A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



The first point of interest in connexion with these is the ordination 

 of vicarages. The Liber Antiquus of Bishop Hugh of Wells names 

 forty-five vicarages ' in this archdeaconry, already ordained ; but it is 

 most probable that some of these (described as ' ex dudum ordinatae ') 

 were arranged before his time, though their actual date cannot be fixed. 

 There is, indeed, a charter 2 of Bishop Robert de Chesney, confirming 

 to the monastery of Tickford a large number of churches, and contain- 

 ing also the provision that the monks should ' choose and present to the 

 bishop vicars,' to whom they should secure a vicarage therein. As this 

 charter is witnessed by Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, it must be 

 earlier than the year 1 1 54, and it is interesting as showing an effort to 

 assign proper portions for the vicars even before the Lateran Council of 

 1 179, from which they are usually dated. 3 



The portions assigned in this archdeaconry are of the usual value, 

 comprising the lesser tithes, and the ordinary offerings made at the altars 

 of the church, amounting altogether, in most cases, to about 5 a year : 

 this, with addition of a ' competent manse," seems to have been enough 

 for a single man to live upon until the Great Pestilence brought such 

 changes in the value of property. The portions of the vicars of New- 

 port Pagnel and Great Missenden differ slightly from the rest, as their 

 churches were closely connected with the monasteries to which they 

 were appropriated. There was, indeed, in both cases a manse outside 

 the monastery ; but the vicars were to take their meals in the refectory 

 with the monks, and only to have a small stipend (20*. annually) out of 

 the altarage to provide them with clothes and other necessaries : a clerk 

 and a horse were also to be furnished by the monks. 4 



During the episcopates of Grossetete, Gravesend and Sutton, a few 

 more vicarages were ordained, 6 though they cannot all be accurately 



To Winchester : West Wycombe and Ivinghoe. 



To Chicksand : Linslade. 



To Rochester : Haddenham with the chapels of Kingsey and Cuddington. 



The Hospitallers had the churches of Hogshaw, Ludgershall, Oving, Addington, Cholesbury, Cres- 

 low and Quainton ; and the Templars Radnage. 



A few of these changed hands later : they will be noted as they occur. Others were appropriated 

 after the Taxatio. The reference for all these is generally to the Lincoln Episcopal Registers : except 

 the St. Alban's churches, which are dealt with in the Gesta Abbatum Man. S. Albani (Rolls Series). 



1 Lavenden, Cold Brayfield, Filgrave, Astwood, Little Brickhill, Wolverton, Chicheley, Great 

 Woolstone, Willen, Bradwell, Stantonbury, Newport Pagnel, Stowe, Caversfield, Westbury, Thorn- 

 borough, Hillesden, Steeple Claydon, Wotton Underwood, Worminghall, Hogshaw, Upper Winchendon, 

 Long Crendon, Chilton, Ashendon, Shobbington, Illmer, Wendover, Great Kimble, Haddenham, Great 

 Missenden, Dinton, Hedsor, High Wycombe, Turville, Medmenham, Chalfont St. Peter, Chesham 

 Leicester and Chesham Woburn, Upton, Stoke Poges, Wing, Marsworth, Mentmore and Whaddon. 

 The monasteries to which they belonged have been already given. 



1 Round, Calendar cf Documents relating to France, p. \\\ s No. 1231. 



Stephens, History of the English Church, ii. 294. 



4 Liber Antiquus (ed. A. Gibbons), 12-19. 



5 Under Grossetete the vicarage of Medmenham was ordained anew (Line. Epis. Reg., Rolls of 

 Grossetete, 1239); under Gravesend, Swanbourne (Ibid. Rolls of Gravesend, 1255); Burnham (Ibid. 

 1266) ; Little Missenden (Ibid. 1267) ; Stewkley (Ibid. 1271) ; Padbury (Ibid. 1274). Stone is called 

 a vicarage in 1271 in the Gravesend Roll, and Barton Hartshorn was ordained ' under Bishop Richard ' 

 (Ibid. Inst. Sutton, 99d). A vicarage was ordained for the prebendal church of Aylesbury in 1271, and 

 for its four chapels taken together in 1294 (Ibid. Inst. Sutton Ii8d). Linslade was already a vicarage 

 under Bishop Sutton (Ibid. Memo. Sutton 223) ; and so also was Penn. 



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