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Fotheringhay in Northampton County England History and GeographyFOTHERINGHAY, a parish in the handred of WILLYBROOK, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3½ miles (N.N.E.) from Oundle, containing 309 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough. Thomas Belsey, Esq. was patron in 1814. The church, dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints, is a handsome edifice in the later English style: it has an ancient stone pulpit, and the font is a very fine one: several distinguished members of the Plantagenet family are interred in it. It was formerly collegiate, and at one period the eonventual church of a nunnery, the inmates of which were translated to De la Pré, near Northampton. Edmund of Langley, son to Edward III., procured a license to erect a college, but his death prevented the execution of the design. He left two sons, Edward and Richard, the former of whom founded and endowed the college, which was confirmed by Henry V., who also bestowed upon it certain lands that belonged to Alien priories. Edward IV, made the college of his own foundation, and enlarged the buildings. At the dissolution its revenue amounted to about £419 per annum. On the north side of the church is a free school, endowed with £20 per annum, for a master, payable out of the exchequer by the receiver for the county. The village, in which a fair for horses is held on the third Monday after July, was anciently a considerable town: the adjoining country is much esteemed for its excellent pasture and corn land. It is pleasantly situated on the river Nen, over which is a bridge of freestone, erected in 1722 by the Marquis of Halifax, in lieu of a wooden one built in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth. Fotheringhay castle was a strong and handsome structure, with double ditches, keep, &c. In the reign of Henry III., when the many strong holds encouraged the nobility to rebel, it was surprised by William, Earl of Albemarle, who laid waste the surrounding country. It was the birthplace of Richard III., the scene of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, and the place of her execution. James I., Mary's son, on his accession to the throne, demolished the castle; its site may however still be traced: some remains of the college walls are also visible, and part of the cloisters. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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