A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



ever, held more land in Waldridge, 186 and in 1267 he 

 granted it as a member of the manor of (Nether) 

 Upton (q.v.) to William Giffard. 187 The latter, together 

 with John le Waleys, held 1 1 virgates of land in 

 I284-6. 1 * 8 The heirs of Geoffrey de Upton at- 

 tempted to recover Waldridge as well as Upton (q.v.), 

 with presumably the same result, and its history at 

 that time is very obscure. 189 Five virgates of land in 

 Waldridge were granted by Edward IV to Sir Thomas 

 Montgomery in 14.64.. The reversion in the event 

 of his dying without heirs male was obtained by 

 Ralph Verney and Richard Fowler. 191 The manor of 

 Waldridge, however, came into the possession of the 

 Hampdens. In 1487 Margery, the widow of Thomas 

 Hampden, claimed a third as her dower and recovered 

 her seisin. 198 



Land in Waldridge was held by the family until 

 the death of Sir Alexander Hampden, 193 a fine of 

 messuages, lands, and rents in Waldridge being levied 

 in 1622 between two of his heiresses, Anne the wife 

 of Sir John Trevor, and Margaret the wife of Sir 

 Thomas Wenman. 194 



The manor, however, appears to have come into 

 the possession of the Serjeants before this time. In 

 1615 William Serjeant died seised of a capital mes- 

 suage or farm in Waldridge. 195 



In 1650 Sir Richard Ingoldsby the regicide pur- 

 chased the manor of Waldridge from the Serjeants 

 and lived there. 198 The family remained as residents 

 in the parish for many yean, and presumably held 

 the manor of Waldridge. 



In 1 849 it was purchased by the lord of Dinton 

 Manor, the father of Lieut.-Col. Goodall, and is now 

 appendant to the main manor. 197 



In 1254 John de Stoke and Richard de Middleton 

 paid zos. a year to Warine de Munchesney for the 9 

 virgates that they held of him. 198 They held the view 

 of frankpledge for their tenants, but made a yearly 

 payment of zs. to the king for this right. 199 Geoffrey 

 de Upton, however, paid 1 5*. a year to his immediate 

 lord, and did no forinsec service to the king.* 00 



The manor or liberty of MORETON belonged to 

 the hundred of Desborough. It is not mentioned 

 separately in the Domesday Survey, but it may have 

 been included in West Wycombe,* 01 since it was after- 

 wards held by the Bishop of Winchester,* * and was 

 appendant to his manor of West Wycombe.* 01 Bishop 

 Richard Pope held a court-leet for Moreton in the 

 reign of Henry VII,* 04 but in 1551 Bishop Poynet 

 surrendered his manors of West Wycombe, Moreton, 

 and Ivinghoe to the king.* 05 The two last-mentioned 

 manors were, however, restored to the see of Winches- 

 ter. The bishop held the manor in I6I3,* 06 and in 



WALLER. Sable three 

 walnut leaves or between 

 nuo bends argent. 



1797 it still belonged to the bishopric.* 07 Moreton 

 was held in frankalmoign of the king- in chief. 208 



John Buncombe held a capital messuage in Moreton 

 in the i6th century. 209 It passed into the hands of 

 John Saunders of Long Marston, Hertfordshire, who 

 sold it to Richard Saunders.*' The latter died in 

 1 60 1, leaving a son John as his heir,* 11 from whom 

 Robert Waller bought two messuages, a garden, an 

 orchard, and 90 acres of land in Moreton and 

 Dinton.* 1 ' Edmund Waller 

 was his son and heir, but was 

 a minor at the time of his 

 father's death in 1617.*" His 

 descendant, Edmund Waller, 

 held Moreton under the Bishop 

 of Winchester in 1 797,"' and 

 the Wallers still own Moreton 

 at the present day.' 14 In 1 606 

 Sir Thomas Lee died seised 

 of a farm called Moreton 

 Farm in Dinton, which had 

 previously been held by Ed- 

 mund Waller.' 16 How Sir 

 Thomas had obtained this farm does not appear, nor 

 the date of its recovery by the Wallers. Moreton is, 

 however, best known as the first place of residence of 

 the Lees in Buckinghamshire. Thomas and Ralph 

 Lee held lands in Moreton, which they granted on 

 lease to Francis Lee for twenty-six years. 117 Thomas. 

 Lee, the son of the lessee, held the remainder of this 

 lease at the time of his death in I572." 8 He left in 

 his will the house in which he lived at Moreton to his 

 wife, together with all lands belonging to it and other 

 tenements there.* 13 The Lees had probably settled 

 there in the 1 5th century, a brass to William Lee, 

 of Dinton, who died in 1485, still existing in the 

 church. 



The family of Compton held land under the 

 Bishop of Winchester in the 1 5th century. There 

 is a brass in Dinton Church commemorating mem- 

 bers of the family, and bearing the date 1424, and 

 John Compton held land in Moreton in 1407.*"* 

 Sir Ralph Verney (jun.) died seised of COMP- 

 TON' S M4NOR in 1525 and it formed part of the 

 jointure of his wife Elizabeth.** 1 His son and heir 

 Ralph succeeded him.*** William Serjeant, however, 

 held this manor at the beginning of the 1 7th century.*** 

 Compton's Piece and Compton's Lane are mentioned 

 in 1 7 14,'*' and Compton's Farm is mentioned in the 

 early part of the I gth century.** 4 



The tenure by which the Comptons held their 

 land does not appear. Sir Ralph Verney, however, 

 held the manor of the Bishop of Winchester,** 6 and 



188 Assize R. 56, m. l8d. 



18 7 Coram Rege R. zo ; CaL of Chart. 

 ii, 71. 



188 F eu J. JjJ^ \ t g^. 



189 Cf. Nether Upton. 



190 Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 367. 

 181 Ibid. 1467-77, p. 309. 



192 De Banco R. Mich. 3 Hen. VII, 

 m. 501. 



198 See Owlswick in Monks Risborough; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxrvii, no. 96. 



194 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 1 9 Jas. I. 



195 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxliii, 

 no. 142. 



196 From inf. given by Lient.-Col. 

 Goodall. W Ibid. 



198 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 25. 



199 ibid. a Ibid. 



" V.C.H. Bucks, i, 233* 



Testa de Nevitt (Rec. Com.), 246. 



* Feud. Aids, i, 92. 



x Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Ref. no. 155657! 

 (3), bdle. 85, no. I. 



905 Acts of P.O. 1550-2, p. 359. 



208 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxliii, 

 no. 142. 



W Thos. Langley, Hist, of the Hund. of 

 Desborough, 435. 



908 Feud. Aids, i, 92. 



909 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccbcx, no. 

 129. 



NO Ibid. 

 " Ibid. 

 919 Ibid, ccczxxix, no. 136. 



278 



" Ibid. 



"" Langley, Hitt. of the Hund. of Dei- 

 borough. 



n " From inf. given by Lieut.-Col. 

 Goodall. 



918 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxiv, 

 no. 77. 



^Ibid. clx, no. 15. 



" Ibid. n> Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. g Hen. IV. 



921 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xliv, no. 91. 



923 Ibid. 



498 Ibid, cccxliii, no. 142. 



924 Exch. Dep. by Com. Mich. I Geo. I, 

 no. 2;. 



995 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii. 



288 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xliv, no. 91 



