STONE HUNDRED 



Sidney ; 8th, Cave ; gth, Ermine on a bend three 

 boars' heads razed ; I oth, Three cheverons ; 1 1 th, 

 A lion ; 1 2th, A lion. 



The figures of five sons and three daughters, with 

 no inscription, but a shield with Azure three horses' 

 heads cut off at the neck with their bridles or impal- 

 ing Hampden, which shield commemorates the match 

 of Sir Jerome Horsey, let., with Elizabeth, eldest 

 daughter of John Hampden and Anne Cave. 



The figures of Sir John Hampden, kt., 20 De- 

 cember, 1553, Elizabeth Savage his first wife, Philippa 

 Wilford his second wife, and three daughters. There 

 are three shields : (i) Quarterly, 1st, Hampden ; 

 2nd, Sidney ; 3rd, Popham ; 4th, Six lions ; impal- 

 ing : Argent a pale indented sable, for Savage ; 

 (2) The quartered coat as above ; (3) The same, im- 

 paling Gules a cheveron between three leopards' heads 

 or with a ring on the cheveron, for Wilford. 



An inscription plate to William Hampden, Lord of 

 Emmington, Oxfordshire, 1612. 



On the north wall of the chancel is a large monu- 

 ment set up by Robert, afterwards first Viscount 

 Hampden, in 1754, bearing a relief of the battle of 



LITTLE HAMPDEN 



Chalgrove Field, at which John Hampden was 

 mortally wounded. Above is a tree hung with 

 sixteen shields showing the alliances of the Hampden 

 family. 



The grave which is said to be that of John Hamp- 

 den was opened in 1828 in order to test the accuracy 

 of the accounts of his death, but the results were not 

 conclusive. 



There are three bells, the treble by Taylor, 1906, 

 and the other two of 1625 by Ellis Knight. 



The plate consists of a chalice of 1805, a paten of 

 1804, and a plated flagon and second paten. 



The only old book of registers contains baptisms 

 from 1537 to 1812, burials 1557 to 1812, and mar- 

 riages 1557 to 175*. The marriage register for 1752 

 to 1812 seems to be missing. 



The church of St. Mary Magda- 

 JDfOfrSON len* is a rectory, the advowson of 

 which was held by the Hampdens, 

 and under the will of John Hampden passed to the 

 Trevors in 1754 and to the Hobarts in 1824." The 

 Earl of Buckinghamshire is the patron of the living 

 at the present day. 



LITTLE HAMPDEN 



Hambden (xiii cent.) ; Parva Hamdene (xiv cent.). 



Little Hampden parish lies to the north-east of 

 Great Hampden parish, on the Chiltern Hills, the 

 greatest height being 778 ft. above the Ordnance 

 datum. 1 



The parish contains 1 1 5 J acres of wood, and the 

 chief occupation of the inhabitants is farming, 285 acres 

 being arable land and 84 acres permanent pasture.' 

 The subsoil is chalk,' and the surface clay and gravel. 



The nearest station is at Great Missenden, on the 

 Metropolitan Extension Railway. The village lies on 

 a cross road running south from Ellesborough, the few 

 houses of which it is composed being built on the 

 western slope of a valley in the chalk hills, with the 

 church at the south, looking out eastward over the 

 Missenden valley. The lower slopes are covered with 

 copses, but where the village stands is grass land, the 

 road rising to the north and running across Little 

 Hampden Common. Near the church is the Manor 

 House, an old building, but with little to which a 

 definite date can be given. 



The greater part of the parish now forms part of 

 Great and Little Hampden civil parish, which was 

 formed by a Local Government Board Order dated 

 25 March 188;. 



LITTLE HJMPDEN appears to have 

 MANOR been originally included in the parish of 

 Hartwell. In Domesday Book there is no 

 distinction made between Great and Little Hampden. 

 ' HampJcn ' was part of the land of William son of 

 Ansculf, and later was united to the honour of Dudley, 



to which Great Hampden alone belonged. 4 It seems 

 probable, therefore, that this entry in Domesday Book 

 did not include Little Hampden, which was either 

 omitted entirely, or else formed part of William 

 Peverel's lands in Hartwell. 



The latter supposition seems probable, because at the 

 end of the I2th century Walter de Hcrtwell and his 

 son Barnabas were said to hold one knight's fee in 

 Hartwell ; 4 when they granted their land to William 

 de Luton, the manors of Hartwell and Hampden were 

 specified,' but in 1302-3 Thomas de Luton still only 

 held one knight's fee in Hartwell with Little Hamp- 

 den. 7 In 1316 they are also described as forming one 

 township. 8 Little Hampden is first mentioned separ- 

 ately in the grant referred to above,' and from that 

 time its descent followed that of the manor of Hart- 

 well (q.v.) until the 1 7th century.'" 



Sir Thomas Lee, bart., of Hartwell, is said to have 

 sold the manor of Little Hampden to Samuel Dodd 

 in 1 68$." Another account gives 1710 as the date of 

 the sale." In 1763 John Dodd held the manor of 

 Little Hampden," and two years later, together with 

 his son, he sold it to Robert Trevor, Viscount Hamp- 

 den," who had taken the name of Hampden on 

 inheriting the Hampden estates in 1753." 



On the death of John, third and last Viscount 

 Hampden, in 1824, Little Hampden was left to 

 Robert Trevor, the son of his cousin Mary Cock, who 

 had married Robert Trevor of Tingrith." 



Robert Trevor died in 1834, leaving three daugh- 

 ters, none of whom married. On the death of the 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), xiiii. no. 47. 

 * Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 8 1, no. 21; 



Recor. R. Trin. 1 1 Ch.n. I ; Feet of F. 

 Bucki. Eait. 26 Chaa. II ; Recor. R. 

 Mich. 5 Geo. III. 

 1 Ord. Sur. 



* Inf. from Bd. of Agric. (190;). 



V.CM. Butki. i, Geol. Map. 



Ibid. 254*. 



Rtd Bk. of Exck. (Roll* Ser.), 90, 109 j 

 Exctrfta i Rat. Fin. (Rec. Com.), 291. 



Feet of F. Bucki. Eait. 55 Hen. III. 

 7 FruJ. Aidi, i, 97. * Ibid. 113. 



Feet of F. Buck*. Eait. 55 Hen. III. 



10 In 13*5 the manor of Little Hamp- 

 den, with land in Hartwell, wai granted 

 to N cholai de Luton and Joan hit wife, 

 bjr hit father, Thorns* de Luton. Nicho- 



2 9 I 



lit afterwarda aucceeded hia father aa 

 lord of both manori. Cat. Pat. 1324 7, 

 p. 133. 



11 LipKomb, Hiit. of Bucki. ii, 295. 



11 Lyiona, Mag. Brit, i, 571. 



Recov. R. Hil. 3 Geo. III. 



" Feet of F. Bucka. Trin. 5 Geo. III. 



" G.E.C. Complin Petragi. 



u Burke, Landid Gntrj, 1 906. 



