STONE HUNDRED 



In 1684 Thomas Meade left 100 to be laid out 

 in land, the rents and profits to be applied in appren- 

 ticing to trades (except husbandry). The legacy was 

 laid out in the purchase of land, in respect of which 

 at the inclosure in 1820, 3 a. or. lop. in Near Side 

 Field were allotted for the poor. The land is let at 

 3 101. a year. 



In 1713 Mrs. Katherine Pye by deed settled lands 

 in Towersey for educational and eleemosynary pur- 

 poses in the parishes of Bradenham, Towersey, 

 Princes Risborough, Hughenden, and West Wycombe. 

 The land, known as Quash Farm, contains about fifty- 

 three acres awarded under the Towersey Inclosure Act, 

 1822, producing a net income of about 60 a year. 

 By an order of the Charity Commissioners, dated I 5 

 March 1904, made under the Board of Education 

 Act, 1 899, the part of the endowment applicable for 

 educational purposes was determined to be an annual 

 sum of 36 for schooling certain children of the said 

 parishes, and an annual sum of l li. SJ. for books 

 for such children leaving school. The yearly sum of 

 l 2 is payable under the deed of foundation to six 

 poor widows, or widows and maids of Bradenham, 

 Towersey, and West Wycombe, 40*. to each ; 5 to 

 the treasurer, and 40;. for the expenses of the trustees, 

 and the surplusage, if any, in apprenticing. 



The sum of % los. is received as the share of 



CUDDINGTON 



Princes Risborough, and applied to general school 

 expenses. 



In 1772 Richard Stratton by will bequeathed 

 500 to the governors of Christ's Hospital, to secure 

 the nomination of one poor boy belonging to Princes 

 Risborough. 



Elizabeth Eustace, by deed 5 July 1784, gave cer- 

 tain lands for providing 'lots of linen ' for the poor. 

 On the inclosure I a. o r. 27 p. were allotted in respect 

 thereof, which is let at 4 los. a year, of which the 

 sum of i 3/. is paid to the parish of Bledlow. In 

 1905 linen to the value of s. was given to each of 

 twelve recipients, and it. was retained by each of the 

 five trustees in pursuance of the provisions of the deed. 



The Poor's Land allotted on the inclosure contains 

 39 a. 3 r. 1 1 p., let to fifteen tenants at 30 a year. 

 The net proceeds are distributed in coal among the 

 cottagers. 



The Church Land consists of 3 2 p. at Longwick, 

 let at i it. a year, which is applied towards the 

 church expenses. 



The Baptist Chapel in Bell Street, erected in 1 707, 

 in addition to the Minister's House, is possessed of a 

 house at Parkficld, let at 12 a year. By an order 

 of the Charity Commissioners, dated 11 March 1898, 

 new trustees of the trust property, including the old 

 and new burial-ground, were appointed. 



THE HUNDRED OF STONE 



CUDDINGTON 



Cudintuna (xii cent.) ; Codyntone (xiv cent.) 

 Coddington (xvi cent.). 



Cuddington is a small parish, bounded on the 

 north by the River Thame and on the south by 

 its tributary Dad Brook. It contains 1,307$ acres, 1 

 and the land varies from 200 ft. to 400 ft. above 

 the Ordnance datum. The subsoil is Portland Beds 

 and London Clay.' The people are entirely engaged 

 in agriculture. There are 620 acres of arable land 

 and 627 J of permanent grass. 3 



No main road passes through the parish, and the 

 village lies at the point where the cross road from 

 Haddenham meets that from Chearsley and Dinton. 

 The ground falls from south to north towards the River 

 Thame, and the church is at the north end of the 

 village, with the school close to it on the west, and 

 Tyringham House, now used as a reading-room, a 

 little beyond it to the north. The country in 

 general is open, with little timber except in the 

 neighbourhood of the village. 



Tyringham House at the present day it a small 

 two-story building, standing east and west, with 

 wrought stone window frames and quoins, containing a 

 hall with a room over it and a staircase on the south. 

 It is an early 17th-century building, and the date 

 over the doorway to the staircase, 1609, is probably 

 that of its erection. The hall is a handsome room with 

 a square-headed bay window of five lights, and on either 

 side of the bay a two-light window, all having 

 mullions and transoms, and the same arrangement is 



1 Ord. Sunr. 



y.C.H. Buck,, i, Geological map. 



' Information from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



* f.C.H. Bttkt. i, ijii, 133,1. 

 ' Sloane MS. 940, fol. 108. 



Polar Eeel. (Rec. Com.), i, IOI. 



267 



repeated on the first floor, where there is a room of 

 the same size as the hall. Both have fireplaces in 

 the north wall, opposite to the windows, and the 

 rooms have been formerly panelled in wood. The 

 entrance to the house is through a cottage built against 

 its east wall. 



The nearest station is 4$ miles away, at Thame on 

 the Great Western Railway. 



CUDDINGTON is not mentioned in 

 M4NOR Domesday Book, but was probably includ- 

 ed in the vill of Haddenham, which was 

 assessed at 40 hides. 4 



The manor appears first in the confirmation by 

 Archbishop Theobald of a grant, made by William 

 Rufus, to the priory of St. Andrew, Rochester. 



Haddenham was granted 'cum manerio quod 

 appendit Cudintuna nomine,' and this manor pre- 

 sumably had been included in the previous grants of 

 Haddenham.* Before the dissolution of the priory, 

 Cuddington Manor is mentioned separately amongst 

 its possessions, and was valued together with the 

 rectory at 34 61. 8</. a year.* 



It was granted, however, by the prior to Sir 

 Edward North, and was recovered by the Crown at 

 the same time as the manor of Haddenham (q.v.). 7 



The history of Cuddington Manor diverges from 

 that of Haddenham from this time, and becomes 

 obscure. Queen Mary granted it to Thomas White, 

 John White, Roger Martin, and William Blackwell 

 to hold to them, their heirs and assigns.' Queen 



7 See Haddenham ; Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, 

 pt i, m. 35. 



1 Pat. 5 It 6 Phil, and Mary pt. ]. 



