robert 
 Delaval, Knt, to whom his father on his death, in 1606, left the 
 Manors of North and South Dissington, in the Parish of Newburn, 
 while the eldest son, Sir Ralph Delaval (born 1576, died 1626), 
 inherited the family estates at Seaton Delaval. Sir John Delaval, 
 of Dissington, was High Sheriff of Northumberland, 8 and 22 
 Jas. I., and Knight of the Shire, 12 Car. I., 1636. He died in 
 1652 ; and by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George 
 Selby, he was grandfather to Edward Delaval, who on the death 
 of his father, George Delaval, in 1694, succeeded to South Dis- 
 sington, the North Dissington property having been previously 
 sold to the Collingwood family. Edward Delaval, baptised at 
 Newburn, 28 October, 1664, had been page to King Charles II. 
 in his youth, and served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 
 1 72 1. He married Mary, widow of Ralph Ord, of West Ord, 
 Esq., and one of the daughters and coheiresses of Sir Francis 
 Blake, Knt., of Coggs, co. Oxford; her mother was Elizabeth 
 Carr, second daughter of William Carr, of Ford Castle, Esq., (died 
 1644,) and coheiress with her two sisters of her brother, Thomas 
 Carr, shot at Alnwick by his stepfather, John Ratcliff, in 1660. 
 Sir Francis Blake, who died 17 18, had bought up his wife's sisters' 
 rights in Ford, so as to become sole possessor of that border 
 stronghold, which his wife's great-grandfather, Thomas Carr, had 
 obtained by his marriage, in 1548, with Elizabeth Heron, the 
 heiress of its former possessors, and had successfully defended 
 himself in one tower of it against an attack of the Scots and French 
 in 1549. The Castle itself is well-known for its capture by the 
 Scots, together with the neighbouring holds of Wark and Etal, 
 in that invasion of King James IV, which ended in the Battle of 
 Flodden, 9 September, 1513. Standing on a steep brow above 
 the " sullen Till," it looks across towards the slope of " Flodden's 
 fatal field;" and still shows in its "King's Tower" the room 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 127 
 
 occupied by King James before the fight, when he tarried there 
 too long as the guest of Lady Heron, whose husband, Sir William 
 Heron, Scott's "Sir Hugh the Heron bold," was then a prisoner 
 in Scotland. This marriage of Mary Blake with Edward Delaval 
 brought the Castle and adjoining estate into the possession of the 
 Delaval family, with whose descendants it still continues. The 
 heiress of Ford died December, 171 1, aged 47 ; while her husband, 
 Edward Delaval, survived her until 1744, dying at the age of 80 
 on 3 August in that year. They both are buried in the Church 
 of Newburn, near Newcastle, the Parish in which the Dissington 
 Manors are situated ; and they, and many other members of this 
 branch of the family, from Sir John Delaval downwards, are 
 commemorated on a monumental slab of blue marble within the 
 altar rails, which bears a finely cut shield of arms : — Delaval, Erm. 
 2 Bars, Vert, quartering, 2. Gules, 3 Eagles displayed, Arg : 3. 
 Gules, a Lion ramp. Erm, crowned, Or : 4. Barry of 6, Arg. and 
 Azure, over all 3 Chaplets, Gules, Greystock. 
 
 Younger brother to Edward Delaval, of Dissington, was 
 Admiral George Delaval, who early entered the navy under the 
 auspices of Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval, his cousin, and was appointed 
 Captain of a Man-of-War in 1695. His naval services in the 
 Mediterranean in command of ships of war under Sir George 
 Rooke and Lord Torrington, when he signalised himself in the 
 Battles of Malaga and Syracuse, and was chosen by the Earl of 
 Peterborough to bring home the news that the Siege of Barcelona 
 was raised, are recorded in the Biographia Navalis, hi., 96-98. 
 Meanwhile, he was often employed in diplomatic missions, being 
 sent as Envoy Extraordinary to the Emperor of Morocco in 1700 
 and T707, and to the King of Portugal in 17 10 ; and was promoted 
 to the rank of Rear- Admiral in 17 18, and to that of Vice- Admiral 
 in 1722. His sister, Mary Delaval, married Edward Shafto, whose 
 elder brother, William, forfeited his estate of Bavington for his 
 complicity in the Jacobite rising of 17 15-6. Admiral George 
 Delaval purchased the confiscated estate and settled it on his 
 sister's son, who took his name, and became George Shafto Delaval, 
 of Bavington, subsequently M.P. for Northumberland. In 17 17 
 Admiral George Delaval purchased the ancestral estate of Seaton 
 Delaval from Sir John Delaval, the last Baronet of the elder line, 
 and proceeded at once to rebuild the mansion on it. The work 
 was not quite finished when he met his death, at the age of 55, 
 on 22 June, 1723, through a fall from his horse as he was riding 
 after dinner in the grounds. The place is marked by an obelisk, 
 about a mile from the hall and from the chapel beneath which his 
 body lies. He was unmarried, and left Seaton Delaval to his 
 nephew, Francis Blake Delaval, the eldest and then only surviving 
 son of his elder brother, Edward Delaval, and Mary Blake, in 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 whom the representation of the family and the possession of the 
 ancestral estates became thus once more combined. 
 
 As so many others of his family (including his own brother, 
 Robert Delaval, who commanded the ship in which Admiral 
 George Delaval was sent home with despatches from Barcelona in 
 1706, but who died 13 February, 17 15, and was buried in the 
 chapel at Seaton Delaval), Francis Blake Delaval served in the 
 Royal Navy. He obtained his commission as Captain R.N. 26 
 March, 17 19, and as such commanded the Gosport in the Baltic 
 under Sir John Norris, and subsequently the Worcester ; in which he 
 was employed to guard our northern coasts. In 17 16 he was 
 chosen Knight of the Shire for Northumberland, on the expulsion 
 and attainder of Thomas Forster, of Bamborough, the unfortunate 
 General of the Northumbrian Jacobites in the rising of 1715; and 
 he filled the office of High Sheriff of the county in 1730. Through 
 his mother he inherited the Ford Castle estate on the death of his 
 grandfather, Sir Francis Blake, in 17 17, and that of Seaton Delaval, 
 as has been said, under the will of his uncle, Admiral George 
 Delaval, in 1723. On his father's death in 1744 he succeeded to 
 South Dissington, and he was the means of connecting Doddington 
 with the Delaval family, through his marriage with Rhoda Apreece, 
 the heiress of Doddington, of which she became possessed on the 
 death of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Apreece, in 1749. Amongst all 
 these seats, Captain and Mrs. Blake-Delaval resided chiefly at 
 Seaton and at Doddington, and only occasionally at Ford Castle, 
 which was allowed to go to decay, as was also his father's mansion 
 at Dissington ; and the town house at Newcastle, which the family 
 had always hitherto kept, was no longer retained. In London 
 Mr. and Mrs. Blake-Delaval lived in Stratton Street, as his uncle, 
 Admiral George Delaval, and her aunts, Sir Thos. Hussey's 
 daughters, had done ; later they had a house in Downing Street. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott, in his Marmion, tells us of the Nuns of 
 Whitby, on their voyage northwards to Holy Island, that as 
 " the vessel skirts the strand 
 
 Of mountainous Northumberland, 
 
 They marked amid her trees the hall 
 
 Of lofty Seaton Delaval." 
 
 What would have been seen in the days of Henry VI II. was 
 very different from what Sir Walter saw, and from what now meets 
 the eye of the voyager along the Northumbrian coast, Of the 
 ancient castle or manorial hall, in which so many generations of 
 the family had lived since the Conquest, nothing remains but the 
 chapel* of rich Norman architecture, which now stands isolated 
 
 * Recently, through the liberality of Lord Hastings, the present inheritor 
 of the Delaval estate and blood, this chapel has become the parish church of a 
 new ecclesiastical district of Delaval, which carries on their family name. 
 
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 in the grounds, and contains within its walls the effigies of some 
 of the earliest of the race, with scanty remains of later armour, 
 and the hatchments of the three brothers, sons of Francis and 
 Rhoda Blake-Delaval, who were the last bearers of their ancient 
 name. Even Sir John Delaval, the last of the earlier line of 
 Baronets, had not resided at the Hall, but in what was called the 
 Lodge at Seaton Sluice, which he boasted was the largest thatched 
 house in England. When Admiral George Delaval bought Seaton 
 Delaval in 1 717, he at once engaged the great architect of the day, 
 Sir John Vanbrugh (who had just completed Castle Howard), to 
 build him a suitable mansion for the estate. Under his direction 
 all that remained of the former building was swept away, and a 
 little to the north-east of its site was erected a great Italian palace 
 on the rising ground above the northern entrance of the Tyne, 
 looking northward over Blyth and the Northumbrian coast, and 
 with a southward view over the ruins of Tynemouth Priory and 
 the busy river as it runs down from Newcastle. Its plan was that 
 of a central block with grand pillared fa9ades. In this the 
 principal apartments were placed, while two wings, connected 
 with it by arcaded corridors, projected at right angles so as to 
 form three sides of a square. The whole was of fine stonework, 
 richly adorned with columned porticoes, and grand flights of steps. 
 Writers who saw it in its splendour describe it thus : — " This 
 magnificent seat has an air of dignity and grandeur which 
 surpasses every other mansion of the north of England ; it 
 appears like a vast quarry lifted out of the earth, and fashioned 
 after the most exact symmetry"*: — Or, as "This princely 
 mansion, more like a royal palace than the country seat of 
 a subject."* Wm. Howitt speaks of it as "the finest erection 
 of Sir John Vanbrugh * " ; and even now, when its centre stands 
 in partial ruin and desolation, gutted as it was by the destructive 
 fire of January, 1822, the mansion is compared by modern writers 
 with that of Blenheim (the design of the same architect), and 
 is pronounced as " far surpassing it in beauty, lightness, and 
 simplicity."* 
 
 Below the great house, at the water's side, is the little harbour 
 of Seaton Sluice, formed by members of the Delaval family, with 
 an entrance cut through the solid rock at great expense, for the 
 development of the collieries and other works on their estate. 
 Close beside it rise the gigantic brick cones of the Hartley Bottle 
 Works, now empty and deserted, which were established by the 
 
 * Hutchinson's View of Northumberland, 1776, vol. ii. , p. 330. Beauties 
 of England and Wales, 1813, vol. xii., p. 91. Howitt's Remarkable Places, 
 2nd series, p. 352. Murray's Northumberland. 
 
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 genius of Thomas Delaval, at the cost of Lord Delaval, his brother.* 
 Here, in the disused office, was found in 1888 a mass of papers, 
 which were about to be burnt, but were fortunately saved from 
 impending destruction by the care and interest of Mr. John 
 Robinson, of Newcastle, by whom they have since been restored 
 to the hall at Seaton Delaval, and placed in the possession of the 
 present representatives of the family. They proved to be family 
 documents of the greatest interest, ranging from grants and charters 
 of the time of Richard I. down to the accounts for building the hall, 
 1 7 18-1728, and the school exercises of Lord Delaval's youngest 
 child, Sarah Hussey, the wild and beautiful Countess of Tyrconnel. 
 Amongst them are many relating to Doddington, such as a series 
 of letters from Rhoda Delaval (Mrs. Astley) from 1751 onwards, 
 addressed to her sister-in-law, Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Delaval, at 
 Doddington, where she had then newly come to reside on her 
 marriage, as well as the Estate Accounts from Doddington and 
 the fortnightly letters sent to Lord Delaval for many years by 
 Wm. Portes, his steward here. These Mr. Robinson has most 
 kindly permitted us to peruse and make use of in the present pages. 
 
 The great house at Seaton was still unfinished when Admiral 
 Delaval met his death there in 1723, and was succeeded by his 
 nephew, Captain Francis Blake-Delaval, R.N., who shortly after- 
 wards married the heiress of Doddington. By him the building 
 was carried on to its completion about 1728, and the triangular 
 tympanum of the great northern fa§ade is filled with a finely-cut 
 stone shield, on which are carved his own and his wife's arms — 
 Quarterly, 1 and 4, Erm. 2 Bars, Vert. : Delaval. 2 and 3, Arg. 
 a Chevron between 3 Garbs, Sable : Blake : — Impaling, Quarterly, 
 1 and 4, Sable, 3 Spears' heads, Arg. goutt6e de sang; Apreece. 
 2, Or, a Cross, Vert; Hussey. 3, Barry of 6, Erm. and Gules, 
 Hussey. 
 
 As was the case with his uncle, Admiral George Delaval, so 
 Captain Francis Blake-Delaval met his death from an accident at 
 Seaton Delaval. He fell down the great flight of stone steps 
 which lead up to the southern facade and broke his leg, an 
 accident which caused his death a few days after, on 9 December, 
 1752. He was aged 59, and was buried in the family vault 
 beneath the chapel at Seaton Delaval. Earlier in that year a fire 
 
 * A private Act of Parliament was obtained, 11 Geo. III., 1771, whereby 
 Sir Francis Blake Delaval, then tenant in tail of the estate, was empowered to 
 grant to his brother, Thomas Delaval, the fee simple of the acres on which 
 the Hartley Glass Works were built. This was subsequently purchased by 
 Lord Delaval, so that these Works did not follow the entail of the Seaton- 
 Delaval estate, but together with Ford devolved by Lord Delaval's will 
 on his widow, and on his grand-daughter, Lady Susanna Hussey (Carpenter) 
 Marchioness of Waterford, 
 
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 had broken out at Seaton, which consumed one of the wings, but 
 was extinguished through the exertions of Captain Delaval and his 
 family, as is described in one of Mrs. Astley's letters to Mrs. Delaval 
 at Doddington, written in May, 1752. Captain Blake-DelavaPs 
 widow, the heiress of Doddington, survived him until 9 August, 
 1759, when she died at her country house at Kensington, and was 
 buried, as the register records, 1 7 August, in the old parish church 
 there. 
 
 According to the notice in the Gentleman's Magazine of the 
 day, "her jointure of ^1200 per ann. went to Fra. Blake Delaval, 
 Esq. Member for Andover, and her Lincolnshire estate to John 
 Delaval, Esq. Member for Berwick." By her will, dated 30 June, 
 proved 31 August, 1759, she confirmed the settlement of 
 Doddington already made on her second son, John Delaval, and 
 other sons then surviving, Edward, Thomas, Robert, Henry, in 
 order of their birth, with an ultimate remainder to her two surviving 
 daughters, Anne Hussey, Lady Stanhope, and Sarah, Countess of 
 Mexborough. During her widowhood Mrs. Blake-Delaval had 
 occupied, with the consent of her son, Sir F. B. Delaval, the town 
 house in Downing Street, together with her " country house " at 
 Kensington, leaving the management of Doddington to her son 
 John (afterwards Lord) Delaval, who was its heir. But in her 
 will, amongst other legacies, she does not forget to leave 11 £20 
 to be distributed by her executors amongst poor persons, objects 
 of charity within the parish of Doddington." Many portraits of 
 her remain at the hall, the principal being a full-length seated 
 figure in the drawing-room, where also another likeness of her, of 
 smaller size, over the mantel-piece, forms a pair with that of her 
 husband opposite. The painter, Arthur Pond, was patronized by 
 her; and we may well believe that it was to her affection 
 for her family, and her wish to perpetuate their memory in her 
 own house of Doddington, that we owe the many family groups of 
 her children painted by him, which seem to have been designed 
 for the places they occupy in the hall. 
 
 Francis and Rhoda Blake-Delaval had a numerous and 
 distinguished family of eight sons and four daughters, of several of 
 whom we shall have to speak at length. The sons were : — 
 1, Francis Blake Delaval, b. 4 March, (o.s.) 1727, and baptized 
 26 March, at St. George's, Hanover-square, — the notable Sir 
 Francis Blake-Delaval made K.B. in 1761, who died 6 August, 
 1771, aged 44. 2, John Hussey Delaval, b. 17 March, 1728, 
 created Bart, in 1761, Baron Delaval in the Peerage of Ireland 
 1783, and in that of Great Britain in 1786 ; died 17 May, 1808, 
 aged 80. 3, Edward Hussey Delaval, baptized at Dissington 
 (Newburn) 18 June, 1729, who died 14 August, 1814, aged 85, 
 the last heir male of his ancient house. Of all these we must 
 
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 speak at length hereafter. 4, Thomas Delaval, who devoted the 
 early part of his life to mercantile pursuits, and spent many years 
 of his life at Hamburgh in order to become familiar with the ways 
 of trade. He employed his commercial and engineering talents 
 in the great improvement of the family harbour at Seaton Sluice, 
 and in the development of the Coal Trade and the Copperas and 
 Glass Works on the Seaton Delaval estates, bringing skilled 
 workmen from Hanover to teach the art of glass-making in the 
 works which he established at Hartley, and which he so developed 
 that under the title of the "Royal Northumberland Glass Works," 
 they became the largest and most successful works in the United 
 Kingdom. On 22nd September, 1768, he married at St. George's, 
 Hanover Square, Cecilia, daughter of Joel Watson, of Clapham, 
 his brother Edward Delaval being one of the witnesses. She was 
 "sister to Lady Davers, with a fortune of £75.000," as the 
 Gentleman's Magazine of the day informs us ; but she died without 
 issue at Clapham, on 24 June, 1775. Thomas Delaval was a 
 candidate for Newcastle-on-Tyne in the election of 1774, but was 
 defeated after a contest which lasted for eight days. He contested 
 Newcastle again in 1780, but again without success. He died 
 31 August, 1787, having fallen from his horse in a fit as he was 
 riding in Hyde Park, and expired immediately on reaching his 
 house in Pall Mall. By his will, dated 1784, proved Sept., 1787, 
 in which he describes himself as of Hanover Square, he left £10 
 apiece to each of his brothers and sisters, and made his wife's 
 niece, Miss Mary Danvers, daughter of Sir John Danvers, of 
 Swithland, co. Leic, Bart., his sole executrix and residuary legatee. 
 
 5, Robert Delaval, born 5 March, 1733, and baptized the same 
 day at St. George's, Hanover Square. We hear of him in 
 Mrs. Astley's letters about 1752 as amusing the country folk at 
 Seaton Delaval by a pantomime entertainment ; and later, in 1758, 
 we read in a Newcastle paper that " Captain Robert Delaval sailed 
 from Shields with a number of recruits he had enlisted for the 
 Honorable East India Company." According to the statement of 
 his sister, Lady Mexborough, he lost his life at the capture of 
 Quebec in September, 1759. This is so far confirmed by the fact 
 that his will, dated at his brother John's house, King's Square 
 Court, Soho, 11 May, 1758, was proved by his said brother, John 
 Hussey-Delaval, as sole executor, 16 October, 1759. He left his 
 property to be divided equally between his brothers and sisters. 
 
 6, George Delaval, and 7, Henry Delaval, were twins ; of whom 
 it was stated by Lady Mexborough, that "Henry, an officer, was 
 killed in battle in the East Indies, and George, his twin-brother, 
 refused to leave him, and during the voyage fell overboard and 
 was drowned." As a fact, however, George Delaval was already 
 dead, and left out of the entail of the Doddington estate on 6 July, 
 
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 1758, while Henry's name is still continued in it. He was 
 recruiting soldiers at Bellingham in 1755, and was a Captain in 
 the 73rd Regiment from 1757 to 1762. His portrait by Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, representing him half-length, in a cuirass, is now at 
 Ford Castle, and has been engraved. 8, Ralph, it was- said by 
 Lady Mexborough, "was placed in a mercantile house at Lisbon, 
 and perished in the earthquake there in 1755," but he had already 
 dropped out of the entail, the first of the eight brothers, 28 June, 
 1753, and the private Act of Parliament, obtained in 1771, states 
 that he died in his father's lifetime, that is, before 9 December, 
 1 75 2 - 
 
 The four daughters were : — 1, Rhoda, the first-born child, 
 born 1 July, and baptized at St. George's, Hanover Square, 
 22 July, 1725. In a letter still preserved at Seaton, dated London, 
 1 July, 1725, her father announces her birth to his father, Edward 
 Delaval, at Newcastle : " I wish you joy of a grand-daughter," he 
 writes, "my wife was safely delivered this morning. I easily 
 imagine you wish it had been of the other sex ; the worse luck 
 now, but the better another time." Ten days later he again writes 
 to his father, adding a postscript, " I believe you must give me 
 leave to name you for godfather to the little gentlewoman. We 
 intend my grandmother Blake and my wife's mother godmothers." * 
 She was nearly 26 when she married, 23 May, 1751, Edward 
 Astley, Esq., son and heir to Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., of Melton 
 Constable, co. Norfolk; but she did not live till her husband, 
 afterwards M.P. for Norfolk, succeeded as fourth Baronet on his 
 father's death, in 1760. A portrait of her by Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 is now at Ford Castle, and has been engraved, and another very 
 similar is in the Hall at Doddington, besides the representations 
 of her as a girl in the family groups. Many of her letters have 
 been preserved, addressed mostly to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Delaval, 
 at Doddington, and give a high idea of her bright and talented 
 character. She died, aged 32, at Widcombe, in the outskirts of 
 Bath, and was buried in the little church close to the Manor House 
 there, together with two infant children who died about the same 
 time. The Parish Register there gives the following particulars 
 of them : — 
 
 "1755, May 12. Editha Rhoda, the daughter of Edward 
 Astley, Esq., by Rhoda his wife, was born April y e 14th, 1755, and 
 was privately baptized the same day, and on the 12th day of May 
 was brought to Church to be received." 
 
 " r 757» O ct - 2I - Rhoda, the wife of Edward Astley, Esq., 
 Edward his son, and Editha Rhoda his daughter, were all three 
 buried, or rather deposited in the West end of the Church, which 
 was inclosed with a Wall about 3 feet high for that purpose," 
 
 * The Delaval Papers, p. 15. 
 
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 " 1757, Nov. 7. Francis, the son of Edward Astley, Esq., by 
 Rhoda his wife, was privately baptized the 25 Sept. last, and was 
 brought to Church this day to be received." 
 
 No trace of this inclosure at the west end of the church 
 remains, but a white marble slab on the pavement records, 
 " Beneath this stone are interred the remains of Rhoda Astley and 
 her two Infants which were here deposited, October 21, 1757." 
 On the south wall of the nave a mural monument of white and 
 grey marble bears a coat of arms in colour, Astley, Az. a Cinquefoil, 
 Erm. within a bordure, engr. Or, Impaling Delaval and Blake 
 quarterly, and an inscription setting forth the names and parentage 
 of herself and children, with the additions : — " Reader, in this 
 Tablet | behold a Tribute of Filial Respect | offered to the 
 Memory | of his deceased Parent by | Sir Jacob Henry Astley, 
 Bart. I a.d. 1808 " ; and "This Tablet having been defaced by 
 Time | was renewed a.d. 1842, by Dame Hester Astley | And her 
 son Lord Hastings, grandson of | The above Rhoda Delaval 
 Astley." Of her two surviving sons, the infant Francis, born just 
 before his mother's death, was afterwards an officer in the Navy, 
 and lost his life on board the Arethusa frigate in her gallant fight 
 with the Belle Poule in 1778. The elder son, born 12 September, 
 1756, afterwards Sir Jacob Henry Astley, fifth Baronet, succeeded 
 to the entailed Delaval estates in 1 814, on the failure of male issue 
 to his mother's brothers. It was in the time of his son, Sir Jacob 
 Astley, sixth Baronet, on 3 January, 1822, that the great fire broke 
 out which reduced the chief part of the magnificent Hall of 
 Seaton Delaval to a state of ruin. In 1841 he was summoned to 
 Parliament as Baron Hastings, the abeyance of that ancient 
 barony being terminated in his favour ; and the title of Hastings 
 and the Seaton Delaval estates are now enjoyed by his grandson, 
 the 26th Baron Hastings. 
 
 2, Anne Hussey Delaval, born and baptized at St. George's, 
 Hanover Square, 2 December, 1737. She married, 6 October, 
 1759, as his third wife, the Honble. Sir William Stanhope, K.B., 
 brother and heir presumptive to Philip Dormer, fourth Earl of 
 Chesterfield, the statesman and letter-writer. Sir William, who was 
 born in 1702, and made K.B. in 1725, a Privy Councillor in 1727, 
 and was M.P. for Bucks, from 1 72 7 to his death, settled on her^i,ooo 
 a year out of his estates in Northants. and elsewhere. He died 
 s.p. 7 May, 1772 ; and she remarried in 1773, Charles Morris, Esq.,* 
 Captain in the 2nd Life Guards, but better known as a celebrated 
 
 * Captain Charles Morris died 11 July, 1838, aged 93, and was buried at 
 Betchworth, co. Surrey. His poems were re-published in 2 vols, under the 
 title of Lyra Urbanica, in 1840. Many of these are still well-known, such as 
 his celebration of " The sweet shady side of Pall Mall," in "The Town and 
 Country," and "A Reason fair to fill my glass." 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 135 
 
 writer of lyric and political songs. We shall have to speak further 
 of Lady Stanhope in our account of the family, and need only add 
 here that she died at Melton Constable, the seat of her nephew, 
 Sir Jacob Henry Astley, Bart. A monument in the church there, 
 erected by him, records that "she died Feb. 23rd, 1812, aged 76, 
 leaving no issue, and her remains are interred in the Hastings 
 family vault in this church." 
 
 3, Elizabeth Mary Delaval was born 22 December, 1738, and 
 baptized at St. Margaret's Westminster, 12 January, 1739, but 
 died young. 
 
 4, Sarah Delaval, the youngest daughter, was born 14 March, 
 1742. and married 30 January, 1760, by special licence at the 
 house of her aunt, Lady Milbanke, in Argyle Street, Sir John 
 Savile, K.B., of Methley Hall, co. York, created Baron Pollington, 
 8 November, 1753, and Earl of Mexborough in the Peerage of 
 Ireland, 11 February, 1765. He died 12 February, 1778, aged 58 ; 
 and she remarried, 4 May, 1780, the Rev. Sandford Hardcastle, 
 Rector of Adel, near Leeds, who died 24 October, 1788, aged 47. 
 Lady Mexborough survived until 9 August, 182 1, when she died 
 at her house in Dover Street, in her 80th year, the last survivor of 
 that generation of her family. She is represented as a girl in the 
 family groups at Doddington, and especially in the fine picture 
 which occupies one end of the gallery, in which Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds has painted Lord and Lady Pollington, as they then 
 were, advancing side by side in coronation robes, with their little 
 son and heir, John, afterwards second Earl, born 1761, between 
 them. In the Parish Church of Methley, the Waterton Chapel at 
 the east end of the south aisle, together with many other memorials 
 of the Savile family, contains the sumptuous monument by Wilton, 
 erected by Lady Mexborough to the memory of her husband, the 
 first Earl, surmounted by his life-sized figure, in white marble, 
 wearing his robes as a peer. Here also is a tablet placed by her to 
 the memory of her second husband, the Rev. Sandford Hardcastle, 
 who is buried in the Savile vault, and to whom also she erected a 
 monument in his own Church of Adel. Below this tablet, on the 
 east wall, is a white marble monument with figures, " Sacred to the 
 memory of Sarah, Dowager Countess of Mexborough, who departed 
 this life August 9th, 1821, in the 80th year of her age. This 
 Monument was erected in affectionate and grateful remembrance 
 by her sons, John Earl of Mexborough, and the Honble. Henry 
 Savile." A third son, Charles Savile, had died in 1807, aged 32 ; 
 Henry Savile died unmarried in 1828, aged 65 ; and from her 
 eldest son, John, the second Earl, the present fourth Earl of 
 Mexborough is descended. 
 
 Captain Francis Blake Delaval was succeeded in his Northum 
 brian estates, then valued at ,£9,000 a year, by his eldest son of 
 
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 History of Doddtngton. 
 
 the same name as himself, whom for distinction we may call 
 Sir Francis Blake Delaval, as he became in 1 761. He is described 
 as having been "remarkably tall and well-made, of a fair complexion, 
 with light hair," as indeed Sir Joshua Reynolds has represented 
 him in the portraits of him which remain at Doddington, as well 
 as at Seaton Delaval and Ford Castle. He matriculated at Christ- 
 church, Oxford, 23 March, 1747, when he is described in the 
 College books as aged 20 ; and even before his father's death in 
 1752, by his wit and gallantry, his dissipation and extravagance, 
 he had become conspicuous among the men of fashion of the 
 reign of George II. Naturally also his finances had become much 
 embarrassed. Amongst his intimate associates was Samuel Foote, 
 the comedian, who was also under the pressure of debt, and 
 between the two a scheme was concocted to recruit their finances. 
 It was understood that the wealthy Lady Isabella Powlett, one of 
 the daughters and coheiresses of Richard (Tufton), fifth Earl of 
 Thanet, and widow of Lord Nassau Powlett (died 1741), was 
 desirous of again entering into the bonds of matrimony. By 
 Foote's suggestion she was induced to consult a conjuror, then 
 much talked of in the world of fashion. A confederate was 
 employed to personate this conjuror, who assured her ladyship 
 that one of the most important events in her life was about to 
 take place, — in fact, that she was about to be married. He was 
 not at liberty, he said, to name her future husband, but he could 
 tell her when and where she should see him, and could describe 
 his dress. "On Thursday next," he continued, "you will be 
 walking in the Park ; you will there observe a tall, fair gentleman, 
 remarkably handsome, dressed in blue and silver ; he will bow to 
 a person in your company the first time he meets you, and upon 
 his return he will join your party. It is irrevocably fixed by fate 
 that that man is to be your husband." Her ladyship asked no 
 more, but took care to be in the Park on the day mentioned. 
 Francis Blake Delaval appeared, dressed precisely as described, 
 bowed, joined, and in three days married her ladyship, and with 
 her obtained command of her large fortune, variously estimated 
 at from ,£90,000 to ^150,000. It is said that for this service 
 Sir Francis settled an annuity upon Foote, which relieved him 
 from the pressure of his debts. 
 
 This ill-assorted marriage took place 8 March, 1750, at 
 St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, the bridegroom being described as 
 Francis Blake Delaval, of St, Martin's in the Fields, Esq., and the 
 bride as the Rt. Hon. Lady Isabella Powlett, of St. George's, 
 Hanover Square, widow. Lady Isabella visited the family at 
 Seaton Delaval the following year, and Sir Francis resided with 
 her at her own town house in Dover Street, or at her country seat 
 of Canons, until their separation. But as the lady was in her 60th 
 
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 137 
 
 year, while Sir Francis was but just 23, and as his connection still 
 continued with Miss Roach,* a lady of great beauty, who though of 
 good birth and fortune was content to appear publicly in the 
 character of his mistress, and his many other amours were notorious, 
 it is not surprising that in a short time a divorce by mutual consent 
 was arranged. This was effected by a trial, not for his notorious, 
 but for the lady's pretended adultery, which took place in January, 
 1755. Lady Isabella died 23 December, 1763. 
 
 Sir Francis' intimacy with Foote was naturally a cause of 
 concern to some of his family, who considered that Foote 
 encouraged him in his dissipation and extravagance. In October, 
 1752, Sir Francis was staying at Doddington with his brother John 
 and Mrs. Delaval, who then made it their residence, when Foote 
 appeared unexpectedly, and to their annoyance carried Francis off 
 with him to Lincoln to the Races, and thence to London. Mrs. 
 Astley writes to Mrs. Delaval at Doddington, expressing her 
 concern at the news. " Could it have been in no ways prevented ? " 
 she asks ; " the world will judge my brother John master in his 
 own house. ' Tis only in one's own house that such things can 
 do effectual harm." The fragment of a letter in which her brother, 
 John Delaval, himself replied to her remonstrance has been 
 preserved : " You seem to think by your letter we could have 
 prevented Foote coming here, which was impossible, as we did not 
 know of it till he came into the room. Remonstrances had no 
 effect. My brother had been here two months, and we believe 
 would have stayed till the meeting of the Parliament, had we not 
 been uneasy at Foote being here, which we believe was the occasion 
 of his leaving Doddington. The day after he arrived my Brother 
 and he went to Lincoln, where they stayed all the race week, and 
 the day after set out for London." Mrs. Astley replying to Mrs. 
 Delaval, writes : " I return you thanks, my dear Sister, for your 
 kind Uetter, and am glad you have got rid of so troublesome a 
 guest, tho' I am extremely sorry he had so much power to take 
 that other person with him. ' Tis a sad thing." But indeed her 
 brother John (Lord) Delaval was not so averse as she was to an 
 intimacy with Foote, to whom he was bound by his lively interest 
 in theatrical affairs, as is shown by the many familiar letters which 
 Foote continued to write to him at Doddington and elsewhere. 
 Later, however, in an undated letter, Foote writes to Sir F. B. 
 Delaval : "The Duke of Cumberland wanted me to take a trip to 
 your brother's in Lincolnshire; I declined it, as supposing we 
 should not have been very welcome guests." 
 
 Sir Francis Blake Delaval having recruited his finances through 
 his marriage, " resolved to give a Play in which his friends were to 
 
 * She was a ward of John Potter, Esq., Under-Secretary of State for 
 Ireland, the first husband of Susanna, Lady Delaval. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 perform the different parts. Othello was the Tragedy fixed upon, 
 which character he himself purposed to fill. He designed 
 Miss Roach should perform Desdemona, but she declined, and her 
 sister Mrs. Quin acted it with great spirit and judgment. His 
 brother John Delaval did /ago beyond expectation, and the 
 prologue and epilogue were written at his request by Christopher 
 Smart who had been his tutor at Cambridge. It was proposed to 
 hire the Opera House for the performance, but Garrick hearing of 
 the design, politely complimented them with the use of Drury Lane 
 and the wardrobe. Such an exhibition was probably never before 
 seen in Europe," continues the Universal Magazine, Sept., 1771, 
 from which we extract this account. " Tickets were delivered to 
 as many as could conveniently fill the house, without specifying 
 nny particular place, so that the shilling gallery was as much 
 crowded with nobility as the boxes ; Stars shone among the gods, 
 and Ribbons were peeping out of the slips. The streets contiguous 
 to the Theatre were so crowded with carriages that the greatest 
 part of the audience to obtain places in time, quitted their coaches 
 at a great distance, and were seen walking full dressed through the 
 crowd. In a word there was the most splendid appearance of 
 Nobility ever seen in a Theatre, and so anxious were the polite 
 world to be present that ten guineas were offered and refused for 
 a ticket." Horace Walpole, who had not had a ticket sent him, 
 and would not ask for one, writing of the performance to Sir 
 Horace Mann, 13 March, 1751, caustically remarks, "They really 
 acted so well that it is astonishing they should not have had sense 
 enough not to act at all " ; * and he adds, " The rage was so great 
 to see the performance that the House of Commons literally 
 adjourned at 3 o'clock on purpose. The footman's gallery was 
 strung with blue ribands. What a wise people ! What an august 
 Senate!" This tragedy was acted 7 March, 1751, and was 
 attended by Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Princess, Prince George 
 (George III.), the Duke of Cumberland, the Princess Amelia, and 
 the Princess Augusta. The Prince of Wales died about a fortnight 
 after. 
 
 In May, 1751, Sir Francis was elected M.P. for Hindon, in 
 Wilts. ; and in 1754, and the following Parliaments down to 1768, 
 he was returned for Andover, where, as the Universal Magazine, 
 from which we have already quoted, informs us, "he obtained his 
 election by a very singular manoeuvre. He got a culverin, and at 
 the time of polling he discharged five hundred guineas, which 
 flying among the voters soon determined their choice. This might 
 literally be called bombarding the town and taking it by storm." 
 On another occasion he posted up to London and brought down 
 
 * H. Walpole's Letters, ii., 243. 
 
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 a celebrated fire-eater, in order to win over an obstinate voter, who 
 could not be prevailed upon to give his vote on any other condition. 
 Of another election, Horace Walpole, writing to his friend, Richard 
 Bentley, 18 March, 1754,* says, "Beckford and Delaval, two 
 celebrated partizans, met lately at Shaftesbury, where they oppose 
 one another, the latter said, — 
 
 Art thou the man whom men famed Beckford call ? 
 T'other replied, 
 
 Art thou the much more famous Delaval ? " 
 
 We need not be surprised to read t that " his attorney's bill 
 for these elections was enormous, and was brought before the 
 King's Bench. One item stood thus, — 1 To being thrown out of 
 the window of the George Inn, Andover, — To my leg being thereby 
 broken, — To Surgeon's bill, and loss of time and business, — All 
 in the service of Francis B. Delaval, — ^500.' It appeared when 
 this curious item came to be explained, that the attorney who was 
 a better hand at a bill than a joke, had been attempting to imitate 
 those of his patron, but in a very clumsy fashion. He had sent 
 cards of invitation in the name of the Mayor and Corporation to 
 the Officers of a Regiment in the town to dine and drink his 
 Majesty's health on his birthday, and similar ones from the Officers 
 to the Mayor and Corporation, The two parties met, dined, 
 drank ; but preparing to break up, each began to thank the other 
 for the hospitable entertainment, when the trick came out, and the 
 unlucky attorney who had the folly to be present, was seized, 
 hoisted through the window by the enraged company, and his leg 
 broken by the fall into the street." 
 
 Sir F. B. Delaval was but 25 when he succeeded in 1752 to 
 his father's estates, and his many brothers were, of course, still 
 younger. It was long remembered at Doddington how the young 
 men used to go about drinking and dancing in public-houses at 
 Harby and other places in the neighbourhood. In their time Seaton 
 Delaval became notable not only for the profusion and variety 
 of the entertainments given there, but for the practical jokes which 
 it was the custom to play off on the guests. Not merely such 
 school-boy tricks as apple-pie beds, ducks and chickens placed 
 within them, and figures dressed up ; but pulleys were contrived, 
 by means of which visitors who had retired to rest were suddenly 
 let down through a trap door into a cold bath. One gentleman 
 was kept in bed three whole days by making him believe that it 
 was not morning yet. Or the curtains by which large rooms were 
 partitioned off to provide sleeping accommodation, were suddenly 
 let fall as their inmates were undressing, exposing them to each 
 
 * H. Walpole's Letters, ii., 377. 
 t Wm. Howitt, Visits to Remarkable Places, 2nd Ser. , p. 370. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 other in a state of deshabille. This is a trick of which the Long 
 Gallery at Doddington is said to have been the scene, and to 
 which it would readily lend itself. A grimmer joke which had 
 more serious consequences, causing loss of reason for a time to 
 the young man on whom it was played, put a stop to these foolish 
 pranks : " Amongst a large party a person who was expected, and 
 who was slightly known to the victim of the plot, was reported to 
 have died suddenly. His death was talked of and canvassed, 
 everyone but this youth being in the plot. At supper, when the 
 servants had withdrawn, the supposed dead man appeared in the 
 room, dressed in a shroud, his face powdered and ghastly. The 
 young man exclaimed he saw him. Everyone else declared that 
 they saw nothing. This had so dreadful an effect upon the youth, 
 that he fell down in a fit, and did not for a long time recover his 
 senses. After this, it is said, no more such tricks were played." * 
 
 A more legitimate mystification is described in a letter of his 
 sister, Lady Mexborough. Sir F. B. Delaval invited a large and 
 brilliant company to an entertainment at Seaton Delaval; the 
 guests assembled, and waited long, and seeing no signs of prepara- 
 tion, began to think themselves the victims of one of Sir Francis's 
 jokes. At last doors were thrown open, and they were ushered, 
 not into the dining-room, but into the stable, the great vaulted 
 hall, 62 ft. by 40, which occupies the eastern wing. Here they 
 found all the usual stable fittings removed, and a gorgeous feast 
 laid out in a brilliantly lighted and decorated hall. Indeed that a 
 visit to Seaton was not always so unpleasant to the guests as one 
 might imagine from the above-mentioned pranks, we may gather 
 from a letter of Miss Nelly Harcourt, written in 1754. Returning 
 with Lady Coddington from a visit to Seaton, she writes on the 
 journey to Mrs. Delaval, at Doddington, telling her " how very 
 much grieved we were to pass so near Doddington where we longed 
 to look, but was fearful of the roads growing bad " ; and she adds 
 in a postscript, "We lived angel-like at delightful Seaton." 
 
 In spite of the large fortune which he obtained with his wife, 
 and the great annual income of the estates which he inherited 
 from his father, Sir Francis' affairs soon became as involved as ever. 
 In 1755, 29 George II., a private Act of Parliament was obtained 
 for the sale or mortgage of portions of his estates, and ^45,000 
 was raised by mortgage on Ford Castle for the payment of his 
 debts. The management of his property was also placed in the 
 hands of his brother, John (Lord) Delaval, who paid Sir Francis 
 an annuity of ^4,000 for the rest of his life. Lord Delaval 
 subsequently bought up the Ford Castle estate from Lord Digby 
 and the other mortgagees, and thus became possessed of the fee 
 simple of it. 
 
 * Swinburne's Courts of Europe in the Last Century, 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 141 
 
 In May, 1758, the Government despatched a powerful expedi- 
 tion to the coast of Brittany, from which great results were expected. 
 Much popular enthusiasm was aroused, and certain gentlemen, 
 among whom were Lord Downe, Sir James Lowther, Sir John 
 Armitage, and (Sir) Francis B. Delaval, joined the expedition as 
 volunteers. It was said that the last-named was so eager to display 
 his courage and resolution, that he leaped from the boat at the 
 distance of half-a-mile, and swam to shore to be the first on French 
 ground,* winning hereby a wager which he had made. An exag- 
 gerated report of the success of the expedition was brought to 
 England, and on 16 June, 1758, Horace Walpole writes to the 
 Earl of Strafford in mock heroic strain : " St. Maloes is taken by 
 storm. The Governor leaped into the sea at the very name of the 
 Duke of Marlborough. Sir James Lowther put his hand into his 
 pocket, and gave the soldiers ^250,000 to drink the King's health 
 on the top of the great Church. Delaval has turned Capuchin 
 with remorse for having killed 40,000 French with his own hand." f 
 In point of fact, however, the expedition, which was badly managed, 
 was a failure and accomplished little beyond the burning of St. Cas 
 and some other Breton villages; and one of the gentlemen 
 volunteers, Sir John Armitage, was killed. Horace Walpole, 
 writing a few days later (6 July, 1758), about Prince Ferdinand of 
 Brunswick, asks, " Don't you know that next to Mr. Pitt and 
 Mr. Delaval he is the most fashionable man in England ? " Four 
 similar portraits — at Doddington, Seaton Delaval, Ford Castle, and 
 Methley respectively — represent Francis B. Delaval in his red 
 volunteer's uniform, standing musket in hand on the French coast, 
 with the burning villages in the background. That at Ford Castle, 
 painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1758, was exhibited at the 
 Reynolds Exhibition in 1883-4, and has been engraved in a series 
 of his works. 
 
 It was after his return from this expedition, at the Coronation 
 of the young King George III., 26 May, 1761, that Sir Francis 
 Blake Delaval was installed, with others, as Knight Companion of 
 the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, when "it must be 
 acknowledged that he was one of the finest figures of all the 
 Knights of that Order." 
 
 Richard Lovel Edgeworth, in his Memoirs, tells many anecdotes 
 of his mechanical ingenuity, and an instance of his versatile genius 
 is related in the Annual Register, under August, 1766: "The 
 Hon. Sir F. B. Delaval, Knight of the Bath, tried the experiment 
 of his new invented Phaeton the other side of Westminster Bridge ; 
 when he put his horses in a full gallop, and in a moment by 
 pulling a string the horses galloped off, and left him in the carriage 
 which stood still." 
 
 * Universal Magazine, Sept., 177 1. t H. Walpole's Letters, iii., 142. 
 
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 Htstoty of Doddington. 
 
 Towards the close of his life he became a " Patriot," and a 
 strong supporter of Mr. Wilkes, and a prominent member of the 
 Society of the Bill of Rights. The manner of his death is variously 
 narrated, being thus described in the Annual Register under 
 7 August, 1 77 1 : "Yesterday, suddenly, the Hon. Sir Francis 
 Blake Delaval, K.B., in the 48th year of his age.- He dined the 
 day before with his brother, Mr. Thomas, at Clapham, whence 
 returning in perfect health he went to Dover Street to pay a visit 
 to his sister, the Countess of Mexborough, was observed to be as 
 well as ever, only towards bed time complained of a small giddiness 
 in his head, which he expected soon to go off. In this persuasion 
 he composed himself to rest, but after a few groans expired." A 
 somewhat similar description of the suddenness of his death is 
 given in the contemporary Universal Magazine. But Richard 
 Lovel Edgeworth, who was intimately acquainted with him during 
 the last years of his life, tells us * that Sir Francis had previously 
 felt that his end was near, and in an affecting interview which he 
 had with him two days before his death, deplored the manner in 
 which he had wasted his powers upon trifles, in amusements, and 
 dissipation, and gallantry, instead of employing his fortune and 
 talents so as to have become a useful member of society, and an 
 honour to his family ; and he warned his friend against the fatal 
 error into which he had fallen. Mr. Edgeworth describes him as 
 "descended from illustrious ancestors, born with every personal 
 advantage, of a countenance peculiarly prepossessing, tall, strong, 
 athletic, and singularly active, excelling in every manly exercise, 
 endowed with courage, and with extraordinary presence of mind." 
 
 His body was conveyed for burial to his home in the north. 
 We are told that " on Aug. 22 his remains arrived at Newcastle in 
 grand funeral pomp, and were laid in state that evening at Mr. 
 Nelson's, Black Bull Inn, surmounted with the ensigns of the Order 
 of the Bath, banners, escutcheons, &c. So eager were all classes 
 to obtain a view of the ceremonial that in the rush a girl had her 
 leg broken, a gentleman lost his watch, many people had their 
 pockets picked, their clothes torn off, and themselves much injured. 
 The remains next day proceeded to Seaton Delaval to be interred 
 in the family vault." t The only memorial of him there is the 
 hatchment on the chapel wall, on which his arms, Delaval and 
 Blake quarterly, surrounded by the insignia of the Bath, are 
 painted by the side of those of his wife, as widow of Lord Nassau 
 Powlett. On his coffin, which lies in the vault below, the date of 
 his birth is given as 16 March, 1727, and his age, more correctly 
 than in the public prints, as 44. 
 
 * Edgeworth's Memoirs, p. 75-98 ; 3rd ed. 1844. 
 t Sykes' Local Records, v. i., p. 281. 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 143 
 
 The gossip of the day, as related in the Public Advertiser of 
 12 August, 1771, credited him with having left a sum of £36,000 
 in specie, out of which a fortune of ;£io,ooo was to be paid to 
 each of his two natural children, a son and a daughter, by Miss 
 La Roche, as well as an estate of ^4,000 a year to his brother, 
 Sir John. His will, however, shows a very different state of his 
 affairs, and it is so characteristic that we give it in full. Its date, 
 20 July, a fortnight before his death, confirms R. L. Edgeworth's 
 account of his last illness, and shows that it was not so short as 
 other accounts represent. It runs as follows : — " I, Sir Francis 
 Blake Delaval, Knt. of the Bath, make my last Will and Testament 
 as follows : — In case I shall die worth ^1000, I give the same to 
 my natural son, Francis Delaval, now al Mr. Angelo's Academy ; 
 In case I die worth ^2000, I give ^1000 to my natural daughter 
 Frances Delaval, now residing with my sister, Lady Mexborough ; 
 In case I die worth ^3000, I give ^1000 equally between my 
 natural daughter Frances, now residing with her grandmother 
 Mrs. Clarke at Gateshead, near Newcastle upon Tyne, and my 
 natural daughter, now in France, by Lydia Davison residing in 
 Parliament Street, Westminster ; In case I die worth ^4000, I 
 give ^"tooo equally between my brother Edward and my sister 
 Lady Stanhope. I give to my sister Lady Mexborough all the 
 Scenes and Decorations, &c. in my little Theatre in James Street, 
 Westminster ; and the Lease there I give to my brother Sir John 
 Hussey Delaval and Lady Hussey Delaval, and to my nephew 
 John Hussey Delaval; and to my brother Thomas Delaval and 
 his Wife 50 Guineas each, as a token of my respect for them ; and 
 I desire all my Relations to believe that if I had had the experience 
 20 years ago which I have now, they would all of them have 
 received much more benefit from my death. I appoint my said 
 brother Sir John sole Executor of my Will, and desire him to 
 arrange my effects for the best, and to pay the residue, if any, 
 equally between Francis and Frances first named in my Will. 
 Signed 20 July, 1771. Francis Blake Delaval." Proved 16 Sept., 
 1 77 1, by Sir John Hussey Delaval, Baronet, brother and sole 
 executor. 
 
 His friend, Foote, is said to have felt Sir Francis' death so 
 keenly that he burst into tears, retired to his room, and saw no 
 company for two days. The third day his secretary calling upon 
 him, he asked with swollen eyes what time the funeral would be. 
 " Not till next week, Sir," was the answer, " as I hear the doctors 
 are first to dissect his head." " And what in the world will they 
 get there?" replied the wit, his fancy reviving at the word, "I am 
 sure I have known poor Frank these five and twenty years, and I 
 never could find anything in it." * He had reason to lament his 
 
 * Robinson's Delaval Papers, p. 6. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 friend, for in 1766 he had been visiting at Lord Mexborough's, in 
 Yorkshire, where he met an aristocratic party, including the Duke 
 of York. Playing on his vanity, they mounted him on a high- 
 mettled horse which threw him, and fractured his leg, which had 
 to be taken off. On this Sir Francis constituted himself his nurse, 
 and wrote daily reports of the patient's condition after the operation 
 to Bromgrove, the surgeon, who compliments Sir Francis upon his 
 skill as a nurse, and evidently considers him as a good surgeon 
 lost to the profession.* 
 
 A Newcastle paper of the time thus sums up his character : — 
 " In private life the late Sir Francis was open, affable, humane, 
 generous, sincere, and of easy access, and a friend to every human 
 creature ; a patron to all ingenious devices, and the soul of frolick 
 and amusement. He overbalanced a few foibles by a thousand 
 amiable qualities. He was affectionate to his relations, and so 
 friendly to mankind that there was scarce anything he would not 
 undertake, even to serve a stranger." t 
 
 We have spoken already of the tragedy of Othello, acted by 
 members of the Delaval family at Drury Lane in 175 1. Theatrical 
 performances were a favourite diversion among them, both at 
 Seaton Delaval and in the little theatre at Westminster ; they were 
 well fitted to shine in them by their fine personal appearance and 
 the brilliancy of their wit and talents. One of the pieces acted by 
 them at Westminster was Rowe's play, The Fair Penitent, in 
 which the cast was as follows : — 
 
 Sciolto ... ... ... Mr. John Delaval. 
 
 Horatio ... ... Sir F. B. Delaval. 
 
 Altamont ... ... Sir J. Wrottesley. 
 
 Lothario ... ... The Duke of York. 
 
 Calista ... ... Lady Stanhope. 
 
 Lavinia ... ... Lady Mexborough. 
 
 Horace Walpole alludes to these performances in a letter to Sir 
 Horace Mann, 24 May, 1767, "This is not the only walk of fame 
 the Duke of York has lately chosen. He is acting plays with 
 Lady Stanhope and her family, the Delavals. They have several 
 times played The Fair Penitent. His Royal Highness is 
 Lothario, and the lady, I am told, an admirable Calista. They 
 have a pretty little theatre in Westminster, but none of the royal 
 family have been audience." % It will be seen that the part of 
 "the haughty, gallant, gay Lothario" was assigned to the young 
 Prince Edward, Duke of York, brother to George III., while that 
 of Calista, the Fair Penitent herself, a part afterwards acted by 
 
 * Lecture by Dr. Charlton, 1874, p. 21. 
 t Robinson's Delaval Papers. X H, Walpole's Letters, v., 20. 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 145 
 
 Mrs. Siddons, was undertaken by Lady Stanhope ; and from the 
 two being thus brought together the scandal arose that the Delavals 
 were designing to obtain the Duke of York's hand for their sister. 
 Whatever truth there may be in this — and it must be remembered 
 that Sir William Stanhope was still alive, and survived until 1772 — 
 the scheme was frustrated by the early death of the young Prince, 
 which took place at Monaco, 17 September, 1767, at the age of 28. 
 Miss Mary Townsend telling the news of it, somewhat spitefully 
 adds, "It is said that Calista has been in fits ever since the sad 
 news came." A full-length picture of Lady Stanhope, dressed in 
 black in the character of the Fair Penitent is in the Gallery at 
 Doddington ; while another picture there represents the last scene 
 in the play in which J. Delaval, as the father Sciolto, is restraining 
 her from stabbing herself after Lotharios death. A copy of " The 
 Fair Penitent," edition of 1766, in old green binding, with the 
 passages marked for omission, with stage directions and other 
 notes, is amongst the books at Ford Castle,* where is also 
 preserved a letter from David Garrick to Sir J. H. Delaval, in 
 which he remarks that " a fixed attention to the business of the 
 scene, which Lady Stanhope has to the greatest perfection, is the 
 sine qua non of acting." f 
 
 Lady Stanhope was Anne Hussey Delaval, born 2 December, 
 1737. She was scarcely 22 when she married, 6 October, 1759, 
 the Honble. Sir William Stanhope, K.B., who was aged 57. In 
 November, 1759, Horace Walpole writes, "I have seen the new 
 Lady Stanhope ; I assure you her face will introduce no plebeian 
 charms into the faces of the Stanhopes." % But in the Stanhope 
 family itself the marriage caused some dismay, which is expressed 
 in their letters recently published by the late Earl of Carnarvon. 
 Sir William Stanhope was the next brother to Philip, the celebrated 
 Earl of Chesterfield ; by his two former marriages he was childless, 
 but if he should have a son, that son would cut out from the title 
 and estate the next heir presumptive, a cousin Arthur Stanhope, 
 and his son Philip, Lord Chesterfield's godson, whom he had 
 adopted as his protege on his own son's death, and to whom his 
 
 * Hist. MSS, Commission Reports. 
 
 t This play of Tho Fair Penitent was also acted at Seaton Delaval, 
 29 December, 1790, in an elegant theatre which was fitted up in the house, 
 with the after-piece of You may like it, or leave it alone. Amongst the 
 performers were Lord Delaval and Lord and Lady Tyrconnel ; and "an 
 Epilogue, written and spoken by the noble lord of the mansion, contained 
 much humour and good point, and an elegantly turned welcome to his visitors." 
 Sykes' Local Records, i., 357. 
 
 % H. Walpole's Letters, iii., 266. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 second series of Letters was addressed. On 28 September, 1759, 
 Lord Chesterfield writes to Mr. Arthur Stanhope, " About 10 days 
 ago my brother communicated to me his resolution to marry Miss 
 Delaval. The marrying or not marrying was his business, which 
 I neither advised nor objected to ; and as for the lady, she has 
 been soberly and modestly educated in the country, and is of a 
 very good gentleman's family. She is full young enough to have 
 children, being but two and twenty, and my brother is not too old 
 to beget some, so that probably there will be children." * On 
 6 October, Miss Stanhope writes to Arthur Stanhope, her brother, 
 " I found Sir William Stanhope in town, who at once told me that 
 he was going to be married, as to-night, to Miss Delaval, a young 
 lady of 22, whom he saw for the first time at Brighthelmstone three 
 weeks ago. It surprized me a little, though I have often told you 
 I thought such a thing very likely." * Arthur Stanhope himself 
 replies to Lord Chesterfield, 10 October, 1759, "The event of 
 Sir William Stanhope's marriage is undoubtedly a great disappoint- 
 ment to us, and I am sensible a great surprize to your Lordship, 
 but still, my lord, it is a natural event. ... So soon as I 
 shall hear of Sir William Stanhope's being married, I shall write to 
 congratulate him upon it, and wish him all happiness." * The 
 marriage, however, not only proved childless, but in a few years 
 ended in a separation. Horace Walpole writes to Sir H. Mann, 
 1 September, 1763, "We sent you Sir William Stanhope and my 
 lady, a fond couple ; you have returned them to us very different. 
 When they came to Blackheath, he got out of the chariot to go to 
 his brother, Lord Chesterfield's, made her a low bow, and said, 
 ' Madame, I hope I shall never see your face again.' She replied, 
 ' Sir, I will take all the pains I can you never shall.' He lays no 
 gallantry to her charge."! Shortly after, 27 September, 1763, 
 Lord Chesterfield writes to Arthur Stanhope again : " He (i.e., his 
 son Philip), has nothing to fear, for my brother and his wife are 
 parted, never to meet again. She was young and indiscreet ; he 
 was old and jealous, — qualities which by no means agree, and 
 therefore it was much better for them both to part." * Two years 
 later, Mr. Arthur Stanhope was himself desirous of entering on a 
 third marriage, and on 12 October, 1765, Lord Chesterfield writes 
 thus to dissuade him : " My brother gave me exactly the same 
 reasons as you do for marrying his third wife. He was weary of 
 being alone, and by God's good providence, had found a young 
 woman of a retired disposition, who had been bred up prudently 
 under an old grandmother in the country ; she hated and dreaded 
 
 * Lord Chesterfield's Letters, 2nd ser., 1890; pp. 313-15, 341, 368. 
 t H. Walpole's Letters, iv., no 
 
Doddington and the Delavals. 
 
 H7 
 
 a London life, and chose to amuse herself at home with her books, 
 her drawing, and her music. How this fine prospect turned out, 
 I need not tell you. It turned out well, however, for my boy." * 
 The old grandmother under whom Lady Stanhope had been 
 brought up in the country was Mrs. Apreece, of Honington and 
 Doddington, who was also her godmother, and as such left her 
 p^i,ooo in her will. A share of her mother's moiety of Doddington 
 was also settled on her, failing male issue to her brothers, but she 
 sold her reversion of it to her brother, Edward Hussey Delaval, in 
 1810. If as her first husband she married a man 35 years older, 
 her second husband, Capt. Charles Morris, was some eight years 
 younger than herself, and survived her for 26 years. By a post- 
 nuptial settlement, dated 10 July, 1773, (now at Doddington), 
 between himself and her cousin, Francis Blake, of Twisell, and her 
 brother, Thomas Delaval, as her trustees, he settled to her separate 
 use the house in Great Titchfield Street, in which they dwelt, with 
 the jewels, furniture, and jointure of which she had been posssssed 
 before her second marriage. The Gentleman's Magazine of the 
 day recording her death at Melton Constable, 23 February, 181 2, 
 adds, " Her Ladyship was one of the finest women of the age, 
 and of great understanding and accomplishments. She has 
 bequeathed the whole of her property, which is very considerable, 
 to her nephew, Sir Jacob Astley, and her jointure of ;£ 1,000 a 
 year devolves to the present Earl of Chesterfield." At Doddington 
 she is only represented in the character of " The Fair Penitent," 
 and as a girl in the family groups ; but her portrait was painted 
 by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1765-6, and is now in possession of the 
 Earl of Mexborough. It represents her " whole-length, standing, 
 her right arm resting on a table, on which are works of art, busts, 
 &c , a porte-crayon in her right hand, her left holding a roll of 
 paper." It was exhibited in the Reynolds Exhibition of 1883-4, 
 and has been more than once engraved. 
 
 * Lord Chesterfield's Letters, 2nd ser., 1890; pp. 313-15, 341, 368. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 JOHN HUSSEY-DELAVAL, LORD DELAVAL. 
 N the death of his mother, Mrs. Rhoda Blake Delaval, in 
 
 \^_) 1759, her second son, John Delaval, who in 1761 became 
 Sir John Hussey-Delaval, Bart., and was created an Irish Peer as 
 Baron Delaval, of Redford, co. Wicklow, in 1783, and Baron 
 Delaval, of Seaton Delaval, in the Peerage of Great Britain, 1786, 
 succeeded to the ownership of Doddington, in accordance with 
 the settlements made by his mother, and his grandmother, Mrs. 
 Apreece. He had been a member of Pembroke College, 
 Cambridge, where his career was cut short by a characteristic 
 escapade. Gray, the poet, who was then residing in Pembroke 
 College, writes in one of his letters to Thos. Wharton, dated 
 27 December, 1746, "Poor dear Mr. Delaval has had a little 
 misfortune," and proceeds to relate how he had introduced to his 
 rooms in college a young woman, " in an officer's habit, under the 
 Norn de Guerre of Capt. Hargreaves, whom he had carried all 
 about to see chapels and libraries, and make visits in the face of 
 day." Intelligence was brought to the authorities, and though 
 they did not succeed in finding the pseudo-captain, who was locked 
 up in a cupboard in Mr. Delaval's rooms, yet the latter was required 
 to take his name off the college books.* He married, 2 April, 
 1750, at Duke Street Chapel, Westminster, Susannah, daughter 
 of R. Robinson, who was his first cousin, her mother, Margaret 
 Delaval, wife of R. Robinson, having been sister to Capt. Francis 
 Blake Delaval She had married, in 1747, John Potter, Esq., 
 Under-Secretary of State for Ireland, who died 29 May, 1749, and 
 whose will was proved by her, 7 June, and from him she inherited a 
 house in Albemarle Street. Here the young couple had their first 
 town residence, removing thence subsequently to King's Square 
 Court, Soho, and afterwards to Parliament Street. Later on they 
 took Grosvenor House, Millbank, and subsequently occupied 
 mansions in Hanover Square and Portland Place, as will appear 
 further on. But from the time of their marriage they made 
 
 * Gray's Letters, &°c, edited by E. Gosse, ii., 159. Mr. Gosse appears to 
 attribute the above escapade to Edward Delaval, but he was not admitted to 
 Pembroke College till July, 1747, and Gray speaks in very different terms of 
 him in later letters, 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 149 
 
 Doddington their country house, John Delaval acting as virtual 
 owner of the mansion and estate. This is shown in the many 
 letters of his sister, Mrs. Astley, addressed to him and Mrs. Delaval 
 here, and by the visit of some months which Sir F. B. Delaval had 
 been paying at the time when S. Foote made his unwelcome 
 appearance. As early as 16 November, 1751, Mrs. Astley writes, 
 "I hear you are going to make Doddington very fine ; Ned says 
 that he has sent you a box of paper." But in 1759, on his mother's 
 death, John Delaval became its legal owner, and assumed the 
 additional name of Hussey in accordance with Mrs. Apreece's 
 will. At once we find tokens of expenditure on the Hall and 
 estate. In the next following years four new marble mantelpieces 
 were bought ; the present great staircase was put up, and the long 
 gallery re-floored, at a cost of ^500, the work being carried out by 
 Mr. Lumby, the Surveyor of Lincoln Cathedral, who executed 
 many works there, notably the present Bishop's throne in 1778, 
 under the direction of James Essex, the Architect. The enclosure 
 of the Moor, which is shown to have been contemplated on the 
 Survey of 1749, was vigorously proceed with, as well as that of the 
 Carrs, which on the same Survey are represented as three open 
 fields of 150 acres, without homestead or road leading to them. 
 Many thousand plants of quick were purchased during 1760 for 
 these enclosures; labourers were continuously employed week 
 after week, dyking, fencing, paring the sods, and "kidding" many 
 hundreds of gorse "kids" for burning them, on the Moor and 
 Carrs, which were kept in hand by Lord Delaval for a great part 
 of his life. The growth of hops was another object in which he 
 interested himself, and we owe to him the hop garden of 26 acres, 
 the only one in Lincolnshire, though they then were common on 
 the neighbouring North Clays of Notts. It has now finally disap- 
 peared, having been ploughed up within the writer's memory, as 
 indeed the whole of North Clay hop gardens have been. The 
 state of the hop-bines, and the prospect of a good or bad crop are 
 continually mentioned in the fortnightly letters written to Lord 
 Delaval by William Portes, his steward at Doddington. As ever, 
 they were a most uncertain crop, and constantly suffered from the 
 "cold hunch springs," which were as frequent then as now.* 
 
 In the earlier part of Lord Delaval's ownership the Rev. R. P. 
 Hurton, then Curate here, acted as agent for the estate, Ralph 
 Barber being sent from Ford as steward, in 1750. But William 
 Portes, (as he spelt his name, though his north country relatives 
 
 * Their fluctuation in quantity and value in different years is shown by the 
 facts that the Hop Duty paid in 1775 was £4 19s., while in 1778 it was 
 ^"79 16s. ; and whereas hops were sold in 1785 to the value of ^1,119 at from 
 £4 $s to £5 10s. per cwt., and in 1788 to the value of £618 at £j 10s. per 
 cwt., in 1793 they sold only to the amount of £120 at £11 per cwt. 
 
Htstoiy of Doddington. 
 
 wrote to him as Porteus), a Tweedside Scotchman, originally a 
 joiner at Seaton Delaval, was already employed on the estate in 
 1760, and managed it as steward till the beginning of the present 
 century. Four out of his five daughters were married here, and 
 their names appear either as brides or bridesmaids in almost every 
 marriage entry in our Registers between 1789 and 1796. He 
 himself lived to the age of 85, and was buried here, 4 March, 
 18 13, having received during the latter years of his life a pension 
 from Mr. Edward H. Delaval of ^52 a year. The old thatched 
 house in the middle of the village in which he lived was pulled 
 down in 1892; and that he continued hale and active till the 
 close of his life we may gather from the entries "For shoeing 
 Mr. Portes's Galloway," in the accounts of his assistant or successor, 
 Mr. Joseph Clark, as late as March, 18 12, His own estate 
 accounts from 1775 are still preserved at the Hall, and afford 
 much information as to the condition of the estate during these 
 years ; while still more interesting are the fortnightly letters sent 
 by him with his accounts to Lord Delaval from 17 83 to 1791. 
 A packet of these were among the Delaval papers discovered at 
 Hartley, and they will furnish many passages for quotation. 
 
 In August, 1 77 1, on the death of Sir F. B. Delaval, Sir John 
 Hussey Delaval; as he then was, as his next brother inherited the 
 great family estates in Northumberland, of which he had had the 
 management for many years. On this event, according to Mrs. 
 Apreece's will, her moiety of Doddington should have passed to 
 the next brother, Edward Hussey Delaval ; and he, together with 
 the remaining brother, Thomas Delaval, commenced a suit in 
 Chancery to enforce Sir J. H. Delaval's compliance with the 
 settlement. In order, however, to avoid litigation a compromise 
 was agreed to, 18 December, 1771, by which Sir J. H. Delaval 
 was allowed to retain possession of the estate on payment to 
 E. H. Delaval of an annuity of ^400. As one consideration for 
 this, it is stated in the deed that he had found the mansion house 
 and offices in a very ruinous and decayed condition, and had laid 
 out upwards of ^17,000 in substantial repairs, and in building 
 farm-houses, planting timber-trees, making fences, and draining 
 and enclosing the moors. If we look at the map of the lordship 
 in 1749, we shall see that neither of the farms on the Moor, nor 
 those known as the Top House, the Grange, the Birk Springs, the 
 Carr Lane, nor the Carr Farm itself, then had homesteads on them. 
 In a Survey, however, of the estate in 1778 they all are provided 
 with houses, so that they must apparently have been built by Lord 
 Delaval in the interval, though almost all have been rebuilt or 
 enlarged since. In this later Survey the extent of the lordship is 
 estimated at 2,401 acres, and its annual value as ^1,305 8s. 4^., 
 including the glebe of 37 acres, valued at ^27 \js. Of this total, 
 
John Hussey- Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 734 acres, principally moor, valued at ^273 per annum, were still 
 in Lord Delaval's hands, in addition to 332 acres of wood, valued 
 at ^125. 
 
 On 7 August, 1770, Rhoda, the eldest daughter of Sir J. H. 
 and Lady Delaval, whose childhood here is often referred to by 
 her aunt and namesake Rhoda, Mrs. Astley, in her letters 18 years 
 or so before, died at the Hall. The next day, Wednesday, 
 August 8, Lady Delaval writes, " At 1 o'clock yesterday it pleased 
 God to take to Himself our dear Rhoda to reap the reward of all 
 her unequalled virtues and accomplishments." She was buried 
 temporarily in a brick grave on August 10, while in the following 
 week her parents drove over to Honington to see the church and 
 vault with a view to rebuilding here. Except so far as our rebuilt 
 Church is a memorial, there is no other record here — no monument, 
 nor entry of her burial in the Register, nor portrait of her at the 
 Hall. Only a measuring-rod, which by some strange chance has 
 been preserved there, records the heights of all the Delaval children 
 from " Miss Rhoda," the eldest and tallest of the sisters, who in 
 1768, in her eighteenth year, measured 5 ft. 4^in., down to little 
 " Miss Hussey," the youngest, afterwards Countess of Tyrconnel, 
 who in 1770 had attained the height of 3 ft. 9 in. 
 
 Sir J. H. Delaval lost no time in taking steps for the rebuilding 
 of the Church. On August 23, he writes to the Bishop (Green) 
 of Lincoln : — " The Parish Church of Doddington is in a very 
 ruinous condition, and unfit for the performance of Divine Service ; 
 it will give me great pleasure if your Lordship shall approve of my 
 re-building it upon its present foundation at my own expence." 
 On September 3, he discharged a local architect whom he had 
 already consulted, not approving of his plan or designs for the 
 windows ; but unfortunately we cannot tell who it was that he 
 ultimately employed. In the following spring his carts with four 
 horses each were hard at work leading bricks to the Church, each 
 cart bringing 800 bricks, and going four times a day ; for while the 
 original building was of Lincoln stone, the additions made by 
 Lord Delaval, consisting chiefly of the present south aisle and 
 west tower, were of brick faced with Ancaster stone. The windows 
 in this south aisle are a copy, unskilfully executed, of the original 
 Late Decorated windows, which still remain in the north aisle ; 
 and beneath this new aisle the burial vault was made. On 27 July, 
 1 77 1, Sir John and Lady Hussey-Delaval " went to look at some 
 Organs in the Strand in order to bespeak one for the Church at 
 Doddington," but of this we hear no more. A letter dated 
 1 November, 1 771, states that " the Church is not yet covered in " ; 
 and a note to a marriage entry in the Register in the same month 
 tells us that "this Marriage was solemnized in the Church before 
 it was quite finished." In another letter dated 23 May, 1772, we 
 
History of Doddington. 
 
 read, " We have settled in what manner the Church is to be pewed ; 
 when it is finished, it will be one of the handsomest Churches in 
 this county." Though such an opinion may sound ridiculous 
 now, when we think of the grand churches in South Lincolnshire 
 in their present state, there was more ground for it then when the 
 ancient churches were in such neglect and decay, and those then 
 rebuilt were mere rooms destitute of any architectural character 
 whatever. Of these last we have a representation in the water- 
 colour sketches executed towards the close of the last century by 
 Claud Nattes for Sir Joseph Banks, and now preserved at 
 Revesby Abbey. The Rev. Precentor Venables after giving a 
 description of these mean buildings with their low brick walls, 
 thatched roofs, and wooden bell-cots, adds, " One would have 
 been inclined to say that at this epoch all sense of ecclesiastical 
 fitness was dead past revival, if Doddington did not show the 
 beginning of better things. When that Church was rebuilt in 
 1 77 1, the Gothic of the day was adopted. The style is not very 
 pure, but superior to what might have been looked for at such a 
 dead time, and such as might almost pass muster at the present 
 day." * The reason for its superiority is that its builders had the 
 good taste to copy, though unskilfully, the fourteenth century 
 architecture which remained in the north aisle. 
 
 In spite of the energy with which the building was commenced, 
 its completion seems to have been long delayed ; possibly with 
 his succession to the Northumberland estates on his brother's 
 death, Sir J. H. Delaval lost much of his former interest in 
 Doddington. It is curious that there is no direct notice of this 
 rebuilding of the Church in our Parish Books, but there are several 
 indirect indications of it. For example, there is a charge " for 
 removing the Basses" at the end of 1770, and "for 4 meetings of 
 the towns-people " from April to July, 1771, while from 177 1 to 
 the end of 1773 there are none of the usual entries for surplice 
 washing, and for bread and wine for the Communion, as if there 
 had been no service in the Church during these years. On the 
 other hand, in 1775, there is an outlay of more than -£2 for basses, 
 and each year afterwards a new charge comes in of " is. 6d. for 
 cleansing the Church Leads." The fittings of the interior were 
 intrusted to Wm. Lumby, who, in 1761, had been employed to 
 refloor the long gallery and put up the new staircase at the Hall ; 
 and on 7 April, 1775, we find in Mr. Portes' accounts a final 
 payment made to him of -£10 14*. id. "for Wainscotting ye 
 Chancel and Porch in ye Church " ; and of j£j 8s. 6d. "for ye 
 Pulpitt Cloath, Cusheons, &c." At length, on Sunday, 18 June, 
 1775, the Church was re-opened in the presence of 800 persons, 
 
 * Lincoln Diocesan Magazine, September, 1894. 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 153 
 
 the then Sub-Dean of Lincoln, the Rev. Robert Dowbiggin 
 (installed 1769, died 1794), performing the chief part in the 
 ceremony. By that time, however, Sir J. H. Delaval's only son was 
 dying at Bristol, and none of the family were present at the opening. 
 In their absence the Rector, the Rev. Robert Pregion Hurton, 
 entertained at dinner at the Hall "thirty gentlemen and ladies of 
 the first fashion in the County, including the Champion of England, 
 both Neviles, Mr. Amcotts, &c. : ' The King's Champion at this 
 time was the Honble. John Dymoke, who acted in that capacity 
 at the Coronation of George III. ; while the others were near 
 neighbours, namely, Capt. George Nevile, of Thorney, Christopher 
 Nevile, Esq., of Wellingore, and Charles Amcotts, Esq., of Kettle- 
 thorpe, the last male heir of that name. As we might suppose, 
 refreshments were liberally provided for the other less distinguished 
 guests. 
 
 The very first funeral that took place in the newly opened 
 Church must have been that of Sir J. H. Delaval's only son and 
 heir, John Hussey-Delaval, who died at the Hotwells, Bristol, on 
 7 July, 1775. The Rev. R. P. Hurton, who has entered no burials 
 in the Register from 1761 to 1787, occupies a separate page with 
 the single entry,— " John Delaval, Esq. Died 7 July, 1775, in the 
 20th year of his age." On Sunday, 15 July, his body, in charge 
 of a Bristol undertaker, arrived at Newark, where it was met by 
 Wm. Portes, the steward. Next morning they left at 10 o'clock, 
 and were met between Newark and Collingham by all the tenants 
 in black hat bands and gloves. Within half-a-mile of Doddington 
 they were met by the labourers, six of whom in black cloaks, hat- 
 bands, and scarves, acted as bearers. On arrival at Doddington, 
 at 2 p.m., the body was laid in the White Hall till 5 p.m. Again 
 none of the family were present, but the Rector, Mr. Hurton, and 
 Mrs. Hurton, with eight others followed next the body. Then 
 came the tenantry and a large concourse of people. We learn 
 that " there was a very good collation, and great plenty of victuals, 
 with a very well furnished table in the Low Paper Parlour where 
 Mr. Hurton and the other clergymen and several more dined. 
 The tenants dined in the Steward's room ; 4 bottles of Rum, 4 of 
 Brandy, 18 of White, and 18 of Port Wine were consumed, and 
 there was Ale enough in the cellar." The charge of the Bristol 
 undertaker was ^203 8*. gd., besides the local bills, some £43 
 more. The body was laid in the new vault under the south aisle, 
 and for some weeks after bricklayers and labourers were employed 
 on the great drain which is carried from the vault westward across 
 the Hall garden and orchard. Tradition says that the whole 
 interior of the Church was coloured black for his funeral, as was 
 also done with the Chapel at Seaton Delaval ; and it is certainly 
 the case that the interior walls have at some time been blackened 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 over, as may be seen under subsequent coats of colour. No 
 monument to him exists in our Church, the reason doubtless being 
 that his father began to build a handsome mausoleum in the 
 grounds at Seaton Delaval, to which he intended to remove his 
 body. But for some reason, — owing to some difficulty as to its 
 consecration, it is said, — this mausoleum was never used as a 
 burial place, and the young man's leaden coffin still remains in the 
 vault beneath our Church, as does that of his sister Sophia, Mrs. 
 Jadis, who was buried there in 1793. There is no portrait of him 
 at Doddington, but a pretty picture, in duplicate at Seaton Delaval 
 and Ford Castle, represents him as a lad with a bow taking arrows 
 from a black boy who holds them for him. It was a Delaval 
 custom to take the weights of themselves and their guests at 
 Seaton, and to record them in a book, which was found amongst 
 the Delaval papers there. These are entries in 1775, the year of 
 the death of Sir John, junr.. as he is called : — 
 
 "Feb. 1. 1775. Sir John Hussey Delaval, Bart. 
 
 weighing without Wide Coat or Boots . \\st. olbs. 
 
 Same time, Sir John, junr. without Wide Coat 
 
 or Boots \ost. 2/ds." 
 
 A north country legend relates that the " White Lady of Seaton," 
 a young lady who pined away heart-broken at his early death, still 
 haunts the east wing of the Hall at Seaton Delaval, " looking for 
 the return of young Sir John to his home." Tradition says that 
 she will continue so to haunt it until an heir to the estate is born 
 within its walls.* 
 
 In the cellars of the Hall at Doddington there is still some ale 
 which was brewed at the time of young John Delaval's birth, 
 26 May, 1756, and was bottled to be drunk at that coming of age 
 which never took place. Some of the bottles bear the Apreece 
 arms ; others a stamp with the name of Sir J. H. Delaval, Bart., 
 or the initials J. H. D., and were possibly made at the family 
 Bottle Works at Hartley. 
 
 After his son's death, Sir J. H. Delaval, who, since the lawsuit 
 of 1 77 1, was not on good terms with Edward Delaval, his brother 
 and next male heir, cut down all the timber at Doddington that 
 would fetch any money. James Hill, who was employed as a 
 carpenter on the estate, and who died, aged 95, in 1858, recollected 
 cutting down seven very large elm trees in front of the Hall. 
 (They may be seen as young trees in the engraving of Sir Thomas 
 Hussey's time, standing in a row along the Churchyard wall.) It 
 blew hard at the time, and Lord Delaval looked out of a window of 
 the gate-house, and gave directions how they should fall. They 
 were beautiful trees, -and the wood quite sound and very red. He 
 
 * Mr, Robinson's Guide to the Tyne. 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 155 
 
 recollected also fine oaks all over the lordship, but all were cut 
 down, even to the smallest, for bark and " kids." This is the 
 traditional story, but it is fully confirmed by the estate accounts 
 for 1775 and the following years. These show that numbers of 
 men were constantly employed in all the woods in felling oak, 
 peeling bark, cutting out underwood, charcoal wood, pit props, 
 and hop poles, " kidding," squaring oak timber, many tons of which 
 were despatched by water from Drinsey Nook to Gainsborough, 
 and in working up trays, and posts and rails for fencing, which was 
 either used on the estate, or sold for the enclosures which were 
 being actively carried on in the neighbouring parishes. This is 
 the reason why there are no very old trees on the estate, except 
 the three gnarled Spanish chestnuts in the orchard, and the great 
 holly, 1 1 feet in girth, at the north-west corner of the Hall. But 
 if the oak woods were cut down by him so that the present trees 
 are but the successors, sprung from the stools of those of his day, 
 we owe to him the fir woods which had no existence in 1749, but 
 were reserved by him and planted when the rest of the Moor was 
 enclosed. Probably some of the older Scotch firs still standing in 
 these woods owe their origin to sundry pounds of " Scotts Firr 
 Seeds," which were bought by his orders between 1782 and 1787, 
 from Jacob Ordoyno, the nurseryman at Newark. 
 
 An entry in our Parish Register in 1778 introduces us to a 
 strange episode in the family history. It runs thus :— " Henry, 
 son of Henry Devereux, Esq. of Burdeux in france by Sophia 
 (Delaval, erased) Devereux, daughter of S r John Hussey Delaval, 
 Bart, of Doddington Pygot, Bapt. April 2, 1778." This was 
 Sophia Ann, the eldest surviving daughter of Sir John and Lady 
 Hussey Delaval, who had been left here by the family on their 
 going to London, under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Hurton, and of 
 Wm. Portes the old Scotch steward and his wife. Here she was 
 confined of a son on 28 March, 1778, the father as was pretended 
 being one Devereux, to whom she had been married without her 
 parents' consent ; and the above entry, in accordance with this 
 fiction, was made in the Parish Register. She remained at the 
 Hall apparently till the following spring, sundry articles figuring 
 in Mr. Portes' accounts as paid for by him for the use of " Mrs. 
 Devereux" and her child. In August, 1779 she accompanied her 
 younger sister Frances and her husband, Mr. Fenton Cawthorne, 
 who had been married the previous August, to Ghent in Flanders, 
 where she was settled in lodgings, her father making an allowance 
 for the maintenance of herself, her child, and servants. Soon, 
 however, she and her baby disappeared, and turned up in London 
 early in 1780, stating that she had been married a few weeks 
 before, in the name of Devereux, to John Maximilian Jadis, in a 
 Roman Catholic Church at Brussels. Jadis, her junior by four 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 years, had represented himself as "a young gentleman on his 
 travels," but was in fact a poor Ensign in the 59th Foot, who had 
 fled his regiment and creditors. Sir John instructed a solicitor to 
 enquire into these statements. The Brussels marriage was con- 
 sidered invalid, and if no objection could be taken to the gentleman, 
 he would have them re-married in London before any recognition 
 took place. At last the licence was obtained, and the wedding 
 fixed to take place between 8 and 9 o'clock on a Sunday morning. 
 But at 3 o'clock that morning the solicitor was called out of bed 
 by " an express " from Seaton Delaval, wanting further proof that 
 the young man is not " a valet-de-chambre, or low man pretending 
 to be a gentleman. Sir David Lindsey commands the 59th, can 
 he identify this person ? " There is no time to hunt up Sir David, 
 but the lawyer, presuming on a slight acquaintance, had the 
 audacity to turn out of bed the private secretary of Field Marshal 
 Lord Amherst, though the servant said he was ill. By him 
 Mr. Jadis' identity was established, his commission having been 
 presented by General Keppel, at the instance of the Duke of 
 Richmond. The lawyer satisfied gave the lady away at St. Mary's, 
 Lambeth, where the marriage is entered 6 February, 1780, as 
 between John Godfrey Maximilian Jadus, bach., and Sophia Anne 
 Jadus (sic) widow, both of this parish. Sir John agreed to allow 
 them ^£500 a year. Some time after, they were at a family 
 gathering at Seaton Delaval, and the party were taking tea on the 
 rocks. One of the ladies offended another, and Mr. Jadis challenged 
 Lord Tyrconnel to a duel. Naturally Lord Delaval, as he had now 
 become, would not allow his house to be the scene of a conflict 
 between two of his sons-in-law, and Jadis had to leave. The 
 quarrel was settled, and we find Mr. Jadis visiting at Doddington 
 with his brothers-in-law Lord Tyrconnel and Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne, 
 in January, 1785. He and Mrs. Jadis, however, did not agree, 
 and finally separated after six years of wedded life, Lord Delaval 
 allowing him £100 a year to keep out of London. He eventually 
 went to Nova Scotia, where he died in 1802. The child born 
 at Doddington in 1778 went by the name of Jadis ; he lived with 
 Lady Delaval as long as she lived, and subsequently with his own 
 mother at Kensington. He was at Eton, and at Oxford, where he 
 matriculated at Hertford College as " Henry, son of John Jadis, 
 Dodington, co. Line. 19 March, 1796, aged 17," and took his 
 degree as B.A. in 1801 ; and as "handsome Harry Jadis" made 
 somewhat of a figure in society. Lord Delaval left him an annuity 
 °f £2,°° in ms will, in addition to £100 a year already settled on 
 him, and he placed his name in the line of entail of Ford Castle. 
 Mrs. Jadis herself died at Kensington in 1793, arj d is buried, like 
 her brother, in the vault under the south aisle of our Church. 
 But, as in his case, the only memorial of her is the entry in our 
 
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 Parish Register: — " 1793. Aug. 2. The honorable Sophia Ann 
 Jadis, Daughter of the right Honorable Lord Delaval, — Buried." 
 
 Other marriages in the family were solemnized in very different 
 fashion. As already mentioned, her younger sister, Frances, had 
 married, in August, 1778, John Fenton, Esq. He was the eldest 
 son and heir of James Fenton, Esq., of Lancaster, his mother being 
 Elizabeth, sister and coheiress of John Cawthorne, Esq., whose 
 name he assumed by Royal Licence, 22 May, 1781, inheriting 
 from her the mansion of Wyerside and the extensive estate of 
 Wyersdale, in the neighbourhood of Lancaster. Later he was 
 known as Colonel Fenton-Cawthorne, being Colonel of the West- 
 minster Regiment of Middlesex Militia, and was M.P. for the City 
 of Lincoln, and subsequently for the Borough of Lancaster. The 
 Lonsdale Magazine of 182 1, giving an engraving with a description 
 of his residence of Wyerside, mentions amongst the objects of 
 interest in the drawing-room, a sofa and chairs covered with 
 damask, which originally belonged to the wicked Duke of Orleans, 
 but were bought by Lord Delaval and presented to his daughter, 
 Mrs. Fenton-Cawthorne, on her marriage. 
 
 On 3 June, 1780, the youngest daughter, Sarah Hussey Delaval, 
 then only 16, was married, by Special Licence from the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, at Grosvenor House, her father's London residence, 
 to George Carpenter, second Earl of Tyrconnel. He is said to 
 have been the handsomest man of his time, while she is spoken of 
 as " the wild and beautiful Countess of Tyrconnel " ; and as " the 
 lovely Lady Tyrconnel, who had hair of such luxuriance that when 
 she rode it floated upon the saddle." " An arch and most lovely 
 creature she must have been," is Wm. Howitt's remark on her 
 portrait now at Ford Castle.* The honeymoon was spent at 
 Randalls, near Leatherhead, Surrey ; and in the following month 
 they visited Doddington, where they were on July 13th; "I am 
 delighted," writes Lord Tyrconnel, " with Doddington ; it has an 
 air of Grandeur and Solitude about it which pleases me extremely ; 
 it is a cruel hardship upon it, that you should have two other 
 places which you prefer to it. We have this evening been to 
 Lady Delaval's Hop Ground. We had such a game of Blindman's 
 Buff in the Hall ; Mr. and Mrs. Hurton and Mrs. Grant were of 
 the party. . . We hope to be in Methley tomorrow by dinner 
 time." After visiting Seaton and other places they were at 
 Stamford on their return journey on October 20th, having drunk 
 tea at Newark the day before with Mrs. Foster (Mrs. Hurton's 
 mother) and supped with Mrs. Sikes (Mary Hurton), and Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hurton, who arrived that day. Lady Tyrconnel's diamonds 
 were displayed, and much admired by the ladies, the stars being 
 
 * Howitt's Visits to Remarkable Places, 2nd ser., 355. 
 
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 History of Do aldington . 
 
 put to Miss Hurton's ears and throat. Lady Tyrconnel was her 
 lather's favourite daughter, and after Lady Delaval's death in 1783, 
 she and her husband mostly resided with him, so that they were 
 frequently at Doddington ; " dear old Doddy," as Lady Tyrconnel, 
 calls it in her letters, and Lord Tyrconnel's horses and dogs were 
 constantly kept here. As scandal had connected the name of her 
 aunt, Ann Hussey Delaval, Lady Stanhope, with that of Edward 
 Augustus, Duke of York, brother to George III., so the name of 
 Sarah Hussey Delaval, Countess of Tyrconnel, became connected 
 with that of his nephew, Frederick, Duke of York, son of George III. 
 Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, in his somewhat spiteful Posthumous 
 Memoirs, thus speaks of it * : " The Duke of York was at this 
 time, 1788, strongly attached to a lady of my particular acquaint- 
 ance, the Countess of Tyrconnel. She was Lord Delaval's youngest 
 daughter ; feminine and delicate in her figure, with a profusion of 
 light hair, in the tresses of which, like ' the tangles of Nesera's hair ' 
 in Lycidas, his Royal Highness was detained captive. Lord 
 Tyrconnel himself had been early married to a sister of the Duke 
 of Rutland, from whom he obtained a divorce in less than 5 years. 
 Not discouraged by so unfortunate a matrimonial outset, he soon 
 ventured a second time on the same perilous experiment, though, 
 as many persons thought, not with better success. His fortune by 
 no means equalling his rank, Lord Delaval extended his paternal 
 care over his daughter and her lord. In Hanover Square during 
 winter, as at Claremont in Surrey during summer, the two families 
 formed only one household. The Duke of York was a constant 
 visitor at each place, notwithstanding that Lady Tyrconnel's father 
 and husband were both firmly attached to the Administration. 
 Lord Delaval had received his British Peerage only two years 
 before from Pitt j and the Earl of Tyrconnel who sat in the House 
 of Commons for Scarborough, was elected by the Rutland interest 
 for that borough." 
 
 It was on 21 May, 1781, that the remaining daughter, Elizabeth 
 Delaval, was married to George Thicknesse-Touchet, Baron 
 Audley. This marriage also was celebrated by Special Licence, 
 in Sir John Hussey-Delaval's town house, which at this time was 
 in Hanover Square; and the Rector of Doddington, the Rev. 
 Robt. Pregion Hurton, went up to London to perform the 
 ceremony. Elizabeth Lady Audley, who was her husband's first 
 wife ; only lived till 11 July, 1785. 
 
 As early as 1754, John Delaval, Esq., as he then was, was 
 elected M.P. for the Borough of Berwick-on-Tweed. He was 
 returned again for the same place as Sir John Hussey-Delaval, 
 Bart, in 1761, and to many subsequent Parliaments. In the 
 
 * Wraxall's Posthumous Memoirs, iii., 183. 
 
John Hussey- Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 159 
 
 Parliaments of 1754 and 1761 three members of the family sat, 
 John Hussey- Delaval for Berwick, his brother, Francis Blake 
 Delaval, for Andover, and their cousin, George Shaftoe Delaval, 
 as Knight of the Shire for Northumberland ; while a third brother, 
 Edward Hussey Delaval, had contested Newark-on-Trent unsuc 
 cessfully in 1754. That the Berwick election was not secured 
 without recourse to the bribery which was so general at that time, 
 though doubtless not carried on in so eccentric a fashion as by 
 Sir Francis at Andover, is evident from an incident which occurred 
 in the House of Commons, 25 November, 1754, and which is thus 
 related in a letter written the next day by Mr. Fox to the then 
 Lord Hartington * : " I did not come in," says the writer, "till the 
 close of the finest speech that ever Pitt spoke, and perhaps the 
 most remarkable. Mr. Wilkes petitioned against the younger 
 Delival, chose at Berwick, on account of bribery only. The 
 younger Delaval made a speech on his being thus attacked, full of 
 wit, humour, and buffoonery, which kept the House in a continual 
 roar of laughter. Mr. Pitt came down from the gallery, and took 
 it up in his highest tone of dignity. He was astonished when he 
 heard what had been the occasion of their mirth. Was the dignity 
 of the House of Commons on so sure foundations that they might 
 venture themselves to shake it ? Had it not on the contrary been 
 diminishing for years, till now we were brought to the very brink 
 of the precipice where, if ever, a stand must be made ? . . . 
 Displeased, as well as pleased, allow it to be the finest speech that 
 was ever made ; and it was observed that by the first two periods 
 he brought the House to a silence and attention that you might 
 have heard a pin drop." 
 
 In 1774, Sir J. Hussey-Delaval contested the County of 
 Northumberland, from the representation of which his cousin, 
 George Shaftoe-Delaval had retired. He was supported by his 
 constant friend and ally, Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, whose 
 name frequently appears in family deeds and documents as trustee, 
 and filling other friendly offices. Lord Brabourne, in an article 
 on Old Elections, speaks thus of this contest f : "In Northumber- 
 land at the General Election of 1774 the whole influence of the 
 Duke of that name was exerted in favour of Lord Algernon Percy 
 and Sir John Hussey Delaval. Nevertheless after a contest which 
 lasted 9 days Sir William Middleton succeeded in beating Delaval 
 by 16 votes, — 1099 to 1083; Lord Algernon being 136 votes 
 ahead of Middleton, and the second ' Independent ' candidate, 
 Mr. Fenwick, some 300 votes behind Delaval." At this same 
 
 * Life of W. Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. 
 t Black-wood's Magazine, June, 1892 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 election, Thomas Delaval, his brother, was a candidate for 
 Newcastle-on-Tyne, but after a contest which lasted from Oct. i ith 
 to 19th, 1774, he was left in a minority. He contested Newcastle 
 again in 1780, on which election Lord Brabourne remarks*: 
 "At the general Election of 1780 Mr. Bowes t stood for Newcastle 
 upon Tyne against Sir Matthew White Ridley and Mr. Delaval. 
 Sir Matthew headed the poll with 1408 votes, of which 762 were 
 split with Delaval; but Mr. Bowes had 415 votes split with him, 
 and 206 with Delaval which with 514 plumpers brought his total 
 up to 1 135, leaving Delaval 50 votes behind." Mr. Delaval 
 petitioned against Bowes, but nothing came of it. Notwithstanding 
 his defeat for the County, Sir J. Hussey-Delaval's seat for Berwick 
 was secure, and he retained it until his elevation to the Peerage of 
 Great Britain in 1786. 
 
 On 17 October, 1783, Sir J. Hussey-Delaval was created an 
 Irish Peer by the title of Baron Delaval, of Redford, co. Wicklow. 
 He assumed as the supporters to his coat of arms the same which 
 his brother Sir Francis had adopted on becoming a K.B. in 1761, 
 namely, two Knights in armour, the dexter holding in his hand a 
 scroll inscribed Magna Charta, representing Sir Gilbert Delaval, 
 one of the Barons Conservators of the Great Charter ; the sinister 
 holding a banner with the two lions of Normandy, in representation 
 of Sir Guy Delaval, who bore a banner at Hastings. Several 
 plaster statuettes of these two knightly supporters may be seen 
 about the Hall at Doddington. Within three years of his creation 
 as an Irish Peer, Lord Delaval was raised, 21 August, 1786, to the 
 Peerage of Great Britain, as Baron Delaval, of Seaton Delaval, co. 
 Northumberland. In the interval between these dates a dissolution 
 of Parliament had taken place, and Pitt, who in the former House 
 of Commons had been defeated on the question of the East India 
 Bill, had a large majority in the new Parliament returned in his 
 favour. Lord Delaval, who, in January, 1784, in the former 
 Parliament had voted against him, a few months later in the new 
 Parliament turned round and voted in his favour. Sir Nathaniel 
 Wraxall in his Posthumous Memoirs of his own Times, ii., 264, thus 
 alludes to the incident, and gives a description of Lord Delaval 
 himself : " I was particularly acquainted," he says, " with that 
 nobleman before as well as after his elevation to the British Peerage. 
 
 * Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1892. 
 
 t This Mr. Bowes was the notorious Andrew Stoney Robinson, who 
 assumed the name of Bowes on his marriage with Mary Eleanor, widow of 
 John, tenth Earl of Strathmore, and heiress of the great northern family of 
 Bowes, and who so cruelly illused her. Sir J. Hussey-Delaval was one of the 
 witnesses at her first marriage with Lord Strathmore, at St. George's, Hanover 
 Square, on 24 February, 1767. 
 
John Hussey-Delaval) Lord Delaval. 
 
 161 
 
 He was a younger brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval, a man 
 celebrated in the annals of wit and gallantry towards the end of 
 George II.'s reign. At 70 years of age Lord Delaval's person 
 remained graceful and slender, his manners elegant, gay and 
 pleasing. Descended from a very ancient and distinguished family 
 seated in the County of Northumberland, where he possessed great 
 landed property, he was created a Baronet soon after the present 
 King's accession. During his whole life pleasure constituted the 
 first object of his pursuit. Representing as he did the town of 
 Berwick-upon-Tweed in more than one parliament, and supporting 
 the Coalition Administration at their outset, he was included by 
 Fox among the Irish Peers of September, 1783, whom his majesty 
 consented to raise to that dignity, though he refused to make any 
 addition to the British Peerage. Of course Lord Delaval voted 
 for the East India Bill, when brought into the House of Commons ; 
 but afterwards finding that it was equally odious at St. James's, 
 and reprobated throughout the country, he retracted his support, 
 and joined the new minister. He even rose in his place, and 
 justified his conduct in a manly manner. For such an act of 
 apostacy, as it was denominated by his old allies, they assigned 
 him a conspicuous niche in the Rolliad." 
 
 The manly speech to which Sir N. Wraxall refers was spoken 
 by Lord Delaval on 24 May, 1784, and the meagre Parliamentary 
 Report of the day gives the following abstract of it. "Lord 
 Delaval defended himself for having voted for the India Bill, and 
 with Mr. Fox on every question that was moved at the close of 
 the last Parliament, declaring that he then thought the notions he 
 entertained and acted upon were the notions of the people, and 
 that the declarations of the ministry to the contrary were fallacious. 
 He reminded the House of a speech he had at that time made 
 (3 February, 1784), in which he had declared as much, and after 
 complimenting Mr. Pitt on his talents, had advised him to go 
 down the stairs again by which he had got into place, to trace 
 back his indirect path to power, and to enter at the door of that 
 House, openly, manfully, and constitutionally, as the Minister of 
 the People and the House of Commons, in which case he had 
 promised to open his arms to him, to embrace him cordially, and 
 to give him every support in his power. This promise he held 
 himself pledged to make good; the people had convinced him 
 that he had been mistaken as to their sense, and that his conduct 
 had consequently been founded on error. The Rt. Hon. Gentle- 
 man had been borne into that House through the portal, in the 
 face of open day, on the shoulders of the people. His constituents 
 at Berwick, the constituents of the whole House, had declared 
 their confidence in his character ; and therefore as an honest and 
 independent man, he was determined to give him his vote that 
 
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 night, and on every occasion to lend him his support." A little 
 later again, on 6 July, 1784, in the debate on Mr. Pitt's Bill for 
 the Government of India, " Lord Delaval, who had come into the 
 House during the debate, rose and justified his voting with 
 Mr. Pitt, declaring that he should always govern his parliamentary 
 conduct by a knowledge of what the real sense of the people was. 
 His lordship attacked Mr. Fox and those who sat near him for not 
 having submitted to the sense of the people, as he had done." 
 
 It was not so common then as it has become since for Members 
 of Parliament to profess to have no convictions of their own, and 
 to regard themselves as mere delegates bound to vote according to 
 the opinions of their constituents ; and Lord Delaval's change in 
 obedience, as he professed, to the views of the people, and his 
 subsequent promotion in the peerage, formed an inexhaustible 
 source of raillery to the wits of the day. The following are the 
 verses in The Rolliad alluded to by Sir Nath. Wraxall, with the 
 satirical notes in which the authors pretend to criticise them : — 
 " It is unquestionably the highest praise we can bestow upon a 
 member of the British House of Commons to say that he is a 
 faithful representative of the people, and upon all occasions speaks 
 the real sentiments of his constituents ; nor can an honest ambition 
 to attain the first dignities of the state, by honourable means, be 
 ever imputed to him as a crime. The following encomium there- 
 fore must be acknowledged to have been justly merited by a noble 
 Lord whose independent and disinterested conduct has drawn 
 upon him the censures of disappointed faction. 
 
 The Noble Convert, Berwick's honoured choice, 
 That faithful echo of the people's voice, 
 One day to gain an Irish title glad, 
 For Fox he voted, — So the people bade : 
 'Mongst English Lords ambitious grown to sit, 
 Next day the People bade him vote for Pitt : 
 To join the stream our Patriot nothing loath 
 By turns discreetly gave his voice to both. 
 
 The title of Noble Convert which was bestowed upon his lord- 
 ship by a speaker of the degraded Whig faction is here most 
 judiciously adopted by our Author, implying thereby that this 
 denomination, intended no doubt to convey a severe reproof, ought 
 rather to be considered as a subject of panegyric : this is turning 
 the artillery of the enemy against themselves." 
 
 " Not satisfied with this revenge," continues Sir Nath. Wraxall, 
 " the same wits composed a poem called The Delavaliad, parodied 
 from Orlando's verses to Rosalind in As you like it. But Lord 
 Delaval," he adds, "stood in no awe of such lampoons. He 
 attained to a very advanced age, and dying without a son, his titles 
 
John Hussey-Delaval) Lord Delaval. 
 
 163 
 
 both of which had been acquired within the space of 3 years, from 
 two rival ministers, expired with him." 
 
 It will be sufficient for us to quote a few lines from the 
 beginning and the end of The Delavaliad in order to show its 
 character, 
 
 "Ye patriots all, both great and small, 
 
 Resign the palm to Delaval ; 
 
 The virtues would'st thou practise all, 
 
 So in a month did Delaval. 
 
 A patriot first both stout and tall, 
 
 Firm for a day was Delaval. 
 
 Wilt thou against oppression bawl ? 
 
 Just so did valiant Delaval ! 
 
 Yet in a month thyself enthral, 
 
 So did the yielding Delaval : 
 
 Yet give to both a dangerous fall, 
 
 So did repenting Delaval. 
 
 From Prince's court to cobbler's stall 
 
 Shall sound the name of Delaval : 
 
 For neither sceptre nor the awl 
 
 Are strong and keen like Delaval. 
 
 Some better praise than this poor scrawl 
 
 Shall sing the fame of Delaval : 
 
 For sure no song can ever pall 
 
 That celebrates great Delaval : 
 
 Borne on all fours, the fame shall sprawl 
 
 To latest time, — of Delaval : 
 
 Then come, ye Nine, in one great squall 
 
 Proclaim the worth of Delaval ! " 
 
 For the seat vacated at Berwick by his own elevation to the 
 Peerage, Lord Delaval brought forward Mr. Addington as a 
 candidate. Two burgesses of Berwick happened to be then at 
 Lincoln, and Mr. Portes, the steward at Doddington, was employed 
 to secure their attendance and votes. To one of them, who was 
 apothecary at the Lincoln County Hospital, he paid five guineas 
 for his journey to Berwick to vote. Lord Delaval's nominee, 
 however, was defeated, and Wm. Portes, in a letter dated 7 October, 
 1786, thus gives vent to his indignation : "Honored Lord, I am 
 exceedingly sorry that yr. Lordships interest hath lost the Election 
 att Berwick upon Tweed. The Burgesses there must be a sett of 
 the most ungratefull wretches that ever existed according to their 
 behaviour in this election, to make choice of a man of so little 
 fortune, and perhaps as little honour, and throw yr. Lordships 
 interest out who hath been such a friend to the town of Berwick 
 
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 and itts inhabitants." However at the next Election in 1796, and 
 in 1 80 1, Lord Delaval secured a seat there for his son-in-law, the 
 Earl of Tyrconnel. 
 
 Having no occasion to use his Parliamentary influence at Lincoln 
 in his own behalf, Lord Delaval exerted it for the election of 
 another son-in-law, John Fenton-Cawthorne, who had married his 
 daughter Frances in 1778. He was first returned for the City of 
 Lincoln, in conjunction with Sir Richard Lumley Savile, in 1784, 
 and a second time in 1790, when he was at the head of the poll 
 with 637 votes, the Hon. Major Robert Hobart coming next with 
 604. while the Hon. George Rawdon with 464 votes was defeated. 
 It was no doubt an electioneering dinner of which we have a record 
 in the following " List of Lincoln Freemen who dined with Lord 
 Delaval at Doddington on Saturday, 28 Oct., 1786; viz* Mr. 
 Alderman Gibbeson, Mr. Wood, Governor of the Castle, Mr. 
 Sheriff Foster, Mr. Sheriff Bullen, Mr. Capp, Fellmonger, 
 Mr. Goodhand, Gent., Mr. Allison, senr., Mr. Allison, junr., 
 Mr. Bennett, Grocer, the Revd. Mr. Hare, and Mr. Walker, 
 Inn-keeper." Of these Lincoln elections we have many notices 
 in Mr. Portes' letters written to Lord Delaval when away from 
 Doddington. Thus on 14 September, 1788, he writes to him at 
 Ford Castle respecting a visit paid by Mr. Cawthorne to Dodding- 
 ton and Lincoln on electioneering business : — " Honored Lord, 
 Mr. Cawthorne arrived here last Tuesday night, and went to 
 Lincoln on Wednesday. Mr. Gibbeson and him came over on 
 Friday fore-noon, and came down to the Hop-garden; and 
 yesterday Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Graves and his wife, young Mr. 
 Gibbeson, his lady and sister, came all over yesterday fore-noon, 
 but went back to Lincoln both days to dine. They all of them 
 seem both to think and say itt is exceedingly fortunat Mr. Cawthorns 
 coming to the Races, for their was some underhand schemes going 
 forward, but Mr. Cawthorn coming and behaving in the agreeable 
 manner he hath done hath frustrated all their schemes, and Mr. 
 Cawthorn hath been exceedingly caressed by all the gentlemen 
 and also the whole city. Mr. Cawthorn dined yesterday att ye 
 hunting Club, and tomorrow att what they call the Lunitick Club : 
 on Tuesday he dines along with all the aldermen and other gentle- 
 men, itt being the Day they elect the Mayor for ye ensuing year." 
 The Date Book of Lincoln informs us that on 8 January, 1789, 
 J. F. Cawthorne, Esq., one of the Members for Lincoln, gave his 
 annual compliment of coals to upwards of 300 freemen. The 
 same distribution of coals is spoken of in a letter addressed by 
 Mr. Portes to Lord Delaval, in Hanover Square, on January 9 : — 
 "Your Lordships Agents att Lincoln was distributing the Coals 
 amongst the freemen att Lincoln when I received the honour of 
 your Lordships letter. Mr. Greaves still keeps rallying up for 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 165 
 
 Fenton as he calls him, and Dick Bullen does the same for Major 
 Hubberd ; but Fenton att present is the cry in Lincoln among the 
 poorer sort of Freemen. There are upwards of 30 that have told 
 me, iff there be an oposition, they will give Mr. Cawthorn each a 
 single vote. Mr. Greaves hath paid, as I hear, for 10 or 12 
 young men taking up their freedom, on that provisoe they vote for 
 Mr. Fenton att the next election, which I suppose he takes care to 
 secure before he pays ye money. Itt cost the young freemen 
 7*. 6d. and Mr. Greaves hath given them all 10s. 6d. — to whit, 3^. 
 above what their freedom costs them : he tells them that is to 
 drink Mr. Fentons health. I am told that Dick Bullen went up 
 to London to engage all the freemen of his acquaintance, or what 
 ever he could possibly engage, to vote for Major Hubberd. I only 
 mention these things as I am informed ; I cannot answer for 
 them to be matters of fact, only Mr. Cawthorn may inform himself, 
 as he is in London." He writes again, 18 April, 1789, "There 
 are nothing now going forward att Lincoln but Electioneering. 
 Mr. Viner by two letters to the Aldermen Kents hath declared 
 that he will stand Candidate for ye ensuing Election : also young 
 Bullen is making all the interest he can both in Lincoln and all 
 the places round where there is any freemen for Mr. Hubbert : 
 But I am in the greatest hopes iff 2 more Candidats offer, 
 Mr. Cawthorn is sure to be first Member. Altho' iff your Lordship 
 was but one week att Doddington, and show yourself only once att 
 Lincoln before ye Election, itt would assist greatly in strengthening 
 Mr. Cawthorns interest. They have gott itt intirely into their 
 heads att Lincoln that the Parliament is to be dissolved on Friday 
 ye 24th, ye day after his Majesty goes in state to St. Paul's, and 
 then the Election comes on immediately. But however itt be, no 
 person can be more assiduous and diligent in strengthening 
 Mr. Cawthorns interest than Mr. Graves is. He told me he would 
 spend 500 pounds of his own money before Mr. Cawthorn lost 
 his Election." Lord Delaval was at Doddington in the following 
 July, as well as in January, 1790, and we may hope his presence 
 had all the effect which Mr. Portes expected. He writes to him 
 at Seaton Delaval, on 27 November, 1789, with fresh rumours as 
 to the election : " They have gott itt on foot now that an Indian 
 Nabob hath for this some time past been endeavouring to secure 
 what votes he possibly could att London, and is in a short time to 
 be att Lincoln ; and this Nabob at last turns out to be Doctor 
 Petreys brother, that I supose hath been att the East Indies, and 
 hath accumulated some money which he may very soon spend att 
 Lincoln without reaping any benefit to himself. They also speak 
 of young Mr. Viner, and seem to expect a very contested Election 
 whenever itt happens; but I am convinced Mr. Cawthorn will 
 represent the City of Lincoln whilst your Lordship thinks good to 
 
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 offer him as a Candidatt, whatever oposition may happen." At 
 Christmas he suggests that on account of the ensuing election it 
 would be well that all the Lincoln bills should be paid ; as they 
 were, to the amount of ^288, early in January. The election 
 took place on 19 June, 1790, when, as Mr. Portes anticipated, 
 Mr. Cawthorne was returned at the head of the poll. Here is a 
 description of Lincoln two days before the election, in a letter 
 written by Mr. Portes from Lincoln to Lord Delaval at Ford Castle, 
 17 June, 1790: — "Honored Lord, I came to Lincoln this fore- 
 noon, but never before did I see Lincoln so crowded with 
 people att such a time, for all the three Candidates hath been 
 walking the streets with their colours flying. Major Rawdon had 
 9 carriages come in today full of freemen. The Major, with some 
 of his friends in one carriage, went and met them with all his 
 Colours and Musick, and went from ye South Barr all above hill 
 and down again, and I am told they walk the streets all of them 
 this afternoon, and to-morrow again, and then the Election begins 
 on Saturday morning, when by the best information I can receive 
 itt will be the hottest contested Election that hath been att Lincoln 
 for this great number of years. Notwithstanding I am still con- 
 vinced, and by the best information I can receive, that Mr. Cawthorn 
 will certainly be returned to represent the City again. The City 
 are so afraid of Disagreeable Confusion that they are altering the 
 Townhall for the freemen to go up to vote one way, and come 
 down another. Neither of the 3 Candidates now treats any person 
 whatever." 
 
 This was the last time that Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne was returned 
 for Lincoln. His parliamentary career as its Member was brought 
 to an ignominious termination by a vote of 3 May, T796, when 
 Colonel Cawthorne, as he then was, was expelled the House of 
 Commons, after being found guilty by a Court Martial of misap- 
 propriation of the "marching guineas " paid to him as Colonel of 
 a Regiment of Militia. In the ensuing election for Lincoln, Lord 
 Delaval seems to have taken no part, and the Hon. Major Rawdon 
 and Richard Ellison, Esq., were returned without opposition. 
 This was however by no means the close of Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne's 
 parliamentary life. He contested his native borough of Lancaster 
 without success in 1802, but was returned for it in 1806, and in 
 each succeeding parliament until his death in 183 1. A modern 
 local history describes his family residence in Lancaster, still known 
 as Fenton-Cawthorne House, as " a grand old dwelling, a stately 
 house of England, more like a county hall." From a projecting 
 window, now removed, Mrs. Cawthorne used to address the 
 freemen and burgesses of Lancaster at election times on her 
 husband's behalf, and, it is said, secured his return to Parliament 
 by her persuasive powers of argument and good ringing eloquence. 
 
John H us sey- Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 167 
 
 George III., it is added, once contemplated the revival of the 
 Barony of Wyersdale in the person of Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne, 
 whom he intended to create Lord Wyersdale.* 
 
 From another letter of Mr. Portes, dated 23 May, 1788, we 
 learn of a pretender to the Doddington estate, though his claims do 
 not seem to have appeared formidable either to its owner or his 
 steward. This is how the latter treats the matter: — "Honored 
 Lord, As for that person that is laying the unjust claim to 
 Doddington Estate he is a foolish man they call Thomas Taylor, 
 a barber att Lincoln, who says he is a descendant of Sir Thomas 
 Taylor who, he says, built Doddington Hall, — also says he can 
 prove himselfe a descendant from Sir Thomas Taylor, and none 
 but himselfe of the name who is of Sir Thomas Taylors offspring. 
 Doddington Estate is his, and he intends trying for itt. The above 
 I have heard above 20 years ago, but never took any farder notice, 
 only lookt upon itt as a very great proof of his folly and weakness. 
 But if I hear any more of itt, shall immediately lett your Lordship 
 know ; but I think I never shall, unless itt be a farder declaration 
 of his weakness and folly." It seems possible that this Thomas 
 Taylor may have been descended from a brother of Thomas Taylor, 
 the purchaser of Doddington and builder of the Hall, who mentions 
 more than one brother with children in his will. Possibly also he 
 may have been the same whose death is thus recorded in the 
 Lincoln Date Book for 1810 : — "June 30 : At Lincoln, aged 82, a 
 very eccentric character known by the name of Dr. T. Taylor." 
 
 Lord Delaval had at this time his town house in London, 
 situated successively at Grosvenor House, Millbank, in Hanover 
 Square,! where he occupied Lord Tyrconnel's house, and at 62, 
 Portland Place, which was his last London house, and which he 
 gave up in 1805. He rented for a time from Lord Tyrconnel his 
 mansion of Claremont, since become a royal residence, and later, 
 lived at Milburne Place, a beautiful villa near Esher. As country 
 seats, besides Doddington, he had his far more important estates 
 in Northumberland with their great mansion houses of Seaton 
 Delaval Hall and Ford Castle. Their comparative size may be 
 judged from the amount of Window Tax paid on the houses in 
 1788, "Doddington Cottage" being the Rectory which Lord 
 Delaval then rented from the non-resident Rector. 
 
 * Time-honoured Lancaster ; by Cross Fleury, 1891, p. 437-40. 
 
 + In London in 1779, when residing in Hanover Square, where Lady 
 Delaval died, Sir John and Lady Hussey-Delaval and two daughters had 14 
 coach and saddle horses, and 10 women and 1 1 men-servants. Their household 
 expenses, including about ^30 for the stables, were from .£108 to ,£120 a 
 month. An interesting item is that for Flambeaux from £1 4^. to £2 2s. per 
 month. Lady Delaval always spoke of driving out with her " set of horses." 
 In 1800-1 Lord Delaval paid duty on 82 horses and 20 dogs. 
 
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 £ s. d. 
 
 Seaton Delaval, 300 windows . . . 38 1 1 o 
 
 Ford Castle, 119 „ ... 25 5 o 
 
 Doddington, 81 ,, ... 18 17 6 
 
 Doddington Cottage 17 „ ... 3 11 6 
 
 Later, however, from 1809 to 1823 the Window Tax on the 
 Hall was ^55 a year; in 1823 it fell again to ^27 14J. gd 
 
 At Seaton Delaval he had added a wing containing 14 rooms 
 to the already palatial mansion designed by Vanbrugh, and had 
 fitted up the whole most magnificently with Italian marbles, 
 statuary, and pictures, the ceilings being painted by Vercelli. 
 Here he entertained Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 
 brother of George III., for several days in August, 1771, having 
 met him at Alnwick Castle, and escorted him to Berwick, as M.P. 
 for that town, and subsequently to Seaton Delaval ; on August 30 
 he attended with him a great banquet at Newcastle. Here also at 
 great expense he carried out the plans of his brother, Thomas 
 Delaval, for the further improvement of the harbour at Seaton 
 Sluice, cutting a new entrance, 52 ft. deep, 30 ft. wide, and 900 ft. 
 in length, through the solid freestone rock. " This astonishing 
 work," as it was called at the time, " was completed in 3 years, and 
 the new harbour was opened 20 March, 1764, in the presence of 
 many thousand spectators, when two vessels sailed in at the next 
 tide, and three large oxen and several hogsheads of ale were given 
 to the populace." * He purchased also and carried on the 
 extensive Hartley Glass Works adjoining, also planned by Thomas 
 Delaval, and employed a fleet of small vessels for the conveyance 
 of the products of his Collieries, Glass and Copperas and other 
 Works established for the benefit of his estates.! At Ford, which 
 he redeemed from the mortgages with which it was encumbered 
 for the payment of Sir F. B. Delaval's debts, he rebuilt the Castle 
 in 1 761, though necessarily in the debased style of his time, his 
 work there being variously described by modern writers, one saying 
 that he " destroyed its most interesting features by converting the 
 main portion into a mansion designed in the atrocious style which 
 was then supposed to be Gothic " ; X while another speaks of it 
 as rather a good specimen of the bastard Gothic architecture, 
 brought into fashion by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill."§ 
 
 * Annual Register, 1764. 
 
 t A memento of this coal traffic at Seaton Sluice, dating from before 1761, 
 remains at Doddington in the shape of a copper plate, 7| inches by 4J, engraved 
 with the Delaval arms, and the words, " Port of Seaton Sluice, 17 — . Sold 
 
 and delivered on board the , Master, — Chaldrons of Francis and 
 
 John Delaval, Esq. Hartley Main Coals, being the said Ship's full loading." 
 
 X Bates' Border Holds of Northumberland. 
 
 § Hare' Two Noble Lives, iii., 69. 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 169 
 
 It has since been restored. 186 1-3, in a better and grander style. 
 The woods which now clothe the formerly bare hills around the 
 Castle, and look down on "the Till by Twizel Bridge" and 
 " Flodden's fatal field " owe their origin to his planting ; and against 
 Sir N. Wraxall's character of him as a man whose whole life was 
 given up only to the pursuit of pleasure, it is fair to set the remarks 
 of Mackenzie, the local historian of Northumberland, who says 
 (v. i., p. 369) : — " The memory of Sir J. H. Delaval is highly 
 honored in Northumberland. He employed his ample wealth in 
 cultivating and improving his estates, and in dispensing felicity to 
 innumerable families. The country round Ford which was one 
 continued sheepwalk,he divided and inclosed with excellent hedges, 
 and clothed the bare hills with fine plantations. He also attempted 
 to increase the riches and population of the country by the 
 establishment of a plating forge which he erected in 1769 about a 
 mile further down the river, where a large quantity of shovels, 
 spades, &c, were made, as well for home consumption as for 
 exportation. Had the scheme succeeded according to the bene- 
 volent views of the proprietor, it would have been productive of 
 many beneficial consequences to this district." 
 
 Having all this to occupy him elsewhere, we may imagine that 
 Lord Delaval would have little time to spend at Doddington. He 
 seems, however, to have been always interested in it, and to have 
 visited it with his family at least once or twice a year on the way 
 to and from London and the north. His daughters after their 
 marriage often accompanied him with their husbands, especially 
 Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne and Lord Tyrconnel. On these visits they 
 brought their establishment of servants with them, the journey 
 from Ford to Seaton Delaval occupying two days, while Dodding- 
 ton was reached on the third day from Seaton, the journey from 
 Seaton to London being performed in from seven to nine days. 
 The quickest travelling was in 1756, when the family Bill was 
 before Parliament, when John Delaval (as he then was) left London 
 with his family on April 13th, and arrived at Seaton on the 16th, 
 the expenses for posting being £22. His brother Robert went 
 down for him later on, arriving on 6 May, expenses ^8 2s. ; and 
 they started on their return next day. About the same period the 
 Post Office conveyed a "despatch" from Seaton to London for 
 £3 5s. A " despatch " left Alnwick for Doddington at 6.30 a.m., 
 and arrived at Grantham at 5.30 p.m. the next day, spending four 
 hours in changing horses at the 13 stopping places on the road, and 
 costing ^3 3s. for conveyance. In December, 1772, Sir John 
 and Lady Hussey-Delaval, with 5 children, 2 tutors, governess, 
 lady's maid, and 15 other servants, 26 in all travelled from Seaton 
 to Doddington with 20 horses. At that time of the year they 
 would have "coaches," but in summer time "chaises" are 
 
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 mentioned. The men servants always rode, and so did young 
 Mr. Delaval, when old enough, if not driving. The maids and 
 heavy baggage were conveyed in the " caravan," a large covered 
 conveyance drawn by three horses, which on one occassion carried 
 seven servants and six dogs between Seaton and Doddington. 
 The expenses amounted to £t>\ 4s. yd. Their route would be, 
 of course, as far as possible by the Great North Road, diverging 
 from it or rejoining it at Markham Moor, so as to cross the Trent 
 at Dunham Ferry, as we know by the payments in Mr. Portes' 
 accounts for ferrying the family over. 
 
 Of one of these journeys Lady Delaval relates a sad incident. 
 On leaving Ford Castle for the south they supped at Whittingham, 
 when a Scotch lady and gentleman drove up in a post-chaise and 
 four ; the gentleman came in to warm himself at the kitchen fire, 
 and left the lady in the chaise. The Delavals, finishing supper, 
 retired, and the lady then entered. The next day the Delavals 
 were baiting at Welden Mill, when General Scott passed in a 
 chaise and four in pursuit of his wife, Lady Mary Scott, and Capt. 
 Sutherland, followed by two other chaises and four, containing the 
 lady's father and others, but the runaways had passed through 
 Newcastle that morning. Lady Mary Scott was a young friend 
 of Lady Delaval, being the daughter of the adjoining proprietor 
 of Etal, and had she seen her at Whittingham she thought she 
 would have been in time to save her, as she had done on a former 
 occasion. 
 
 The two tutors mentioned above were the Rev. Mr. Fevot, a 
 Frenchman, and the Rev. Westley {sic) Hall, whose salaries were 
 respectively ^50 and ^40, the man-cook at the same time 
 receiving ^50. The Rev. Westley Hall was a nephew of the 
 celebrated John Wesley, being the son of the Rev. Thomas Hall, 
 who married in 1735, Martha, daughter of Rev. Samuel Wesley, 
 Rector of Epworth ; he incurred the resentment of her brothers, 
 John and Charles Wesley, by marrying her rather than her sister 
 Kezia, but both Kezia herself and the widowed Mrs. Wesley made 
 their home with him. In a MS. journal of his life, found among 
 the papers at Seaton Delaval, there are entries, "1767, At 
 Doddington, Curate," and "1774, At Doddington, preaching"; 
 but there is no other evidence of his having done duty here, and 
 it is perhaps Doddington in Northumberland that he refers to. 
 Another member of the household was the "Limner," William 
 Bell, of Newcastle, who for years was permanently employed in 
 the country houses and in London, teaching the children, painting 
 portraits, &c. To him the full length portraits of Sir John and 
 Lady Hussey-Delaval and their daughters Sophia Ann and Eliza- 
 beth, painted 1770-4, and now in the dining-room at Seaton 
 Delaval, and probably many other pictures are due. 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 171 
 
 When the family were away the Hall here was left in charge of 
 a housekeeper, housemaid, and dairymaid, with the out-door men, 
 steward, gardeners, gamekeeper, carpenter, &c. The maid servants 
 employed their spare time in spinning flax, for which they were 
 paid so much per lb., in addition to their board and other wages. 
 A weaver, Gabriel Stanley, was brought from time to time to work 
 it up into linen cloth. All Lord Delaval's servants continued long 
 in his service ; and of one of them, a gamekeeper, the late Captain 
 Nevile, of Thorney, told this story in 1834 : " I recollect as a boy 
 going out to carry the bag for my father and Lord Delaval shooting 
 one day together. Lord Delaval had a large single-barrel gun 
 made by Twig, and having made a long shot at a pheasant which 
 he killed, he said to his keeper — Dobson, a Scotchman — who was 
 with him. 'Is not that a famous shot?' ' Na, na,' said Dobson, 
 'it's as big as a guse.' My father said afterwards to Dobson, 
 ' How could you speak so to Lord Delaval ? ' to which Dobson 
 replied, ' I dare-na speak so to him in the open, but I can just say 
 what I please in a wood.' Lord Delaval gave this gun, which he 
 called his ' Twig,' afterwards to my father, who left it to my brother 
 Edward, who has it now" (1834). 
 
 In 1770 the Rev. George Wilson, who had been Rector of 
 Doddington since 1744, but had never resided here, died ; and the 
 Rev. Robert Pregion Hurton, who had acted as Curate during the 
 whole of his incumbency, was summoned by Sir John Hussey- 
 Delaval to Grosvenor House, London. That night he and young 
 Mr. Delaval went to the Oratorio, where the King and Queen were 
 to be present ; and the next morning, March 8, Sir John presented 
 him to the Rectory of Doddington, to which he was instituted two 
 days later. Mr. Hurton, as we learn from the admissions to 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, was born at Apley, the posthumous 
 son of John Hurton, yeoman, {fundi sui cultoris). Having been 
 educated at the Grammar School, Lincoln, he was admitted 
 Pensioner at St. John's, 2 June, 1740, at the age of 18, and took 
 his degree of A.B. 1743, and A.M. 1747. He had been Curate of 
 Doddington since 1745, and though in September, 1756, he was 
 discharged from the Curacy by the Rector, he was shortly after 
 re-instated through the Delaval influence, It was not till 1748 
 that he was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Lincoln, and in 
 1749 he was presented by the Earl of Scarbrough to the Vicarage 
 of Stainton, and at the same time was appointed Sequestrator of 
 Barlings with Langworth. These duties no doubt he discharged 
 by deputy, continuing to reside at Doddington; and as he also 
 undertook the Curacy of Skellingthorpe from 1753 to 1783, that of 
 Thorpe-on the- Hill from 1772 to 1785, and even that of Swinderby 
 in 1759-60, we cannot wonder that there continued to be but one 
 service at Doddington. Besides this he acted for many years as 
 agent for the estate, receiving as such a salary of ^25 a year. 
 
172 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Soon after his appointment as Rector, Mr. Hurton had a 
 difference with Mr. Vyner, the owner of Whisby, respecting the 
 tithes there. By agreement a sum of 2s. 6d. in the pound on a 
 rental of ^755 had been paid in satisfaction of the tithes, but 
 Mr. Hurton apparently insisted on receiving them in kind. Lady 
 Delaval writes from London, 30 May, 1771, "Mr. Vyner staid to 
 dinner with us. He said if Mr. Hurton would take the tithes of 
 Wisby in kind, he would build a Chapel at Wisby, and make 
 Mr. Hurton do duty there. Sir John told him he had never heard 
 that there had been a Chapel at Wisby, to which Mr. Vyner 
 answered that he had been informed that there was once a Chapel 
 of ease to Doddington at Wisby." There is a field at Whisby 
 called the Chapel Close, and the late Mr. Mark Rawson, tenant 
 of the Glebe there, told the writer that his father, who died in 
 1846, aged 88, carted away the stone foundations of a building 
 from it to mend the parish roads. But we have found no other 
 evidence of its existence. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Hurton's matrimonial attempts were somewhat 
 peculiar. As early as June, 1744 (before his Ordination), Diana 
 Chaplin, of Blankney, bound herself to become his wife " as soon 
 as he shall think convenient to make a demand of me," upon 
 forfeiture of half her fortune. How the young lady obtained 
 release from her bond we cannot say ; but at any rate in May, 1750, 
 the Rev. R, P. Hurton himself entered into a bond of ^ijooo 
 with Miss Lily, of Lincoln, to marry her before May, 1755. 
 Three and a half years later the lady married a Mr. Woolmor, who, 
 in May, 1755, on the expiration of the term, demanded the money 
 of Hurton. Afterwards he consented to deliver up the bond for 
 ^500, for which Mr. Hurton feared arrest, and he and his wife, 
 Bridget Hurton, appealed to John Delaval, as he was then, for 
 assistance. In connection with this appeal he forwarded the 
 following statement of his income from various sources : — 
 " Doddington, ^102 ; Salary, ^25 ; House and Garden, ^13 ; 
 Fees, £2 : — Total ^"142. Stainton, ^110. Estate, ^42. Tydd 
 St. Mary, ^"40. Interest on Bond, £20. Mr. Twentyman, 
 £2 \os. Curacies .£40. Further Curacy ^20=^416 in all." 
 It will be seen that Mr. Hurton had himself married, and so put 
 it out of his power to perform his promise to Miss Lily. This was 
 in 1752, and his wife was Bridget, daughter of Samuel Foster, Esq., 
 of the Chauntry House, Newark. The marriage licence issued at 
 Nottingham, 15 April, 1752, describes them as "Robert Pregion 
 Hurton, of Doddington, co. Line. Clerk, bachelor, set. 28, and 
 Bridget Foster, of Newark, spr., set. 21. Surety, Rob. Foster, of 
 Newark, gent. To be married at Newark." They were married 
 there the same day at St. Mary's, as the Parish Register records. 
 They had two daughters, Elizabeth, born at Doddington, 28 Sept., 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 173 
 
 and baptized here 1 October, 1754 ; and Mary, born here 1 August, 
 and baptized 7 August, 1756. The latter was also married here, 
 as his second wife, 4 July, 1779, to Joseph Sikes, Esq., J.P., of 
 Newark-on-Trent, who was three times Mayor of Newark, and 
 purchased the Chauntry House there from Robert Foster in 1783 ; 
 he died 10 March, 1798, and was buried at Balderton, where he 
 purchased an estate, as was also his widow, Mrs. Mary Sikes, who 
 died 9 September, 1828, in her 73rd year, leaving a son, the 
 Rev. Joseph Sikes, LL.B.,* and two daughters. Her elder sister 
 Elizabeth Hurton, died unmarried at Lincoln, bequeathing her 
 freehold of 300 acres at Tydd St. Mary to her nephew, the Rev. 
 Joseph Sikes. Mrs. Hurton long survived her husband, dying at 
 Lincoln, 21 December, 1819, aged 89. She was buried at Newark, 
 and a tablet of grey marble to her memory, at the east end of 
 St. Mary's Church, bears on a lozenge the arms, — Arg. a Fess 
 
 Sable; in chief 3 Mullets, Gules.t impaling , on a Chevron, 
 
 embattled, 3 Escallops, ; with the inscription, " In the Altar 
 
 Vault are deposited the remains of Bridget, relict of the Rev d 
 Robert Pridgion Hurton, M.A. Rector of Doddington Pigott, 
 Vicar of Stainton in Lincolnshire, and Domestic Chaplain to the 
 Rt. Hon ble John, Lord Delaval. She died at Lincoln, Dec. 21, 
 1 81 9, aged 89, and was the oldest native of this town, having been 
 born in the Chantry House after it was re-erected by her father 
 Samuel Foster, Esq., the great-grandfather of the present 
 Possessor." 
 
 Mr. Hurton himself died 4 August, 1787, and was buried at 
 Navenby, where the Parish Register records, — " Robert Prigeon 
 Hirton, Clerk, Vicar of Doddington, buried 7 August, 1787." 
 Lord Delaval relieved Mrs. Hurton from any charge for dilapi- 
 dations, and employed Mr. Lumby to make an estimate of the 
 necessary repairs. From his Survey, dated 24 August, 1787, which 
 still exists, we may judge how small a house the Rectory then was, 
 as well as from the estimated cost of the repairs which amounted 
 
 * The Rev. Joseph Sikes, who died unmarried 21 April, 1857, his two 
 sisters having pre-deceased him, was the author of the highly imaginative 
 pedigree of the family of Sikes, of the Chauntry House, Newark, which 
 appeared in the earlier editions of Burke's Landed Gentry, but has since been 
 removed. This pedigree was the subject of amusing but severe comment and 
 exposure in an article in The Herald and Genealogist, 1871, vol. vi., 193-21 1, 
 signed Q. F. V. F. , the initials of Quod facto valde facio, a motto assumed by 
 Mr. Sikes, the elder, during his second mayoralty. His signature to his 
 marriage in our Register is in the peculiar form used also by his son, of which 
 fac similes are given in the above-mentioned article, and which his son describes 
 as "a somewhat curious specimen of the Elizabethan era of writing names, 
 which period the family have been wont to consider the date of its origin, 
 though my opinion attributes it to a far earlier period." 
 
 t These are the arms of the ancient family of Irton, of Irton, co. Cumber- 
 land, and we may suspect that they were appropriated to the Rev. R. P. Hurton 
 by his grandson, the Rev. Joseph Sikes (see Note above), the "present 
 possessor " of the Chauntry House, mentioned in the epitaph. 
 
174 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 only to £,i\ 195. 6d, including 10s. for the chancel. As his 
 successor in the Rectory, Lord Delaval appointed the Rev. James 
 Fenton, a brother of his son-in-law, Mr. Fenton-Cawthorne. He 
 had been a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took his 
 degree of A.B. in 1781, and A.M. in 1784; and he was instituted 
 to the Rectory of Doddington, 4 February, 178S. One of his first 
 visits to Doddington is thus described by Mr. Portes in a letter to 
 Lord Delaval, Hanover Square, London, dated 30 June, 1788 : — 
 " Honored Lord, the Rev. Mr. Fenton arrived here last Saturday 
 on purpose to meet the Bishop att Lincoln last Monday, and Mr. 
 Fenton stays here near 3 weeks longer, as he is oblidged to stay 
 for the Sessions att Sleaford which is nott till ye 17th of July. He 
 has desired me to advance him the money due to him for this 
 Living up to Lady Day last ; and the sum due to Mr. Fenton will 
 be as follows: — Mr. Hurton died on the 4th August, 1787, there- 
 fore there is due to Mr. Fenton, 8 Months Antient Modus, Beast 
 Gates, Glebe Rent, &c, which will amount to ... ^34 17 ij 
 There is also due to him 4 months Taxes, w h he 
 
 hath paid, that yr. Lordship rec d of Mrs. Hurton 180 
 Due to him for ye Rent of the Rectory House from 
 
 Michm 8 1787 to Lady Day, 1788 300 
 
 £39 5 l h 
 
 The above sum Mr. Fenton wishes to receive now, as he says he 
 paid to the Bishops Secretary att Lincoln last Monday the sum of 
 ^43 is. for his Dispensation and Induction into Doddington 
 Living, and now hath nott money to pay his other expenses whilst 
 he getts home to Lancaster again. I have told Mr. Fenton I wd. 
 write to your Lordship, and shd. act agreable to yr. directions, but 
 told him I cd. not pay him any money before Wednesday ye 
 9th of July, which I have fixt for your Lordships Rent Day." The 
 dispensation required was for his non-residence, for Mr. Fenton 
 had no present intention of living at Doddington any more than at 
 his other Lincolnshire living of Althorpe in the Isle of Axholme, 
 to which Rectory he had been presented by the Crown in 1787, 
 and where he never resided at all, though he held it for 50 years. 
 In fact, he had let the Rectory here to Lord Delaval for £6 a year, 
 while the single service in the Church was performed by neighbour- 
 ing Clergy, such as the Rev. George Hare, Vicar of Skellingthorpe, 
 Rev. Thomas F. Nocton, Vicar of Bracebridge, and Rev. Thomas 
 Rees, Vicar of Saxilby, who acted successively as Curates of 
 Doddington until 1804, when Mr. Fenton himself came into 
 residence. Till that time Lord Delaval continued to rent the 
 Rectory, which he proceeded at once to have painted and put into 
 thorough repair, employing Mr. Lumby to add to it a new front 
 (the back of the present house) containing " a large bed-room, 
 dressing-room, and powdering-room." We fear that it was intended 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 175 
 
 mainly for the occupation of Miss Elizabeth Hicks, whom Lord 
 Delaval about this time " took under his protection," after Lady 
 Delaval's death, and who was similarly accommodated with a 
 small house close to the great houses at Seaton Delaval and Ford, 
 as well as with a town house in Conduit Street. Miss Hicks died 
 25 February, 1796, aged 23, and was buried in the family vault of 
 the Delavals at Seaton. There is a portrait of her at Ford Castle. 
 Her place was supplied by Miss Knight. 
 
 We have given already a list of the tenants and householders 
 on the Doddington estate as they were before 1730. The following 
 is a list of the names that appear in the rent roll of 1761 : — 
 John Glasier, Wm. Pettinger, Wm. Lonsdall, John Donston, Rev. 
 Mr. Hurton, Thos. Colton, John Howarth, Richard Carter, John 
 Bernard, Robert Spittlehouse, John Pickworth, Robert Hurton, 
 Richard Clements : only one name, that of Pickworth, being the 
 same as in the former list. 
 
 About 1778 a fresh Survey of the estate was made, in which 
 the names of the occupiers are given, with the extent of the 
 holdings, and the amount at which they were valued. The 
 following is a summary of it. Value. 
 
 
 ac. 
 
 r. 
 
 P> 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Lord Delaval, Land on hand.. 
 
 734 
 
 3 
 
 09 
 
 273 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 Do., Woods on hand. 
 Freeman Bernard ... 
 
 332 
 
 1 
 
 04 
 
 !25 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 170 
 
 2 
 
 °5 
 
 89 
 
 17 
 
 10 
 
 Thomas Presswood ... 
 
 59 
 
 0 
 
 26 
 
 41 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 Mark Starkey 
 
 107 
 
 0 
 
 32 
 
 71 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 John Rowe ... 
 
 148 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 99 
 
 T I 
 
 3 
 
 Robert Hurton 
 
 194 
 
 2 
 
 08 
 
 127 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 Jeremiah Stanneland ... 
 
 i75 
 
 1 
 
 r 9 
 
 r 3! 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 William Mansford 
 
 227 
 
 3 
 
 33 
 
 165 
 
 15 
 
 2 
 
 Widow Pickworth 
 
 IOI 
 
 0 
 
 15 
 
 60 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 John Hitchin ... 
 
 57 
 
 2 
 
 34 
 
 43 
 
 1 1 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Willcock 
 
 • 45 
 
 1 
 
 02 
 
 3i 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hurton 
 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 19 
 
 2 1 
 
 l 9 
 
 4 
 
 Do., Glebe 
 
 37 
 
 3 
 
 09 
 
 27 
 
 17 
 
 0 
 
 Richard Clements 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 09 
 
 3 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 Richard Carter 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 06 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 John Spittlehouse 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 36 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 Widow Scartcliff 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 39 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 John Mills 
 
 
 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 William Mills 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 William Pearce 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Mills 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 William Portes ... * .. 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 02 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Dunston 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 John Johnston 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Acr. 
 
 2436 
 
 2 
 
 07^1329 
 
 1 1 
 
 6 
 
176 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 In Thomas Presswood's occupation as given above the Harby 
 leasehold land, containing 35a. zr. oip., valued at £24 3^. 2d., 
 is included, so that the total acreage for Doddington alone is 
 2,401a. or. o6p., and its value of ^1,305 8s. 
 
 There is yet another class of inhabitants whose names we do 
 not find in rent rolls or as occupiers of land, and for whom we 
 have to look in the Churchwarden's or Overseers' accounts. I 
 mean those who would now be called paupers, — the poor who 
 were unable to maintain themselves, and who, in the days before 
 Union Workhouses and Union Rating, were provided for in and 
 by the Parishes to which they belonged. What do we learn about 
 them in the Churchwarden's Book which commences in 1732, or 
 in the Overseer's, commencing in 1772? There were Parish 
 Houses, little one-storied dwellings of " stud and mud," the 
 chimneys only being of brick, three of which formerly stood side 
 by side down the lane which runs east of the Church. These were 
 the Poor Houses, or the Town's Houses ; and they seem to have 
 been built from time to time, as need arose for them ; one was 
 
 * It may be worth while, as showing the price of stock a hundred years 
 ago, to print the following "Inventory of Stock " on Lord Delaval's farms, 
 with the amounts at which it was va 
 
 351 Tupping Ewes, at 10s. ... 
 108 Shear Hogs and Wedders, at 1; 
 260 Lamb Hogs, at 10s 
 
 719 
 
 30 Little Cows and Calves, at £4 
 13 Barren do., at ^3 
 
 21 3-year old Steers and Heifers, a 
 44 2-year and I -year old do., 2 
 
 1 Bull 
 
 109 
 
 2 Milch Cows, at £7 
 
 22 3-year old Steers, at £6 
 
 8 2-year old do., at £4 10s. .. 
 10 2-year old Heifers, at £$ 
 6 1 -year old do., at £3 
 4 Calves, coming 1 year, at 30.?... 
 
 52 
 
 10 Work Horses, at p£8 
 
 1 Black Galloway ... 
 
 ^1,008 19 o 
 
 ilued, January 15, 1781 
 
 ^£3 - 
 it 30^. 
 
 £ 
 
 j. 
 
 d. 
 
 175 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 70 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 130 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 120 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 39 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 63 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 66 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 14 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 132 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 36 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 SO 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 80 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 375 14 o 
 
 292 
 
 256 o o 
 
 85 5 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 
 
 177 
 
 built in 1 743 s another in 1746, others as late as 1797 and 1806. 
 In these persons chargeable to the parish were lodged rent free, 
 and supplied with a weekly dole of i*. or 2s. paid by the Overseer. 
 Besides this, coal was bought for them, and turf cut and led from 
 the Moor, and kids, or faggots for kindling, brought from the 
 woods. Each necessary article of clothing was provided by the 
 Overseer, who duly enters in his accounts such items as "Mary 
 Hardy, 1 Coverled and Blankets, js. 6d." ; "For two Ancatchers 
 (handkerchiefs) for Jane Scrimsha, is"; " Paid for Cotton Drab 
 for Samewell Russill's Britches, 3^. io%d. ; and for making the 
 same, Sd." ; or "A Hatt and Strings for Seusie Williamson, nd." ; 
 or " Cloth and Trimmin for Sam Russels New Coat, 10s. 3^." 
 Flax or tow was regularly bought for the poor women to spin, for 
 which they were paid at the rate of gd. or lod. per lb., and the 
 thread was sold for the benefit of the parish. In 1787 three 
 children, Mary, Ann, and Elizabeth Young, became chargeable to 
 the parish, and were thus provided for by an agreement entered in 
 the Overseer's book : — "April ye 9, 1787. N.B. Agreed this day 
 by the parishioners of Doddington for 3 years for 3 Children that 
 now belongs to the parish of Doddington in the manner following, 
 Viz. the 3 farmers that rents the 3 largest farms to take them for 
 the first year to Easter, 1788, and the next 3 largest Farmers to 
 keep them the next year, viz. from Easter 1788 to Easter 1789, 
 and then the next 3 largest farmers to keep them the next year, 
 viz. from Easter, 1789 to Easter, 1790, and to be Clothed at the 
 parish exspence as usual, and the three Children to be kept in the 
 same manner by the other tenants agreeable to the Rental of ye 
 Lordship, viz. the Land Lord Delaval hath in his own hand 
 included in the same. (Signed) Wm. Portes, agent to Lord 
 Delaval. John Harrison. Barnat Mimmack. Garvis Harrison. 
 John Roe. John Raynor. Mark Starkey. John Wood" : — the 
 two last signing by mark. A similar arrangement had been 
 previously made respecting a child, Susan Williamson : — " March 
 ye 27, 1780. Agreed this Day by us whose names are hereunto 
 sign'd that Mark Starke is to keep Sue Williamson from Easter 1780 
 to Easter T783, to find her meat, Drink, washin and Lodgin for her 
 Labour, and to find her Cloathing in a decent manner. (Signed) 
 Barnat Mimmack. Mark Starke, his mark. Wm. Portes. Henry 
 Willcock." If this was an arrangement somewhat resembling the 
 boarding-out system, it was without its advantages and safeguards. 
 It rather resembled the house-row or town-row system as it was 
 called, by which able-bodied men in former days, when out of 
 work, were kept off the parish by so many days' work being 
 found them at each farm in turn in proportion to its size. 
 
 M 
 
i 7 8 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Some years later a different arrangement was adopted, a contract 
 being entered into with John Hall, of the parish of North 
 Hykeham, for the maintenance and relief of the poor of Doddington 
 at North Hykeham Workhouse for ^30 a year. The agreement 
 for 1818 is signed by John Nesbitt (for Mrs. Delaval), Barnatt 
 Mimmack, and John Peacock, parishioners, as well as by the 
 above-mentioned John Hall. That this arrangement was at all 
 events more costly, is shown by a calculation entered in the 
 Overseer's book, that the average for seven years before joining 
 the Workhouse was ^38 4^. \v\d. t while the average for seven 
 years after was ^60 i8.r. o\d., a difference of £22 13J. id. a year. 
 
 Susannah, Lady Delaval, the first wife of Lord Delaval, died 
 at their town house in Hanover Square, on 1 October, 1 783, and 
 was buried October 11, in a new vault which Lord Delaval had 
 made in Westminster Abbey in the middle of St. Paul's Chapel on 
 the north side of the choir. The Gentleman's Magazine of the 
 day makes special mention of "the great funeral pomp" with 
 which she was interred, and of " the family banners which, agree- 
 able to ancient custom, are fixed over the grave." It goes on to 
 print a panegyric of her character in form of an epitaph of 44 lines, 
 which a spectator of the ceremony was moved to compose, but 
 which need not be reproduced here. Lord Delaval's favourite 
 daughter, Sarah Hussey, Countess of Tyrconnel, died 7 October, 
 1800, in her 36th year, either while on a visit to Gibside, Lord 
 Strathmore's seat, co. Durham, as is stated in some accounts, or 
 as others relate, after a long illness at Seaton Delaval ; she was 
 brought to London to be buried in the same vault. All his 
 daughters but one, Mrs. Fenton-Cawthorne, had pre-deceased him 
 when, in extreme old age, he married, 6 January, 1803, as his 
 second wife, Miss Susannah Elizabeth Knight, at Earsdon, the 
 Parish Church of Seaton Delaval. He himself died at Seaton 
 Delaval, 17 May, 1808, at the age of 80, being found dead in his 
 chair in the breakfast-room. His remains were conveyed in state 
 from the north, and interred on June 13 in the family vault in 
 St. Paul's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, "with great funeral pomp 
 and splendour," as the Gentleman's Magazine again expressly 
 notes, adding that "the general benevolence of his disposition will 
 cause his loss to be severely felt." The cost of his funeral, which 
 under Lady Delaval's direction was conducted by Messrs. Graham 
 and Litchfield, the London upholsterers, amounted to no less than 
 ^2,300. With all the pomp and splendour of their funerals, the 
 Delavals are singularly destitute of sepulcral monuments to their 
 memory; and in St. Paul's Chapel only a plain flat slab-stone 
 marks their burial, bearing an almost obliterated coat of arms, and 
 the short inscriptions : — " Here lieth the Body of the Rt.-Hon ble 
 Susannah, Lady Delaval, who departed this life, Oct. 1, 1783." 
 
John Hussey- Delaval, Lord Be/aval. 179 
 
 " Here lieth the Body of the Rt. Hon ble Sarah Hussey, Countess 
 of Tyrconnel: Died Oct. 7, 1800." "The Rt. Hon ble John 
 Hussey, Lord Delaval, Obiit May 17th, 1808." Above hang the 
 tattered banners, begrimed with the London smoke and dust of a 
 hundred years, on which the arms of Delaval, Blake, and Carpenter 
 (Tyrconnel) may still be distinguished. 
 
 We may here transcribe Dean Stanley's remarks in his 
 Memorials of Westminster Abbey " : " Of that ancient northern 
 family," he writes, "whose ancestor carried the standard at 
 Hastings, two were remarkable for their own distinctions, — 
 Admiral Delaval, long the companion of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, 
 who died in the north, and was buried in the Abbey, 23 January, 
 1707, probably in the Delaval vault, — and Edward Hussey 
 Delaval, the last of the male line, who was the author of various 
 philosophical works, and lies buried among the philosophers in the 
 Nave. But Lord and Lady Delaval, and their two daughters, 
 Lady Mexborough and Lady Tyrconnel, perhaps also the Admiral, 
 are interred in, or close to, St. Paul's Chapel, where their banners — 
 the last vestiges of a once general custom — hang over their graves. 
 Their pranks at Seaton Delaval belong to the history of Northum- 
 berland, and of the dissolute state of English society at the close 
 of the last century ; and in the traditions of the north still survives 
 the memory of the pomp which at every stage of the long journey 
 from Northumberland accompanied the remains of the wildest of 
 her race, Lady Tyrconnel." We may note that the burial place of 
 the Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval was not in St. Paul's Chapel, where 
 the vault was a new one made for Lady Delaval's burial in 1783, 
 but in the nave, not far from that of Edward Hussey Delaval, 
 which is marked only by his initials and the date ; and that the 
 Lady Mexborough who is buried in the Abbey, is not Sarah, the 
 sister (or as Dean Stanley calls her, the daughter) of Lord Delaval, 
 who married the first Earl of Mexborough, but her daughter-in-law 
 Elizabeth, the wife of her son, the second Earl, who was buried in 
 the Darnley vault, 18 June, 1821, aged 59. 
 
 In our own Church, as in the Chapel at Seaton Delaval, the only 
 memorial of Lord Delaval is the hatchment, hung there after being 
 displayed on the front of the Hall, on which the arms of Delaval 
 and Blake, quarterly, with a Baronet's Inescutcheon, impale those 
 of Knight, his second wife, Arg. 3 Bendlets within a Bordure, 
 Gules ; on a Canton, Az. a Spur, Or. The shield is surmounted 
 by a Baron's coronet, and supported by the knightly figures already 
 described. The motto, Dieu me Conduise. 
 
 But if the sepulcral monuments of the family are few, their 
 portraits are correspondingly numerous. They were frequent and 
 liberal patrons of all the noted painters of the day ; Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, Arthur and J. Pond, John Roberts, the miniature 
 
[8o 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 painter, Wm. Bell, of Newcastle, and many others, were largely 
 employed by them. Besides the family groups of Captain and 
 Mrs. Francis Blake Delaval's sons and daughters, of which there 
 are duplicates at Seaton Delaval and Doddington, full length 
 figures of Lord and Lady Delaval, by Pond, hang on either side of 
 the fireplace in the drawing-room at Doddington Hall. Other 
 likenesses of them and of their daughters, by Bell, of Newcastle, are 
 at Seaton Delaval. Many more, one of them representing Lord 
 Delaval in his robes as a Peer, are at Ford Castle. In the picture 
 at Doddington he is represented in a suit of blue, with knee- 
 breeches, seated at a table, with a book in his hand. It was a 
 favourite attitude, in which he is represented in several of his 
 portraits at Ford ; " a man of a philosophical and refined look," is 
 Wm. Howitt's comment on one of these. We have no portraits 
 of his children at Doddington, but those at Seaton Delaval, and 
 still more at Ford Castle, are very numerous, representing them at 
 all periods of their lives. 
 
 By his first wife, Susannah, daughter of R. Robinson, Esq., by 
 Margaret Delaval, and widow of John Potter, Esq., whom he 
 married at Duke Street Chapel, 2 April, 1750, and who died 
 
 1 October, 1783, Lord Delaval had a family of one son and six 
 daughters. These were:— 1, Rhoda, born 18 February, and 
 baptized at St. George's, Hanover Square, 20 March, 1751, who 
 died at Doddington 7 August, 1770. 2, Susannah, born 23 June, 
 1 753- who died at the age of 12. 3, Sophia Anne, who married 
 at Lambeth, 6 February, 1780, John Maximilian Jadis, Esq. ; she 
 died at Kensington, 24 July, 1793, and was buried at Doddington. 
 4, John, born 26 May, 1756, died at Bristol, unmarried, 7 July, 
 1775, and was buried at Doddington. 5, Elizabeth, married 
 
 2 July, 1 781, by special licence at her father's house in Hanover 
 Square, George Thicknesse-Touchet, Baron Audley; she died 
 11 July, 1785, and of her two sons, one was killed at Copenhagen, 
 the other, George John, born 23 January, 1783, succeeded his 
 father as 20th Baron Audley, and the Barony is at present in 
 abeyance between his two granddaughters. 6, Frances, married 
 1 August, 1778, John Fenton, Esq., who assumed the name of 
 Cawthorne in 1781, on inheriting the estate of Wyerside, co. 
 Lancaster ; he was M.P. for Lincoln, and afterwards for Lancaster, 
 and died 1 March, 1831, aged 79, at his house in Hanover Street. 
 By his will, proved 26 August, 1 831, he left all his property to his 
 wife, including his office of Bow-bearer or Master Forester of the 
 Forest of Wyersdale. She survived him until 1839, when she died 
 at Marine Lodge, on the Lancashire coast, the last survivor of that 
 generation of her family, as Lady Mexborough had been of the 
 previous one. She bequeathed by her will, proved 28 March, 
 1839, her office of Master Forester to her cousin John, third Earl 
 of Mexborough, the money she had inherited from Lord Delaval 
 
John Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval. 1 8 1 
 
 to her relatives of the Jadis family, and the Cawthorne estates to 
 her husband's next of kin. 7, Sarah Hussey, who was aged 16 
 when she was married, 3 June, 1780, by special licence in 
 Grosvenor House, Westminster, to George Carpenter, second 
 Earl of Tyrconnel, who died 15 April, 1805, in his 55th year ; she 
 pre-deceased him 7 October, 1800, having had a son, John George, 
 Viscount Carlingford, born 1781, died 1789, and a daughter, Lady 
 Susannah Hussey Carpenter, who married by special licence, 
 29 August, 1805, Henry De la Poer Beresford, second Marquis of 
 Waterford, and died 7 June, 1827. 
 
 Lord Delaval's second wife, Susannah Elizabeth Knight,* 
 whom he married at Earsdon Church, 6 January, 1803, survived him, 
 and died without issue at the Old Bath, Matlock, 20 August, 1822. 
 
 As he left no male issue, all Lord Delaval's titles became 
 extinct. By his will, dated 24 September, 1806, proved 12 July, 
 1808, he left to his wife, in addition to the settlement made on her 
 marriage, all his personal property, furniture, plate, coaches, horses, 
 &c, at Ford Castle and at Doddington, both at the Hall and 
 Parsonage, as well as a house and land purchased by him at Harby 
 and any rights attached to it over Saxilby Moor. He appointed 
 Sir Ralph Milbanke, Sir Francis Blake, of Tillmouth, Henry 
 Hoare and Henry Hugh Hoare, Esquires, trustees to hold the 
 Ford Castle estate, of which he had acquired the fee simple, and 
 the Hartley Glass Works which he had purchased from Thomas 
 Delaval, and all other real property of which he had the disposal, 
 for the use of Lady Delaval for her life, with remainder to his 
 grand-daughter Susanna Hussey, Marchioness of Waterford, and 
 her heirs. Further remainders were given to Mrs. Frances Fenton- 
 Cawthorne, to Henry Jadis, to his grandson, the Hon. George 
 Touchet, and his sister, the Hon. Elizabeth Cossin, and their 
 respective heirs. None of these further remainders however took 
 effect, and the estates still continue in the possession of the 
 Marchioness of Waterford's descendants. Her eldest son, Henry, 
 third Marquis of Waterford, known as " the wild Lord Waterford " 
 in his youth, is said to have inherited not the estates only, but his 
 fair complexion and fine figure and his taste for practical jokes 
 from his Delaval blood, t 
 
 * Lord Delaval's second wife is frequently styled Miss Charlotte Knight, a 
 name by which she seems to have been familiarly known. But in his will 
 Lord Delaval names her Susanna Elizabeth, and she signs herself Susan 
 Elizabeth in her receipts to Mr. Edw. Hussey-Delaval for her jointure of ^1,000 
 a year out of the Seaton Delaval estate. It was held that she was not entitled 
 to jointure out of Doddington, as Lord Delaval had only retained possession 
 of it since 1 77 1 by agreement with his brother. 
 
 t We must not conclude this chapter without again expressing our indebt- 
 edness to Mr. Walter B. Thomas, of Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for very 
 much interesting information respecting the Delaval family, which has been 
 incorporated in the foregoing account. 
 
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CHAPTER VII. 
 
 EDWARD HUSSEY-DELAVAL, AND THE GUNMANS. 
 
 ON Lord Delaval's death, his entailed estates, including 
 Seaton Delaval, then valued at ,£9,600 a year, with .£2,000 
 in addition from its Collieries and other Works, and Doddington, 
 valued at ^1,600 a year, devolved on his next and only surviving 
 brother, Edward Hussey-Delaval, who also had then nearly reached 
 his 80th year. Like the rest of the family he was a man of talent ; 
 and as we have seen, Dean Stanley singles him out together with 
 the Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval, as the two who were most remark- 
 able for their own personal distinction, which has gained for each 
 of them a place in the National Dictionary of Biography. 
 
 He was born in 1729, at his father's estate of South Dissington, 
 his baptism being recorded in the Register of the Parish Church 
 of Newburn on 18 June in that year. Having been educated at 
 Westminster School, he was admitted a Fellow Commoner of 
 Pembroke College, Cambridge, 4 July, 1747, where he passed as 
 a Wrangler, and took his degree as A.B. in 1750, and as A.M. in 
 1754, having been elected to a Fellowship at his College, n Oct., 
 1 7 5 1 . The many portraits of him now at Doddington in his tufted 
 Fellow Commoner's cap, represent to us his personal appearance 
 at this period of his life. 
 
 An early episode in his life was his candidature for the Borough 
 of Newark-on-Trent in the election of 1754, when his two elder 
 brothers were returned to Parliament, Francis for Andover, and 
 John for Berwick-on-Tweed. To secure his return, his brothers 
 entered into an agreement with Dr. Bernard Wilson, D.D., Vicar 
 of Newark 1719-72, who used all the influence given him by his 
 position there, and the possession of a large fortune obtained by 
 questionable means from Sir George Markham, of Sedgebrooke, 
 to establish a parliamentary influence in the borough in opposition 
 to that of the neighbouring Dukes of Rutland and Newcastle. 
 This was the second time that a nominee of Dr. Wilson's had 
 contested the borough, and this was the agreement made : — 
 " Dr. Wilson agrees that if Edward Delaval be not returned M.P. 
 for Newark at next General Election, or if returned be not 
 continued the Sitting Member for more than 14 days without 
 Petition, then Wilson to repay £2 000, the sum lent him by 
 Fras. B. Delaval, Esq., in order to defray the expenses of the 
 
Edward H us sey- Delaval, and the Gunmans. 
 
 185 
 
 above-named election of Newark ; but if the said Gentleman be 
 returned as above recited, then the note given by Dr. Wilson to be 
 void. (Signed) B. Wilson. Francis Blake Delaval. Witnesses — 
 Will. Beckford. John Delaval." Edward Delaval was defeated 
 " by a very inconsiderable majority," but Dr. Wilson refused to 
 return the money, and litigation to recover it was still going on as 
 late as 1762. 
 
 Edward Delaval resigned his Fellowship at Pembroke College 
 in February, 1757, but he still continued his connection with 
 Cambridge, devoting himself to philosophical and scientific 
 pursuits. Among his contemporaries and intimates there were 
 the poets Gray and Mason, the former then occupying rooms in 
 Pembroke College, while the latter was a non-resident Fellow. In 
 a letter to Mr. Wharton, 10 October, 1751, Gray thus mentions 
 E. Delaval's election to his Fellowship, "They are just filling up 
 two fellowships," he writes, "with a Mr. Cardell whom I do not 
 know, but they say he is a good scholar, and a Mr. Delaval, a 
 fellow-commoner, a younger son to old Delaval of Northumberland, 
 who has taken his degree in an exemplary manner, and is very 
 sensible and knowing."* On 1 March, 1755, Mason writes thus 
 to Gray at Cambridge, " Marcello (a name by which Edw. Delaval 
 was known in their coterie) has set out from Newcastle, and is 
 travelling hither as fast as a Northumberland waggon can bring 
 him; you must not expect him at Cambridge for a fortnight." 
 Several other notices of Edward Delaval and his ways are preserved 
 in Gray's published correspondence. One of these refers to his 
 skill on the musical glasses, a very perfect set of which he himself 
 had arranged. Thus, April, 1 760, Gray writes, " We heard Delaval 
 the other night play upon the water-glasses, and I was astonished. 
 No instrument that I know has so celestial a tune ; I thought it was 
 a cherubim in a box." * In another letter, somewhat later, 8 Dec, 
 1 761, he uses a different similitude, and begs his dear Mason, " Of 
 all loves come to Cambridge out of hand ; for here is Mr. Delaval 
 and a charming set of glasses that sing like nightingales."* Another 
 allusion is to his loud voice in conversation which seems to have 
 jarred on the poet's nerves ; for he writes to his friend Mason, 
 8 January, 1768, " Here are, or have been, or will be, all your old 
 and new friends in constant expectation of you at Cambridge ; 
 Weddell attends your call, and Palgrave proud, 
 
 and Delaval the loud." 
 
 And again a little later he writes, " Delaval is by no means well, 
 and looks sadly, yet he goes about, and talks as loud as ever." * 
 At the end of 1762 the Professorship of History and Modern 
 Languages at Cambridge became vacant, and both Gray and 
 
 * Gray's Letters, edited by E. Gosse, ii., 203 ; Hi., 31, 124, 338 ; i., 138. 
 
History of Doddington. 
 
 Delaval were candidates for it. It fell vacant again in 1768, when 
 Gray was appointed to it ; " Next to myself," writes Gray, " I 
 wished it for Delaval." * On the former occasion it was given to 
 a Mr. Brockett. Gray enters in a note book under 4 November, 
 1762, that the Professorship had been asked for for Edward Delaval 
 of the Duke of N(ewcastle) by Lord P(ollington) and Sir F. B. 
 D(elaval). How the latter resented the refusal by the Ministry of 
 the favour which he asked for his brother we learn from a letter 
 addressed by him to the Rt. Hon. T. Grenville from his house in 
 Downing Street, 24 October, 1763, and printed in the Grenville 
 Correspondence, ii., 144 : 
 
 " Sir, — I have received your letter in which you are pleased to 
 say that 1 many of my friends hope to see me in town ' ; I should 
 be very glad to know who my friends are, having never in this 
 Administration been able to find one. 
 
 "You persuade yourself that my zeal for the public service 
 will induce me to give my attendance at the House at this critical 
 conjuncture. 
 
 " My zeal for the public service has induced me to spend many 
 thousand pounds in support of a parliamentary interest. 
 
 " My zeal for the public service did induce me to go in person 
 against the enemies of his Majesty. 
 
 " My zeal for the public service did induce me to hazard and 
 lose two brothers (very dear to their family) in the service of their 
 country. 
 
 " In consequence of this zeal I thought myself entitled at this 
 time last year to ask a small favour of the Ministry, and easily 
 obtained an absolute promise. My services were then desired in 
 a stronger manner than by a mere form. They never thought 
 more of me till now that they have occasion to apply to me again 
 for fresh services. 
 
 " It is for these reasons that I have taken the liberty to ask the 
 favour of you to tell me whom, under these circumstances, you 
 mean I should look upon as my friends. 
 
 " I am, Sir, &c, &c, 
 
 " Francis Blake Delaval." 
 
 It was in 1768, when disappointed for the second time of the 
 Cambridge Professorship, that Mr. Edward Delaval petitioned 
 the Crown for the lease of a piece of ground on the bank of the 
 Thames, forming the south-west corner of what was then known 
 as the Cotton Garden, lying between Westminster Hall and the 
 river, and since covered by the present Houses of Parliament. 
 On a rough tracing of the site made by himself, he notes that 
 " Part of the Cotton Garden is occupied by Kitchens at the time 
 
 * Gray's Letters, edited by E. Gosse, Hi., 137, 140. 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans 187 
 
 of a Coronation, and at other times by a small quantity of stores, 
 but the greatest part of it is constantly unoccupied and lies waste." 
 On 4 August. 1768, a lease of this plot of ground was granted to 
 him, and he proceeded to erect on it, at his own expense, what is 
 described as "the neat Gothic house in Parliament Place," in 
 which he resided till his death. The interior was elegantly fitted 
 with artificial stone made under his immediate direction in order 
 to be perfectly secure from fire, from which he had previously 
 suffered ; while in a letter of 10 October, 1770, we read, " Ned is 
 very busy painting windows for his new house." The stonemason 
 employed by him used, in 1772, stone from the Seaton Delaval 
 quarries in building the Pantheon in Oxford Street, and made 
 experiments with the same for paving the London streets. In a 
 plan of Westminster dated 1807, given in Smith's Antiquities of 
 Westminster, " Mr. Delaval's " house is represented as standing 
 detached close to the bank of the Thames, having the wide open 
 space known as Cotton Garden on the east, and the narrower 
 Parliament Place, with Parliament Stairs leading down to the 
 river, on the west. A subsequent notice in the same volume, 
 p. 251, informs us that "Parliament Stairs (now called Parliament 
 Place) were blocked up soon after the riots in 1780, in consequence 
 of a petition from Mr. Delaval, whose house is situated by that 
 spot, and who suffered an intolerable nuisance by their being kept 
 open." From its position the house was indifferently described as 
 being in the Cotton Garden, or in Parliament Place, or in 
 Old Palace Yard. In a letter to his son-in-law, Mr. Gunman, 
 dated from Parliament Place, 29 December, 1806, Mr. Delaval 
 writes, " Last Fryday between 2 and 3 o'clock, the Thames 
 covered all the gravel of our garden, and touched the bottom of 
 the steps which lead to the parlour ; it was 9 inches deep in the 
 passage which passes by the north side of our house, from our 
 garden to the Cotton Garden." Mr. J. T. Smith, late Keeper of 
 Prints in the British Museum, author of A Book for a Rainy Day, 
 relates in it how "he passed a most agreeable day in the autumn 
 of 1 80 1 with the Hon. Hussey Delaval at his house near Parliament 
 Stairs." He describes the house which was built so as to be fire- 
 proof, the floors being of stone or composition, the window sashes 
 of iron, and the decorations cast from Gothic designs. On the 
 embattled leads over the drawing-room they took their wine, 
 "attended by female servants only, as Mr. Delaval would never 
 allow a man servant to enter the house, but with messages, and 
 enjoying the Cuyp-like effect of the sun upon west country barges, 
 laden either with blocks of stone or fresh cut timber, objects ever 
 picturesque on the water. Mr. Delaval was so pleased with this 
 scenery, and the pencil of my friend G. Arnold, Associate of the 
 Royal Academy, that he bespoke two pictures of him, — Views up 
 
i88 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 and down the River, — the figures in which, by the order of Mr. 
 Delaval, were painted by his friend, G. F. Joseph, A.R.A. They 
 were exhibited at Somerset House," and are now in the Library at 
 Doddington. 
 
 As early as 1759, Mr. Edward Delaval, of Pembroke Hall, 
 Cambridge, had read to the Philosophical Society a Paper on 
 "Electrical Experiments and Observations concerning the 
 controvertibility of Conductors with Non-Conductors," which was 
 published in their Philosophical Transactions. We may summarise 
 an account of his subsequent studies and the treatises of which he 
 was the author from a Memoir of him which appeared in the 
 Philosophical Magazine of 18 15, shortly after his death, from 
 which also the article in the National Dictionary of Biography is 
 principally taken. This Memoir is from the pen of Dr. Charles 
 Taylor, who remarks that " an uninterrupted intimacy of 40 years 
 which he enjoyed with Mr. Delaval until his decease furnished 
 him constantly with fresh proofs of his strength of mind and 
 great abilities. He was an excellent classical scholar, and well 
 conversant in most languages, both ancient and modern, though 
 chemistry and experimental philosophy were his favourite pursuits. 
 He was an accurate judge of music and the polite arts; and 
 the completest set of musical glasses ever produced in England 
 were made under his direction. In December, 1759, he was 
 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; and in June, 1764, he 
 published an Account which he had read to that Society of the 
 Effects of Lightning in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, which had 
 been struck on the 18th of that month. Five years later he was 
 one of a Commission of four, who, by desire of the Dean and 
 Chapter of St. Paul's, reported on the best means of securing 
 St. Paul's Cathedral from lightning; in this Report, delivered 
 7 June, 1769, he was associated with Benjamin Franklin, the 
 American statesman and philosopher, "my friend Franklin," as 
 Mr. Delaval styles him in his letters. On 22 March, 1772, 
 St. Paul's Cathedral was struck by lightning, and Mr. Delaval, after 
 examination, gave an account to the Royal Society of the effects 
 produced. Shortly afterwards a controversy arose as to the choice 
 of pointed or blunt conductors for the safety of buildings, and 
 Mr. Delaval, on 20 February, 1773, published his observations on 
 the subject, giving the preference to the use of blunt conductors. 
 Following up Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries in optics, Mr. Delaval, 
 in January, 1765, addressed a Paper to the President of the Royal 
 Society, showing by a series of experiments that his doctrine is 
 equally applicable to permanently coloured bodies ; this Paper is 
 published in Vol. lv. of the Royal Society's Transactions, and for 
 it Mr. Delaval was honoured with the Gold Medal of the Society. 
 This subject was further developed by him in a 4to. volume on 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 189 
 
 The Cause of the Changes in Opaque and Coloured Bodies, published 
 in London, 4to. in 1777, and a second edition at Warrington, 8vo. 
 in 1785. A French translation, by Quatremere Dijonval, was 
 published in Paris in 1778; while in 1779 two Italian translations 
 appeared, one at Bologna in 4to., the other by Giov. Franc. 
 Fromond, at Milan in 8vo. Seven years later, in May, 1784, he 
 obtained the Gold Medal of the Manchester Literary and 
 Philosophical Society for a Paper on The Causes of the permanent 
 ' Colours of Opaque Bodies, which is published in their Memoirs. 
 These various scientific writings attracted the notice of many 
 European enquirers, and caused his enrolment as Honorary 
 Member of the Royal Societies of Upsala and GSttingen, and 
 of the Institute of Bologna, as well as of the Literary and 
 Philosophical Society of Manchester, and the Antiquarian Society 
 of Newcastle, to which he was a liberal contributor. Mr. Delaval 
 was intimate with most of the men of science, art, and letters of 
 his time ; and at his house many electrical and chemical experi- 
 ments were carried on. Here also many brilliant artificial gems 
 were made by him, some of which are still at Doddington ; they 
 are represented on a table before him in a portrait of him in middle 
 life, which now hangs in the dining-room there. He was himself 
 also skilled in painting, and a pair of pictures of Seaton Delaval 
 painted by him were left by Mrs. Delaval's will to his nephew, the 
 Earl of Mexborough. We may add that in the portrait of 
 Mr. Delaval at the age of 85, taken in 181 3, and now at Doddington, 
 a copy of the Italian translation of his treatise by " Gio. Francesco 
 Fromond, Milano, 1779," is represented lying open before him, 
 and on the blank page opposite the title is the inscription, " This 
 Italian translation from the English was made at Milan by the 
 order, and at the expence, of the Emperor of Germany, Joseph 2nd, 
 and several hundreds of these books were delivered to the English 
 Author as a gift from that Emperor by his Ambassador, the Count 
 de Belgioioso." 
 
 In 1 77 1, as we have mentioned, Mr. Edward Delaval 
 commenced a lawsuit against his brother John, Lord Delaval, in 
 order to obtain possession of the moiety of Doddington, to which, 
 under Mrs. Apreece's will, he was clearly entitled on his brother's 
 succession to the Northumbrian estates. At the same time, in 
 accordance with his grandmother's will, he assumed the surname 
 of Hussey. This suit was compromised by the payment to 
 Edward Hussey-Delaval of an annuity of ^400 out of the 
 Doddington estate, but it created an estrangement between the 
 brothers which was never made up, and caused Lord Delaval to 
 cut down all the Doddington timber. It is probable that E. H. 
 Delaval never again visited Doddington till he succeeded to the 
 possession of it and of Seaton Delaval in 1808. 
 
190 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 He was then in his 80th year, and never journeyed so far north 
 as Seaton, but seems to have concentrated all his care and interest 
 on Doddington, as to which he had already taken steps by the 
 purchase of reversionary interests to enable him to leave it to his 
 wife and daughter. He had married Sarah, daughter of George 
 Scott, of Methley, in Yorkshire, the country seat of his sister, the 
 Countess of Mexborough, and to her as his wife and to his daughter 
 he bequeathed such interest as he had then acquired in Doddington 
 in a will dated July, 1789, of which he made her father and her 
 brother, William Scott, of Methley, trustees. Evidently, however, 
 there was some irregularity about this marriage, and no doubt to 
 prevent any dispute as to her title to jointure, a marriage ceremony 
 was performed between them at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 
 22 December, 1808, in which she is described as Sarah Scott 
 Hussey-Delaval. Of this marriage there was an only daughter, 
 Sarah Hussey-Delaval, who married, 13 April, 1805, at St. 
 Margaret's, Westminster, James Gunman, Esq., of Dover and 
 Coventry. Together with them, he appears to have spent part of 
 every summer here, and in his letters he shows himself to be well 
 acquainted with the estate, and the families and circumstances of 
 the tenants. He employed an expert to manage and restore the 
 woods after the wholesale destruction to which Lord Delaval had 
 subjected them. To this he refers in a note dated Dec, 181 1, 
 as follows : — "In surveying and valueing the woods at Dodington 
 it will be necessary to observe that Lord Delaval felled and sold 
 all the timber upon the estate of every kind which was saleable, 
 and after having sold every tree which could be disposed of in 
 Lincolnshire, he sent the remainder of the Timber to Northumber- 
 land, and employed it in building ships for sale. This plundering 
 of the woods was so thoroughly completed that when the present 
 possessor of the estate was in need of oak or any other wood for 
 necessary uses, he was obliged to purchase every article he stood 
 in need of at Lincoln.." This was addressed to Edward Smith 
 Godfrey, Esq. (died 1843), of the firm of Godfrey and Tallents, 
 of Newark, who in that year had become his agent for the 
 Doddington estate, Mr. John Nesbitt acting as resident steward 
 from 181 7, when Mr. Joseph Clark died, aged 81. In a letter 
 from Messrs. Farrer & Co., Mr. Delaval's London lawyers, to 
 Mr. Godfrey soon after his entering on this office, 22 June, 181 1, 
 they mention that a box of papers and a key have been sent to 
 him by Mr. Delaval in two separate parcels ; and they add, 
 " From the Box and Key being thus sent in different parcels you 
 will be able to form some judgment of Mr. Delaval's particularity ; 
 but you must not conclude that there is anything else amiss about 
 him, for he is an extremely honorable man, and not difficult to 
 please in matters of business." 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 191 
 
 During the years 1809-12, the whole of the mullioned windows 
 at the Hall were renewed by him, new stonework and glass being 
 inserted where required, and many other repairs and improvements 
 in the house and grounds were carried out. The great fishpond 
 was laid out, and its banks planted, and the little thatched house 
 there built in 181 1 ; while all the detached buildings in the Hall 
 y ar d — laundry and brew-house, stable and coach-house — were 
 taken down and rebuilt during the years 1814 and 1815. Many 
 articles of furniture, pictures, and ornaments, which had been 
 taken at a valuation from Lady Delaval, were brought here from 
 Seaton Delaval ; of which the following are expressly mentioned as 
 sent to Doddington at the times named : — 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Sept., 1809. 1 Red Silk Damask Bed 35 o o 
 
 4 Chairs ... ... ... ... 440 
 
 1 Blue and Green Silk Damask Bed 25 o o 
 
 1 Inlaid Set of Drawers 10 o o 
 
 July, 181 2. 2 Inlaid Sets of Drawers 14 o o 
 
 July, 1 8 14. 1 Wrought Brass Chandelier ... 10 o o 
 
 £9% 4 o 
 
 In a report on the state of the property accompanying a new 
 valuation of the estate made in 181 2, it is stated that " the Mansion 
 House and Buildings are in excellent repair." The following is 
 an abstract of this valuation, showing the various tenancies and the 
 rental in Mr. Delaval's time : — 
 
 
 a. 
 
 r. 
 
 P- 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Joseph Hopkinson 
 
 ••• i53 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 82 
 
 13 
 
 0 
 
 John Lesiter ... 
 
 ... 26 
 
 1 
 
 35 
 
 31 
 
 i5 
 
 3 
 
 Mark Starkey 
 
 ... 106 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 79 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 William Parker 
 
 ... 151 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 122 
 
 2 
 
 1 1 
 
 Thomas Withers 
 
 ... 23 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 2 3 
 
 19 
 
 7 
 
 Gervas Harrison 
 
 ... 194 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 236 
 
 '9 
 
 10 
 
 John Harrison 
 
 ... 316 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 3i7 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 Benjamin Pickworth ... 
 
 ... IOI 
 
 0 
 
 17 
 
 92 
 
 1 1 
 
 6 
 
 Gervas Baker ... 
 
 .. 84 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 81 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 John Marratt ... 
 
 ... 428 
 
 1 
 
 37 
 
 141 
 
 18 
 
 10 
 
 Barnard Mimmack ... 
 
 ... 210 
 
 3 
 
 35 
 
 214 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 John Peacock... 
 
 ... 51 
 
 2 
 
 36 
 
 63 
 
 17 
 
 9 
 
 Rev. James Fenton ... 
 
 .... 7 
 
 0 
 
 20 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 Richard Gilbert 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 Richard Carter 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 Thomas Smith 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 1 2 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 John Scarcliff. .. 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 39 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 1 0 
 
 John Clement 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
192 
 
 Histoiy of Doddington. 
 
 John Johnson... 
 James Hill 
 John Huggins 
 Lands in Hand 
 Woods and Plantations 
 Moor Lands unoccupied 
 Roads ... 
 
 Glebe 
 
 a. 
 
 r. 
 
 P- 
 
 
 s. 
 
 d 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 22 
 
 0 
 
 38 
 
 100 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 261 
 
 1 
 
 37 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 197 
 
 0 
 
 24 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 J 5 
 
 1 
 
 2 3 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 37 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Ac. 2410 1 12^*1639 9 8 
 Thomas Withers, Harby Lease- 
 hold 35 2 1 33 l 9 5 
 
 On the other hand the following were the " Taxes and other 
 Incumbrances" on the property for the year 1809 : — 
 
 £ s. d 
 
 One Year's Property Tax ... ... ... 106 o o 
 
 One Year's Land Tax ... ... ... 6416 o 
 
 One Year's Window Money ... ... 54 12 o 
 
 One Year's House Duty ... ... ... 315 o 
 
 One Year's Ancient Modus and Beast Gates, 
 
 paid to the Rector ... ... ... 32 8 8 
 
 One Year's Quit Rent, p d to E. Turnor, Esq. 912 o 
 
 ^271 3 8 
 
 In 1 8 10 a fire broke out in the fir wood known as the Cinder 
 Plot, which is thus recorded in a London newspaper, the Evening 
 Mail, of May 4-7, 1810 : — "Dodington Wood near Lincoln was 
 in great danger of being destroyed by fire last week in consequence 
 of a sudden gust of wind having carried into it a quantity of ignited 
 weeds &c, from a neighbouring field. A considerable number of 
 persons being soon assembled, they cut a wide lane through the 
 wood, and in about an hour extinguished the flames." In Nov., 
 181 1, bills were issued warning persons against setting fire to 
 Doddington Woods or plantations. 
 
 In spite of the rebuilding of the Church by Lord Delaval in 
 1 77 1-5, considerable sums continue to be charged each year for 
 repairs, until in 1810 we find in the Churchwarden's book a 
 memorandum, signed by "J. Fenton, Rector," and "John Harrison, 
 Churchwarden," " Whereas the Parish Church of Doddington and 
 the Chancel thereof are in a ruinous state, and whereas Edward 
 Hussey Delaval, Esq., has expressed his intention of conferring as 
 a voluntary and gratuitous gift, a sum equal to the expense of 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans 193 
 
 repairing the same, — We, the Rector and Churchwarden of the 
 said Parish, do hereby promise and declare that the said gift shall 
 not hereafter be considered as a precedent, prescription, or custom, 
 whereby the said Edward Hussey Delaval, Esq., or any of his 
 successors to the Estate of Doddington, or any part or parts thereof, 
 may be called upon hereafter to pay the expense, or any part of 
 the expense, of the said Church or Chancel." Beyond repairs of 
 the cornice, lead, windows, and some of the pinnacles, the accounts 
 do not show what was the work then done. 
 
 During the whole of the time of Mr. Delaval's ownership, the 
 Rev. James Fenton resided at the Rectory ; he came into residence 
 here in 1804, and survived until October, 1837, when he died 
 aged upwards of 82, his body being removed to be buried with 
 his family at Lancaster. During the greater part of the time the 
 Service here was performed by Curates : — the Rev. Rowland 
 Hoyle 1809-23, Rev. Richard Thomas 1824-8, Rev. Thos. James 
 Galland 1829-36. The Rev. Rowland Hoyle was Head Master 
 of the Grammar School at Heighington, 1805-24, and was buried 
 there 24 April, 1824, aged 56. He was also Curate of Skelling- 
 thorpe and Thorpe-on-the-Hill ; and some lately living could 
 remember how he used to ride over from Heighington on a Sunday, 
 taking a Service at Skellingthorpe on the way. If he reached 
 Doddington before noon he held Morning, if later, Evening Service; 
 and then went on to take Service at Thorpe on his way back to 
 Heighington. The Rev. Richard Thomas also held the Curacies 
 of Skellingthorpe and Thorpe. The Rev. Thos, James Galland 
 lodged here in the thatched house in which Mr. Portes formerly 
 lived, and acted for at least part of the time as Curate of 
 Thorpe-on-the-Hill, and of North Scarle. 
 
 After six years' ownership of the property Mr. Delaval died, at 
 the age of 85, the last legitimate male representative of his ancient 
 race. His death took place at 9 p.m. on 14 August, 1814, at his 
 own house in Parliament Place, without pain, from simple failure 
 of vital power. And in this, his natural death in his bed, a 
 Northumbrian legend connected with the family worked itself out 
 to its fulfilment. We transcribe the story as told by Rev. C. Elwin, 
 the family Chaplain, and lately printed in Two Noble Lives, hi., 433, 
 only premising that the account of the Carr family and the descent 
 of the Ford estate is as little historical as the speaking Ram's Head 
 itself; and that old Lady Mexborough's memory must have 
 strangely failed her when she transferred to her grandfather, 
 Edward Delaval, who died aged 80 in 1744, an accident which 
 happened to his brother, Admiral George Delaval, in 1723. This, 
 however, is the tale : " Sir William Carr, of Ford Castle and Etal, 
 had two daughters, his heiresses. Mary married Francis Blake, 
 whose only daughter was the mother of Mr. Delaval, of Dissington. 
 
 N 
 
194 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 The other, Isabella Carr, married Sir William Hay, an ancestor of 
 the Earl of Errol. Old Carr left his estate of Ford to Francis 
 Delaval, enjoining him if he succeeded to the Seaton Delaval 
 property, to resign Ford to Sir William Hay who inherited Etal. 
 Mr. Delaval did succeed to Seaton Delaval, but declined the 
 resignation of Ford to Sir William Hay, and placed over the porch 
 door of the Castle a superb stone Ram's Head (the Delaval crest). 
 This ram's head one day, in the hearing of the steward and all the 
 family, predicted that so long as the Ford estate was united with 
 that of Seaton Delaval, no male of the family should die in 
 his bed. Afterwards it preserved obstinate silence, and Mr. 
 Delaval in a rage broke it to pieces. I will not vouch for the 
 truth of this story, though I have seen the fragments of the head ; 
 but in confirmation of it the following particulars were communi- 
 cated to me by old Lady Mexborough, of Dover Street, and were 
 sworn to by her in an affidavit in a lawsuit of ejectment brought by 
 Sir Jacob Astley against one of his tenants. Old Lady Mexborough 
 stated that her grandfather, Edward Delaval, of Dissington, suc- 
 ceeded to the Seaton Delaval estates, and broke his neck in 1 732 by 
 a fall from his horse in the avenue of Seaton Delaval, where an 
 obelisk marks the spot. Her father, Francis Delaval, had drunk 
 too much after dinner, and fell down the steps into the garden at 
 Seaton Delaval, and so dreadfully fractured his leg that the bone 
 protruded, and no one being within reach, he was discovered too 
 late. Her eldest brother, Sir Francis Delaval, K.C.B., fell down 
 in a fit in Pall Mall, and died before he could be put in bed at the 
 St. Alban's Tavern, into which he was carried. Thomas Delaval 
 fell from his horse in 1771 in Hyde Park, and was killed on the 
 spot. Captain Robert Delaval was killed at Quebec in 1759. 
 Henry Delaval, an officer, was killed in battle in the East Indies. 
 George, his twin brother, refused to leave him, and during the 
 voyage fell overboard and was drowned. Ralph was placed in a 
 mercantile house at Lisbon, and perished in the earthquake there 
 in 1755. J onn > Lord Delaval, died at Seaton Delaval suddenly 
 while taking his breakfast, at the age of 82, in 1808. 
 
 " By his death the estate of Seaton Delaval was separated from 
 that of Ford Castle, and accordingly Edward Delaval, the eighth 
 brother, was allowed to die in his bed, which he did very comfort- 
 ably. ( C. JElwin, the family Chaplain. ) " 
 
 His funeral, which was attended by Lord Mexborough, Sir 
 Thomas Hussey Apreece, and others of his relatives, took place on 
 23 August, 1 8 14, when he was buried in the Nave of Westminster 
 Abbey, not far from the place where Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval 
 was buried, the spot being marked only by the name E. H. 
 DELAVAL, just legible on one of the plain diamond-shaped 
 stones of the pavement. In our own Church, as in the Chapel at 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 195 
 
 Seaton Delaval, the only memorial of him is the hatchment bearing 
 his arms, 1 and 4 Delaval, quartering 2 and 3 Hussey, Or, a Cross 
 Vert; and impaling those of Scott, Arg. on a Bend, Azure, 
 3 Crescents, Or, within a Bordure, engr. Gules ; with the Ram's 
 Head Crest ; and the Motto, Dieu me Conduise. Many portraits, 
 however, of him remain at the Hall representing him either in the 
 family groups with his brothers and sisters, or as a young man 
 in his gold tufted college cap, or seated with a greyhound by his 
 side, or as in middle age with his artificial gems before him, or in 
 1 8 1 3 as a white haired old man of 85, sitting at the window of his 
 house overlooking the Thames, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the 
 distance, and several of his scientific treatises displayed in front 
 of him. 
 
 The land on which he had built his house in Parliament Place 
 was held on lease from the Crown for 31 years from 4 August, 
 1768, so that the term had expired long before his death ; and all 
 the efforts of his widow and daughter to obtain a continuance of 
 the lease, in consideration of the money he had laid out upon it, 
 were in vain. The house in fact was wanted for, and had been 
 already promised to, Sir Thomas Tyrwhit, Usher of the Black 
 Rod. A sale of Mr. Delaval's library, conducted by Messrs. 
 Leigh and Sotheby, lasted for six days, 4-9 December, 18 15. 
 
 On his death Seaton Delaval and his other Northumberland 
 estates devolved according to the entail on his nephew, Sir Jacob 
 Henry Astley, Bart., the son of his eldest sister, Rhoda Astley, 
 subject to a jointure of ^1,000 a year settled on Mrs. Hussey- 
 Delaval. By his will, written entirely in his own hand, dated 
 24 July, 1789, with codicils added 25 July, 1789, and 31 July, 
 1809, and re-published 26 July, 18 10, he left all such parts as he 
 had already purchased and acquired of Mrs. Apreece's moiety of 
 the Dodington estate to his daughter Sarah Hussey Gunman, and 
 the other moiety to his wife, Sarah Scott Hussey Delaval, as an 
 additional jointure for her life, together with his leasehold house 
 in Parliament Place, and all furniture, fixtures, &c, in and about 
 such house, or his houses at Dodington and Seaton Delaval. All 
 the residue was left to his wife and daughter in equal shares, and 
 his will and codicils were proved by them as sole executors, 
 27 August, 1 8 14. 
 
 The portions of the Doddington estate of which he had power 
 thus to dispose were two-thirds of Mrs. Apreece's moiety, the 
 reversion of which he had acquired from Sir J. H. Astley in 1789, 
 on condition of surrendering to him the remaining third part, so 
 that in fact Mr. Delaval during his life enjoyed only five-sixths of 
 the income of the property, the remaining sixth being paid to 
 Sir J. H. Astley. Of the other moiety, settled by Mrs. Rhoda 
 Blake Delaval, he had bought the reversion of Lady Stanhope's 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 half in 1810; but the reversion to the other half still remained to 
 Lady Mexborough and her heirs. On succeeding to the property 
 Mrs. Hussey-Delaval and Mrs. Gunman promptly bought up 
 Sir J. H. Astley's sixth part for ^12,000, 24 October, 1815 ; while 
 the half of Mrs. Blake Delaval's moiety, which Mrs. Hussey- 
 Delaval had for her jointure, and which at her death fell to John, 
 second Earl of Mexborough, in right of his mother, was purchased 
 of him by Col. G. R. P. Jarvis, 29 September, 1830, for ^14,000. 
 Thus the estate was once more united in one ownership, as may 
 be more plainly seen by the diagram at the end of this chapter. 
 
 As we have said, Mr. Edward Hussey-Delaval left an only 
 daughter, Sarah Hussey-Delaval, who 13 April, 1805, had married 
 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, James Gunman, Esq., of the town 
 and port of Dover, the trustees of the marriage settlements, by 
 which ^1,000 a year was settled on her, being her first cousin, 
 Sir Jacob Henry Astley, Bart., and her more distant cousin, Sir 
 Francis Blake, of Twisell, Bart. She seems to have inherited 
 somewhat of her father's musical talent, and certain songs written 
 and set to music by her, have been reprinted, {Notes and Queries, 
 viii. , 1 7 1 , ) by the Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson, of Felling-on-Tyne, 
 who was her godson, and is himself an inheritor of Sir F. Blake 
 Delaval's blood. As a specimen we may give one. the shorter of 
 these : — 
 
 " Where the murm'ring streams meander, 
 
 Where the sportive zephyrs play, 
 Whilst in sylvan shades I wander, 
 
 Softly steal the hours away. 
 I nor splendour crave nor treasure, 
 
 Calmer joys my bosom knows ; 
 Smiling days of rural pleasure, 
 
 Peaceful nights of calm repose." 
 
 Her husband, James Gunman, Esq., was possessed of consider- 
 able landed property, partly inherited and partly purchased, in 
 Warwickshire and Yorkshire, as well as in the neighbourhood of 
 Dover, where he resided in the family mansion in Biggin Street. 
 He was the last of a family which for several generations had been 
 singularly devoted to the sea, and had produced a succession of 
 noted naval Captains. As all their papers and memorials are 
 preserved at Doddington, it will not be out of place to give here a 
 sketch of their family history. 
 
 The earliest of whom we have any special account is Captain 
 Christopher Gunman, R.N. Though a son of William Gunman, 
 of Govard, co. Norfolk, he was himself born at Dramm, in Norway, 
 in 1634, and had to be naturalized by Act of Parliament, n April, 
 1670. On 17 May, 1662, as his own journal now at Doddington 
 informs us, he passed as Master at Trinity House; he served as 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 197 
 
 such on board several ships, and was actively engaged in the wars 
 against the Algerines and the Dutch. Most of his original 
 Commissions, signed by Charles II., or James, Duke of York, as 
 Lord High Admiral, and countersigned by the familiar name of 
 S. Pepys, as Secretary to the Admiralty, are still at Doddington, 
 as are also his " Diurnalls," or log-books of daily events on board 
 the ships which he successively commanded. On 19 March, 1666, 
 he received a Commission to command the Orange frigate, and 
 the State Papers of the year have many notices of prizes brought 
 in, or vessels convoyed by him. One exploit in which he distin- 
 guished himself on the Guernsey station, on 28 June, 1666, is thus 
 reported by John Lysle, of West Cowes, to Sir J. Williamson, 
 Secretary of State, 7 July : " The Orange under Chris. Gunman, 
 after a desperate fight (of 5 hours), took a French East India ship 
 laden with cloth of gold, silk, gold, pearls, precious stones, &c, 
 worth ^100,000 sterling; but the men falling to plundering and 
 neglecting to look after the leaks in the ship, she sunk, and 36 
 English overladen with treasure and unable to swim were drowned. 
 The French lost 40 drowned and slain, and 33 prisoners." On 
 3 August following, in command of the same ship, in company 
 with the Little Victory frigate, he engaged in another desperate 
 fight with two large Dutch men-of-war from Flushing, one mounting 
 44, the other 36 guns. The action lasted 6 hours, the Orange 
 losing her main top-mast, and Captain Gunman his left arm, and 
 night alone put an end to the contest, in which he says he was 
 left " with not a whole rope in the shipp, and had rec d 200 shotts 
 through his sailes, and 7 between wind and water." In spite of the 
 loss of his arm, he pursued the enemy through the following day, 
 and on 12 September following he brought into Cowes two 
 valuable prizes, " a proof," says the Biographia Navalis, " as great 
 of his activity and indefatigable zeal for the service as he had 
 before given of his valour." He was subsequently, 16 February, 
 1669, appointed by the Duke of York, Lord High Admiral, to the 
 command of his yacht, the Ann, and subsequently of " His Maj s 
 Shipp the Prince Royall," to which he was promoted, 5 March, 
 1672. As captain of this ship, on board of which was the Duke 
 of York as High Admiral, he took part in the hotly contested but 
 indecisive sea fight with the Dutch in Sole Bay, on the coast of 
 Suffolk, 28 May, 1672. His own account is: "Att 7 wee were 
 under saile and all in a rediness, and by J an hour past 7 wee were 
 ingadged, the Rutter himselfe (Admiral van Ruyter) his second 
 and another flagshipp came uppon us who playd us smartly till 
 about 11 o'cl; wee were much disabled in mast and yards, our 
 maintopmast shott doune, and then his Royal Highness left us, 
 and went on board the St. Michel, were he had nott long been 
 befoore hee was alsoe disabled, and forced to goe on board the 
 
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 History of Doddington 
 
 London. We stiered on N.E. by E. and N.E. till about 12 : wee 
 bore round and brought the shipp uppon the larboard take, and 
 soe followed after the Duke as well as wee could . . . About 
 2 o'cl. the Royal James was burnt by a fire-ship having lost 400 
 men. This was all the ships wee lost; the Katherine was taken, 
 but theire owne men over rune the Hollanders, and soe retoke and 
 rune away w th the ship and saved her. The Henery was taken, 
 butt Capt. Stricland in ye Plymout retuke her. About 9 o'cl. att 
 night being darke wee left fighting on both sides, by which time 
 wee had gotten the wether gage of ye Enemies." On board the 
 flagship in this sea fight was a company of the Lord High Admiral's 
 Regiment, raised for service at sea, now the Grenadier Guards ; 
 and ensign in this company was John Churchill, afterwards the 
 famous Duke of Marlborough, who on this occasion obtained his 
 captaincy, four captains of the regiment having been killed in the 
 fight.* Captain Gunman subsequently records several visits paid 
 by King Charles II. and Prince Rupert to his ship ; and finally 
 on Sunday, September 15, "His Royal Highness was graciously 
 pleased to give mee my Choyce whether I would goe to sea this 
 winter in a frigatt, or goe into the yacht againe, witall promising to 
 takke a perticular care of mee, and I made choyce of the yacht." 
 Of this yacht, the Ann, and of another royal yacht, the Mary, of 
 which he became commander October, 1677, there are several 
 pictures at Doddington, one representing its passing the Castle of 
 Cronenborg at Elsinore without striking topsails, and receiving the 
 cannon shot of the fortress in return. It appears also in the back- 
 ground of a portrait of Captain Chris. Gunman himself, which 
 hangs at the end of the Long Gallery, and depicts him to us as a 
 dark complexioned man in a picturesque richly laced costume, the 
 empty sleeve showing the loss of his left arm in that sea fight with 
 the Dutch men-of-war, which is represented in another picture. 
 Naturally, as commanding a royal yacht, he had many royal and 
 distinguished personages on board, besides the King and the Duke 
 of York, who were frequent visitors. In 1670 he brought the 
 Princess Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, with a retinue of 300 
 persons from Dunkirk to Dover, and carried her back to Calais 
 after she had spent a month at Dover with her brothers, 
 Charles and James, not being able to obtain the French King's leave 
 to go to London. Other passengers were the Prince of Orange, 
 afterwards William III., the Lady Anne, afterwards Queen, the 
 Duke of Monmouth, the Lord Chancellor Hyde, and Madam 
 Churchill, the celebrated Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, when 
 he was accompanied by " a katch carrying her coatch and nien 
 horses " ; while he was constantly employed in conveying English 
 and Foreign Ambassadors to and fro between England and 
 Continental ports. 
 
 * Lord Wolseley's Life of Marlborough, i. , 112, 228. 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 
 
 199 
 
 As early as 26 October, 1670, Captain Gunman had been 
 made a Younger Brother of Trinity House, and on 22 June, 1675, 
 he was advanced to be an Elder Brother of the same Corporation, 
 on the recommendation of the Duke of York. On 26 December, 
 1679, he was made a Burgess of the City of Edinburgh ; this was 
 on the occasion of his arrival at Leith in command of the yacht 
 Mary, with two other royal yachts, to convey home the Duke and 
 Duchess of York, who with Col. Churchill embarked on board the 
 Mary for Deptford, on 24 February, 1680. In May, 1682, still 
 in command of the Mary, with other royal yachts, he escorted the 
 Duke of York on another voyage to Scotland, when the Gloucester 
 frigate, Captain Sir John Berry, with the Duke on board, was 
 wrecked on the Lemon Sand near the mouth of the Humber, in 
 the early morning of May 6. This disaster was owing to the 
 obstinacy of the pilot, Captain Ayres or Eares, who persisted in 
 pursuing his course in disregard of the remonstrances of Captain 
 Gunman and others. Many of the nobles in attendance on the 
 Duke, as well as of his servants and the seamen were drowned, 
 and the Duke himself was saved with difficulty by Capt. Gunman, 
 and conveyed by him safely to his destination at Leith. A letter 
 from Captain Gunman to his wife from Leith Road, May 9, is still 
 preserved at Doddington ; in it he tells his "dear joy," as he calls 
 her, of the Gloucester's loss, and of his own remonstrances against 
 the course the pilot was pursuing, how twice he ran up with the 
 Mary under the Gloucester's stern, and "stamped and flung his 
 hatt upon the ground like a madman, saying if they did nott tack 
 he would nott adventuer the King's yacht to follow them " ; and 
 how when the Gloucester struck on the sand and sank in 1 5 fathoms 
 of water, he put out all his boats and saved what men he could. 
 "The Duke came on board," he writes, "just with a coat and 
 britches on, wich was all he saved, plate, linen, clothes, money and 
 all goen, to the value of above ^"5000. Sir John Berry came on 
 board almost naked, being one of the last that was saved ; he has 
 lost above ^1000. Most part of the Scots lords and nobility is 
 saved, butt of all sorts there was above 150 men drowned, and all 
 in less than three-quarters of an houer ; and Sir Joseph Duglas 
 who was att our house over night is one of them that are drowned, 
 and my good Lord Rocksbore (Roxburgh)." In a P.S. he adds, 
 " I would nott for all the sheetes I am worth have bien without a 
 paier of sheetes this bout, for the Duke had niether linnen nor 
 victualls nor anything else butt of mine, and itt soe fill out that I 
 was pretty well provided of all things, better than I use to bee, 
 both for liquor and other provitions, for I gave him 2 or thre 
 dishes of meate eatch meale, with which hee was well pleased, and 
 having two silver plates anofe for himselfe, alwise washing the one 
 wilst y e other was using." 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 For his voyage back to England, the Duke entrusted himself 
 to Captain Gunman's care, appointing him to the command of the 
 Happy Return, in which he embarked with the Duchess and the 
 Lady Anne, and was brought home in safety. A court martial for 
 the trial of the pilot Ayres for the loss of the Gloucester was held 
 at Greenwich on board the Charlotte yacht on June 6, Captain 
 Gunman being summoned as a witness. Ayres pleaded guilty, 
 and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, but Gunman to his 
 surprise and indignation found himself accused of not having given 
 sufficient warning ; he was sentenced to the loss of his command, 
 six months' imprisonment, and the fine of a year's pay, and was 
 actually committed to the Marshalsea. This sentence however 
 was shortly annulled by the King ; and Captain Gunman's com- 
 mission to command the royal yacht was renewed, 23 June, 1682. 
 A curious MS. now amongst Captain Gunman's papers at 
 Doddington ascribes the loss of the Gloucester to " a deliberat 
 designe of the Phanaticall party to drowne the Duke," the pilot 
 Eares, "a ridged Scotts Prisbeterian " being employed by them for 
 that purpose. On the failure of their design, in order to screen 
 themselves, they endeavoured to lay a share of the blame upon 
 Gunman, who as "an ould servant of the Duke, and a trow 
 Churchman of above 32 years standing in one parish and parish 
 Church," could not be supposed to be privy to any such plot. On 
 King Charles' death, 6 February, 1685, Captain Gunman was sent 
 by the Duke, now become King James II., to convey Colonel 
 Churchill (soon to be Lord Churchill, and later Duke of 
 Marlborough), in the yacht Mary to Dieppe, in order to notify his 
 brother's death and his own accession to the French King. Whilst 
 lying there, or as Evelyn says, at Calais, awaiting the Envoy's 
 return, one evening as he was mounting the yacht's side, he fell 
 and broke his leg, which threw him into a fever of which he died 
 at Deptford, 21 March, 1685, in the 50th year of his age. A coat 
 of arms had been granted to him 15 April, 1676, Vert, a double- 
 headed eagle, displayed, Arg. gorged with a ducal coronet, Or ; 
 and the appropriate crest, Out of a Naval Crown, Arg. an Anchor, 
 Sab. garnished, Or. The motto used by him was Fidus in Infido. 
 
 Evelyn, in his Memoirs, has the following notices of him : — 
 " 1675, Nov. 14, being Sunday, my Lord (Berkeley, Ambassador 
 Extraordinary for France, and Plenipotentiary to treat of peace at 
 Nimeguen) having before delivered to me his Letter of Attorney, 
 keyes, seale, and his will, we took solemn leave of one another 
 upon the beach, the coaches carrying them into the sea to the 
 boats which delivered them to Capt. Gunman's yacht, the Mary. 
 Being under saile, the castle gave them 17 guns, which Capt. 
 Gunman answered with 11. Hence I went to Church to beg a 
 blessing on their voyage." (p. 482.) And again, 1685, March 26, 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 201 
 
 "I was invited to the funerall of Capt. Gunman, that excellent 
 pilot and seaman, who had behaved himself so valiantly in the 
 Dutch war. He died of a gangrene occasion'd by his fall from the 
 pier of Calais. This was the Captain of the Yacht carrying the 
 Duke, (now King,) to Scotland, and was accus'd for not giving 
 timely warning when she split on the sands, where so many 
 perish'd ; but I am most confident he was no ways guilty, either of 
 negligence or design, as he made appeare not onely at the 
 examination of the matter of fact, but in the Vindication he shew'd 
 me, and which must needs give any man of reason satisfaction 
 He was a sober, frugal, cheerfull and temperate man ; we have few 
 such seamen left." (p. 594.-) His name still survives in that of the 
 Gunman Sand, off Dover, which he was the first to discover and 
 survey in 1670. 
 
 He married Katharine Aldersey, born 1639, daughter of John 
 Aldersey, of Hamburg, merchant, second son of John Aldersey, of 
 Aldersey and Spurstow, co. Chester, Esq. He complains that in 
 1667 he lost his wife's portion of ;£ 1,100 through a treaty which 
 King Charles then made with the King of Denmark. By her, 
 who died 12 July, and was buried 14 July, 1702, at St. Nicholas, 
 Deptford, he had issue four sons and two daughters, viz. : — 
 
 1. William Gunman, R.N., born 14 January, 1663 ; whom by 
 King Charles' express order he bore as a Volunteer on board the 
 Mary in 1676, and who died at Tunis, Commander of the Bristow 
 frigate, 22 June, 1682. 
 
 2. Christopher Gunman, born 25 August, 1667, and educated 
 at Merchant Taylors' School, to which he was admitted 1 1 March, 
 1683; was sworn in as Bencher of the Inner Temple, 21 May, 
 1694. He died unmarried at Deptford, 26 April, and was buried 
 at St. Nicholas, 28 April, 1703. His Journal, giving a brief 
 account of family matters from 1663 to his death, and continued 
 by his brother, James Gunman, to 28 May, 1704, is preserved at 
 Doddington. The following brief extracts from it give us a 
 picture of past times:—" 13 Oct., 1687. My Mother bought of 
 Mr. Stillingfleet a black Boy. She gave for him Eight Pounds. 
 We call him Stag for his nimbleness and swiftness in running." 
 " 4 Nov., 1691. My uncle Pickard, Captain of the Happy Return, 
 was taken by 5 Dunkirk Men of War j on board of my Uncle was 
 my brother James." " 1 March, 1692. Uncle Pickard comes not 
 to his own House since taken until this day, but the two 
 Lieutenants and brother James came home the 12 th January 
 before." ''30 June, 1696. I see Sir Will m Ashurst lay the first 
 Stone of the intended Hospital at Greenwich." 
 
 3. James Gunman, born 6 September, 1677, and admitted to 
 Merchant Taylors' School, 14 March, 1687, of whom hereafter. 
 
 4. John Gunman, R.N., died at Port Royal, Jamaica, 13 Oct., 
 1694. being then Captain of the Hampshire. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 1. Lydia Gunman, aged 16 when she married, 9 December, 
 1684, at St. Martin's Outwich, London, Robert Hughes, R.N., 
 then aged 25, Captain of the Flamborough 1697. 
 
 2. Katharine Gunman, married 10 January, 1693, a ^ so at 
 St. Martin's Outwich, Francis Wyvill, Captain R.N., who died 
 Senior Captain in the Navy; she died 16 May, 17 13, aged 40, 
 leaving issue, and was buried in St. Nicholas, Deptford. 
 
 James Gunman, Captain R.N., born 6 September, 1677, the 
 third, but eventually the only surviving, son of Christopher and 
 Katharine Gunman, was but 14 years when he went to sea, as he 
 tells us himself in his papers now at Doddington, under his uncle 
 Captain Pickard, and was taken prisoner by the enemy, the French. 
 Being soon released, he immediately returned to the Service, and 
 was appointed third Lieutenant of the Boyne, 80 guns, in 1696, 
 and served in all the naval warfare of King William's reign. In 
 1706 he sailed as Flag Lieutenant with Sir Cloudesley Shovel in 
 the Association, and was appointed by him to the command of the 
 Weazel, 10 guns and 80 men; returning with the Admiral and 
 Fleet from Lisbon, he happily escaped the shipwreck on the Bishop 
 and Clerks Rocks in the Scilly Isles, in which Sir Cloudesley 
 Shovel himself, in the Association, and other ships of war were 
 lost on the night of 22 October, 1707. An oil painting of this 
 disastrous shipwreck, formerly at the residence of the Gunman 
 family at Dover, and now at Doddington, probably owes its origin 
 to Captain James Gunman's sympathy with his former Admiral's 
 fate. A more detailed account of his services will be found in 
 Charnock's Biographia Navalis, iii., 397-9, in which he, as well as 
 his father, has found a place. He obtained his Commission as 
 Captain R.N., 20 December, 1708, and was appointed to the 
 command of the Lyme ; and his Journal kept on board this ship 
 from 23 December, 1708, to 21 May, 1713, is now at Doddington. 
 During this time he was chiefly employed as a cruiser in the West 
 Indies; but in 171 1, being in the Mediterranean under Sir John 
 Norris, he distinguished himself, in company with the Severn and 
 Lion, in an action on March 22, with four French ships of war. 
 In 1742 he was appointed Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at 
 Greenwich, an office which he held until 1754, when, having 
 attained a great age, he resigned it, under an indenture dated 
 4 April, 27 George II, in favour of Sir Charles Saunders, on 
 condition of receiving an annuity of ^312, an equivalent for its 
 emoluments, for the remainder of his life. He survived only till 
 27 June, 1756, when he died in London at the age of 79, being the 
 oldest Captain in the Navy, in the Commission of the Peace for 
 the County of Kent, and a Jurat of the Town and Port of Dover. 
 He was buried in the north aisle of St. Mary's, Dover, the arms on 
 his monument being those of Gunman and Aldersey quarterly, 
 with the arms of Wyvill on an escutcheon of pretence. He was 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 203 
 
 the first of the family to take up his residence in Dover, where he 
 had married at St. Mary's, 12 February, 1708, Elizabeth, eldest 
 daughter and coheir of Edward Wyvill, 34 years Jurat and 6 times 
 Mayor of Dover, who died 14 February, 17 19, the eldest brother 
 of Captain Francis Wyvill, R.N., already mentioned. By her, who 
 died at Bath, 28 October, 1739, aged 55, and was also buried in 
 the north aisle of St. Mary's Church, Dover, he was the father of— 
 
 1. Edward Gunman, baptized 18 September, 17 12, died before 
 1739. 
 
 2. Christopher Gunman, baptized 27 September, 17 14, of 
 whom hereafter. 
 
 3. Wyvill Gunman, died before 1739. 
 
 4. Elizabeth Gunman, baptized 22 July, 1725, married at 
 Greenwich, 3 March, 1755, the Rev. Charles Powlett, of Itchen, 
 co. Hants., who died 29 January, 1809. 
 
 Christopher Gunman, born 17 14, the eldest surviving son, was 
 Collector of Customs at Dover. There is at Doddington, copied 
 out by him in 1769, a curious recipe or antidote against the 
 plague, left by his grandfather, William Stokes, with the 
 injunction, " Keep this as Life above all worldly treasures." 
 William Stokes, whose daughter and heiress married Edward 
 Wyvill, was " a Jurat of the Town and Port of Dover who in the 
 dreadful time of the Plague, the Mayor and principal Inhabitants 
 of Dover being fled, and the other inhabitants of the town in the 
 greatest distress, took up the Mayor's Staff, and went through the 
 town every day, calling at every infected house, to know what 
 assistance and necessaries they were in want of, which he took 
 care to supply them with ; and the country people neglecting to 
 come to the town with provisions, he sent them word that if they 
 did not come to the Barrier which he had fixed across the road at 
 the extremity of the town, he would send the sick out to them; 
 after which the town was sufficiently supplied. For this piece of 
 noble service the Inhabitants of Dover afterwards showed their 
 sense of obligation by choosing him one of their Representatives 
 in Parliament (1678-81), and ever after attending to his opinion 
 and requests." Christopher Gunman had married at Coventry, 
 in April, 1 746, Essex, third daughter and coheiress of Norton 
 Hanson, Esq., of Coventry, and of Thorpe, co. York, whose father 
 Francis Hanson had married in 1675 Prudence, daughter and 
 coheiress of Sir Thomas Norton, of Coventry, Bart , who died 1691. 
 Mr. Gunman bought up his wife's sisters' shares, and thus became 
 possessed of considerable property in Coventry and the neighbour- 
 hood. He resigned his office as Collector of Customs at Dover 
 in May, 1773. when his son, James Gunman, was appointed in his 
 place by Lord North, on Sir Joseph Yorke's recommendation 
 He died 1781, and was buried, July 27, by his father's side in 
 St. Mary's, Dover, the coat of arms on his monument being 
 
204 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Gunman quartered with Wyvill, with the Hanson arms on an 
 escutcheon of pretence. By his wife, Essex Gunman, who survived 
 him till 1788, and was buried in St. Mary's, December 22, he had 
 issue : — 
 
 1. James Gunman, born 9 March, 1747. 
 
 2. Hanson Gunman, baptized 10 April, 1748; was in the Six 
 Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, in 1766 ; died unmarried 21 March, 
 1770, aged 22 ; buried in St. Mary's, Dover. 
 
 3. Christopher Gunman, baptized 17 May, 1749; admitted to 
 the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth, 17 November, 1763, 
 and discharged in order to go to sea in H.M. sloop Cruizer in 
 1766. From August, 1771, to July, 1774, he served on board 
 H.M. ship Trident, when he was unfortunately involved as second 
 to a brother officer in a duel, in which their opponent who had 
 provoked the fight was killed. This duel took place on the 
 neutral ground at Gibraltar, on 3 July, 1774; the Governor would 
 not try them owing to a doubt as to his jurisdiction, and there 
 were not sufficient Naval Captains on the station to hold a court 
 martial. Consequently the two young men were detained for 
 many months in close confinement, and when at length they were 
 sent home for trial on board the Winchelsea, Christopher Gunman 
 died of consumption on the voyage, 22 May, 1775. 
 
 4. Edward Gunman, baptized 7 August, 1750, died young. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Gunman, died unmarried. 
 
 6. Anne Gunman, baptized 30 June, 1753; died unmarried : 
 buried at St. Mary's, Dover, 20 May, 1789. 
 
 James Gunman, the eldest son, born in 1747, was appointed 
 Collector of Customs at Dover on his father's resignation in 1773, 
 and he held the office until 1790. He was Mayor of Dover in 
 1773, and resigned his gown as Jurat in September, 1795. In 1782 
 he rebuilt the family residence in Biggin Street, and further added 
 a new wing in 18 14 ; and as we have said, considerably increased by 
 purchases the property he had inherited in Kent, Warwickshire, and 
 Yorkshire. Through his mother he was descended from the York- 
 shire families of Ingram and Gascoigne, and finds a place in the 
 pedigree of the latter family in Whitaker's Thoresby's Ducatus 
 Leodiensis, p. 180. In 18 13 Mr. Gunman took down an old house, 
 inherited through the Hanson family from SirThomas Norton, Bart., 
 in Little Park Street, Coventry, from which the stained glass now 
 in the Hall at Doddington was brought. Other articles were taken 
 to his house at Dover, which itself was pulled down in 1852, when 
 much of its contents was also removed to Doddington. Over its 
 site the newly formed Pencester Street now runs, and in the 
 gardens of the villa residences with which one side of it is lined, 
 may still be seen isolated limes and beeches which once formed 
 part of an avenue leading up to it from the back. After Mr. 
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 interested in genealogy and heraldry, bore on his seals and book- 
 plates his wife's arms on an escutcheon of pretence over his own, 
 viz. : Quarterly, i, Vert, an Eagle with two heads, displayed, Arg. 
 gorged with a ducal coronet, Or, Gunman ; 2, Gules, 3 Chevronels 
 in base, Vaire, and a Chief, Or, Wyvill ; 3, Arg. 3 Mascles, Sable, 
 on a Chief of the second 3 Lions, ramp, of the first, Hanson ; 
 4, Erm. on a Fess, Gules, 3 Escallops, Or, Ingram; On an 
 escutcheon of pretence, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Erm. 2 Bars, Vert, 
 Delaval ; 2 and 3, Or, a Cross, Vert, Hussey. 
 
 Mr. Gunman died after a few days' illness 29 June, 1824, and 
 was buried in St. Mary's, Dover, in which a mural monument on 
 the west wall of the nave is inscribed to "James Gunman, Esq., 
 who died xxix June, mdcccxxiv, aged lxxv Years. His mortal 
 remains are deposited in the Vault of his Ancestors in this Church," 
 By his will, dated 2 April, 1821, and proved 29 July, 1824, he left 
 all his property, real and personal, (the latter under ^120,000), 
 to his wife, who was sole executrix. She only survived him until 
 4 May, 1825, when she also was buried in St. Mary's, Dover, 
 where she is commemorated by a similar monument inscribed, 
 "Sarah Hussey Gunman, Widow of James Gunman, Esq., iv May, 
 mdcccxxv." By her will, dated 27 August, 1824, she bequeathed 
 all her real and personal property to her friend, Lt.-Col. George 
 Ralph Payne Jarvis, including all such portions of the Doddington 
 estate as she was possessed of, subject only to her mother's life 
 interest, appointing them joint executors of her will. There are 
 several portraits of her at the Hall, one by Sir Thos. Lawrence in 
 the dining-room, another forming a pair with the portrait of her 
 father taken in 18 13, a third, in pastel, is in the Gallery. 
 
 Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Hussey-Delaval, survived her until 
 17 February, 1829, when she died, aged 78, at 1, Upper Grosvenor 
 Place, London, which she had made her town residence from the 
 time when she was obliged to give up the house built by her 
 husband in Parliament Place. She was buried 26 February, 1829, 
 in St. Margaret's, Westminster, in accordance with her will, in 
 which she desired to be buried in the vault at Doddington, if she 
 happened to die there ; if not, within some church near where she 
 should happen to die ; the funeral to be private — no hatchment — 
 only Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., the Hon. Charles Savile, and Col. 
 Jarvis to be informed of her death. She bequeathed to Col. Jarvis 
 all her share and interest in the household goods, furniture, linen, 
 china, &c, in and about the Mansion House at Doddington, as 
 well as all the pictures and paintings, with certain exceptions, 
 which should be in her house in Grosvenor Place at the time of 
 her decease, and all her Delf china painted by Raphael, on 
 condition that he should remove the said pictures, china, &c, to, 
 and permit them to remain in the Mansion House at Doddington. 
 
 The above-mentioned exceptions consisted only of two views 
 of Seaton Delaval, painted by Edward Hussey-Delaval and his 
 
Edward Hussey-Delaval, and the Gunmans. 
 
 207 
 
 brother, and the pedigree of the Delaval family, which she left to 
 Sir Jacob H. Astley ; two portraits of the Earl of Mexborough and 
 his brother Charles Savile, in crayon, which she left to the Earl of 
 Mexborough; and six volumes on Herculaneum, presented to 
 Edward Hussey-Delaval by his sister, Lady Stanhope, which she 
 left to John (Savile) Viscount Pollington. 
 
 She also directed her executors to give Col. Jarvis the option 
 of purchasing at the same price she gave for it her moiety of Sir 
 Jacob Astley's sixth part of Doddington, which she and Mrs. 
 Gunman had conjointly bought of him for ^12,000 in October, 
 181 5. This option he at once exercised, and by his subsequent 
 purchase in 1830 of Lord Mexborough's fourth part for ^14,000, 
 he again united the whole estate in one ownership. (See Diagram.) 
 
 There is a full-length oil painting of Mrs. Hussey-Delaval in 
 the Gallery at Doddington. This was painted by George F. Joseph, 
 A.R.A., in 181 5, and represents her in a red velvet dress with a 
 macaw by her side. The same artist has also painted her figure 
 in a similar dress, together with that of her daughter, in one of the 
 views of Mr. Delaval's house in Parliament Place. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE JARVIS FAMILY. 
 
 LT.-COL. George Ralph Payne Jarvis, who thus became the 
 owner of Doddington, was the cadet of a family which for 
 some generations had been settled in the West Indian Island of 
 Antigua. Their record there goes back to the beginning of the 
 eighteenth century, when Thomas Jarvis obtained possession of 
 the estate of Popeshead through his marriage, before 1716, with 
 Jane, daughter of William Moll, planter, of that place, whose will 
 was proved 25 November, 17 16. He represented that district in 
 the House of Assembly in 1723, and was buried at St. George's, 
 April, 1747, his widow surviving him until December, 1749. He 
 was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas Jarvis, also Member of 
 Assembly, who became Chief Justice of Antigua, and President of 
 Council in 1761. He was the purchaser of the estate known as 
 Mount Joshua from a former owner, one Joshua Burkett, which in 
 the flourishing days of the sugar-cane cultivation was reputed one 
 of the most fertile in the island,* and at the time of the emanci- 
 pation had on it 500 slaves. This estate and the mansion house, 
 since known as Mount Jarvis, and described as "one of the most 
 commodious on the island," are still in possession of the elder 
 branch of the family, now represented in the sixth generation by 
 John Campbell Jarvis, Esq. The Hon. Thomas Jarvis, the 
 President of Council, died 1785, as is thus recorded on a ledger- 
 stone in the family burial ground at Mount Joshua : — " Here lies 
 the Body of | the Hon ble Thomas Jarvis, late President | of his 
 Majesty's Council, and | Chief Justice of the Court of Common 
 Pleas, I who departed this life on the 18th day of | December, in 
 the year of our Lord 1785, | Aged 63 years." It sounds strange 
 to us to read such legacies as the following in his will, proved 
 24 March, 1786, though naturally they are common in West Indian 
 wills before the abolition of slavery in 1834 : — " To my wife Rachel 
 8 negros ; the issue of Dinah, Fanny, and Jenny to my daughter 
 
 * Dr. John Davy wrote after his visit to Mount Joshua in 1854 : " Never 
 anywhere in the West Indies have I seen finer canes or a spot reported so 
 fertile. It is said that 4 or 5 hogsheads an acre are not an uncommon yield on 
 this property, and that the proprietor residing on it in a few years accomplished 
 the paying off of a debt of ^60,000 ; but be it remembered, this was before the 
 equalization of the sugar duties was commenced." Davy's West Indies, p. 407. 
 
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 LT.-COL. G. R. P, JARVIS. 
 
The Jew vis Family. 
 
 209 
 
 Jane; to my daughter Frances her attendant; to my daughter 
 Dorothea, Obba daughter of Jenny, a negro purchased of Thos. 
 Oliver, Esq., also a mulatto girl; the negro woman formerly 
 belonging to my late daughter Grace to go to my daughter Dorothea; 
 Having lent my daughter Christian Scott 2 negros, I release her 
 husband of all rent for them, and give them to her." * 
 
 By his wife Rachel Thibou, daughter of Jacob and Dorothy 
 Thibou, of " Thibou's," Antigua, the President Thomas Jarvis was 
 father of no less than 21 children. The youngest of these was 
 George Ralph Payne Jarvis, born at Mount Joshua, 13 May, 1774, 
 and baptized at St. John's 14 July, who obtained his last two 
 Christian names from Sir Ralph Payne, Bart., afterwards Lord 
 Lavington, who was Governor of Antigua at the time of his birth. 
 On his father's death he came to England with his mother; and in 
 1 791, at the age of 1 7, obtained a Commission in the 36th Regiment, 
 with which he served several years in the East Indies and Ceylon, 
 and was at the taking of Cochin, being promoted to the rank of 
 Captain by purchase in 1799. In 1802, December 2, he married, 
 at St. Thomas', Winchester, Philadelphia (b. 21 September, 1780), 
 third daughter of Ebenezer Blackwell, Esq.,f of Lewisham, 
 
 * We are indebted for most of our information about Antigua to Mr. 
 V. L. Oliver's History of Antigua, just being published in two or more folio 
 volumes, in the second of these he gives a full pedigree of the Jarvis family, 
 with their wills and entries in the Parish Registers. 
 
 + A full account of Ebenezer Blackwell is given in the history of Messrs. 
 Martins' Bank, styled The Grasshopper in Lombard Street, by J. Biddulph 
 Martin, 1892. He was of a Gloucestershire family, born at Cirencester 
 22 October, 171 1, the son of John Blackwell by Elizabeth Freeman. As 
 stated above, he became a partner in Messrs. Martins' Bank, and in 1749 he 
 took up his residence at the Limes, Lewisham. To this house John Wesley, 
 who was his intimate friend, used for many years to retire for rest and 
 meditation, and in many passages of his Journal and Letters he alludes to the 
 close and confidential relationship which existed between them. Blackwell's 
 first wife, Elizabeth Moland, died, childless, in 1772, and though then in his 
 63rd year, he married again at Blackheath Chapel, 22 December, 1774, Mary 
 Eden, the only child of the Rev. Robert Eden, D.D., by whom he had a 
 family of two sons and four daughters, " six lovely children," as John Wesley 
 describes them, the marriages of three of whom with members of the Jarvis 
 family are mentioned above. E. Blackwell retired from the Bank in 1780, and 
 died 21 April, 1782, and was buried under the shadow of the Parish Church of 
 Lewisham, the rebuilding of which he had actively promoted. His widow, 
 Mary (Eden) Blackwell, born 28 June, 1746, survived him until 19 September, 
 181 1, and was buried near her father in the Nave of Winchester Cathedral; 
 the stone bears an inscription in Latin, with a shield of arms, Blacku ell, Paly 
 of 6, Arg. and Az. on a Chief, Gules, a Lion passant, gardant, Or ; the whole 
 within a Bordure, Erm ; Impaling Eden, Gules, on a Chevron between 
 3 Garbs, Or, as many Escallops, Sable. Her portrait is in the Gallery at 
 Doddington. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 co. Kent, a partner in Messrs. Martins' Bank, in Lombard Street, 
 by his second wife, Mary, only child of Dr. Robert Eden,* 
 Archdeacon and Prebendary of Winchester. Her eldest sister, 
 Mary Elizabeth S. F. Blackwell (b. 23 October, 1776), had already 
 married, at St. Thomas' Church, 28 February, 1801, his eldest 
 brother, Thomas Jarvis, who inherited the family property in 
 Antigua, and whose daughter by his first marriage, Jane Jarvis, 
 had also married, 14 February, 1801, Major-General Nathaniel 
 S. J. J. Blackwell, the brother of these ladies, thus forming a triple 
 connection between the families. 
 
 In 1806-7, after acting as Brigade-Major at Dover, he took 
 part, as Deputy Judge Advocate, with his Regiment in an expedi- 
 tion against Buenos Ayres. He served in the Peninsular 
 Campaign of 1808-9 with the 36th Regiment, acting again as 
 Deputy Judge Advocate, and was present at the Battles of 
 Roliga and Vimiero under Sir Arthur Wellesley, and of Corunna 
 under Sir John Moore, for which he received the war medal with 
 three clasps. On 28 September, 1809, he sailed as Deputy 
 Assistant Adjutant General on the unfortunate expedition under 
 the Earl of Chatham to the Isle of Walcheren, from which like so 
 many others he brought back the distressing Walcheren fever. 
 After serving 1 2 years as Captain, and 7 years as senior Captain of 
 his regiment, he was only promoted to his Majority in 181 1, and 
 received the rank of Lieut-Colonel in August, 181 9. In 1829, on 
 Mrs. Hussey-Delaval's death, he came into possession of Dodding- 
 ton under Mrs. Gunman's will, and made it his principal place of 
 residence, being appointed D.L. for Lincolnshire, and J. P. for the 
 Parts of Kesteven. 
 
 Lieut.-Colonel Jarvis married second, 24 June, 1830, Frances, 
 youngest daughter of the Rev. John Sturges, D.C.L., Prebendary 
 
 * Robert Eden, D.D., was a son of Robert Eden, Mayor of Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne in 1699. He matriculated at Oxford, at the age of 15, in 1717, and 
 became a Fellow of University College in 1723. He was Rector of 
 Headbourne Worthy and of Michelmarsh, co. Hants. ; was appointed Arch- 
 deacon of Winchester in 1743, and held Prebends in Winchester and Worcester 
 Cathedrals. He was the author of a Jurisprudents Philologica, written in 
 Latin, and published in 1744, as well as of other learned works. He married, 
 1745, Martha, daughter of William Lowth, B.D., Prebendary of Winchester, 
 and sister of Tvobert Lowth, D.D., Bishop of London, by whom he had an 
 only child, Mary Eden (see note above). Archdeacon Eden died 1759, in his 
 58th year, and was buried in the Nave of Winchester Cathedral, as was his 
 widow, Martha Eden, who died 23 March, 1798, aged 88. Both are com- 
 memorated in a Latin inscription, with a coat of arms, Eden, impaling Lowth, 
 Sable, a Wolf salient, Or. Of both there are portraits at Doddington. 
 Margaret Lowth, a sister of Martha, married the Rev. John Sturges, D.C.L., 
 Prebendary of Winchester, and Rector of Wonston, Hants , and was grand- 
 mother to Frances Sturges, the second wife of Col. G. R. P. Jarvis, as Martha 
 Eden was to his first wife, Philadelphia Blackwell. 
 
The Jarvis Family. 
 
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 and'Chancellor of Winchester Cathedral, and sister of the Rt. Hon. 
 William Sturges-Bourne, Privy Councillor and Secretary of State, 
 1827. He died at Doddington 14 June, 1851, aged 77, and is 
 buried in the vault under the south aisle of the Church. To his 
 skill in the art of carving, which he taught himself and adopted as 
 a resource in old age, are due the many beautiful and elaborate 
 oak carvings, which are framed and hung as pictures in various 
 parts of the Hall. Mrs. Jarvis survived him until 18 January, 
 1867, when she died, aged nearly 91, at her residence, 11, Brock 
 Street, Bath. 
 
 By his first wife, Philadelphia Blackwell, who died at Dover, 
 7 March, 18 16, Col. Jarvis had issue 5 sons and 2 daughters, viz. : — 
 
 1. George Knollis Jarvis, his eldest son and heir, born at 
 Winchester, 22 September, 1803, admitted to Merchant 
 Taylors' School, 181 6 ; B.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 
 1 83 1 ; of whom hereafter. 
 
 2. Charles Macquarie George Jarvis, born at Feversham, 
 16 November, 1804, admitted to Merchant Taylors' 
 School, 1816; B.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1827; 
 admitted to Middle Temple, 9 May, 1827 ; M.A. 
 1832; Rector of Doddington, 1837-1861 ; Rural Dean 
 of Graffoe; J. P. for Kesteven and Lindsey. Died at 
 Torquay, s.p. 7 November, 1863, aged 58, having married, 
 first in 1840, Augusta, daughter of Col. Robert Cracroft 
 (afterwards Amcotts), of Hackthorn, Lines., who died in 
 Paris, 9 February, 1855, aged 37 ; and second at Matlock, 
 7 July, 1857, Frances Jane, only daughter of the Rev. 
 Anthony James Clarke, Rector of Porlock, Somerset, who 
 died at Torquay, 1 November, 1895, aged 63. 
 
 3. Mary Eden Jarvis, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 12 July, 
 1806; married at St. George's, Hanover Square, 25 October, 
 1827, Lt -Col. Robert Cole, of the 85th and 48th Regiments, 
 who died in London, 17 April, 1869, aged 74, and was 
 buried at Doddington, as was also Mrs. Cole, who died at 
 the Rectory, Newbold-de-Verdon, Leicester, 21 November, 
 1878, aged 72. They had issue : — 
 
 r. Robert Eden George Cole, born at Devonport, 
 28 October, 1831 ; B.A. University College, Oxford, 
 1854; M.A. 1857; Rector of Doddington, 1861 ; 
 married, 20 April, 1858, at Walcot Church, Bath, 
 Frances Elizabeth Christiana, eldest daughter of 
 James Dawn, Esq., late 2nd Dragoon Guards. 
 
 2. Harry Vandeleur, born at Exmouth, 11 October, 
 1833; died at Gibraltar, 9 February, 1841, aged 
 7 years, 
 
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 3. William Gordon Cole, born at Exmouth, 26 July, 
 1835; Scholar and Fellow of Trinity College, 
 Oxford; B.A. 1858; M.A. 1861 ; Rector of 
 Newbold-de-Verdon, Leicester, 1869, and Rural 
 Dean of Sparkenhoe. 
 
 4. Annie Henrietta Cole, unmarried, now of Newbold- 
 de-Verdon, Leicester. 
 
 4. Henry George Jarvis, born at Winchester, 18 February, 
 1809 ; Captain 70th Regiment, died at Grenada, West 
 Indies, 9 October, 1838, aged 29. 
 
 5. Anne Fector Jarvis, born at Dover, 17 February, 181 2 ; 
 married at Doddington, 12 December, 1839, John Brom- 
 head, Esq., of the Close, Lincoln, J. P., who died 22 May, 
 1876. Mrs. Bromhead, well known as the founder, in 1866, 
 of the Lincoln Institution for Nurses, which she continued 
 to superintend until her death, died 7 April, 1886, leaving 
 issue : — 
 
 1. Charles John Bromhead, of the Close, Lincoln, 
 born 9 August, 1840. 
 
 2. Frances Annie Bromhead, married in i860, the 
 Rev. Henry Wollaston Hutton, M.A. and J. P., 
 Priest-Vicar and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral, 
 and County Alderman for Lindsey ; and has issue. 
 
 3. Edward Ralph Bromhead, born at Doddington, 
 2 March, 1844, late of the 84th York and Lancaster 
 Regiment, Lt.-Col. in 1888; married 17 October, 
 1874, Cicely Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
 Atkinson, Esq., and has 2 daughters. 
 
 4. Henrietta Bromhead, born at Doddington, and 
 now of the Close, Lincoln, the present Lady 
 Superintendent of the Lincoln Institution for 
 Nurses. 
 
 6. John George Jarvis, born at Dover, 24 March, 1814; 
 was at Eton, 1826, and at Trinity College, Cambridge; 
 Captain 52nd Light Infantry; married, 15 November, 1843, 
 Philadelphia, daughter of George Jenkin, Esq., and niece 
 of General Sir James Fergusson, G.C.B., of Craigdarroch ; 
 by whom 4 daughters : — 
 
 1. Isabella Phillie Jarvis, born 25 November, 1844; 
 died at Great Malvern, 11 August, 1857. 
 
 2. Elizabeth Jarvis, unmarried. 
 
 3. Emma Louisa Jarvis, married, at Walcot, Bath, 
 15 November, 1870, Lt. Col. Archibald Duffield 
 Eden, late of the 26th Cameronians, son of 
 Lieut.-General William Eden ; and has issue 3 sons. 
 
 4. Fanny Jarvis, unmarried. 
 
The Jarvis Family. 
 
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 7. Edwin George Jarvis, born at Dover, 19 February, 181 6, was 
 at Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.B. 1840; 
 Vicar of Hackthorn and Rector of Cold Hanworth, 1844 ; 
 married at Hackthorn in 1841, Frances Amcotts, daughter 
 of Col. Robert Cracroft (afterwards Amcotts), of Hackthorn. 
 He died 11 November, 1876, aged 60, and was buried at 
 Hackthorn, as was his widow, who died at the Vicarage, 
 Burton-upon-Stather, 11 February, 1891, aged 73. Their 
 3 sons were : — 
 
 1. Charles Edwin Jarvis, born 28 November, 1844; 
 Trinity College, Oxford, B.A., 1866; M.A., 1870; 
 Rector of Hatton, 1869-91 • married, 8 January, 
 
 1873, Anne Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Arthur 
 Trollope, Esq., of Eastgate House, Lincoln, niece 
 of Sir John Trollope, Bart., first Baron Kesleven, 
 and of the Right Rev. Edward Trollope, Bishop 
 Suffragan of Nottingham. 
 
 2. Bertie George Jarvis, born 16 July, 1846; Lieut. 
 78th Highlanders; succeeded to the Marble-hill 
 estate in Antigua under the will of the Hon. Bertie 
 Entwisle Jarvis; married, at Spridlington, 18 April, 
 18765 Lucy Caroline, second daughter of the 
 Rev. Henry Frederick Hutton, M.A. and J. P., 
 Rector of Spridlington and Rural Dean ; Mrs. B. G. 
 Jarvis, who has one daughter, Agnes Lucy, resides 
 at Northgate Lodge, Lincoln. 
 
 3. Francis Amcotts Jarvis, born 26 August, 1849 > 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A., 1872 ; Rector of 
 Kettlethorpe, 1874; Vicar of Burton-upon-Stather, 
 and Rector of Flixborough, 1882, and Rural Dean 
 of Manlake ; J. P. for Lindsey; married, 16 July, 
 
 1874, Caroline Octavia Mary Vere, daughter of the 
 Rev. Charles Lloyd, Canon of Christchurch, 
 Oxford, and Rector of Chalfont St. Giles, by whom 
 he has one son, Charles Francis Cracroft Jarvis, 
 born at Kettlethorpe, 3 May, 1875; gazetted 
 Second Lieutenant, Yorkshire Regiment, 1896. 
 
 On the death of Colonel Jarvis in 1851, he was succeeded at 
 Doddington and in his other estates by his eldest son, George 
 Knollis Jarvis, Esq., who derived his second name from the 
 marriage of his mother's sister, Charlotte Blackwell, in 1795, with 
 Lieut -General William Knollys, then bearing the title of Earl of 
 Banbury, father of the late Sir William Knollys, GC.B. Mr. Tarvis 
 was J.P. for the Parts of Kesteven and Lindsey, as well as for the 
 County of Notts., and was Deputy Lieutenant for the County of 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Lincoln, and filled the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 
 1857. He was Chairman for many years of the Petty Sessional 
 Court at Lincoln, as well as of the Lincoln Gaol Sessions, and 
 Treasurer of the County Hospital, of which Institution he was an 
 active and liberal supporter. He died 25 October, 1873, at the 
 age of 70, and was buried in the churchyard at Doddington. A 
 cross marks the place of his burial, bearing an inscription with the 
 text, Micah vi. 8, "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to 
 do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" 
 Preaching in Lincoln Cathedral on the Sunday following his death, 
 Dean Blakesley dwelt on this text, and applied it to Mr. Jarvis as 
 " one whose name will occur to all here present, one whose useful 
 life has just been brought to a close, too soon for all but himself. 
 He is gone to receive his reward — a reward, if the unanimous 
 voice of this neighbourhood may be taken as a witness, of doing 
 justly, and loving mercy, and walking humbly with his God, day 
 by day, and year by year. May they who inherit his name, and 
 they who have shared his friendship, no less be heirs of his virtues 
 and participators in the recompense which awaits all those whose 
 best energies are steadily dedicated to promoting the glory of God 
 and the well-being of their brethren." At the ensuing Quarter 
 Sessions for the Parts of Kesteven, held at Spittlegate, Grantham, 
 28 October, 1873, the following Minute was recorded and 
 engrossed to be forwarded to his family : — " The Court expressed 
 the deep regret with which its members had heard of the death of 
 George Knollis Jarvis, Esq., the Chairman of the Lincoln Petty 
 Sessional Bench, whose long and valuable services as a Magistrate 
 and in other capacities justly entitled him to the respect and 
 gratitude of the County of Lincoln." His portrait, taken by 
 C. Lutyens in 1868, hangs in the dining-room at the Hall. 
 
 He had married, 30 May, 1833, at Trinity Church, Marylebone, 
 Emily, eldest daughter of the Rev. George T. Pretvman, Chancellor 
 of Lincoln Cathedral, Prebendary of Winchester, &c, by Amelia, 
 daughter of Christopher Tower, of Weald Hall, Essex, Esq. She 
 died 6 March, i84o s at the age of 24, and was buried in St. Mary's, 
 Dover. By her he had a son and two daughters, viz. : — 
 
 Emily Louisa Harriet, born at the Chancery, Lincoln, married 
 at Doddington, 10 July, i860, Major Henry Scott (9th Lancers 
 and 18th Hussars), only son of General Sir John Scott, K.C.B., 
 who died 6 November, 1893 ; Mrs. Scott's residence is The Priory, 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Caroline Annie Jarvis, baptized at Doddington, 25 November, 
 1837 ; buried there, aged 3 years, 24 October, 1840. 
 
 George Eden Jarvis, born 19 February, 1840, was educated at 
 Eton, and obtained a Cornetcy in the Queen's Bays, 1856, and 
 his troop in the same Regiment in 1858, and exchanged into the 
 
The Jarvis Family. 
 
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 1 8th Hussars when that Regiment was raised. He married, at 
 Oxton, 17 February, 1863, Alice Louisa, second daughter of 
 Henry Sherbrooke, Esq., of Oxton Hall, Notts., (by Louisa, 
 daughter of William Fane, Esq., H.E.I.C.S.), and niece of Robert, 
 Viscount Sherbrooke. Mr. Jarvis, who succeeded his father in 
 1873, ar, d is the present possessor of the Doddington and other 
 estates, is J.P. for the Parts of Kesteven and Lindsey, and for the 
 County of Notts., and D.L. for Lincolnshire : he filled the office of 
 High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1878, and hunted the country 
 round Doddington as M.F.H. from 1881 to 1891. 
 
 Arms. — Sable, on a Chevron, engrailed, between 3 Martlets, 
 Arg. as many Cinquefoils, pierced, of the first ; on a Chief of the 
 second a Fleur-de-lis between 2 Escallops, of the field. 
 
 Crest. — An Unicorn's Head, erased Arg. maned and horned, 
 Or, charged on a collar of the last with 3 Cinquefoils, Sable. 
 
 Motto — All for the best. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE HALL. 
 
 A WRITER in the Quarterly Review (July, 1891), speaking 
 of country seats in Lincolnshire, has said, " Another 
 beautiful house that is far less known than it deserves to be is 
 Doddington, 6 miles south-west of Lincoln, once the seat of the 
 Delaval family, where the solid looking front and the great turrets 
 with their leaden cupolas strongly remind one of Hatfield." We 
 have said that the present Hall was built by Thomas Tailor, 
 Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln, between 1593 — when he 
 purchased the estate — and his death, 1607, its probable completion 
 being marked by the date 1600, which was found stamped on 
 a leaden plate at the top of the central cupola. It adds greatly 
 to the interest of the house that it has been so little altered. 
 Just as it was built at the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign, 
 300 years ago, and as it is represented in the bird's-eye view 
 of Sir Thomas Hussey's time, 200 years ago, so it stands in all its 
 main features at the present day. Its chief entrance is on the 
 east through a triple-gabled gate-house of two stories, standing 
 back a little from the road which passes through the village. 
 Coped walls of brick connect this gate-house on either side with 
 the Hall, thus enclosing a quadrangle, some 50 yards square, 
 known as the East Garden, which in Sir Thomas Hussey's time is 
 represented as an open grassy court, but is now well nigh filled 
 by four stately cedars of Lebanon. These from their size might 
 seem co-seval with the house, but in fact they were planted here 
 about the time when Colonel Jarvis became its owner in 1829, so 
 that they have attained their present dimensions in some 70 years.* 
 A similarly walled quadrangle on the west of the house is laid out 
 as a flower garden with ancient box edgings. Between these is 
 placed the house itself, facing east and west, and rising in three 
 stories to the height of 52 feet, surmounted by a plain parapet and 
 flat leaden roof, from which rise three octagonal turrets or gazeboes, 
 of brick, capped with leaden cupolas. Roughly speaking, its 
 ground-plan is in the form of an E, with wings projecting at either 
 end, and a smaller projection in the centre, the lowest story of 
 which forms a porch on either side. Its extreme length from north 
 
 * The frontispiece has been purposely reproduced from a photograph taken 
 some years ago before these cedars had attained their present size. 
 
The Hall. 
 
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 to south is 160 feet, and its greatest breadth at the wings is 75 feet. 
 The house, as well as the gate-house and connecting walls, is 
 built of brick, with stone quoins, string courses and coping, and 
 has large square stone-mullioned windows. Many of the bricks, 
 made close at hand, and of unsifted clay, are over-burnt and black ; 
 these are built in alternately with the others, or in parts are 
 arranged so as to form a diamond pattern. 
 
 The entrance porch on either front opens directly into the 
 hall. This had originally a plaster floor, as several of the rooms 
 still have, and was known as the White Hall, but in 186 1 the plaster 
 was replaced by a flooring of oak grown on the estate. It is a 
 room 53^ ft. by 22% ft. occupying the whole width of the body of 
 the house, and having windows on either side. In the two 
 western windows are inserted pieces of stained glass brought here 
 by Mr. Gunman in 18 13, when he took down an old house in 
 Coventry, formerly belonging to Sir Thomas Norton, which he 
 inherited from his mother, Essex Hanson. In one window are 
 depicted scenes from Scripture: 1, Abraham offering up Isaac; 
 and 2, Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph ; in the other are Royal 
 coats of arms of two different periods, one those of Queen Elizabeth 
 whose name may be read below, the other those borne by the 
 Stuart Kings from James I. to James II. The plain marble 
 chimney-pieces here and in other rooms were put in by Lord 
 Delaval in 1760 ; and to the same date we may ascribe the classic 
 broken architraves with which doors and mantels are surmounted. 
 On the mantel-piece amidst steel caps and helmets stands an iron 
 Branks or Scold's Bridle, a mask of iron with a long point projecting 
 from the mouth, which was fastened on by a padlock behind, as a 
 punishment for scolding women.* Another grim relic of the 
 
 * This iron branks was exhibited during the Meeting of the British 
 Archaeological Institute at Lincoln in 1848, and was figured in that Society's 
 Report. It has been figured again in the Strand Magazine, November, 1894, 
 
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 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 customs of our forefathers is the head-piece of the irons in which 
 Thomas Temporal, commonly known as Tom Otter, after being 
 hung at Lincoln, 14 March, 1806, was gibbeted on Saxilby Moor, 
 about two miles off, on the spot where he murdered a young 
 woman to whom he had been married the same morning in 
 South Hykeham Church. The gibbet from which it hung was 
 blown down in 1850. Of more cheerful association is a large 
 leathern bottle, some 2 ft. high and more than 3 ft. in circumference, 
 which was found at Stow, and is said to have been used to convey 
 wine from Lincoln to the Bishop's Manor House of Stow Park. 
 At one end of the hall hangs a beautiful picture by Guido of the 
 Angel appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness; and 
 here and in many other rooms may be noted the oak carvings, 
 remarkable for their depth of cutting and multiplicity of figures, 
 which were executed by Colonel Jarvis in his later life. 
 
 The ground floor south of the hall is occupied by the servants' 
 offices ; but passing out of it on the north, we find the Dining-room 
 immediately on the left, occupying the west portion of the northern 
 wing. It is 27 ft. by 18 ft., panelled throughout with oak, which 
 was formerly covered with white paint, happily removed in 1873. 
 Over the mantel is a portrait of the late G. K. Jarvis (died 1873) 
 painted by Lutyens in 1868. On the opposite side of the room 
 the square mirror with deep carved gilt frame was brought from 
 the residence of the Gunman family at Dover, having hung 
 originally in the Anne, the Royal yacht of James, Duke of York, 
 afterwards James II., which was commanded by Capt. Christopher 
 Gunman, 1670-5.* Small pictures on one side represent Prince 
 Henry, eldest son of James I., by Cornelius Jansen, and Mary, 
 Queen of Scots, by or after Clouet ; on the other is a small Holy 
 Family, by Carlo Maratti, similar to one in the Gallery of Versailles. 
 Beyond these, on either side are portraits of Edward Hussey- 
 Delaval, in middle age, with the artificial gems which he was skilled 
 in making on a table before him ; and of his daughter, Sarah 
 Hussey-Delaval, afterwards Mrs. Gunman, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 
 Next to the former, James I. is represented in a quaint drab suit 
 
 in an article entitled "Muzzles for Ladies," in which it is thus described 
 " The Bridle preserved at Doddington Park {sic) in Lincolnshire was evidently 
 intended to bring down as much ridicule as possible upon the head of the 
 unfortunate wearer. It is in the form of a mask with holes for the eyes, and a 
 protruding piece to fit the nose. There is also a long perforated funnel-shaped 
 piece projecting from the spot covering the mouth, suggesting the terribly long 
 tongue the culprit must possess. " 
 
 * Captain Gunman enters in his log book, 8 December, 1 671,— "His 
 Royall Highness was graciously pleased to give me all the ould furniture 
 belonging unto the Yacht, for he intended to have all new. wch. presently after 
 he comanded to be doen." 
 
The Hall. 
 
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 in three-quarters length ; while next to the latter a lady in black 
 dress with deep lace collar and cuffs is said to be Eleanor, daughter 
 of Sir John Delaval, Knt, temp. Edward VI. and Mary, and wife 
 of Wm. Fenwick, of Bitchfield, Esq. On either side of the west 
 window are crayons of Apollo and Diana by Rosalba. Over the 
 door is a painting of a Beggar Family by Zoffani ; and near it 
 a portrait on panel of the Infanta Donna Maria, daughter of 
 Philip III., of Spain "setatis sua? 19, 1617," the princess on whose 
 account Charles I. made his romantic expedition to Spain with the 
 Duke of Buckingham. The massive table of dark oak below was 
 originally a plain table in the servants' hall, but has been fashioned 
 by Colonel Jarvis' skill in carving into a handsome and appropriate 
 sideboard ; tradition says that it was made out of an unusually 
 large oak that grew on the estate. 
 
 Opposite the dining-room, and occupying the east portion of 
 this wing, is the Library, formerly known as the Green Parlour, 
 20 ft. by 18. Two landscapes in this room represent views of the 
 Thames, up and down the river, taken from Mr. Edward Hussey- 
 Delaval's house in Parliament Place, of which we have already 
 spoken. They were painted by G. Arnold, A.R.A., and the figures 
 which are by the hand of G. F. Joseph, A.R.A., represent in one 
 view Mr. Delaval himself seated, and in the other Mrs. Delaval and 
 their daughter, the former of whom the same artist has painted in 
 a similar red velvet dress in the full length portrait of her, now in 
 the long gallery. Near these landscapes are the likenesses of the 
 two children of G. K. Jarvis, Esq., taken together about 1847. 
 Other family portraits in the room are those of — 1, William Lowth, 
 B.D., (born 1661, died 1732), Rector of Buriton, Hants., and 
 Prebendary of Winchester, the author of the well-known 
 Commentary on the Prophets, and of Directions for the Profitable 
 Study of Holy Scripture, " an admirable little work which has gone 
 through many editions."* 2, Margaret Pitt, daughter of Robert 
 Pitt, Esq.,f of Blandford, Dorset, wife of the above William Lowth, 
 
 * National Dictionary of Biography. 
 
 t William Lowth died 17 May, 1732, and was buried at Buriton, as was 
 also his widow, Margaret (Pitt), who died 4 September, 1749, in her 83rd year. 
 Her brothers were : — I, Robert Pitt, M.D. and F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy 
 at Oxford, died 1712 ; 2, Thomas Pitt, Master in Chancery; 3, Christopher 
 Pitt, M.D., father of the Rev. Christopher Pitt, died 1748, known for his 
 translation of the /Eneid. First cousin to Margaret Pitt, being the son of the 
 Rev. John Pitt, Rector of Blandford St. Mary, was Thomas Pitt (born 1653, 
 died 1726), M.P. for Old Sarum, who from 1697 to 1709 was Governor of 
 Fort St. George, Madras, and there acquired for ,£20,400 from a native 
 merchant in 1 701 the celebrated Pitt diamond, which he eventually sold to 
 the Regent of France for £135,000 ; it was valued in 1791 at ,£480,000, and 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 (married 1700), by whom he left two sons and two daughters, viz. : 
 William Lowth, Rector of Lewisham and Prebendary of Winchester, 
 who died 1795; Robert Lowth, D.D., Bishop of London 1777- 
 1787; Margaret Lowth, wife of the Rev. John Sturges, D.C.L., 
 and Martha Lowth, the wife of the Rev. Robert Eden, D.D. 
 3, Robert Eden, D.D., the husband of the above Martha Lowth, 
 and father of Mary Eden, on whom see Note, p. 210. 
 
 Between these two rooms the main staircase is carried up in 
 a projection of the house to the north, in a broad flight up to the 
 first landing returning in narrower flights on either side to the first 
 floor. The style of this staircase with its plain banisters and heavy 
 mahogany handrail evidently shows that it is not of the same date 
 as the house, and in fact it was put up by Lord Delaval 1 761-2, 
 at the same time that the Long Gallery was re-floored. The work 
 was executed by William Lumby, of Lincoln, who was Surveyor of 
 the Cathedral, and carried out much work there under the direction 
 of Essex, the architect. Nearly ^600 was paid him for work 
 done at the Hall during these two years. On the first landing on 
 either side are portraits of Mr. Edward Hussey-Delaval, and of his 
 only daughter, Mrs. Gunman. The former, dated 1813, represents 
 Mr. Delaval, cetat 85, as a white-haired old man, seated at a window 
 of his house in Parliament Place, looking out on the Thames, with 
 St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance, and on a table before him his 
 report as to the best means of preserving St. Paul's from the effects 
 of lightning, as well as others of his treatises with their foreign 
 translations, (see pp. 188-9). Tne next picture but one as we 
 ascend the stairs is a portrait of his mother, Rhoda Apreece, 
 as a girl with a goldfinch ; and beyond it another likeness of her 
 in later life when she had become Mrs. Blake Delaval. Next to 
 this again is a portrait of her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellys, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Hussey, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and we 
 may well suppose it to be the picture of her "sister Betty" 
 
 still forms one of the crown jewels of France. It is to this transaction that 
 Pope alludes in the lines, (Moral Essay, iii., 361-5) — 
 
 "Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, 
 
 An honest factor stole a gem away ; 
 
 He pledged it to the knight ; the knight had wit, 
 
 So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit." 
 This allusion is placed beyond a doubt by the fact that in the original version 
 in Pope's own handwriting the last line ran, "So robbed the robber and was 
 rich as Pitt." Pitt however published a complete justification of his conduct, 
 and does not seem to have done worse than drive a hard bargain with the 
 merchant, who had driven a still harder bargain with the first finder, a slave 
 who had secreted it at the mines in a wound in his leg, Thomas Pitt's eldest 
 son, Robert, was father of William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, and grandfather 
 of the Prime Minister, William Pitt, and of Thomas Pitt, created Lord Camel- 
 ford in 1784; his second son, Thomas, was created Earl of Londonderry in 
 1726. 
 
The Hall. 
 
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 bequeathed by the will of Rebecca Hussey to her niece, Rhoda 
 Apreece, in 1714. Following the opposite flight of stairs we have, 
 next to Mrs. Gunman, the portraits in succession, of Col. G. R. P. 
 Jarvis, to whom she left her estates ; of G. E. Jarvis, Esq., his 
 grandson, their present owner; of Martha Lowth (born 17 10, 
 died 1798), as a girl, and of her husband, Dr. Robert Eden, of 
 both of whom we have already spoken. On the second landing is 
 a fine group of six children of Francis and Rhoda Blake-Delaval — 
 three of the sons, and the three daughters, afterwards Mrs. Astley, 
 Lady Stanhope, and Lady Mexborough. It will be observed that 
 the heads have been inserted, and are probably by a different 
 hand. 
 
 On either side of this landing, above the two rooms just 
 described, are two bed-rooms, which retain their original tapestry 
 hangings. One is known as the Holly Room, so called from the 
 great holly tree on which its windows open, the other as the Tiger 
 Room from the wild beasts depicted on its Flemish tapestry, which 
 dates from about 1600. This has retained more of its original 
 bright colouring than the other, which is of English manufacture, 
 made probably at Mortlake, temp. Charles I., in the costume of 
 whose time the figures on it are represented. In the Holly Room 
 the ancient crewel work of its bed hangings deserves attention ; 
 while the lofty four-post bedstead of the Tiger Room, upholstered 
 in crimson damask, is said to have been that occupied by Henry 
 Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, when entertained by Lord Delaval 
 at Seaton Delaval in 1771, and was brought here by Mr. Edward 
 Hussey Delaval in 1809. A quaint picture in this room over the 
 mantel-piece represents Nebuchadnezzar in his state of degradation, 
 eating grass like an ox. 
 
 On the first floor, over the hall, and of the same dimensions 
 with it, is the Drawing-room, also filling up the whole width of the 
 body of the house, with windows opening east and west. Only a 
 little room over the west porch, once partitioned off, has been 
 opened into it, forming a recess at its south-west end. A similar 
 room over the east porch is still divided off, and contains the 
 Majolica ware and Limoges enamels left by Mrs. Hussey-Delaval to 
 be kept at Doddington. As we stand before the mantel-piece on 
 the west side of the drawing-room we see on all sides of the room 
 portraits of the Delaval family. Over the mantel itself is the 
 portrait of Mrs. Rhoda Blake-Delaval, with a corresponding one of 
 her husband, Captain Francis Blake-Delaval, opposite. Another 
 picture of her at full length, seated, painted by Arthur Pond, 
 occupies the south part of the eastern wall, while the two ends of 
 the room are filled with the family groups, also by A. Pond, one 
 of four, the other of seven figures of her sons and daughters ; the 
 taller lady in the centre being said to be a cousin. Similar 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 pictures, but in bad condition, are to be seen at Seaton Delaval. 
 On either side of the fire-place are full length seated figures, also 
 painted by Pond, of the second of these sons, John Hussey-Delaval, 
 Lord Delaval, who inherited Doddington on his mother's death in 
 1759, and of his first wife, Susannah, Lady Delaval (died 1783). 
 The remaining space on the east wall is occupied by the full length 
 figure of the eldest son, Sir Francis Blake-Delaval. K.B., by Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds (1758), who has represented him in his red 
 volunteer uniform, standing musket in hand on the French coast 
 with villages burning in the background. Similar portraits of him 
 are found at Seaton Delaval, and Methley, and Ford Castle, and 
 the last has been engraved in a series of portraits by Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, published by Graves & Co. in 1865. Over the four 
 doorways are smaller portraits, two of which represent respectively 
 the third brother, Edward Hussey-Delaval in the gold-tufted 
 college cap in which he was so frequently taken ; and his sister, 
 Mrs. Astley ; whilst a third, if rightly said to be that of Lady 
 Tyrconnel, is the only one of any of Lord Delaval's children now 
 remaining at Doddington. It may be worth noting that the flock 
 paper now on the walls of the drawing-room was put up as long 
 ago as the time of Mrs. Hussey-Delaval, that is before 1829, and 
 cost then half-a-crown a yard. 
 
 Beyond the drawing-room on the south, another bed-room still 
 retains its ancient tapestry. On it are depicted scenes from the 
 Trojan War, the Judgment of Paris, the Landing of the Greeks, 
 the Trojan Horse, the Exchange of Armour by Glaucus and 
 Diomede, &c, but with their former bright colours sadly faded 
 into browns and greens. Over the door is a picture of a dog, to 
 which the following tale attaches. It is said to have belonged to 
 Mr Henry Stone, of Skellingthorpe, and to have pulled his master 
 three times away from a tree under which he had taken shelter 
 from a thunderstorm. At the third time the tree was struck by 
 lightning, and a pheasant represented on it in the picture was 
 killed. Mr. Stone died 26 June, 1693, an d was buried just inside 
 the churchyard at Skellingthorpe, and his dog, it is said, near him 
 just outside the consecrated ground. He left personality to the 
 amount of .£4,000, and his estate of more than 3,000 acres at 
 Skellingthorpe, then worth £$20 per annuih to Christ's Hospital, 
 London, in whose possession it still remains. An altar tomb to 
 his memory in the churchyard at Skellingthorpe is inscribed : — 
 " The Governours of Christ's Hospital in London have caused this 
 Tomb to be erected in Memory of their Munificent Benefactor. 
 Henry Stone. Esq., late deceased. Anno Dom. 1694." 
 
 Beyond this, in the extreme south-east wing, the Quixote room 
 is so called from its quaint papering representing scenes of 
 Don Quixote's adventures, and made in squares before the practice 
 of making wall-paper in strips was introduced. 
 
PICTURE GALLERY, DODDI NGTON HALL- 
 
The Hall. 
 
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 Returning to the main staircase and ascending it to the third 
 story, we find on the uppermost landing a full length portrait of 
 Mr. Edward Hussey-Delaval as a young man, seated, with a 
 greyhound by his side, doubtless one of the breed for which 
 Seaton Delaval was famous in the time of his brother, Sir Francis. 
 On either side of this landing are bed-rooms, which, from their 
 retaining their original plaster floors, are known as the East and 
 West Plaster rooms respectively. In the latter is the picture of 
 Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval, painted in armour and with flowing wig, 
 of which we have said it is doubtful whether it represents Sir Ralph 
 Delaval, of Seaton Delaval, the first Baronet, who was made. 
 Admiral of the Northumbrian coast by Charles II., and who died 
 in 1 69 1, or his first cousin, Sir Ralph Delaval, Knt, better known 
 as a naval hero, the colleague of Admirals Russell and Sir 
 Cloudesley Shovel, who distinguished himself in the victory off 
 La Hogue, and was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1707. 
 Probably it represents the former, being the picture described in 
 accounts of Seaton Delaval, as that of " Sir Ralph Delaval, coasting 
 Admiral in the time of Charles II." In the same room is a picture 
 of the wreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovel in his flagship the Association 
 on the Bishop and Clerk Rocks in the Scilly Isles, when returning 
 with his fleet from the West Indies on the night of 22 October, 
 1707. This was brought from the house of the Gunman family at 
 Dover, one of them, Captain James Gunman, who had been first 
 Lieutenant to Sir Cloudesley Shovel on board the Association, 
 being then with the fleet in command of the Weazel sloop, but 
 happily escaping the shipwreck. Another naval picture, also from 
 Dover, represents the Royal yacht, the Anne, Captain Christopher 
 Gunman, passing the Castle of Kronenborg at Elsinore without 
 striking topsails on 23 September, 1670, and receiving the cannon 
 fire of the Castle.* 
 
 On the upper story is the Long Gallery, 96^ ft. long by 22J, 
 having two fire-places and windows only on the western side. It 
 fills the whole centre of the house, extending over the drawing- 
 room and two bed-rooms beyond, so that the recess over the 
 western porch forms a break in its mid-length. Beginning at its 
 north-west corner, and passing from left to right, its principal 
 pictures are as follows : — 
 
 * Captain Gunman thus relates the incident in his log-book now at 
 Doddington, "Before I came neare or abrest of ye Castle they fired a gune att 
 me, and presently an other and a 3rd, all which was over my masts, but finding 
 I would nott strike they lett fley att my hull gune after gune till I was out of 
 reach of them ; I toke noe notice of them butt stired on my course, butt gave 
 them 3 gunes when they left firing to thanke them for theire sevility and to 
 lett them know they had nott killed us all, for they shott severall shotts through 
 my maine saile and shott one of my maine shrouds to peces, and killed me a 
 man whose name was Tohn Moore. " 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 John, Lord Hussey of Sleford, beheaded at Lincoln, 1537; 
 cfr. p. 73-80. 
 
 Mary Eden, born 1746, daughter of Robert Eden, D.D., 
 Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester; married, 1774, 
 Ebenezer Blackwell, Esq., of Lewisham, co. Kent; died 181 1; 
 cfr. p. 210. 
 
 (Above) Sarah, Lady Hussey, daughter of Sir John Langham, 
 Bart. ; wife of Sir Thomas Hussey, of Doddington, Bart. ; died 1697 ; 
 cfr. p. 101, 107. 
 
 Christopher Gunman, Captain R.N., Commander of the Royal 
 yachts, temp. Charles II. ; he lost his left arm, while in command 
 of the Orange frigate, in a fight with two Dutch men of war, 
 3 August, 1666; died 1685 ; cfr. p. T96-201. 
 
 John Locke, the philosopher, born 1632; died 1704. 
 
 Thomas Tailor, Registrar to the Bishops of Lincoln ; bought 
 Doddington 1597, and built the Hall; died 1607; cfr. p. 57-65. 
 
 (Over the door) Sir Thomas Hussey, of Doddington, Bart. ; 
 died 1706; cfr. p. 101-106. 
 
 (On eastern wall) Lady Frances Howard, from Seaton 
 Delaval (?), by Sir Peter Lely. 
 
 Charles XII. of Sweden, 1682-1718; mentioned among the 
 pictures at Seaton Delaval in 1745; a similar portrait of him at 
 Versailles is ascribed to David Kraft. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Hussey-Delaval, died 1829, wife of Edward Hussey- 
 Delaval. Esq.; painted by G. F. Joseph, A.R.A., in 1815; cfr. p. 207. 
 
 Rebecca Hussey, daughter Of Sir Thomas Hussey, of Dodding- 
 ton, Bart; died unmarried 1714; the foundress of "Rebecca 
 Hussey's Charities"; painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller; cfr. 
 p. 109, no. 
 
 A boy of the Delaval family, with coat of arms, Delaval 
 quartering Greystock, Selby, Fenwick, and others. 
 
 Passing the central door on the east side which leads to a little 
 room in the projection over the entrance porch, we have in order : — 
 
 Rhoda, daughter of Robert and Sarah Apreece, wife of Francis 
 Blake Delaval, Esq.; died 1759; a similar portrait is at Ford 
 Castle; cfr. p. 113, 123. 
 
 Charles I. of England. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Apreece, daughter of Sir Thomas Hussey, Bart., 
 wife of Robert Apreece, Esq.; born at Doddington, 1672, died 
 1749; painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller; cfr. p. 112-16. 
 
 Mary of Modena, wife of James II. (?) ; a portrait of whom 
 was at Seaton Delaval. 
 
 Lady Stanhope (Ann Hussey Delaval, daughter of Francis and 
 Rhoda Blake-Delaval), wife of the Hon. Sir William Stanhope, K.B., 
 in the character of The Fair Penitent, which she acted in 1767 ; 
 d. 1812 ; cfr. p. 144-7. 
 
The Hall. 
 
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 "Cymon and the Nymphs," by Sir Peter Lely; from Edward 
 Hussey-Delaval's house in Parliament Place. 
 
 In the centre of the south end of the gallery is the picture 
 painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in 1762, of Lord and Lady 
 Pollington (Sarah Delaval) afterwards Earl and Countess of 
 Mexborough, in their coronation robes, with their son and heir, 
 John Savile, afterwards second Earl, as a child between them, A 
 similar picture by Sir Joshua of the lady and child, but without 
 Lord Mexborough, is in possession of the present Earl. As here, 
 the child is represented as reaching up to the coronet which his 
 mother is holding in her hand ; and the story is told " that when 
 Reynolds began to paint this picture he tried the effect of setting 
 on her head the lady's coronet, but being dissatisfied with the 
 effect he placed the ornament in her hand. It was shown to the 
 little boy, and he was offered a choice of the crown and an apple. 
 He preferred the former, and within a year inherited it on the 
 death of his father.'' His father, however, did not actually die 
 until 1778, when his son was 17, and the anecdote can only be 
 reconciled with dates by supposing it to refer to the child's 
 succession to the courtesy title of Pollington, when his father was 
 made an Earl in 1765 ; p. 135. 
 
 On either side are pastels of Edward Hussey- Delaval in his 
 tufted college cap, and of his daughter Sarah, Mrs. Gunman. 
 Near the former are an Interior of a Church, by Emmanuel de Witt ; 
 and the portrait of Lady Anne Hussey, died 1546, daughter of 
 George Grey, Earl of Kent, and widow of John, Lord Hussey, 
 with whose portrait at the other end of the gallery it corresponds ; 
 p. 75, 80. 
 
 Passing out at the south end of the long gallery, we mount by a 
 back staircase carried up from the bottom to the top of the house in 
 a projection of the south wing, through the southernmost gazebo 
 to the flat leaded roof, on which the two other gazeboes open, 
 forming little rooms. The central one bore a leaden plate with 
 the date, 1 600, probably that of its completion, but its weather- 
 cock now bears on it the initials of G. K. Jarvis, in whose time they 
 were all re-leaded. Most of the squared leaden spout heads bear 
 the date 1765, with the initals J. H. D. S. of John Hussey-Delaval, 
 and the Ram's head, his crest. Three, however, are older, and by 
 their date, 1733, go back to the time of Mrs. Apreece; while one 
 or two of the great circular leaden cisterns, which formerly received 
 the rainfall below, by the initials REE, and the date, 1723, 
 showed that they owed their origin to the short proprietorship of 
 Richard and Elizabeth Ellys, 1714-24. These, however, were 
 removed when a more modern system of drainage was adopted in 
 1873. Close in front of the Hall, encouraged by its shelter, a 
 broad-leaved Magnolia has out-topped the house itself ; while at 
 
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226 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 its north-west corner, and nearly equalling it in height, stands the 
 great Holly, its leaves prickless from age, measuring 12 feet round 
 the bole, but with its top now sadly shattered by the storm of 
 Sunday, 24 March, 1895, which split off half its massive head. 
 Tradition says that a fair lady was once pursued by a too ardent 
 lover to the leads, and saved her life and honour by jumping from 
 the roof into the top of this tree, from which she reached the 
 ground in safety. More than one novel writer, taking the old 
 Hall as the scene of his fiction, has used and embellished this 
 story.* 
 
 Immediately round the house lie its old-fashioned walled 
 gardens, and on the north the orchard, so called, with its picturesque 
 group of three ancient Spanish chestnuts, these and the holly being 
 the only trees on the estate that escaped being cut down by Lord 
 Delaval. They now shelter a fifteenth century coffin, brought here 
 for its better preservation from the site of the Premonstratensian 
 Nunnery at Brodholme. Taking a wider range, the eye rests 
 eastward on Lincoln with its houses climbing the steep crowned 
 by the triple towers of the Minster, and the Cliff ranges running 
 north and south from the gap through which the Witham flows ; 
 northward, it looks over the woodlands of Doddington, Skelling- 
 thorpe, and Thorney, to the Kettlethorpe avenue rising 
 conspicuously beyond ; westwards, across the valley of the Trent 
 to the low hills of Notts, the river's course marked by the tree 
 clumps of Marnham Ferry and Spalford Bank, which restrains the 
 flood waters of the Trent from mingling with those of the Witham ; 
 while due south, the pointed spire of Newark may be seen, and 
 even Belvoir Castle itself under certain favourable circumstances. 
 
 * Thus in a novel called The Picture, by Mr. Graham Wilmore (London : 
 Cochrane & Co., 1835), in which the scene is laid at Doddington under the 
 name of Rotherington Hall, the Squire, Mr. Masborough, who is supposed to 
 have bought the place, acting as showman to his nephew, Mark, brings him 
 out on the leads. "You know, Mark," he says, "I bought this place of the 
 Chessalettes, a strange wild family, as I am going to prove to you by an 
 anecdote of this spot. The father of the present baronet was as wild as his son ; 
 and one day he found a young lady, who was visiting his wife, alone here on 
 these very leads. This young lady he had been making furious love to ; and 
 now, he thought to himself I shall not take another refusal. In vain the young 
 lady appealed to his honour, to her being under his protection, his roof, — ' Not 
 under my roof, my dear, ' replied the gay Lothario, ' but safe above it, out of 
 sight, out of hearing ; come to the summer house, ' and he pointed to the turret, 
 so fitted up. ' But first let me fasten the entrance door ' ; and he turned back 
 to fasten that door at the top of the stairs. When he had done that, he looked 
 round, and lo, the bird was flown ! He could see her nowhere ! He examined 
 each turret, inside and out. He looked over the battlement, fearing she had 
 in despair cast herself over. He would scarcely have been surprized to have 
 seen her lying a corpse with the family rushing out of the house and gathering 
 round her. At last when he got to the far corner, the mystery was solved. 
 She had indeed thrown herself over the battlement, but to give herself a chance 
 
The Hall. 
 
 227 
 
 of escaping a broken neck she bethought herself of leaping into an enormous 
 holly, the largest almost that was ever seen, which had received her, and to 
 which she still clung when the disappointed pursuer looked down upon her. 
 The holly now is nearly of the same height as the house, tall as it is ; then it 
 was not quite so high, but very nearly ; and a ladder soon set the lady at 
 liberty, with her person a little bruised and scratched, but with her honour 
 most heroically preserved." Vol. i., p. 28-30. 
 
 Captain Hawley Smart also has laid the opening scene of his novel, 
 Breezie Langton, at Doddington under the name of Dunnington Hall, and he 
 thus describes it : "Dunnington Hall is a fine though quaint old building, 
 standing not like most country houses in a park, but in the middle of the 
 village. Passing through a low square gate tower, a short gravel drive brings 
 you to the house, a long rectangular building of red brick, having a quaint 
 pepperbox turret at each angle. You enter through a small lobby into a very 
 fine hall, decorated with old armour and a good deal of carved oak. This 
 hall is in the centre of the building, occupying the whole breadth of the 
 quadrangle, and over it runs a long oak gallery ; the consequence is that to get 
 from the rooms on one side of the house to those on the other, you must either 
 cross the hall, or the long gallery above it. This large hall and gallery over it 
 have often been condemned as a great waste of room, and undoubtedly the 
 house has not the accommodation you would have expected from its outward 
 appearance, but then the hall is just the place for a billiard table, and the 
 gallery with its polished floor of old oak is such a place for a valse, to say 
 nothing of battledore and shuttlecock, or of its capabilities for transformation 
 into a theatre at short notice, that, take it all round, there are few more cheery 
 country houses than Dunnington Hall. Running up against one side of the 
 building is a magnificent standard holly which rears its top proudly level with 
 the roof. Connected with this holly there is a story of which we shall hear 
 more by and bye." (Vol. i., p. 4, 5.) His story is that of a young woman, 
 abducted by a reprobate Lord Derrington, the supposed owner of Dunnington, 
 temp. Charles I., and shut up in the house, who, "to escape his lordship's 
 persecutions, threw herself from the window of the long gallery just opposite 
 the holly. The tree broke her fall, and she escaped into the shrubbery though 
 fearfully bruised and lacerated ; but the shock to her nerves proved fatal. " 
 Her lover afterwards entered the house with a band of men, and strove to force 
 Lord Derrington through the identical window. He was killed in the attempt, 
 and Derrington, hotly pursued, made his way to the roof by the turret stair, 
 and leapt into the big holly tree, by which — at the cost of some severe scratches — 
 he descended safely to the ground, and escaped. He had to fly the neigbour- 
 hood, but is said to have lived many years afterwards. " Still, any night after 
 twelve, you may see those two fearful leaps repeated. You see the ghost of 
 the girl, with her hair all flying loose, throw up her arms, and then with a 
 shriek spring through the window, while Lord Derrington, with a blood stained 
 sword in his hand, follows with demoniacal laughter." (Vol. i., p. 20-22.) 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE CHURCH, CHURCH PLATE, REGISTERS, 
 RECTORS, &c. 
 
 THE Church is pleasantly situated at the northern end of the 
 village; the churchyard, 2 roods 20 perches in extent, 
 being separated from the road by an iron railing on the east, while 
 on the other three sides it is enclosed by the brick walls of the 
 Hall gardens and grounds. An entry in one of the Parish Books 
 states that the inhabitants of Doddington have to keep in repair 
 the fence on three sides of the churchyard, and the inhabitants of 
 Whisby the fourth side adjoining the road. But since the hedge, 
 which formed the former fence, was replaced by the brick walls 
 built by Colonel Jarvis in 1836, and the iron railings put up along 
 the road-side by the Rev. C. M. G. Jarvis, there has been little 
 need for any repairs by the Parish. 
 
 We know from Domesday Book that there was a Church and a 
 Priest here at the time of the Conquest and before it ; but what 
 kind of a building it was in which the Priest ministered to " the 
 rude forefathers of the hamlet " in Anglian and Norman times we 
 cannot tell. We can only assume from the fact that the site once 
 consecrated is very unlikely to have been changed, that its position 
 was the same as that of the present Church, and that it obtained 
 from its early connection with the great Abbey of St Peter at 
 Westminster that dedication to St. Peter, which it still retains.* 
 The circular font, with its conventional Early English foliage, 
 raised on a later base, may carry us back to the middle of the 
 thirteenth century. The nave arcade of two bays only, with the 
 rude uneven capitals of its low octagonal piers, is Transitional or 
 Early Decorated, while the flowing Curvilinear tracery of the east 
 window of the north aisle, and its two square-headed side windows, 
 may date from the latter part of the fourteenth century. The 
 battlemented parapet, with crocketed pinnacles, surmounting the 
 north aisle, seem to be a Perpendicular addition, possibly part of 
 " the Church work " towards which the first Lord Burgh left a 
 legacy in 1495. 
 
 * It is probably in connection with the dedication of the Church to St. Peter 
 that the village Feast is now held on the Sunday nearest to St. Swithin's Day, 
 July 15th, this date answering nearly to St. Peter's Day, June 29, in the old 
 style. 
 
DODDI NGTON RECTORY. 
 
The Churchy Church Plate, Registers, Recto? s, &c. 229 
 
 In Kip's engraving of Doddington, circ. 1700, we have a view 
 of the Church as it then appeared. It is represented with three 
 narrow lancet windows at its east end, with buttresses between, 
 while an unbroken line of roof slopes down over a narrow south 
 aisle, entered by a south porch ; a small bell-cot with a slender 
 wooden spire terminates the Church on the west. The north aisle 
 is shown with its east window apparently the same as at present, 
 but surmounted by a low-pitched roof, giving it the appearance of 
 a detached Manorial Chapel, opening into the Church. A note 
 in the Parish Register in 1729 gives the following " Memorand. 
 This year the East end and South side of the Chancel was rebuilt, 
 and the new window put in, and new ciel'd, by Wm. Hammond, 
 Rector." But whether the present large east window is the one 
 then inserted in place of the former lancets, or whether it is due 
 to the subsequent re-building by Lord Delaval, we cannot say. 
 This re-building was going on from 1771 to 1775, and entirely 
 altered the appearance of the Church. A single span of roof was 
 thrown over the chapel on the north, so as to convert it into a 
 north aisle, the necessary additional height being obtained by filling 
 up the space above the east window with brick. At the same time 
 an entire new south aisle was built to correspond, the window 
 tracery being copied, though unskilfully, from that of the north 
 aisle. Similar window tracery was inserted in the west ends of 
 both aisles, apparently to avoid the unsightliness of a blank wall, 
 as they do not appear ever to have been open. The former south 
 porch was done away, and an entrance made under the tower 
 which was built at the west end, 48 ft. high, surmounted by a 
 leaden spire 20 ft. in height. The doorway is enriched externally 
 by a deep pillared niche on either side, with crocketed arcade and 
 finials, and oak foliage in low relief on the capitals. The battle- 
 mented parapet which in Kip's engraving is shown only on the 
 north chapel, was carried round the whole exterior of the Church 
 and tower, with similar crocketed pinnacles at the angles. The 
 body of the Church is roofed with red tiles, while the two aisles 
 are leaded, the spout-head of the south aisle bearing the date 1772, 
 while the lead of the north aisle has 1766 cut on it. The older 
 parts of the Church are built of small rough Lincoln stone, but the 
 additions made in 177 1-5 are of brick, with a thin facing of smooth 
 sawn Ancaster. The whole of the interior of the Church is ceiled, 
 there being no chancel arch, and a classic cornice being carried at 
 a considerable height round both nave and chancel, while the flat 
 ceilings of the aisles are scarcely high enough for their large east 
 windows. The addition of these broad aisles gives a peculiar 
 width to the Church, the interior of which is 48 ft. across the aisles 
 from north to south ; while the whole length from east to west, 
 excluding the tower, is 55J ft., of which the chancel is 23 ft. by 16. 
 
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 History of Doddington. 
 
 Each aisle is 31 ft. in length by 16 ft. in breadth, and the same is 
 the width of the nave. The Church was heated with hot-water 
 pipes in 187 1, at a cost of ^65. 
 
 Under the south aisle, when re-built in 1771-5, anew vault 
 was made, in which four interments only have taken place, viz. : — 
 
 1, John Delaval, Lord Delaval's only son, buried 16 July, 1775; 
 
 2, Mrs. Sophia Anne Jadis, his sister, buried 2 August, 1793; 
 
 3, Caroline Annie Jarvis, daughter of G. K. Jarvis, Esq., buried 
 24 October, 1840; 4, Lieut.-Col. G. R. P. Jarvis, buried 21 June, 
 1 85 1 . All the seven windows of the Church are filled with stained 
 glass, the work of Messrs. Wailes, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and six 
 of them the gift of G. K. Jarvis, Esq., between 1851 and 1870. 
 Of these, the east window of the chancel is inscribed, — " To the 
 Memory of a Dear Father, Lieut.-Col. George Ralph Payne Jarvis, 
 died 14 June, 1851, aged 77; and Beloved Wife, Emily Jarvis, 
 died 6 March, 1840, aged 25 " ; and the west window of the north 
 aisle, — " To the Memory of Caroline Annie Jarvis, who died 
 a.d. 1840, aged 3." The remaining window, at the east end of 
 the south aisle, was the gift of the late Rector, the Rev. C. M. G. 
 Jarvis, and is inscribed to the memory of "Augusta, second 
 daughter of Robert and Augusta Cracroft, of Hackthorn, the 
 Beloved Wife of Charles M. G. Jarvis, Rector of Doddington, 
 Died Feb. 9, 1855, aged 37." 
 
 The only other monuments in the Church are two flat tomb- 
 stones in the chancel, the one inscribed, — " Here lieth the Body of | 
 Mrs. Anne Carleton | Who departed this life | October 12th, 
 1719"; and the other, — "Gulielmus Hammond Clericus | Huius 
 Ecclesise Rector | Obiit Septimo Die Septembris | Anno Domini 
 1 738 I ^Etatis 49." A black and white marble tablet affixed to the 
 wall of the north aisle was " erected by the Light Company of the 
 70th Regt. as a token of esteem and regard for their Captain, 
 Henry George Jarvis, who departed this life 9 Oct., 1838, in the 
 Island of Grenada, W. I., of Fever, aged 29 Years." Against the 
 west wall of this aisle are two hatchments : — 1, that of John 
 Hussey-Delaval, Lord Delaval, who died 1808, aged 80, the arms 
 being quarterly, 1 and 4, Erm. 2 Bars, Vert. Delaval. 2 and 3 
 Arg. a Chevron between 3 Garbs, Sable, Blake ; Impaling, Arg. 
 3 Bendlets within a Bordure, Gules ; on a Canton, Az. a Spur, Or. 
 Knight. Above, a Baron's Coronet. Supporters, two knights in 
 armour. Motto, Dieu Me Condidse, 2, that of Edward Hussey- 
 Delaval, Esq., who died 18 14, aged 85 : — Arms, Quarterly, 1 and 4, 
 Delaval, as above ; 2 and 3, Or, a Cross, Vert. Hussey ; Impaling, 
 Arg. on a Bend, Az. 3 Crescents, Or, within a Bordure, engr. Gules. 
 Scott. Crest, a Ram's Head, erased, Arg. armed Or. Motto, 
 Dieu Me Conduise. 
 
The Church, Church Plate, Registers, Rectors, &c. 231 
 
 In the churchyard an upright cross of white marble, over a 
 vault, commemorates " George Knollis Jarvis, of Doddington Hall, 
 who died Oct, 25, 1873, aged 70"; and two ledger stones mark 
 the burial places of " Lt.-Col. Robert Cole, formerly of the 85th 
 and 48th Regts., who died 17 April, 1869, aged 73"; and of his 
 widow " Mary Eden Cole, daughter of Lt.-Col. Jarvis, who died 
 21 Nov., 1878, aged 72." The ordinary headstones in the church- 
 yard number about no, of which the oldest are dated 17 13, 17 15, 
 and 1 7 19 ; these are placed against the side of the Church, having 
 evidently being moved from their original positions when the 
 south aisle was built. 
 
 The Church tower has only one bell, diameter 22 inches, 
 weight 2 \ cwt. It is inscribed, — charles m. g. jarvis rector 
 
 1851. JOHN NESBITT CHURCHWARDEN PRAISE THE NAME OF 
 THE LORD FOR HIS NAME ONLY IS EXCELLENT AND HIS PRAISE 
 ABOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH. C. & G. MEARS FOUNDERS LONDON. 
 
 The former bell was badly cracked when it was sent to Messrs. 
 Mears' foundry in Whitechapel to be re-cast. 
 
 The Church Plate. 
 
 A list of the Church Plate used for the Holy Communion is 
 inserted in the old Register Book, with the date 1729, and signed 
 " W. Hammond, Rector." A similar list, with the weights, is 
 written on the fly-leaf of the Churchwardens' Book, dated 1830, 
 with a note, — "N.B. The above valuable Plate is kept in the 
 possession of the Rev. Jas. Fenton. (Signed) J. Fenton, Rector. 
 John Nesbitt, Churchwarden." It consisted then, as now, of four 
 pieces, viz. : — 
 
 1. — A Silver Chalice, height 6£ inches, weighing 8 oz., with a 
 band of Elizabethan pattern engraved around it. A single, much 
 worn, shield shaped Hall Mark is believed to be that of the 
 Lincoln Assay Office. It is doubtless one of the Communion Cups, 
 provided in pursuance of Queen Elizabeth's injunction,, in lieu of 
 the former small pre-Reformation chalices. 
 
 2. — A Silver Almsdish, salver shaped, 1 if inches in diameter, 
 on a circular foot 2 inches high, weighing 30^ oz. Its Hall Marks 
 are, — 1, the initials D. R. surmounted by a crown, indicating the 
 maker's name ; 2, A leopard's head, crowned ; and 3, a lion, 
 passant, gardant — both London marks ; 4, a capital Gothic N, the 
 date letter for the year of assay, 1 670-1. In the centre, surrounded 
 by a fancy pattern, are engraved on a lozenge the Amcotts arms, 
 Arg. a castle between 3 covered cups, Azure ; and round the rim 
 is inscribed, " The Guift of M rs Rhoda Amcotts, of Aystrope in 
 y e County of Lincolne to y e use of the Church of Doddington 
 
232 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Piggott in y e same County, Given in y e yeare of ye Lord, 1671." 
 As has been said, she was the only daughter and heiress of John 
 Amcotts, of Aisthorpe, by Rhoda, sister of Sir Thomas Hussey ; 
 both her parents were now dead, and in the next year, 1672, she 
 was married, at the age of 19, to Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas 
 Broughton, of Broughton, Bart. 
 
 2. — A Silver Flagon, tankard shaped, with lid ; extreme height 
 13! inches, diameter at base 7^ inches, weight 56 oz. It bears in 
 front the Hussey arms, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a Cross, Vert ; 
 2 and 3 Barry of 6, Erm. and Gules, with a Baronet's in-escutcheon ; 
 and the inscription, " Given to the Church of Doddington-Piggot, 
 in the County of Lincoln, Anno Domini 1707." The Hall Marks 
 are, — 1, D. B. the initials of the maker's name; 2, Britannia; 
 3, a lion's head, erased — London marks, indicating that it was of 
 a new and higher standard of silver, which was made compulsory 
 from 1697 to 1720; 4, a courthand L, the London date letter for 
 1706-7. 
 
 4. — A Silver Paten, diameter 6£ inches, on a circular foot 
 1 inch in height, weight 8£ oz., bearing the same arms and 
 inscription as the last. Its Hall Marks are the same, but with a 
 different maker's initials — E. A. 
 
 These two last must doubtless have been presented to the 
 Church in memory of Sir Thomas Hussey, the last Baronet of 
 Doddington, and after his death, which took place 19 December, 
 1706. 
 
 Parish Registers. 
 
 The Parish Registers previous to 1690 have unfortunately been 
 lost, but their want can be partially supplied by the transcripts 
 still remaining in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln. Some 70 years 
 previous to 1690 can be thus recovered, the earliest being 1562, 
 1565, and 1569, while with a few exceptions the series is complete 
 from 1587 to 1639, and from 1664 to 1689, with the usual gap 
 caused by the violent interruption of Church order and discipline 
 during the Civil Wars and Commonwealth. The transcripts are 
 signed in 1562 by Alban Rychardson, Curate; in 1565 by 
 W. Willeforce, Curate; from 1587 to 1604 by Ralph Bethel, 
 Parson; from 1605 to 1608 by Richard Pollard, Rector; from 
 1609 to 1 6 18 by Shute Jeffarson, Rector, with the exception of 
 1609-10, which is signed by George Nicholson, Curate ; from 16 19 
 to 1639 by John Crofte, Rector or Parson ; in 1664 and 1665 by 
 John Cocke, Rector; and from 1667 to 1689 by Wm. Moore, 
 Rector, who just lived to commence our earliest existing Register 
 in 1690. 
 
The Church, Church Plate. Registers, Rectors, &c. 233 
 
 Amongst the entries in these transcripts we may note several 
 burials of " Crisom " children, a term which was properly applied 
 to children who died between their baptism and their mother's 
 churching, and who were buried in the "chrisome" or white 
 vesture in which they were baptized, but which came improperly 
 to be used for children who died before they were baptized, e.g. : 
 
 " 1613. The fifth of December a Crisam Child of William 
 Walker was buried." 
 
 "1614. The xix of March Mary the wife of Peter Jeffarson 
 and a Crisam Child of theirs was buried." 
 
 In the year from 25 March, 1609, to 25 March, 16 10, there 
 were no less than 25 burials, the greatest number ever recorded, 
 the nearest to it being 110 years later, in 17 19, when there were 17. 
 
 The existing Parish Registers consist of eight volumes, not 
 including the duplicate copy of the Marriage Register now in use. 
 
 Volume 1. 1 inches by 5f, bound in parchment, and in 
 good condition, contains 27 leaves of parchment, with 3 paper 
 fly-leaves. Its first page is headed, — " A true and perfect Register 
 of all Marriages, Christenings, and buryalls within the parrish of 
 Doddington-Pygott for the yeare of our Lord 1690. Incipit 
 Annus," (with March 25). The first entry, a baptism, being 
 30 March, 1690; the last, also a baptism, 12 February, 1788. 
 Each year has a similar heading until 1726, when the Rev. Wm. 
 Carleton, Rector, died; and the names of Rector and Church- 
 wardens are added at the end of each year or column until 1736. 
 After 1744 when the Rev. Wm. Singleton, Rector, died, and the 
 Rev. R. P. Hurton became Curate, the entries are carelessly made 
 and badly written. Marriages are omitted from 1742 to 1754, 
 when they are entered in volume 2. No burials are entered from 
 1 76 1 to 1787, except that on p. 31, otherwise blank, is the entry, — 
 "John Delaval, Esqre., Died July 7, 1775, in the 20 year of his 
 age." In 17 19 there were no less than 17 burials. To most 
 burials between 1727 and 1744 the words " Affidavit received ' 
 are added, referring to the Act of Parliament which required that 
 an affidavit certifying that the deceased was buried in woollen, 
 should be delivered to the Clergyman within eight days after the 
 burial. The burials of three Rectors are recorded, viz. : William 
 Moore, 5 January, 169J; William Carleton, 29 August, 1726; and 
 William Hammond, 12 September, 1738; also of "Humphrey 
 Johnson, clerke of this parish nigh 50 years, Apr. 9. 1706"; of 
 " Richard Clements, Par. Clark, Dec. 1, 1731 " ; and of" Mr. John 
 Bug, Clerk, 1751." There are also entries on "31 July, 1703, 
 John y e sonne of Robt. and Anne Pacy, slain by a fall from his 
 horse in hunting"; on "22 May, 17 17, Leonard Cousin, of 
 Hareby, slain by y e fall of a tree in y e wood"; and 3 July, 1719, 
 
234 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 John Turner, drown'd." On the last parchment page, dated 1729, 
 is an account of the Communion Plate, signed by Wm. Hammond, 
 Rector ; and inside the cover and on the paper fly-leaves are lists of 
 Mortuaries (15 of \os. each) received from 17 12 to 1740 by Wm. 
 Carleton, Wm. Singleton, and Wm. Hammond, Rectors; and of 
 Briefs during the years 1727, 1730, and 1732, of which the 
 following " return'd at y e Visitation held at Lincoln, Xbr. 1. 1730," 
 may serve as a sample. 
 
 " Hinkley, Leicestershire. Fire. 
 St. Michael's Church, Southampton. 
 Bilston Chappel, Stafford. 
 Wroot, Lincoln : Inundation. 
 Bearly, Warwick. Fire. 
 Colnbrook Chappel, Bucks. 
 
 Loss. 
 
 Collected. 
 
 £3424 
 
 is. 
 
 id. 
 
 ^4766 
 
 0 
 
 6d. 
 
 ^1200 
 
 0 
 
 7 d. 
 
 ^2686 
 
 0 
 
 lod. 
 
 ^1207 
 
 0 
 
 yd. 
 
 ^325 
 
 0 
 
 5* 
 
 
 4s. 
 
 od: 
 
 Volume 2. Register of Marriages, with Banns attached, on 
 printed forms ; on paper, 1 5 inches by 9 i, bound in parchment. 
 Filled to No. 116. First entry, April, 1754; last, May, 1812. 
 Signed by Robt. P. Hurton, Curate, 25 April, 1754, Rector 
 2 December, 1770 — 9 April, 1787; by Geo. Hare (Vicar of 
 Skellingthorpe) Curate, 5 April, 1789 — 21 February, 1791; by 
 Thos. Nocton (Vicar of Bracebridge) Curate, 29 April, 1792 — 
 7 August, 1797 ; by Thos. Rees (Vicar of Saxilby) Curate, 
 16 October, 1798 — 20 September, 1803; by Jas. Fenton, Rector, 
 14 May, 1804 — 13 February, 1812; by George Davies Kent 
 (Vicar of St. Martin's, Lincoln) Curate, 13 May, 1808 — 17 January, 
 1809 ; by Rowland Hoyle (Master of Heighington School) Curate, 
 4 April, 1811 — 14 May, 1812. Out of 310 male signatures as 
 married or witnesses, 58 are by mark ; out of 158 female signatures, 
 87 are by mark. 
 
 Volume 3. Register of Baptisms and Burials, 1788 — 181 2. 
 Ten leaves of parchment, with paper fly-leaves, 14 inches by 9, 
 bound in parchment. First entry, 1 August, 1788; last, 28 Dec, 
 1812. Inside the cover is written, — "Doddington. This Book 
 or Register of Baptism and Burials was begun on the sixth day of 
 May in the year one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty eight. 
 P. me, Geo. Hare, Curate. Jarvis Harrison, Ch'warden." 
 
 Volume 4. Register of Marriages, 1813 — 1837, on printed 
 forms. Paper, 155 inches by 9^, bound in parchment. Contains 
 54 entries, not continuous, to No. 74. First entry, 16 November, 
 1813 ; last, 21 June, 1837. Signed by J. Fenton, Rector, 
 16 November, 1813 — 14 October, 1829 ; by Rowland Hoyle, Off. 
 
The Church, Church Plate, Registers, Rectors, &c. 235 
 
 Min., 16 May, 1814, Curate, 13 May, 1817 — 28 May, 1822; by 
 Thos. James Galland, Curate, 8 February, 1830 — 5 December, 
 1836; by Charles M. G. Jarvis, Curate, 13-21 June, 1837. Out 
 of 129 male signatures, 24 are by mark ; out of 87 females 28 sign 
 by mark. 
 
 Volume 5. Register of Baptisms, 181 3 down to present time. 
 On fly-leaf, — "J. Fenton, Rector. Barnatt Mimmack, Church- 
 warden." First entry, 16 March, 1813; contains 522|baptisms 
 down to end of 1895. 
 
 Volume 6. Register of Burials, 1813 to the present time; 
 corresponding with volume 5, and having the same names on the 
 fly-leaf. First entry, 19 February, 181 3 ; contains 288 burials 
 down to end of 1895. Baptisms and burials are signed by 
 J. Fenton, Rector, 19 February, 1813 — 22 September, 1833; by 
 Rowland Hoyle, Curate or Off. Min., 9 May, 18 13 — 26 October, 
 1823 ; by Thos. Jas. Galland, Curate, 12 April, 1829 — 27 November, 
 1836; by Charles M. G. Jarvis, Curate, 29 January, 1837, Rector 
 9 January, 1838 — 26 August, i860; by R. E. Cole, Curate, 
 27 January, 1855 — 6 January, 1856, Rector 17 November, 1861. 
 
 Volume 7. Register of Banns, 1823 down to present time. 
 On fly-leaf, — "J. Fenton, Rector. J. Peacock, Churchwarden. 
 The Act of Parliament for registering Banns of Marriage took 
 place November 1st, 1823." First entry, 7 December, 1823; 
 contains 146 entries down to end of 1895. 
 
 Volume 8. Register of Marriages (in duplicate), 1837 down 
 to present time. First entry, 22 January, 1838; contains 114 
 Marriages down to end of 1895. 
 
 Rectory, Rectors, &c. 
 
 A little to the south of the Church and Hall stands the 
 Rectory, its grounds containing xa. lr. $p. In the print of 1700 
 the house is shown as little better than a cottage, and with this 
 agrees the description of it in the Survey for dilapidations made 
 by Mr. Lumby after the Rev. R. P. Hurton's death in 1787, when 
 the total estimate for necessary repairs to house, stable, fences, 
 and to the chancel was under ,£15. After that year Lord Delaval 
 rented the house, and greatly improved it by adding a new front 
 on the north side towards the Hall. This now forms the back, since 
 the present commodious front towards the south was built at the 
 cost of Col. G. R. P. Jarvis and the Rev. C. M. G. Jarvis in 1840. 
 
 The Bishop's Registers at Lincoln, which commence with the 
 episcopate of Bishop Hugh de Welles, enable us to furnish the 
 following very complete List of the Rectors of Doddington from 
 a.d. 1222, with the dates of their Institution, and the Patrons by 
 whom they were presented : — 
 
236 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Date. 
 
 1222. 
 1229. 
 
 1273, Feb. 4. 
 13 15, Oct. 8. 
 1328, June 5. 
 1372, Oct. 22. 
 
 Rector. 
 
 Patron. 
 
 Adam de St. Alban Hugh Picot, Knt. 
 Alexander Pikot Hugh Pikot, Knt. 
 Stephen de 
 
 Hastinges 
 Hugh Pycot, 
 
 subdeac. 
 
 John Pycot, Knt. 
 
 Vacancy. 
 
 Death of Stephen 
 Hastinges. 
 
 Robert de Langton John, son of Balde- Death of Hugh, 1 
 
 win Pygot Rector. 
 
 Willliam Bangard, John Pygot, of Death of Robert, lj; 
 
 (de Ounesby) Dodyngton Rector. 
 John de Thorp John Pygot, Knt. 
 
 1393, Sept. 11. Thomas Sedeyn 
 141 7, Nov. 23. Thomas Thorp 
 
 1421, Oct 7. 
 1429, July 13. 
 1440, June 4. 
 
 1449, Aug. 22. 
 
 1458, June 9. 
 
 William Jolyf 
 Alan Alforth 
 William Dighton 
 
 Robert Pye 
 
 John Fawkener 
 
 King Richard II. 
 John de Etton, Knt. 
 John Etton, Knt. 
 John Pygot 
 John Pygot 
 
 Resign, of Willi 
 Bangard. 
 
 John Pygot, Knt. 
 
 William Harneys 
 1466, Aug. 10. John Leek 1 
 
 John Fawkener 
 1506, Aug. 26. John Lambert 
 1522, Aug. 22. Humphrey Cotton 
 
 1529, Sept. 8. Thomas Spencer 
 
 1560, Sept. 30. Henry Toward 
 
 Death of T. Sedel 
 Resign, of T. Th J 
 Death of Wm. Jol 
 Resign, of Alan I 
 
 forth 
 Resign, of Willi 
 Dyghton. 
 
 William Vaux, Esq., Resign, of Robt. ll 
 and Elizabeth his 
 wife 
 
 John Stanley, Esq., Resign, of Will: 
 and Elizabeth his Harneys. 
 wife 
 
 King Henry VII. DeathofJ.Fawkei 
 Edward Borowe, de Death of J. Lamb 
 
 Gaynesburgh 
 Thos. Brough, Knt. 
 
 Wm. Brughe, Knt., 
 Lord Brughe 
 
 Resign, of Hump 
 
 Cotton. 
 Death of last Inci 
 
 bent. 
 
 1580, July 18. 
 (1587-1604). 
 
 John Frith 
 Edward Germin 2 
 
 Ralph Bethell 3 
 
 Wm. Burghe, Knt., J. Frith, last Rec 
 Lord Burghe 
 
 1 John Leek died before 1474. 
 
 2 Edward Germyne, S.T.P., was collated to the Prebend of Brampton in Lincoln Cathec 
 16 November, 1593. 
 
 3 Ralph Bethel signs the transcripts in the Bishop's Registry from 1587 to 1604. 
 
The Church, Church Plate, Registers, Rectors, &c. 
 
 237 
 
 Date. 
 04, Mar. 21. 
 
 09-1618). 
 18, Aug. 17. 
 61. 
 
 62, April. 
 ^67, Oct. 31. 
 jq2, Sept. 28. 
 126, Dec. 20. 
 
 38, Jan. 16. 
 
 I44, Feb. 6. 
 
 70, Mar. 10. 
 88, Feb. 4. 
 37, Dec. 17. 
 
 61, Nov. 8. 
 
 Rector. 
 Richard Pollard 
 
 Shute Jeffarson 4 
 John Crofte 5 
 John Joynes 6 
 John Cocke 7 
 William Moore 
 William Carleton 8 
 William Hammond 
 
 William Singleton 
 
 George Wilson 10 
 
 Robert Pregion 
 
 Hurton 11 
 James Fenton 12 
 
 Charles Macquarie 
 George Jarvis 
 
 Robt. Eden George 
 Cole 
 
 Patron. 
 
 Thomas Tailor, of 
 Doddington-Pigott 
 
 Thomas Taylor 
 SirTho. Hussey, Bt. 
 SirTho. Hussey, Bt. 
 Sir Tho. Hussey, Bt. 
 SirTho. Hussey, Bt. 
 Robt. Apreece, and 
 
 Sarah his wife 
 John Forster, of 
 
 Gray's Inn, Esq. 9 
 Mrs. Sarah Apreece, 
 
 of Washingley-, 
 
 co. Hunts., Wid. 
 Sir John Hussey- 
 
 Delaval, Bart. 
 Right Hon. John, 
 
 Lord Delaval 
 George R. P. Jarvis, 
 
 of Doddington, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 George Knollis 
 Jarvis, of Dod- 
 dington, Esq. 
 
 Vacancy. 
 
 Resign, of Ralph 
 Bethell. 
 
 Cession of J. Joynes. 
 Resign, of J. Cocke. 
 Death of Wm. Moore. 
 Death of William 
 
 Carleton. 
 Death of William 
 
 Hammond. 
 Death of William 
 
 Singleton. 
 
 Death of G. Wilson. 
 
 Death of R. P. Hur- 
 ton. 
 
 Death of J. Fenton. 
 
 Resign, of C. M. 
 Jarvis. 
 
 4 Shute Jeffarson's institution is not found, but he signs the transcripts as Rector from 1609 
 161 8 ; he was also Vicar of Skellingthorpe. 
 B John Crofte signs the transcripts in the Bishop's Registry down to 1639. 
 
 6 John Joynes, A.M., was instituted to the Rectory of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, 1662, and to that 
 South Hykeham, 1667; he was installed in the Prebend of Buckden 30 August, 1664, and 
 changed it for that of Brampton 30 August, 1670. 
 
 7 John Cocke was presented to the Vicarage of St. Oswald's, Durham, in 1667 ; but was 
 prived as a Nonjuror in 1689. 
 
 8 William Carleton was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Lincoln, 30 March, 1686 ; he held 
 e Living of Canwick in conjunction with Doddington. 
 
 9 John Forster was trustee for Mrs. Apreece. 
 
 10 George Wilson was Rector of Caldicot, co. Hunts., and never resided at Doddington. 
 
 11 Robert P. Hurton was Curate of Doddington from before May, 1746 ; he was ordained 
 riest by John (Thomas) Bishop of Lincoln in 1748, and was Vicar of Stainton and Sequestrator 
 Barlings and Langworth from 1749. 
 
 12 James Fenton was also Rector of Althorpe with Amcotts and Didithorpe, to which 
 dng he was instituted 1 7^7- 
 
2 3 8 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 The following names of Curates who have officiated in the 
 Parish are gathered from the Registers and Churchwardens' 
 Books : — 
 
 Robert Pregion Hurton, Curate from before May, 1746, till his 
 
 institution to the Rectory, 10 March, 1770. 
 George Hare (Vicar of Skellingthorpe), Curate from before 
 
 22 October, 1787, till after 7 October, 1791. 
 Thomas Nocton (Vicar of Bracebridge), Curate from before 
 
 29 April, 1792, till after 7 August, 1797. 
 Thomas Rees (Vicar of Saxilby), Curate from before 16 October, 
 
 1797, till after 17 October, 1803. 
 William Ellis, Curate from 1 December, 1803, till after 5 June, 
 
 1805. 
 
 George Davies Kent (Vicar of St. Martin's, Lincoln), Curate from 
 
 before 5 October, 1805, till after 22 June, 1809. 
 Rowland Hoyle (Master of Heighington School), Curate from 
 
 before 28 October, 1809, till after 26 October, 1823. 
 Richard Thomas, "Off. Min." from before 16 May, 1824, till after 
 
 3 February, 1828. 
 Dixon, from 21 April to 24 October, 1828; his name 
 
 occurs only as having his Visitation charges paid. 
 Thomas James Galland, Curate from before 12 April, 1829, till 
 
 after 27 November, 1836. 
 Charles M. G. Jarvis, Curate from Xmas, 1836, till his institution 
 
 to the Rectory, 17 December, 1837. 
 Robert Eden George Cole, Curate from Xmas, 1854, to Trinity, 
 
 1856. 
 
 Endowment. 
 
 In the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of Pope Nicolas IV., circ. 1291, 
 the revenue of the Church of Doddington is given as ^13 6.y. Sd., 
 equivalent to at least £200 at our present value of money. In 
 the Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII., 1535, the value of the 
 Rectory House and Garden, with the tithes of corn, lambs, wool, 
 pigs, geese, fowls, hemp, flax, and all offerings as well at Easter as 
 at other seasons amounted but to £7 19^. Sd. ; or, deducting 
 10^. 2d. due to the Archdeacon of Lincoln for Synodals and 
 Procurations, to a clear value of ^7 9^. 6d. The tenths on this 
 amounted to 14s. n$d., from which the Benefice was discharged 
 in Queen Anne's reign, 1702, its yearly value being then given as 
 £47. Originally no doubt these tithes were paid in kind, but at 
 some unknown period a Modus in lieu of them was agreed upon for 
 the Township of Doddington. This became fixed at ^32 8s. 8d., 
 which is stated to have been paid from before the memory of man, 
 but which was commuted by the Tithe Commissioners in 1836, at 
 the request of Col. G. R. P. Jarvis, the Patron and Land-owner, 
 
The Church, Church Plate, Registers, Rectors, &c. 239 
 
 for a more equitable Rent-charge of ^75 per ann. The tithes of 
 the Township of Whisby, in lieu of which the Rectors had 
 previously received a payment of 2s. 6d. per £1 rental, were also 
 commuted by the Tithe Commissioners in 1839 for a Rent-charge 
 of ^162 i6.f. 4d., varying according to the average price of corn, the 
 550 acres of Moor which were then uncultivated, being exempt. 
 So that the Endowment of the Living is at present : — 
 
 Doddington. — Fixed Rent charge in lieu of modus, ^75; 
 Glebe, 37a. \r. 2$p. ; Rectory house and garden, 1a. ir. $p. 
 
 Whisby. — Rent-charge in lieu of tithes, ^162 \6s. 4^., varying 
 with the price of corn; Glebe, 120. ir. 3/., of which the Parson's 
 Wood contains 6a. ir. $p. 
 
 The earliest Terrier in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln is dated 
 1638, and we find in the old Churchwardens' Book an entry in 
 1742, of " 13 s paid for y e Terrar of y e Glebe." But the only ones 
 in the parish chest are a very short and imperfect one on parchment 
 dated 181 2 ; another fuller one on paper, unsigned and undated, 
 but which is the draught of one in the Bishop's Registry dated 
 1822 ; and a third on paper signed and dated 1864 drawn up in 
 accordance with Bishop Jackson's instructions for his Visitation in 
 that year. 
 
 There are no Parish Charities. 
 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 Laid up in the Parish Chest is an old Churchwardens' Book, 
 containing the accounts of the Church, or rather of the Parish, 
 from 1732 to 1828, when the book in present use commences. 
 But though the accounts themselves begin only in 1732, there is 
 written inside the cover of the book in the neat handwriting of the 
 Rev. Wm. Hammond, then Rector, a list headed " Churchwardens 
 in Doddington, as appears from the old Churchwardens' Book 
 from the year 1663." This takes us back just to the period of the 
 Restoration, and some 30 years earlier than our earliest existing 
 Parish Register. It gives but one Churchwarden for each year, 
 the other being appointed by, and from among, the inhabitants of 
 Whisby, and the names of these last can only be recovered for 
 those years between 1690 and 1736, in which both Churchwardens 
 sign the entries in the Parish Register ; or from the transcripts of 
 the earlier years, in which, however, it is uncertain which name 
 represents Doddington, and which Whisby. As to the manner of 
 the appointment of the Churchwarden for Doddington the form has 
 varied. At the end of the accounts for 1732 it is written, — 
 " Jno. Crook hath this day past his accounts, and hath paid the 
 balance into the hands of John Arrowsmith, the new Churchwarden. 
 (Signed) Wm. Hammond, Rector." Between 1745 and 1750 a 
 similar entry is signed only by three or four of the principal 
 
240 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 inhabitants. In April, 1751, however, we find, — "I do hereby 
 constitute, nominate and appoint John Glasier my Churchwarden 
 for the year 1751. (Signed) Robt. Pregion Hurton, Minister. 
 John Pickworth. John Spittlehouse." A similar form shortened 
 
 into, — " I do appoint my Churchwarden for the year ," 
 
 is continued till 1788, but signed only by R. P. Hurton, who first 
 adds Rector to his name in 1773, he having been previously 
 Curate. In 1788 Mr. Hurton died, and the appointment runs, 
 either "We do appoint Mrs. Ward Churchwarden for the year 
 1792," or "Mark Starkey is Churchwarden for the year 1796," 
 until 1807, when the Rev. James Fenton had come into residence, 
 and for the future appoints thus : — " I do appoint John Harrison 
 my Churchwarden for the year 1 807. (Signed) J. Fenton, Rector " ; 
 a form which has been continued by the Rectors to the present 
 day. As will be seen, each Churchwarden at first held the office 
 for one year only, and it was doubtless held by the occupiers of 
 the different farms in rotation, as the office of Overseer of the Poor 
 has been since. This will account for its having been filled no 
 less than eight times by women, from Mrs. Bridget Dye, who was 
 Churchwarden in 1672 and 1683, to Mrs. Ward, who held the 
 office in 1792 and 1793. About 1750 the custom was introduced 
 of each Churchwarden serving for two years together. It was not 
 till the beginning of the present century that it became the practice 
 for the same person to act for a lengthened period ; since then 
 the office has been held by Mr. John Nesbitt for 29 years, 1829 — 
 1857, and by Mr. Joseph Marriott for 19 years, 1858 — 1876. 
 
 Churchwardens of Doddington, 
 
 1663 John Grant. 
 
 1681 
 
 John Shepperson. 
 
 1664 Richard Dixon. 
 
 1682 
 
 William Mabbat. 
 
 1665 „ 
 
 1683 
 
 Mrs. Dye. 
 
 1666 William Shaw. 
 
 1684 
 
 John Shepperson. 
 
 1667 „ 
 
 1685 
 
 Robert Pacey. 
 
 1668 William Bell. 
 
 1686 
 
 George Preston. 
 
 1669 Augustin Smith. 
 
 1687 
 
 John Smith. 
 
 1670 Thomas Johnson. 
 
 1688 
 
 Thomas Badge. 
 
 167 1 Thomas Rose. 
 
 1689 
 
 
 1672 Bridget Dye. 
 
 1690 
 
 John Hare. 
 
 1673 William Mabbat. 
 
 1691 
 
 Thomas Eastwood. 
 
 1674 William Grant. 
 
 1692 
 
 William Shepperson. 
 
 1675 Richard Dixon. 
 
 1693 
 
 Thomas Fenton. 
 
 1676 William Bell. 
 
 1694 
 
 Peter Skelton. 
 
 1677 Thomas Johnson. 
 
 J 695 
 
 Christopher Lee. 
 
 1678 John Smith. 
 
 1696 
 
 Robert Pacey. 
 
 1679 George Eastwood. 
 
 1697 
 
 Anthony Arrowsmith. 
 
 1680 Thomas Johnson. 
 
 1698 
 
 John Brown. 
 
The Church, Church Plate, Registers, Rectors, &c. 241 
 
 1699 Edward Frith. 
 
 1700 Henry Booth. 
 
 1 701 John Hare. 
 
 1702 Edward Frith. 
 
 1703 John Blaney. 
 
 1704 Christopher Lee. 
 
 1705 Matthew Wright. 
 
 1706 Robert Hare. 
 
 1707 Anthony Arrowsmith. 
 
 1708 John Brown. 
 
 1709 William Andrew. 
 
 1 7 10 John Hare. 
 
 171 1 Henry Booth, 
 
 1712 Matthew Wright. 
 
 1 7 13 Emanuel Russel. 
 
 1 7 14 John Frith. 
 
 1 7 15 Robert Hare. 
 
 1 7 16 Anthony Arrowsmith. 
 
 1 71 7 John Brown. 
 
 1 718 Widow Andrew. 
 
 1 7 19 Henry Booth. 
 
 1720 Eliz. Russel. 
 
 172 1 Matthew Wright. 
 
 1722 Gervase Frith. 
 
 1723 William Daubney. 
 
 1724 Richard Wilkinson. 
 
 1725 John Crooke. 
 
 1726 John Arrowsmith. 
 
 1727 Henry Booth. 
 
 1728 Matthew Wright. 
 
 1729 Enoch Gunby. 
 
 1730 Gervase Frith. 
 
 1 73 1 Richard Wilkinson. 
 
 1732 John Crooke. 
 
 1 733 John Arrowsmith. 
 
 1734 John Thorpe. 
 
 1735 Gervase Frith. 
 
 1736 Richard Wilkinson. 
 
 1 737 John Pickworth. 
 
 738 Enoch Gunby. 
 
 739 John Arrowsmith. 
 
 740 Thomas Andrews. 
 
 741 John Spittlehouse. 
 
 742 Gervase Frith. 
 
 743 Hugh Hoole. 
 
 744 John Pickworth. 
 
 1 745 Joseph Simpson. 
 
 1746 John Spittlehouse. 
 
 1 747 John Donston. 
 
 1748 Robert Spittlehouse. 
 
 1749 Thomas Till. 
 
 1750 John Glasier. 
 i7Si 
 
 1752 Joseph Simpson. 
 
 1753 Robert Spittlehouse. 
 1754-5 Thomas Colton. 
 1756-7 Richard Hoole. 
 
 1 75 8 -9 John Pickworth. 
 
 1 760-1 Robert Ledgerd. 
 
 1762-3 Thomas Caistor. 
 
 1764-5 Hugh Cartwright. 
 
 1766-7 Robert Hurton. 
 
 1768-9 Thomas Preswood. 
 
 1 770-1 Henry Willcock. 
 
 1 77 2 -3 Jeremiah Staneland. 
 
 1 7 74-5 John Hitching. 
 
 1776-7 John Roe. 
 
 1778-9 Mark Starkey. 
 
 1 780-1 Barnat Mimmack. 
 1782-3 Henry Willcock. 
 1784-5 Widow Pickworth. 
 1786-7 John Harrison. 
 1788-9 Gervis Harrison. 
 1 790-1 John Rainer. 
 1792-3 Mrs. Ward. 
 1 794-5 John Roe. 
 1796-7 Mark Starkey 
 1798-9 Barnat Mimmack. 
 1 880-1 Henry Willcock. 
 1802-3 Benjamin Pickworth. 
 1804-5 John Marrat. 
 1806-10 John Harrison (5 years). 
 1811-16 Barnat Mimmack (6 
 years). 
 
 1817-28 John Peacock ( 1 2 years 
 l82 9"57 John Nesbitt (29 years). 
 1858-76 Joseph Marriott (19 
 years). 
 
 1877-82 Dymock Thomas Hardy 
 
 (6 years). 
 1883-96 George Wells (14 years). 
 
 Q 
 
242 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Of the other Church Officials, viz., the Parish Clerks, we 
 cannot give so complete an account. We can only record that 
 "Humphry Johnson, Clerk nigh 50 years," was buried in 1706; 
 Richard Clements, Parish Clerk, in 1731 ; " Mr. John Bug, Clerk 
 (? Parish Clerk), in 1751 ; and a second Richard Clements, Clerk, 
 in 1792. His successor was Richard Carter, who died at Harby 
 in 1843, aged 81 ; following him, or acting for him, was Richard 
 Gilbert, 1808-13, and more than one William Dixon in succession 
 from 18 1 3 to 1830, who came from Harby. George Marshall, 
 who died October, 1870, had been Parish Clerk for 41 years, and 
 was succeeded by John Lyon, who has held the office ever since. 
 
 The Overseers' Accounts go back to 1772, and give the names 
 of the Overseers of the Poor from that date, but they are only a 
 repetition of those of the Churchwardens in somewhat different 
 order. As in that case the office was also held by women in their 
 turn as occupiers of farms, as by Anne Pickworth in 1780, 1789, 
 and 1799. We have already given extracts from these Accounts, 
 as showing the treatment by the parish of its poor. 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 VILLAGE, FARMS, WOODS, &c. 
 
 THE little village consisting of some dozen farm-houses and 
 cottages, scattered on either side of the " town street," and 
 prettily interspersed with horse-chestnut trees, white and pink, lies 
 mostly to the south of the Church. Some 70 years ago, when 
 Colonel Jarvis came into possession of it, every house was 
 thatched, but they have one by one been rebuilt, and the last old 
 thatched house, that in which Mr. Portes, the steward, lived in 
 Lord Delaval's time, and in which the Rev. T. J. Galland lodged, 
 when Curate 1829-36, was pulled down in 1892, when two new 
 cottages were built by G. E. Jarvis, Esq., at the south end of the 
 village in its stead. In the midst of the village stands the 
 handsome School built by the late G. K. Jarvis, Esq., in 1858, 
 and bearing his initials and the date. The Pinfold formerly stood 
 by the roadside on the north of the churchyard ; it was made of 
 high posts and rails which fell into decay, and were finally removed 
 as no longer of use in these days of general enclosure. The rest 
 of the houses in the parish are, as we style them, "odd houses," 
 that is, standing singly on their respective farms. Few of the 
 names of either farms or fields are old ; this is owing to the recent 
 date of the enclosure of great part of the lordship, and to the fact 
 that many small closes of older enclosure have been thrown 
 together, and their original names have been lost in such 
 descriptive terms as the Home Close, the Feeding Close, the Far 
 Ten -acre, the First Eight-acre, and such like. These there is no 
 need to specify, but in the following account of the different farms, 
 fields, and woods, all apparently old and peculiar names will be 
 recorded. 
 
 To begin with the Home Farm, the homestead of which, rebuilt in 
 1825, stands in the middle of the village ; it contains some 350 acres, 
 mostly clay, extending from the village westwards to the boundaries 
 of Harby and Swinethorpe. Amongst its field-names we find the 
 Incroft, the Strowsers or Strewsers, (a name also found in the 
 adjoining parish of Harby), the Parks, and the Springs,— names all 
 appearing in the Survey of 1749. On it is the Great Fishpond, 
 covering 2 acres ; and it is drained by the Hobber Dyke running 
 westwards towards the Trent, but intercepted by the Main Drain 
 at Harby, which carries its waters into the Fossdyke near Drinsey 
 Nook. 
 
244 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 North of this, and also adjoining Harby, is the Birk, or Birch 
 Springs Farm, containing some no acres; its fields, mostly clay, 
 bear the names of the Cold Hills, the Fox Earths, the Birk Springs, 
 and the Stand Hills, — names all found in the Survey of 1749, 
 when no homestead is shown on the farm. It is drained by the 
 Shire Dyke, so called because in part of its course it forms the 
 boundary between Lincolnshire and Notts., and then turning 
 across the Carr Farm it is carried into the Skellingthorpe Main 
 Drain. 
 
 Eastward of this, and extending to the Old Hagg Wood on the 
 east, is the Carr Lane Farm, of 180 acres, mostly clay. Its fields 
 nearest the village are the High Stand Hills, as they were in 1749, 
 when no farmstead is marked on the Survey, but the surrounding 
 fields bore as now the name of The Folly. Beyond these was the 
 Old Sale, a name which taken in connection with that of the 
 Little Sale Wood still remaining, may lead to the belief that it 
 represents the site of a former Wood which once stood between 
 the Little Sale and the Old Hagg. Further still are the Cold Hills, 
 the northernmost part of which is marked as Hop-ground in 1749, 
 but it was the southernmost portion which was last cultivated as 
 such ; the last remaining portion of the Hop-yard Close, containing 
 9 acres, which was said to be the only Hop garden in Lincolnshire, 
 was ploughed up in 1869. and the hop-kiln which stood in the 
 Hall Yard has since been pulled down. Part of the ground last 
 cultivated with hops was known as the Lady's Acre, perhaps a 
 reminiscence of Lady Delaval's time. 
 
 North of the Carr Lane Farm is the Carr Farm, bordering on 
 Harby, Brodholme, and Skellingthorpe. Here also no homestead 
 is shown in 1749, and its whole extent of 156 acres was then 
 divided into three large open pastures known as the Carrs, the 
 pointed north-east extremity being distinguished as My Lady's Toe. 
 As its name of the Carrs shows, this is the lowest part of the 
 lordship, being in parts but 23 feet above the sea, and together 
 with part of the Carr Lane Farm it is liable to a rate for the 
 maintenance of Spalford Bank, which restrains the flood waters 
 of the Trent. The name of the Brick-kiln Close borne by a 
 meadow on this farm marks its use for making bricks early in the 
 present century. 
 
 To return to the village ; the Farm-house at its north end near 
 the Church has obtained the name of the Red House from the 
 new red brick house built there in 1867. It contains some 200 
 acres ; and to it belong the Butt Closes lying between the Carr 
 Lane and Strunch Hill Wood, evidently so named as the place 
 where the village archery was practised in former days. The grass 
 closes round the house bore in 1749 the name of the Hall Yard, 
 while the other fields running down between the Old Hagg and 
 
Village, Farms, Woods, &c. 
 
 245 
 
 Ash Lound Woods to Skellingthorpe Great Wood, bore in 1749, 
 as they do now, the names of Little and Great Butcher's Close, 
 Wither Nab, Lamb's Tongue, Great, Little, and Sloppy Lngs, —the 
 last names more appropriate to their former state as pastures than 
 in their present arable condition.* 
 
 At the south end of the village is the Town-end Farm-house, 
 once used as a Public House, but rebuilt 1818-19. With it are 
 now joined the Grange and the Pigot Farms, so that it contains 
 250 acres, Its own fields, stretching along the Whisby Road, are 
 the Lunn Closes, the Whisby Dales, and the Toad Hole, with the 
 Moor Fields beyond. On the Grange Farm, now occupied with 
 it, are the Parks, and the Hill Closes, and the Gorse Close adjoining 
 the homestead ; while on the Pigot Farm, one of the few which 
 has a homestead marked on it in 1749, the Parks, the Holt, and 
 the South Springs bring us round to the Home Farm closes 
 already mentioned. 
 
 Across two grass fields from the village on the east stands the 
 Top House Farm of 220 acres; it stretches from the Dunstan 
 Close (so called apparently from a former occupier named Donston), 
 by the side of the Ash Lound to the Seaton Plot on the Lincoln 
 Lane, — both names being found in the Survey of 1749; at that 
 time all the land between was divided into 23 small closes, known 
 as the Moor Rows, which extended as far as the Glebe, of 
 37 acres, situated on the further side of the parish, bordering on 
 Skellingthorpe. 
 
 The whole south-eastern side of the lordship, comprising what 
 is now the Moor, and the Black Moor Farms, and including the 
 Cruddlewell (i.e., the curdled well) Close and the Seaton Plot 
 adjoining, and the ground now occupied by the Fir Woods known 
 as Gilbert's Plot, Pickworth's Plot, the Long Plantation, and a 
 great part of Clement's Belt and the Cinder Plot — in all some 
 650 acres — was represented in 1749 as newly enclosed from the 
 Moor, but with a building already marked where the Moor Farm- 
 house now stands. This side of the lordship, consisting of a layer 
 of peat soil over gravel, is drained through the Prial Drain into 
 what is now the Hartsholme Reservoir of the Lincoln Waterworks. 
 
 There are at present some 480 acres of Woodland ; of this the 
 Strunch Hill Wood 22 acres, Little Sale 11 acres, Old Hagg 101 
 acres, and Ash Lound 67 acres — 201 acres in all— are oak woods 
 growing on the clay on the north, and though now detached from 
 each other, very probably represent the tract of woodland, 1 mile 
 long by \ mile in breadth, i.e., 480 acres, which is mentioned in 
 
 * This Farm, as well as the Carr Lane Farm and the Old Hagg Wood 
 which lies between them, is now (1896) being cut across by the new East to 
 West Railway, which crosses the lordship from east to west on its way from 
 Lincoln to Chesterfield. 
 
246 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Domesday Book. The name of Old Sale given in 1749 to the land 
 lying between the Little Sale and the Old Hagg, seems to indicate 
 another tract of woodland which formerly connected them. The 
 largest of these woods, the Old Hagg, which joins on to the still 
 larger Skellingthorpe Great Wood, has been the immemorial 
 breeding place of herons, or heronsews as they are locally called ; 
 of recent years there have been as many as 20 nests, sometimes in 
 one part, sometimes in another, of the wood according as the trees 
 are cut, the birds flying off towards the Trent or the Witham to 
 feed. The other woods are of more recent origin ; what is now 
 the Old Orchard Wood of 46 acres on the Whisby Road appears 
 as open fields in 1749, the northern part of which containing 
 20 acres is styled the Old Orchard, while the part lying along the 
 Whisby Road bears the common name of The Folly. The Scotch 
 Fir Woods, viz. : Pickworth's Plot, 51 acres, and Gilbert's Plot, 
 46 acres, were then newly enclosed portions of the Moor, 
 Pickworth's Plot taking its name from the family which long 
 occupied the Pigot Farm adjoining, and Gilbert's from a man so 
 called who built himself a cottage at the wood corner on Skelling- 
 thorpe Moor. The Long Plantation, 17 acres, along the Lincoln 
 Road, was also then newly enclosed Moor, as was great part of 
 Clements' Belt, 36 acres, and the Cinder Plot, 68 acres, which 
 then appear as narrow strips of plantation running round the 
 border of the lordship. Clements' Belt took its name from the 
 first occupier of the Blackmoor Farm which it encircles ; while 
 the Cinder Plot is so called from the hard cinder-like pan which 
 here lies between the moor soil and the gravel, and requires to be 
 broken through when trees are planted. 
 
 There are three main Parish Roads ; the Carr Lane, leading 
 northwards towards Saxilby and Drinsey Nook in the direction of 
 Dunham Bridge and Gainsborough, and now crossing the new East 
 to West Railway by a high bridge, 1 mile from the village. In 1 749 
 this road was carried no further than the first corner of the Old 
 Hagg, where the bridle road turns off westwards to Harby. 
 Southwards, the Whisby Lane leads through Whisby to Thorpe 
 Station on the Midland Railway, and by Thorpe-on-the-Hill to the 
 " rampire," the ancient Foss-way or Roman Road from Lincoln to 
 Newark. In the days before railways this line of lane from 
 Drinsey Nook to Thorpe was the regular route by which herds of 
 Scotch cattle, 200 or 300 at a time, often accompanied by droves 
 of Shetland ponies, were driven southward ; their course was by 
 Littleborough Ferry, where they swam the Trent, passing the night 
 at Drinsey Nook before crossing Doddington on their way to Thorpe 
 and Grantham, this route being selected in order to avoid the 
 toll-bars, and for the sake of the pasturage on the grassy road-sides. 
 Eastwards, the Lincoln Lane runs in the direction of Swallowbeck, 
 
Village, Farms, Woods, &c. 
 
 247 
 
 where it joins the main road from Newark to Lincoln. In 1749 
 the further part of this lane beyond the milestone (1 mile from 
 Doddington) appears as newly laid out in its present course, its 
 former track having lain to the left in a straighter line by 
 Hartsholme to Lincoln. These two last mentioned parish roads 
 are crossed at right angles by the Black Lanes, so called from the 
 black moor-land over which they run, leading from Eagle to 
 Skellingthorpe. Formerly all these lanes were closed at the parish 
 boundary by gates, for the purpose of keeping in the cattle which 
 were allowed to graze them, that at the end of the Lincoln Lane 
 being termed the Paled Oak Gate. Besides the bridle road to 
 Harby, a bridle road to Skellingthorpe runs past the Red House 
 Farm and through the Ash Lound Wood ; and another towards 
 Eagle runs past the Fish-pond and the Pigot Farm. The Fish-pond 
 itself contains, with its banks, 2 acres, and has been made 
 artificially on the line of the Hobber Dyke since 1749. 
 
 Population since 1801. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 
 Houses. 
 
 Males. 
 
 Fern. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Total of 
 Parish. 
 
 I80I 
 
 Doddington , 
 
 
 76 
 
 54 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 
 3° 
 
 19 
 
 49 . 
 
 \ 189 
 
 l8ll 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 
 73 
 
 72 
 
 145 1 
 
 209 
 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 25 
 
 64 1 
 
 I82I 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 20 
 10 
 
 86 
 39 
 
 73 
 29 
 
 1 59 ' 
 
 68 f 227 
 
 1831 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 21 
 
 78 
 
 87 
 
 165 
 
 223 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 33 
 
 25 
 
 58 , 
 
 184I 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 25 
 
 88 
 
 69 
 
 157 1 
 
 220 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 10 
 
 36 
 
 27 
 
 63 J 
 
 
 1851 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 27 
 
 93 
 
 82 
 
 175 1 
 
 264 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 T I 
 
 47 
 
 42 
 
 89 J 
 
 l86l 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 30 
 
 89 
 
 85 
 
 174 
 
 264 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 12 
 
 48 
 
 42 
 
 90 
 
 1871 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 30 
 
 87 
 
 90 
 
 177 
 
 275 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 14 
 
 5° 
 
 48 
 
 98 
 
 l88l 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 29 
 
 86 
 
 70 
 
 156 
 
 [ 274 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 16 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 118 
 
 1891 
 
 Doddington . 
 
 29 
 
 76 
 
 7i 
 
 147 
 
 \ 233 
 
 
 Whisby 
 
 15 
 
 5° 
 
 36 
 
 86 
 
248 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Annual Rainfall since 1876, 
 
 as recorded at Doddington Rectory ; height of gauge above ground 
 14 inches, above sea-level 92 feet ; diameter of funnel 5 inches. 
 
 
 Inches. 
 
 Days. 
 
 
 Inches. 
 
 Days. 
 
 1876 
 
 ... 27.38 .. 
 
 ... 184 
 
 1886 . 
 
 
 .- 183 
 
 1877 .. 
 
 ... 27.42 .. 
 
 ... 185 
 
 1887 
 
 
 
 1878 
 
 ... 27.85 .. 
 
 ... 158 
 
 1888 
 
 .... 24.32 .. 
 
 .. 166 
 
 1879 ... 
 
 ... 24.57 ... 
 
 ••■ i73 
 
 1889 
 
 .... 27.51 .. 
 
 181 
 
 1880 
 
 ... 29.32 .. 
 
 ... 152 
 
 1890 . 
 
 .... 18.46 .. 
 
 ... 151 
 
 1881 
 
 
 - 156 
 
 1891 
 
 .... 25.00 .. 
 
 ••• 175 
 
 1882 
 
 ... 33.44 ... 
 
 ... 178 
 
 1892 . 
 
 
 
 1883 ... 
 
 
 ••• 175 
 
 1893 . 
 
 .... 17.25 .. 
 
 ... 141 
 
 1884 
 
 ... 17.34 ... 
 
 ... 162 
 
 1894 . 
 
 .... 22.26 ... 
 
 ... 165 
 
 1885 ... 
 
 ... 23.93 .. 
 
 
 1895 •• 
 
 .... 23.97 .. 
 
 ... 152 
 
 Average for 20 years, 24.446 inches. 
 
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 
 
 Chapter n. 
 
 Page 45, line 26, for "3, Mary," read t: 3, Anne, who married 
 Sir Henry Ashley." 
 
 Chapter hi. 
 
 Further search amongst the transcripts of our former Parish 
 Registers in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln enables to add the 
 following extracts giving additional information about the persons 
 mentioned in this Chapter. We learn from them that during 
 John Savile's short ownership of Doddington, from 1586 to 1593, 
 his only son, Thomas, who succeeded him as Lord Savile of 
 Pontefract in 1628, and was created Earl of Sussex in 1644, was 
 born and christened here. They place beyond a doubt the fact 
 that Thomas Tailor the elder, the builder of the Hall, was buried 
 here in accordance with his will, though there is no memorial of 
 him , nor other record of it. From the many baptisms and burials of 
 George Anton's children by his second marriage, which are entered 
 between 1594 and 1603, we may gather that he was living here 
 during those years; while the entry of the burial, in 1687, at the 
 age of 85, of his daughter Bridget, who married Charles Dye, 
 makes it evident that she was the Mrs. Bridget Dye who filled the 
 office of Churchwarden in 1672 and 1683. 
 
 " 1590. Thomas the sonne of John Savile christened the xiiij of 
 September. 
 
 1594. George y e sonne of George Anton Esquier and Recorder 
 of Lincoln, christened the xxv of Aprill. 
 
 1596. Dorathye daughter of George Anton, Esquier, C. fyrst of 
 
 Maye. 
 
 1597. John sonne of George Anton, Esquier, christened the v of 
 
 Maye. 
 
 1598. James the sonne of George Anton, Esquier, christened 
 
 xxij of June. 
 
 1 601. Thomas sonne of George Anton, Esquier, christened 
 
 xiij of Aprill. 
 
 1602. Dorathe daughter of George Anton, Esq. Buried the 
 
 viij of October. 
 
250 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 1603. Thomas sonne of George Anton, Esq. Buried ye xv of 
 February. 
 
 1603. Briget, daughter of George Anton, Esq. Christened y e 
 viij of Julye. 
 
 1607. Mr. Thomas Taylor buried xxvj of November, 1607. 
 
 1664. Charles Dye, Gent, (buried) June ye 6. 
 
 1687. Mrs. Bridget Dye, aetat. 85, buryed Novemb. 28." 
 
 Chapter iv. 
 
 Page 85, line 24, for "Robert," read "Thomas Horsman," as 
 the husband of Elizabeth Kussey. He obtained in 1551 a grant 
 of the Manor of Burton Pedwardine, sometime known as Burton- 
 Hussey, and one of the forfeited estates of Lord Hussey, who 
 acquired it on the death of the infant sons of Roger Pedwardyn, 
 whose wardship he held. Thomas Horsman's son by Elizabeth 
 Hussey, who was aged 14 and one of the coheirs of Thomas 
 Hussey in 1559, was the Sir Thomas Horsman, Knt, whose 
 superb marble monument with recumbent bearded effigy still 
 remains in Burton Pedwardine Church. He quarters the Hussey 
 arms, and is described as, " Thomas Horsman, Eques auratus, 
 Thomse Horsmanni Arm : quondam Domini huius Manerii, et 
 Elizabethse, unius fil : et coh : Roberti Husee, Mil. fil : et hseres, 
 
 . . Obiit 26 Nov: 1610, set. 74." 
 
 Pages 86-88. Through the kindness of the Rev. J. O. Stephens' 
 Rector of Blankney, we are enabled to add the following entries in 
 the Blankney Parish Register relating to the family of Charles 
 Hussey, of Linwood in that parish, who afterwards became 
 Sir Charles Hussey, of Honington, Knt. They seem to show 
 that he had been married once at least previously to his marriage 
 with Ellen Byrch in 1582, though there is some uncertainty from 
 the fact of there having been two brothers of the name of Charles. 
 Perhaps the difference of designation as Esq. or Gent, in the entries 
 of 1577 and 1 58 1 may mark a distinction between the elder and 
 younger brothers of that name. From the date of baptism of his 
 son and eventual heir Edward (afterwards Sir Edward Hussey, 
 Bart.), in 1585, it would appear that the age of 29J years assigned 
 to him in the inquisition on his father's death in 1609, is a mistake 
 or a misreading for 24 \ years. The Margaret Thorold buried at 
 Blankney in 1576-7 was Sir Charles Hussey's half-sister, widow of 
 William Thorold, who himself was buried at Marston in 1569. 
 
 " 1566. Jane Hussey ye doughter of Charles Hussey, Esquier, 
 was christened and buried ye 29 of September. 
 
 1573. Frances Hussey ye sonne of Charles Hussey, Ar. was 
 buried the firste day of October. 
 
Additions and Corrections. 
 
 251 
 
 1574. Jehan Hussey ye doughter of Charles Hussey, Esquier, 
 was buried ye xxviij day of June. 
 
 1576. Margarett Thorold, widow, late wife of Willm. Thorold, 
 
 esquier, was buried ye xv of februarie. 
 
 1577. Elizabeth Hussey ye wife of Charles Hussey, esquier was 
 
 buried ye x of July. 
 1 58 1. Grace Hussey ye wife of Charles Hussey, gentl. was buried 
 
 ye vj of November. 
 1583. John Hussey, ye sonne of Charles Hussey was christened 
 
 ye 2 1 of Januarie. 
 
 1585. Edward Hussey, sonne of Charles Hussey, Esquier, was 
 
 christened the 10 of October. 
 
 1586. Charles Hussey, ye sonne of Charles Hussey, Esquier, was 
 
 christened ye 1 o of Aprill. 
 
 1590. Robte : Hussey was christened ye 26 of October. 
 
 1 59 1. Mris. Elene Hussey was buried the 10 of December." 
 
 Page 108. The transcripts of our Parish Registers show that 
 four at least of Sir Thomas Hussey's children were christened at 
 Doddington, including his son William, the only one who attained 
 his majority ; and the two daughters, Sarah, Mrs. Apreece, and 
 Elizabeth, Mrs. Ellys, who eventually became his heirs. These 
 are the entries : — 
 
 " 1669. Robert sonne of Sr. Thomas Hussey and ye Lady Sarah 
 
 his wife baptized June ye 24. 
 1672. Sarah, daughter of Sr. Thomas Hussey, Barrt. and ye Lady 
 
 Sarah his wife baptized June 7th. 
 1674. Wm. ye sonne of Sr. Tho : Hussey, Barrt. and ye Lady Sarah 
 
 his wife baptized April 14th. 
 1678. Elizabeth ye daughter of Sr. Tho : Hussey, baronett, and 
 
 Lady Sarah his wife bapt : Octob : 24th." 
 We also learn from them that Mrs. Anne Moore (p. 104), was 
 the second wife of the Rev. William Moore, the Rector. Baptisms 
 of his children by his first wife, Elizabeth, are entered from 1668 to 
 1674, and by Mrs. Anne Moore from 1683 to 1692. 
 
 Chapter v. 
 
 Page 128, line 6. Robert Delaval, Capt. R.N., the brother of 
 Admiral George Delaval, died at Genoa, 29 Jan., 1708: it was 
 their nephew, Robert Delaval, also in the Royal Navy, who died 
 13 Feb , 1715, and was buried at Seaton Delaval. 
 
252 
 
 History of Doddington 
 
 Chapter vi. 
 
 Page 180, line 24 Susannah, the second daughter of Lord 
 and Lady Delaval, was buried 21 October, 1764, in a vault at 
 Grosvenor Chapel. The Burial Register of St. George's, Hanover 
 Square, in which parish Grosvenor Chapel is, has only the entry, 
 "1764, Oct. ai. Susannah Hussey-Delaval, C(hild.)"; but the 
 Sexton's Book gives the further particulars that Miss Susannah 
 Hussey-Delaval, from Milbank, was 1 1 years old, and was buried 
 in the vault, Grosvenor Chapel, with lights and four bearers, the 
 sexton's fees amounting to £\\ 6s. 6d., a sum far exceeding the 
 cost of any other burial about that time. The same book gives 
 the following particulars of the burial of Lady Isabella Delaval 
 earlier in the same year: — "2nd January, 1764, Lady Isabella 
 Dalawell, aged 69 years, from New Norfolk Street,— in the Vaults, — 
 Prayers —Chapel,— Lights,— 8 Bearers ; Fees, £6. 5. 6." 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abarow, Sir Edward, 36 
 Adamson, Rev. E. H., 103, 196 
 Ailric, Elric, 3, 4 
 Alban, Adam de St., 8, 236 
 Aldeburgh, Richard de, 15 
 Aldersay, John and Katharine, 201, 
 205 
 
 Alforth, Alan, 22, 236 
 Allington, Mr. George, 62 
 
 Jane, 58, 62 
 Althorpe, Rectory, 174, 237 
 Amcotts, Charles, 153 
 
 John and Rhoda, 100, 121, 232 
 
 Rhoda, 96, 100, 121, 231 
 Andover Elections, 138, 139, 159 
 Angevine, Anne and Bernard, 84, 86 
 Ann and Mary, Royal Yachts, 197, 
 
 198, 199, 200, 218, 223 
 Antigua, 208, 209, 210, 213 
 Anton Arms, 67, 107 
 
 Bridget,, 61, 67, 249 
 
 Elizabeth, 60, 62, 66, 67, 70, 
 89, 120 
 
 Frances, 61, 67 
 
 George, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 
 
 62, 64, 66, 67, 89, 249, 250 
 George, Jun., 61, 67, 69, 249 
 Jane, 58, 60, 66, 67, 89 
 Thomas, 58, 6o, 67 ; 60 
 Apreece Arms, 115, 130 
 Dorothea, Lady, 117 
 Dorothy, 117, 121 
 Eliz. Dover, 117, 119, 121, 122 
 Henry, no 
 Tane, 117 
 
 Mary, 113, 121, 122 
 
 Rhoda, 110, in, 112, 113, 121, 
 
 123, 128, 183, 220, 224 
 Robert, 106, ill, 112, 114, 119, 
 
 121, 122, 183, 237 
 Robert and Joan, 112 
 Robert and Ursula, 113 
 Sarah, 106, 108, in, 112, 113, 
 
 114, 119, 121, 122, 123, 128, 
 
 147, 148, 149, 150, 183, 189, 
 
 195, 224, 237 
 Shuckburgh Ashby, 117 
 Sir Thomas George, 117, 122 
 Thomas Hussey, no, in, 113, 
 
 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123 
 Sir Thos. Hussey, 101, 117, 194 
 Sir William, 113 
 
 Ap Rhys, Isaac, 112 
 Arms : — 
 
 Amcotts, 231 
 
 Anton, 67, 107 
 
 Apreece, 115, 130 
 
 Astley, 134 
 
 Badlesmere, 34 
 
 Beauchamp, of Bedford, 20 
 
 Berkeley, 72 
 
 Bigot, 52 
 
 Blackwell, 209 
 
 Blake, 130, 230 
 
 Burgh, 34, 37, 52 
 
 Chapman, 100, 107 
 
 Clare, 52 
 
 Cobham, 37, 52 
 
 Comyn, 34, 37, 52 
 
 Delaval, 127, 130, 195, 206, 230 
 
 Eden, 209, 210 
 
 Greystock, 127 
 
 Gunman, 200, 205, 206 
 
 Hanson, 206 
 
 Hurton, 173 
 
 Hussey, 71, 72, 82, 100, 107, 
 
 115, 130, 206, 230, 232 
 Ingram, 206 
 Jar vis, 215 
 Knight, 179, 230 
 Langham, 107 
 Latimer, 115 
 Louvaine, 52 
 Lovell, 82 
 Lowth, 210 
 Macmorough, 52 
 Mareschal, 52 
 Monchensi, 52 
 Nessfield, 70, 82, 107 
 Percy, 34, 37, 52 
 Pigot, 12, 20, 22 
 Plompton, 82 
 Ros, 34 
 Savile, 53 
 Say, 82 
 
 Scott, 195, 230 
 
 Strabolgi, 34, 52 
 
 Valence, 52 
 
 Wake, 12, 20 
 
 Wyvill, 206 
 Arnold, G., 187, 219 
 Ashby, by Partney, 63 
 Ashby, Dorothea and Shuckburgh, 
 
 117 
 
254 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Ashley, Sir Henry, 45, 51, 249 
 Dame Anne, 45, 51, 249 
 
 Aske, Robert, 78 
 
 Assize of Bread and Beer, 12, 15 
 
 Astley, Editha Rhoda, 133 
 
 Edward and Francis, 133, 134 
 
 Sir Edward, 133, 183 
 
 Dame Hester, 134 
 
 Sir Jacob, 133, 183; 134 
 
 Sir Jacob Henry, 115, 134, 147, 
 
 I 9S> I 96, 206, 207 
 Rhoda, 115, 131, 132, 133, 134, 
 137, 149, 221, 222 
 
 Aubourn, 2 
 
 Audley, Eliz. Lady, 158, 180. 183 
 George, Lord, 158, 180, 183 
 George John, Lord, 180 
 
 Author, The, 117 
 
 Aynho Church, 99, III, 112 
 
 Ayscough, Sir Edward, 60, 67 
 Elizabeth, 58, 60, 67 
 Jane, 82 
 Sir Roger, 62 
 William, 58, 60, 62, 67 
 
 Babthorpe, Agnes and Sir Wm., 73 
 Bagenal, Sir Henry, 47, 48, 
 Baldwin of Flanders, 3, 1 1 
 Balle, Mrs. Mary, 100, 101, 121 
 
 Sir Peter, 101 
 
 Thomas, 101, 11 1 
 
 William, 101, 121 
 Bangard, William, 16, 17, 18, 21, 
 
 23, 236 
 Bardney, 63 
 Barber, Ralph, 149 
 Barker, Christopher, 13 
 Barlings-with-Langworth, 171, 237 
 Barnet, Battle of, 32 
 Barr, Sir John, 80, 84 
 Basill, Aquila and Martyn, 43 
 Basset, Agnes and John, 43, 51 
 
 Edward, 43 
 Bassingham, 2, 98, 102 
 Baude, Jane and John, 84, 86 
 Beauchamp, Beatrice de, 12, 18 
 
 Ella de, 11, 18, 29 
 
 Eleanor and Richard, 31 
 
 John de, 1 1 
 
 William, 11 
 Bedford, Mr. Amos, 62 
 
 Barony of, II, 13, 18, 19 
 
 Bridget, Countess of, 81, 84, 87 
 
 Francis, Earl of, 81, 84 
 
 Belat, Lucia and Michael, 11, 29 
 Belesby, Elizabeth de, 22, 23, 29 
 
 Manor of, 22, 27 
 
 Sir Thomas de, 22 
 
 Thomas de, 22, 23 
 
 Sir Wm. de, 21 
 Bell, William, 170, 180 
 Bendysshe, John, 24, 25, 27 
 
 Thomas, 27 
 Berkeley, Eliz. and Thomas, 71,72, 84 
 
 John, 81 
 
 Sir Maurice, 71, 72, 84 
 Berwick-on-Tweed, Elections, 1 58, 
 
 159. 163 
 Bethel, Ralph, 59, 232, 236 
 Bevercotes, Margaret and Samuel, 
 
 88, 120 
 
 Bexwell, Henry and Ursula, 113 
 Blackett, Diana and William, 125 
 Black Game, 5 
 Blackheath, Battle of, 73 
 Blackwell, Charlotte, 213 
 
 Ebenezer, 209, 224 
 
 Mary, 209, 224 
 
 Mary Eliz., 210 
 
 Gen. Nathaniel, 210 
 
 Philadelphia, 209, 211 
 Blake, Mary, 126, 127, 182 
 
 Sir Francis, 126, 128, 182, 193 ; 
 147, 181, 196 
 Blankney Registers, 250 
 Blount, Eliz. and Sir John, 44, 51 
 
 Margaret and Sir Simon, 80, 84 
 Blundell, Sir George, 20 
 Boleyn, Queen Anne, 41 
 Bolles, Eliz. and Mary, 96, 98 
 
 Sir Robert, 96, 98, 119, 120 
 Book for a Rainy Day, 187 
 Boothby, 2 
 
 Boothby-Graffoe Wapentake, 2 
 
 Borough, Sir John, 39 n. 
 
 Botetourt Family, 12 
 
 Botreaux, Lady de, 31, 34, 50 
 Wm. Lord, 32, 50 
 
 Boultham, 2, 46 
 
 Boulton, Luke, 97 
 
 Bowes, Andrew S., 160 
 
 Bridget and Richard, 81, 84 
 Sir Geo. and Sir Rob., 81, 84 
 Sir George and Anne, 182 
 
 Bracebridge, 2, 46 
 
 Branks, or Scold's Bridle, 217 
 
 Brampton, Prebend of, 102, 237 
 
 Bray, Joan and Sir Reginald, 112 
 
 Breezie Langton, by H. Smart, 227 
 
 Brelins, Richard de, 9 
 
 Briefs, 234 
 
Index. 
 
 255 
 
 Brinkhill, Manor of, 
 Britany, Expedition to, 141 
 Briwer, William, 7, 8 
 Brodholme, I, 9, 35, 39, 226 
 Bromhead, Anne Fector, 212 
 
 Charles John, 212 
 
 Cicely Eliz., 212 
 
 Edward Ralph, 212 
 
 Frances Annie, 212 
 
 Henrietta, 212 
 
 John, 212 
 Brooke, Eliz. and George, 49, 51 
 
 Wm. Lord Cobham, 49, 51 
 Broughton, Amcotts and Sir Bryan, 
 100 
 
 Rhoda, Lady, 100, 232 
 
 Sir Thomas, 100, 232 
 Browne, Sir Humphry, 81, 84 
 Brownlow, Eliz. and Sir Wm., 97, 
 
 121 
 
 Buckden, Prebend of, 102, 237 
 Buckworth, Sir John and Mary, 100, 
 121 
 
 Bulkeley, Sir Richard, 45, 51 
 Burgh Arms, 34, 37, 52 
 Burgh (Borough) Family : — 
 
 Agnes, Lady, 41, 50 
 
 Agnes, 43, 51 
 
 Alice, Lady, 41, 43, 44, 50 
 
 Anne, Lady, 35, 36, 50 
 
 Anne, 35, 5° J 43, 5 1 > 45> 5 1 » 
 
 5i. 52 
 Dorothy, 43, 51 
 
 Edward, 2nd Lord, 35, 36, 37, 
 
 50, 236 
 Sir Edward, 41, 51 
 Eleanor, 43, 51 
 
 Elizabeth, Lady, 41, 42, 44, 51 
 Elizabeth, 30, 50; 34, 50; 43, 
 
 51 ; 45, 51 ; 49, 51 
 Frances, Lady, 48, 49, 51, 54 
 Frances, 51, 52 
 George, 35, 50 
 Henry, 44, 51 
 Hubert, de, 30 
 Humphry, 35, 50 
 Isabel, 30, 50 
 Jenetta, 50 
 John, 30, 50; 43, 51 
 Sir John, 45, 51 
 Katharine, Lady, 44, 45, 51 
 Katharine, 41, 51 ; 51, 52 
 Margaret, Lady, 31, 50 
 Margaret, 30, 50 ; 34, 50 ; 43, 
 
 51 ; 44 
 Mary, 45, 51 
 Peter and Roger, 50 
 
 Burgh (Borough) Pamily {continued) : 
 Richard, 30, 50 ; 43, 51 
 Robert, 6th Lord, 48, 49, 51 
 Thomas, 30, 50; 35, 50 ; 51 
 Thomas, 1st Lord, 26, 30, 31, 
 
 32, 33. 34, 35, 37, 50 
 Thomas, 3rd Lord, 37, 38, 40, 
 
 41, 42, 43, 44, 50, 77, 236 
 Thomas, 5th Lord, 44, 46, 47, 
 
 48, 51, 53, 54 
 
 Sir Thomas, 41, 42, 44, 51 
 
 William, 4th Lord, 43, 44, 45, 
 51, 53, 236 
 Burgh, of Stow, Family : — 
 
 Amy, 42 ; 43 
 
 Anne, 43 
 
 Aquila, 43 ; 43 
 
 Edward, 43 ; 43 
 
 Elizabeth, 42 
 
 Frankendale, 43 
 
 Henry, 42, 43, 51 
 
 Sir John, 42 ; John, 43 
 
 Martha, 43 
 
 Richard, 42, 52 ; 42 
 
 Thomas, 42 
 Burghley, Lord, 48 
 Burton Pedwardine, 250 
 Bussy, Anne and John, 38, 43, 51 
 Butt Closes, 16, 55, 244 
 Byrch, Ellen and John, 86, 120 
 
 " Cadwallader, Mr." 117 
 Can wick, 18, 109, 237 
 "Caravan, The," 170 
 Cardington, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 
 24, 29 
 
 Carleton, William, 108, 110, 116, 
 
 233, 237 
 Carleton, Anne, 109, no, 230 
 Carlingford, John, Viscount, 181 
 Carlton-le-Moorland, 2, 10 
 Carpenter, Lady Susannah, 130, 181 
 Carr, Elizabeth and William, 126 
 
 Isabella, 194 
 
 Mary and Sir Wm., 193 
 
 Thomas, 126; 126 
 Carre, Robert, 78, 79 
 Carrs, The, 55, 64, 65, 149, 244 
 Cartwright, Thomas, ill 
 
 William, 99, 116 
 Cary, Sir Edward, 53, 56 
 
 Elizabeth, 53 
 Cavendish, Col. Charles, 94 
 
256 
 
 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 Cawthorne, Eliz. and John, 157 
 
 Frances Fenton, 155, 157, 164, 
 178, 180, 181, 183 
 
 John Fenton, 155, 157, 164, 165, 
 166, 167, 169, 174, 180, 183 
 Caythorpe, 69, 88. 92, 98, 101, 108 
 Cecil, Sir Robert, 47, 48 
 Census, 247 
 Challock, Bishop, 123 
 Champagne, Peter de, 9, 29 
 Chaplin, Diana, 172 
 Chapman, Jane and Thomas, 99, 121 
 
 Rebecca, 99 
 
 Rhoda, 99, 121 
 Chapuys, Eustace, 75 
 Charities, Rebecca Hussey's, 100, 
 
 no, 224 
 Charles XII. (Sweden), 224 
 Chaworth, Sir Thomas, 9 
 Chesterfield, Philip, Earl of, 134, 
 
 145, 146 
 
 Church, Doddington, 4, 62, 15 1-3, 
 
 179, 192, 193, 228-232 
 Church Bell, 231 
 
 Plate, 231, 232 
 Churchwardens, 239-241 
 Clark, Joseph, 150, 190 
 Clarke, Anthony James, 211 
 Clerke, William, 101 
 Clifton, Notts., 8, 9, 21, 26, 33, 38 
 Clifton, Sir Thomas, 98, 120 
 Clinton, Edward, Lord, 44, 51 
 Close Rolls, 12, 14, 25, 56 
 Cobham, Anne, 35, 37, 50 
 
 Arms, 37 52 
 
 Barony of, 35 
 
 Sir Reg. and Sir Thos., 35, 37, 
 So 
 
 William, Lord, 49, 51 
 Cocke, John, 102, 103, 232, 237 
 Cole, Annie H., 212 
 
 Frances E. C, 211 
 
 Harry Vandeleur, 211 
 
 Mary Eden, 211, 231 
 
 Sir Nicholas, and Ralph, 102 
 
 Col. Robert, 211, 231 
 
 Robert E. G., 211, 235, 237, 238 
 
 William Gordon, 212 
 Coleby, 2 
 Colswegen, 5 
 
 Columbell, Anne and Francis, 82, 84 
 Comyn Arms, 34, 37, 52 
 Constable, Anne and Sir Robert, 50, 
 72 
 
 Sir John, 43 
 Sir Robert, 73, 78 
 Constantine, Richard, 42 
 
 Cooke, John, 101 
 
 Robert, 68, 69 
 Coppinger, Frances and Francis, 51, 
 
 Corringham, 43, 92, 99, 100 
 Cossin, Hon. Elizabeth, 181 
 Cotton Garden, 186, 187 
 Cotton, Humphrey, 236 
 Cracroft, Augusta, 211, 230 
 
 Frances Arncotts, 213 
 
 Amcotts, Col. Robert, 211, 213, 
 230 
 
 Cringilford, John de, 15 
 " Crisoms," 233 
 
 Croft, Edmund and Eleanor, 43, 51 
 Crofte, John, 66, 68, 102, 232, 237 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 94 
 
 Thomas, 42, 75, 76, 78 
 Cumberland, Duke of, 137, 138, 168, 
 
 221 
 
 Curates (Doddington), 238 
 
 Dalderby, John de, n 
 Damory, Roger, 14 
 Dan vers, Sir John and Mary, 132 
 Darcy, Lord, of Templehurst, 75, 77 
 Dash wood, Sir Francis, 112 
 Davy, Sir Humphry and Lady, 117 
 Dawn, F. E. C. and James, 211 
 De la Laund, Sir Thomas, 32 
 Delamere, Lord, and Diana, 125 
 Delaval Arms, 127, 130, 160, 230 
 
 Barony, 123, 182 
 Delaval Family : — 
 
 Anne, 126 ; 183 
 
 Anne-Hussey, 116, 131, 134, 
 145, 146, 158, 183, 224 
 
 Cecilia, 132, 183 
 
 Diana, 125 
 
 Edward, 126, 127, 133, 182, 
 
 193. 194 
 Edward Hussey, 115, 131, 143, 
 
 147, 148, 150, 159, I79> 181, 
 183, 184-196, 205, 218, 219, 
 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 230 
 
 Elizabeth, 124; 158, 180, 183 
 Elizabeth Mary, 135, 183 
 Frances, 143; 143; 155, 1S0, 
 
 183 
 Francis, 143 
 
 Francis Blake, 113, 115, 116, 
 121, 123, 127, 128, 130, 135, 
 
 148, 183, 194, 221 
 
Index. 
 
 257 
 
 Delaval Family {continued) : — 
 
 Sir Francis Blake, 130, 131, 
 
 136-144, 159, 160, 161, 183, 
 
 184, 185, 186, 194, 222, 223 
 George, 115, 132, 183, 194; 
 
 126, 182 
 George, Admiral, 126, 127, 128, 
 
 129, 130, 182, 193 
 George Shafto, 127, 159, 182 
 Sir Gilbert, 123, 160, 182 
 Sir Guy, 123, 160 
 Sir Henric, 123 
 
 Henry, 115, 131, 132, 183, 194 
 
 Hester, Dame, 125 
 
 Hugh Fitz-Roger, 123, 182 
 
 Lady Isabella, 136, 137, 183, 252 
 
 James (Horsley), 124 
 
 Sir John, 124 
 
 Sir John, 3rd Bart., 125, 127, 
 
 129, 182 
 Sir John, 126, 127, 182 
 John (Dover), 125 
 John (Peterborough), 125 
 John, 182 
 
 John Hussey, Lord, 115, 130, 
 131, 132, 137, 138, 143, 145. 
 148-181, 184, 185, 189, 194, 
 217, 222, 225, 229, 230, 237 
 
 John Hussey, 143, 153, 171, 
 180, 183, 230, 233 
 
 Margaret, 148, 180. 183 
 
 Mary (Shafto), 127, 182 
 
 Sir Ralph, Bart., 124, 125, 182, 
 223 
 
 Sir Ralph, 2nd Bart., 125 
 
 Sir Ralph, 124, 125, 127, 179, 
 
 184, 194, 223 
 Sir Ralph, 126, 182 
 Ralph, 115, 133, 183, 194 
 Rhoda, 115, 130, 133, 183; 151, 
 
 180, 183 
 Rhoda Blake, 113, 115, 131, 
 
 148, 183, 207, 220, 221 
 Sir Robert, 126, 182 
 Robert, 115, 131, 132, 169, 183, 
 
 194; 128, 182, 251; 182; 
 
 183 
 
 Sarah, 116, 130, 131, 135, 183 
 Sarah Hussey, 151, 157, 180, 
 183 
 
 Sarah Hussey-, Mrs., 178, 183, 
 
 I 9o> I 9S> 2IO > 222 > 22 4 
 Sarah Hussey-, 183, 190, 196, 
 
 205, 210, 218 
 Sophia Anne, 155, 156, 157, 
 
 180, 183, 230 
 
 R 
 
 Delaval Family (continued) : — 
 
 Susannah, Lady, 130, 137, 140, 
 143, 151, 178, 183, 222 
 
 Susannah Eliz., Lady, 178, 181, 
 183, 191 
 
 Susannah, 180, 183, 251 
 
 Thomas, 115, 130, 131, 132, 
 142, 143, 147, 150, 160, 168, 
 181, 183, 194 
 
 William, 124 ; 182 
 Delaval Papers, 130, 133, 143, 144 
 De Laval, Lordship, 123 
 Delavaliad, The, 163 
 "Despatch," A, 169 
 Despencer, Lady Le, 112 
 Devereux, Henry and Mrs., 155 
 
 Robert, Earl of Essex, 48 
 Dillington, Amy and Anthony, 42 
 Dimock, Humphrey, 81, 84 
 Disney, Daniel, 87 
 
 Nele and Richard, 82, 84 
 
 Molyneux, 83 
 
 John, 33 
 
 Sir William, 18, 33 
 William, 10 ; 83 
 
 Dissington, 123, 126, 128, 184 
 
 Docwra, Edward, 78, 81, 84 
 
 Doda, Dodings, 2 
 
 Doddington — 
 
 Acreage, situation, &c, 1 
 Church, 4, 62, 15 1 -3, 179, 192, 
 
 228-232 
 Cottage, 167 
 Endowments, 238, 239 
 Engraving of, 105, 154,229 
 Farms, 150, 243-245 
 Hall, 59, 94, 191, 216-227 
 Manor, 46, 53, 54, 56, 64, 65, 
 
 111, 113, 115 
 Moor, 55, 149, 245 
 Name, 2, 28 
 
 Parish Registers, 101, 114, 232-5 
 
 Park, 54, 106, in, 113 
 
 Poor, 97, 98, 112, 116, 131, 176, 
 
 177, 178 
 Population, 1, 57, 103, 108, 247 
 Rainfall, 248 
 
 Rectory, 5, 39, 173, 174, 181, 
 
 2 35. 239 
 Surveys of, 150, 175, 228 
 Village, 243 
 
 Woods, 4, 5, 10, 35, 54, 95, 
 
 112, 154, 155, 189, 190, 192, 
 245, 246 
 
 Domesday Book, 3, 5, 228 
 Dowbiggin, Sub-dean, 153 
 
258 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Drinsey Nook, 155, 243, 246 
 Drokenesford, John de, 12 
 Drury, Sir Drew, 51, 52 
 Dryby, Sir Simon de, 10 
 Dunham Ferry, 170; Manor, 31, 36 
 Dye, Bridget, 61, 62, 67, 97, 240, 250 
 
 Charles, 61, 67, 95, 97, 250 
 Dyghton, William, 22, 236 
 Dymoke, Hon. John, 153 
 Dymoke, Sir Thomas, 32 
 
 Eagle, 1, 39, 40, 83, 101, 247 
 Earsdon, co. Northld., 123, 178, 181 
 Eastland, Amy and Francis, 43 
 Eden, Archibald D., 212 
 
 Emma Louisa, 212 
 
 Martha, 210, 220 
 
 Mary, 209, 210, 224 
 
 Robert, 209, 210, 220, 221, 224 
 Edgeworth's Memoirs, 141, 142 
 Edward I., 9, 10, 11 
 Edward IV., 31, 35 
 Eleanor of Castile, 11 
 Ellis, William, 238 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 46, 47, 49 
 Ellys, Elizabeth, 107, no, III, 113, 
 119, 121, 123, 220, 225 
 
 Sir Richard, 107, in, 112, 121, 
 225 
 
 Sir William, 107, III, 121 
 
 William, 61 
 Elwin, Rev. C, 193, 194 
 Endowments, 238, 239 
 Enfield, Eliz. and Wm., 117, 121 
 Etton, Sir John de, 22, 236 
 Evans, John, 101 
 Evelyn's Memoirs, 200. 201 
 Evesham, Battle of, 1 1 
 
 Fairfax, Ferdinando, Lord, 99, 121 
 Rhoda, Lady, 93, 96, 99, 100, 
 
 101, 121 
 Ursula, 99 
 Falkingham, Thomas, 81 
 Fane, Louisa and William, 215 
 Farms, 243-245 
 Fawkener, John, 25, 35, 236 
 Fee Farm Rent, 5, 14, 17, 40 
 Fenton-Cawthorne House, 166 
 Fenton, Rev. James, 174, 191, 192, 
 193, 231, 237, 240 
 James and John, 157, 180 
 Fergusson, Gen. Sir James, 212 
 
 Fevot, Rev. Mr., 170 
 
 Field Names, 243-245 
 
 Final Concords, 8, 25, 54, 56, 87 
 
 Fir Woods, 155, 245, 246 
 
 Fire at Doddington, 192 
 
 Fish Garths, 22 
 
 Fish-pond, Great, 191, 243, 247 
 Fitzhugh, Eliz., Lady, 34, 35. 50 
 
 George, Lord, 34, 50 
 
 Richard, Lord, 34, 50 
 Fitzwilliam, Bridget, 61, 67 
 
 Judith, 58, 62, 67 
 
 Robert, 58, 62, 64, 67 
 
 William, 61, 62, 67 
 Foljambe, Godfrey, 64 
 Foote, Samuel, 117, 136, 137, 143 
 Ford Castle, MSS., 20, 21, 26, 31, 
 
 32, 38, 54, 56, 68, 83, 104, 105, 
 
 145 
 
 Ford Castle, 126, 127, 130, 133, 140, 
 
 154, 167, 168, 180, 181, 194 
 Forster, John, m, 114, 116, 237 
 Foss-dyke, 1, 243 
 Foss-way, 1, 246 
 
 Foster, Bridget and Samuel, 172, 173 
 
 Robert, 172, 173 
 Fotherby, Rectory, &c, 63, 69 
 Franch, Franish, 65 
 Franke, Margery and William, 20 
 Franklin, Benjamin, 188 
 Frankpledge, View of, 12, 15, 113 
 Freeman, Amelia, 117 
 Free Warren, 10, 1 1 
 Frith, John, 236 
 Fuller's Worthies, 46, 71 
 
 Gainsborough, 92, 94, 99 
 Manor of, 30, 46, 48, 53 
 Marts, 47 
 
 Old Hall, 33, 34, 40, 41, 46 
 Parish Church, 34, 36, 52 
 Parish Register, 49 
 Galland, Thos. James, 193, 235, 238, 
 243 
 
 Gallows, Doddington, 10 
 Garrick, David, 138, 145 
 Gascoigne, Dorothy and Eliz , 20 
 
 George, 13, 20 
 
 James, 12, 20, 29; 20 
 
 Joan, 20, 23, 24 
 
 John, 20, 23, 24 
 
 Sir William and Joan, 20, 29 
 Gate Burton, 46 
 Gayton, Reginald, 71, 72 
 Germyn, Edward, 44, 236 
 
Index. 
 
 259 
 
 Gibbet, Tom Otter's, 216 
 Gilbert, Mr. Jobn, 45 
 Gloucester, Loss of the, 199, 200 
 Godfrey, Edw. Smith, 190 
 Goltho, 26, 31, 32, 34 
 Gonerby, 63, 92, 99 
 Goodyer, Edw. and Mary, 126 
 Gould, Sarah and Thomas, 112, 121 
 Gouldbrandsdall, Lords of, 123 
 Graffoe, Deanery, 2, 39 
 
 Hundred, 2 
 
 Wapentake, 9 
 Grantham, Faith, 57 
 
 Sir Thomas, 63 
 
 Vincent, 57, 67, 76 
 Grantham Library, 88 
 
 Poor of, 87, 97 
 Gray's Inn, 70, 71, 72, 73, 89, 97, 99 
 Gray's Letters, 148, 185 
 Green, Matilda and Sir Thomas, 41 
 Grey, Lady Anne, 75, 80 
 
 Dorothy and Sir Ralph, 182 
 
 Edw. and Margaret, 182 
 
 George, Earl of Kent, 75, 80, 
 84, 225 
 
 Henry, Lord, 31, 35, 37 
 
 Richard, Earl of Kent,(72, 73, 84 
 
 Sir Thomas, 182 
 Gunman Arms, 200, 202, 203, 204, 
 
 205, 206 
 Gunman Family : — 
 
 Anne, 204, 205 
 
 Capt. Christopher, 124, 196-201, 
 
 205, 218, 223, 224 
 Christopher, 201, 205 ; 203, 205 ; 
 
 204, 205 
 Edward, 203, 205 ; 204 
 Elizabeth, 203, 205 ; 204, 205 
 Essex, 203, 205 
 Hanson, 204, 205 
 James, 183, 190, 196, 204, 205, 
 
 206, 217 
 
 James, 201-3, 2 °S> 223 
 John, 201, 205 
 
 Katharine, 201, 205 ; 202, 205 
 Lydia, 202, 205 
 
 Sarah, 183, 190, 196, 205, 206. 
 
 207, 210, 225 
 
 William, 196, 205; 201, 205 
 Wyvill, 203, 205 
 Gunman Pedigree, 205 
 
 Haddington, 2, 3, 86 
 
 Hackthorn, 211, 213, 230 
 
 Hale, Great and Little, 86, 88, 92 
 
 Hall, Simon, 85 
 
 Rev. Thomas, 170 
 
 Rev. Westley, 170 
 Halton Holgate, 83, 86, 88 
 Hammond, Rev. Wm., 114, 116, 
 229, 230, 233, 237 
 
 Mrs. and Sarah, 116 
 Hansard, Bridget and Sir Wm., 57, 67 
 Hanson, Essex and Norton, 203, 
 205, 217 
 
 Francis and Prudence, 203 
 Harby, 1, 9, 11, 21, 26, 31, 33, 38 
 
 Chantry, n 
 
 Poor, 97 
 
 Woods and Leasehold, 115, 176, 
 192 
 
 Harcourt, Miss Nelly, 140 
 
 Hardcastle, Rev. Sandford, 135, 183 
 
 Hare, Rev. George, 174, 234, 238 
 
 Harmston, 2 
 
 Harneys, William, 236 
 
 Hartley Bottle Works, 129, 130, 132, 
 
 154, 168, 181 
 Hartsholme, 46, 245, 247 
 Harvey, Sir Gerald, 20 
 Hastings, Lord, 128; 134 
 
 Sir Richard, 33 
 
 Stephen de, 10, 236 
 
 William, Lord, 33, 38 
 Hay, Sir William, 194 
 Heneage, Katharine and William, 60 
 
 Sir George and William, 64 
 Henry III., 8, 9 
 Henry VII., 33, 36, 71, 73, 236 
 Henry VIII., 37, 41, 51, 74 
 Heron. Elizabeth, 126 
 
 Sir Wm. and Lady, 127 
 Heronry, 245 
 Heywood, Jane, 62 
 Hickes, Dr. George, 102, 103 
 Hickman, William, 48 
 Hicks, Elizabeth, 175 
 Hill, James, 154 
 Hilton, Anne and Thomas, 182 
 
 Hawise and Godfrey, 22, 26, 33 
 Hoese, Huse, Barons, 70, 114 
 Holbeach, Anne and Roger, 43 
 Holcroft, Mr., 45, 51 
 Holies, Gervase, 34, 37, 60, 72 
 Hollingworth, Jane, 58, 60, 67 
 
 Leon, 56, 58, 62, 64, 68 
 
 Martin, 58, 67 
 Holly, Great, 226, 227 
 Honington, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 
 
 95) 97) IOO > I0I > 151 
 Church, 97, 106, 107, in, 114 
 Parish Registers, 11 7- 119 
 Poor of, 87, 97. 112, 116 
 
26o 
 
 History of Doddmgton. 
 
 Hop-garden, 149, 157, 164, 244 
 Horbury, John de, 13 
 Horlaston, John de, 10 
 Horsley, James and John, 124 
 Horsman, Thomas, 85, 120, 250 
 
 Sir Thomas, 85, 250 
 Houghton Conquest, 12, 18, 19, 23 
 Howard, Lady Frances, 224 
 
 Katharine, 41 
 
 Hannah, 109; Mary, 112 
 Howitt, William, 129, 139, 157, 180 
 Hoyle, Rev. Rowland, 193, 234, 
 
 235, 238 
 Hrapelu, 2 
 
 Hughes, Pvobert, 202, 205 
 Humfrey, Anne, 67 
 Hundon, Thomas, 26, 27, 33 
 Hundred Rolls, 9, 10 
 Hungate, Ralph, 72 
 Hungerford, Margaret, Lady, 32 
 
 Waller, Lord, 81, 84 
 Hurton, Bridget, 157, 172, 173 
 
 Elizabeth, 158, 172, 173 
 
 Mary, 157, 173 
 
 Robert Pregion, 114, 149, 153, 
 
 158, 171, 172, 174, 175. 233. 
 
 234, 237, 238, 240 
 Hussey Arms, 71, 72, 82, 85, 100, 
 
 107, 115, 130 
 Hussey Family : — 
 Agnes, 73 
 Alvered, 85, 120 
 Lady Anne, 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 
 
 84, 225 
 Anne, Lady, 72, 74 
 Anne Lady, 83, 85, 120 
 Anne, 53, 56, 85, 120; 73; 81, 
 
 84 ; 82, 84 ; 84 ; 88, 89, 120 ; 
 
 96, 97, 98, 118, 120 
 Bridget, 80, 81, 82, 84, 87 ; 96, 
 
 97, 98, 118, 120 
 
 Sir Charles, 85, 86, 87, 88, 118, 
 
 120, 250, 251 
 Sir Charles, 88, 89, 90, 92, 120 
 Sir Charles, 69, 96, 97, 98, 108, 
 
 118, 119, 120 
 Charles, 85, 86, 87, 120 
 Dorothy, 78, 81, 84 ; 85, 120 
 Sir Edward, 39, 66, 67, 70, 88, 
 
 89, 90, 91. 92, 93, 95, Il8 > 
 
 120, 250, 251 
 Sir Edward, 108 
 Edward, 69, 96, 98, 118, 121 ; 
 
 ioo, 119, 121 ; 108, 119, 121 
 Elizabeth, Lady, 61, 69, 89, 93, 
 
 95, 102, 120 
 Elizabeth, Lady, 71, 72, 84 
 
 Hussey Family (continued) : — 
 
 Elizabeth, Lady, 96, 97, 119, 
 121 
 
 Elizabeth, 70, 84; 73, 84; 81, 
 84; 85 ; 120; 87, 118, 120; 
 85, 120 ; 118, 120; 100, 119, 
 120; 106, 107, III, 112, 121, 
 251 
 
 Ellen, or Helen, 86, 120, 251 ; 
 
 88, 89, 120 
 George, 72 
 
 Gilbert, 79, 81, 84, 84; 84 
 
 Sir Giles, 79, 81, 84 
 
 Sir Henry, 108 ; Henry, 108, 121 
 
 Jane, Lady, 85, 86, 120 
 
 Jane, 98, 118, 120; 96, 99, 100, 
 
 119, 121 ; 84, 86 
 John, Lord, 37, 39, 40, 71, 72, 
 
 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 
 
 84, 114, 224, 225 
 
 John, 70, 84 ; 84, 86 ; 73 ; 86, 
 87, 118, 120; 85, 120; 118, 
 120; 94, 97, 121 ; 108, 121 
 
 Katharine, 85, 120 
 
 Margaret, 80, 84; 85, 120; 88, 
 120; 88, 120 
 
 Mary, Lady, 100, 101, 121 
 
 Mary, 72, 73, 84; 80, 81, 84; 
 
 85, 120; 98, 118, 119, 120; 
 96 97, 100, 101, 121 
 
 Matilda, 88, 120 
 
 Nele, 82, 84 
 
 Sir Nicholas, 39^ 
 
 Nicholas, 85, 120 
 
 Peter, Archdeacon, 84 
 
 Rebecca, 98, 118, 120; 106, 107, 
 
 108, 109, 110, ill, 112, 119, 
 
 121, 224 
 Rhoda, 93, 99, 119, 121; 100, 
 
 119, 121 ; 108, 119, 121 
 Sir Robert, 39, 53, 56, 72, 73, 
 
 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 120, 
 
 250 
 
 Robert, 85, 120; 89, 118, 120; 
 
 108, 119, 121, 251 
 Sarah, Lady, 101, 107, 119, 121, 
 
 224, 251 
 Sarah, 118, 120; 106, 108, 112, 
 
 113, 114, 119, 121, 183, 251 
 Susan, 118, 120 
 
 Sir Thomas, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 
 101, 102-6, 108, 114, 119, 
 121, 122, 123, 183,216,220, 
 224, 232, 237, 251 
 
 Thomas, 79, 84 ; 81, 84 ; 84 ; 
 85, 86, 120 ; 91, 92, 97, 98, 
 99, 100, 119, 121; 107,119,121 
 
Index. 
 
 261 
 
 Hussey Family (continued) : — 
 
 Sir William C. J., 70, 71, 73, 
 
 83, 84 
 Sir William, 72, 79, 84 
 Sir William, 37, 77, 79, 80, 82, 
 
 84 
 
 Sir William, 96, 100, 101, 119, 
 121 
 
 William, 73 ; 85, 120 ; 118, 121 ; 
 108, no, 119, 121, 251 
 Hussey, Name, 70 
 Hussey Pedigree, 84, 120, 121 
 Hussey Tower, 80 
 Hutton, Rev. H. F., 213 
 
 Rev. H. W., 212 
 
 Lucy Caroline, 213 
 Hykeham, 1, 2, 3, 46. 54, 65, 102, 
 218 
 
 Hykeham Workhouse, 178 
 
 Ingram, Arms, &c, 204, 206 
 Inquis. p.m., 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 
 21, 22, 23, 27, 29, 45, 63, 82 86 
 Isabella, Queen, 14 
 Islep, Henry de, 10 
 
 Jarvis Family (continued) : — 
 Frances Jane, 211 
 Francis Amcotts, 213 
 George Eden, 214, 215, 221 
 George Knollis, 41, 66, 211, 213, 
 
 218, 219, 225, 230, 231, 237 
 George R. P., 196, 206, 208, 
 
 209, 213, 216, 218, 221, 230, 
 
 237, 243 
 Henry George, 212, 230 
 Isabella P., 212 
 Jane, 210 
 
 John Campbell, 208 
 
 John George, 212 
 
 Lucy Caroline, 213 
 
 Mary Eden, 211 
 
 Philadelphia, 209, 211 ; 212 
 
 Rachel, 208, 209 
 
 Thomas, 208 ; 208 ; 210 
 Jarvis, Mount, 208, 209 
 Jeffarson, Shute, 232, 237 
 Jenkin, George and Philadelphia, 212 
 Jolyf, William, 22, 236 
 John, King, 8 
 John, King of France, 18 
 Jon, Mr. John, 62 
 Joseph, G. F., 188, 207, 219, 224 
 Joynes, John, 97, 98, 102, 103, 237 
 
 Jadis, Henry, 156, 181 
 
 John Max, 155, 156, 180, 183 
 
 Sophia Ann, 154, 155, 156, 180, 
 183, 230 
 Jarvis Arms, 215 
 Jarvis Family : — 
 
 Agnes Lucy, 213 
 
 Alice Louisa, 215 
 
 Anne Eliz., 213 
 
 Anne Fector, 212 
 
 Augusta, 211, 230 
 
 Bertie Entwisle, 213 
 
 Bertie George, 213 
 
 Caroline Annie, 214, 230 
 
 Caroline O. M. Vere, 213 
 
 Charles Edwin, 213 
 
 Charles, F. C, 213 
 
 Charles M. G., 211, 228, 230, 
 231. 235, 237, 238, 245 
 
 Edwin George, 213 
 
 Elizabeth, 212 
 
 Emily, 214, 230 
 
 Emily L. H., 214 
 
 Emma Louisa, 212 
 
 Fanny, 212 
 
 Frances, 210, 211 
 
 Frances Amcotts, 213 
 
 Katharine of Aragon, 74 
 Katharine's, St,, Lincoln, n, 21, 57 
 Kent, George, Earl of, 75, 80, 84, 
 225 
 
 Richard, Earl of, 72, 73, 84 
 Kent, George Davies, 234, 238 
 
 Thomas, 104 
 Kerr, Charles and Jane, 117 
 Kermond, John and Maude, 30 
 Killingholme, Walter de, 7 
 Kip, John, 106 
 Knaith, 46 
 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 1 10, 220, 224 
 Knight, Frances, 61, 67, 97 
 
 Susannah E., 175, 178, 181, 183 
 
 William, 61, 67 ; 92 
 Knollys, Gen. and Sir Wm., 213 
 Knyff, Leonard, 106 
 Knyvett, Thomas, 51, 52, 56 
 
 La Hogue, Battle of, 125 
 Lambeth, 44, 46, 156 
 Lambert, John, 236 
 
 S 
 
262 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Langham, Sir John, 101, 106, 107, 
 121, 224 
 
 Sarah, 101, 106, 107, 121, 224 
 Langton, Robert de, 14, 16, 17, 236 
 Latimer, Eliz. and William, 18 
 
 Family, 12 
 
 John, Lord, 41, 51 
 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 206, 218 
 Lay Subsidy, 22 
 Lea, 46 
 
 Leeke, John, 26, 27, 236 
 Legend of Ram's Head, 193, 194 
 Leland, Itinerary, 34, 36 
 Lely, Sir Peter, 224, 225 
 Leslie, Lady Anne, 125 
 Leven, Alexander, Earl of, 125 
 Lillie, Thomas, 95, 97 
 Lilly, Aquila and John, 43 
 
 Edward, 97 
 Lily, Miss, 172 
 Lincoln Ancoresse, 35 
 
 Cathedral, 62, 88 
 
 City, 1, 8, 17, 94, 226 
 
 Corporation Records, 61 , 104, 
 105 
 
 Dean and Chapter, 11, 87, 115 
 Edward, Earl of 44, 51 
 Elections, 164, 165, 166 
 Freemen, 164 
 New Charter, 104 
 Poor, 97 
 
 Poor Debtors, 109, no, 112 
 Lincolnshire Insurrection, 40, 76, 77 
 Lindsey, Earl of, 104, 105 
 Lingfield, 44, 45 
 Linwood in Blankney, 83, 85 
 Lloyd, Canon Charles, 213 
 
 Caroline O. M. V., 213 
 Locke, John, 224 
 Longoboby, 2 
 Lovell Arms, 82 
 
 Lovell, Sir Rob. and Ursula, 82, 84 
 
 Lowth Arms, 210 
 
 Lowth, Margaret, 210, 220 
 Martha, 210, 220, 221 
 Bishop Robert, 210, 220 
 William, 210, 219; 220 
 
 Lucy, Elizabeth, Lady, 30, 50 
 Margaret, Lady, 50 
 Rebecca and Richard, 99 
 Sir William, 30, 50 
 
 Lumby, William, 149, 152, 173, 174, 
 220, 235 
 
 Lutton, Northants., 112, 113 
 
 Lytton, Dame Rebecca, 99 
 Sir Roland, 99 
 
 Mablethorpe, 61, 62, 64 
 Mackenzie's Northumberland, 169 
 Mamhead, co. Devon, 101, in 
 Manners, Henry, Earl of Rutland, 
 
 81, 84 
 Marc, Philip, 8 
 
 Margetson, Anne and James, 67 
 Mark, A, 19 
 Markham, Frances, 96 
 
 Sir George, 184 
 
 Rebecca and Sir Robert, 96, 98, 
 120 
 
 Marlborough, Duke of, 198, 200 
 Marmion, 72 
 Marton, 46 
 Martyn, John, 27 
 Marston Church, 85 250 
 Massingberd, Dorothy and John, 85, 
 120 
 
 Mason, William, 185 
 Meres, Sir Thomas, 104, 105 
 Methley, co. York, 135, 141, 190 
 Mexborough, John, 1st Earl, 135, 
 144, 179, 207 
 
 John, 2nd Earl, 135, 179, 194, 
 196, 207 
 
 John, 3rd Earl, 180 
 
 4th Earl, 135 
 
 Eliz., Countess of, 179 
 
 Sarah, Countess of, 116, 132, 
 133, 135. HO, 142, 143. 179, 
 193, 194, 196, 221, 225 
 Milbanke, Anne, Lady, 135, 185 
 
 Sir Ralph, 181, 183 
 Mitford, Sir John and Margaret, 124 
 Modena, Mary of, 224 
 Moigne, Thomas, 53, 67 
 Moll, Jane and William, 208 
 Monson, Sir Henry, 105 
 
 John and Mary, 85, 120 
 
 Sir John, 90 
 Monboucher, Isabella, 30, 50 
 
 Sir Nicholas and Ralph, 30, 50 
 Moore, Anne, 104, 251 
 
 Elizabeth, 251 
 
 William, 103, 104, 232, 233, 
 
 237, 251 
 
 Morris, Charles, 134, 147, 183 
 
 Morrison, Bridget, Lady, 81, 82, 84 
 Sir Charles, 81, 87 
 Sir Richard, 8i, 82, 84 
 
 Mortuaries, 234 
 
 Mottington, Peter de, 10 
 
 Mount Joshua, 208, 209 
 
 Mountjoy, Edw,, Lord, 35, 50 
 
 Munchensi, 12, 52 
 
 Mundson, Wm., 26, 27, 33 
 
Index. 
 
 263 
 
 Musgrave, Sir Wm., 43, 51 
 Musical Glasses, 185, 188 
 Mussendine, Bernard, 26, 27, 32, 38 
 Faith, 58, 62 
 
 Navenby, 2, 173 
 
 Nesbitt, John, 178, 190, 231, 240, 
 241 
 
 Nessfield, Eliz., 70, 84 
 
 Nevil, Agnes de, 8, 29 
 
 Lord Latimer, 12, 41, 51 
 
 Nevile, Sir Anthony, 43, 51 
 Christopher, 153 
 Capt. George, 153 ; 171 
 
 Newark-on-Trent, 8, 89, 90, 92, 94, 
 98, 153, 172, 173, 226 
 
 Newark Chantry House, 1 72, 1 73 
 Church, 34, 172, 173 
 Election, 159, 184, 185 
 
 Newburn, co. Northld., 123, 126, 127 
 
 Newcastle Elections, 160 
 
 Nicholson, Rev. George, 232 
 
 Nocton, in, 112 
 
 Nocton, Rev. Thomas, 174, 234, 238 
 Northumberland Elections, 159 
 Norton Disney, 2, 10, 27, 82, 87 
 Norton, Sir Thomas, 203, 204, 217 
 
 Oliver, V. L., Hist, of Antigua, 209 
 
 Orange Frigate, 197, 224 
 
 Ord, Mary and Ralph, 126, 182 
 
 Othello, 138, 144 
 
 Otter, Joan and John, 112 
 
 Tom, 218 
 Ounesby, Wm. (Bangard) de, 16, 17, 
 
 18, 19, 21, 23, 236 
 Overseers' Accounts, 176, 177, 242 
 Owen, Elizabeth, 41, 51 
 
 Sir Thomas, 41, 42, 51 
 Packe, Hussey, 108 
 Parish Books, 152, 176, 177, 178, 
 192, 228, 239, 241 
 
 Clerks, 242 
 
 Houses, 176, 177 
 
 Registers, 101, 102, 153, 155, 
 157, 173. 232-235 
 Parliament Place, House in, 187, 
 
 I 93> I 9S> 2 °7. 2I 9> 22 °> 22 5 
 Parr, Queen Katharine, 41, 51 
 
 Sir Thos. and Matilda, 41, 51 
 Patent Rolls, 16, 17 
 Payne, Sir Ralph, 209 
 
 Paynel, Sir Hugh, 13 
 Sir John, 21 
 
 Sit Ralph, 12, 14, 21, 29 
 Peacock, Amelia, 117 
 Peart, Original, 104 
 Pelham, Anne and Charles, 98, 120 
 Penitent, The Fair, 144, 145 
 Pepys, Samuel, 124, 197 
 Percy, Elizabeth, 30, 37, 50 
 
 Sir Henry, 30, 31, 37, 50 
 
 Margaret, 31, 37 
 Peterborough Cathedral, 80 
 Picture, The, by G. Wilmore, 226, 
 
 227 
 
 Picot, Othemyles, 5 
 Picot, son of Colswegen, 5, 6 
 Picot, Pigot, Name, 6, 12 
 Pigot (Pygot, Picot, Pycot, Pikot, 
 Pykot) 
 
 Arms, 12, 13, 20, 22 
 
 Adam, of Wotton, 16 
 
 Agnes, 8, 29 
 
 Alexander, 8, 29, 236 
 
 Baldwin, 9, 29 
 
 Sir Baldwin, 12, 13, 29 ; 20, 23, 
 29 
 
 Elizabeth, 9, 21, 29 
 
 Dame Elizabeth, 22, 23, 24, 25, 
 
 26, 27, 29, 31, 32 
 Hugh, 10, 29, 236 
 Sir Hugh, 8, 9, 13, 29, 236 
 Isabel, 9, 29; 18, 19, 20, 23, 29 
 Joan, 20, 23, 29 
 John, 6, 29 
 
 Sir John, 9, 10, 29, 236 
 
 John, son of Baldwin, 13, 14, 
 
 15, 16, 17, 29, 236 
 John, son of Michael, 14, 29 
 John, of Ronhale, 15, 16, 17, 18 
 John, son of John, 17, 18, 19, 
 
 23, 29, 236 
 Sir John, 20, 21, 22, 29 
 Sir John, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 236 
 Lucia, 11, 29 
 Margery, 9, 29 
 
 Matilda, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 29 
 
 Michael, 11, 12, 29 
 
 Roger, 11, 29 
 
 William, 7, 29 
 Pigot, of Clotheram, 
 
 Jane, Thomas, 81, 84 
 
 Sir Ranulph, 81, 84 
 Pigot Farm, 28, 245 
 Pigot's Hall, or Manor, 9 
 Pitt, Margaret, Robert, &c, 219, 220 
 Playters, Rebecca and Thomas 99 
 
264 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Pollard, Richard, 59, 232, 236 
 Pollington, Lord, 135, 186, 207, 225 
 Pond, Arthur, 131, 179, 221 
 Poolham, Manor of, 53 
 Poor of Doddington, 97, 98, 112, 
 
 116, 176, 177, 178 
 Population, 57, 59, 103, 247 
 Porter, Eliz. and John, 85, 120 
 Portes, William, 130, 149, 150, 152, 
 
 155, 163, 164, 165, 174, 243 
 Potter, John and Susannah, 116, 137, 
 
 148, 180, 183 
 Powdales, The, 55, 64, 65 
 Powlett. Rev, Charles, 203, 205 
 
 Lady Isabella, 136, 137, 183 
 
 Lord Nassau, 136, 142, 183 
 Pretyman, Chancellor, and Emily, 
 
 214 
 
 Price of Stock, 1781, 176 
 Pye, Robert, 22, 236 
 
 Quadring, Ralph and Wm., 85, 120 
 
 Rainfall, Annual, 248 
 Ram's Head Legend, 194 
 Rectors, Rectory, 173, 174, 235-7 
 Rede, Eliz. and John, 45, 51 
 
 Eliz. and Francis, 49, 51 
 Rees, Rev. Thos., 174, 234, 238 
 Registers, Bishop's, 8, 232, 233 
 
 Parish, 101, 102, 153, 155, 157, 
 173, 232-5 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 133, 135, 141, 
 
 147, 179, 222, 225 
 Riby, Manor of, 63, 64, 69 
 Richard II., 22, 236 
 Richard III., 33, 71 
 Riddell, Mary and Sir Peter, 124 
 Roach, Miss, 137, 138, 143 
 Robinson, Andrew S., 160 
 
 Mr. J., 124, 130 
 
 R. and Susannah, 148, 180, 183 
 Rocliff, Bryan, 33, 38 
 
 Guy, 50 
 Rogers, Anne tmd John, 126 
 Rokeby, Katharine, 58, 62 
 Rokewood, Alice and Edmund, 41, 
 
 44, 5° 
 Roll of Battle Abbey, 5 
 Rolliad, The 161, 162 
 Ronhale (Renhold), 12, 13, 15, 16, 
 
 17, 18 
 
 Roos, Margaret and Thomas, 30 
 
 Margaret and Thos., Lord, 31, 
 SO 
 
 Rotuh Chartarum, 10 
 
 Rotuli Claus., 8, 13 
 Rotuli Curia Regis, 6, 29 
 Rotuli Hundred, 10, 29 
 Rotuli de Oblatis, 7, 29 
 Rotuli Selecti, 9 
 Roxton, Manor of, 64 
 Rutland, Henry, Earl of, 81, 84 
 
 Thomas, Earl of, 40 
 Ryther, John ; Sir John, 73 
 
 St. Alban, Adam de, 8, 236 
 St. Albans, Battle of, 20, 26 
 St. George's, Hanover Square, 131, 
 
 132. 133. r 34, 180, 211, 252 
 St. George's Hospital, 117 
 St. Martin's, Lincoln, 57. 58, 60, 65, 
 
 66, 89 
 
 St. Oswald's, Durham, 103 
 St. Paul, Dame Faith, 57, 58 
 
 Sir Thomas, 57 
 St. Peter-at- Arches, 65, 102, 114 
 Salvaine, Anne and Sir John, 72, 84 
 Sanderson, Bishop, 35, 102, 103 
 Savile, Dame Anne, 53, 85, 120 
 
 Hon. Charles, 135, 206, 207 
 
 Hon. Henry, 135 
 
 John, Lord, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 
 
 85, 249 
 Sir Robert, 53, 85, 120 
 Thomas, Earl of Sussex, 53, 249 
 Saye, Anne and Sir Thos., 83, 85, 86 
 120 
 
 Scarle, North, 2, 94, 102, 193 
 Scott, Emily L. H., 214 
 
 Gen. and Lady Mary, 170 
 
 George, Sarah, Wm., 183, 190 
 
 Major Henry, 214 
 
 General Sir John, 214 
 Scremby, Matilda and Sir Peter, 18, 
 
 23 
 
 Seaton Delaval, 123, 124, 125, 126, 
 127, 128, 129, 132, 134, 139, 
 140, 144, 145, 154, 167, 168, 
 175, 178, 180, 184, 194, 195 
 221 
 
 Seaton Chapel, 128, 153, 179, 195 
 Sluice, 124, 129, 132, 168 
 White Lady of, 154 
 Sedeyn, Thomas, 22, 236 
 Selby, Eliz. and Sir George, 126, 182 
 Sempringham, 72, 79 
 Servants at the Hall, 169, 170, 171 
 Seymour, Thomas, Lord, 51 
 Shafto, Edw. and Mary, 127, 182 
 Shafto-Delaval, George, 127, 159, 
 182 
 
/ ndex. 
 
 265 
 
 Sherbrooke, Alice L. and Henry, 215 
 
 Robert, Viscount, 215 
 Ship Money, 68 
 
 Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 179, 202, 223 
 Shrewsbury, Earl of, 76, 77 
 Shuttleworth, Edmund, 62, 64 
 Sikes, Joseph; Rev. Joseph, 173 
 
 Mrs. Mary, 157, 173 
 Silver Plates, 115 
 Singleton, Martha and Mary, 114 
 
 Rev. Wm., 114, 233, 237 
 Skellingthorpe, 1, 2, 3, II, 46, 54, 
 
 97, 109, 171, T 93. 222, 226, 237, 
 . 244 
 Skinnand, 2 
 
 Skipwith, Sir Richard and Wm., 73 
 Sleaford, Old, 70, 72, 76, 78, 79, 
 80, 86 
 
 Smith, Augustine, 95, 97 
 
 J. T., 187 
 Smyth, William, of Donington, 40 
 Sole Bay, Battle of, 197 
 Somerton Castle, 18, 92, 97 
 Spalford, 33, 38, 226, 244 
 Speculum Diceceseos, 108, 114 
 Spencer, Thomas, 39, 40, 236 
 Stainton Vicarage, 171, 237 
 Stanhope, Ann Hussey, Lady, 116, 
 134, 135. 143, 144-7. 158, 183, 
 207, 221 
 
 Arthur and Philip, 145, 146 
 
 Miss, 146 
 
 Sir William, 134, 145, 146, 183 
 Stanley, Eliz. and John, 26, 27, 29, 
 236 
 
 Dean, Memorials, 179, 184 
 Stapleford, 2 
 
 Stayngreve, Isabella and John, 14 
 
 Sterborough Castle, 35, 44, 45 
 
 Stoke, Battle of, 73 
 
 Stone, Henry, 105, 222 
 
 Stow : Church, Hall, Park, Prebend, 
 
 42, 43, 52, 92, 94, 218 
 Strabolgi, David de, 30 
 Stratford, George, 102 
 Strathmore, Earl and Countess of, 
 
 160, 178 
 Stydolfe, Eliz. and Thomas, 84 
 
 Jane, 85, 120 
 Sturges, Frances, 210 
 
 John and Margaret, 210, 220 
 Sturges-Bourne, William, 211 
 Surveys, 54, 150, 175 
 Sutton, Henry and Robert, 85, 120 
 
 Katharine and Richard, 9 
 
 Sir Robert and Roland, 9, 29 
 
 Robert, 76 
 Swinderby, 2, 171 
 Swinethorpe, 1, 39, 243 
 
 Tailbois, Eliz., Lady, 51 
 
 Sir George, 34, 50 
 
 Gilbert, Lord, 44 
 
 Margaret, Lady, 34, 50 
 
 Walter, 26, 27, 33 
 
 Sir William, 31, 32, 34 
 Tailor, Bridget, 57, 58, 67 
 
 Edward, George, James, 62 
 
 Elizabeth, 58, 60, 67 
 
 Jane, 58, 60, 67 ; 58, 60, 61, 
 67, 89 
 
 Judith, 58, 67 
 
 Thomas, sen , 40, 56, 57, 58, 
 
 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 67, 89, 98, 
 
 216, 224, 249, 250 
 Thomas, jun., 56, 60, 62, 65, 
 
 66, 67, 68, 89, 94, 95, 102, 
 
 120 
 
 Thomas, 58, 67 ; 167 
 Tapestry, 221, 222 
 Tathwell, John and Martha, 43 
 Taylor, Dr. Charles, 188 
 Taxatio Ecclesiaslica, 11,238 
 Taxes, 168, 192 
 Temporal, Thomas, 218 
 Tenants, Doddington, 38, 55, 95, 
 
 116, 175, 191 
 Terrars, 54, 239 
 Test Act, 103 
 Testa de Nevil, 2, 6 
 Tetford, Manor of, 64, 69 
 Thanet, Rich, Earl of. 136, 183 
 Thibou, Dorothy and Jacob 209 
 
 Rachel, 209 
 Thimelby, Anne and Matthew, 53, 
 56, 85, 120 
 
 Richard, 26, 27 ; 85, 86 
 
 Stephen, 55, 56, 85, 87 
 Thomas, Richard, IQ3, 238 
 
 Mr. Walter B.. 20, 181 
 Thorney, 4, 153, 226 
 Thornton, Abbot of, 10 
 Thorold, Sir Anthony, 87 
 
 Margaret and William, 85, 87, 
 120, 250, 251 
 Thorpe, John de, 21, 236 
 
 Thomas, 22, 236 
 Thorpe-on-the-Hill, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 
 
 10, 11, 14, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 
 
 39. 32, 33. 38, 40, 102, 171, 193, 
 
 237, 246 
 
 Throckmorton, Eliz. and Sir Robert, 
 
 81, 84 
 Thurlby, 2 
 
 Tomlinson, Amy and Wm., 43 
 Topcliffe, Margaret and Robert, 38, 
 
 43, 5i 
 Torksey Castle, 59, 94 
 Touchet, Hon. George, 181 
 
266 
 
 History of Doddington. 
 
 Toward, Henry, 44, 236 
 
 Tower, Amelia and Christopher, 214 
 
 Transcripts, Bishop's, 59, 118, 232, 
 
 249, 251 
 Travelling, 169, 170 
 Trehampton, Sir Ralph de, 10 
 Trent, 1, 21, 22, 94, 226, 244 
 Trigge, Francis and Thomas, 87, 88, 
 
 120 
 
 Trollope, AnneEliz. and Arthur, 213 
 Tumor, Christopher, 40 
 
 Sir Edmund, 40 ; Edmund, 41 
 Tyrconnel, George, Earl of, 145, 157, 
 158, 169, 181, 183 
 
 Sarah, Countess of, 145, 151, 
 I 57, 158, 178, 181, 183, 222 
 Tyrwhit, Agnes and Sir Wm., 41, 50 
 
 Sir Robert, 38, 40, 77 
 
 Sir Thomas, 195 
 
 Valence, De, 30, 52 
 Valor Ecclesiasticus , 39, 83, 238 
 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 129, 168 
 Vaughan, Frances and John, 48, 51 
 Vaux, Eliz. and William, 24, 25, 29, 
 236 
 
 Venables, Precentor, 152 
 Visiiation of Beds., 13, 20 
 Hunts., 113 
 
 Lines., 13, 52, 66, 82, 88, 89 
 
 Yorks., 11, 13, 20 
 Vitalis, Abbot, 4 
 Vyner, Mr., 165, 172 
 
 Waddington, 2 
 
 Wake Arms, 12, 20 
 
 Wake Family, 12 
 
 Wake, Baldwin, 8, 11, 13, 29 
 
 Elizabeth, 13, 14 
 
 Sir Hugh, 12 ; 12 
 
 Joan, 11, 12, 29 
 
 Thomas, 15 
 Walgrave, Dr., 116 
 Wallop, Sir Henry, 47 
 Walpole, Horace, 138, 139, 141, 144, 
 
 145, 146 
 
 Washingley, co. Hunts , 112, 117, 
 119 
 
 Waterford, Henry, Marquis of, 181 ; 
 181 
 
 Louisa, Marchioness of, 21 
 Susannah Hussey, Marchioness 
 of, 181 
 
 Watson, Cecilia and Joel, 132, 183 
 Welbourn, 2, 87, 88 
 Wellingore, 2, 153 
 
 Welles, Richard, Lord, 26, 32, 33 
 
 Sir Robert, 32, 33 
 Wells, Bishop Hugh de, 8, 235 
 Wesley, Rev. John, 170, 209 
 
 Kezia and Martha, 170 
 
 Rev. Samuel, 170 
 Westminster Abbey, 4, 178, 179, 194, 
 228 
 
 Abbot and Convent of, 3, 4, 5, 
 6, 10, 11, 14, 17, 21, 22, 24, 
 27, 40, 46, 65 
 
 St. Margaret's, 49, 52, 112, 135, 
 206 
 
 Weston, Sir Richard de, II 
 
 Sir William, 39 
 Wetherilde, Dorothy, 66 
 Whaplode, 63, 68 
 Wheathamstead, 8 
 Whethill, Richard, 84 
 Whisby, I, 2, 3, 5, 46, 54, 65, 97 
 
 Chapel, 172 
 
 Tithes, 172, 239 
 Widcombe Church, Bath, 133 
 Widdrington, Sir Henry and Mary, 
 
 182 
 
 Willeforce, W., 232 
 Williamson, Dorothy and Eliz., 112 
 Jane and Sir Thos., 96, 98, 118, 
 120 
 
 John and Robert, 96 
 
 Sir Joseph, 101, 197 
 Willoughby, Charles, Lord, 53 
 
 Katharine, 53 
 
 Sir Henry, 34, 50 
 
 Mary, Lady, 72, 73, 84 
 
 Richard, Lord, 32 
 
 Robert, Lord, 63 
 
 William, Lord, 73, 84 
 Wilson, Dr. Bernard, 184, 185 
 
 Rev. George, 114, 116, 171, 237 
 Window Tax, 167, 168, 192 
 Witham, 1, 226 
 
 Wraxall, Sir Nath., 158 160, 161, 
 162, 168 
 
 Wright, Dorothy and Sir Nathan, 1 1 7 
 Wyersdale, Wyerside. 157, 167, 180 
 Wymbushe, Thomas, 78, 81 
 Wyvill, Edw. and Eliz.. 203, 205 
 Francis and Katharine, 202, 205 
 
 York, Edw. Aug., Duke of, 144, 145, 
 158 
 
 Frederick, Duke of 158 
 James, Duke of, 197, 198, 199, 
 200, 218 
 
 fames Williamson, Printer, 290, High Street, Lincoln. 
 
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