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HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

COUNTY

BUCKINGHAM

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THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CLERGY

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COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM

THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO RECORD AND ILLUSTRATE

THE

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY,

■^ MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED AND DEDICATED,

THEIR OBLIGED AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

GEORGE LIPSCOMB.

SUBSCRIBERS.

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(BY SPECIAL COMMAND,)

The Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Large paper.

HIS LATE MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH

Large paper.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ADOLPHUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G. G.C.B. K.B.E. & K.A.

Kew Palace. Large paper.

K.G.

nye pop.

His Grace the Most Bevereud William Ho-nley, D.D., F.R. & A.S. Lobd Archbishop of Caxterbuet, Lambeth Palace, Sur

His Grace the Most Nohle Frauds KiisseU, Duke of Bedford, K.G. AVoburu Abbey, Beds. Large paper.

His Grace the Most Noble Eichai-d Plaiitageuet-Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chaudos-Greiiville, Duke of Buckingham and Cha

Stowe Park. Large paper. His Grace the Most Noble William Spencer-Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, K.G. K.A. & D.C.L. Chatsworth, Deibyshii-e. His Grace the Most Noble Charles SackviUe, Duke of Dorset, K.G. Drayton House, Northamptonshu-e. Large paper. His Grace the Most Noble Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Euston Hall, Suffolk.

His Grace the Most Noble George Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Maklboeough, Blenheim House, Oxou. Large paper. His Grace the Most Noble Henry Pelham Fieunes-PeUiam-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, K.G. Clumber Park, Notts. Large paper. His Grace the Most Noble Henry Charles Howai-d, Duke of Norfolk, Hereditai-y Earl-Marshal, &c. Arundel Castle, Sussex. Large pape His Grace the Most Noble Algeruou Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. Large paper. His Grace the Most Noble George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, K.G. &c. Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. The Most Hon. Henry William Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, K.G. K.G.H. G.C.B. M.T.&S.G. Field Marshal, &c. Old Burlington Stree The Most Hon. Thomas Thynne, Marquess of Bath, K.G. & F.A.S. Longleat, Wilts. Large paper. The Most Hon. Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess Conyngham, K.P. &c. Buckhurst Pai-k, Berks. Large paper. The Eight Hon. Montagu Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, D.C.L. Wytham Abbey, Berks. Large paper.

The Eight Hon. George Eobert Hobart-Hampden, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Hampden House, Missenden. Large paper. The Eight Hon. William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, Holkai- Hall, Lancashire. Large paper. The Eight Hon. George Howai-d, Earl of Carlisle, K.G. Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

The Eight Hon. George William Frederick VilUers, Earl of Clarendon, Grove Park, Watford, Herts. Large paper. The Eight Hon. William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, D.C.L., F.E. & A.S. Saudwell Park, Staffordshire. The Eight Hon. George Capel-Coningsby, Earl of Essex, F.S.A. & D.C.L. Cashiobury Park, Watford, Herts. The Eight Hon. Henry Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, &c. Harewood House, Yorkshire. The Eight Hon. Eichard William Penn Curzon-Howe, Earl Howe, G.C.B. &c. Penn House. Large paper. The Eight Hon. Thomas Eobert Hay-Drummond, Earl of Kinnoul, G.C.B. Dupplin Castle, Perthshire. Large paper. The Eight Hon. William Lowther, E.ikl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, Westmoreland. Large paper. The Eight Hon. Thomas Paiker, Earl of Macclesfield, Sherborne Castle, Oxou. The Eight Hon. John Talbot, Eabl of Shrewsbury, &c. Alton Towers, Staffordshire. The Eight Hon. Frederick Speucer, Earl Spencer, C.B. Althorp Park, Northamptonshire. Large paper.

SUBSCRIBERS.

The Right Hou. Catherine- Anne, Cocntess of BKiuGEWAiEn, Ashi'idjje Piu-k. Lnnjc ji'qKr.

The Right Hon. tlie Countess Paulett.

The Right Hon. the Dow.(.GEn Countess of Sefton, Stoke Farm, Colnhrook.

The Right Hon. George Edwoi-d Mouckton-iVrundel, Loud Viscount G,vlway, SerRiy Hall, Notts. Lanji' paper.

The Right Hon. Warwick-Lake, Lokd Viscount L.vke, &c. Aston Clinton. Lurye pupa:

The Right Reverend John Kaye, D.D. & F.R.S. Lokd Bishop of Lincoln, Buckden Palace, Huntingiloushirt. Lrir.ji paint-.

The Right Hon. Charles George Perceval, Lobd Akden, F.R. & S.A. Nork House, Surrey.

The Right Hon. William Bagot, Lobd Bagot, D.C.L., F.S.A. & F.L.S. Blithfleld House, Staffordshire.

The Right Hon. George Irhy, LonD Boston, D.C.L. &c. Hedsor Lodge.

The Right Hon. Robert John Carington, Lobd Cauingion, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, i!cc. Wycombe AbbL'v. Lari/: p<ii

The Right Hou. Hugh Chiu-Ies Clifford, Lokd Cliffobd of Cuudleigh, F.S.A. cScc. Ugbrook Park, Devon.

The Right Hon. Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, Lokd Dokmek, &c. Peterley House, Amersham. Larye paper.

The Right Hon. Francis Godolphin-Osborne, Lobd Godolphin, Gogmagog House, Cambridgeshire.

The Right Hon. William Wyiidham, Lord Grenville, D.C.L. & F.S.A. Late Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Laryt papc

The Right Hou. Chandos Leigh, Lord Leigh, Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshii-e. Larye paper.

The Right Hon. Henry James Montagu-Scot, Lobd Montagu, D.C.L. Ditton Pork.

The Right Hon. George Nugeut-Temple-GrenviUe, Lord Nugent, G.C.M.G. Lilleys.

The Right Hou. Sai-ah Otway Cave, Baroness Brave, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Laryc paper.

The Right Hon. Thomas Gbenville, D.C.L. & F.S.A. 2, Hamilton Place, Hyde Park Corner, Loudon. Larye paper.

The Right Hon. Ladv Gbenville, Dropmore, Beaconsfield.

The Right Hou. Richabd Ryder, Westbrook, St. Albau's, Herts.

The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Francis Fbemantle, Bart. Swaubourne.

The Right Hon. Sir William Henrt Fremantle, G.C.H. Holly Grove, Windsor Great Park, Bt-rks.

The Right Hon. Lieutenant-Gbnebal Sir Jaspeb Nicolls, G.C.B. Zarye paper.

The Right Hou. Field-Marshal Sir George Nugent, Bart. G.C.B. & D.C.L. Waddesdon. Larye paper.

The Eight Hon. Sir Gore Odseley, Biu-t. G.C.H., F.A. & R.S. Hall Barn, Beacousfield. Larye paper.

The Eight Hou. Sir George Warrender, Bart. G.C.B. &c. Cliefden House. Larye paper.

The Houourahle Charles Fitzboy, Tickford Abbey, Newjiort Paguell.

The Honourable Frances Knight, Elmhurst House, Great Missenden.

The Honourable Elizabeth Pobtman.

The Honourable and Reverend Frederick Bertie, A.M. Albury, Oxon.

The Houourahle and Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osbobxe, A.M. of Brasenose College, Oxon.

The Honoui-able ami Reverend Chables George Pekceval, A.M. Rector of Calvertou. Larye paper.

The Very Reverend the Dean and Chapter of Westminsteb.

The Vei7 Reverend .James Webber, D.D. Deau of Rijiou, Prebendary of Westmiuster, &c.

The Venerable and Reverend Henry John Todd, F.S.A. Rector of Settriugtou, Aixhdeaoon of Cleveland, I'lebendary of Yurk, .\;c.

Sib Fbederick Baker, Bai-t. F.R.S. & S.A. Larye paper.

Sir Thomas Christopher Banks, Knt. Baronet of Nova Scotia.

Sir John NEWDiG.iTE Ludford Chetwode, Biu-t. Chetwode House.

Sir Andbew Vincent Corbet, Bai-t. Linslade House.

Sir Alexander Croke, Knt. D.C.L. & F.S.A. Studley Priory, Oxon.

Sir East George Clayton East, Bart. Hall Place, Maidenhead, Berks.

Sir James Eyre, Knt. 11, Brook Street, Grosveuor Square, Loudon.

Sir Hugh Richard Hoabe, Bai-t. Lilliugston Dayrell, and Stourhead, Wilts. Larye paper.

Sib Francis Bernard Morland, Bart. Nether Wincheudon. Larye and small paper.

Sib Geobge Nayleb, Knt. K.G.H , K.T.S. & F.S.A, Gai-ler Kiug of Anns, &c.

Sib John So.\ier3Et Pakington, Bart. M.P. Westwood Park, Worcestcrshive.

Sib Thomas Phillips, Bart. F.R.S. & A.S. Middle HiU, Broadway, Worcestershire. Two enphs.

Sir Robebt Fbankland Russell, Bart. Chequers Court, Weudover.

Sib Edward Bowyer Smijth, Bart. Hill Hull, Eiiping, Essex.

Sir Geokge Thomas Staunton, Bart. M.P. Leigh Park, Ilavant.

Sir Robert George Tubockmobion, Bart. Buckland House, Berkshire.

Sib Habby Veiixey, Bart. Middle Chiydon. Larye paper.

Sia .loNATHAN W.iTiiEN Waller, Bart. K.G.H. Braywick Lodge, Berlishiro. Larye paper.

Lieutexaxt-Gexebal Sib James AV.iTsox, K.C.B. Wemlover House.

Sib William Lawrence Young, Bart. North Dean, Wycombe.

The Lady Sabah Lovett, Liscombe House, Soulbuiy. Larye aati entail pap: r.

The Lai.y Morris, Thames Bank, Marlow.

The Lai.v llviiE Pabi;i:b, Park l.aiic, Loudon. Larye paper.

SUBSCRIBERS.

Miss Allen, Thame, Oxou.

Rev. William Andrewes, A.:\r. Rector of Lilliugston Dayrell, &c.

Rev. John Athawes, A.M. Rector of Loiighton.

William James Bnily, Esij. Shenley House.

Miss Bates, Little Missendeu, and Newton St. Loe, near Bath.

Bedford General Library, Bedford.

William Bedford, Esij. F.S.A. Elmhurst, Bath Easton. Larye paper.

WiUiam Bentham, Esq. F.S.A. & L.S. C, Upper Gower Street, London.

Large paper. Rev. James Wilkes Best, A.M. Chieveley, near Newhury, Berks. J. Stratford Best, Esq. Denham Mount, near Usbridge. John Bett, Esq. Tetchwick.

Edward Blount, Esq. Bryanstone Square, London. William Bonsey, Esq. Belle Vue, Slough. Henry Bower, Esq. F.S.A. Doncaster, Yorkshire. Charles Bowles, Esq. Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire. W. H. Bracebridge, Esq. MoreviUe House, Warwickshire. Rev. WilUam Mussage Bradford, A.M. Rector of Hedsor. Reginald Bray, Esq. F.S.A. Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. William Bray, Esq. F.S.A. Shere, Surrey Rev. Israel Bull, A.M. Ardenham HUl, Aylesbury. Larye paper.

John C;xllecot, Esq. Holbrook Grange, Leicestershire.

John Carter, Esq. Wycombe.

Henry Carter, Esq. Havenfleld Lodge, near Missenden.

Rice Richard Clayton, Esq. M.P. Hedgerley Park.

Rev. William Cleaver, A.M. Rector of Wanlip, Leicestershire.

Hampden Clement, Esq. Snarestou Lodge, Lincolnshire.

Rev. John Cleohury, A.M. Perpetual Curate of Piddiugton, Oxon.

Charles Clowes, Esq. Delaford, Iver, near UxbriJge.

Robert Clutterbuck, Esq. F.S.A. the Historian of Herts, Watford.

George Corbet, Esq. Old Jewj-y, London.

George Richard Corner, Esq. Eltham, Kent.

Miss CuiTer, Eslitou Hall, Yorkshire. Larye paper.

Miss Curtis, Finemore.

Mr. Thomas Curtis, Quainton.

Edmund DajTell, Esq. late of Lamport House.

Rev. John Langham Dayrell, A.M. Rector o[ Lilliugston Dayrell, and

Vicar of Stowe. George Dodd, Esq. Chenies.

Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. Shardeloes, Amersham. Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duncomhe, Esq. Great Brickhill Manor. Nathaniel Dunbar, Esq. Lambeth, Surrey. James Dupre, Esq. Wilton Park, Beaconsfield. Larye paper.

John Eagleton, Esq. Brill Farm.

Rev. Howell HoUand Edwards, A M. PrebeudaiT of Westminster, Canon

of St. Asaph, Rector of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, &c. Eton College Library. Rev. William Thomas Eyre, A.M. Vicar of Padbury, and reiq.etual

Curate of Hillesdon.

Robert Albion Fellowes, Esq. Braziers-end, near Chesham.

John Fleming, Esq M.P. Stoneham Pai-k, Hants.

Thomas Flowers, Esq. Whitchurch.

Captain Chai-les Francis Fremantle, Harrow Weald, Middlesex.

Rev. Henry Samuel Foyster, A.M. ditto

Ambrose Glover, Esq. F.S.-A. Reigate, Sm-rey.

Rev. John Goodnll, A.M. Bromham, Beds. Larye paper.

Rev. Joseph Goodall, D.D. F.S.A. Provost of Eton, Canon of Windsor,

and Rector of Hitcham. Larye 2^aper. Henry H. Goodall, Esq. East India House, London. Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. Taplow House. Stacey Grimaldi, Esq. F.S.A. Greenwich, Kent. George Grote, Esq. Ecclestone-street, Belgrave-square, Loudon. Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P.S.A. Keswick, Norfolk. Gordon WOloughby James Gyll, Esq. Wyriirdisbury House. Large paper.

Chai-les John Baillie Hamilton, Esq. M.P. Thame Park, Oxon. Larye

John Hampden, Esq. Leamington Priors, Warwickshire.

Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxon.

Rev. John Hampden, A.M. Rector of Hinton-Martel, Dorset.

Renn Hampden, Esq. M.P. Manor House, Little Mai-low

Philip Augustus Hanrott, Esq. F.S.A. Great Ormoud Street, Londou.

Larye paper. George Simon Hai-court, Esq. Aukerw7cke House, Wyrai-disbury. Larye

and small jmper. J. B. Harcourt, Esq. St. Leonai-d's Hill, Windsor, Berks. Edward Harman, Esq. F.S.A. Larye paper.

Rev. Edwai-d C. Hawtrey, D.D. Head Master of Eton College, &c. Rev. Thomas Hayton, A.M. Pei-petual Curate of Long Crendon. George Hibbert, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S. L 4, Albany, Regent's I'ark,

London. Large paper. John Hibbert, Esq. Chalfont House.

Mrs. Susanna Jemima Hicks, Plomer Hill, near West Wycombe. George Hickman, Esq. Great Marlow.

Alexander Higginson, Esq. Col. 1st. Regt. Grenadier Guards, Marlow. John Higgins, Esq. TiU'vey Abbey, Bedfordshire.

Hem-y Charles Hoare, Esq. Wavendon House, Newport. Larye paper. Henry Hugh Hoai-e, Esq. F.R.S. & S.A. Wavendon. Henry Jlerrik Hoare, Esq. 31, Y'ork-place, Portman-square, London. Charles Augustus Hoare, Esq. Hortou Hall. Christopher Hodgson, Esq. Dean's yiu-d, '^'estminster. John HoUier, Esq. Thame.

Rev. Arthur Isham, A.M. Rector of Weston Turville. Isaac D'Israeli, Esq. F.S.A. Bradenham-house.

Mrs. Jackson, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Rev. Samuel King, A.M. Rector of Latimers.

Mrs. Joseph King, Frogmore House, Wycombe.

Rev. John Kipling, A.M. Vicar of Oakley, and Perpetual Curate ol

Chearsley and Nether Winehendon. Matthew Knapp, Esq. Little Linford House, near Newport Paguell.

William Law, Esq. Gawcott, Buckingham.

John Lee, Esq. LL.D. F.S.A. HartweU House. Large & small paper.

Rev. Samuel Lee, D.D. Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge, &c.

Richard Lee, Esq. Thame, Oxon

Library of the London Institution, Finsbury, London. Large paper.

Rev. Alexander Lockhart, A.M. Vicar of Stone.

The Directors of the London & North- Western Railway Company

Euston Square, London. Thomas LoveU, Esq. Choulsbury.

SUBSCRIBERS.

Cajit. Williimi Stauliope Lovell, K.H. TeiTet House, Drajtou Beaucliii

Thomas Lovett, Esq. Liscombe, Soulbiiry.

William Lowndes, Esq. Cbeshom.

William Selby Lowndes, Esq. WLaddon Hall,

Harry Luptou, Esq. Thame, Oxon. Lunje paper.

Alexander M'Dougall, Esq. Parliament-street, Loudon,

Itev. Hichiird Marks, Vicar of Great Misseuden.

Kev. Thomas Martyn, Rector of Ludgershall.

Rev. Richard Meade, A.M. Rector of Horseuden, and Perpetual Curate

of Prince's Bisborough. .lohu Morice, Esq. F.S.A. Upper Gower Street, Loudon. Lim/e jiaper. llev. Henry Morice, Ashwell Vicarage, Baldoclc, Herts. Larrfc paper, Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq. Danesfleld House, near Medmeuham.

Larije paper.

.lohn Campden Neild, Esq. Cbeyne-walk, Chelsea, .lohu Wood Nelson, Esq. Upton Court.

.lohn Bowyer Nicholls, Esq. F.S.A. Parliament Street, Lcmdou. John Gough Nicholls, Esq. Pai'liament Street, Loudon. Larije paper. Alexander Nicholson, Esq. F.S.A. East Court, Charlton Kings, Glouces- tershire. Large paper. .lolrn Norris, Esq. Hugheudon House. Lan/e paper. Richard Nowell, Esq. Peterley House.

Rev. Ge

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A.M. Great Grimsby, Liucolushire.

.John Parker, Esq. F.S.A. Wycombe.

Hugh Parnell, Esq. Kington, near Thorubury, Gloucestershire. GrauviUe Penn, Esq. Stoke Park, neai- Slough. E. L. Perceval, Esq. Bishop's Hall, Essex. Large paper. George Grenville Pigott, Esq. Doddershall Park. Large it small papi Rev. James Noel Pigott, A.M. Rector of Greudou Underwood. Rev. John Robert Pigott, A.M. Rector of Hugheudon. W^illiam Pigott, Esq. Doddershall Park. Large and small paper. Charles Pinfold, Esq. Walton, near Fenny Stratford. Jlrs. Praed, Tyringham.

Edward Davis-Protheroe, jun. Esq. F.S.A. & M.P. Great Gaddesde Herts. Large piaper.

.lohn Whitby Quint:

Hedges, Carsh;

Mr. George Rainsford, Aylesbury.

Mr. Thomas Read, Brill.

Mr. Rees, Bristol.

H. W. Reynolds, Esq. Thame, Oxon. Large paper.

Henry Rhodes, Esq. 20, Margaret Street, Cavendish Sqi

Charles Spencer Rieketts, Esq. Dorton House.

Rev. David Roderick, A.M. Perpetual Curate of Choulsbi

John Rolfe, Esq. Watlleton Farm, Beaconsfleld.

Join. Rumsey, Esq. F.S.A. Wycombe.

Rev. John Rush, A.JL Rector of Hartwell, Perpetual Curate of St. Luke, Chelsea, and Chaplain to His Majesty the King of Hanover.

Thomas Scott, Esq. A.M. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.

Mrs. Shard, Grimsdyke Lodge, near Risborough.

Rev. Thomas Silvester, Buckingham Vicarage.

J. A. Slark, Esq, Fishery, Hemel Hempstead, Herts,

Abel Smith, Esq, M,P, Woodhall Park, Wai-e, Herts. Large paper.

George Robert Smith, Esq. 4, Great Cumberland-place, Hyde Park,

Rev. William Ramsden Smith, Halcott Rectory, near Aylesbury.

Mr. C.J. Smith, Southampton-st. Fitzroy-squiu-e, London. Large paper.

Arthur Stanhope, Esq. Tiluey Street, London.

John Stone, Esq. Long Crendon.

Robert Surtees, Esq. F.S.A. Author of the History of Durham.

Robert Sutton, Esq. Ross-way, North CJuirch, Herts. --

John Swaine, Esq. 28, Great PiUteney Street, Golden Squiu-e, London.

Rev. William Talbot, A.M. Rector of Clifton Reynes.

Rev. J. H. Talbot, A.M. Clifton Reynes, near Oluey.

J. E. Tarrant, Esq. Alscot Lodge, near Prince's Risborough.

Rev. Henry Tattam, D.D. &e. Rector of St. Cuthberfs Bedford.

John Tattam, Esq. Custom House, London.

George Watson Taylor, Esq. F.S,A, Erlestoke Park, Wilts, Large paper

Robert Thackthwaite, Esq, Fulmer House,

John Harvey Thursby, Esq, Abington Abbey, Northamptou, Large papei

Rev, Richard Tomkyns, B.CL, Rector of Great Horwood.

Christopher Tower, Esq. M.P. Huntsmore Lodge, Iver.

Joseph Townsend, Esq. Wood End, near Marlow.

Triiuty College Library, Cambridge.

Rev. Fiennes Samuel Trotman, A.M. Rector of Gothurst, &c.

Rev. Thomas a Beckett Turner, A.M. of Wotton Underwood, &c.

Samuel Turner, Esq. 9, Gray's Inn Square, London.

William Turner, Esq. Wedon Lodge.

Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tnite, Esq. F.S.A. Halsewell House, Somersei

Arthur Tyton, Esq. F.L.S. Wimbledon Common, Surrey.

William Upcott, Esq. Islington.

William Watts, Esq. Hanslape Park.

Owen Wethered, Esq. Great Marlow.

Mrs. WethereU, Hai-row Weald Lodge, Jliddlesex.

John Wharton, Esq. Skelton Castle, Yorkshu-e. Large paper.

Rev. John ^\^lite, B.CL. Prebendary of Sai-um, Rector of Hardwick.

Thomas P. Williams, Esq. M.P. Temple House, IMarlow. Large pape

William Williams, Esq. Wandsworth, Surrey.

Charles Willis, Esq. Winslow.

Clement Winstanley, Esq, Braunston Hidl, Leicestershire.

William Wright, Esq. Marlow Mills.

Philip Thomas Herbert Wykehaui. Esq. Tythorp House, Oxon.

.Iward Herma

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PREFAC E.

When the History of Buckinghamshire was first announced for publication, the Editor thought it his duty to afford some account of the sources from which he had derived his preparations for so important an undertaking; and, as an apology for his presumption, to state the grounds on which he solicited the favour of the public : — that he had devoted many years to the prosecution of the Work ; had explored with assiduity the National Records, the Libraries of the Metropolis, of the Universities of the United Kingdom, and all other de- positories of Manuscripts, Charters, Genealogical, Biographical, and Heraldic Collections accessible to his diligent and respectful applications ; that he had been liberally permitted to investigate, in numerous instances, those authentic sources of information, the archives and muniments of ancient and noble families connected with the County which has been the object of his peculiar solicitude, and had thus greatly increased the stores previously collected by the care and industry of Dodswoith, Kennet, Wood, Wilhs, Steele, Delafield, Cole, Langiey, and the still more valuable and important materials supplied by the indefatigable labours of the late Reverend Edward Cooke, A.M. and LL.B. Rector of Haver- sham ; which he avowed to have formed the basis of that superstructure which it had been his endeavour to raise.

This explanation and appeal have not been made in vain. They were offered with humility and diffidence, but with a confident reliance upon the candour of the friends of Literature.

Impressed with the conviction that Buckinghamshire possessed local featui'es and artificial embellishments, united with objects highly interesting to the Anti-

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([uary and the Scholar, which placed this County in an equal rank with others which had long boasted the advantages of very learned and able Historians ; — that its connexion with events of national importance, together with the fame and distinction of many eminent characters identified with it, in ancient and modern days, as heroes, patriots, statesmen, orators, and poets, dignifying and adorning the spheres in which they moved, must be the Author's apology for having undertaken so laborious a task. It might seem a reproach that the name of Willis, pre-eminently venerable amongst Antiquaries, had not, even where he passed a long life in constant endeavours to promote so desirable an object, wanned Math enthusiastic ardour some congenial spirit^ to rescue the County from oblivious neglect, if not by equal powers, at least with kindred diligence.

Cheered by a most gracious Patronage, and encouraged by the hope that industrious perseverance might, in some degree, atone for the want of those stronger recommendations which more splendid talents, or even superior o])por- tunities of ac(|uiring information, would have presented ; the Author trusts that he may still be allowed the honest pride, in having so far subdued and overcome the numerous dilhculties and obstacles in the progress of this arduous undertaking, as to be enabled to submit the result of his labours to the notice of the Public.

Of the manner in which he has performed his task, his Readers are now to judge. To deprecate the severity of criticism with many claims to indulgence, under the peculiar disadvantages of having to tread the mazy wilds of anti- quarian research, without a beacon and without a guide; to explore a labyrinth hitherto unessayed, by attempting the History of a populous County, of which only two of its Hundreds had previously found an Historian — to doubt that a candid and enlightened public would shield the Author by their most liberal candour, — must have betrayed a deficiency of confidence unworthy of an aspirant for public favour. In full assurance, therefore, of all reasonable allowances for defects inevitable in a Work of such magnitude — and errors, of which the Writer is abundantly conscious — the Histouy of Buckinghamsuihe is respectfully submitted to the consideration of his contemporaries, and the impartial justice of future times.

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The first object of the Author's solicitude is to testify, iu the best manner in his power, his guatitude for especial marks of confidence and generosity on the part of many of his munificent and noble Subscribers, to whose counte- nance and protection the literary public will owe whatsoever of satisfaction may be derived from this Work; — to shew, that it is the design of this undertaking to embalm the memory of the past for the benefit of succeeding generations ; and to prove that, instead of a mere description of places and a dry recital of events, Topography has far more enlarged and enlightened views ; which, being personified, might be, not improperly, addressed in the sentiment and language of a Poet Avhom Buckinghamshire delights to claim amongst its resplendent ornaments :

Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye, The flower unheeded shall descry, And bid it round Heaven's altars shed The fragrance of its blushing head ; Shall raise from earth the latent gem To glitter on the diadem.

Call from their tombs the pious, just, and wise, And bring their fair example to our eyes ; This power is thine — 'tis thine the sacred trust To snatch their virtues from the mouldering dust. To sci-een them safe from Time's contagious breath, And bid them bloom unprejudiced by death.

The Author would avail himself of this opportunity, to thank the Subscribers generally, for their liberal patronage and continued support, by which he has been enabled, at length, to complete the History of Buckinghamshire, in conformity with the original Prospectus ; but more particularly is he indebted to the distinguished bounty and munificence of some few most generous and liberal Contributors, whom it becomes hiin to mention with the highest degree of respect and gratitude. And herein he may be permitted to enumerate the names of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, K.G. ; His Grace the Duke of

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Bedford, K.G. ; His Grace the Duke of Marlborough ; His Grace the Duke of Northumlocrland, K.G. ; His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G. ; The Right Hon. the Earl of Buckinghamshire ; The Right Hon- the Earl Howe, K.G. ; The Right Hon. the Earl Spencer, K.G. & LL.D.; The Right Elon. the Countess of Bridgewater ; The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Lake ; The Right Hon. the Baroness Bray ; The Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. G.C.H. ; Sir John Chetwode, Bart M.P. ; Sir Alexander Croke, Knt. D.C.L. & F.S.A. ; Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. F.R.S. & S.A. ; Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, Bart. F.R.S. & S A. ; Lady Sarah Lovett ; Rev. Joseph Goodall, D.D. & F.S.A. ; Rev. John Goodall, A.M.; John Lee, Esq. LL.D. & F.S.A.; Charles Clowes, Esq.; Gordon Wil- loughby James Gyll, Esq. ; C^eorge Simon Harcourt, Esq ; Harry Lupton, Esq. ; John Norris, Esq. ; and Wilham Pigott, Esq.

To Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, Esq. whose valuable communications and favours are duly acknowledged in the course of the Work, and who has most generously compiled, at the sacrifice of much personal ease and convenience, the very valuable and elaborate Indices, the Author is anxious to record his particular obligations; — and, at the age of seventy- three, in withdraM'ing himself from those more active duties in which he has so long delighted, trusts that it will not be attributed to an unpardonable vanity, if he presumes to feel an honest pride in having produced a Work, which he hopes will be found of great National importance, as well as Local utility.

PLACES.

[The Names priuted iu Roman are Towns anJ Villages; those in Italics ai-e .

Addciigrave, i. 304

Chetwode Priory, iii. 4

Hartwell, ii. 300

Nettleden, iii. 447

Akeley, u. 518

Chicheley, iv. 93

Haversham, iv. 184

Newport Hundred, iv. 1

Addington, ii. 505

Cliilton, i. 127

Hawridge, iii. 372

Newport PagneU, iv. 270

Adstock, ii. 513

Choulsbury, iii. 314

Hedgerley, iv. 501

Newton Blossomrille, iv. 25

Alscol, ii. 425

Cippenliam, iii. 210

Hedgerley Dean, iii. 277

Newton Longnerille, iv. 261

Amersham, iii. 140

Claydon Bottle, i. 168

Hedsor, iii. 578

Notley Abbey, i. 219

Ascot, iii. 523

Claydon, East, i. 157

Hillesden, iii. 16

AsHENDON Hundred, vol. i. 1

Claydon, Middle, i. 174

Hitchom, iii. 281

Oakley, i. 350

Ashendon, i. 0

Clifton Eeynes, iv. 99

Hitoheuden, iii. 582

Olney, iv. 298

Ashley Green, iii. 202

OUppersdown. iii. 401

Hogshaw, i. 263

Oving, i. 370

Ashridge, iu. 436

Coleshill, iii. 179

Hogston, iii. 376

Owlswick, ii. 423

Aston Chivery, ii. 85

Colnbrook, iv. 430

Holtcndt-n, iii. 406

Aston Molins, i. 40

Cohvich, i. 485

Holmer, ii. 393

Padbury, iii. 57

Aston Sandford, i. 41

CoTTESLow Hundred, iii. 305

Horsenden, ii. 328

Pemi, iii. 287

Aston Clinton, ii. 72

Cowley, iii. 63

Horton, iv. 510

Pitcheott, i. 382

Aston Bernard, ii. 163

Cramoell, i. 483

Horton, iii. 353

Pitson, or Pightlesthome, iii

Aston Abbats, iii. 306

Crawley, iv. 122

Horwood, Magna, iii. 385

Policott, Great, i. 24

Astwood, iv. 3

Creudon, Long, i. 198

Horwood, Little, iii. 389

Poticott, Little, i. 31

Astwoodhunj, iv. 4

Creslow, iii. 324

Hudnall, iti. 355

Preston Bisset, iii. 03

Atlesbdrt Hundred, ii. 1

Crofton, iii. 522

Hulcot, ii, 337

Prince's Kisborough, ii. 420

Aylesbury, ii. 2

Barton Hartshorne, ii. 522

Cubliugton, iii. 328 Cuddington, ii. 130

Huntercombe, iii. 203 Ickford, i. 275

Quainton, i. 390 Quarendon, ii. 400

Beachampton, ii. 525

Dagnall, iii. 352

llmer, i. 287

Radeliffe, iii. 67

Beaconsfield, iii. 181

Datchett, iv. 433

Ipstone, iii. 093

Eadnage, iii. 019

Bedgrove, ii. 492

Denhnm, iv. 443

Tver, iv. 515

Ravenstone, iv. 311

Benwell, i. 418

Denham, or Dunnington, i. 403

Iviughoe, iii. 391

Rdvenstone Priory, iv. 314

Berneicode Forest, i. 51

Desborough Hundred, iii. 551

Ixhill, i. 365

Bockhols, iii. 592

Bichendon, i. 484

Dinton, ii. 135

Rowsham, iii. 040

Bierton, ii. 97

Ditton, iv. 509

Kimble, Great, ii. 341

BiUinqdon, iii. 262

Doddershall, i. 404

Kimble, Parva, ii. 350

Salden, iii. 426

Bishopstone, ii. 452

Dodford, iii. 112

Ivingsey, i. 293

Sannderton, iii. 625

Bitlesden, ii. 537

Domey, iii. 273

Kingswood, i. 305

Sear Green, iii. 277

Bitlesden Abbey, ii. 538

Dorton, i. 239

Sedrnp, ii. 459

Blackqrave, i.'473

Drayton Beauchamp, iii. 332

Laccy Green, ii. 440

Shabbiugton, i. 445

Bledlow, ii. 110

Drayton Parslow, iii. 339

Lamport, iii. 113

Shalstou, ill. 70

Bletchley, iv. 10

Dnndrldqe, ii. 90

Langley Marish, iv. 531

Shardeloes,' ui. 153

Boarstali, i. 51

Dunton.'iii. .341

Latimers, iii. 268

Shipton, iii. 542

Botley, iii. 202

Lathbujy, iv. 196

Shipton Lee, i. 412

Boiiikon, ii. 087

Easington, i. 150

Lavendon, iv. 208

Shenley, iv. 324

Boveney, iii. 224

Edgcott, iii. 9

Lavendon Abbey, iv. 214

Sherriugton, iv. 333

Boycott, iii. 110

Edlesborough, iii. 345

Leckhampstead, iii. 23

Simpson, iv. 339

Bradeuham, iii. 553

Ekeney-cum-Petsoe, iv. 133

Ledbnrne, iii. 417

Singleborovgh, iii. 388

Bradwell, iv. 38

EUesborough, ii. 171

Lee, ii. 356

Slapton, iii. 449

Bradwell Abbey, iv. 48

Elstrop, ii. 338

Lenborongh, ii. 592

Slough, iv. 578

Bragenham, iii. 463

Emberton, iv. 137

Leonards, St. ii. 93

Snelshall Priory, iii. 504

Brayfield, Cold, iv. 47

Erlai, iii, 433

Lidcote, iii. 470

Soulsbuiy, iii. 454

Brickhill, Bow, with Caldecote, iv. 50

Eton, iv. 459

LiUingston Dayi-ell, iii, 31

Southcote, iii. 408

BrickhiU, Great, iv. 57

Eythorpe, i. 475

Liuford, Great, iv, 220

Stantonbarry, iv. 345

Brickhill, Little, iv. 70

Linford, Little, iv. 228

Steeple Claydon, iii. 76

Brill, i. 95

Farnham Royal, iii. 277

Linslade, iii. 403

Stewkley, iii. 409

Broughton. iv. 77

Fawley, iii. 559

Liscombe, iii. 407

Stockholt, ii. 618

Broughton, ii. 100

Fenny Stratford, iv. 29

Loudicater, iii. 662

Stoke Hundred, iv. 429

Buckingham Hundred, ii. 503

Filgrave, iv. 382

Loughton, iv. 234

Stoke Goldington, iv. 351

Buckingham, ii. 546

Fingest, iii. 564

Ludgershall, i. 305

Stoke Hammond, iv. 359

Buckland, ii. 124

Ford, ii. 170

Lvffield Priory, iii. 110

Stoke MandeviUe, ii. 445

Burcot, iii. 521

Foscott, iii. 13

Stoke Poges, iv. 544

BUENHAM Hundred, iii. 115

Fulbrook, i. 270

Maids' Moreton, iii. 40

Stone, ii. 451

Burnham, iii. 203

Fulmer, iv. 498

Marlow, Great, iii. 594

Stouey Stratford, iv. 360

Burnham Abbei/, iii. 200

Marlow, Little, iii, COO

Stowe, iii. 84

Burstone, iii. 309

Gem-cot, ii. 591

Marqarefs. St. iii, ::illl

Stndley, i. 300

Gavhnrst, iv. 142

Marsh Gibbon, iii, -Is

Swanbocu-ue, iii. 479

Calvertou, iv. 84

Grindborough, i. 247

Marston, Fleet, i, :ij:l

Caversfield, ii. 594

Grendon Underwood, i. 252

Marston, North, i, :i,J3

Taplow, iii. 293

Castlethorpe, iv. 89

Grove, iii. 262

Marsworth, iii, 411!)

Tattenhoe, iii. 487

Chachtnore, iii. 67

Grove, iii. 356

Medmeuham, iii. Oil

Tetchwood, i. 313

Ghartridge, iu. 262

Medmenham Ahlnq. iii. Oil

Thomley, i. 585

Cholfont St. Giles, iii. 225

Haddenham, ii. 202

Mentmore, iii, 417

Thoruborough, iii. 114

Chalfont St. Peter, iii. 237

Halton, ii. 219

Middleton Keviies, iv. 211

Thornton, iii. 118

Chearsley, i. 117

Ham, or Wodeham, i. 487

Misseuden, Greut, ii. ,-i,-.!l

Tickford Abbey, iv. 291

Cheddington, iii. 311

Hambleden, iii. 008

Missenden Abheii, ii, :t(:0

Tmgewick, iii. 123

Chelmscote, iii. 464

Hampden, Great, ii. 227

Misseuden, Little, ii. 390

Towersey, i. 455

Chenies, or Isenhampstead, iii. 247

Hampden, Parva, ii. 295

Monks'Eisborough, ii. 410

Turville, iii. 029

Chesham, iii. 202

Hauslape, iv. 164

Morton, ii. 101

Turweston, iii. 127

Chesham Bois, iii. 270

Hardmead, iv. 179

Moulsoe, iv. 200

Twyford, iii. 130

Chetwode, iii. 1

Hardwick, iii. 358

Mursley, iii. 424

TjTingham, iv. 372

PLACES.

Uptou-cum-Cli.'ave7, iv. 571

Water Eton, iv. 15

Wexbam, iv. 582

Wolverton, iv. 411

Up,.,,,, ii. 150

Wavendon, iv. 391

Wliaddon, Willi Na.sli,

iii. 490

Woolston, Great, iv. 421

Weedon, iii. 370

Whitchurch, iii. 508

Woolstou, Little, iv. 424

WadJesdon, i. 4C3

Wendover, ii. 4(iO

WiUen, iv. 408

Wonninghall, i. 573

Wahb-idge, ii. 100

Westburv, iii. Ul

Winchendon, Nether,

i. 514

Wotton Underwood, i. 580

Walton, iv. 384

Westhlinj, iv. 1131

Winchendon, Over or

Upper, i. 530

Wotton Hum, i. 604

Walton, ii. 67

Westcotc, i. 4!)n

Wing, iii. 521

Woughtou-on-the-Green, iv. 420

Wanmsto„v, i. 480

Wi-stliniilon, ii. 170

Wingi-ave, iii. 534

Wvcombe, High, iii. 039

Warrington, iv. 298

Weston' Turville, ii. 492

Wiuslow, iii. 542

Wycombe, West, iii. 053

Water Stratford, iii. 137

Weston Underwood, iv. 397

Woburn, iii. 033

WjTai-disbur^-, iv. 585

PEDIGREES.

Ahell and Verucv, i. 104

Busby, ii. 507

Fitz-Nigel, i. 66

JekyU, iv. 356

Alfred, Xing of Dublin, i. 07

Butler, iv. 334

Fitz-Piers, i. 158

Jeuiyn, iv. 223

Albini, i. 455

Fleetwood, ii. 377

Jenkinson, i. 315

Amand, St. i. 255

Cadogan, Enrl, i. 353

of the Vachc iii ^"^7

Jenoise, iii. 71

Anderson, i. 325

Calvert, i. 184, 183

FlemjTig, iv. 598

Jodrell, iv. 597

Audrewes, iv. 198

Canon, iv. 000

Foster, iv. 174

JoUiffe, iv. 004

Annesley, Baron, iv. 280

CantUupe, i. 176

Frankland, ii. 197

Antonie, ii. 309

Carter, i. 133

Freville, iv. 276

KejTiol, iv. 375

Ap Kees, iv 120

Ciu'un, iv. 334

Frome, i. 394

King, i. 585 ; iv. 620

Apsley, iv. 520

Cai7, i. 152

Kiiapp, iv. 231

Ai-des, iv. 334

Chakers or Chequers, i. 19

0

Gerard, ii. 75

KnoUys, i. 527

Argentein, i. 13, 14

Chaloner, iii. 80

Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, i. 200 ;

Atkinson, iv. 007

Chandos, Duke of Buckiii

igham, i.

iii. 131; iv. 320

Lake, Lord, ii. 75

Aubrey and Awbrev, i. 00, 09, 70, 74

599

ofFiUbrook, i. 271

Lane, i. 200

Avenell, i. 460

Chaucer, i, 295

Gill, iv. 006

Lee, iv. 597

Chemocke, i. 132, 133

Godolphin, Earl of, iv. 559

ofEastClaydon, i. 163

Badcock, ii. 115

Chetwode, iii. 2

Golafre, i. 394

of Hartwell, u. 307, 309

Backwell, iv. 376

Chicbely, i. 09

Goldiugton, iv. 352

of Quarendon, Viscounts, ii. 404

Baker, iv. 530

Child, iv. 598

Goodyai-, iv. 007

Lewis, i. 06

Banastre, i. 60

Churchill, Duke of Jlarlb,

.rough, i.

. Good^vyn, i. 579

Longueville, iv. 415

Barre, iv. 345

503

Gorges, iii. 189

Louet or Lovet, iii. 457

Barrington, ii. 75

Clare, Earl of, i. 159, 200,

201

Greene, i. 29

Lovel, iii. 634

Basset, i. 09 ; iv. 258

Clarendon, iv. 598

Granville, i. 589, 590, 599

Lowndes, iii. .544

Beauchamp, i. 240, 255 ; iv. 174, 530

Clai-ke, i. 390

Greseley, i. 170

Lucv, i.271; iv. 188

BeauUeu, i. 320

Cleaver, i. 370

Greville, Earl of Broke and Warwick,

Lynford, iv. 334

Beke, ii. 309

Clerke, i. 440

i. 267

Belson, i. 103

Colebrooke, i. 134

Grev, De, of Botherfiehl, i. 100

Mackworth, iv. 37s

Benet, ii. 529

Corbet of Fulbni.d<, i. 271

Gruid), ii. 332, 444

Mandeville, i. 158

Bennet, i. 134

Cornwall, i. 1 12.

Gyll, iv. 598, 000

JIansell, i. 09

Benson, iv. 126

Cottrell-Dormi-r, i. 119

Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, i. 2s,

Berkelev, iv. 270

ronrten.iv, Karl of Devon, i

.400,471

Hale, iv. 530, 009

200, 202

Bernard, i. 519, 521

Cowdruv, iv. 251

Hampden, i. 295 ; ii. 302

Marny, i. 295

Bertie, i. 233, 234, 235, 230

Cressi, i. 120

of Missenden, ii. 374

Martj-n, i. 310, 529

Bi'ti, i. 315

Crevequer, iv. 375

Handlo, i. 00

Mead, ii. 444

i;; ii.- i . IV .'I'l'i

froke of Cliilton, i. 131, 308

Hanmer, iv. 341

Minshull, ii. 590

of Chcciuors, ii. 181)

HaiTourt, iv. 5sH

Missenden, i. 394 ; ii. 305

l; ■ ,. , .1 .. ll,.n--f.,rd, 1.200,207

Harrison, i. 2.'^0

Molins, iv. .547

i;.,: '..., ... v.. :.'ii;; iii. 510

Cmts, ii. 194

Harv,-v, i. 437

Monchensy, ii. 141

Bnlrvii, i;url of Wiltshire, ii. 7; iv.

Hassel, iv. 004

Montague, ii. 75

598

Dabrigcourt, i. 09

Hastings, ii. 75

Mortimer, i. 159, 203

Borard Eeynes, iv. 105

Danvers, i. 280 ; iv. 530

T?„..l „f -nr 1. -•_ tr- t

iiiaii 01 iVJarcii, iv. l**

Boscawen, i. 447

Dashwood, ii. 224

Hawtrey, iii. 212

Mowbray, Lord, iv. 598

Boteler, K«l of Ormonde, i. 590 ;

Davrell, iii. 32

Hayton, ii. 110

Moyle, ii. 595

ii. 7

Deil, ii. 71

Herbert of Kingsey, i. 297

Mulsho, iv. 143

Bottetourt, Baron of Newport Pag-

Denton, iii. 17

Herschell, iv. 579

Musard, i. 398

nell, iv. 270

Devereux, Lord Ferrais, iv

.258

Hervev, i 132, 320

Murray, iv. 59s

Bourchier, Earl of V.ssex, iv. 258

D'Eyncourt, iii. 034

Hickman, ii. 52

Bowver. iv. 440

Digbv, iv. 145

Hoare, iv. :190

Ncvill, ii. 75 ; iv. 143

Boyce, iv. 004

D-OUey, iii. 77; iv. 510

Hobiut, ii. 277

Newburgh, iv. 510

Braose, i. 09, 202, 394

Donuer, i. 118,415

Hampden, Earl of Bucking-

Ncwmarch, i. 202

Brerewood, iv. 511

Drake, iii. 154

hamshire, ii. 277

Neyrnut, i. 320

Breton, i. 590

Dravton, i. 29

Hoby, iv. 009

Nodariis, De, iv. 352

Brightwall, i. 122

Dunibletou, iv. 126

Hood, i. 280

Non-is, Earl of Abingdon, i. 233

Brock, i. 399

Buncombe, i. 163

Hopkins, i. 377

Nowers, ii. 3li5 ; iv. 143

Brome, iv. 020

Dyuham, i. 00

Howai-d, Duke of Norfolk, iii. 188 ;

Broome, iv. 007

iv. 598

Olnev, iv. 39s

Brace, King Kol.crt, iv. 598

Elmes, i. 394

Hughes, i. 402

Oteb'v, iv. 223

Brudenell, ii. 447 Bruyn, i. CO Bulstrode, iv. 503, 572

Eyre, iii. 211

Hungerford, iv. 547

Ouseley, iii. 188

Fawconer, i. 10

Ingoldsby, ii. 109

Pabenham,.iv.375

Burgh, Dc,i. 158, 159

Ferrers, i. 252

Iwardby, i. 394

Packingtou. ii. 14

Burgliersh, i. 295

Ficiines, ii. 470

Paganell, iv. 275

Burlacv, or Borlacc, i. 309

Fiott, ii. 30!!

Jeffreys, iv. 505

Parkin, iv. 599

PEDIGREES.

Paxton, iv. 60T

Pembnigge, iv. 590

Peun, iv. 550

Peyn-e, iv. 210

Pigot of Beachampton, u. 5^

•237

of Clietwynd, i. 400

of Colwich, i. 486

of DoddersliaU, i. 406

of Hogshaw, i. 266

of Ickford, i. 278

of Slienley, iv. 326

Pinchon, iv. 620 Plautaganet, Eai-1 of Norfolk,

ii. 75 Plaunche, Pole, De la, i. 6 Praed, iv. 378 Prestwood, ii. 3' Procter, iv. 530 Prowse, iv. 604 Pm-efoy, iii. 71 Pytches, iv. 604

Rede, i. 66 Redmau, i. 375 Eedvers, i. 460 Eevett, ii. 194 Eeynolds, ii. 44J Ringer, iv. 416

596

Eooke, iv. 416

Russell, Dukes of Bedford, iii. 2

ii. 104, 195

EuthaU, iv. 416

Sackville, iii. 560

Salter, iv. 596

Sauders, iv. 007

Saunders, i. 336, 385

Say and Sele, Lord, i. 158

Scotland, Kings of, iv. 598

Scnrlage, i. 69

Selby, iii. 407, 544

Seymour, iv. 533

Sbavowe, iv. 620

Sheffield, iv. 604

Sherrington, iv. 334

Smythe of Anken\-ycke, iv. 508

Smyth of Liuford, iv. 223

Snell, i. 102, 280

Someri, iv. 275 Somerset, Duke of, iv. 517 Spencer, i. 565

Eai-1 Spencer, iii. 342

Spigurnell, i. 394 Stackpole, i. 69

Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfielil

Stanhope, Eai-ls of, iii. 379 Stafford, Eaids and Dukes of ingham, i. 27, 20

iv. 258

Stone, ii. 444 Stonor, iv. 009 Stubbs, iv 231 SnlUvau, iv. 519

Tash, iv. 529, 530 Talbot, Valence, & Stafford, i. Temple, iii. 85 Thompson, Lord Haversham, Thornell, i. 585 Throclimorton, i. 271 ; iv. 39 Thurbane, ii. 104 Tipping, i. 451) Todeni, iv, 1112 Tower, iv. 000 Trelawnev, i. 400 Trevor, s'aron, ii. 296 TrumbaU, iv. 020 Turberville, i 09 TurWlle, ii. 403 T^Tingham, i. 510; iv. 373,.' Tyrrell, i. 352

of Hanslape, iv. 175

of Thornton, iii. 119

Vachell, i. 330

Verdun, iv. 326

Vere, i. 20

Vernev, Earl of, i. 178, 180

Vernon, i. 383

Wake, iv. 126

Walery, St. i. 367

Wales, Kings & Princes of, i. 69,

Walshe, iv. 609

Walter, The Steward, iv. 598

Webb, ii. 450

Weuman of Kingsey, i. 397

West, i. 255

Wharton, i. 543

Whitbread, ii. 116

Wilkes, u. 44

Williams, Lord, i. 933

Willis, iv. 11

Winlowe, i. 519

Wirley, iv. 126

Wittewi-ong, iv. 347

Wrighte, iv. 151

Wright, iv. 607

Wykeham, i. 297

Wyndham, Eaidof Egremont, iv.

Wyndsor, iv. 505

Zouche, i. 170

WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

Vol. I. iNiTiAi W, with Anns of Mercia and of the

Eai-ls of Buckingham, 3. Seal of the Honour of Ewelme, 22. Aston Sandford Church, 50. Arms of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. 72. Initiai. B, with South View of Boai-stall Tower,

76. Ground Plan of Boarstall Tower, 88. Monumental Effigies in Cheai-sley Church, 125. Initiai C, with View of the Old Entrance to

Chilton House, 137. Chilton Church, 142. Arms of Sir John Croke, Rut. 146. Another Shield of the same, with Quarterings, 147. Arms of Mandeville, 158.

De Burgh, 159.

Plantagenet, ib.

Monumental Effigy of Alexander .inne, and Arms,

in Middle-Claydon Chancel, 192.

of Roger Gj-ft'ard, liis Wife,

and Twenty Children, mth Arms, in the same Church, 193.

of Isabel Giffard, 194.

Monument of Sir Harry Calvert, Bart. tb. Arms of Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, 200.

Clare, ib.

Mortimer, 203.

Roman Antiquities found at Creudou, 212, 213.

Long Crendon Church, 216.

Initial N, with Tower of Notley Abbey, 219.

Three Seals of Notley Abbey, 231.

Dorton Church, 245.

Arms of Pigot, 278.

Giffard, ib.

Ickford Church, 285.

Iniihl L, with View of Window in Ludgershall Church, 305.

Monumental Effigy of Anne English, in Lud- gershall Church, 321.

Arms of ditto, ib.

North Marston Church, 344.

Piscena, in the Church, 345.

Fragment in ditto, ib.

Another, 340.

Font, in North Marston Church, 346.

Effigy and Anns of Eichai-d Saunders, 347.

Oakley Church and Ground Plan, 301.

Initial Q, mth View of an Old Stone Cross at Quainton, 390.

Arms of Pigot, 400.

Effigy of Johanne Plesh, 428.

Elizabeth Chester, 429.

Richard Iwardby, 429.

a Priest in Brass, 431.

John Lewys, 432.

Mural Monument of Dr. Richard Brett, 434.

Arms of Pigot, 480.

Effigy of a Priest in a Shroud, 510.

Cypher of Thomas-a-Becket, in Nether Winchen-

don Church, 520. Effigy of Johes Emperotis, in ditto, 533. Johes Barton, or Bayle, and his Wife, in

ditto, 533. Over Winchendon Church, 570. Arms of Goodwyn, 571. Effigies of Phihp King, his Wife, and Twelve

Children, 581.

Edward Greueville, and his Wife and

Child, 013.

Vol. IL

Initial A, with appropriate Agricultural Em- blems, 1.

Specimens of Aylesbury Coins, 29.

Ai-ms of Wood, 95.

of Baldwin, ib.

Inscription on the Communion Table in Cud- dingtou Church, 132.

Ancient Doorway of Dinton Church, 146.

Inscription in Dinton Church, 147.

A Stone, called Crowgold, 171.

End of an Old Seat in Haddenham Church, 214.

Monumental Effigies, in brass, of Henry Brad- shaw, Wife, and Eight Children, surmounted with his Arms, in Halton Church, 225.

• of John Hampden and his

Wife, in Great Hampden Church, 289.

of Sir John Hampden, his

Two Wives, and Three Children, in the same Church, surmounted with the Arms of Hamp- den, Savage, and Willford, 290.

Aims of Hampden and Cave at Hampden, 291.

Old Mansion House & Church at Hai-twell, 327.

Little Kimble Chui-ch, 354.

Initial M, with View of Missenden Abbey, and Arms of the Abbey, 366.

Seal of the Abbats of Missenden, 367.

of the Abbey in 1539, 368.

Monumental Effigies of John Iwardby, his Wife, and Four Children, in the Church at Great Missenden, 381.

Curious Monumental Effigy of a Female, 383.

Singulai- Font in Monis' Eisborongh Church, 42 1 .

Fine brass Effigy of a Priest in Monks' Eis- borongh Churcli, 422.

WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

Brook House, at Prince's Eisborougli, 434.

Lacey Green Cliiipel, 441.

Curious Effigies, in Brass, of William Bradsliawe, .\liee his Wife, and their Nine Children, with n TiiWe of Descent, in Wendover Church, 491.

Ancient Font in Weston Turville Church, 500.

Effigy of a Man in a Furred Gown, in Weston Turville Church, 501.

Ancient BiU-hook and Battle Axe, 502.

Initial B, with View of the Church at Bucking- ham, and the Arms of the Town, 503.

Monumental Effigy of William Bawdyn, of Beach- amptou, 533.

Seal of William Archdeacon of Buckingham, 572.

Olil Grammar School at Buckingham, 585.

Monumental Effigies, in brass, of John Langston and Amicia his Wife, witli their Arms, in the Church at Caversfield, 599.

Vol. III. iNiTi.iL C, with View of Chetwode Church, and

Arms of Chetwode, I. Arms and Crest of Sir John Chetwode, 2.

of Eisley, 3.

Monumental Effigies of Paul Dayrell & Margaret

his Wife, in LUlingstone DayreU Church, 30. Arms of Wilkes, &c. 37.

of Peyvre, at Maids' Morton, 45.

Old Manor House, Mai-sh Gibbon, 53. National School House, Padbury, G2. Monumental Effigy of Dame Susan Kyngestone,

in Shalston Church, 75. .Arms of Robert Ingylton, of Thornton, 122. Effigy of Robert Ingylton, in brass, ili. Half-length Effigy of John Guerdon, Rector of

Twyford, 134. Monumental Effigy, in brass, of Thomas Giffai-d,

of Twyford, in Chain Armour, 135. Arms of Gifi'ard, ib. , impidiug Staveley, ib.

of Staveley, ib.

Initial A, with View of Amersham Church, 146. Monumental Effigies of Thomas Waller, and

Dorothy his Wife, in Beaconsfield Church,

surmounted with their Arms, 198. Buruham Abbey, 200. Seal of the Abbey of Burnham, 210. The Old House at Chalfont St. Giles in which

John Milton, the Poet, resided, 229. Monumental Effigies, in brass, of Thomas Fleet-

woode, his Two Wives, with Eighteen Cliild-

ren, at Chalfont St. Giles, 235. Font in Chenies Church, 253. Monumental Effigy, in brass, of Lady Anna

Phelip, in long robes, &c. surmounted with

a shield of Arms, in Chenies Church, 254.

of Sir John Cheyue and

Agnes his Wife, at Chenies, 255.

■ of Robert Cheyne and Eli- zabeth his Wife, at Chesham Bois, 272.

of Nicolas Clarke, and three

of his Children, in Ilitcham Church, 284.

of John Pen and Sai'ah his

Wife, with ten ChUdrcu, at Penn, 291.

Parochial School House at Penn, 294. Curious brass Cross, with the Effigy of Nicholas

Aumbeldeue, in Taplow Church, 300. Monumental Effigies of Eicliaid Maufield and

Katherine his Wife, with Isabella her Sister,

surmounted with Arms, in Taplow Church, 301. Initial T, with View of an Ancient Doorway in

Stewkley Church, 305. Monumental Effigy, in brass, of WUliam Cheyne,

in armour, with shield of Arms, in Drayton

Beauchamp Church, 335. Curious carved Canopy in the Church at Edles-

borough, 349. Arms of Lee, in Hardwick Church, 308. Hogston Church, 382. Figure of a Person in a Monastic Habit, under

a pointed arch, in Hogston Church, 383. Monumental Effigy, in brass, of John Duncombe,

in a furred gown, in Ivinghoe Church, 395. Ancient Seal of John de Cobham, 410. Curious Effigy in Marsworth Church, of a Man

in Armour, reclining on a couch, and near liim

Ms Lady, with six Children, surmounted witli

with the Arms of West, 414. Arms of Humet, 491.

Albini, ib.

Browne Willis, 496.

Ancient View of Snelshall Priory, 504. Arcliitectural Remains in the Church at Whit- church, 517.

Monument to JohnWestcar, at Whitchurch, 520.

Font in Wing Church, 527.

Curious Roof in Wing Church, 528.

Wiuslow Church, 648.

Initial D, mth View of Medmenham Abbey, 551.

Curious Effigy of a Man and his Wife at devotion, surmounted by a Priest, between two Shields of Arms, in Hambleden Church, 575.

Effigy of a cross-legged Knight, in ring mail, bearing on his Shield the Arms of Montfort and Wellesburne, in Hitchenden Church, 588.

Another Effigy of a Knight, ivith a pointed hel- met, in mixed plate and chain armour, in Hitchenden Cliurch, 589.

A Mutilated Figure in a Shroud, under an arch, with Six Shields, in Hitchenden Church, 590.

Representation of a Man in Ai-mour, with a large Shield of Ai'ms over tlie breast, in Hitchenden Church, 590.

A Man in Armour holding a Sword in his right hand, and on his left a Shield with Arms, ib.

Another Man in Armour, with a Helmet and a Shield of Arms, 591.

Stone Coffin, with a cross botone on the lid, ib.

Font in Hitchenden Church, ib.

Ground Plan of the Ancient Hospital of St. John, in High Wycombe, 04S.

Vol. IV.

Initial T, with View of the Tower of Stou

Stratford Church. I. Arms of Browne Willis, 1 1 . Grey de Ruthyn, 00.

Calverton Old Church, 87.

Effigies of Antliony Cave and Ehzabeth his

Wife, in Chicheley Church, 97. Brass Effigy of Dr. John Garbrand, with certain

symbols of Mortahty, &c. in North Crawley

Church, 1.32. Effigy of John Morden, Rector, in Emberton

Chu

ch, 141.

Gayhurst, the Seat of Sir Nathan Wrighte, 163. Seal and Anus of Lord WUliam Manduit, 166.

Lady Ehzabeth de CUuton, 187.

Lucy, with Quarterings, 188.

Arms of Thompson, Lord Haversham, ib.

Andrewes, of Lathbury, with Quai'ter-

ings, 198.

Pey\Te, of Lavendon, 210.

Sed of the Abbats of Lavendon, 215. Anns of Pigot of Beacliampton, 237.

Effigies of Thomas Routhall and his Wife, in

brass, in Moulsoe Church, 255. The Poet Cowper's Favorite Study at Oluey,303. The Peasant's Nest, a Rustic Cottage near Olney,

304. The Celebrated Yardley Oak, ib. Corbel Heads, in the Church of Olney, 308. Part of a Hei-mitage, in Kavenstone, 314. Sed of Prior Radulph, dated 1278, 315.

■ the Priory of Raveustoue, ib.

Arms of Wittewrong, of Stanton BaiTy, 347. Ancient Font in Stoke Hammond Church, 303. Effigy of Lady Ehzabeth Huugerford, in Weston

Underwood Church, 405. New .Church at the Wolverton Railway Station,

421. Initial 0, with the Corporate Seal of the Town

of Colnbrook, 428. Mural Monument of Dame Alice Clayton, in

Denham Chm-ch, 450. College Gardens at Eton, 402. Ancient Chimuies at Eton College, 466. Seal of Eton College, 408.

the Provost of Eton, 482.

Eton Chape], ib.

Effigy of a Priest in a Prebend's Stall, witli

arclies and tracery, at Eton, 485. Brass Effigies of Sir Wilham Molyus, Knt. and

his Wife, 806. Anns of Harcourt, witli Quarterings, 588.

Harcourt impaling Rolls, 589.

Ruins of Ankerwycke Priory, 593. Ancient Seal of the Priory, 594. Ankerwycke House iu'1803, 599. Yew Tiee, in Ankerwycke Park, 000. Magna Chana Island, in 1834, 601.

in 1844, ib.

Interior of tlie Cottage on Magna Charta Island,

Wyrardisbury Suspension Bridge, 603. Arms of Gyll, witli Quarterings, 000. Porch- of the Churchyiu-d at Wyrjirdisburv, Oil. Exterior of Wyrardisbuiy Church, 012.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Map of the Hundred of Ashendon ......

Map of the North-Western Border of the Ancient Forest of Bernwode, including

Doddershall Mansion and Park, &c. . . . . .

Sketch of Boarstall House, A.D. 1695 .....

Old Carving in Boarstall House, containing a Sketch of the Tower, Village, and

Church, a rude Outline of Bernewode Forest, and the presentation of

the Boar's Head to the Saxon King Representation of the Horn of Nigel the Forester, or " The Boarstall Horn " Brass Monumental Effigy of Sir Ralph Verney, his Wife and Family, with

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North View of- (he Old Mansion-House at Middle Claydon South View of do. do.

Ground Plan of the New Mansion-House do.

Dorton-House, the Seat of Charles Spencer Ricketts, Esq. View of Doddershall-House, Quainton, the Seat of William Pigott, Esq. St. Peter's Chapel, at Quarendon Map of the Hundred of Aylesbury View oi the Parish Church, at Aylesbury

Curious Architectural Remains found in the Old Church at Aylesbury View of the Church of St. Mary, at Great Missenden Ancient Spear-Heads, Glass Vessel, &c. found at Dinton Portrait of John Bigg, " The Dinton Hermit" Fac-simile of a Letter written by the celebrated John Hampden South-West View of Hampden-House, with the Parish Church Nonh-East View of the same Mansion Armorial Bearings of the Family of Lee, of Harlwell Hariwell-House, the Residence of John Lee, Esq. LL.D. View of Horsendon-House, with the Parish Church St. Mary's Church, at Prince's Risborough Map of the Hundred of Buckingham North-East View of Hillesden Church

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Cheshani Church .......

St, Michael's Church, Chenies .....

Latimers, the Seat of the Hou. C. C. Cavendish, at Chesham

Lady Russell's Almshouses, at Ciienies ....

Taplow Court, the Residence of the Earl of Orkney

Dorney Court, the Seat of John Palmer, Esq.

Map of the Hundred of Cotteslow . . . . .

West View of the Ancient Manor-House at Creslow

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Liscombe-House, at Soulbury, the Residence of Lady Sarah Lovett

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Map of the Hundred of Desborough . . . . .

Great Marlow Church, with the Suspension Bridge, &c.

Church of St. John the Baptist, at Little Marlow

Map of the Hundred of Newport .....

Portrait of Browne Willis, Esq. the Antiquary

View of Bletchley Church ......

Church of St. Mary, at Stoke Hammond

South-East View of Lathbury Church .....

Sonth-East View of Haversham Church ....

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Olney ....

Residence of Cowper, the Poet, at OIney ...

View of Holy Trinity Church, at Wolverton ....

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Map of the Hundred of Stoke .....

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INTRODUCTION.

The progress wliich has been made in the study of British History has rendered almost every reader so conversant with the expressions and phraseology of our early writers, that some apology may be necessary for the introduction of remarks, which might formerly have been deemed the requisite preliminaries of a work of this description. However, as one of its principal objects is, by supplying an additional incentive to the investigation of our national antiquities, to engage in that interesting and useful pursuit the active co-operation and concurrent assistance of those who are best qualified for its advancement ; and as such studies are usually undertaken with the greater prospect of success when commenced at an early period of life, it is hoped that a concise account of the terms which relate to the ancient measures of land, and ancient tenures, to which continual reference must be made in the following pages, will not be thought either impertinent or useless. It will at least explain the sense in which they are intended to be understood when employed by the writer, and thus tend to prevent mistakes or ambiguity.

The ancient measure of land intended by the word Hide has been so variously described, that no exact determination respecting its extent appears to have been made. It has been said to consist of twenty acres, of ninety-six, of one hundred, and of one hundred and twenty ; so that it has been usually considered an uncertain quantity, varied in different places.' However, in this County of Buckingham, it has been inferred from an expression in Domesday Book, that the Hide was capable of exact admeasurement, it being mentioned in a particular instance as minus five feet. The Virgate also has been described sometimes as consisting of four acres, and sometimes of two ; eight virgates being reckoned to the hide. The Ca7'iicate, following the measure of the hide, is also supposed to have varied according to time and situation ; — a Carucate in the common fields being- called nine score acres, in the reign of Edward I." but in the days of Richard I. computed at sixty acres, and again at one hundred, so that great uncertainty has always prevailed : but it is agreed that it was a measure of Norman introduction, and that the contractions and abbreviations for caruca, a plough, and carucata, the tillage performed by a plough-team, may have caused many errors in citing the Records. In the following pages, for every useful purpose, it may be sufficient to estimate the Hide at one hundred acres, and the Virgate as the eighth part of the Hide ;^ and some comparative calculations, introduced in divers places, have been formed upon this estimate.

In order to distinguish between the rights of the Superior or Paramount Lords and their Sub- feudatories, it is to be recollected, that they who held immediately of the Crown were said to be tenants in capite, having under them subordinate or mesne Lords, who, likewise dividing their lands amongst their followers, gave to each manor the similitude of a kingdom. The Lord severing his possessions into parts, retained a certain portion for his own use or support, which was partly cultivated by his villeins and bondmen, and called his demesnes ; and the residue being parcelled out amongst his dependents, the latter yielded to him services according to the conditions imposed, or the usage of feudal tenures. Thus the feudal tenant owed to his Lord military services, of the

1 General Introduction to Domesday Book, p. xlvii. See also Bede's Hist. Eccles. lib. iii. c. 24. ; Wilkins's Laws of King Ina, xiv. p. 17 ; Monast. Anglic, vol. i. p. 214; Selden's Titles of Honour, p. 62 ; Hutchins's Hist of Dorsetsh. in Prelim. Dissert. ^ Fleta, lib. ii. c. 74. = Introd. to Lib. Cens. citing Regist. of Battle Abbey,

INTRODUCTION.

same nature as tliose which the Lord of the Seigniory himself owed to the King.' When tlie Conqueror divided tlie lands of the newly-acquired dominion amongst his followers, he did not reserve to himself the ownership of the soil of the baronies and honours so given to his officers ; nor did the Barons or mesne Lords retain the ownership when they divided their manors and lands so received by the free gift of their Sovereign, amongst their subordinate dependents. The King accepted Knights' service in lieu of all other, and they required correspondent services from their tenants for their respective fees, as portions of that military aid and duty which the Baron was to render to the King. In this state the manorial possessions of the Barons, and those who held under them, continued until the abolition of feudal services; and in the reign of Charles the Second all the intermediate rights which h.ad been before vested in the Lords of the Seigniory, and others who had been interposed between them and the possessory tenants of the land, were abolished ; and those who had been their subfeudatories thenceforward held their lands immediately of the King, in what was termed free and common soccage, without being liable to perform any other service besides that allegiance which every subject owes to his Sovereign."

In the early Norman reigns, amongst the subordinate ranks, there were divers classes with- whose condition the inhabitants of this improved country, and their successors in the occupation of the lands, are but little acquainted. The ViUani, or tenants in villenage, mentioned in every parish, appear from '' numerous entries in the Domesday Survey, to have been very different from Bondmen,"' and to have answered to the description of the Saxon Ceopls ; while the Servi answered to the Deopav or Crnen ; but when the state of both had been brought nearer to the same level, the military despotism of the Normans removed all distinction whatsoever, and reduced them to a state of absolute slavery, described by the term villeins rexjardant.^

The Bordarii, Bordars, or Boors, are supposed to have possessed a dwelling superior to a mere cottage, with some little land about it,'^ or were cottagers on the borders of a manor ; but they are also mentioned amongst the occupiers of land, and even dwelling near the manor house. Their condition might be different in different places; but it is evident that they were a distinct order from the Servi and Yillam^ of a less abject condition, and being allowed to cultivate some parcels of land, supplied a portion of provisions, or yielded services of personal labour as a compensation for such benefits.

The Servi, or Servants, though not distinctly marked, and the difference between them and the Bordars not precisely ascertained, seem to have been at the absolute disposal and arbitrary will of their Lords, performing work, and receiving wages and maintenance at the pleasure of those to whom they belonged. According to Bishop Kennet and Bracton, they had always a much easier condition than the lioman slaves ; for, " liowever unhappy in other respects, their lives and their limbs were under the protection of the laws." Nichols, in the Introduction to his History of Leicestershire, remarks, that, there " they seem to have been like bailiffs, or stewards, directing the husbandmen and labourers, and being in the Survey always named before the Villeins and Bordars," it may perhaps be inferred that these servants were in some degree connected with the personal business of their chief, as the Villeins were with the land.

Lastly, those denominated Homines, by whatsoever term that word be translated, whether tenants, domestics, or free men, were nevertheless a class dependent upon the Lords, with tlie privilege of their persons and suits being tried in his courts only.

1 Gilbert's Law of Tenures, Intioduct. p. 10. ">■ lb. •'' Blackstone's Comment, vol. ii. p. 92, ed. Oxon. 4to.

•* Intr. Lib. Ccns. p. xxv. ^ Coke's Institutes, lib. i. sec. i. fo. 5, 6. ^' Intr. Lib. Cons. p. xxvi.

GENERAL HISTORY.

Buckinghamshire, according to the learned Camden, derives its appellation from the Saxon Boc, Bucken, Boccen, or Bttccen, signifying beeches, or beech trees: and appropriated, first to Buck- ingham, the chief town, and thence to the whole County, in allusion to the abundance of beech wood growing therein.^

Spelman conjectured, that the signification of Buccen, Bocken, &c. has reference to bucks, or deer : of which this County in his time supplied a great abundance.-

Lysons, after remarking that the latter opinion is preferable to the former, because beech wood, although abundant in some parts of the County, is not commonly produced in the neighbourhood of Buckingham, the soil being unfavourable to its growth, suggests, that Boc or Bock, signifies Book and Charter, as Bocl-land is Book or Charter-land, in contradistinction to Folkland, or copyhold : hence, BocJdjig, Charter meadow : Ham, a mansion, or home.^

Conjecture is frequently exhausted upon the origin of proper names, without leading to any satisfactory determination : and it might be employed on the present occasion more for the amuse- ment of the etymologist than to the credit of the historian. But, — if it be a legitimate inference that the nature of the soil being unfavourable for the production of the tree whence it derived its appella- tion, the epithet could not have been designed according to the sense since afllixed to it, — Mr. Lysons should have shewn some reason why the term, Book or Charter-land, should have been applied to places where the nature of the tenure does not accord with the expression : or how BucJceuluim, or Bochingham, could have been an appropriate term for the designation of a town, in which the tenures do not appear to have agreed with that signification.

If the country around Buckingham were anciently distinguished by any peculiar feature by which the propriety of the term (when taken in another sense, which as properly belongs to it as that of beech trees) is supported, that circumstance ought to have some weight in determining the origin of the name. Upon this principle, Spelman's interpretation will be more generally adopted than Camden's, whom Lysons followed ; because, if the Town of Buckingham impart its name to the County or district of which it was originally the head, and if that town were anciently situated in a forest, where were vast herds of deer, when no remarkable feature of the country, besides those and the woods which they inhabited, presented itself to the attention of those who gave it the name, the term Bock or Bucken would be more likely to mean bucks, in a place where there were many, than beech trees, where there were few. Moreover, Bocken, bucks, and Ham, a home, agree perfectly well with the site of a town on the border of a river, and a forest, of whatever trees that forest might have consisted : and bucks, feeding on the border of that forest, or disporting themselves on

J Camden's Britannia. ' Spelman's Glossary.

' It is well known, that charter-lands were anciently called by the Saxons iJocA-land, in contradistinction to copyholds, which were called FoZA-lands. In Domesday Book, and other ancient records, the couniy town is called Boch-ing-ham. Many villages of the name of Buckland occur in various parts of the kingdom, all of which are called in old records Boch- land, i.e. literally charter-land ; Boch-ing, under the same construction, will be a charter-meadow ; the meaning of /(am, is well known to be a mansion, or vill. [Lysons's Mag. Brit. vol. i. Bucks.]

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the banks of that river, would sugp;est an appellation, which, in the simplicity of an early age, might have been readily adopted, as descriptive of situation, so as to entitle the name to be permanently annexed to the district.

The County of Buckingham is situated between latitude 51° 25' and 52° 11' North ; and the lono-itudes of 30° and 1° 9" West from Greenwich. Its form is irregularly oval, its northern and southern extremities inclining considerably towards the east of an imaginary line drawn through the centre : its general bearing, with reference to the surrounding Counties, being from north- north-west to south-south-east : and its boundaries deeply indented by portions of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Oxfordshire. Buckinghamshire is about forty-five miles in length, about eigliteen in breadth from the western verge of the parish of Grendon Underwood to the eastern boundary of the parish of Pightlesthorne {vukjo Fitston) at the junction of the Counties of Bedford, Hertford, and Bucks ; and about ten miles in breadth in the narrowest part or isthmus, occasioned by a portion of Hertfordshire interposing between Choulsbury and Marsworth on the eastern border ; that is, from the eastern side of the parish of Choulsbury to the western verge of the County, at Bledlow or Towersey.

Speed rather fancifully described the shape of this County in the following terms :—" In forme it some what resembleth a lion rampant, whose head or north points toucheth the Counties of North- ampton and Bedford, whose backe or east part is backed by Bedford and Hertfordshire ; his loins or south borders rest upon Berkshire, and his breast the west side is butted upon wholly by Oxfordshire. The length thereof from Waisbury [^Wyrardisbury^] in the south, to Bradfeld [^Cold Brayfieki;] in the north, is thirty-nine miles : the bredth, at the broadest from Ashridge in the east to Brenwood [^Bern- wood^ Forest in the west, is eighteen ; the whole in circumference one hundred thirty-eight miles."'

In the Agricultural Survey of the County, the admeasurement differs, as may be expected, from this very ancient calculation : and the circuit of the boundary line is given at one hundred and thirty-eight miles by almost every author who has mentioned its superficial measure. The difficulty and almost impossibility of arriving at mathematical accuracy, where the surface is broken into a thousand irregularities of hill and dale, intermixed with wood and water, is sufficient to excuse a far rrreater disparity than actually occurs in the several accounts which at different periods have been given of this portion of the island.

The boundaries of Buckinghamshire are : on the North, Northamptonshire, with the extreme verge of Bedfordshire at the north-eastern angle : on the East, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire (with many indentations and great irregularity of outline), and INIiddlesex: on the South, Berkshire: and on the West, the County of Oxford, from Fawley at the south-west angle, to \Vestbury, where it adjoins Northamptonshire, which also extends along the south-west and western verge of the parishes of Westbury, Turweston and Bidlcsdcn, until it is more properly described as the northern boundary of Buckinghamshire.

The much greater proportion of this outline is formed by common hedge-rows and ordinary fences, which are the usual division between inclosures; but on a small part of the north side, the course of the river OusK, accompanies the boundary line, between Beachampton, Stoney-Stratford, Wolverton, and the County of Northampton : and also on the east, from Newton Blossomville (between Cold Brayfield and Bedfordshire,) to the northern extremity of the County.

The Ousel is likewise a boundary of the parishes of Edlesborough, Slapton, Grove, and part of Linslade, on the east towards Bedfordshire ; and a branch of the Coln, between the south-western

Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaiiie, Ch. 22, fol. 43. A.D, 1611.

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point of Hertfordshire and the western side of Middlesex, until this river joins the Thames near Wyrardisbury.

The Thames forms the whole line of boundary towards Berkshire, on the south: but all the western side of the County of Buckingham, towards Oxfordshire, is bordered by hedge-rows, ditches, or stone walls, excepting only for a few miles, where the Thame, from the vicinity of Notley Abbey to the extreme south-western point of the parish of Wormenhall, is the division of the Counties : as well as a short course of the Ouse, near its source in Northamptonshire, running first from north to south, and then by an acute flexure from south towards the east to the point of junction in the parish of Westbury, between Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire.

The little river Tove, which arises in the adjacent County of Northampton, in the Lordship of Sulgrave,' forms part of the boundary between that County and Buckinghamshire, from the vicinity of Grafton Regis to its junction with the Ouse, not far from Stoney Stratford and Cosgrave.

The extent of the County has been very variously calculated : but, according to a Return made in 1841, the number of acres in each Hundred was estimated as follows:

Ashendon Hundred contains an area of 66,670 Acres.

Aylesbury Hundred „ „ 60,450 „

Buckingham Hundred „ „ 56,290 „

Burnham Hundred „ „ 50,980 „

Cotteslow Hundred „ „ 70,010 „

Desborough Hundred „ „ 52,370 „

Newport Hundred „ „ 75,770 „

Stoke Hundred ,, „ 28,140 „

Total Number of Acres in the County 460,680

The Thame has its source in springs which arise within the County of Buckingham, but acquires no importance, and scarcely the appellation of a river, until it has passed the boundaries of the Shire, and unites with the Cherwell and Isis, when it returns with majestic grandeur to adorn its native County.

The Wyke, Wyche, or Wick, is another stream which has a very short course, and falls into the Thames on the verge of the County.

The INIiss, or Mease, has a longer course, but joins the Coin and loses its name before it quits the Shire. Another brook, which runs in nearly a parallel direction, scarcely obtains a name before it also falls into the Coin. These all have their origin in the southern part of the County, and run towards the east and south ; excepting the Thame, whose several heads are situated in the central part of Buckinghamshire, and unite near the town of Aylesbury, from the north, east, and south.

There is also another small brook arising within the northern division of the County, which, after a very short course, is lost in the Ouse : the other springs there are noticed in the respective parishes.

The Thames, the Ouse, the Coln, the Ouzle or Little Ouse, having their courses partly through and partly upon the verge of the County, are, however, popularly identified therewith, and enu- merated amongst the Buckinghamshire rivers.

The Thame, which not only contributes its waters, but gives name to the most celebrated river in the kingdom, has a right to precedence in the description of these several streams. "

1 Hist, of Northamptonshire, vol. i. p. 513. ^ St. John Priest's Survey of Bucks, p. 3.

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'Ihe origin of the Thames is unquestionably within the County of Buckingham/ but it is difficult to say to which of its several sources belongs the honour of being esteemed the first and principal.

1 Tamesis, whence the name Thames is derived, is said to have originated in the British word Tavuys, signifying a (/e7itle stream, which certainly well describes the placid character of the Thames: but, on the same authority, it is asserted, that the name Thames was anciently applied to this river " long before it had wandered so low as Dorchester :" which rather opposes than supports the hypothesis, inasmuch as the western portion of this river does not exactly accord with the signification of the word as above stated : besides that, every one of the principal branches or rivers collected to form its current has its own particular appellation, and retains it until the Isis has swallowed up all the rest, when it at length meets the Thame, and drops its ancient name for that of Thames, Hence Tame and Isis are fancifully supposed to be Tamesis ; and hence too, the poetical effusions upon the marriage of these streams :

Ye daughters of the hills.

Come down from every side. And due attendance give,

Upon the lovely bride. A beauty yet like her's :

Where have you ever seen ? So absolute a nymph.

In all things for a Queen ? And for the princely groom,

Whoever yet could name A flood, so fit for Isis as the Tame? [Poly Olbion.]

Yet, after all, the Thame is a very insignificant stream in comparison with the Isis, and far less copious than many of her tributaries : the Churne, the Colne, and even the Lech in Gloucestershire, the VYindrush and Cherwell in Oxfordshire, and the Ock in Berkshire. But if the derivation of the name be correct, there will be no necessity for referring to the ancient British language; as the word Tame, in our own tongue, derived from the Saxon, is suflSciently expressive of a placid quiet current, without the pedantry of farther research. Notwithstanding the usage which has obtained of writing the River Tame, perhaps to distinguish its name from that of the town, there is no good authority for it : and in the Commission of Sewers and proceedings thereupon, it is constantly Thame, which appears the correct orthography.

It is not at all surprising that there should have been many claims set up for the honour of producing the noblest and most celebrated river in England. Thus, besides Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, the County of Hertford demands, by the voice of its historians, to be regarded as the parent of this noble stream. The Editor of Magna Britannia, speaks of " the Thames, the most famous river of England," as rising " at three heads, at Tring, Penley, and Bulburn," in Hertfordshire, and then leaving the Shire. [Mag. Brit. vol. ii. p. 1016.] Clutterbuck, the learned and able historian of Hertfordshire, says that, " Bulbourne-head and Dandel's-head" are " the two sources of the river Thame." [History of Herts, vol. i. p. xi.] ; and in another place, that " the Thame springs from several heads, in the parish of Tring, and leaving this County in the adjoining parish of Puttenham, flows by Aylesbury to Thame in Oxfordshire, to which town it gives name, and crossing the road from Tetsworth to Oxford, empties itself into the Thames at Dorchester." Mr. Salmon contends, upon the authority of Camden, that the Thames is formed by the confluence of this river with the Isis. But the name of Isis, supposed, with great probability to be the poetical appellation given to it by tlie Oxford Writers, is confined to that part of it which runs in the neighbourhood of that classical city ; whilst, through the whole of its course of more than fifty miles from its source in Wiltshire to Oxford, it is known only by the name of the Thames; and in the Charters of the Monasteries of Malrasbury and Evesham, and the old Deeds of Cricklade, it is mentioned by the name of Temis." [Clutterbuck's Herts, vol. i. p. 7.]

The Charter of Malmsbury alluded to is one granted by Berthwald de Sumerford, dated 30 July, indictione 13 anno ab incurnacione Domini 686; and contains these words: — "Ego Berlhwaldus regnante domino rege pro remedio anime mee et indulgentiam commissorum ergruniinum, aliquam terram conferre largirique Aldelmo abbali decreui id est, illara de orientali parte fluminis quod appellator Temtjs, juxta uadum cuius uocabulum est Summerforde xxxx. cassatos, &c. Actum publice in Synodo juxta uadum Bregford" as above: and signed by Theodorus Archiepiscopus, Ethelredus Rex Merciorum, Berthwaldus Sub regulus, Kenfrithus Patricius, Sexwll'us Lichfeld episcopus, Bosel Wigornie episcopus." It is remarkable that it is superscribed or entitled, " Carta Berthwaldi de Sumerford que sita est juxta Jimdum qui dicitur Tamesia," as if for the especial purpose of supporting the assertion respecting the name of the River ! But it is taken out of the Cartulary of Malmsbury, in the Bodleian Library, [Wood, vol. v. fol. 10. 6,] and may therefore be referred to.

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Of the four brooks, or rivulets, which unite near the heart or centre of the County, on the north-west and western verge of the parish of Aylesbury, that which runs the longest course, and might otherwise, perhaps, be deemed the parent spring, is not unfrequently dry in the summer months ; and another, which is more rapid, and turns a mill much nearer to its source than the rest, has the shortest course, before it arrives at the point of their juncture.

The spring which arises in the most northern point, near Lidcote, in the parish of Stewkley, runs southward through the pastures near Cotteslow, which gave name to the Hundred ; and between Cublington and Creslow to Hardwick, where, running towards the west, it is joined by a rivulet from Whitchurch on the north, and by other streamlets from the Quainton Hills on the west ; and then, bending southward, falls in with a brook near Quarendon, which brings a copious supply fi-om springs arising on the eastern verge of the County and the western border of Hertfordshire ;' then taking a westerly course through Wingrave and Bierton, passes the Town of Aylesbury on its south side ; and at the western extremity of that parish, uniting with the stream first-mentioned, passes through the south-western part of the Vale of Aylesbury, and receives a tributary stream from the south-east, which is derived from springs arising in the Chiltern Hills, near Wendover ;- the two streams, severally passing, one through Weston-Turville and Broughton, (running close to Aylesbury on the east and south) and the other through Stoke Mandeville until it meets with the former stream, at length flow into the main stream near Haydon-lMill, west of Aylesbury and north of Stone. Thence pursuing its course near Nether Winchendon and Cuddington, it is again joined by streamlets from Over Winchendon and Dorton on the north and west ; which, uniting, afterwards acquire the name of Chearsley Brook, near the site of Notley Abbey. It then runs towards the town of Thame, and, on the verge of Buckinghamshire, is joined by Kingsey Brook, principally derived from the Hills near Kimble ; where, passing wcstwardly near Tythorpe in Kingsey, it is augmented by another rivulet from the Chiltern Hills, above Risborough. Here it begins to be called The Thame ; and becoming the boundary, towards the south, of the parishes of Crendon, Shabbington, Ickford, and Wormenhall, takes its intermediate course between Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, until, at the verge of the south-western point of Wormenhall, it makes an acute flexure to the south, and enters the County of Oxford, which it crosses to the confines of Berkshire, where the Cherwell and Isis, joining this inferior stream, lose their own names and take that of " The Thames." ^ It then returns to the borders of Buckinghamshire, in the parish of Fawley, at the south-west angle of the Hundred of Desborough ; and running, first eastwardly, then north-east, then south, and again east and south-

1 These springs, Bui borne-head and Daudel's-head, considered as " the two sources of the river Thame," notwith- standing the authority of Mr. Clutteibuck, are well known to be in their subsequent course frequently dry in summer, and are, therefore, it may be presumed, less deserving the rank assigned to them than other rivulets whose source is never known to fail. The Editors of the Magna Britannia assigned three sources to the Thames, all in Hertfordshire: but it is presumed that one at least of the three has failed, or that the spring at Pendley would have been adopted by the modem historian of that County, as well as the others which he has named. [Magna Brit. vol. ii. p. 1016.] The notion that the source of the Thames is to be found in springs near Tring, appears to have received some support from the incorrect Map by Baven, a very unfaithful representation, and not supported by any good authority.

* MS. in answer to Queries by Mr. Lysons, signed " W. Lloyd, D.D. Aylesbury."

' Many Commissions have been issued for the improvement and conservation of the Navigation of the River Thames. The second of these bears date 22 June 1738 ; and in the ensuing year, Inquisitions were held under it both in Bucks and Oxfordshire. In May 1740, a Court was held and a Rate made, but some persons refusing to pay, and the Commissioners not agreeing upon the mode of proceedure, very few Courts were afterwards holden. There was a New Comm.ission in 1797, by which the proceedings were better concerted, and the collection of rates enforced, for cleansing the River in an effectual manner, and preventing Floods, by which the neighbouring country had been frequently inundated, and some- times exposed to great loss and inconvenience during the hay-harvest.

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east, sometimes within the boundary lino, sometimes along its course, and sometimes in Berkshire on the south side thereof, is commonly considered the boundary of the respective Counties, until it enters Middlesex, at the extreme south point of Buckinghamshire, in the parish of AVyrardisbury.

In its course of about twenty-eight miles, after it returns to the border of the County, the Thames I'orms a beautiful and, in many places, a majestic feature in the landscape, enriching and fertilizing the district through which it flows, and diversifying the scenery upon its banks, in a manner which belongs to the province of the Poet, rather than of the Historian, to describe ; and suggesting those charming Lines of Denham, with which, in equal justice to the Poet's memory and to the object which his Muse has immortalised, it may be permitted to embellish this narrative :

" ]\Iy eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames, among the wanton valleys, strays : Thames ! the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons, By his old Sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like, mortal life, to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold. His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore ; .. O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring.

O, could I flow like thee ; and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear: though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full : Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast. Whose fame in thine, like lesser current 's lost. Thy nobler stream shall visit Jove's abodes To shine among the stars, and bathe the Gods.

While the steep, horrid, roughness of the wood, Strives with the gentle calmness of the flood.

Low at his foot, a spacious plain is plac'd. Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd : Which shade and shelter from the hill derives. While the kind River wealth and beauty gives : And in the mixture of all these appears Variety, whit-h all the rest endears."

The Wyke is a small tributary stream to the Thames, arising near West Wycombe, and running south-east to High Wycombe, being expanded into an artificial lake in the gardens of West Wycombe House, the seat of the Dashwood-Kings, and afterwards ornamenting the grounds of Wycombe Abbey (Lord Carington's.) It then continues its course to Loudwater, where, being joined by another stream from near Wycombe (which had accompanied the Wyke at a few furlongs distant on the south- west) their common current turns several mills, and proceeds, with increasing rapidity, througli a fine deep valley, to Wohurne and Gore-End, joining the Thames opposite to Cookham, in Berkshire.

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In Leland, is the following account of the Wick, or Wyke, under a different name, which, from its curiosity, may be inserted :

" Rivers. Use, or Ise. Another Use, or Ise, as of one principal Arme risith abowt Westewikam owt of one of the Chilterne Hilies, and so cometh to Wikam the Market Tovvne. The Lesse Arme is cawllid Higdenbrooke, and risith also in one of the Chilterne Hdles a mile above Wikam. Bothe these Streames meate at the West Ende of Wikam, and thens the hole Botom with one water goith to Hedser, so to Owburne, wher the Bishop of Lincolne hath a fair Howse, and thes a mile and more into the Tamise. N.B. From Haseley to Ikeford Bridge ij miles. Here dothe Tame Streame breke into ij Armes in the Meadowes, and sone after cummith to one Streame. The Arme on the lyfte Hand as the Water descendith hath a Stone Bridge of ij Archis. The other a Wood Bridge not far from it. Sholngton [Shobbington] Bridge be a Mile above those Bridges on Tame. And as the course of the Water is Tame Bridge at Tame Towne is a ij Miles above Shoington. Whateley Bridge of viij Arches of Stone is a iij Miles lower by water on Tame than Ikeford Bridge."

The Miss, Messe, or Mease, ariseth in a meadow about a mile north of Missenden, and ribbles in a narrow channel along the valley on the east side, bending towards the east as it approaches Little Missenden, forming a handsome broad stream, or lake, at the eastern foot of the eminence near Shardeloes, in Amersham. It then passes that town, and meanders through the fields to Chalfont St. Giles and Chalfont St. Peter's ; and, turning more eastwardly towards Denhara, there falls into the River Coin.

The CoLN approaches the eastern verge of Buckinghamshire from the County of Hertford, re- ceiving in its course, near Rickmansworth, a brook which arises in this County, on the north side of the town of Chesham ; and, running south-eastwardly by Chenies, becomes the boundary of Bucking- hamshire for about three miles before it joins the Coin ; which, passing close to the town of Uxbridge, in several streams, divides, by its western branch, Middlesex from Bucks : and, augmented by the Mease, and other small rivulets from Fulnier, continues to be the boundary of the County towards the east, until it unites with the Thames in the parish of \Vyrardisbury, near the point of its exit from this County.

The OusE, arising in Northamptonshire near the borders of Bucks, and having a course of nearly fifty miles within or upon the verge of this Shire, may, with some propriety, be adopted amongst its Rivers. It runs first from north to south, becomes a boundary to Bucks at its north-western angle, in the parishes of Biddlesden and Turweston ; and, bending eastwardly near Brackley in Northamp- tonshire, separates Oxfordshire on the south, from the parishes of Westbury and VVater-Stratford on the north J then penetrating into Buckinghamshire, proceeds by a very tortuous course and with a sluggish stream to Buckingham, receiving near Radclive, a rivulet from Dodford and Biddlesden ; then running more northwardly, passes Buckingham, and afterwards is augmented by a brook, supplied out of small springs in the north-western part of the County, severally denominated from the respective parishes in which they arise, and clianging their appellations as they enter or pass through other districts, until, in one stream, called Padbury Brook, it joins the River Ouse north-east of Buckingham. Thence by Thornton and Beachampton, it again becomes the boundary of the County towards North- amptonshire ; and, having passed near Stoney-Stratford, receives from the north the Tow, and again penetrates into the County. It then runs eastwardly, between Haversham on the north and Wolver- ton on the south, in a wide stream, which (being increased by a brook from Shenley and Bradwell on the south) is some times swollen into a large river, and proceeds to Stanton-Barry, Linford, and Newport-Pagnell. Here the Ouse makes some very remarkable flexures, running towards every point of the compass within the course of about four miles, receiving near Newport, the Ouse], and other small streams ; and, flowing west and north-west to Tyringham, is joined by the Adder from Weston-Underwood. It then runs north-east between Olney and Emberton, turns to the north

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at Clifton-Reyries, and, by a serpentine course between Newton-BIossomville on the south, and Cold- Brayfield on the north, accompanies the north-eastern boundary line of the County to Turville, in Bedfordshire.

The OusKL, or Little Ouse, arises in Hertfordshire, close to tlie boundary line of Bucks, eastward of Ivinghoe, and runs northward into Bedfordshire, which it separates from this County on the east side of Edlesborough, Slapton, Grove, and Linslade ; then running north-west, passes through Soul- bury, between that township and its hamlets of Smewnes and Bragenham,— then borders the three Brickhills, running eastward of Fenny-Stratford to Simpson and Willien, where its stream is sluggish, and its channel in some places deep ; and after a zig-zag and very irregular course, joins the Ouse near Newport Paguell ; having, in about thirty miles, received its principal supplies from rivulets from the north of Ivinghoe, at Slapton, from Stewkley near Grove, from Stoke Hammond, from Newton Longueville, from Water Eton, and near Newport, chiefly on the west of its stream.

The surface of the whole County is pleasantly varied by gentle inequalities and bold eminences, irregularly and some times picturesquely distributed between very fine valleys. Some of the loftiest of these hills are abrupt and precipitous ; but many of them, especially in the southern parts of the County, are extremely romantic, their summits being crowned with groves, and the River Thames flowing at their base.

That distinguished range, called the Chilterns, which extends from the south-west border towards Oxfordshire to the north-eastern verge of Bucks, and is part of that great chain or belt which stretches from Dorsetshire into Norfolk, is in some parts thickly covered with beech woods ; in others, presents fine sloping downs with the wavy line in beautiful perspective, and generally free from rug- gedness and sterility.^ On the south-western border, where the hills are more abrupt than in the eastern part of the range, and where the valleys between them are consequently deeper and more intricate, the scenery is highly picturesque, but the prospects are more confined than from the emi- nences near the middle of the County.

The Chilterns, which cross the south-eastern, or, as it is commonly termed, the ujjper part of Buck- inghamshire, extend ten or twelve miles in breadth from north to south, and measured obliquely from south-west to north-east, i.e. from Oxfordshire to Bedfordshire, including a peninsular portion of Hertfordshire on the east, nearly twenty-five miles.

Northward of the Chilterns, and spreading from their base, the Vale of Aylesbury extends from the eastern to the western verge of the County ; but is terminated ou the north-west by a range of hills gradually rising towards Oxfordshire ; and on the north by a cluster of loftier eminences, of which some are detached from the rest, particularly the Quainton Hills ; and others, appearing to belong to the western border of the Chilterns, but which, upon a nearer view, are found separated by a valley of irregular width, through which the Ousel has its course.

The Chiltern Hills were comprised within the district so denominated; and have been annexed

' " Tlie Chilterns," says Camden, "a ridge of eminences from Henley-upon-Tliames, towards tiie northern part of Oxfordshire, separating- it from Buckinghamshire, and including part of the Hundred of Binfield, &c. derive their name from the soil; Cilt, or Chilt, in Saxon, being Chalk: for the country so called riseth, for the most part, into the chalky hills covered with woods and groves of beeches." But the Author of the Additions tells us, that, in the Saxon Tongue, there is no such word as cylr, or cliylr, for they always call it ceale; and yet it is certain, that, in the Saxon times, it had that name. Mr. Soniner, therefore, interprets it locus gelidus, but for what reason we know not, unless he has respect to tlic modern word cldll, which signifies cold. [Magna Brit. vol. iv. p. 425.]

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to the Crown. The district has its own courts, the Steward being appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with a salary of 20s. per ann. and all fees. The acceptance of this office vacates a seat in Parliament ; and it is therefore, in numerous instances, made the medium of retiring from the Repre- sentation.^ No formal resignation of the Stewardship is necessary, in order to its being again at the disposal of the Minister of the Crown, after any person may have accepted the appointment : and probably a list of the Stewards would be found more volumnious than any catalogue of officers of any other description in the kingdom ; scarcely a Session of Parliament passing, without this office having been accepted by many individuals.

In the northern part of the County are some lofty eminences near the Brickhills, three villages so denominated from the nature of the soil ; from thence, the extreme borders of the County, to the west, north, and north-east, decline into a level plain.

Woodward describes the Geological productions of this County, as follows: — Bivalves; found at Quainton, Dinton, and Aylesbury : and at Dinton, also, a striated species or variety of Nautilus. ufEchiiii; at Amersham, near Marlow, and about Wyrardisbury. Belemnites ; at Lillingston Dayrell. Ammonites and ^'Etites-geodes ; about EUesborough. Rhomboidal-selenite ; in clay, at Long Crendon and Quainton.- " Buckinghamshire," says a learned writer, in the Gentleman's Magazine, "has many quarries abounding with petrifactions, as at Brill, Aylesbury, and Dinton;' and chalk- hills at Beaconsfield," &c." Smith, in his " Account of the Sti'ata of English Counties," observes, that Bucks has " all the varieties of the strata of Oxfordshire, with a less proportion of stony land ;" and that " the clayey Vale of Aylesbury is succeeded by a sand and sand-stone ridge, a district of strong clay, and a dry lime-stone."

The following remarks upon the strata of flints in the Chiltern Hills, and neighbouring parts of Buckinghamshire, are worthy of record :

" The common flint is never found, but in the vicinity of chalk in which it lies embedded. It runs in dark horizontal veins along a deep bed of chalk, as if introduced by water; and above and below it, is often a tinge of rusty red, as if produced by an oxidation of iron. Numbers of flints are found hollow and spherical, more or less filled with chalk in the inside, and with a calcareous incrustation, more or less hard, on the outside; but always increasing in hardness as it approaches the coat of flint. Some solid flints have the same incrustation. Flints are never found with angular surfaces, but have their prominences all circular, or approaching to that form. There appears an irregular chrystallization in them, as if effected by a portion of water confined in a bed of chalk, and producing (like water thrown amongst flour) a variety of forms, more or less round. In many white flints, the colour of chalk is retained, and in these are cavities containing chalk; the formation of the flint being, in other respects, complete. In some specimens may be traced the several gradations from a state of pulverulent calcai-eous

1 The origin of the establishment of this Office has been variously stated ; but the following appears the most probable : That portion of the high chalk hills, termed the Chilterns, abounding with beech trees, is said to have been, at any early period, infested by banditti of robbers ; and the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds (as those of Desborough, Stoke, and Buruham, were commonly denominated) was originally appointed for the purpose of apprehending and putting down those depredators ; which, at length, having been accomplished, the duties of the office of course ceased. The formality of the office has been ever since retained, for the purposes stated above.

''■ Gent. Mag. vol. xc. P. 1, p. 308 ; in a Lithontriptic View of Buckinghamshire, by Emanuel Mendez de Costa.

^ A very rare specimen of an extinct race of monsters, — the fish lizard, — was discovered in the clay, at the village of Claydon, in the year 1845. It measured thirteen feet in length; but the bones were not perfectly fossilized. It was removed from the soil in the presence of Dr. Buckland, the Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford, and several other scientific gentlemen.

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earth, to the dark transparent substance of which gun-flints are made, proceeding in distinct coatings, progressively harder as they advance to the state of black flint. Fossil (echini, found in chalk flints, are seen filled with flint having only a slight edge of white incrustation. From these observations it may be conjectured, that flints of this class are formed merely by the accession of water to a bed of chalk. Whether the union of carbonic acid gas with the constituent gases of the water, or whether any adventitious matter may have been introduced by the water, may perhaps be ascertained by future experiments, and a careful examination of the calcareous strata in which flint is found." ^

BOTANY.

The Plants formerly deemed rare, but found indigenous to this County, are few ; and consist of — Dentaria bulbifera, or coral wort, whicli grows in abundance in the beech-woods ; Mianthus cary- 'phillus, clove pink, or July flower ; Ophrijs mnsifera, fly orchis ; Paris quadrifoUa, Paris net, or true love ; Hiericum miirorvm, golden lungwort ; Melmnptjrum crisfalitim, crested cow wheat ; and Jasione montana, hairy sheep's scabious."

ROMAN ROADS.

The Ikening, or Ickneild-Street, enters Buckinghamshire on the east, near Edlesborough, running on the edge of the hills, or downs, which form the border of Hertfordshire ; passes Pightles- thorne on the north-east, and Tring towards the north-west ; runs on the east side of Drayton Beauchamp, between the Church and the Hertfordshire hills, on the verge of the latter ; crosses the turnpike-road from Tring to Aylesbury, near the thirty-third milestone from London ; leaves Halton on the west ; and, running through the Town of Wendover from east to west (dividing it into two nearly equal parts) proceeds towards Ellesborongh, through enclosures ; passes to the east end and south side of Ellesborongh Church, to Little Kimble, leaving the church on the south ; runs through Great Kimble and Ascot, near the foot of the hill on which is cut the celebrated White-Leaf Cross, which it passes on the north-west side ; proceeds near Risborough, and, making a flexture towards the west (from the south-west) as if to accommodate its course to the high grounds of the Chiltern Hills, runs through Culverton, inclining towards the north; but, resuming its original direction to the south- west by west, near Saunderton, skirts that village on the south-east, and enters Oxfordshire in the vicinity of Chinner, on the eastern verge of that County.

Although this Road is usually attributed to the Romans, it is much more probably an old British track.' Ickle-way is a name conjectured to have been given to it on account of its leading to Ickle- ford, (corruptly) Hackney-way, Hackle-way, Acnel-way, with all the varieties to which a variable pronunciation of a living language have led.

Gryme's Dyke, called in the ordinary dialect of these parts Grhns Ditch, is (as its name imports) a trench, or ravine, cut to a considerable depth, and having the soil, which has been dug out of it, laid up as a bank on the verge of it, thus forming a rampart of earth, which has induced the conjecture of its being the remains of a vicinal way. It is a work of such magnitude as to deserve a particular description ; although at this time reduced by cultivation, which, in many parts, has filled up the trench and destroyed the vallum, so that it is not to be traced without great difficulty.

The name is undoubtedly British, and signifies something more than, the great ditch, or dyke ; which, as it at once establishes its remote antiquity, opposes the notions which have been entertained by some, who have assigned to it a different origin.

Mr. Pointer, in a Description of the Roman Roads in Oxfordshire,^ mentions a high ridged bank

' Monthly Mag. vol. xxvii. pp. 249, 250. • Woodward, and James Dugdalc's Brit. Trav. vol. i. p. 131.

3 Steele's MSS. ■> Pointer's Britannia Romana, p. 44.

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called by the same name, Gryme's Dyke ; which he describes as running from Wallingford, in Berk- shire, to Colnbrook, in Bucks, crossing the Ikeneild-way within two miles of Ewelme ; and calls it a vicinal way : which, he remarks, is very high, consisting of a single vallum in part of its course, but in the woods near Nuffield appearing double, with a deep trench between the banks ; from which circumstance he conjectures, that " that portion of it near Wallingford was once so too, and therefore called Gryme's Bitch ; the trench, in all likelihood, being filled up with one of the banks thrown into it, upon the increase of cultivation ; perhaps at first designed only to carry off the water, and the two banks on each sides for the carriages betwixt the stations."

Notwithstanding the similarity of names, the trench which enters Buckinghamshire, from Tring, in Hertfordshire, on the east, and crosses through the south-eastern portion of this County, in a direction towards Wallingford, is not to be mistaken for the vallum described by Pointer, even if his conjecture be admitted with regard to the design of that work ; for its course is different, and its construction forbids the idea entertained by that learned Author, that it was intended as a vicinal way, with trenches in some places from ten to fifteen or twenty feet in depth, " to carry off" the water ;" and formed with the convenience of two lines of road, to avoid the disturbance of carriages meeting each other in their passage from station to station : a contrivance which would indicate a degree of popu- lation and a state of commerce impossible to be imagined, even when the Romans, at the height of their power, accomplished their chief works in this Island. Besides, the word dyke has so precise a meaning, that it is extraordinary it could have been even imagined to have been the distinguishing epithet for a vicinal way, to which, according to Mr. Pointer's hypothesis, it was only an auxiliary, and intended as a drain for carrying off water, in a district too, remarkably dry and elevated.

Gryme's Dyke, mentioned by Mr. Pointer, as crossing the Ikeneild-way near Ewelme, and Gryme's Dyke which runs through part of Hertfordshire and Bucks towards Ewelme, are (though not the same) of apparently similar design and construction : and the dyke being, in each of them, cut to the greatest depth where it is carried along the verge of eminences and over the highest ground, is a sufficient proof that, for whatsoever other purpose intended, it could not have been designed for draining off water, which, in such situations, could never have been collected, the dyke being, in fact, carried over heights in many instances inaccessible for wheeled carriages ; so that it is absurd to attach to it the idea of a road : it is much more probable, that it was made as a line of defence from hostile invaders.

Gryme's Dyke, having crossed that portion of the range of the Chiltern Hills which forms the western verge of Hertfordshire, and having entered the eastern side of Bucks near Aston Clinton, running westward through cultivated fields and a small wood to Bucket Lane, and over St. Leonard's Common, towards the Ikeneiid-way, near Wendover, on the south-west of the modern turnpike-road, is very plainly seen in a wood ; where it passes a farm-house called Conscience Field (some time in the occupation of Mr. Pratt) bending towards the south and east ; it then makes a flexure in a plan- tation of fern and fir-trees, and crosses a ploughed field, where it may be traced, but considerably lowered and diminished, so that in some places it is scarcely above the surface. It is still to be seen above the road leading from Wendover to Lee Common, and in a hedge-row on the south.'

In Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, this " bank and ditch," (for it is no where said to have been double, as Gryme's Dyke mentioned by Pointer) in a note to the account of ancient British roads, as it relates to " this County of Bucks," is there traced from " a farm belonging to Mr.

I From infoimation communicated by the late very learned Rev. David Roderick, of Cboulsbury ; who, with great industry, traced this part of the course of the Dyke, at the time of the compilation of that account of it which is inserted in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire.

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xii GENERAL HISTORY.

Harding, over Oakgrove Farm, through a long track of woodland" to " St. Leonard's Common ; and passing through Baldwin's and Collard's Woods,^ to King's Ash Hedge-row Coppice, in King's Lane, and Rushmore Wood, in King's Wood Lane, to Ive's Farm in Missenden, where it crosses the Wendover valley and the turnpike-road, and is then lost for two miles, till discovered again north of Hampden, passing west-south-west through Rarnegrove to Rudland End, by the side of High-wood on Risborough hillock, and over Lacey Green into a wood of three thousand acres near Bradenham." "

Clutterbuck had " little doubt of this bank and ditch being made by the Celts, against the invasion of the Belgae, probably after their taking of Verulam :" and it had obtained its present appellation at a very early period ; for, amongst the records of Ashridge Monastery, it occurs in a Charter of Edmund Earl of Cornwall, in the reign of Henry HL in the description of a certain way which is said to pass " ad quoddam fossatum quod dicitur Grimes-dich." ^

Mr. Roderick thought that the line of Grime's Dike could not have been the boundary of the Mercian kingdom, because its course must have left Berkhampstead (a favourite residence of their Kings) on the south : and crossing also southward of Wendover, could not have connected itself with the trench near Hedgerley. The same learned and ingenious observer notices the popular notion, that it was supposed, by the common people, to extend from sea to sea ; and that a similar name is given to a ditch or dike, of considerable length, on Harrow Weald, in Middlesex, as well as others in the North of England ; but admits that it has much more appearance of a rude military work, or the division of a district, than the character of a Roman road.

The course of Grime's Ditch is clearly to be traced from Verulam, at intervals, to the southern part of Buckinghamshire, perhaps to the northern bank of the Thames, towards Cookham, in Berk- shire, or a little more westward.

Dr. Plot confused this British or Saxon boundary, with a Roman road subsequently described by Wharton, in the History of Kiddington, in which he has noticed the errors of preceding writers.

An ancient British road, called Thii: Port-way, may be traced in the vicinity of Stone, pointing a little westward of Aylesbury, and running towards Haddenham and Thame. It is now little more than a field-way through the pastures and meadows ; but, in a lane south of Hartwell and the modern road from Aylesbury to Thame, is more distinctly marked. By the ancient inhabitants, it was called Port-/r///<?, but more commonly Ford-lane, and leading to that hamlet and to Cold-Aston. In this part of its course, it is about one mile from Stone, more than two miles from Aylesbury, and three i'rom Kimble. The Port-way crosses the Thame turnpike-road, on the verge and at the corner (south- west) of the estate of the Lees, at Hartwell, passing over a rough arch or bridge (which forms a communication between different portions of the pleasure-grounds of Hartwell-House), and is con- tinued across the pastures and fields north-eastwardly to Cold Harbour, a watery situation about half a mile from Aylesbury ; but, on account of the nature of the ground, not to be approached but by going through Hartwell, which greatly increases that distance.

The name of Ford, as connected with Aston-Sandford, Cold-Aston, and Cold-Harbour, is presumed to have relation to the military divisions of the district ; and all the remains of Danish embankments, which arc abundant between the verge of the Chiltern Hills, towards Chinnor, in Oxfordshire, and Ashcndon and Brill, in this County, are confined to this district, terminating on the south-west side of Aylesbury.

' Probably the woods bdonging to the family of Baldwin, of Chonlsbiiry, and Collet (not CoUard) of Wendover.

2 Ciutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 13.

■> Carta penes Joh. Com. de Biidgewatcr, cited in Ciutterbuck's Hist, of Herts, vol. ii. p. 291 n.

GENERAL HISTORY.

ANCIENT CAMPS AND FORTIFICATIONS.

At West Wycombe, on the summit of a high hill, are the remains of a circular camp, with a double vallum and deep ditch on the east side, and a shallow trench inclosing the remainder. There is also another circular camp at Old or Aid Hollands (evidently from Aid, or Alt,) near West Wycombe, above the station in Desborough Field.

At Danesfield, the seat of Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq. on an elevated bank of the Thames, is an entrenchment, nearly circular, with a double vallum round it, excepting on that side next the River, where is a steep clifF: this is called Dane's Ditch. There is also a camp, nearly square, above Medmenham, in the beautiful grounds of the same gentleman, inclosing seven acres within a single vallum and ditch.

At Choulsbury, is a regular oblong square camp, or trench, 289 yards from east to west, and 207 yards from north to south, surrounded by a double ditch : probably an ancient British town.

At Havvridge, the Manor House stands within a circular entrenchment : and at Hedgerley Dean are some large entrenchments, and a ditch running thence to East Burnham.

At Burnham, there is an oblong vallum and ditch, about 130 paces long and 60 wide, called Harlequin's Moat : a most unfortunate misnomer, in the translation of the Saxon Chronicle.

There are other earth-works on the side of the Chiltern Hills, near Ellesborough : and a high circular mount, called Castle Hill, or Kimble Castle, eighty paces in circumference, which has been assigned, by tradition, to Cunobelinus, the Cymheline of Shakspeare.

The Grand Junction Canal traverses a considerable portion of this County. It enters Bucking- hamshire near Wolverton, where it is carried across the valley over the R,iver Ouse (which is here the boundary of the County) by a magnificent Aqueduct of three quarters of a mile in length ; and, after passing through several parishes, leaves Buckinghamshire near the village of Marsworth. Its course has been well described by Hassell : — " The beautiful scenery which accompanies its banks, meanders through a country profuse with the picturesque, lined on its right with the Chiltern Hills, and on the opposite side of the valley with a succession of wooded eminences, terminating the prospect with (he bold knolls in the vicinity of Leighton. The abundance of timber, with church towers and spires rising above the summit of the woods, give a cheerful variety to the vale beneath." '

The following are the lengths, in chains of twenty-two yards each, of the (irand Junction Canal, in the several parishes of this County, with the nature of the earth in excavation : "

vvoiverion i/4cnai

Bradwell 51 „

ns...L,imestone upon ciay.. ...Limestone.

vv arer i!.i;on /y cnai

Stoke Hammond 136 „

...Clay.

Stanton-Barry 94 „

...Ditto.

Soulbury

..148 „

...Ditto.

Linford Magna 186 „

...Limestone and clay.

Linslade

..278 „

...Clay and sand.

WiUen 33 „

...Clay.

Grove

.. 90 „

...Clay and gravel.

Woolston Parva 59 „

...Ditto.

Slapton

..148 „

...Clay.

Woolston Magna 51 „

...Ditto.

Eddlesborough

22 „

...Clay and marl.

Woughton 77 „

...Ditto.

Ivinghoe -

..148 „

...Marl.

Simpson 165 „

...Ditto.

Cheddington •

.. 32 „

...Ditto.

Fenny Stratford 44 „

...Ditto.

Marsworth

,.212 „

...Marl and grey chalk.

Total 22-27 Chains.

, or about 27| Miles,

' Hassell's Tour of the Grand Junction Canal, with an Historical and Topographical Description of the adjacent Parts. « Communicated by the kindness of Mr. B. Bevan, of Leighton, the Surveyor.

GENERAL HISTORY.

HIGH SHERIFFS OF THE COUNTY.

STEPHEN.

1135. Aubrey de Vere of Bolebec Castle 1141. Richard Basset (Justiciary of England,) of Dray- ton Basset, Co. Stafford.

HENRY 11.

1154. Aubrey de Vere, and Richard Basset.

1155. Henry de Essex (Baron of Raleigh.) 1157. John de Bidun.

1159. Geflfry Fitz-Ralph.

1160. Richard Fitz-Osbert.- 1163. Hugh de la Large.

1169. David, Archdeacon of Bucks.

1174. William Fitz-Richard.

1180. WilHam Rufus.

1187. Oger Fitz-Oger.

RICHARD I.

1190. William Rufus.

1194. Simon de Beauchamj) of Bedford Castle.

1198. William de Albini (Baron of Belvoir.)

1199. William de Albini (Baron of Belvoir.)

1200. Geffry Fitz-Piers (Earl of Essex.) 1"205. Robert de Braybroke.

1-213. Hugh Lord Gournay (Baron of Whorlton.)

1214. Henry de Braybroke, Chiv'.

HENRY III.

1216. Fulk de Brent (Baron of Eye) of Bedford Castle. 1223. Walter de Patteshall of Bletsoe. 1228. Stephen de Segrave, Knt. (Chief-Justice of the Com. Pleas,) of Segrave Castle, Co. Leicester.

1234. Ralph Fitz-Reginald.

1235. William Lord Beauchamp (Baron of Bedford.)

1236. Reginald de Whitchurch (Anns : Arg. frette Gu.)

1237. Robert de Hage.

1238. John de Grey, Knt. of Water Hall, in Bletchley.

1239. Paulin de Peyvre, Knt. of Chilton.

1241. John Grimbaud.

1242. William de Holwell. 1249. Alexander de Hamden.

1253. Simon de Crendon.

1255. Robert le Savage.

1256. Robert de Tottcnhall. 1258. Alexander de Hamden. 1262. Simon de Pateshall.

1267. Edward Earl of Chester (eldest son of Hen. III. 1272. Thomas de Bray of Eton, Co. Bedford.

EDWARD I.

1274. Hugh de Stapleford.

1278. John de Cheney.

1282. Ralph de Golding of Goldington, Co. Beds.

1284. Robert Malet (Arms : Az. three escalops Or.)

1285. William de Bayville.

1287. William de Turville of Weston Turville.

1289. John de Pabeuham, Knt. of Fleet Marston.

1290. William de Turville. 1293. Nicholas de Trimenell.

1296. Simon de Bradenham.

1297. Walter de Molesworth, Knt. Co. Bedford.

EDWARD II.

1307. Gilbert de Holme.

1309. William Mere, Knt.

1312. Walter de Molesworth, Knt,

1314 John de Pabenham.

1315. John de la Hay of Shalston.

1317. Roger de Tyringham.

1318. Philip de Alesbury of Milton Keynes.

1319. Richard de Cave,

1320. Ingelram de Berenger, Knt.

1322. Roger de Tyringham.

1323. John de la Hay,

1.324. Philip de Alesbury, Knt.

EDWARD III.

1327, Philip de Alesbury, Knt,

1333. Ralph de Wedon of Wedon.

1337. Nicholas de Passelaw of Drayton Passelaw.

1340. Gerard de Braybroke of Horsington.

1341. Henry de Chalfont.

1342. John Aygnell of Penley.

1344, Thomas de Swyneford of Bedfordshire.

1 From Lists of Sheiifis of Bucks and Beds, in Wurburton's and Pomfret's Collections ; Lansdowne's MSS, 887; Harleian MSS. 7378 ; and various other aullicntic sources of information. Until the year 1574, the Sheriffs exercised jurisdiction conjointly over the Counties of Buckingham and Bedford.

* Richard Fitz Osbert filled the office of Sheriff three successive years, and Hugh de la Large the six following years. This remark also applies in every future instance where the omission of any particular date occurs, the same person filling the office invariably during the years which may appear to be omitted.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1 346. William Croyser of Bedfordshire.

1348. Thomas Fermbrand, Knt.

1350. John Chastillon of Thornton.

1352. Gerard de Braybroke, Knt.

1354. Peter de Salford.

1356. John de Hampden of Great Hampden.

1358. Hugh Chastillon.

1360. John de Hampden.

1362. Peter de Salford.

1364. John de Hampden.

1366. Peter de Salford.

1368. John de Aylesbury, Knt.

1371. John Cheney.

1372. John Ragon, Co. Bedford.

1373. John de Aylesbury, Knt.

1374. John de Arderne.

1375. John de Broughton.

1376. John de Olney of Weston Underwood.

1377. John de Aylesbury, Knt.

1378. Thomas Peyver of Toddington, Co. Beds.

1379. Giles D'Aubeney, Knt.

1380. Thomas [John?] Saekville of Fawley.

1381. John de Aylesbury, Knt.

1383. John Wodeville of Grafton Regis, Co. Northampton

1384. Robert Dixwell of Tingrey, Co. Bedford.

1385. Thomas Covell.

1386. John de Aylesbury, Knt.

1387. Ralph Fitz^ Richard, Co. Bedford.

1388. Thomas Peyver.

1389. Thomas Saekville, Knt.

1390. Edmund Hampden of Hampden.

1391. William Tyringham.

1392. Thomas Peyver.

1393. Philip Walwyn.

1394. John Longueville of Wolverton.

1395. Edmund Hampden of Hampden.

1396. Reginald Ragon.

1 397. John Worship of Hardwick.

HENRY IV.

1399. Thomas Eston.

1400. Edmund Hampden of Hampden,

1401. Roger Beauchamp, Knt. of Eaton Soken.

1402. Reginald Ragon.

1403. John Bois of Chesham Bois.

1405. Edmund Hampden of Hampden.

1406. Thomas Peyver.

1407. Richard Hay.

1408. Baldwin Pigot, Knt. of Stratton, Co. Bedford.

1409. Thomas Strickland.

1410. Richard Wyatt.

1411. Baldwin Pigott, Knt.

1412. Thomas de Aylesbury, Knt.

HENRY V.

1413. Thomas Strickland.

1414. Edmund Hampden of Hampden.

1415. Thomas Wanton of Great Stoughton, Co. Hunts.

1416. Richard Wyatt.

1417. John Gifford of Whaddou.

1418. William Massey.

1419. Walter Fitz-Richard.

1420. John Radwill.

HENRY VI.

1422. Thomas Wanton, Knt. of Great Stoughton.

1423. John Cheyne, Knt.

1424. Richard Wyatt.

1425. John Cheyne, Knt.

1426. William Massey.

1427. Humphrey Stafford of Milton Keynes.

1428. Thomas Wanton, Knt. of Luton Hoo, Co. Beds.

1429. Thomas Hoo, (afterwards K.G.)

1430. John Cheyne.

1431. Giles Daubeny.

1432. Thomas Wanton, Knt. of Luton Hoo.

1433. Thomas Grove.

1434. John Hampden of Hampden.

1435. John Broughton.

1436. Robert ]Manfield of Taplow.

1437. Humphrey Stafford, Knt.

1438. John Hampden.

1439. Walter Strickland.

1440. John Brecknock of Hardwick.

1441. Edmund Hampden of Dunton.

1442. Edmund Rede of Boarstall.

1443. Thomas Singleton of Hartwell.

1444. John Wenlock of Somerley, Co. Beds.

1445. Thomas Rokes of Fawley.

1446. Thomas Giffard of Twyford.

1447. George Longueville, Knt. of Wolverton.

1448. William Gedney.

1449. John Hampden of Great Hampden.

1450. Robert Whitingham of Salden and Penley.

1451. Robert Gluey of Weston Underwood.

1452. Edmund Rede of Boarstall. 1553. John Pulter of Hitchin.

1454. Thomas Singleton of Hartwell.

1455. Thomas Charleton, Knt.

1456. John Hampden of Hampden.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1457. John Manninghara.

1438. John Heton.

1439. John Broughton.

1460. Edmund Rede of Boarstall.

EDWARD IV.

I4G1. Thomas Reynes, Esq. of Clifton Reynes.

1463. Peter House, Esq.

1464. John Broughton, Esq. of Isenhampstead Chenies. 1463. Sir John Boteler, Knt. of Edgborough.

1466. Thomas Hampden, Esq. of Hampden.

1467. John Forster, Esq, of Hanslape.

1468. Wilham Lucy, Esq. of Haversham.

1469. Robert Booth, Esq.

1470. Reginald Grey, Esq. of Co. Beds.

1471. John Langston, Esq. of Caversfield.

1472. Sir John Boteler, Knt. of Edgborough.

1473. Richard Bulstrode, Esq. of Hedgerley Bulstrode.

1474. Drugo Brudenell, Esq. of Chalfont St. Peter's. 1473. Edward Molineaux, Esq. of Drayton Beauchamp. 1470. John Rotherham, Esq. of Luton, Co. Bedford.

1477. Thomas Rokes, Esq. of Fawley.

1478. Thomas Fowler, Esq. of Buckingham.

1479. Richard Enderby, Esq. of Stratton, Co. Beds.

1480. Sir John Verney, Knt. of Middle Claydon.

1481. Thomas Hampden, Esq. of Hampden.

EDWARD V.

1482. Drugo Brudenell, Esq. of Chalfont St. Peter's.

1483. Thomas Fowler, Esq. of Buckingham.

1484. Sir John Donne, Knt. of Horsingdon.

HENRY VII.

1485. George Ingleton, Esq. of Thornton.

1486. Thomas Rokes, Esq. of Fawley.

1487. Thomas Fowler, Esq. of Buckingham.

1488. John Rotherham, Esq. of Luton.

1489. Richard Godfrey, Esq.

1490. John Langston, Esq. of Caversfield.

1491. Richard Prestwold, Esq. of Hcdsor.

1492. Edmund Cockayne, Esq.

1493. Richard Godfrey, Esq.

1494. William Rede, Esq. of Boarstall.

1493. Thomas Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone Da} veil. 14!)6 Thomas Langston, Esq. of Caversfield.

1497. John GyflFord, Esq. of Twyford.

1498. David Phillips, Esq. of Chenies.

1499. Richard Restwold, Esq.

1500. Sir Hugh Conway, Knt of Waddesdon.

1301. Sir John St. John, K.B. of Bletsoe, Co. Beds.

1302. Richard Blount, Esq. of Iver.

1303. Edmund Bulstrode, Esq. of Hedgerley.

1304. Thomas Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone Dayrell. 1505. John Cheney, Esq. of Chesham Bois.

1306. William Gascoyne, Esq. of Cardington, Co. Beds. 1507. Sir John Longueville, Knt. of Wolverton. 1308. George Hervey, Esq. of Chilton.

HENRY VIII.

1509. John Mordaunt, Esq. of Clifton Reynes.

1310. John Dyve, Esq.

1311. Ralph Verney, Esq. of Middle Claydon.

1312. Thomas Dynham, Esq. of Eythorpe.

1513. William Gascoyne, Esq. of Cardington.

1514. Sir Edward Bray, Knt. of Mentmore.

1515. Sir John St. John, K.B. of Bletsoe.

1516. Sir George Hervey, Knt. of Chilton.

1517. William Gascoyne, Esq. of Cardington.

1518. Michael Fisher, Esq. of Clifton, Co. Bedford.

1519. Sir William Rede, Knt. of Boarstall.

1520. John Cheney, Esq. of Chesham Bois.

1521. Sir Robert Lee, Knt. of Quarendon.

1522. Robert Dormer, Esq. of Wing.

1 323. Thomas Langston, Esq. of Caversfield.

1 524. Sir Ralph Verney, Knt. of Middle Claydon.

1 323. Thomas Rotherham, Esq. of Luton.

1526. Sir Edward Greville, Knt.

1527. Francis Pygot, Esq. of Stratton. 1328. Sir John Hampden, Knt. of Hampden. 1529. Sir John St. John, Knt. of Bletsoe.

1 330. Sir Michael Fysher, Knt. of Clifton.

1331. Sir Robert Dormer, Knt. of Wing. 1532. Sir Edward Donne, Knt. of Horsingdon. 153.3. Sir Robert Lee, Knt. of Quarendon. 13.34. Sir John St. John, Knt. of Bletsoe. 1333. Robert Corbet, Esq. of Linslade.

1336. Thomas Longueville, Esq. of Wolverton. 1537. Sir William Windsor, Knt. of Bradenham.

1 338. Sir Robert Dormer, Knt. of Ascot.

1339. Sir Thomas Rotherham, Knt. of Luton. 1540. Sir Ralph Verney, Knt. of Middle Claydon 1341. Sir John Gostwick, Knt. of Chilton.

] 342. Thomas Giffard, Esq. of Twyford.

1543. Sir Michael Fysher, Knt. of Clifton.

1544. Lewis Dyve, Esq.

1545. Sir Robert Drury, Knt. of Hedgerley.

1546. Sir Francis Russell, K.B. of Chenies.

EDWARD VI.

1547. Francis Pygot, Esq. of Stratton.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1548. Sir John St. John, Knt. of Bletsoe.

1549. Sir Thomas Rotherham, Knt. of Luton,

1550. Oliver St. John, Esq. of Bletsoe.

1551. Thomas Pygot, Esq. of Doddershall.

1552. Sir William Dormer, K.B. of Wing.

MARY.

1553. Arthur Longueville, Esq. of Wolverton.

1554. Sir Robert Drury, Knt. of Hedgerley.

1555. Sir Robert Peckham, Knt. of Biddlesden.

1556. Thomas Pygot, Esq. of Doddershall.

1557. Sir Humphry Ratcliff, Knt.

ELIZABETH.

1558. William Hawtrey, Esq. of Chequers.

1559. Thomas Tyringham, Esq. of Tyringham.

1560. Sir Robert Drury, Knt. of Hedgerley.

1561. John Goodwyn, Esq. of Winchendon.

1562. Paul Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone Dayrell. 156-3. Thomas Fleetwode, Esq. of the Vache.

1564. Sir Henry Cheney, Knt. of Toddington, Co. Beds.

1565. John Cheney, Esq. of Chesham Bois.

1566. John Borlace, Esq. of Bockmere, in Marlow.

1567. Sir William Dormer, K.B. of Wing Park.

1568. Sir Edmund Ashfield, Knt. of Tottenhoe.

1569. Sir Lewis Mordaunt, Knt. of Clifton Reynes.

1570. Thomas Pygot, Esq. of Doddershall.

1571. Lewis Dyve, Esq.

1572. Sir George Peckham, Knt. of Biddlesden.

1573. Ralph Astey, Esq.

1574. Sir John Croke, Knt. of Chilton.

1575. Griffith Hampden, Esq. of Great Hampden.

1576. Michael Blount, Esq. of Maple Durham, Co. Oxon.

1577. Robert Drury, Esq. of Hedgerley.

1578. Richard Cranford, Esq.

1579. Paul Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone Dayrell.

1580. Thomas Tasburgh, Esq. of Hawridge.

1581. Edmund Verney, Esq. of Middle Claydon.

1582. William Hawtrey, Esq. of Ellesborough.

1583. Robert Dormer, Esq of Wing Park.

1584. Edward Bulstrode, Esq. of Hedgerley Bulstrode.

1585. John Temple, Esq. of Stowe.

1586. John Goodwyn, Esq. of Upper Winchendon.

1587. John Borlace, Esq. of Bockmere.

1588. Francis Cheney, Esq. of Chesham.

1589. George Fleetwood, Esq. of the Vache.

1590. Alexander Hampden, Esq. of Hartwell.

1591. Henry Longueville, Esq. of Wolverton.

1592. Thomas Pygot, Esq. of Doddershall.

1 593. Michael Harcourt, Esq. of Leckhampstead.

1594. Edward Tyrrell, Esq. of Thornton.

1595. Anthony Tyringham, Esq. of Tyringham.

1596. John Dormer, Esq. of Dorton.

1597. William Gerrard, Esq. of Dorton Court.

1598. Sir William Gierke, Knt. of Shabbington.

1599. Thomas Denton, Esq. of Hillesden.

1600. William Borlace, Esq. of Medmenham.

1601. Anthony Chester, Esq. of Chicheley.

1602. Sir Francis Cheney, Knt. of Chenies.

JAMES I.

1603. Sir William Willoughby, Knt. of Marlow.

1604. Sir Richard Ingoldsby, Knt. of Lenborough.

1605. Sir Henry Longueville, Knt. of Wolverton.

1606. Sir William Andrewes, Knt. of Lathbury.

1607. Sir Francis Fortescue, K.B. of Salden.

1608. Anthony Green way, Esq. of Leckhampstead.

1609. Sir Robert Lovet, Knt. of Liscombe.

1610. Sir Jerom Horsey, Knt. of Great Kimbell.

1611. Sir Edward Tyrrell, Knt. of Thornton.

1612. Simon Mayne, Esq. of Dinton.

1613. Brian Janson, Esq. of Beaconsfield.

1614. Sir Edmund Wheler, Knt, of Datchet.

1615. Sir Thomas Temple, Knt. & Bart, of Stowe.

1616. Sir John Laurence, Knt. of Iver.

1617. Francis Duncombe, Esq. of Broughton.

1618. Benedict Winchcombe, Esq. of Ashendon.

1619. Sir Henry Lee, Knt. & Bart, of Quarendon.

1620. Sir John Dynham, Knt. of Boarstall.

1621. Sir William Fleetwood, Knt. of Missenden Abbey.

1622. Sir Francis Goodwyn, Knt. of Winchendon.

1623. Edward Penn, Esq. of Stoke Poges.

1624. Sir Edward Coke, Knt. of Stoke Poges.

CHARLES I.

1625. Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Bart, of Aston Clinton.

1626. Thomas Dayrell, Esq.

1627. Francis Cateshy, Esq. of Hardmead.

1628. Thomas Lee, Esq. of Hartwell.

1629. Sir William Andrewes, Knt. of Lathbury.

1630. Sir Thomas Hynde, Bart, of Hedsor.

1631. Sir William Smijth, Knt. of Ankerwycke.

1632. James Duppa, Esq.

1633. Robert Dormer, Esq. of Lee Grange.

1634. Sir Francis Cheney, Knt. of Chenies.

1635. Peter Temple, Esq. of Stowe.

1636. Heneage Proby, Esq. of Raans, in Amersham. 1637-8. Sir Anthony Chester, Bart, of Chicheley. 1639-40. Thomas Archdale, Esq. of High Wycombe.

1641. Richard Greenville, Esq. of Wootton Underwood.

1642. Sir John Tyringham, Knt. of Tyringham.

1643. [Not known.]

d

GENERAL HISTORY,

1644. Henry Beke, Esq. of Haddenham.

1645. [Not known.]

1646. William Bowyer, Esq. of Denham Court.

1647. Richard Derringer, Esq. of Iver.

1648. John Clarke, Esq. of Hitcham

INTERREGNUM.

1649. Sir James Saunders, Knt. of Brill.

1650. Richard Atkins, Esq. of Newport Paguell.

1651. Simon Bennet, Esq. of Beachampton.

1652. Robert Dormer, Esq. of Lee Grange. 165-3. John Laurence, Esq. of Brad well Abbey.

1654. Thomas Hampson, Esq. of Taplow.

1655. Roger Price, Esq. of Westbury.

1656. George Tash, Esq. of Iver.

1657. WUiam Penn, Esq. of Penn.

1658. Thomas Coppin, Esq. of Emberton.

1659. Henry Chester, Esq. of Chicheley.

1660. Thomas Catesby, Esq. of Hardmead.

1661. William Abell, Esq. of East Claydon. 166-2. Sir Francis Cheney, Knt. of Chenies.

1663. John Corrance, Esq. of Haversham.

1664. Sir Robert Gayer, K.B. of Stoke Poges.

1 665. Robert Lovet, Esq. of Liscombe.

1666. Francis Buncombe, Esq. of Broughton.

1667. Simon Benuet, Esq. of Beachampton.

1668. Thomas Risley, Esq. of Chetwode.

1669. Nicholas le Grice, Esq. of Iver.

1670. Sir Joseph Alston, Bart, of Bradwell Abbey.

1671. Anthony Chester, Esq. of Chicheley.

1672. John Thompson, Esq. of Haversham.

1673. Richard Greenville, Esq. of Wooton.

1674. Sir Roger Hill, Knt. of Denham.

1675. Thomas Lewis, Esq. of Boarstall.

1676. Sir Henry Palmer, Bart, of Dorney Court.

1677. Sir Compton Read, Bart, of Shipton, Co. Oxon.

1678. Thomas Egerley, Esq. of Water Stratford.

1679. Francis Knollys, Esq. of Lower Winchendon.

1680. Sir Dennis Hampson, Bart, of Taplow.

1681. Thomas Hacket, Esq. of North Crawley.

1682. John Cullen, Esq. of Wavendon.

1683. Sir Dennis Hampson, Bart, of Taplow.

1684. Robert Hart, Esq. of Brill.

JAMES 11.

1685. Edward Leigh, Esq. of Iver.

1686. Nicholas Salter, Esq. of Iver.

1687. Sir Edward Longueville, Bart.

1688. William Fleetwood, Esq. of Missenden.

WILLIAM & MARY.

1689. Edmund Waller, Esq. of Gregories.

1 690. Harry Tyrrill, Esq. of Thornton.

1691. Henry Neale, Esq. of Hulcote.

1692. Edmund Duffield, Esq. of Medmenham. 169.3. Johnshall Crosse, Esq. of Bledlow.

1694. Hugh Horton, Esq. of Grove, in Ellesborough.

1695. John Leigh, Esq. of Iver.

1696. Richard Akin, Esq. of Hambleden.

1697. John Rogers, Esq. of Lenborough.

1698. John Sparke, Esq. of Chipping Wycombe.

1699. Richard Whitchurch, Esq. of Chalfont St. Peter's.

1700. Robert Wedon, Esq. of Fawley,

1701. Sir Henry Palmer, Bart, of Dorney Court,

1702. Sir Joseph Alston, Bart, of Bradwell Abbey.

1 703. Henry Gould, Esq. of Noke.

1704. Henry Andrewes, Esq. of Lathbury,

1705. Edward Hervey, Esq. of Chilton.

1706. Roger Penn, Esq. of Stoke Poges.

1707. Timothy Wingfield, Esq. of Agmondesham.

1708. John Ferryman, Esq. of Farnham Royal.

1709. John Fletewood, Esq. of Missenden.

1710. Robert Grange, Esq. of Little Horwood.

1711. Richard Seare, Esq. of Great Missenden.

1712. Hatton Tash, Esq. of Iver.

1713. John Davenport, Esq. of Datchet.

1714. John Hillersden, Esq. of Stoke Hammond.

1715. John Leapidge, Esq, of Emberton,

1716. William Mead, Esq. of Aylesbury.

1717. John Throckmorton, Esq. of Warrington, in Olney.

1718. Edward Sparke, Esq. of Wycombe.

1719. William Proby, Esq. of Amersham,

1720. Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. of Waldridge, in Dinton.

1721. Daniel Baker, Esq. of Penn.

1722. John Fuller, Esq. of Bradwell Abbey,

1723. Martin Basil, Esq. of Beaconsfield.

1724. Richard Smith, Esq. of Padbury.

1725. Thomas Uthwatt, Esq. of Great Linford.

1726. Robert Sydenham, Esq. of Hughendon.

GEORGE II.

1727. Francis Tyringham, Esq. of Lower Winchendon.

1728. John Lydgold, Esq. of Burnham.

] 729, George Franklin, Esq. of Haddenham.

1730. Bernard Tourney, Esq. of Cublington.

1731. Benjamin Woodnoth, Esq. of Thornborough,

GENERAL HISTORY.

1732. Thomas Saunders, Esq. of Brill.

1733. Benjamin Burroughs, Esq. of Long Crendon.

1734. John Ware, Esq. of Chesham.

1 735. John Pollard, Esq. of Leckhampstead.

1736. James Herbert, Esq. of Kingsey. 17-37. Richard Lowndes, Esq. of Winslovv.

1738. John Pigott, Esq. of Doddershall.

1739. Thomas James Selby, Esq. of Wavendon.

1740. William Perry, Esq. of Turville.

1741. Richard Eskrigge, Esq. of Fulmer.

1742. Charles Price, Esq. of Aston Sandford. 174.3. Risley Risley, Esq. of Chetwood.

1744. Giles Burroughs, Esq. of Long Crendon.

1745. George Pearce, Esq. of Mentmore.

1746. Thomas Kensey, Esq. of Chilton.

1747. Thomas Turney, Esq. of Southcote.

1748. Henry Purefoy, Esq. of Shalston.

1749. Thomas Leigh, Esq. of Iver.

1750. Alexander Towusend, Esq. of Thornborough.

1751. Henry Lovibond, Esq. of Oving.

1752. John Bristow, Esq. of Ellesborough.

1753. Charles Woodnoth, Esq. of Maid's Morton.

1754. John Wilkes, Esq. of Aylesbury.

1755 Henry Uthwatt, Esq. of Great Linford.

1756. Thomas Worster, Esq. of Cheddington.

1757. Richard Lane, Esq. of Medmenham.

1758. John Ansell, Esq. of Great Missenden.

1759. John Osborne, Esq. of Turville.

] 760. Thomas Saunders, Esq. of Brill.

1761. Sir John Vanhattem, Knt. of Dinton Hall.

1762. James Harding, Esq. of Amersham.

1763. Joseph Buckett, Esq. of St. Leonard's.

1764. William Lloyd, Esq. of Beaconsfield.

1765. William Backwell, Esq. of Tyringham.

1766. George Richard Carter, Esq. of Chilton.

1767. Matthew Knapp, Esq. of Shenley.

1768. Wm. Creswell Wentworth, Esq. of Leckhampstead.

1769. George Wrighte, Esq. of Gayhurst.

1770. Edmund Basil), Esq. of Beaconsfield.

1771. Thomas Dayrell, Esq. of Fingest.

1772. Sir William Lee, Bart, of Hartwell House.

1773. Richard Redding, Esq. of Hard wick.

1774. Henry Thomas Gott, Esq. of Newlands.

1775. John Norris, Esq. of Hughendon.

1776. Robert Campbell, Esq. of Fulmer.

1777. Benjamin Way, Esq. of Denham.

1778. George Shergold, Esq. of Iver.

1779. John Carter Pollard, Esq. of Leckhampstead.

1780. Isaac Eeles, Esq. of Amersham.

1781. Joseph Bullock, Esq. of Caversfield.

1782. Sir Jonathan Lovett, Bart, of Liscombe, in the place

of Joseph Jacques, Esq. of Tickford Abbey, dec.

1783. David de Visme, Esq. of Great Missenden Park.

1784. Richard Scrimshire, Esq. of Amersham.

1785. Thomas Saunders, Esq. of Brill.

1786. Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. of Little Marlow.

1787. Richard Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone Dayrell.

1788. Stephen Langston, Esq. of Little Horwood.

1789. Richard Davenport, Esq. of Great Marlow. ] 790. John Hicks, Esq. of Bradenham.

1791. Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bart, of Langley Park.

1792. William Pigott, Esq. of Doddershall.

1793. Francis Peter Mallett, Esq. of Chalfont St. Peter's.

1794. Charles Clowes, Esq. of Iver.

1795. Lovell Benjamin Badcock, Esq. of Little Missenden.

1796. Thomas Hibbert, Esq. of Chalfont Lodge.

1797. John SuUivan, Esq. of Richings Park. ] 798. John Penn, Esq. of Stoke Park.

1799. George Morgan, Esq. of Biddlesden Park.

1800. Mansel Dawkin Mansel, Esq. of Lathbury.

1801. Edward Bury, Esq. of Iver.

1802. James Oldham Oldham, Esq. of Great Missenden.

1803. Joseph Francklin, Esq. of Haddenham.

1804. James Neild, Esq. of Stoke Goldington.

1805. Edward Nugent, Esq. of Lillies, in Weedon.

1806. Philip Hoddle Ward, Esq. of Tickford Abbey.-

1807. James Backwell Praed, Esq. of Tyringham.

1808. Richard Dayrell, Esq, of Lillingstone Dayrell.

1809. Thomas Stanhope Badcock, Esq. of Buckingham.

1810. John Ayton, Esq. of Great Missenden Abbey.

1811. Wm. Bernard Morland, Esq. of Nether Winchendon

1812. Christopher Salter, Esq. of Stoke Poges.

181.3. Thomas Cotton Sheppard, Esq. of Thornton Hall.

1814. Sir William Clayton, Bart, of Harleyford.

1815. Thomas Digby Aubrey, Esq. of Oving House.

1816. Thomas T. Bernard, Esq. of Nether Winchendon.

1817. George Carrington, Esq. of Missenden Abbey.

1818. George Hassell, Esq. of Choulsbury. J 819. John Grubb, Esq. of Horsendon.

1820. Charles Shard, Esq. of Hedgerley Park.

1821. C. Robt. Scott Murray, Esq. of Hambleden House.

1822. Benjamin Way, Esq. of Denham.

1823. William Selby Lowndes, Esq. of Whaddon Hall.

1824. Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duncombe, Esq. of

Great Brickhill.

1825. James Dupre, Esq. of Wilton Park.

1826. George Morgan, Esq. of Biddlesden Park.

1827. Thomas Saunders, Esq. of Swanbourne.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1 828. Robert Harvey, Esq. of Langley Park.

1829. Henry William Mason, Esq. of Amersham.

WILLIAM IV.

1830. William Richard Howard Howard Vyse, Esq. of

Stoke Poges.

18!31. Henry Andrewes Uthwatt, Esq. of Great Linford.

1832. Charles Spencer Ricketts, Esq. of Dorton House.

1833. Charles Clowes, Esq. of Delaford Park, Iver.

1834. George Simon Harcourt, Esq. of Ankerwyke House.

1835. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart, of Hall Barn Park.

1836. Thomas Tyrwhit Drake, Esq. of Shardeloes.

VICTORIA.

1837. John N. Hibbert, Esq. of Chalfont St. Peter's.

1838. Rice Richard Clayton, Esq. of Hedgerley Park.

1839. Benjamin Way, Esq. of Denham.

1840. J. P. Deering, Esq, of The Lee.

1841. Thomas Newland Allen, Esq. of the Vache, in

Chalfont St. Giles.

1842. John Palmer, Esq. of Dorney Court.

1 843. James Trevor Senior, Esq. of Bierton.

1 844. John Barnes, Esq. of Chorley Wood.

1845. Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. of Lillingstone

Dayrell.

KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE.

EDWARD I.

1290 William de Turville ; John de Pateshulle ' 1295 Laurence de Bluntesdene; Roger de Tiringham

1297 Aniery de Nowers ; Robert Barry =

1298 John de Chetewood ; Laurence de Bluntesdene^ 1300 Hugh de Chastillon; Robert Pogeys, who, retir- ing, was replaced by Gerard de Braybroke^

1300 Hugh de Chastillon ; Gerard de Braybroke ^ 1302 John de Chetewood; Wiliiani de Santresdon '' 1305 Roger de Tyringham ; JohnNeyrunt' 130(3 VVilliani Beauchamp t John Giffard 1307 Ralph de Wedon ; Miles de Beauchanip"

EDWARD II.

1309 Gerard de Braybrooke; John Giffiu-d^

1311 Ralph de Wedon; Robert Malet >»

1312 Robert Malet ; Ralph de Bellofago

1312 Robert Malet; Ralph de Wedoir^

1313 Robert Barrv

1313 Robert Malet ; Robert de Totbale

1313 Masculin de Chastillon; John de Adiiigrave

1314 Robert Malet; Miles de Beauchanip

1315 Robert Malet; John Blakct

1315 John Giffard ; Nicholas de Turville i-

1316 John Giffard de Boef; Nicholas de Turville '■

1317 Nicholas de Turville ; John de Olney '^ 1319 John de la Penne ; John de la Haye '^

1322 Ralph de Wedone ,• Robert Malet'

1323 Robert Malet; Alan de Leauines ^'^

1324 Philip de Aylesbury; Robert Malet"

1325 Thomas de Sakevill ; James FreyseP«

1326 Andrew de St. Liz; Robert Malet ''

1327 Andrew de St. Liz ; John do la Penne

EDWARD III.

1327 JohnBlaket; Masculin de Chastillon -'J

1328 Roger de Tourney; John Blaket-i

1329 John de Mareschal ; James Freysel -

' Parliament at Westminster. « At London. ^ At York. * At Westminster.

5 At Lincoln. The frequent occurrence of several Parliaments in the course of the same year, may be ascribed to tlie fact, that the Sovereign only summoned his Parliament in case of emergency, and for some specific purpose. Hence the oldest Parliaments were the shortest. King Edward II. summoned three or four Parliaments in a year. The session then lasted a week or a fortnight, and some times a month. The most protracted then known was in 1377 (50 Edw. III.), which continued ten weeks and four days. Down to the Hanoverian succession, the customary period for meeting appears to have been in October or November, and the prorogation in April. A few weeks before Christmas, and two or three months after, formed the average duration. King Wiliiani III. talked of its getting late at the beginning of April ; for, in the mind and heart of that warlike King, the senator must have been a very inferior personage to the soldier, and the meeting of Parliament of much less importance than the breaking up of winter quarters. The period of departure under George III. became prolonged to the close of spring, and now, at length, of summer. In the dog-days, members begin to be resolute to pair, that they may not incur the penalty of lingering in town till the middle of August.

6 At London. 7 At Westminster. « At Carlisle. 9 At Westminster. >o At London. »' At Westminster. '^ At York. '^ At Lincoln. ^* Council at Lincoln.

'5 Pari, at Westminster. '6 At York. n At Westminster. '« At London.

19 At Westminster. ™ At Lincoln. -^ At York. " At New Sarum.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1329 Andrew de St. Liz; John de la Haye ^ 1329 Andrew de St. Liz; Masculin de Cliastillon =

1329 Roger de Tyiingham ; John Blal<et ^

1330 Jolin de Maresclial ; James Freysel *

1331 Masculin de Chastillon ; James Freysel ^

133 1 Ralpli de VVedon; John Fitz-Ralph deMareschal «

1332 John de Cifrewast ; Richard de Chastillon?

1333 Masculin de Chastillon; John de Adingrave

1333 John de Stretle ; Masculin de Chastillon

1334 Thomas Blaket; Robert Malet^

1335 John de Stretle ; Thomas Blaket 9

1335 Robert Malet ; Thomas Blaket i»

1336 John de Hamstede ; Gerard de Braybroke

1337 Thomas de la Haye; William de Berkhamstede"

1338 Philip de Aylesbury; Walter Poule i-

1339 John Bryan ; Ricliard le Warde ^^

1339 John Blaket; John de Chetyngtoni*

1340 Philip de Aylesbury; Thomas de Reynes

1340 Philip de Aylesbury ; Richard Passelewe

1341 Roger de Tyringham; Philip de Aylesbury 1341 Robert Malet ; Alan de Leaumes

1341 Gerard de Braybroke ; Richard de la Vache

1341 Philip de Aylesbury ; John Giffard

1342 John de Chastillon ; Ricliard de Chastillon 1344 Philip de Aylesbury; Robert Malet

1344 Thomas de Revues; John de Chastillon

1345 Gerard de Braybroke

1347 Thomas de Reynes ; Alexander de Sanderton

1348 Henry de Chalfhunte ; John de Veinour

1349 Henry Fermband ; Henry de Chalfhunte 1349 Henry de Chalfhunte ; John le Veinour

1352 Gerard de Braybroke ; Hugh de Kymbell

1353 Gerard de Braybroke ; John de Hampden

1353 Geffrey de Lucy '^

1354 Geffrey de Lucy

1 355 Geffrey de Lucy ; Roger de Puttenham "^

1356 Geffrey de Lucy ; John Hunt

1356 Geffrey de Lucy ; John de Chastillon

1358 Roger de Puttenham ; John de Hagmondesham

1358 John Giffard ; Gerard de Braybroke

1359 John Giffard le Boef ; Gerard de Braybroke 1361 Geffrey de Lucy ; John Hunt

1361 Geffrey de Lucy; John Hunt

1362 Robert Barry; Nicholas Trimeuel

1363 Roger de Puttenham ; Thomas de Arderne

1364 John de Hampden

1366 Roger de Puctenham ; Thomas de Missynden

1367 Roger de Puttenham; John de Arderne

1369 Roger de Puttenham ; John de Arderne

1370 Fulk de Bermyngehani; Roger de Puttenham 1370 Fulk de Bermyngehani ; Thomas de Reynes

1372 Fulk de Bermyngehani "

1373 Geffrey de Lucy ; John de Arderne ^^

1374 John de Cheyne; Roger de Puttenham

1377 Sir Edmund atte Pole; Sir John de Aylesbury

1378 John de Bermyngehani ; Thomas de Reynes

RICHARD n.

1378 Sir John de Aylesbury; Sir Thomas Sakevill

1379 Sir William de Molins ; Sir Thomas Sakevill "J

1379 Sir John de Aylesbury ; Sir Thomas Sakevill -^

1380 Sir John de Bermyngehani ; Robert de Luton

1381 Sir John de Aylesbury ; Sir Thomas Sakevill -'

1382 Sir John de Aylesbury ; John de Cheyne '-- 1382 John de Braybroke ; John Marche

1382 Sir Thomas Sakevill; John Tyringham

1383 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; John Broughton

1383 Sir Edmund atte Pole ; Sir Thomas Sakevill

1384 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Sir John Neyrunt

1384 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Alan de Ayett -'

1385 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Robert Dykeswell «

1385 Sir Thomas Sakevill; Thomas Coveley

1386 Sir Thomas Sakevill; John Frome

1387 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Sir John Chetwode

1388 Philip de la Vache ; Robert de Luton

1389 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Roger de Dayrell «

1390 Sir John de Aylesbury; Sir Robert de Luton"

1391 Edward Durdant ; Roger de Dayrell

1392 Sir Thomas de Aylesbury; John Broughton

1393 Sir Edmund Missenden ; Alan de Ayett -^

1394 Sir Thomas Sakevill ; Roger Dayrell ^s

1395 Sir John Chetwode ; Edward Durdant

1397 Thomas Shelle ; John Barton

1398 Sir Thomas de Aylesbury; Thomas Slielle

HENRY IV.

1399 Edmund Hampden; Roger de Dayrell

1400 John Barton, sen. ; Thomas Durdant

' Pari, at York. = At Northampton. ^ At York. * At New Sarum. ^ At Westminster.

6 At Winchester. 1 At Westminster. s At York. 9 At Westminster. >» At York

11 Counc. at Nottingham. 1- Pari, at Westminster. '^ Counc. at Northampton.

>5 Counc. at Westminster. 16 Pari, at Westminster. i? Counc. at Winchester.

19 At Gloucester. ^ At Westminster. "i At Northampton, - At Westminster.

" At Westminster. =5 At Cambridge. =6 At Westminster. s? At Winchester,

Pari, at Westminster. Pari, at Westminster.

w At New Sarum. 28 At Westminster.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1401 Sir Ricliard D' Arches; Edmund Hampden

1402 Sir RicliardD'Arches; Edmund Hamjulen

1403 John Barton, sen. ; Edmund Brudenell

1404 Roger Cheyne ; Robert James ' 1406 Eduard Brudenell ; John Giffard = 140/ Richard Wyat; John Burton, sen. s

HENIIY V.

1413 JohnCheyne; JohnGiftard'*

1413 John Barton, jun. ; Robert James

1414 John Barton, jun.; Richard Wyat «

1415 Richard Wyat ; John Cheney" 1417 John Barton; John Giftard

1420 John Hampden; William Whaplode

1421 Sir John Cheyne; Richard Wyat 1421 Robert James; George Longueville

HENRY VI.

1423 John Barton; Robert James

1425 Sir John Cheney ; John Cheney

1426 Sir John Cheney; Richard Wyat' 1428 John Cheney; John Hampden"

1430 John Cheney; Sir Walter Strykland

1431 John Hampden (of Hampden); Andrew Sperling

1434 Thomas Sackville; William Whaplode

1435 Sir John Cheney; John Sjierling

143/ Thomas Rokes ; John Ham])dcn (of Kimbell)^ 1442 Robert Manfeld; Robert Olney '" 1447 Thomas Daniel ; Thomas Tresham

1449 Thomas Daniel; John Heton

1450 Sir William Lucy; Robert Olney

1451 John Heton; Thomas Singleton

1453 Robert Manfeld; Robert Whittingham "

EDWARD IV.

1467 Sir John Botiller; Richard Fowler, Esq. '-

1 473 Richard Bulstrode, Esq. ; Thomas Rokes, Esq.

I47H 'Ihomas Fowler, Esq.; Thomas Grey, Esq. ^^

HENRY VIII.

1542 Sir Francis Br) an ; Sir Anthony Lee '^

EDWARD VI.

1547 !^ir Francis Russell

1552 Sir Edmund Verntv; Sir William Dormer

1553 Sir Edmund Peckhara ; Sir Robert Drury

1554 Sir Robert Peckham ; Sir George Giffard i*

PHltIP AND MARY.

1555 Sir Edmund Peckham; Thomas Denton, Esq. i''

1556 Sir Edmund Verney ; Francis Verney, Esq.

1557 Sir William Dormer ; Sir Henry Lee

ELIZABETH.

1558 Sir Henry Lee

1563 Thomas Fleetwood, Esq.; William Hawtrey, Esq.

1571 Sir Henry Lee; Sir William Dormer

1572 Sir Henry Lee; Sir John Croke

1585 Miles Sandes, Esq.; Griffith Hampden, Esq.

1586 Francis Goodwin, Esq.; John Borlace, Esq.

1589 Sir John Fortescue; Thomas Tasburgh, Esq.

1590 Sir John Fortescue;'" Sir Robert Dormer 1598 Sir John Fortescue ; Sir Francis Goodwin 1600 Francis Fortescue, Esq.; Alex. Hampden, Esq.

JA.MES I.

1603 William Fleetwood, Esq. ; Francis Goodwin, Esq.; Christopher Pigott, L!sq. ; Anthony Tyringham, Esq. '^

1615 Sir Francis Goodwin ; William Fleetwood, Es(|.

1621 Sir Francis Goodwin ; Sir William Fleetwood

1624 Sir William Fleetwood; Sir Thomas Denton

CHARLES I,

1625 Sir Francis Goodwin ; Henry Bulstrode, Esq.

1626 Sir Francis Goodwin; Sir Thomas Denton

1627 Sir Edward Coke; Sir William Fleetwood

1640 John Hampden, Esq.; Arthur Goodwin, Esq.

1641 John Hampden, Esq. ; Arthur Goodwin, Esq.

who both died; and in their places, George Fleetwood, Esq. ; Edmund West, Esq.

INTERREGNUM.

1658 Richard Greenville

CHARLES 11.

1660 William Bowyer, Esq.; Thomas Terrill, Ser- jeant-at-Law

1 Parliament at Coventry. - At Westminster. ' At Gloucester.

s At Leicester. ^ At Westminster ? At Leicester.

9 At Cambridge. '" At Westminster. " At Reading.

i» The writs, returns, and indentures, from 17 Edw. IV. to 33 Hen. VJII. are all lost.

* At Westminster. At Westminster. ^■- At Westminster. '* Pari, at Westminster.

15 At Oxford. ''■ At Westminster. '^ A Privy Councillor.

18 Goodwin not being duly elected, Pigott succeeded him, but was expelled the House, and Tyringham was his successor.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1661 SirWm. Bowyer, Bart.; SirWilliam Tyringham

1679 Thus. Wharton, Esq. ; Richard Hampden, Esq.

1680 Thos. Wharton, Esq. ; Richard Hampden, Esq.'

JAMES II.

1685 John Lord Brackley ; Thomas Wharton, Esq.

WILLIAM AND MARY.

1689 Hon. Thomas Wharton; Sir Thomas Lee, Bart.

1690 Hon. Thos. Wharton ; Richard Hampden, Esq.

WILLIAM III.

1695 Hon. Thos. Wharton; Sir Richard Atkins, Bart.; — the former being called to the House of Lords, the Hon. William Cheyne was elected in his place; and Sir Richard Atkins dying, H. Noel, Esq. succeeded him.

1698 Hon.GoodwinWharton; Hon.Wm. Lord Cheyne

1700 Hon.GoodwinWliarton; Hon.Wm. Lord Cheyne

1701 Hon.GoodwinWharton; Robert Dormer, Esq.

ANNE.

1702 Hon. Win. Lord Cheyne; Hon. Goodwin Whar-

ton ; — and at the decease of the latter. Sir

Richard Temple, Bart. 1705 Sir Richard Temple, Bart.; Robert Dormer,

Esq. ; — and on his being made a Judge, the

Hon. William Egerton I7O8 Sir Edmund Denton, Bart.; Ric. Hampden, Esq. 1710 Lord Visct. Fermanagh; Sir Edm. Denton, Bart.

1713 Lord Visct. Fermanagh ; John Fleetwood, Esq.

GEORGE I.

1714 John Fleetwood, Esq.; Richard Hampden, Esq. 1721 Montagu Gerard Drake, Esq.; SirTho. Lee, Bart.

1768 1775

1780

1784

1790

1796

1802 1806 1807

1812

1818

Ralph Earl Verney ; Richard Lowndes, Esq.

Ralph Earl Verney ; George Grenville, Esq.

Ralph Earl Verney; Thomas Grenville, Esq.

Hon. William Wyndham Grenville; John Au- brey, Esq. (afterwards created a Baronet.) "

Hon. W. W. Grenville; Ralph Earl Verney; — the former being called to the House of Peers, the Hon. James Grenville was chosen in his place ; and Earl Verney dying in 1791, the Marquess of Titchfield succeeded him.

Hon. James Grenville ; Marquess of Titchfield : —the former retiring in 1797, was succeeded by Richard Earl Temple

Marquess of Titchfield; Earl Temple

Marquess of Titchfield ; Earl Temple

Marquess of Titchfield ; Earl Temple : — but the latter succeeding his father as a Peer, the Hon. Thomas Grenville was elected in his stead.

Earl Temple ; William Selby Lowndes, Esq.

Earl Temple ; William Selby Lowndes, Esq.

GEORGE IV.

1820 Earl Temple (afterwards Marquess of Chaudos) ;

Hon. Robert John Smith 1826 Marquess of Chandos; Hon. Robert John Smith

WILLIAM IV.

1830 Marquess of Chandos ; Hon; Robert John Smith

1831 Marquess of Chandos ; Hon. Robert John Smith

1832 Marquess of Chandos; Hon. Robert John Smith ;

George H. Dashwood, Esq. 1835 Marquess of Chandos; Sir William Lawrence Young, Bart. ; James Backwell Praed, Esq.

GEORGE II.

1727 Hon. Sir William Stanhope, K.B. ; Richard Hampden, Esq. ; — and on his decease (1728) Sir Thomas Lee, Bart.

1734 Sir Wm. Stanhope, K.B. ; Sir Thos. Lee, Bart.

1741 Richard Grenville, Esq, ; Richard Lowndes, Esq.

1747 Sir Wm. Stanhope, K.B.; Richard Lowndes, Esq.

1754 SirWm. Stanhope, K.B. ; Richard Lowndes, Esq.

GEORGE III.

I76I Sir Wm. Stanhope, K.B. ; Richard Lowndes, Esq.

VICTORIA.

1837 Marquess of Chandos ; George Simon Harcourt, Esq. ; Sir William Lawrence Young, Bart. : — the former being called to the House of Lords, in 1839, Caledon George Dupre, Esq. succeeded him.

1841 Caledon George Dupre, Esq. ; Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq. ; Hon. Capt. William Ed. F"itzmaurice

1845 Christopher Tower, Esq. in the place of Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq. resigned.

' This Parliament sate at Oxford; but subsequently the Parliaments were invariably held at Westminster.

' This Election was severely contested, the number of freeholders who voted being 3548, viz. : For Grenville, 2261 votes; Aubrey, 1740 ; Verney, 1716. Earl Verney, and other freeholders, afterwards petitioned the House of Commons, against the return of John Aubrey, Esq. but, after an investigation of six days, the Committee declared Aubrey duly elected.

GENERAL HISTORY. NAMES OF THOSE FAMILIES

WHOSE PEDIGREES ARE RECORDED IN THE VISITATIONS OF BUCKS, MADE IN THE YEARS

1575 AND 1634,

From the Harl. MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 1533.

Apreece, or Ap Bees, of North Crawley

Chadborne

Ingoldeshe of Lethenborougli and

Ardes of Hardmead and Sherrington

Cotton of Pitleston

BurUngham

Anne.sley of Newport Aiinesley and

Chausey of Northampton

Iwardbye

Rodington

Dormer of Missendeu & Shiptou Lee

KjTigestone of Wendover

Andrewes of Lathhury

Delamer

Kj-pping of Maiden

Alden of Rickmonsworth and Newton

Dynibam of Borestall

Knight of Hanslop

Lougv-Ule

Dlincombe of Moreton, Aylesbury,

King of Iver

AsUam of Chesham

BrickbiU, Whitchurch, &c.

Kemp of Wycombe

Atkinson of Wohouru Daiu Court

Dickons of Bedfordshire

Kyderminster of Langley

Alh-n of Will,.,.

Duffleld of Meibnenham

Knightley of Fawley

H.Tr r "i M„l„„„r

DayreU of Lillingston Darell

Knyffe of HoldweU

I!ni 1 . ' i ' Miindeville

Darrel of Fulmere

Leehingham of Wendover

l!l:i.l ' 1 ' '- ml Beaconsfield

Draper of Great Marlow

Lovett of Lyscomhe

\hi ■ ... 1 , . . ! . .■

Duckett of Aylesbuiy and Wickham

Lynford

I?.,l..i ... ~

Drury of Chalf honte St. Giles, Hor-

Long^ille of Little BelUng and Wol-

tou, and Hegley

verton

Br\..i.i.'.. ,1 ..! ' ,. 1 !rv

Denton of Caversfield and Hillsden

Lydcott of Ruscombe and Twyford

BulL-r ..i ll,u.h,i...,l

Delabeache

Lee of Moreton, Hai-twell & Claydon

Bullotk of Thoruboro' and Stratfield

Doyley of Tm-vUle

Lee of Lee, Co. Cest. ; Quan-eudon,

Mortimer

Dillon of Derby

Hulcot, Stantonbury, Beaconsfleld

Butler of Chipping Wycomhe

Dygby

Lowe of Sherington, Clifton, Olney,

Bacon of Weston Timille

Eyre of Burnliam

and Wavendon

Barton of Bai-tou Hiu-tshorue

Easte of Rading

Langston of Caversfield

Burley of Berks

Edmonds of Winslow

Lane, Recorder of Wycombe

Bethom of Creudon

Egerton, Rector of Adstock

Lane of Ashendon

Belson of Brill

Eglestone of Wootton Underwood

Lentou, or Leuton, of Northamp-

Beauchamp of Hicham

Evans

tonshire

Bellamy of Sudley

Fowler of Luggershall and Stoke-

Lawrence of Iver

Bois

himion

Lake of Buckland

Bowver of Denham

Fitzhugh of Wavendon

Lambert

BoulMiol of Upton

Fortescue of Salden

Long of Penu

Fyg of Winslow

More of Boniton in Burlinghani

Biuhifv.. .if Jlarlow

Foster of Hanslop

Moore of Whitchurch

Brnvl.rooke of Brightwalton & Long

Foh-ille

Meredith of Upper Weld

Givndnn

Fleetwood of the Vache, Missenden,

Mordaunt of Moulston & Westbury

Boss,, of I!,rlou

and Cranford

Montgomery of Sherington

Bust.v,-,.rA,l,linKlon

Fox of Great Missenden

Mayne of Dinton and Ascott

Brinkhiiist „fGr,ut Murlow

Frome

Mosteyne

B,'ake <.r lliuhiil.iLm

Fennes, or Fynes, Lord Saye & Sele

Mount, alias Mouutney, of Little

Frankish of Lincolnshire

Lindford

Babhani ,'f Wi^l.m Turville

Grafton of Liitle Missenden

Marshell, or Marhele. of Wendover

Bear,l of Aylesbury and Queint,iu

Grey

Mathews of Wilts ami Guildford, anil

Bird of Bvrton

Gan-ard of Dorney

of Thornborough

Bruges „r Edlesborough

Goodwin of Upper Wincbendon

Moyle of Caversfield

Banest,.r

Giflord of ■rwvf,„-,l and HiUesden

Monke of Iver

BrudnellofAynhow

(;ii:.l>:,..| ..1 ':|..^.. Pbice & Ashwell

Mussenden of Mussenden

Browne of Wickham

I...II . . :'..., Iiiiton

Mountayne of Boveney and Dorney

Barker of Chesham Magna

(m. . ■ 1 . ! l:. ... .^ii,.ld

Millet of Wenbam

Barker of Great Wherwood and

<•■•■'■ m\'. ..! \\ '.'.r Uuilerwood

ManHeld of Clenedon

Chitw,>od

H;,«i.vv„f Kysli,, andChakers

Jlulsh

Chenev ,.f Drayton Beauchamp an,l

Hampden of Hampden, Kmble, and

Norton of Sherington

Chesham Boys

llartwell

Norwood of Astwood

Clarke "f I...iid„n House, Co. Bu,.ks,

HiUlev of Aylesbury

Nernule

iih.l ^..1 iilil.M, 1, 1 ... Leicester

H.inUnr

Newton of Lavendon

f'.,i:> . : r.. . ' "

Iluttmi of Bricklull

Naper of Lindfonl

Cl„ r. ' ' -■ I. ..M.ire&Cbcsbire

llynil,. ,.f Ile.lso.e

Nevelle

II;i\vt,.ii »f Norlbimiptonsbire

Nowers

Chauns,.y

llmnlibny

NichoUs of Wilden and Buckingham

Copeott of Gadesdeu

Hurb.y nf Aylesbury, Newport, and

Otter of London

Coates of Ilunslay

Slnll,.

Okebanke of Wendover

Caie .if Brightwell

Hill,.,..!,.,, nrsinkrbamon

Oruley of Staffordshire

ChesiiT of Chiceley Cr.ioke ,.f Cbclton

II. ill.:-. ..l-.ii. '■rSo. Crawley

Puttnam, or Putenham, of Peun

lb. . ! . ..I.^bai.i

Pigott of Dodershall, Bechamptou,

Carlwright

Ib.M.l . , i ., ■. ....

Edlesborough, and Horwood

CttSlfll „f Oli.ev

Il:n).. - . Ii. ;u, ..1 Windsor) of Tur-

Parkington, or Palkington, of Stam-

Char,. ,.r (L.-shan,

weslon

ford Lovett, Co. Worcester

Combe ..f IbMks

Jones of Taplow

Portor of Bai-ton Hiu-tshorne

Crane of l.,oigljt,>n

.James of WiUlingford

Purefoy of Shuddlestone, Drayton,

Cl.arblg,. or W„vei.,l,.n

lAnson of Ashby Legers, Co. North-

and Waileley

Caresby, or Cawsbv, of Hardmead

ampton

Pyne of Cornwall

Palmer of Wadesdon

Peckham of Denham

Penn of Penn

Peeter of Horton

Parsons of Boveney and Langley

Philpott of Thurneston and Akelev

Power

Pjnn of BriU

Redman of Woving

Rufford of Butlers

Ramsey of Hitcham

Ruthali of Wolverton

Risley of Wittlebury

Eeade of Crendon, Lurgyshidl, and

Borstall Reynes of Clifton Reyues Richmond of Stukeley Grange Rookes of Fawley Rofife of Dodbrook Rudd of Molesh Richoi'dson Staveley of Bignell Sankey of Edlesborough Sherrington of Edlesborough Sparchford

Scroope of Hamelden Staj-key St. Owen

Slater of Great Hampden Sandes of Latimers Shert of Derbyshire Scott of Mai-low Sanders of Amersham, Dinton, and

Wavendon Stafford of Tottenhow Stanton of Smeweus Sterne of Long Grendon Trougliton of Great Lyndford Tyi-rel of Thornton TyiTingham of Thornton Temple of Stow

Tbrogmorton of Weston Underwood Trig-,, of Shipton Vacbell of North Marston Verney of Middle Claydon Umfreville of Farnham Royal Woodwai-d of Upton Walwyn of Thoruboro' & Aylesbuiy Wallynger of Whitchurch West of Aylesbury and Mai-sworth Wolverton

Wedmore of Hurlenden Wheeler of Daehett Webb of Stukelev Grange Wake

Wilson of Broughton Washington of Soulgrave, Northon. Wentworth of Lillingstone Lovell,

Co. Oxon Windsor of Braddenham Woodford of Brightwell WooiUiffe of Aylesbuiy Waterhouse of Whitchurch Waller of BeaconsBeld W.iKC of Wickham

Wbll,. nfC-|,l,l,.,.,.tt

GENERAL HISTORY.

STATISTICS.

ASHENDON HUNDRED.

p. Parish. B. Boiougl T. Towuship. H. Hamlet. C. Chapeh-y. PE. Precinct. L. Liberty. E.P. Extra Parocliial.

Ashendon i

Policott 1

Aston Sandford :

Beckley (part of) Parish*

Studley I

Boarstall :

Brill :

Chearsley

Chilton

Easington i

Claydon, East, p. includiii

Bottle Claydon )

Claydon, Middle

Crendon, Long

Dinton (part of) Parish ^'

Aston Molins . . . .1

jDorton

Grandborough

Grendon-Underwood .. Hogshaw

with Fulbrook 1

Ickford (part of ) "=

Ilmer, or lilmire

Kingsey (part of) '' ... Ludgershall &Tetchwick

Kingswood ]

Marston, Fleet

Marston, North., ;

Oakley

Oving

Pitchcott :

Quainton Parish

Doddershall ]

Quainton ■

Shipton Lee i

Qnarrendon " :

Shabbington :

Towersev

VVaddesdon Parish

Waddesdon

Westcott ]

Woodham ]

Winchendon, Nether ..: Winchendon, Upper. . . . Wootton-under-Wood . . Worminghalh

Quota of Land Tax IS Assessed

in 1798.

£ s d. 1790 260 0 0 65oi 7-1 4 0

Annual Value

of Eeal

Property as

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax in

184.3.

£ [ £^sr'd.

330G3104 18 6

845 739 0 0

GGO; 72 1 4 9i'.9; 611 8

3080;2<JG 8 0 353<.2o89 1.5

2600:359 17 1 5124 .5491 10

1130 101 10 8 164H 1436 13

2080 211 16 0 3633 2893 8

2160149 3 437053159 4 2850229 5 4 41273273 10 3120 306 18 8 4423:3714

I

Number of

Houses in

1841.

POPULATIO>

18 . 49 313 1

290; 74 4 0 890 226 10 8 1560 95 18 8 3670l 89 7 0

1(

1260 810 1350 2280 150 930 1910 2250' 1270 1100

il50

254

101 2 0 90 0 0 94 8 0

224 18 0

190 12 0 138 10 4 197 11 4 146 6 0 156 10 0

133 4 266 8

1620 133

2080360 1880 204 1200 ) 81

i

835 6010 90

1-520 240 0 1030187 10 3220 126 5 2090 103 14

5 76 1 9 25] 2 0 337:13

j 563 9 0 25382347 3 0 2008:2328 0 11 2484|2075 19 11

•J1951947 1 6

I969'2174 14 4 n53jll54 13 8 12661063 3 11

3468.3257 3 10

1948 1607 5

21613044 2

2059 3446 12

1536 1837 19

16262060 10

29

72 3 84i 2

3454,

1783 10 3845 5 2.5792123 18

5048 4177 6 7

31983022 17 6

1597 1990 11 7

9854 9315 16 11

1706 181 J 17 1

348 305 10 0

2519 3472 8 1

11)812684 19 0

3038 2315 18 0

1623 1487 12 2

13

6[

140 6

86 4

89 2

12 . .

193 6 19..

15j..

68 3 93 1

306 23

62 3 8 ..

69 .. 48 1 54 1 67 3

248 1 71

I In the Else-

1821 1831 1841 iMales Fern. 1 Co. where

319! 339 76 84

90 98 1791 18a 859i 864 214( 217

316 338

55

271

74 165' 169 359

37

412

357 306 51 56

120

55

184

294

1040 231

90 231 1060 263

379

210 108 102 102 48 54 86 45 41

13

88' 44 44' 52 36

252 125 127' 177 75

1449 718 731 1217 232

308 153 155 2821 26!

285 139 146 232 53

70, 46 33 66 13

378 194 184 127 38 69 1656 825 831

151 79 72 345 167 178 384 193 191

367 403

1327 1454

261 242

28 38 284, 294

216 223 218

344 312 265

314 297 314

79 178

500 2.32

6(i 32

38' 18

619 318

391, 200

391 190

68 30

I

37 19 929 465 115 64

64 32 366 175 413 2o2

1408 666 303 151

359

95

1485

31 863

871 28

1

61

49

63

305 364

1284 124 285 18 38

inhabitants

" The entire Parish of Beckley, which is mostly in Oxfordshire, contains 4370 acres, and 07.') inhabitants.

!> The Parish of Dinton extends into Aylesbury Hundred and Desborough Hundred ; and the entire Parish contains 4100 acres, and ( <: The Parish of Ickford extends into Oxfordshire. The entire Pai-ish contains 1.500 acres, and 380 inhabitants.

d The Parish of Kingsey also extends into Oxfordshire, but the area is wholly returned in the above : the entire population is 227. The Return for 1831 contained the whole population, which will account for the apparent discrepancy.

• The Parish of Quarrendon, although here given, is properly part of Aylesbury Huntlred ; the account of which will be found in Vol. ii. page 400.

GENERAL HISTORY.

AYLESBURY HUNDRED.

72

Parish. B. Burougl

T. Township. H. Hamlet. C. Chapehy. PH. Precinct. L. Liberty. K.P. Extra Parochial.

Aylesbury " i

Walton I

Aston-Clinton Parish

Aston-Clinton ..'

Aston St. Leonard i

Bierton with Broughtoni

Bledlow and the Ridge ]

: Brands-Fee'' i

l-2j|Buckland i

laoCuddington i

ISoDinton, (part of) ....) Aston Molins ... .i

Ford 1

Upton I

Wakhidge i

17l|Ellesborough'<: i

202 Haddenham i

219 Halton j

227 Hampden, Great'' . . . .i

29.J Hampden, Little i

300 Hartwell j

Sedrup (part of) ' i

328 Horsendon j

337Hulcott ]

341 Kimble, Great i

Kimble Wick . . . . i

Marsh 1

Kimble, Little i

Lee 1

Missenden, Great ,. i 3!)0]Missenden, Little ....] 41 1 Risborough, Monk's ' i 426iRisborough, Prince's s j 446 Stoke Mandeville ....i

Prestwood i

Stone 1

Bishopstone . . . . i

Littleworth i

Sedriip (part of). . i

Wendover '' i

Weston Turville i

451

2670 970 2470 4130

1290 980

3310 3160 1390 1820 620

680

780 860

2570

760 500 5320 3350 3220 4710 1400

s.---

Quota of

•^ s

Land Tax

<o a

as Assessed

in 1708.

> S

£ s.

d.

£

774 16

0

9288

305 7

11

3526

76 7

0

638

391 2

10

3469

36!) 15

0

6108

245 4

10

136 2

5

1456

234 6

8

2127

350 12

7

3298

61 0

0

282 3

5

3839

419 4

6

4293

105 6

8

1064

108 2

9

1148

31 8

2

195

102 4

10

1513

66 8

0

663

88 19

0

1171

293 13

11

2644

85 17

.,

941

45 14

o

400

410 6

5

5538

186 18

()

1787

324 5

4

2497

478 19

10

2467

193 11

0

2060

306 14

2

3142

548 3

4

4963

329 6

'

3676

AnmiiJ Value

of Real

Property as

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax in

1843.

£ s. d. 16243 6 9 3721 4 4

3844 820 4754 4756 3341 1666 2673

667 3733 6359 1354 1461

394

836 1333

937 428 8618 2304 3718 6884

2320

7072 4316

2 4

8 3 18 0

0 0 18 9 13 3

10 6 1 0

17 7 11 0 1 2 16 7 14 0 14 4

19 6

POPULATION.

166j

190 13

36 1

136 7

217 1

0 8 15 1

109 136

99 1

47

26 2 151 353 26

35 .

67 .

19 .

17 .

13 . 6 .

r{

14!

27I.

38

435 16 20614 214 4 45417

86

17{

89

61

3

2

38.5 1 10

153 3

1821 18:tl I 1841

[3186 3447 4400 4907

3| 584 662 723 864

,.| 137| 171 186: 147

1| 518 603 620 606

917 931 1050 1135

331 496

462 547

4650

2339

773

362

847

406

i7y

86

605

302

1205

603

9 581

964 1038 1294

169 171 195

228 235 281

79 69 88

115 221 133

62 34 60 117| 125 139

. 316 319 360

•! I

. 142 143 166 . 150 172 198 11411 15761736 2 626 678 814

2 768 899 931

3 1564 1644 1958

i I 248 3411 402

516 592 716

i !

1397 14811002 497 624 611

510 537

620[ 626

468

4

893 221

I 94

I n

666 708 1477 1546 209 198 280 290 105 83 84 54 7

145 133 268

137;

163 177 186! 142 1827 2225 937 1011 1018 1083 2122 2206 ,^, 388 ^6» 106 606 274 20 9

2008 187 637 71

773

loru in the County

2317 3079] 977 411 690 183

442 779 68

92 148 30

303 669 36

602 1041 164

289 490

319 599

244

2

106

48 8

377 607 802 1415 100 181 1.53 260

47

129

45 23

16 2i 61 12 137 27 45 80

83 16 76 134 142 1975 490, .621 536! 5471040 108.5'll2l2035 196! 19

50

479

736

241 128

9

4

1003 1666 366 044

» The return of the population of Aylesbury for 18il, includes 37 persons in the Buckinghiuushire Infirmary, l.'ii in the County Gaol, and 89 in the \li-^l.in V I'liiou Workhonse. The Parliamentary Borough of Aylesbury includes the Hundreds of .Vylesbury, Ashendon, and Cotteslow. I' Brands Fee Liberty extends into Great Missenden, Little Missenden, and Hitchendon, and the returns are there included, f The return for the Parish of Ellesborough, includes the Hamlet of Dimsmore, containing 90 inhabitants. ^ Tlie return for Great Iliunpden, includes the Hamlet of Hampdcn-Kow, containing 177 inhabitants. « Part of Sednip Township is in Stone Pai'isb, and is there entered.

' The Parish of Monk's-Eisborough, includes the Hamlets of Ascot, White-Cliffe, Catsdcous, Meadle, and Owlswick. c Tlie Town of Prince's-liisborough contains 920 inhabitants. !> Tlic Parish of Wendover iucUiiles Wendover Peau Foreign, and Lee Conmion Hamlet.

GENERAL HISTORY.

BUCKINGHAM HUNDRED.

p. Parish. B. Borough,

T. Township. H. Hamlet. C. Chapelry. PR. Precinct. L. Liberty. E.P. Extra Parochial

505 Addington

513 Adstock . .

518]Akeley

5-23! Barton-Hartshorn ....

5'25JBeachampton

5;i7 Biddlesden

54G Buckingham (») ..b. & Bourton Bourtonhold Gawcott Lenborougli Prebend-End Caversfield ('')

Chetwode

Edgcott

Foscott

Hillesden

Leckhampstead ... Lilhngstone Dayrell Luffield Abbey "(=) . Maids Moreton . . . Marsh Gibbon

Padbury

Preston Bisset

Cowley Radcliffe

Chackmore Shalston

Oldwick .. Steeple-Claydon Stowe C)

Dodford

Lamport Stratton-Audley {") Thornborough Thornton Tingewick Turweston Twyford

Gharndon

Pownden Water-Stratford 14l|VVestbury ...

» The number of inhabitants in 1841, includes 11 persons in the Borough Gaol, and 147 iu the Buckingham Union Workhouse. The Parliamentary Borough of Buckingham comprises the Parishes of Buckingham, Maids' Morton, Thoruborough, Padbury, Hillesden, Preston Bisset, Tingemck, and Eadclifle-cum-Chackmore, comprising a population of 7978.

» Caversfleld in 1831 was partly returned mth the Township of Bicester-Mai-ket-end, Oxfordshii-e ; the whole Parish, however, being said to belong to Buckinghamshire, the Parish is included in the above retm-n for 1841.

<: The area of LufBeld Abbey is included with the Pai-ish of Stowe ; and consists of 450 acres, CO of which are in Northamptonshire.

<* The returns for Stowe in 1831, include the population of Boycott, in Oxfordshire.

^ Stratton Audley Pai'ish is situated in Oxfordshire, excepting the 30 acres here named.

e 2

GENERAL HISTORY.

BURNHAM HUNDRED.

>

1

14G 181

P. PiU-ish. B. Boroi T. T.™-ii>bip. H. Hamlet. C. Chapelry. PE. Precinct. L. Liberty. E.P. Extra ParocliiiU

Si'-

1 <

Quoin of

LiUid Tax

as Assessed

in 1798.

a _■

ii

7305 5924

10361

3489 5256 2400

15656

1186 1954 3354 643 718 1459 3094 3681

Annual Value

of Real

Property as

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax in

1843.

Number of

Houses in

1841.

POPULATION.

Number of tbe Population in the Years

Division of 1841.

Born in tbe County

or elsewhere.

In the Else- Co. where

1 1

i

1 0

i

1

3 5

6 1

1801

2130 1149

1519

762 1174 423

3969

135 190 550 177 224 200 927 422

1811 1 1831

1 2259 2612 14«1 1736

1831 ,1841

28163098 1763 1732

Males Fem.

1434 1664 835 897

98 91 83 90 49 45 170 142 130 111

Amersliam (part off .

■p"

5420 , 3710

1

0740

3550

4930

\ 2290

11880

ai!)

1190 1840 480 590 1370 42fiO 1920

£

570 293

71 195

147

152

279

279

125

214

57

234

97

142

140

1(>2

ll«

G4

81

113

1G9

28

56

84

187

174

s. d.

5 0 4 0

12 2

14 4

4 4 11 0

15 0

15 0

16 4 0 3

18 6 15 9

9 0 15 6 8 3 8 0 0 4 8 3

13 0 11 4

19 0

6 4 13 0 15 2

7 9 0 2

£ s.d. 9199 11 5 7027 13 4

14822 14 8

5654 12 0 7129 8 1 2714 2 6 -19i)7 1 0 859 2 0 3159 9 4 1583 3 6 2239 10 5 1962 16 9 2748 5 (i 2249 7 7 1869 9 4 1392 15 1 1632 12 0 3400 2 0 71!' 0 0 695 7 2 1803 10 0 3821 7 5 4509 3 9

55419 339 10

2599 1344

1732

1057 1124 463 •2117 118 484 160 443 375 41)5 179 ()72 184 281 574 160 274 185 923 407

499 388

552

171

359

162

308

11

52

13

56

29

19

71

81

34

43

218

25

,S

337

203

"37 '3

24 .. 20 .. 56 2 47 ..

257 12 243 19 302 11 123 3 502 1 8

25 . . Ill 1

28 1

102 2 04.. 87 7 46 J

152 4 42.. 60 4

157 10 39 3 65 2 48^ 4

229' 6

1513

924 1153 510

4441

130 247 624 180 249 161 950 592

1918

1104 1351 595

5032

160 279 686 199 264

1054 586

2137

1297 1416 649

5388

157 2158 777 171 245

1103 647

189 173 94 312 241 1275 1228 1483 625 2425 129 536 173 499 404 424 250 753 218 324 792 I80 281 267 1040 744

Boveney Lower Boveney Uppers!

Britwell

Burnham East. .

ieL p.

H. .H.

.P. .P. . P.

2-2.3 237 247 2G2

Town and Wood Chalfont St. Giles .. ChalfontSt. Peter .. Clienies

658 617 620 608 762 721 304 321 1130 1295

67 62 265 271

92 01 239 2(50 198 2(16 203 221 125 125 373 380

99 119 167 157 379; 413

96, 89 146 135 133 134 498 642 345 399

Asherid-e

Ashley Green . . .

Bellingden

Botley

Cliarleridge ... Hiindrid"-e

270

Latimers ... .

Waterside

Chesliam Bois ....

277

•'HI

Farnham-Royal '' .. Hedgerley Dean Seer Green ...

'>«7

Penn

295

Taplow

135

2

The Pai-ish of Amersham is partly in Hertfordshire ;

The Piirish of Farnhnm-Royiil includes part of Snlthill villagi

including 140 persons in tbe Union Workhouse, 304.'j inhabitants The entii-e Parish contains 1358 inhabitants and 2010 acres.

COTTESLOW HUNDRED.

Parish. B. Boro

T. Township.

H. Hamlet.

C. Chnpelry.

PR. Precinct.

L. Liberty.

E.P. Extra Parochia

SOGAston-Abbots p.

311jClieddington " p.)

j Seabrook (part of) h. |

315 Clioulsbury p.

325Creslow r.

328'Cublington p.

332 Urayton-Beauchamp *> p. 339 Dray ton-Parslow ... .p. 31l!Dunton p.

i

Qu.

... 1

^

Laud Tax

>tr

as Assessed

iu I

"98.

<

£

«. d.

2180

350

0 0

1170

129

18 0

170

13

50

620 1290j 1920^

i()8o;

155o!

£ 44.39 1602

IGO 0 0 1461

157 0 oi 2361

201 4 0, 230(1

207 2 0 1910

132 5 0 166(1

Aniiual Value of Real Property as \ssessed to the Property and

1843.

£ 3899 1377

318 5 8 1375 0 0 22.38 17 9 2576 15 1796 11 5 1762

75 99 3

9 2 24 3

1 . 59 51

POPULATION.

Division 1K41.'

2 21 271 91

321 303 341 375

233 2.39 224 272

287; 372 416 52< 89 98 110 10'

356 166 190

497 220 277

62' 34 28

124 52 72

7' 3 4

290 134 156

231 118 113

52(>j 260 266

56 51

ic Paris id tho

turned.

' of 3G persons, which

the Population Re

GENERAL HISTORY.

COTTESLOW HUNDRED

CONTINUED.

P. Parish. B. Borouj

T. Township. H. Hamlet. C. Chapeby. PK. Precinct. L. Liberty. E.P. Extra Parochial.

Eddlesborough Parish Eddlesborough . .T

Dagnall h

Hudnall H

Northall h

Grove p.

Hardwick p.

Weedon h.

Hawridge p.

Hogston p.

Hoiwood, Great p.

Singleborough . n.

Horwood, Little p.

Ivinglioe p

Aston-Ivinghoe ..h. Horton (part of ) » ii. I Margaret Street . . ii. Ringshall& Wards H-'

Linslade p.

Marsworth p.\

Long Marston ..e.p.J

Mentmore Parish

Ledbiirn h.

Mentmore t.

Alursley p. |

Salden h. )

Pightlesthorne p.

Friesden (partof)'' h^ Nettieden(partof)'' cj

Shenley Brook End'*..!!.

Siapton p.

Soulbiiry p. l

Hoilingdon ii. I

Stewkley ¥.\

Liulecote n. J

Su-anbourne p.

raltciilioe ..... ... .P.

Whaddon Parish

Nash II.

Whaddon t.

Whitchurch p.

Wing p \

Ascott II. I

Burcott u.{

Crofton H.|

Littleworth ii.j

Wingbury iiJ

Wingrave witii Rowsham p

Winslow <^ p. 1

Shipton n. J

210 1340 18G0

610 1 •2-200

920 1950

1830 880

1620 840

2510 690

1430 2300

1580

2600 1920

Quota of Land Tax as Assessed

in 1798.

II

£ s. d.

£

150 1 7

84 14 1 45 1 6

1744

161 6 3

77 6 8

791

113 9 0

2313

177 13 9

2974

45 0 0

526

158 18 0

2677

155 16 3

1993

51 18 9

924

92 14 fi

2034

148 5 1

100 6 0

77 7 4

1786

104 8 4

132 7 0

2391

127 10 0

1563

243 0 4

1377

278 0 0

3613

128 10 8

1291

42 16 0

1050

154 4 0

2017

140 5 0

19.54

293 16 0

4390

352 11 6

6341

140 15 0

4505

75 8 6

672

Annual Value Number of

of Eeal I Houses in

Property as | 1841.

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax in

1843.

2258 1 641 1 2043 15 3195 8 784 15 2582 5 32IS5 12 1056 12 1878 12 2475 14 1561 5 832 11 1919 1

3625 19 1991 10

2 141

gl 75

4 109

1463

1607

4204 17 11

1728 2 9

1487 19 10

174i' 17 3 1785 3

4637 14 9

687 7 6

87 0 0 1369 1361 5 0 129 17 62653,2745 15 0 176 19 3 3107 3725 4

9607 8571 6 5

241 10 0 223 17 0

3688 4298 13 9 46!!15447 8 4

POPUL.\TION.

1801 1811 1821 1831 1841

331

178 385 121 197 450

87 339 452 233

441361

424'

1

203; 281

I 259 264

529 499 31 24

265 263 545! 548

375 377 525 512

845 928

675 1222

783 1290

319 428 233 204 599 113 39-J 740 44( 179 126 217 883 47 1:

169 179 441

38 424

42 108 264 325 499 116 1234

28 679

15

366

514

9:50

808

98

170

83

90

25

814

1333

101

Di-i-ision of Sexes, 1841.

Born in the

County

or elsewhere.

Tn thf

Else-

Co.

where

1249

448

13

12

291

28

417

U

214

19

193

U

552

47

98

15

373

19

064

76

404

42

158

21

97

28

144

73

471

412

340

132

8

4

167

2

165

14

440

39

391

33

28

14

64

44

236

28

279

46

430

69

114

2

1199

63

613

66

9

C

352

14

497

47

8.58

72

746

62

94

4

1.59

11

80

3

82 8|

23

2

7701 44

■ The Hamlet of Horton extends also into the Parishes of Slapton, and Eddlesborough

> The Hamlet of Friesden is partly in Herts. = Nettleden Chapelry extends also into Ivinghoe Pa

' Shenley Parish is poi'tly in Newport Hundred, in which Pai-ish the return for the Township of Church End

■ The population return of for 1841, includes So persons in the Winslow Union Workliouse.

ish, but the return for 1841 is here given. 5 made.

GENERAL HISTORY.

DESBOROUGH HUNDRED.

p. Parish. B. Borough.

T. Township. H. HiuiJet. C. Chapeb-y. PR. Preciuct. L. Liberty. E.P. Extra Parochial.

Bradenham

Dinton (part of) Pa

Morton

Fawley

Fingest

Hanielden

Hedsor

Hitclienden '■'

Ipstone (part of) '' .

Great Marlow "

830

Lauil Tax ; o c ,s Assessed -a >>

£ s. d. £ 1-21 8 0 1305

Little Marlow .

Medmenham ...

Radnage

62o[Saundertoii ...

629[Turville

633|Woobiirn

63S)KVycombe,'* High

653i Wycombe West . ,

640 124 2010 172 1100 101 6020. ill

j 770' 80 ^597i'|237 jioioj 47 1.50 2.59 6490l425 3390 264 '2510197 ;1150 80 |l590'l80 2570'l.50 :2850j345

0 170' 0 900

Amiual Vahie

of Real

Property as

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax in

181.3.

£ t. d. 1373 12 0

1328 2505 1271

8 6393 8218

0 070 1655

1 2183' 3096 o; 8O7! 838

14 19 19 14 10

9

1 0

1

Number of Houses in \_ 1841. I

POPULATION.

,818i;i53l9

,1

9, 9

0 5191' 4-589

4 2574* 2849

0 884 1120

01962 1801

9 1697 1637

9 4923 6878

41 ..

3 . .

50'..

73; 1 261' 7

46 290

"1

1 61 799,49

120,,., :626..i'^''^

6 8553 13396 10 , P. 6340|498 5 8 4898 7573 10

18 1

14 0 9 0 9 4 7

0

5

21 166' 3

3 70[ 2

7 82 1

47| 2

1021 6

39038

6-52 37

685 63j

392 81

a__lK)l .. 170

,.! 181 ,.' 310 11074

. . 140

. .' 80' . .j 258

6 3230

1 728 .. 284 1 300 .. 193 ..I .376 41401 8 1899 4 2349 . . 1330

189

303

1110

162

909

247

2797

1100

730

323

319

192

382

1604

2 190

2266

1302

1831 I 18-11

Division of 1841.

263 226 116! 110

,4237

14 276 254 295 340

1281 13.5' 108 207 1

1247 1467 272 313

2532

1231 7751 783 369' 304 306 399 210 231 362 442

1831 1927

2864 3101!

2735 3198

1545,1901

141 8

280[ 143

379' 176

1241 639

194 103

1481 738

137

203

602

91

743

177 87 90

I 1

4480 2067 2413

927 483 385 188 401 196 232 124 476 247 1830 891 3104 1481 3296 1576 2002 1020

444 197 205 1

229 939 1703 1720 982

Born in the

County or elsewhere. Inthe Else- Co. 'where

209 17 j 12 2 158 122 307i 72 959' 282 142i 62 1380! 101 132 45

3595 885

802 126

282 103

358 43

203 29

319 157

1526 304

2356 828

2792 504

1802 200

' Brand's Fee Liberty, in Aylesbury Hundred, is poitly in this parish,

!> The Parish of Ipstone extends into Oxfordshire ; and contains 1310 acres, and 347 inhabitants. The population in 1831, was wholly returned in Bucks « The population return for Great Marlow, in 1841, includes 214 persons in Great Marlow Workhouse. The Parliamentary Borough of Great Marlow, comprises the Parishes of Great Marlow, Little Marlow, Medmenham, and Bisham, containing 6-237 inhabitants.

<i The entire Pai-ish and Parliamentary Borough of High Wycombe contains 6480 inhabitants. The population of the Old Borough is stated above.

NEWPORT HUNDRED.

Parish. B. Borough.

T. Township. H. Hamlet. C> Chapelry.

L. Liberty.

E.P. Extra Parochial.

Astwood Bury P.

Bletchley P.

Fenny Stratford (part)c Water Eton t.

iradwell P.

Iradwell Abbey.. ..e. P.

Brayfiekl, Cold P.

Brickhill, Bow P.

irickhill. Great P.

Brickhill, Little p.

Broughtun P'

Calverton P.

Castlelhorpe P.

Chicheley P.

Clifton Reynes P.

122iCrawley, North p.

Quota ( 1 Laud Ti [as Asses

i £

1300 120

1180 99

930 172

1040; 95

790 72

650 1 66

630 50

1380 130

1800251

1300 15

1020jl00

1980 151

1380 142

! 1020; 230

1120J143

[4060,324

g ^'r I Annual Value MS i of Real "S jj I Property as

2 -^ Assessed to th

3 S Property and ■j S. Income Tax i: = £ 1 1843.

s. d £ 10 0 1433 6 8 1009

8 8 3 8 14 (I 12 6

3 0 1 0

14 4

4 0 0 0

2291 1477 1550

983 2415 3033 2132 1988 17 2,2846 11 3|1767 15 2 1993 10 011872 1 C3040

£ s. 1500 0 1008 15 2902 11 1503 1 1300 0

500 0 1169 0 2767 15 3538 12 2006 10 1732 10 3100 15 3936 12 1779 2

930 14 4024 0

Number 1

Houses i

1841.

i

51 S

89 -2 158 1:

58 2

75 3 .

16 1 116 6 151 101 10

33

98l

81 6

51! 1

49; 3 176

POPULATION.

801 11811 I

1 t 160 209 355 435 409 481 214 187 255 259 12[ 10 82; 75 431 392 .560 554 385l 409' 157' 194 321 1 332 200 2421 189 179 221 238 017 081

183 1 [ 1841

i 268 243 370 418 036 766 243 267 257 381 17 21 93, 83 475 566 770' 721 514 503 172 100 425' 493 ■MO 365 210| 246 213 791' 805

13

Born in the

County or elsewhere

222

371 619

230

179} 266 11 19 42 60

261 190 131 192 112 185 443 704

GENERAL HISTORY.

NEWPORT HUNDRED

CONTINUED.

T. Township.

H. Hamlet.

C. ChaiJelry.

PE. Precinct.

L. Liberty.

E.P. Extra Parochial.

137 Emberton " p.

143 Gayhurst '' r.

164;Hanslape P.

17y|Hardmead P.

183|Haversham P.

lOOjLathbury p.

20R,Lavendon p.

220|Linford, Great ... P.

229jLinford, Little p.

234 Lough ton P.

241 Middleton Keynes P.

2ol^Moulsoe P.

257 Newton Blossomville. • P. 261|Nevvton Longueville ..P. 270'Newport-Pagnell<^ ....P. 298 01ney p. i

I Warrington ....H.j

311 Ravenstone p.

325 Shenley (part of) parish'^

I Ciiurch-End ....t.

333 Sherrington p.

339 Simpson p. ,

FennyStratford(part)<'c|

345 Stanton-Biiry p.

351 Stoke-Goldington p. |

Eakley-Lanes ..H.J 375Stoke-Hammond ....p. 369 Stony Stratford St. Giles p

Stony Stratford , St. Mary p 372Tyrinsham with ^

I Filgrave S ^'

385| Walton p.

391iWavendon p.

397 Weston-Underwood ..p.

409Willen p.

42l|Woolston, Great p.

424 Woolston, Little p.

411 Wolvertonf P.

426 Woughton on the Green p i

Quota of Land Tax ,s Assessed

1860 216 84o' 89 5290 496 1290 129 1430 177

s. d.i £ 2 0 3786 6 6 1465 G 9 6652

17 0 1222 4 42186

50 241 12 0 3859 2320 227 18 13302 1810 231 18 6 3843 550 82 19 31115 1620 132 2 8 903 1770,322 12 64306 1190 133 4 0 201 J 1050 74 7 4 1400 1640116 15 92032 3220 610 12 2 9208 315 10 63 19 6 170 13 2 2837

Annual Value

of Eeal

Property as

Assessed to the

Property and

Income Tax i

1843.

3140

1510 1780

1330

750

2070

1470

70

190(

690 880 300 450 760 620 2260 890

:6589

6 4 2463 19 0 3121

14 0 2301

10 8

11 4 2634

18 0

1 0

12 6

8 9

09 16 0

03 245 110

8 0 6 4

17 0 12 8 16 0

18 0

1173 3621 2739 823 791 874 3596 1443

£ s. d. 3624 16 5 1637 0 0