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THIS NUMBER HAS ARTICLES ON ORTHAMPTONSHIRE THE CAREERS OF SIR RALPH HASTINGS AND SIR GUY WOLSTON 1472–5 NPAST•AND•PRESENT HENRY MORDAUNT, SECOND EARL OF PETERBOROUGH CHARLES HOWE OF GREATWORTH Number 57 (2004) HENRY PENN, BELLFOUNDER THE PRESENCE OF JEWS IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE OSWALD BARRON, EDITOR OF THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE FAMILIES THE GYLES ISHAM CENTENARY TRIBUTE LECTURE THE HISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF ROCKINGHAM FOREST BOOK REVIEWS JOURNAL OF THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY WOOTTON HALL PARK, NORTHAMPTON NN4 8BQ £3.00 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT PAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Cover illustration: Number 57 2004 £3.00 The eastern front of Apethorpe Hall, 1623 (D. N. Hall, December 2002) Northamptonshire Record Society NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT 2004 Number 57 CONTENTS Page Notes and News . 5 The Careers of Sir Ralph Hastings and Sir Guy Wolston: Two Northamptonshire Gentry as Knights of the Shire in the Parliament of 1472–5 and Servants of the Crown . 7 J. T. Driver Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough and Drayton House: A story of family intrigue and building activity in the late 17th century . 21 Bruce A. Bailey Charles Howe of Greatworth . 31 Walter Stageman Henry Penn, Bellfounder, 1685–1729 . 41 Michael Lee The Presence of Jews in Northamptonshire . 54 Michael Jolles Oswald Barron: Editor of the Victoria County History Northamptonshire Families . 69 Peter Gordon The Gyles Isham Centenary Tribute Lecture, Lamport Hall, 2003 Richard Foulkes . 73 The Historic Landscape of Rockingham Forest Glenn Foard, David Hall and Tracey Britnell . 83 Book Reviews . 91 Obituary Notices . 100 Index . 102 All communications regarding articles in this and future issues should be addressed to David Hall, the Hon. Editor, Northamptonshire Record Society, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton, NN4 8BQ. Published by the Northamptonshire Record Society Number 57 ISSN 01490 9131 Typeset by John Hardaker, Wollaston, Northants and printed by Alden Press, Oxford OX2 0EF THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY (FOUNDED IN 1920) WOOTTON HALL PARK, NORTHAMPTON NN4 8BQ President: Sir Hereward Wake, Bart., M.C., D.L. NOTES AND NEWS The Finch-Hatton collection was successfully saved for the county through the energetic action of Sarah Bridges, the County Archivist, as explained last year. The problem of family archives being put on the market does not go away. Recently the Record Office has been able to purchase the Cokayne of Rushton Archive, formerly held on deposit. It is important that such collections are kept together, properly looked after and made accessible to the public, as might not be the case were they to be sold on the open market. The purchase was only possible through the generous support of the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, The Friends of the National Libraries, The Francis Coales Charitable Foundation, Northamptonshire Family History Society and all those who have contributed to the office’s donations fund. The total sum that had to be raised was £35,000. Unfortunately there seems to be a growing market for archives and Northamptonshire Record Office may be adversely affected by the high number of important family collections that are held. Recently the County Archivist has been notified of the owner’s intention to sell the Langham of Cottesbrooke archive, held since the 1930s. If money cannot be raised by the Record Office then this will go onto the open market. Members will be kept informed and all offers of support will be appreciated by the County Archivist. The family collections contain an unbelievable wealth of information, in some cases there is only a brief list so that the depth and potential cannot readily be assessed. I have had occasion to use some of the Surrey material in the Spencer Collection, acquired by the Record Office some years ago. Apart from revealing new aspects of Surrey open-field history, there was a detailed written survey of Putney and Wimbledon made by our old friend Ralph Treswell, the surveyor of Christopher Hatton’s estates at Kettering, Gretton and elsewhere in the 1580s. The Wimbledon survey was made in 1617, not for Sir Christopher, but for Sir Thomas Cecil of Burghley, showing the complex interactions among the Elizabethan and Jacobean families of Northamptonshire and the officers who worked for them. * * * * * The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society publish a Record Series of historical texts similar to those produced by the Northamptonshire Record Society. This autumn saw publication of Volumes 17 and 18, A Catalogue of the Medieval Muniments at Berkeley Castle, edited by Bridget Wells-Furby, ISBN 0 900197 60 9 and 0 900197 61 7, lxxxix + 1,200 pages, price £60. The Berkeley estates are naturally centred on Berkeley Castle and Gloucestershire, but extended into many midland counties, Northamptonshire among them. They include records of families holding Northamptonshire places that have almost no locally held records, such as the Prayers, Shirley and Lovett families who held Strixton and Astwell, and the Stanhopes who were owners of Harrington at the time when its famous terraced gardens were created. There is hence much of Northamptonshire interest. The Record Society is obtaining a copy of the catalogue which members can view. If anyone would like to purchase their own copy, it is available from Miss P. C. Bath, Publications Stockholder, B.G.A.S., 17 Estcourt Road, Gloucester, GL1 3LU, accompanied with remittance. * * * * * In December 1930 the Record Society put on a Costume Exhibition showing many examples of 17th, 18th and 19th-century clothing fashions. A description of this Exhibition by Joan Wake appeared in the Northampton County Magazine, Volume 4, 1931, page 29. The Record Office holds a set of photographs of the exhibits, but nothing more. The Society’s Librarian would like to see a copy of the descriptive exhibition catalogue, if any Member can supply one. * * * * * A serious threat to the county and its countryside is the arbitrary plantation of new towns, one being proposed for the Daventry area as well as a threefold expansion of Milton Keynes adjacent to the southern border. It is extraordinary that these proposals come out of nowhere, not being presented through the 6 northamptonshire past and present county Structure Plan, nor proposed in any election manifesto. What happened to the democratic processes of 110 years of local government? It is not just a question of the loss of so many thousand acres for housing, but the knock-on effects of more dual carriageways, gravel pits and waste-disposal sites. A glance at pages 84–5 in the text below illustrates what ‘development’ has done to the north of the county in the last 100 years. * * * * * Again I have to thank reviewers who have often undertaken their task at short notice. My thanks are due, as usual, to Leslie Skelton and Jean Hall for their help with NPP production. David Hall Notes on contributors 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. In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Tracey Britnell, MA is a freelance Historic Landscape Consultant specialising in digital mapping. She has worked on projects for local authorities, charitable trusts and government agencies in various regions of the country. She is currently working on historic landscape mapping for the Battlefields Trust as well as conducting private research on the landscape of Northamptonshire. Glenn Foard, FSA, was formerly County Archaeologist for Northamptonshire and has researched and written extensively on the history of the Northamptonshire landscape. He is currently Project Officer with the Battlefields Trust and is also undertaking a part time PhD in battlefield studies at the University of Leicester. Professor Richard Foulkes was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Leicester Department of Adult Education in 1973. He is now Professor of Theatre History in the Department of English at the University of Leicester. His recent publications include: Church and Stage in Victorian England (1997), Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire (2002) and Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage (forthcoming). Peter Gordon is Emeritus Professor at the University of London Institute of Education. He is the author of The Wakes of Northamptonshire (1992), and editor of The Red Earl: the Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer, 1835–1911 (two vols., 1981,1986) and Politics and Society: the Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1885–1913 (1999). Dr. Michael Jolles is the author of ‘The Northampton Jewish Cemetery’, ‘A short history of the Jews of Northampton, 1159–1996’ and ‘A Directory of Distinguished British Jews, 1830–1930.’ He is a Council Member of the Jewish Historical Society of England, and is preparing a book on Nathaniel Charles Rothschild. Michael Lee, horologist, campanologist, continues to work on various projects including Henry Penn and John Watts, Stamford clockmaker. He is the steeplekeeper at Fotheringhay Church where he restored the bells and, with his first wife Marian, during the early 1980s, worked hard with others to return the sound of bells to Peterborough. Walter Stageman, Parish Clerk of Greatworth, trained as a teacher at Southampton University and has degrees from the Open University and the University of Leicester. He is employed by Northampton- shire County Council’s Pupil Support Service as a teacher of English as an additional Language. The Careers of Sir Ralph Hastings and Sir Guy Wolston: Two Northamptonshire Gentry as Knights of the Shire in the Parliament of 1472–5 and Servants of the Crown J. T. DRIVER With his victory at Tewkesbury in May 1471, midland counties early in the reign, and was Edward IV finally crushed his Lancastrian made a member of the royal council and opponents and re-established his authority as king’s chamberlain.2 Not surprisingly there King of England.

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