A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



Marcii Anno Dni M cccc xxviii Cujus aie ppiciet' 

 deus ame.' Another is also the figure of a priest of 

 early I Jth-century date, in mass vestments, wearing an 

 apparelled amice and albe and a fanon. Below is an 

 inscription belonging to another brass : ' Here lyeth 

 Gyls Woodbryge xv xx and ix and Elizabeth his wife 

 which the four day of August changyd ther lyffe.' 



The tower contains a ring of eight bells cast by 

 J. Briant of Hertford in 1 809. 



The church plate consists of a chalice of 1 706 in- 

 scribed with the churchwardens' names and the date 

 1707, a standing paten inscribed as the gift of John 

 Marriott in 1716, and a plated flagon and salver. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms and 

 marriages from 1653 to 1726 and burials 165378 ; 

 with a gap. The second contains baptisms and burials 

 1727-32; the third, baptisms 1762-96, and burials 

 176195 ; the fourth continues the baptisms and 

 burials to 1812, and the fifth and sixth are the mar- 

 riage registers 1754-91 and 1791-1812. 



In the Domesday Survey the 

 ADVOWSON church was held of Archbishop Lan- 

 franc by Gilbert the priest, the large 

 glebe consisting of three hides of land, which were 

 sufficient for one plough. 8 * It was granted to the 

 Priory of St. Andrew Rochester in the charter of 

 William Rufus, 83 and after Lanfranc's death the grant 

 was confirmed. 84 It appears that Ernulf, Bishop of 

 Rochester (l 1 1 525), gave the church of Haddenham, 

 with its lands and tithes, to the priory for the main- 

 tenance of the lights in the church. 85 



The vicarage was ordained by Bishop Hugh of 

 Wells ( 1 209-3 5). 81 The chapels of Cuddington and 

 Kingsev belonged to the church. A separate vicar 

 was appointed for Kingsey, the vicar of Hadden- 

 ham being responsible, however, for providing a chap- 

 lain at Cuddington. 87 The rectory of Haddenham 

 was excepted in the grant of the manor made by 

 Rochester Priory to Sir Edward North. 88 It thus 

 fell into the king's hands at the dissolution of the 

 priory in 1 5 40,* but in 1541 the king granted it, 

 with the advowson of the vicarage, to the newly 

 constituted Dean and Chapter of Rochester, 90 who are 

 the patrons of the living at the present day. 



In 1559, however, the rectory and advowson were 

 granted by the Dean and Chapter, on a lease of 1 80 

 years, to John Fytche at 88 I/, zd. per annum." 

 This lease came into the possession of Simon Mayne, 

 by mesne assignments. 91 Possibly the lease was in the 

 possession of Richard Beake, the firmer of the manor 

 under Elizabeth, and his widow, Colluberry by name, 

 married Simon Mayne." His son, the regicide, held 

 the lease, which was forfeited to Charles II on his 

 accession. 9 * Various petitions were made for the 

 remainder, one indeed from the Dean and Chapter of 

 Rochester, 85 but it was granted in 1 660 to Richard 

 Lane. 98 In some way, however, it was recovered by 

 the son of the regicide, who presented to the vicarage 

 in 1684, 1689, and I732. 97 The lease terminated, 

 however, before 1 749, when the Dean and Chapter 

 themselves presented. 98 



The chapel of St. Mary in Haddenham was 

 granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1559 to Sir George 

 Howard, with half an acre of land called the ' Lamp 

 halfacre.' 99 The Lady Chapel in Haddenham was 

 granted in 1585 to John Walton, 100 but whether it 

 was the same chapel that had appeared in the earlier 

 grant is not clear. 



One branch of the Rose family were amongst the 

 earliest of Buckinghamshire Quakers, and meetings 

 were held for many years at Grenville's Manor. 

 Their descendants possess a distraint warrant for 

 church tithe made on Edward Rose, junior, in 

 l649. 101 A meeting-house was licensed in 1711, but 

 in 1813 there were no regular services held there. 10 * 

 The Quakers' burial ground still exists. A Baptist 

 chapel was built in 1 8 1 o, and there is also a Wesleyan 

 chapel in the parish 



John Hart of Cotesford, county 

 CHARITIES Oxford, by his will, proved in the 

 P.C.C. 15 May 1665 (among other 

 charitable gifts) devised to the churchwardens and 

 overseers a yearly rent-charge for ever of 3 to be 

 issuing out of his lands and premises of Easington in 

 the said county, for the binding of one poor, honest, 

 godly boy to some good trade. 



The annuity less land tax is received from the 

 executors of the late Thomas Greenwood, esq., of the 

 Manor House, Easington, and is duly applied. 



The Alms Corn Charity. The table of bene- 

 factions mentioned that the poor were entitled to 

 receive one quarter of wheat, and two quarters of 

 barley to be paid annually out of the great tithes every 

 Good Friday. The charity is paid in kind by the 

 representatives of the late Henry Bode, esq., and was 

 in 1906 divided amongst thirty-eight persons. 



The Church Land, containing 2 r. 37 p., islet at 2 

 a year, which is carried to the church expenses. The 

 Poors' Land adjoining, containing 26 p., the rent 

 of which was carried to the poor rate, was sold 

 under an order of the Poor Law Board. 



In 1813 Joseph Franklin by will left 50 a year to- 

 be laid out in bread for the poor at Christmas for ever. 

 A sum of i, 666 1 3*. ^d. consols was set aside to pro- 

 duce the annuity. The stock was, by the costs in a 

 chancery suit, reduced to 1,352 <)s. 2<i. consols, 

 which was transferred in 1859 to the official trustees. 

 The annual dividends, amounting to 32 l6/., are 

 duly distributed in bread. 



The Rev. John Willis by will, proved in 1855, left 

 <)oo consols, the dividends to be applied in the 

 distribution of coal. In 1902 the trustees were 

 authorized by the Charity Commissioners to purchase 

 1 1 a. I r. 2 6 p. of land, situate in Dollicott Field 

 within the manor of Haddenham for the sum of 

 650, to be provided, together with the cost of the 

 enfranchisement of the copyhold portion, out of the 

 trust fund, which was thereby reduced to 80 8/. 8^. 

 consols (with the official trustees). 



The land is let at 25 a year. The coal is dis- 

 tributed in January, in quantities of about 1 80 Ib. to- 

 each recipient. 



8 V.C.H. Bucki. i, 232. 



w Cott. MS. Dom. r, fol. 105. 



84 Campb. Chart, vii, I. 



84 Cott. MS. Dom. x, fol. 106. 



86 Lines. Epii. Reg. Bp. Bek' Int. 



'345- 

 Ibid. 

 88 Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pL I, m. 35. 



w Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 101. 



Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt 9. 



91 Ibid. 12 Chat. II, pt. 1 6, no. 12. 



" Ibid. 



98 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccdxxvi, 

 no. 98. 



94 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1 660-61, p. 344; 

 1670, p. 655. Ibid. 



286 



98 Pat. 12 Chas. II, pt. 16 no. 12. 



P.R.O. Inst. Bks. 



Ibid. 



Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. 4 ; ibid. 4 Eliz. pt-4- 



100 Ibid. 28 Eliz. pt. 14. 



101 From information supplied by Mr- 

 Walter Rose, Grenville's Manor. 



1M Lysons, Mag. Brit. i. 



