A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



The Grenvilles held this land with apparently no 

 interruption until .the 1 6th century. In 1536 

 Edward Grenville died seised of tenements in Had- 

 denham, leaving Edward, then a boy of eleven, as his 

 heir. 59 The latter sold this land in 1 548 to William 

 Wright, of Winchester, 60 and ten years later it was 

 again sold to Thomas Rose of Waddesdon and John 

 Goodwin of Upper Winchendon. 61 On 10 Decem- 

 ber 1569 it was conveyed to Robert Rose, John Ross, 

 and Robert Morse jointly, 6 ' but Robert Rose seems 

 afterwards to have obtained possession of the whole. 

 The Grenvilles' land by this time was known as 

 ' Grenville's Manor.' These purchases seem to have 

 been confirmed to Robert Rose in I57I, 63 when a 

 quit-claim was obtained from Edward Grenville, 

 Richard Grenville and his wife Mary, and William 

 Wright and his wife Elizabeth. Robert Rose, by his 

 will dated 1598, left the manor to his son Edward, 64 

 and died in 1606-7.^ 



The descendants of Robert Rose have owned the 

 manor since 1569. It seems to have descended to 

 Thomas Rose, who died in 

 1715, and was buried at Had- 

 denham. Some time after this 

 date the manor passed to an- 

 other branch of the same 

 family, to which the present 

 owners of Grenville's Manor 

 belong. This family resided 

 for more than 200 years at 

 another house in the village. 66 



Robert Rose, the father of 

 the present owner, Joseph Rose, 

 came into possession of Gren- 

 ville's Manor on attaining his 

 majority in 1826." 



The Haddenhams held their land of the Bishop 

 of Rochester by military service, as three-fourths of a 

 knight's fee. 68 Robert Rose at the time of his death 

 in 1606-7 h e ld one messuage and 89 acres of land, 69 

 presumably Grenville's Manor, of the king as of his 

 manor of Haddenham in free socage by fealty. 70 



Appurtenant to the manor is the right to fish, 

 hawk, or fowl throughout the whole parish of Had- 

 denham." Previous to the inclosure of the common 

 fields of the parish the owners of Grenville's Manor 

 paid a dog-rose yearly for this right. It was placed 

 on the front entrance gate of the manor place each 

 Midsummer Day. 7 ' 



SIGGESTROP appears to have been a hamlet or 

 farm in Haddenham, held of the Bishop of Rochester. 

 In 1210 Mathias at Biggestrope held this land in 

 Haddenham. 73 He seems to have died shortly after 

 this, since his land, early in the reign of Henry III, 

 was held by Adam de Spaldington, probably holding 

 in wardship. 74 Geoffrey de Biggestrope was the 

 tenant in I 302," and the same name again occurs in 

 1 346, but after that date this land is not mentioned 

 again in any document. 



A freehold farm called Bigstrup Farm, in the parish 



Ros* of Waddesdon. 

 Azure a cheveron ermine 

 between three water- 

 budgets argent. 



of Haddenham, was advertised for sale by public 

 auction in 1 797. It appears to have then been in 

 the possession of the owner of the manor of Upton, 

 in the parish of Dinton, 77 and a farm in the parish 

 still bears the same name. The land was held in 1210 

 for the service due from a fourth part of a knight's 

 fee, 78 but in the 1 4th century the service had been 

 considerably reduced. 79 



Two mills are mentioned in the Domesday Survey, 

 and were worth zo/. 80 



A water-mill in Haddenham was granted for forty 

 years to Richard Beake by James I. 81 



The church of OUR LADY consists 

 CHURCH of a chancel i6ft. loin, by 35ft., with 

 north chapel 17 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 2 in., 

 and small south vestry ; a nave 20 ft. by 58 ft.; north 

 and south aisles I o ft. 6 in. wide ; north porch, and 

 west tower 1 2 ft. 6 in. square within the walls. There 

 is some evidence of an aisleless nave earlier than the 

 end of the 1 2th century, but the general character 

 of the church is of later date, and apparently due to 

 a complete rebuilding begun in the opening years of 

 the 1 3th century, and carried on slowly, the tower 

 being the latest part of the work, and belonging to 

 the latter part of the century. The chancel arch has 

 half-round responds with capitals of very late Roman- 

 esque detail, th.it on the south having small scallops, 

 c. 1 200, and the other being perhaps a clumsy later 

 copy of it. Its bell sets back from the face of the 

 respond, and the carving on it may be of very much later 

 date. The responds have been thrust outwards, but 

 the pointed arch, of two chamfered orders, shows no 

 signs of dislocation, and is either a rebuilding or a 

 successor of the original arch. 



The aisles were probably rebuilt and widened in 

 the 1 4th century ; and the north porch is of the 

 same date. In the ijth century the north chapel 

 and the western bays of both aisles were rebuilt, and 

 the rood-stair at the east end of the north aisle is also 

 of this time. The original south chapel has dis- 

 appeared, but parts of its east wall exist in that of 

 the vestry now on its site. 



The proportions of the church are very good, both 

 nave and chancel being fine and lofty ; the latter has 

 no buttresses, and its eastern angles, quoined with large 

 stones, give a great effect of height. 



The walls of the chancel have been lately repointed 

 on the outside, but within retain their old plastering 

 in a very perfect condition, with a masonry pattern 

 in red lines, which has been treated to represent 

 courses of Purbeck marble, or something of the kind, 

 round the windows. Little of this particular detail 

 remains, as the dressings of the windows have been 

 unfortunately cleared of the plaster with which they 

 were from the first covered. 



In the east wall are three modern lancet windows, 

 with tall detached banded shafts on the inner face, 

 and in each of the side walls are two lancets, much 

 shorter and narrower. The heads of those on the 

 south are cut out of unusually large single stones, 



59 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlix, no, 52. 



60 From information kindly given by 

 Mr. Walter Rose of Grenville's Manor. 



61 Ibid. Ibid. 



Feet of F. Bucks. Hil. 13 Eliz. 



64 From information given by Mr. 

 Walter Rose. 



65 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), ccxcviii, 

 no. 78. 



** From information given by Mr. 

 Walter Rose. V Ibid. 



Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 474 ; 

 Testa de Ne-uill (Rec. Com.), 245, 262. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccciv, 

 no. 87. 



7 Ibid, ccxcviii, no. 78. 



7 1 From information given by Mr. 

 Walter Rose. 1* Ibid. 



284 



" Red Bk. ofExcb. (Rolls Ser.), 674. 



1* Testa de Ne-uill (Rec. Com.), 245. 



? 5 Feud. Aids, \, 27. 



7 Ibid, i, 122. 



77 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 161. 



7 RedBk. ofExcb. (Rolls Ser.), 474. 



7 9 Feud. Aids, i, 97, 122. 



80 y.C.H. Bucks, i, 232*. 



81 Pat. 1 6 Jas. I, pt, 6. 



