STONE HUNDRED 



1642," after his death on another Henry Spiller, 

 probably hit eldest son, and then in tail male on the 

 ten sons of Henry Spiller, with various other re- 

 mainders and a power of revocation in the case of the 

 manor of Haddenham. In 1 645, however, Sir Henry 

 Spiller, being imprisoned at Gloucester by the Par- 

 liamentarians, was approached by the attorney of the 

 Earl of Pembroke, who proposed a marriage between 

 the earl's son James Herbert and Jane, the grand- 

 daughter of Sir Henry." Sir Henry obtained leave 

 to go to London to discuss the matter, but could 

 come to no satisfactory arrangement with the earl 

 and would not consent to the marriage. Hence he 

 was sent to the Tower, and while there the marriage 

 took place without his consent. 



It is not clear what settlements were finally made, 

 but when Sir Henry Spiller died in 1 649," James 

 Herbert and his wife entered on the manors and 

 kept them, in spite of the persistent efforts of Henry 

 Spiller to recover possession under the settlement of 

 1642, efforts that were still continued in 1690.* 

 The Herberts, however, had, in 1675, conveyed the 

 manor to Peregrine Bertie " and Charles Bertie, who 

 in the same year conveyed it to Lord Danby, the 

 high treasurer, and his son and heir, Edward 

 Osborne. It remained in their hands until 1709, 

 when it was conveyed to John Whishaw together 

 with the manor of Kingsey." Haddenham passed 

 from John Whishaw to Thomas Falkner in 1737,** 

 but in 1751 it appears to have been held by Sir 

 Philip Wenman, bart., Vis- 

 count Wenman in Ireland." 

 His daughter and heiress, 

 Sophia, married William Hum- 

 phrey Wykeham, of Swaldiffe 

 (co. Oion.), in 1768." She 

 was succeeded by her son, 

 William Richard Wykeham, 

 whose lands passed to his 

 daughter and heiress Sophia, 

 created Baroness Wenman in 

 1834. She died unmarried, 

 and the family estates passed 

 to her cousins. The eldest, 

 Philip Wykeham, died un- 

 married, and by his will his 

 estates passed to his eldest 

 nephew, Mr. Wenman Aubrey Wykeham-Musgrave, 

 of Thame Park," the present lord of the manor of 

 Haddenham. 



In the 1 3th century it was claimed that Hadden- 

 ham had of old belonged to the king's manor of Brill, 

 and so formed part of the ancient demesne of the 

 Crown." In the technical sense the claim does not 

 appear to be tenable since Lanfranc held Haddenham 

 at the time of the Domesday Survey, but there may 

 have been some connexion between the two manors 

 under the Saxon kings. In the time of Edward the 



WYKERAtl-MutOtAVX. 



Azure six ringt or and a 

 quarur argent for Mut- 

 GRAVE, quartered 'with 

 argent HIM ckeveront 

 tattle between three rout 

 gulet for WYIIKAM. 



HADDENHAM 



Confessor the king held Brill * and Earl Tostig, the 

 brother of Harold, held Haddenham." 



In 1254 the township of Haddenham was reckoned 

 as 40 hides and assessed at .40," being accounted 

 of the same size and of the same value as at the time 

 of the Domesday Survey. 41 In the taxation of 1341 

 it was assessed at 50 marks, but it was able to pay 

 only 46 J marks, as owing to the dry ness of the 

 season the hay crop was unusually small." 



In 1295 the Prior of Rochester received a grant of 

 a weekly market, and of a yearly fair to be held on 

 the eve, day, and morrow of the Assumption of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary, and of free warren in both 

 Haddenham and Cuddington. 44 At the dissolution 

 of the monasteries the manor and rectory of Hadden- 

 ham were valued at 92. u 



In 1210-12 Richard de Haddenham held land of 

 the bishop, 4 * which was afterwards apparently known 

 as GRENflLLE'S M4NOR ; some years later it was 

 in the hands of Geoffrey son of Richard, who may 

 be identified with Richard de Haddenham. 47 Various 

 members of the same family are mentioned in docu- 

 ments relating to Haddenham. A John de Hadden- 

 ham ** was murdered about 1274. John, son of 

 William de Haddenham, acquired land in the parish 

 in 1286," and was the bishop's tenant of his family 

 lands in 1302-3.** 



Geoffrey de Haddenham, the son of John de 

 Haddenham, is mentioned in 1316," but he had 

 died before 1337, leaving apparently only daughter) 

 to succeed to his lands." His widow Christina held 

 part of these in dower in 1337, the reversion to her 

 lands being the right of Joan, the widow of Richard 

 de Grcnville, of Wotton." His wife is said to have 

 been a daughter of Lord Zouche of Harringworth, but 

 if so it does not appear what right she could have in 

 this land. 44 



In 1346 John Sergeant, John Marshall, and Agnes 

 and Nicholaa Grcnville held the lands that once had 

 been held by John, son of William [de Hadden- 

 ham]. 4 ' 



The descent of the Grenville lands only, however, 

 can be traced, and it does not 

 appear whose daughters Agnes 

 and Nicholaa were. 



Joan, the widow of Richard 

 de Grenville, in 1337 held 

 the reversion of 1 3 messuages, 

 2 tofts, 339 acres of land, 

 30 acres of meadow, and 

 30;. rent in Haddenham, and 

 released her right in them to 

 William de Grenville." He 

 and his wife Margaret ob- 

 tained a quitclaim from Ralph 

 Cras of White Waltham and 



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GRINTILLE. Vert a 

 enn argent w/'M fvt 



rounJell guilt thereon. 



his wife of tenements in Haddenham in 1347, 

 but he had died before 1351." 



W Hitt. MSS. Com. Kef. xiii, App. T, 

 127. 



Ibid. "Ibid. Ibid. 



Feet of F. Div. Cot. Hil. 27 & 28 

 Chat. II. 



" Recov. R. Hil. 26 Chat. II. 



" Ibid. Eatt. 8 Anne, rot. 77. 



M Ibid. 10 Ceo. II, rot. 11. 



" Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 24 & 25 

 Ceo. II. 



M Burke, Landed Gentry, 1906. 



*> Ibid. 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 31, 36. 

 V.C.H. Butkt. i, 231*. 



40 Ibid. 233*. 



Hund. R. (Rec. Com.}, i, ji. 

 4 f.C.H. Buekt. i, 232*. 



41 ha. No*. (Rec. Com.), 328. 



44 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, 88, m. I, no. 

 7 ; Cat. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 1 26. 



** Dugdale, Man. i, 188. 



* Red Bk. of Exct. (Rolli Ser.), +74. 



Tata de Ntvill (Rec. Com.), 245, 

 162. 



283 



** Cal. Clue, 1272-9, p. 73. 

 " Feet of F. Ruck.. Eatt. 14 Edw. I. 

 ** Feud. Aidt, i, 97. 

 " Feet of F. Bucki. Trin. 9 Edw. II. 

 " Ibid. Mich. 10 Edw. III. 

 Ibid. 



M Cullint, Pierage (ed Brydget), ii, 

 400-1. 



* Feud. Aidt, i, 122. 



" Feet of F. Bucki. Mich. 10 Bdw. III. 



W Ibid. Eait. 20 Edw. Ill 



Cal. Clou, 1349-54, P- 178. 



