The REVELL estate in Puxley from Cosgrove and Furtho appears to have passed with their lands in Cosgrove to the Spigurnel family, who by 1328, when Henry Spigurnel died, held land of several lords in Puxley, Cosgrove and Furtho. Henry's heir was his son Thomas but the estate passed initially to Henry Burghersh bishop of Lincoln, who died seised of lands in Puxley in 1341, when his heir was his kinsman Walter de Paveley. Like Cosgrove, this portion of Puxley evidently passed, later in the 14th century, to the Beauchamps, earls of Warwick. In 1423 Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, settled the manor of Puxley on his wife Isabel le Despenser at the time of their marriage, and the estate reappears in late 15th-century lists of the earls' possessions in the county. In 1487 Anne Neville, the dowager countess of Warwick, conveyed the family's estates, including Puxley, to the king. In 1501-2 Henry VII enlarged the Crown estate in Puxley by making at least 15 purchases of small freeholds there, by Ashton Under Lyne. Like Green's Puxley, it was annexed to the honor of Grafton on its creation in 1542.

In the 13th century the forest was divided into Wakefield and Hasleborough walks and the hay of Handley; at some later date Sholebrook, Hanger and Shrobb walks were created by the subdivision of Wakefield Walk in Whittlewood.

In February 1385 the commissioners found that the manor keepership was then occupied by Sir Thomas Green of Greens Norton, by demise from John de Ipres, and was held by Green for life by ratification of the king. The office had become separated from the tenancy of Puxley through the failure of the right heirs of the early 14th century John le Forester to bring a suit to ensure that the two continued to be held together.

By 1393 the keepership and the manor were held by John Chamber, who that yeare obtained an inspeximus of the confirmation of Henry II's charter granted to John Goodrich in 1383. From that time until the death of the last Sir Thomas Green in 1506 Puxley and the keepership descended with the family's home manor of Greens Norton. All obtained an inspeximus of the confirmation or by licence diverted one.

Throughout the 13th century the Crown gave frequent orders to local officials to cut timber, rarely stone in Puxley, for use either on royal building projects, for example for the chapel or other works at Silverstone (1249-52, 1271), or to be given as gifts to local parish churches and religious houses. Passenham formed part of the jointure estate of Elizabeth Woodville at her marriage in 1467 to Edward IV..The open fields must have occupied some of the land shown as inclosures adjoining the surviving houses in 1610, although probably not all, since one of the closes is called a 'Sart' (i.e. assart).

Sir Thomas Green's estates were divided in 1507 (confirmed in 1512) between his two daughters and coheirs, Anne, the wife of Sir Nicholas Vaux, later Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who died in 1523, leaving a son and heir Thomas Vaux, and Maud, the wife of Sir Thomas Parr, who died in 1517 leaving a son and heir William, later marquess of Northampton.

Anne and Nicholas were to have the Northamptonshire manors, including Puxley, and a moiety of the keepership; Maud and Thomas were to have the other moiety. Maud died in 1531 and in 1534 the agreement was renewed between the two heirs, Thomas Lord Harrowden and William Parr. In 1536, however, Sir Arthur Darcy conveyed to the king the whole of the former Green estates, which he purchased the previous yeare from Harrowden, who had previously bought Parr's share. They were then annexed to the honor of Grafton on its creation in 1542. In 1551 Northampton received a grant of various former Green estates within the honor, including land in Puxley. He died without issue in 1571, whereupon Puxley reverted to the Crown and remained part of the honor of Grafton until it was granted out in 1673.

The two Puxley manors have separate histories until both were purchased by the Crown at the end of the Middle Ages and annexed to the honor of Grafton in 1542. A manor of Deanshanger was granted out by the Crown in 1307 and also became part of the honor at its creation, although it was sold in 1599.

Part of this process of change occurred in 1500, when Sir Thomas Green inclosed 20 a. of arable, to the detriment of six tenants. It may also be significant that of 15 freeholds purchased by the Crown in 1501-2, only three included a messuage as well as land. From 1507 Puxley ceased to send a constable to the manor court at Passenham, because the vill was in the king's hands, whereas until then it had done so, although he had had little to present over the previous decade. In 1543 the bailiff at Passenham complained that time out of mind the village and tenants of Puxley had paid a common fine of 2s. to the Duchy of Lancaster, which for the last 30 years had not been collected because all the tenements there were decayed and down. William Clarke held the whole village in farm but refused to pay the fine. Clarke was at the time lessee of the former Warwick manor in Puxley, acquired by the Crown in 1487, and was building up an estate nearby in Potterspury.

In 1535 the clear yearly value of the property of the monastery was £1,051 7s. 1¼d. (fn. 62) The abbot also held the office of cellarer, and had control over £859 17s. 6d. of the revenues. These were drawn from the bailiwicks of the town and seven hundreds of Cirencester, the manors of Cirencester, Minety, Driffield, Preston, Ampney St. Mary, Nutbeme, Walle, Salperton, Througham, and lands at Cheltenham, Daglingworth, Shipton Moyne, and Weston Birt, in Gloucestershire; the manors of Frome and Milborne Port, in Somerset; Pulham, in Dorsetshire; Latton, in Wiltshire; Shrivenham, Hagbourne, and Eston, in Berkshire; Bradwell and Abberbury in Oxfordshire; Brigstock and Rowell in Northamptonshire; rents in London, Bristol, Cirencester; and the rectories of Cirencester, Cheltenham, Frome, Milborne Port, Latton, Wellow, Milton, Avebury, Eton in Wiltshire, Cookham, Bray, Hagbourne, Stanyarn, Brigstock, Rowell, besides tithes in other places.

In 1607 assarts and purprestures in Whittlewood were sold by the crown to William Derson and Thomas of Ely of London. In the latter yeare Sir Arthur Throckmorton purchased 300 a. of assarts in Puxley and adjoining detached portion of Cosgrove. Whittlewood was once the beginning of Passenham as a bishopric including Shrobb much without Puxley over the years. In it, of the parishes, Wicken and Potterpury had succeded the forest.

The remaining open field at Passenham is said to have been inclosed by Sir Robert Banastre, probably in the late 1620s, shortly after his purchase of the estate, when he certainly rebuilt the manor house, church and parsonge. Passenham itself remained a Duchy of Lancaster manor until it too was disposed of in 1623. Two religious houses had small estates in the parish, as did several lay owners whose main estates were centred elsewhere in the district.

In 1610 Sir Robert Banastre, a Crown official from Shropshire, was one of three colessees of a moiety of the coppices and woodground in Whittlewood, and appears to have settled at Passenham about that time. In 1623 the manor was granted in fee to Sir George Marshall and Robert Cancefield to hold in free socage at a rent of £33 6s. 10½d., the annual value of the estate after deductions.

The following yeare they sold the manor to Banastre. By his first wife Banastre had a son Lawrence, who died in 1638, leaving a son Dynham, who died in infancy the following year, leaving his two sisters as coheirs. In 1640 it was agreed that Sir Robert Banastre should purchase the family's Northamptonshire lands to avoid a less satisfactory division of the estate and to raise funds to discharge Lawrence's debts and find portions for his daughters. When Sir Robert Banastre died in December 1649 he left Passenham to his grandson Banastre Maynard, the son of Dorothy, his daughter by his third wife. After Banastre's death in 1649 the manor of Passenham lacked a resident squire and was administered by officials on behalf of the Maynards, whose home was in Essex. LITTLE HORKESLEY