Catalogue description NORTHAMPTON (NORTHANTS.)

Stephen (I) de Segrave was granted 'Congesmylne' in Hardingstone parish just south of Northampton by John the Scot, earl of Huntingdon, betweem 1227 and 1232. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 25d.] His son Gilbert granted it to Benedict Dod of Northampton at a rent of 13 marks, of which 39s. 4d. was paid to his stepmother in dower. [BL Harl. M4748 f.22d. In 1265 Benedict held the mill of Nicholas de Segrave, apparently for life, but in 1274-5 his son John held two mills called Congesmylnes from John de Plescy, who held from Nicholas.] The rent, perhaps part of the marriage portion of Nicholas de Segrave's daughter Amabel, was later granted to Nicholas's younger son Nicholas: BCM/D/5/61, Barton Seagrave. Stephen also acquired a large number of holdings in Northampton from William Briwerre, Henry III and others, the rents of which also formed part of Amabel's marriage portion and Nicholas the younger's endowment. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 25 and d.] That Nicholas and his wife Alice de Armenters made other, acquisitions within Northampton, and a large number of charters are calendared above BCM/B/2/5, as part of the Lisle estate, since they were copied into the Great Cartulary of Berkeley, suggesting that they passed to Alice's Lisle descendants rather than to Nicholas's Segrave heirs. The rents from Northampton appear in Nicholas the younger's inquisition of 1321 but do not appear to have reverted to the Segraves, as they are not mentioned later in the muniments.