ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Bardney Abbey to the London Charterhouse. 1 Ivinghoe was granted 

 by the bishop of Winchester to the monastery of Ashridge 8 ; Bledlow, 

 which had belonged to the monks of Grestain and passed from them to 

 the king, was appropriated in 1413 to the College of St. Stephen, 

 Westminster. 3 Three churches in this county were granted by King 

 Edward III. to his new foundation in connexion with St. George's 

 Chapel, Windsor ; Datchet,* which had been given to him in 1341 by 

 St. Alban's Abbey 5 ; Wyrardisbury with the chapel of Langley Marish, 8 

 which had come to him from Gloucester Abbey 7 ; and Iver. The 

 canons of Windsor also obtained the church of North Marston by 

 exchange, from the canons of Dunstable. 8 All the churches newly 

 appropriated during these two centuries had vicarages ordained at the 

 same time 9 ; the Bishop's own church at Wooburn had a perpetual 

 vicar's portion assigned for the first time in I337/ but the vicarage of 

 the prebendal church of Buckingham was not ordained till 1445." 



A few parochial chapels for the use of hamlets remote from the 

 parish church were built during the fourteenth century ; but some 

 which are mentioned for the first time in the records of this period may 

 well have been in existence earlier. Thus the chapel of Aston in 

 Ivinghoe, re-endowed in 1 340, had certainly been standing for some 

 time ; the chapel of Dagnall in Edlesborough was probably at first a 

 memorial chapel, 12 built by Henry Spigurnel at the end of the thirteenth 

 century ; the chapels of Ditton in Stoke Poges, Fulmer in Datchet, 

 Weston Underwood in Olney, all mentioned early in the fourteenth 

 century, were probably built some time before 13 : it is uncertain whether 

 the chapel of Colnbrook was built or re-built in 1345," and there is the 



1 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, i. 41 8d. z Ibid. Memo. Fleming, 2i/d (1420). 



3 Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 457. 4 Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 242-3. 



1 Gesta Abbatum (Rolls Series), iii. 1 19. It was granted that the monks might be quit of a pension 

 of loo marks, due to the king for waiving his privilege of demanding a benefice for one of his clerks at 

 the creation of every new abbot. 



" Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, 241. 



' Hist. Man. S. Petri. Glouc. (Rolls Series), i. 65. 



8 Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Rotherham, 1-7. 



9 Pitstone in 1381, Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Buckingham, 224; Dorney before 1337, ibid. Inst. 

 Burghersh, 355 ; Soulbury, ibid. Memo. Smith, lO3d ; Whitchurch before 1417, ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 

 472d ; Little Marlow in 1403, quoted ibid. Memo. Longland, 189 ; East Claydon in 1422, ibid. Inst. 

 Fleming, 153. Olney was granted to the monastery of Syon in 1502, and Hanslope to Newark College 

 in 1523. Moulsoe never had a vicarage : that of North Marston was ordained in 1335 before the ex- 

 change, ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 347 ; that of Great Marlow in 1494, ibid. Memo. Smith, 65. The refer- 

 ences for Datchet, Iver, Wyrardisbury, Bledlow, Ivinghoe are given above, the vicarage being ordained 

 at the appropriation. 



10 Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, 351. 



" Brown Willis, History of Buckingham, 76-7, gives the deed in extenso ; the church is still described 

 as a chapel to King's Sutton. 



12 Henry Spigurnel received a license for an oratory in his house at Dagnall in 1297 (Line. Epis. Reg. 

 Memo. Sutton, l67d) ; in 1326 a chantry was ordained at his expense in ' the chapel of Dagnall ' (else- 

 where called the chantry in the manor of Dagnall, ibid. Memo. Burghersh, I48d), so that it seems prob- 

 able that instead of a mere oratory he built a chapel to serve for the hamlet as well as his own household. 

 It was still used for the whole hamlet in 1547. 



13 A chantry was endowed in Ditton Chapel in 1338 ; Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Burghersh, 3Sid~353. 

 Fulmer is mentioned in 1349, ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 237 ; Weston Underwood in 1368, ibid. Memo. Bek, 

 62 ; all implied to have been in existence some time. 



14 Ibid. Inst. Bek, 140. 



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