HUTTON MAGNA
Hottune, Hoton (xi–xiii cent.); Hoton Lungevylers
(xiii–xvii cent.); Hutton Longviliers (xvi–xix cent.);
Mickle Huton alias Hutton Longvyllers (xvi cent.);
Hutton Magna (xvii cent.).
This parish is bounded on the south by Watling
Street, which skirts the small township of West
Layton on the south-east. A mile and a half beyond
this point a lane going north from the Roman road
through the hamlet of Lane Head leads to the village
of Hutton Magna. The lane passes St. Mary's
Church, which lies in the middle of the village, a
little way back from the street, and crosses Hutton
Beck by a bridge at the head of the village. Hutton
Hall, now a farm, lies on low ground by the stream,
north of the church. The H-shaped stone-built
house is probably of late 16th-century date, and
contains some carving of that period, and on the first
floor some plain oak panelling, some of which has
been moved from its original position. One of the
rooms contains a cross of plain bevelled wood, about
2 ft. long, placed in the ceiling apparently for some
special purpose and without reference to the structure
or timbers of the roof.
The old manor-house of Little Hutton, now also
a farm, lies in the fields east of the village and south
of Little Hutton Lane.
The area of the parish is 2,062 acres, 1,011 acres
being arable land, about 7 acres woods and plantations,
and the rest permanent grass. (fn. 1) The chief crops are
wheat, oats, turnips, barley and clover. The subsoil
is Yoredale Rocks. There are several disused stone
quarries, and stone is still worked at Lane Head. The
average height is about 500 ft. above ordnance datum.
The house of Christopher Richardson at Layton (it
is not stated whether East or West), Yorkshire, was
licensed for Presbyterian worship in 1672. (fn. 1a)
Manors
HUTTON MAGNA, with 6 geld
carucates, was soke of Count Alan's
manor of Gilling (q.v.) at the time of
the Domesday Survey and was afterwards held of the
honour of Richmond. (fn. 2)
The Mowbrays and their successors the Dukes of
Norfolk (fn. 3) were mesne lords from 1254, or earlier,
onwards. (fn. 4)
Nevill of Hornby. Gules a saltire argent with the difference of a molet sable.
The under-tenant in 1254 was John de Lungviliers
of Hornby in Lancashire, who died in this year,
leaving a son and heir John. (fn. 5) Margaret, daughter
and heir of the latter, married Geoffrey second son
of Geoffrey Nevill of Raby
and ancestor of the Nevills of
Hornby. (fn. 6) In 1278–9 a jury
stated that Geoffrey Nevill
had warren at Hutton, by
what warrant they knew not. (fn. 7)
He was granted free warren
by charter in 1279, (fn. 8) and died
in or about 1285, leaving a
son and heir John. (fn. 9) Margaret
in 1288–9 settled the manor
on herself for life with successive remainders to her sons
Geoffrey, Robert and Edmund
for their lives and to the right
heirs of Robert. (fn. 10) Margaret was tenant in 1316, (fn. 11) but
was dead three years later. (fn. 12) Her sons Edmund and
Robert were assessed for the subsidy in Hutton in
1327–8, (fn. 13) and in 1345, while Edmund Nevill was
still holding the manor, Robert as 'Robert Nevill of
Hornby' settled the remainder successively on his
sons Robert, Geoffrey, Giles, Thomas, William and
John and their heirs and his own right heirs. (fn. 14) A Sir
Robert Nevill of Hornby died in 1413, leaving a
granddaughter and heir Margaret wife of Thomas
Duke of Exeter, Earl of Dorset. (fn. 15) The duke survived his wife and continued to hold the manor until
his death in 1426, when it passed to Margaret wife
of William Harrington, paternal aunt of the Duchess
Margaret, and to John Langton, son of Joan, another
paternal aunt. (fn. 16) The heirs partitioned the lands in
1437–8. (fn. 17)
Hutton Hall, Hutton Magna
Agnes Danby, widow, granddaughter of this John
Langton, (fn. 18) claimed the manor against Nicholas
Girlington (fn. 19) in 1508, (fn. 20) but Nicholas apparently died
seised (by right of his wife Margery) (fn. 21) in 1509,
leaving a son and heir Nicholas, (fn. 22) who married
Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Hansard. (fn. 23) Sir
Christopher Danby of Thorpe Perrow, (fn. 24) grandson
(and, since his father Christopher's death, heir) of
Agnes Danby, renewed the claim in 1531, alleging
that Agnes held the manor in the time of Henry VII,
and that Nicholas, father of the present tenant,
Nicholas Girlington, had unjustly disseised her. (fn. 25)
Three years later he made another effort and this
time called to warrant Ethelburga and Elizabeth
Hansard, both minors, daughters and heirs of Thomas
Hansard, who, according to the jury, was seised of the
said manor; the case was postponed until their full
age. (fn. 26) In 1559 Sir Christopher Danby, in common
with his son and heir Sir Thomas Danby, kt., and with
Nicholas Girlington, sen., and Nicholas Girlington,
jun., made settlements of the manor of Hutton Longviliers, (fn. 27) after which the Girlingtons (fn. 28) held Hutton
Magna until 1614, (fn. 29) when Nicholas Girlington sold
the manor to Francis Tunstall. (fn. 30) The manor has
since descended with the other Tunstall estates, (fn. 31) and
is now the property of Major Walter George Raleigh
Chichester-Constable of Wood Hall, Hull. (fn. 32)
A capital messuage, dove-house, brew-house and
water-mill were appurtenant to the manor in 1254. (fn. 33)
LITTLE HUTTON (? Riulf Hoton, xiii cent.;
Parva Hoton, xii–xv cent.; Little Hotton or Hewton,
xvi cent. ; Little Hulton, Hutton or Hewton, xvii
cent.) always belonged to the honour of Richmond,
and it is probable that 3 carucates here were included
in the 12 carucates assigned to Wycliffe (q.v.) in
1086 as soke of Gilling, but the history of the mesne
lordship is obscured by the contradiction of the
records. In 1282 a quarter of a knight's fee here
was said to be held in chief of the earl, (fn. 34) in 1286–7
of Robert son of Thomas de Thorpe, (fn. 35) in 1347–9 (fn. 36)
and 1428 (fn. 37) of the earl, in 1492 of the heirs of
Robert de Thorpe (fn. 38) and in 1536 of the lord of
the manor of Thorpe (fn. 39) (in Wycliffe parish, q.v.).
The earliest recorded under-tenant is Eudo de
Grainsby, (fn. 40) founder of Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire. (fn. 41) Eudo de Grainsby before 1171 granted the
whole of Little Hutton to St. Agatha's Abbey (fn. 42) ;
but he was returned in 1211–12 as holding a quarter
of a fee in Riulf Hutton of the honour of Richmond. (fn. 43)
Whether by his grant or that of the abbey, the lords
of Barforth in Forcett parish succeeded to the ownership of Little Hutton.
In the second half of the 13th century John de
Barforth, husband of Emma lady of Barforth Manor,
whom Emma 'in his lifetime could not contradict,'
granted it to one of the Barningham family. (fn. 44)
William de Barningham held it in 1282 (fn. 45) ; but his
successor, Richard de Barningham, after a suit had
been brought against him in 1321 by Robert
Hastangs and Emma his wife, successor of Emma
de Barforth, (fn. 46) settled it in 1325 on himself and
Katharine his wife and their issue with remainder
in default to Robert Hastangs and Emma and the
heirs of Emma. (fn. 47) Richard de Barningham probably
died without male issue, (fn. 48) and until 1653 the manor
followed the descent of the manor of Barforth. (fn. 49)
In this year Ambrose Pudsey granted it with
other manors to Gascoigne Eden (fn. 50) of Windlestone,
Durham. In 1683 Henry Eden and Maria his wife
and Maria Eden widow conveyed it to Henry Clerke,
M.D., John Tempest, William Tempest and William
Sudell. (fn. 51) It seems after this to be no longer called a
manor, for in 1785 it was conveyed by Robert
Shuttleworth with Forcett Manor (q.v.) to Frances
widow of John Michell as a messuage or farm, and it
has since followed the descent of the manor of Forcett.
Three carucates in WEST LAYTON were soke to
Count Alan's manor of Gilling at the time of the
Domesday Survey (fn. 52) and were still held of Richmond
Castle in 1524. (fn. 53) The mesne lordship was held by
the lords of Middleham (fn. 54) and had lapsed by the end
of the 15th century. (fn. 55)
In 1286–7 John de Layton, who held half the
vill of East Layton, was under-tenant of West Layton.
Thomas de Layton, Henry de Layton, John son of
Alexander and William de la Mare were lords of the
united vills in 1316. (fn. 56) The de la Mares were connected with the Lungviliers family, (fn. 57) and this may
account for their holding tenements in West Layton;
there is no further mention of them by name, though
they may have been included in the parcenaries or
free tenants who in 1389 held East and West Layton
conjointly with Nicholas de Layton. (fn. 58) Thomas son
of Alexander paid the subsidy in 1327–8, (fn. 59) but this
family is not again mentioned in connexion with
the manor, and the Laytons seem to have been the
real holders. In 1327–8 John son of John de
Layton paid the subsidy. (fn. 60) In 1389 the vill was
again joined to East Layton and continued to be so
until 1494, when Richard Layton and Joan his wife
granted it to Humphrey Sigiswick (fn. 61) of Walburn.
Humphrey died in 1501, leaving a son and heir
Richard, (fn. 62) who died in January 1555–6 seised of this
manor, his heir being his grandson Francis Lascelles
son of his daughter Anne. (fn. 63) In 1562 Francis
Lascelles granted the manor to John Layton. (fn. 64)
Sir Henry Foulis, bart., of Ingleby Greenhow, who
died in 1643, married Mary eldest daughter of Sir
Thomas Layton of Sexhow and had by her a son Sir
David, (fn. 65) who with Robert Layton was party to a
deed touching this manor in 1668, (fn. 66) and died in
March 1694–5. (fn. 67) During the 18th century this
estate came into the hands of the Robinsons of Edgeley. Matthew Robinson, heir of the Rokeby barony,
was described as 'of West Layton,' (fn. 68) and his descendant Henry Lord Rokeby and Thomas Allison
were said in 1857 to be owners of the manor which
belonged to John Easton in 1873 (fn. 69) and 1879, and is
now the property of Miss Easton.
Church
The church of ST. MARY was rebuilt
in 1878 and consists of chancel, nave,
north vestry and south porch. Several
old windows, &c., are re-used. In the west wall of
the vestry is one of two trefoiled lights with a circle
over, c. 1300, and the north-east window of the
nave is of somewhat earlier date, c. 1260, being of
two lancet lights with a vesica in the head.
The west window of the nave is a tall trefoiled
light, and above it on the gable is a bellcote for two
bells.
The south doorway of the nave is a plain piece of
12th-century work re-used, and two small round heads
of 12th-century lights are built into the porch,
together with what may be part of a small holy water
stone and a gable cross. The font in the church is
modern, but in the porch is the rough circular bowl
of a font, with staple marks, which is evidently
ancient.
Against the wall of the nave is set a coffin slab,
probably 14th-century work, with a large cross
between a sword and a pair of shears. The socket of
a cross is in the churchyard. In the rectory is a bell
which, together with another now at West Layton
mission chapel, belonged to the old church, the two
being known in the village as 'Joseph and Mary.'
The bell at West Layton is plain, but that at the
rectory is inscribed 'Jesus—Maria.'
The plate includes a small cup of wine-glass shape
of 1641, with a maker's mark t.w. (?) for Thomas
Waite of York.
The registers begin in 1670.
Advowson
Hutton was in the 14th century
a chapelry appurtenant to Gilling
(q.v.), and remained a perpetual
curacy till 1890, since when it has been styled a
vicarage. (fn. 70) It is in the gift of the vicar of Gilling.