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John Clare Centenary Special Articles NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST & PRESENT COUNTY ELECTIONS: 1830 STYLE Published by THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY DELAPRE ABBEY, NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND 1964 VOL. III PRICE 2s. 6d. No. 5 On the Fordson Super Dexta Like other Fordsons before it, this important and powerful tractor is extensively equipped with Timken bearings. Quality turns on TIMKENREGIS TE RED TRADE -MARK ® tapered roller bearings British Timken, Duston, Northampton, Division of The Timken Roller Bearing Company. Timken bearings manufactured in England. Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa and U.S.A. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT, 1964 CONTENTS PAGE Particulars of the Society ii Institutional Members of the Society ii Notes and News ... 173 The Development of Corby, n. · Sir Frederick Scopes 175 John Clare: the Northampton Years. Sir Gyles Isham 185 John Clare: Some Unpublished Documents of the Asylum Period I. M. F. Hooker and N. Dermott Hunt ... 190 Some Clare MSS. at Stratfield Saye. Sir Gyles Isham 199 John Clare's 'Paradise Lost' - and Regained. Robert Shaw 201 The Coming of Railways to Northamptonshire. Norman Marlow ... 203 The Northamptonshire Crop Returns for 1801. David M. Clark ... 213 Cob Cottages in Northamptonshire. M. V.J. Seaborne 215 The Sulgrave Washingtons and their Villiers Connexions. George Washington 231 Northamptonshire in Southern Rhodesia. Joan Wake 233 Obituary: Charles Darby Linnell. Joan Wake 237 Book Reviews: Great Oakley Cricket, by Harold and Edward Bagshaw 238 Bowden to Harborough, by J. C. Davies 238 The Letter Books of Sir Samuel Luke 1644-45, edited by H. G. Tibbutt 238 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE PAGE Corby Works and part of the Housing Estate Fig. 4. Cottages at Braybrooke, Cold -April 1938 176 Ashby and Hollowell 225 Miss Elspeth_ Macdiarmid lighting No. 1 Plate 1. Nether Heyford ... 220 Blast Furnace, 8th May, 1934 180 Plate II. Guilsborough 220 Sir Allan Macdiarmid .. 181 Plate Ill. Hollowell ... 221 Plate IV. Spratton 221 John Clare in the Portico of All Saints' Plate V. Great Creaton 222 Church 186 Plate VI. Braybrooke 222 Joseph Stenson as Mr. Knight and John Elizabeth Washington ... 231 Clare knew him 190 Anne (Villiers), Lady Washington and her The first page of John Clare's Letter to Mr. daughter Elizabeth 232 Knight, 8th July, 1850 190 Col. Henry Washington as a boy 232 Cob Cottages in Northamptonshire- Major Godwin Wake (1879-1949) ... 233 Fig. 1. Sketch Map showing distribution Mr. Eric Linnell . 234 of Cob Villages 216 Vigila in 1947 '" 235 Fig. 2. House at Ravensthorpe ... 223 The Parlour at Vigila, inspired by the Library Fig. 3. Row of Cottages at Braybrooke 224 at Courteenhall ... 235 All Communications regarding articles in Northamptonshire Past and Present should be addressed to the Editor, Sir Gyles Isham, Lamport Hall, Northampton Published by the Northamptonshire Record Society 1964 VOL. In No. 5 PRINTBD IN BNGLAND BY DALKBITH PlUlSS LlMITBD, KBTTERING, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY (FOUNDED IN 1920) DELAPRE ABBEY, NORTHAMPTON President: Sir George Clark, D.LITT., F.B.A. Chairman of Council: Hon. Secretary: S. L. Elborne, Esq., M.A. Hon. j!reasurer: P. A. J. Pettit, Esq,. M.A. D.PHIL. Water Newton C. E. G. Mumby, Esq., M.A. De1apre Ab bey, Wansford, Peterborough 3 Spencer Parade, Northampton Northampton AIMS AND OBJECTS The objects 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 by exhibitions, lectures, etc. MEMBERSHIP THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, which has not been raised in over forty years, is ONE GUINEA only. This entitles members to free copies of publications issued for the period in respect of which they have subscribed and the right to attend meetings and lectures. 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