A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



monastery, being mentioned in confirmatory grants 

 by Archbishops Anselm " and Theodore. 11 



Haddenham remained in the hands of the Prior 

 and Convent of Rochester, without intermission, until 

 the Dissolution, except for a short period early in the 

 reign of Edward III, when, owing to the deposition of 

 John, then Prior of Rochester, the escheator of Buck- 

 inghamshire took the manor into the king's hand. 15 

 In December 1333, he was 

 ordered not to intermeddle 

 further with the manor, but 

 apparently the command was 

 not obeyed, for in March 

 1334 a further order was sent 

 that he should 'amove the 

 King's hand without delay,' 

 and restore the issues of the 

 manor to the Prior of Roches- 

 ter. It was stated at the same 

 time that the manor had never 

 been out of the control of 

 the monastery since the grant of William II." In 

 May 1539, the Prior of St. Andrew's, Rochester, 

 obtained a licence to alienate the manor to Sir 

 Edward North, 15 who apparently exchanged for it 

 some lands in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire of the 

 yearly value of ^-O. w 



The king confirmed this exchange, but three years 



ROCHESTER PRIORY. 

 Argent a taltire gules. 



later, in 1543, he obtained possession of the manor 

 from Sir Edward North and his wife Alice. 17 The 

 manor was from time to time leased out by the Crown 

 until the reign of James I. 18 A Mr. Anstell is the first 

 lessee mentioned, but in 1583 he had been succeeded 

 by Richard Beake, who had married Colluberry Love- 

 lace. 19 Another Richard Beake, his son, held the 

 remainder of his lease, but in 

 1618 it was said to be de- 

 fective, and a new lease for 

 forty years of the mansion 

 house and the site of the 

 manor was made.* 1 



James, however, granted the 

 manor to Henry Prince of 

 Wales in 1611." On the 

 death of the prince it was sold 

 to Francis Poulton and Tho- 

 mas Plumpstead, who held the 

 manor, site and mansion house, 

 lands, rents, &c., at a fee- 

 farm rent of 115 15^. \oJ. 13 

 This rent was granted to Prince 



HENRY, Prince of 

 Wales. FRANCE and 

 ENGLAND quartered "with 

 SCOTLAND and IRELAND, 

 with the difference of a 

 label argent. 



Charles in 1617 for the term of ninety-nine years." 

 Poulton in 1616" sold the manor to Sir John 

 Dormer and John Wakeman. In 1625 Sir Robert 

 Spiller held it and settled it on his son Sir Henry." 

 The latter made a settlement of three manors in 



HADDENHAM CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH-EAST 



35- 



11 Add. MS. 29437, fol. 25. 



12 Stowe MS. 940, fol. 108. 

 18 Col. Close, 1333-7, p. 167. 

 14 Ibid. 206. 



"Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. I, m. 



*' Feet of F. Bucks. East. 34 Hen. 

 VIII. 



18 Exch. Dep. by Com. Mich. 2; & 26 

 Eliz.no. 29; Cal. S.P. Dam. 1611-18, 

 p. 596. 



19 E*ch. Dep. by Com. HiL 37 Eliz. 



16 L. and P. Hen. VIII, jciv (i), 482 no. 12 ; ibid. Mich. 25 & 26 Eliz. no. 29. 



'1056). 



Cal. S.P. Don. 1611-28, p. 596. 

 282 



21 Pat. 1 6 Jas, I, 6. 



22 Ibid. 8 Jas. I, pt. 41, no. 2. 



25 Ibid. 12 Jas. I, pt. 2, no. 2, m. 24. 



24 Ibid. 14 Jas. I, pt. 20 ; Orig. R. 14 

 Jas. I, no. 4, roll 126. 



25 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 13 Jas. I. 



26 Recov. R. Hil. i Chas. I; Close, 10 

 Chas. I, pt. 27, m. 15. 



