/ No. 5 • \YEF.lTY :\\ ·n. \\LL • 't F\L\.\1 .. ~nqitnt and MODERN .. large or small. Fine building is synonymous · with Robert Marriott Ltd., a member of the Robert Marriott Group, famous for quality building since 1890. In the past 80 years Marriotts have established a reputation for meticulous craftsmanship on the largest and small­ est scales. Whether it is a £7,000,000 housing contract near Bletchley, a new head­ quarters for Buckinghamshire County Council at Aylesbury (right) or restor­ ation and alterations to Easton Maudit Church (left) Marriotts have the experi­ ence, the expertise and the men to carry out work of the most exacting standards and to a strict schedule. In the last century Marriotts made a name for itself by the skill of its crafts­ men employed on restoring buildings of great historical importance. A re­ markable t ri bute to the firm's founder, the late Mr. Robert Marriott was paid in 1948 by Sir Albert Richardson, later President of the Royal Academy, when he said: " He was a master builder of the calibre of the Grimbolds and other famous country men. He spared no pains and placed ultimate good before financial gain. No mean craftsman him­ self, he demanded similar excellence from his helpers." Three-quarters of a century later Marriotts' highly specialised Special Projects Division displays the same inherent skills in the same delicate work on buildings throughout the Midlands. To date Hatfield House, Long Melford Hall in Suffolk, the Branch Library at Earls Barton, the restoration of Castle Cottage at Higham Ferrers, Fisons Ltd., Cambridge, Greens Norton School, Woburn Abbey restorations and the- Falcon Inn, Castle Ashby, all bear witness to the craftsmanship of Marriotts. While building fo r the future, Marriotts are maintaining the glories of the past. ~ J--- ROBERT MARRIOTT LTO. ~ r~ RUSHOEN . NORTHAMPTON SHIRE 11 A me mb er of th e Fre nch- Ki er Group of companies NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT 1977 C_ONTENT S PAGE Particulars of the Society overleaf Notes and News ... 377 Sir Gyles !sham, Bart., F.S.A. P. I. King 379 Gyles !sham-Words spoken at his Requiem Mass, by Robert Speaight 381 The Development of Tudor and Stuart Garden Design in Northamptonshire. J. M. Steane 383 Anne Boroeghe, of Clerkenwell and Dingley. Audrey Butler 407 Kettering Inclosure 1804-5. R. A. Martin ... 413 Factors Influencing the Growth of Peterborough, 1850-1900. T. M. Cunningham 427 The History of Boot and Shoemaking at Long Buckby. R. L. Greenall .. 437 Book Reviews: J. M. Steane, The Religious Foundations of Medieval Stamford 449 C. J. Bond, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton 450 Tony Ireson, The Book of Banbury... 452 R. L. Greenall, Life in Old Northampton 453 Victor A. Hatley, Wellingborough Album 455 All communications regarding articles in this issue and future issues should be addressed to the Honorary Editor: Mr. J. M. Steane, Oxfordshire County Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Published by the Northamptonshire Record Society VoL. V Price SOp No. 5 PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY DALKEITH PRESS LIMITED, KETTERING, NORTHAMPTONSffiRB THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY (FOUNDED IN 1920) DELAPRE ABBEY, NORTHAMPTON President: THE EARL SPENCER, M.V.O. Secretary: Chairman of Council: Treasurer: Miss D. M. Sladden, B.A. C. V. Davidge, Esq., M.A. C. H. Edwards, Esq. Delapre Abbey Little Houghton House Delapre Abbey Northampton Northampton Northampton General Editor: Hon. Solicitor: E. J. King, Esq., M.A., PH.D. R. A. Jameson, Esq., v.R.D., LL.B. The University 7 Spencer Parade Sheffield Northampton AIMS AND OBJECTS The obje.cts of the Society are the furtherance of the science of history and of historical literature by the publication of historical records relating to Northamptonshire, and the stimulation of interest in historical studies. Thanks are expressed to His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch for permission to reproduce the estate plan and objects from Boughton. The Northampton Library for the loan of a block and other photographs. To the Leisure and Amenities Committee of the Northamptonshire County Council for permission to reproduce archive material. To the Bodleian Library Oxford, the Finsbury Public Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Monuments Record, Professor J. K. St. Joseph and the Cambridge Committee for aerial Photography for permission to reproduce documents and photographs. We also thank the Northampton Chronicle and Echo for the photograph of Sir Gyles !sham. Our thanks are due to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey on whose maps two plans are based. To A. E. Brown and C. C. Taylor for their plan of gardens at Lyveden New Bield. 377 NOTES AND NEWS The death of Sir Gyles !sham, Bart., F.S.A., tional History at the University of Cambridge. on January 28th 1976 was a sad blow. He had A large and appreciative audience heard him been President of the Society since 1965, as well speak on the 16th Century as an Age of Reform. as Editor of this Journal for seven years from The Autumn Lecture for 1976, which will have 1966, and a special obituary article later in this been given when this goes to press, is to be on issue will give an idea of the very important Calvinism) Nobility and Elizabethan Politics) part he played in these capacities, and indeed with particular reference to the role of Robert in all aspects of the Society'_s work, as well as Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The speaker will be in many other organisations in the County. His Professor Patrick Collinson, of the University kindness to those who worked with him was of Kent at Canterbury, who is a specialist on immense, and the breadth of his knowledge in Puritan matters. The Society is most grateful many :fields amazing. A recently taken photo­ for the willingness with which busy and dist­ graph of him, suitably enlarged and framed, inguished academics find time to come and now hangs in the Society's Library at Delapre lecture to its members. Abbey, and it is hoped that it will be possible to publish a memorial volume at some future date. Members have already learnt of the increase in subscriptions for 1977, and inevitably there As new President we welcome the eighth have been some resignations. But we hope Earl Spencer, whose family, like that of the these will not be numerous. The Society has !shams, also has long associations with North­ indeed been fortunate to be able to carry on amptonshire and many of its public activities. until now on relatively low subscriptions, and He has been one of the Society's Trustees for yet to maintain a high standard of scholarship some years, his father was a Vice President from and production. New volumes are in course of 1923 until his death in 1975, and his grand­ preparation, blJ.t funds must be accumulated father acted as a joint President for two years before they can be sent to the printers. So it is when the Society was founded in 1920. up to members to maintain their support, and Quite recently the death also occurred of one to try to persuade others to join the Society. of our Vice Presidents, The Right Reverend R. W. Stopford, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., Bishop of Peterborough from 1956 to 1961, and earlier The American Hi-Centennial celebrations in his life an Assistant Chaplain at Oundle were marked by a special exhibition on America School for some years. Although he had moved in Archives mounted by the Northants Record to other dioceses he maintained an interest in Office at Delapre Abbey, who also published a the Society's work and welfare. booklet on the same subject, showing a selec­ tion of documents, letters, maps and photo­ Still on personalities-the Editor of this graphs from its archives. The Record Society Journal since 1973, Mr. J. M. Steane, has now is always glad to welcome American members moved from Kettering, where he was head of at its summer meeting, as happened in 1976, the Grammar School for twelve years, to a new and hopes others will come in future years if post as Field Archaeologist with the Oxford­ they are in this country. shire Museum Services. On behalf of the readers of Northamptonshire Past and Present we record our best wishes and appreciation of All members of the Northamptonshire all that he does to make it so enjoyable. Record Society congratulate the Northampton­ shire Natural History Society on reaching their Centenary in 1976. The lecture following the Annual General We record that the Society's 500 members, Meeting in June 1976 was given by Professor through the kindness of the Mayor, Councillor G. R. Elton, Professor of English _Constitu- J. Gardner, marked the occasion by re-enacting 378 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT their inaugural meeting held in the Town Hall, frey Rooms in Castilian Street. Her Majesty Northampton, on 21st April 1876. took the keenest interest in the Society's work, A remarkable exhibition showing the Soc­ befriended everybody, and her visit in glorious iety's valuable contribution to the scientific sunshine gave the greatest pleasure to the knowledge of our County was held in the people of Northampton. Northampton Museum during the whole of The Society produced a centenary edition of April. The sections included Botany, Micro­ their journal in which they reprinted an article Biology, Ornithology, Zoology, Entomology, on its early days by the late Miss Joan Wake Geology, Archaeology, Conchology, Meteor­ published in the first volume of this journal. ology, Astronomy and Photography, and some of the records are of national importance. The President of the Society, Sir Hereward This year the usual list of institutional Wake, invited Queen Elizabeth the Queen members in geographical distribution has been Mother to come to Northampton to celebrate omitted from the journal.