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Northamptonshire Past and Present, No 62 JOURNAL OF THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY WOOTTON HALL PARK, NORTHAMPTON NN4 8BQ ORTHAMPTONSHIRE CONTENTS Page NPAST AND PRESENT Notes and News … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 5 Number 62 2009 £3.50 ‘A Nest of Warriors’ – the Holands of Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Record Society 1314-1373 Douglas Arden … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 7 A Family ‘Made by Maryage’: Sir Richard Wydevile and Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford Lynda J. Pidgeon … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 19 Where’s Whalley? The Search for Sir Samuel Uncovers a Whalley-Cartwright Alliance in Northamptonshire Gillian Ford … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 31 The London Accounts of Juliana, Lady Langham, 1774-1794 Judith Hodgkinson … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 45 The Letters of Jane Pope of Astrop Avril Pedley … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 51 Northamptonshire – You Can’t Get Away from It! A Diversion Into Archives Bruce A. Bailey … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 64 Village Friendly Societies in Nineteenth-Century Northamptonshire R. L. Greenall … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 69 ‘Disgraceful Brawls and Drunken Riots’: Disorder During Northampton Borough Elections (1768-1830) Zoe Dyndor … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 80 Prologue to Fascism – The New Party in Northampton 1931-1932 Philip M. Coupland … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 90 Book Reviews … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 98 Index … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 103 Cover illustration: The Northampton Election, 6 December 1830, by J. M. W. Turner (Tate Gallery) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT Number 62 (2009) 62 Number PRESENT AND PAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT 2009 Number 62 Instructions for Contributors All contributions must be provided in hard copy and electronic format on a disc, CD or as an attachment to an email, preferably in Word. Please use the existing house style of NP&P. Normally, the maximum length is 6,600 words. Shorter articles and small items are also welcome. Draft texts may be sent for discussion. Printed references used more than a few times should be abbreviated after the first time and referred back to the full citation. Each article should have at least one illustration and full articles at least three. All illustrations must be of good quality with copyright permission stated and obtained where appropriate. If digital illustrations are provided they should be in separate files, either JPEG or TIFF, preferably with a resolution of at least 300dpi. CONTENTS Page Notes and News … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 5 ‘A Nest of Warriors’ – the Holands of Northamptonshire 1314-1373 … … … … … 7 Douglas Arden A Family ‘Made by Maryage’: Sir Richard Wydevile and Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 19 Lynda J. Pidgeon Where’s Whalley? The Search for Sir Samuel Uncovers a Whalley-Cartwright Alliance in Northamptonshire … … … … … … … … … 31 Gillian Ford The London Accounts of Juliana, Lady Langham, 1774-1794 … … … … … … … 45 Judith Hodgkinson The Letters of Jane Pope of Astrop … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 51 Avril Pedley Northamptonshire – You Can’t Get Away from It! A Diversion Into Archives … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 64 Bruce A. Bailey Village Friendly Societies in Nineteenth Century Northamptonshire … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 69 R.L. Greenall ‘Disgraceful Brawls and Drunken Riots’: Disorder During Northampton Borough Elections (1768-1830) … … … … … … … … … … … 80 Zoe Dyndor Prologue to Fascism – The New Party in Northampton 1931-1932 … … … … … 90 Philip M. Coupland Book Reviews … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 98 Index … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 103 All communications regarding articles in this and future issues should be addressed to Barbara Hornby, Hon. Editor, Northamptonshire Record Society, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton, NN4 8BQ. Published by the Northamptonshire Record Society Number 62 ISSN 01490 9131 Typeset by John Hardaker, Wollaston, Northamptonshire and printed by Information Press Ltd, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4JB 5 THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY (FOUNDED IN 1920) WOOTTON HALL PARK, NORTHAMPTON NN4 8BQ President Lady Juliet Townsend LVO NOTES AND NEWS The journal this year is very people-oriented. A number of them are women, ranging from Maud Holand in the fourteenth century to Cynthia Mosley in the 1930s, with an actress and Lady Langham in between. Northampton politics feature in two of the papers and, in an oblique way, in a third. * * * * * As most of you know, the Library of the Record Society (Librarian: John Rigby BSc) is located in the same building as the Northamptonshire Record Office at Wootton Hall Park, Northampton. It is open to members between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday when Record Society staff are available. At other times, members may use the Library by showing their Society membership card at the Record Office reception. The Library contains some 3,000 volumes covering Northamptonshire and the former Soke of Peterborough; there are also many background historical works which have local as well as national relevance. Many books are available for loan, though multi-volume works are generally for reference only. Up to four books may be borrowed at any one time and the loan period is two months, which can be extended at the Librarian’s discretion. Anyone wishing to have a tour of the Library should contact the Society’s Secretary, David Harries, on 01604-762297 or by email to [email protected]. For a list of recent acquisitions please see the end of the Book Review section. * * * * * From Bruce Bailey comes this plea: I have been asked by Yale University Press to begin work on a revision of Pevsner’s Buildings of England: Northamptonshire. It was last correct- ed in 1973. I am very conscious that much research has been carried out on numerous buildings in the county and I am anxious that we should make a new edition as accurate as possible. PLEASE, therefore, if you have done research or know of people who have done research, would you let me know so that I can make contact. I see my role as sim- ply coordinator and I do rely on those who have information to help me in the task. There is no immediate rush as it is envisaged that the job will take three or four years to accom- plish. Communications can be by post to Bruce A. Bailey, Laundry Court, Drayton House, Lowick, Kettering NN14 3BB; by email to [email protected]; or by tele- phone to 01832-731779. * * * * * I would like to thank the authors and reviewers for the excellent material and David Harries and Jean Hall for their support in producing this issue. Do have a look at the web- site if you have not already done so: www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk. Barbara Hornby 6 northamptonshire past and present Notes on Contributors Douglas Arden is a semi-retired criminal barrister who discovered late in life the con- genial world of 14th century Northamptonshire, where royal administrations struggled to impose a degree of social compliance on a military class which had acquired a taste for lawlessness in the interminable and brutal English campaigns in France and Castile. Bruce Bailey is a freelance lecturer and architectural historian, and is Curator at Drayton House. He is a Council member of the Northamptonshire Record Society. Philip Coupland has spent most of his life in Northamptonshire. He was awarded an MA by the University of Birmingham and a PhD by the University of Warwick. He has written articles and chapters on fascism and other topics of British political history. After holding appointments in the Departments of History at Warwick and Glasgow, he continues to research and write for pleasure. Zoe Dyndor is currently a PhD student at the University of Northampton. She is research- ing political culture in 18th and 19th century Northampton through an examination of borough elections. Gillian Ford was born in Northampton and attended Northampton Grammar School for Girls. She and her family emigrated to New Zealand; later she lived in Australia and the United States. She now lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Gillian hopes to complete a graduate diploma in Local, Family and Applied History this year and begin studies for a PhD in history research next year. R. L. Greenall first came to work in Northamptonshire in 1965 as resident tutor in Northampton for the University of Leicester’s Department of Adult Education. He has since lectured and written extensively on the history of the county. For 26 years he was successively editor of this journal and general editor of the Society’s main series vol- umes. Judith Hodgkinson is a freelance lecturer, specialising in the history of the country house and undertaking a PhD on 18th century costume history based on the archive of the 6th Earl of Coventry of Croome Court, Worcestershire. Avril Pedley read history at Cambridge. Most of her career has been spent as an archivist and librarian in Baltimore, Cambridge and York but she has recently retired. She bought the Grose family papers, of which the letters of Jane Pope form a small fraction, in the 1970s and has been working on them as time allows ever since. Lynda Pidgeon is a part-time mature student with an MA in Medieval Studies from Reading. Her BA dissertation saw the start of her study into the Wydevile family. This paper was taken from her MA dissertation. She has begun a PhD at Southampton researching into the development of the Wydeviles’ reputation and the earlier history of the family. 7 ‘A
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