Sir Benjamin Bathurst, Kt.

Sir Benjamin Bathurst was Governer to The East India Company 1688/89.

Cofferer to Princess Anne of Denmark.

He held office as a Member of Parliment (MP)

Paulerspury or Paulers-Perry 1673-1805 , Paulerspury Northamptonshire PAULERSPURY or Paulers-Perry

The parish of Paulerspury occupies 3,038 acres in the north-west of Cleley hundred, to the south of the river Tove, which separates the parish from Easton Neston and Stoke Bruerne. In the north-west Paulerspury extends right up to the southern end of the medieval built-up area of the town of Towcester and elsewhere is bounded by land belonging to the hamlet of Wood Burcote in Towcester parish. In the south-west and south Paulerspury has a lengthy boundary with Whittlebury, and in the east it abuts Alderton.

The parish contained three principal manors, Paulerspury, Heathencote and Plumpton Pury, in the Middle Ages…..

During the decade in which the manor remained in Crown hands the park was enlarged, before being granted with the rest of the estate to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton in 1550-1. (fn. 83) Sir Arthur Throckmorton's title to the 165 acres added to the park by Henry VIII was confirmed in 1596, after what appears to have been a fishing expedition by Crown officials in search of concealed rents. (fn. 84) In the 1630s Sir Arthur's daughter and coheir, Dame Mary Wotton, fell victim to Charles I's revival of forest eyres, which found that the park lay within Whittlewood, (fn. 85) and in 1639 she paid a fine of £100 to be allowed to disafforest and dispark the land. (fn. 86) Although a mid 17th-century survey described the park as a single entity consisting of 304 acres of pasture and 181 acres of wood ground, containing 400 deer, (fn. 87) when Benjamin Bathurst bought the estate in 1673 it was divided into more than 20 separate parcels of coppice and pasture, of which some of the latter were reserved for horses and some for deer. (fn. 88)

Some of the land belonging to the manor was sold off in small parcels by Edward Hales in 1670-1, shortly before the remainder was bought by Bathurst, who himself continued to make similar disposals.

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1673 Edward sold the estate to Sir Benjamin Bathurst, a London merchant, whose son Alien was subsequently ennobled.

1732 Lord Bathurst and his son recovered much of the manor which had been sold 60 years previously.

1740 Lord Bathurst mortgaged the manor for the sum of £6000 and re-mortgaged it 4 years later for a total of £12,000.

1805 Henry, the third Earl, sold the manor to Robert Shedden, a London merchant.

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• "BATHURST, Sir Benjamin (c.1639-1704), of Paulerspury, Northants. and Westminster.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983