RISBOROUGH HUNDRED 



DORUEK. Azurt ten 

 killta or and * ckiif or 

 with a demi lion sable. 



after her death, was sold in 1562 by Edward 

 Daunce to Sir William Dormer. 1 " Robert Lord 

 Dormer, the son of Sir William, died seised of the 

 Risborough Park 1 " in 1617, his heir being his 

 grandson Robert, whose estates 

 were sequestered during the 

 Civil War. 1 " In 1 56 1 George 

 Gosnald, of Colston Basset, 

 Notts., obtained the estate of 

 Lord Dormer in Princes Ris- 

 borough on a lease, paying 

 230 a year."* Lord Dormer 

 was said to have held it at a 

 yearly rental of I oo."* This 

 estate was not definitely called 

 the Park of Princes Ris- 

 borough, but it seems prob- 

 able that it may be identified 



with it. No mention of the park is made after 

 the Restoration, and it seems to have been re- 

 covered by the lords of the manor. When Ralph 

 Adeane held the property in 1653 lw there were 800 

 acres of wood and 60 of furze and heath attached to 

 the manor, the total acreage of land of all kinds being 

 1,360 acres, and rents being paid further to the value 

 of 15 a year. The Abbot's manor was not included 

 in this. 



In the Domesday Book there were two mills at 

 Princes Risborough, worth 14*. 9J. a year.'* 7 They 

 may probably be identified with the two water-mills 

 mentioned in the reign of Henry III. Geoffrey 

 Neyrnut held one of these of the King of Almain, 

 then Richard Earl of Cornwall, the lord of the manor, 

 and the second of Richard de la Forde."* One 

 water-mill was held in the 1 7th century by William 

 Hampdcn. 1 " It was left under his will to his cousin 

 Richard Hampden." It was then called Longwick 

 M'll, a name which is still used for the water-mill in 

 the hamlet of Longwick at the present day. A water- 

 mill was also held by Robert Lord Dormer, early in 

 the 1 7th century, 111 and a water-mill and a windmill 

 are mentioned in 1712, being then in the possession 

 of Charles Dormer. 111 



In the 1 4th century there was a water-mill at 

 Culvcrton. 1 ** A mill was first mentioned in the 

 settlement made between Hugh of Culverton and 

 John de Foxle in I3I7, 1 * 4 and the latter died seised 

 of a water-mill. 13 * In the conveyances of the manor 

 of Culverton in the I7th century the water-mill 

 passed with the manor. 1 " 



The church of OUR LADY consists 

 CHURCH of a chancel 32 ft. 9 in. by 1 7 ft. 10 in., 

 with a modern organ chamber on the 

 north ; a nave 60 ft. 9 in. by 26 ft. 3 in. ; north and 

 south aisles 1 1 ft. 3 in. and 8 ft. wide respectively ; 

 a south porch and a western tower. Up to the first 

 quarter of the 1 3th century the church consisted of 

 a chancel and an aisleless nave of the same width 

 as at present, but some I oft. shorter. About 1220 

 north and south aisles were added, and about 1300 

 the nave and aisles were lengthened by one bay, a 

 tower being probably begun at the same time. A 



PRINCES 

 RISBOROUGH 



little later, in the !4th century, the chancel was re- 

 built, and the clearstory was a 15th-century addition. 

 In modern times the church has been drastically re- 

 stored, few of the windows remaining untouched. 

 The clearstory and north aisle were rebuilt, and the 

 east responds of the nave arcades, which were of 

 some depth, pierced with small arches in continuation 

 of the arcades. In 1907 a new tower and a tall 

 stone spire were begun from the designs of Mr. Oldrid 

 Scott. 



The east window of the chancel is modern and 

 of geometrical detail. In the north wall is a much- 

 restored early 14th-century window of two uncusped 

 lights, with an uncusped circle over and shafts to the 

 internal splay. West of this is the opening to the 

 modern organ chamber. At the south-west of the 

 chancel is a trefoiled piscina, circa 1330, with a shelf 

 and a double drain. The two windows in the south 

 wall, of 14th-century style, and the door between 

 them, are all much restored but in part ancient 

 Below the western window is a blocked low side win- 

 dow, with a square head and plain chamfered jambs 

 and with its iron bars still in position. The chancel 

 arch is modern and of late 13th-century style. 



The nave is of seven bays, and the two arcades are 

 practically identical, the arches throughout being of 

 two chamfered orders. The first arch on either side 

 is modern, and also the first column, circular in plan 

 and with moulded capital and base. The second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth columns and arches, and the 

 sixth arch are of ^th-century date, the columns being 

 octagonal and the arches having plain chamfered 

 labels, with moulded capitals and plain bases. The 

 seventh pair of arches, circa 1300, have a filleted roll 

 label, and the sixth columns and the western responds 

 are of the same time and are of quatrefoil plan, with 

 moulded capitals and bases of the same form and 

 date, but varying from each other in the details of 

 moulding. The tower arch is modern and of early 

 14th-century design. The clearstory has five modern 

 sixfoil circles on either side, and is shown by Lips- 

 comb to have originally had two-light windows in 

 this position. 1 * 7 



The north aisle opens to the organ chamber by a 

 modern arch, and the north wall of the aisle has 

 been completely rebuilt ; but in the main with old 

 materials. The windows are four in number, the 

 first two of three trefoiled lights with tracery over, 

 the others of two lights, and all with segmental heads 

 and of 14th-century detail. Some old stones are set 

 in their jambs and splays, but the tracery in all cases 

 is quite modern. The blocked north door in the 

 middle of this aisle is of 14th-century date but very 

 much restored, with continuously moulded jambs and 

 two-centred head of two orders. There is no west 

 window to either aisle. 



The south aisle has a much-restored east window 

 of 14th-century date, with two uncusped lights. The 

 shafted jambs, mullion, and splays are old, and have 

 circular moulded capitals and bases. In the south 

 wall, at the east end, are a much-defaced piscina and 

 sedile of 14th-century date, with the remains of 



10 Pat. 4 Eliz.pt. 10, m. 5. 



1X1 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccclviii, no. 



' Cal. of Com. fir Compounding, 1785. 

 Ibid. " Ibid. 



> Recov. R. H.I. 1653. 

 * y.C.H. Bucki. i, 23". 



*" Cfl. Inj.f.m.Htn.III, no. 903. 



'* Exch. Dep. by Com. East, i Jai. I, 

 no. 8. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), ccczl, no. 

 188. 



111 Ibid, ccclviii, no. 101. 



"* Rccov. R. East. 1 1 Anne. 



265 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. iS Edw. II, -,2. 



** Feet of F. Buck*. Trin. 10 Edw. II, 

 no. 20. 



"* Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. II, no. 32. 



" Feet of F. Bucki. HiL 9 Chat. I } 

 ibid. Bait. 14 Chat. I. 



u ' Lipscumb, Hilt, of Bucki. ii, 336. 



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