RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



discipline, and promoted him to a benefice 

 with cure of souls. 1 



The original endowment of the abbey in- 

 cluded the demesne land at Great Missenden 

 with other parcels of land in the counties of 

 Buckingham, Oxford and Huntingdon, as well 

 as the churches of Great Missenden, Great 

 Kimble, Chalfont St. Peter, Weston Turville 

 and its chapels, in Bucks ; Glatton and Aid- 

 bury, Hunts ; Caversfield and Shiplake, 

 Oxon ; Swynford, Radenhall and Porlaine. 2 

 The temporalia of the abbey in 1291 3 

 amounted to 60 $s. 5^., and included lands 

 in Bucks, Oxon, Herts, and London ; the 

 manor of Peterley was added not long after. 4 

 In 1284 the abbot held only one knight's 

 fee in Great Kimble with four acres besides B ; 

 in 1302 8 the same ; in 1316 half the vill of 

 Broughton and Holcutt with one third of 

 Great Kimble 7 ; in 1346 one fee in Great 

 Kimble and a small part of Little Kimble. 8 

 The Valor Ecdesiasticus gives for this abbey 

 a clear revenue of 261 i^s. 6d., including the 

 churches of Great Missenden, Great Kimble, 

 Chalfont St. Peter, Caversfield, Shiplake and 

 Glatton. 9 The Ministers' Accounts amount 

 to 240 us. 4^., including the manors of 

 Great Kimble, Hughenden, and Little Mis- 

 senden. 10 



ABBOTS OF MISSENDEN 



Daniel, 11 first abbot, occurs 1133 and 1145 



Peter, 12 occurs about 1163 



Adam, 13 occurs 1198 and 1206 



William, 14 occurs 1217 



Martin, 15 occurs 1219, deposed 1236 



1 Lipscomb, History of Bucks, i. 368. ' To 

 John Slythurst, 8 for serving the cure at the Lee 

 chapel ; or if he refuse it $ 6s. Sd. 



Charters of Confirmation, Harl. MS. 3688, 

 ff. 178-191. 



3 Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.). In a roll 

 amongst those of Bishop Lexington (Line. Epis. 

 Reg.), 1254-8, the whole valuation of the abbey, 

 in spiritualities and temporalities, is stated at 

 44 js. only : which favours the conjecture of a 

 fresh endowment by a second William of Missenden 

 about 1293. 



4 Harl. MS. 3688, f. 34. 

 s Feud. Aids, i. 75, 85. 



Ibid. 96. 7 Ibid. 112. 



8 Ibid. 122. 



Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 247. 

 10 Dugdale, Man. vi. (2) 549. 

 i Harl. MS. 3688, ff. 18, 1794. 

 n Ibid. 178. 



13 Ibid. I78d : Feet of F. (Rec. Com.), 

 165, 219. 



K Dugdale, Man. v. 548. 

 > Feet of F. Bucks, 3 Hen. III. 24. 



Robert, 18 elected 1236, resigned 1240 

 Roger of Gilsburgh, 17 elected 1240, occurs 



till 1248 

 Simon of London, 18 elected 1258, resigned 



1262 

 Geoffrey de Welpesle, 19 elected 1262, re- 



signed 1268 

 William of London, 20 elected 1268, occurs 



till 1278 



Matthew of Tring, 21 died 1306 

 Richard Marshall, 22 elected 1306, died 1323 

 Robert of Kimble, 23 elected 1323, resigned 



1339 

 William Delamere, 24 elected 1339, died 



Henry of Buckingham, 25 elected 1340 

 John of Abingdon, 26 elected 1347, died 1348 

 William of Bradley, 27 elected 1348, re- 

 signed 1356 



Ralf Marshall, 28 elected 1356, died 1374 

 William of Thenford, 29 elected 1374, died 



1384 



John Marsh, 30 elected 1384, died 1398 

 Richard Meer, 31 elected 1398 

 Robert Risborough, 32 occurs 1448, deposed 



1462 

 Henry Honor 33 or Missenden, elected 1462, 



occurs till 1503 

 William Smith, 34 died 1521 

 William Honor, 35 elected 1521, died 1528 

 John Fox, 36 elected 1528, occurs 1535 

 John Otwell, 37 last abbot, surrendered 1538 



Dark green, pointed oval seal of the twelfth 

 century attached to a charter of Abbot Mar- 

 tin and the convent of Missenden. 38 The 

 impression is a very fine one, and represents 

 the Blessed Virgin with crown seated on a 

 throne with carved ends, in her lap the Holy 

 Child with cruciform nimbus. In her right 



18 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstete. 

 " Ibid. ; and Feet of F. Bucks, 32 Hen. III. 

 No. 36. 



18 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 



i Ibid. 



2 Ibid. ; and Close, 6 Edw. I. m. 2d. 



21 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, 180. 



Ibid. 



" Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 328d. 



s* Ibid. 355. " Ibid. 358d. 



s Ibid. Memo. Bek, 96. 



> 7 Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 241. 



*> Ibid. 260. 



a> Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, i. 435d. 



3 Ibid. 461. 31 Ibid. ii. 425^ 



3 Sloane MS. 747, f. 4d. 



33 Ibid. f. 17. 



" Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Longland, 187. 



35 Ibid. 36 Ibid. 195. 



37 L. and P. Henry VIII. xiii. (2) 1252. 



38 Add. Chart. 19910. 



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