A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



until the male line came to an end with Sir Gerard 

 Bra/brook, who died before i^z. 13 He demised the 

 manor to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, 

 and others in 14.26, and in 1432 Sir William 



LATIMIR. 

 cross paty or. 



Gula a 



BRAYBROOK. Argent 

 seven voided lozenges 



gulei 



Beauchamp and Elizabeth his wife, the eldest co- 

 heiress of Sir Gerard Braybrook, 30 released all their 

 right in the manor 31 to the Dean and Chapter. For 

 nearly one hundred years the history of the manor is 

 obscure : it appears to have been granted by the Dean 

 and Chapter to John Ferity, Nicholas Wotton, Thomas 

 Knolles, John Hampden of Kimble, and two others 

 in I437. 31 In 1458-9 John Brekenok of Horsenden 

 and others (John Hampden of Kimble being again 

 named) granted it to Sir John Leynham or Plomer." 

 Various settlements were made by him on his mar- 

 riage, 31 and he was jointly seised of the manor with 

 his wife Margaret." They had no children, 36 and 

 granted the manor to Thomas Gaune and others to 

 hold to the use of John Morton, Bishop of Ely, Lord 

 Hastings, Ralph Hastings, and others," presumably 

 after the death of Sir John. 38 



He died in I48o, 39 and the next year the manor 

 was conveyed to the grantees to the uses named in 

 the previous charter. 40 Which of these grantees had 

 actual seisin of the manor does not appear, but early 

 in the 1 6th century it came into the possession 

 of the Donnes, probably by grant of Sir George 

 Hastings." In 1529 it was held by Sir Edward 

 Donne, 4 * but he left no son. 43 His daughter, who 

 seems to have predeceased him, was the wife of Sir 

 Thomas Jones, and had two daughters ; Anne, who 

 married John Cotton of Whittington, Gloucester- 

 shire, and Frances, who married Robert Lee. 44 

 Horsenden formed part of Anne's share of their 

 inheritance," and continued in the Cotton family. 

 It was held successively by Richard, 46 William, 47 and 

 Ralph, 43 the sons of John and Anne. 



Ralph, who matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, in 

 1572, and entered at the Inner Temple in 1580," 



married Apolina Childe. 50 His only son, Don, died 

 in his lifetime, 51 leaving two daughters Anne and 

 Apolina, who thus became their grandfather's heiresses. 52 

 Anne, to whose share Horsenden fell, married Sir 

 John Denham, 53 the author of Cooper's Hill, who had 

 by her '500 per annum, one son, and two daughters.' 41 

 Denham was active in the royal cause during the Civil 

 War, and, consequently, lost his property and estates," 

 Horsenden being bought by John Fielder in l654. :6 

 At the Restoration Denham seems to have re- 

 covered it, 57 for in 1662 he sold it to John Grubbe, 58 

 whose descendants 59 held the manor until 184.1, 

 when another John Grubbe sold it to the Duke of 

 Buckingham and Chandos. The latter mortgaged it 

 almost immediately, 61 and the holders of the mort- 

 gage, the Norwich Union Office, foreclosed and sold 

 it in 1842 or 1843 to the 

 Rev. William Edwards Part- 

 ridge, who held it till his 

 death in 1886." The manor 

 then passed into the possession 

 of his daughter and heiress, 

 Mrs. Leonard Jaques, the pre- 

 sent owner of the manor. 



On the division of the in- 

 heritance of Sir Edward Donne 

 between his two granddaugh- 



ters, 63 although the manor of 



GRUBEE. Ermine a 

 chief battled gules and 

 three roses or therein. 



Horsenden passed to the eldest, 

 2,000 charged on the manor 



appears to have been part of the share of Frances, 64 

 the younger heiress, the wife of Robert Lee. The 

 debt had come by assignment to William Page of 

 Westminster in 1654,^ when the manor was among 

 the lands forfeited to the Commonwealth. In order 

 to remove this obstruction in the sale of the manor, 

 it was said to have been sold to William Page to 

 hold during the life of Sir John Denham, but this 

 seems incompatible with the sale to John Fielder in 

 the same year. 



Three pieces of land in Horsenden, not granted to 

 the Count of Mortain, are mentioned in Domesday 

 Book. 66 The Bishop of Bayeux held I hides of land 

 there, of which the hide was held by a sub-tenant 

 named Roger and the half hide by Robert. 67 Before 

 the Conquest this land was all held by a man of Earl 

 Leofwine, Godwin by name. 63 



A small tenant in chief named Harding also he'd 

 l$ hides here ; he had succeeded Ulvured in the 

 land. 69 This land must have been afterwards united 

 to the main manor of Horsenden, since Gerard de 

 Braybrook claimed that the whole of the township 70 

 belonged to his fee in 1285. 



Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 1 1 Hen. VI. 

 89 Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. ix, App. i, 

 40^. 



80 De Banco R. 686, m. 137. 



81 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 1 1 Hen. VI. 



82 Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. ix, App. i, 41 a. 

 88 Cal. Rot. Pat. (Rec. Com.), ii, 471. 

 " Ibid. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. IV, no. 74. 

 Ibid. 



87 Close, 20 Edw. IV, no. 16. 



88 In the Close Roll Philip Plomer is 

 mentioned, but this is probably a mistake 

 for John, since the latter left no heirs of 

 the name of Plomer ; Cf. Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 19 Edw. IV, no. 74. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. IV, no. 74. 

 Close, 20 Edw. IV, no. 16. 



41 Recov. R. Mich. 20 Hen. VIII. 

 Ibid. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), no. 98. 

 44 Ibid. 



46 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 2 Eliz. 

 46 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxcvii, 

 no. 162. 



4 ~ Ibid, cccxxxvi, no. 40. 



48 Ibid. 



49 Foster, Alumni Oxon. (Early Ser.). 



60 Visit, of Devon, 1564, 1622. 



61 Genealogist, xiii, 273. 

 ' Ibid. 



58 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Bucks. Trio. 1 8 

 Chas. I. 



" Aubrey, Brief Lives (cd. Clark), i, 21 8. 



15 Ibid. 



M Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 1793. 



254 



W Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 14 Chas. II. 

 " Ibid. 



59 Mich. 14 Chas. II; Trin. 35 Chas. II; 

 Hil. 5 Will, and Mary; Mich. II Will. 

 Ill ; Trin. 53 Geo. III. 



60 From information given by Mr. W. 

 Grubbe, of Southwold, Suffolk. 



61 From information given by Mrs. 

 Leonard Jaques, of Easby House, Rich- 

 mond, Yorkshire. 



M Ibid. 



68 Close, 1654, pt. 9, m. 5. 

 4 Ibid. 



Ibid. 



66 y.C.H. Suets, i, 235. 



67 Ibid. 68 Ibid. 



69 Ibid. 276*. 



7 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 98. 



