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The Act of 1541 (fn. 3) declared that from the following year the manor of Grafton(which, together with Hartwell, had been in Crown hands since 1527) (fn. 4)should beerected into an honor and should have a number of other estates annexed to it. InNorthamptonshire these included the hundreds of Wymersley and Hamfordshoe,the forests of Whittlewood an...

Although sales in the honor, as elsewhere, during the Interregnum were declaredvoid after the Restoration, officials faced other problems in the early 1660s, aspetitions flooded in from a variety of individuals, prominent and obscure, seekingthe rewewal of grants of lands or offices and the repayment of loans said to havebeen secured on the honor. ...

Queen Catherine finally died on New Year's Eve 1705 (fn. 106) and thus the honor ofGrafton passed to the 2nd duke of Grafton, who had tried unsuccessfully to buyout the queen's interest three years before. (fn. 107) Grafton House and the demesnes,however, remained in the hands of his mother and her second husband. In fact,Duchess Isabella seems to ...

Among the first tasks facing the 4th duke was to deal with the loss of the incomefrom prizage of wines granted to the 1st duke by Charles II. (fn. 129) In 1785 and again in1797 the government was urged to revest the income in the Crown but not until1803 was an Act passed enabling this to be done. (fn. 130) In 1806 the 3rd duke received anannuity of...

Although some improvement in rents on the estate is discernible after 1900, (fn. 185) the7th duke's advisers evidently felt that a reduction in acreage to release capital wasdesirable and in 1913 some 2,120 acres were put up for auction, described, as sooften in such cases, as 'outlying portions' of the estate. While this could reasonablybe said of...