A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



the manor in 1271." This William granted the 

 manor to a sub-tenant in that year, 16 and his de- 

 scendants probably became the mesne lords of the 

 manor. The de Lutons, the new demesne lords, 

 held it of successive Hertwells, 17 the last mention of 

 them being in 1645. In 1271 '" William de Luton 

 and Alice his mother, who may have been a daughter 

 of William de Hertwell the elder, 19 * were joint grantees 

 of the manor ; William is mentioned as holding it in 

 1273* and Alice in 1280." The two are mentioned 

 as joint tenants in the same reign." William de 

 Luton appears in 1286 in a conveyance of land in 

 Hertwell,' 3 but Alice de Luton was seised of one 

 knight's fee at her death in or before 1 294." Her son 

 only lived till the next year, his heir Thomas being a 

 minor. 86 Beatrix his widow held land in Hartwell as 

 part of her dower/ 6 and also had custody of Thomas's 

 lands until he came of age in 1 300." A settlement 

 was made in 1325, by which Thomas de Luton and 

 Margery his wife were to hold the manor for their lives, 

 with remainder to their son Nicholas and Joan his wife 

 and the heirs of his body, and then with remainder 

 to the right heirs of Nicholas. 85 Nicholas had already 

 been granted 6 messuages and 3 virgates of land belong- 

 ing to the manor. 89 Thomas and Margery both had 

 died before 1 346, 30 and Nicholas held the manor of 

 Hartwell until l359-6o. 31 He was succeeded by his 

 son Robert who died circa 1391 leaving a boy of twelve 

 as his heir. 3 * This boy was the last of the Lutons. 

 He apparently died before coming of age, and the 

 manor passed to the descendants of his sister Eleanor. 33 

 Her daughter Agnes was the heiress of the Lutons 

 and married Sir Thomas Shingleton. Agnes also had 

 an only daughter Elizabeth, who married Richard 

 Hampden of Great Kimble." After the death of 

 Sir Thomas Shingleton his widow married again 

 Petite, and on her death in 1480 was succeeded by 

 her grandson William Hampden." Hartwell Manor 

 was held by Thomas, 35 Jerome, 37 Michael, 3 * and 

 Alexander Hampden in turn. 39 On the death of 

 Alexander in 161819 the manor passed to Thomas 

 Lee, sen., of East Claydon, his kinsman. 40 The Lees 

 of Hartwell held the manor without interruption " 

 until the death of the Rev. Sir George Lee, bart., in 

 1827." Under his will the manor passed to the 

 descendants of William Lee, Lord Chief Justice of 

 England, the second son of Sir Thomas Lee, bart., 

 who died in 1 690. The grandson of the Lord Chief 



Justice died without direct heirs, having taken the 

 name of Antonie instead of Lee. 43 John Fiott the 

 son of his second sister Harriet, under the wills of his 

 uncle William Lee Antonie and of Sir George Lee, 

 succeeded to the estates of the Lee family, taking the 

 name of Lee. 



John Lee left no children, and his estates passed to 

 his brother, the Rev. Nicholas Fiott, who then took 

 the name of Lee. He died in 1858" and was 

 succeeded by his son Lee Percyvale, who, however, 

 died in the same year, the next heir being his brother, 

 Colonel Edward Lee, the present lord of the manor. 



LEE. Azure two bars 

 or with a bend cheeky or 

 and gules over all. 



FIOTT. Azure a cheve- 

 ron between three lozen- 

 ges or 'with an anchor 

 sable on the cheveron. 



The service by which the manor of Hartwell was 

 held was complicated by the grant from the Hert- 

 wells to the Lutons. 



The former held by military service of the honour 

 of Peverel, performing, for Hartwell and Little 

 Hampden, the service due from one knight's fee. 45 



This service was afterwards performed directly to 

 the lord of the honour of Peverel by the Lutons, 46 

 who held the manor of the Hertwells by a nominal 

 yearly rent of one clove gillyflower. 47 This rent was 

 mentioned so late as I645- 48 



The double service seems to have given rise to 

 some confusion with regard to the overlordships, the 

 Lutons and their successors being sometimes described 

 as holding of the king in chief as of the honour of 

 Peverel, and at other times as holding of the Hert- 

 wells. 49 



The manor of Hartwell did suit to the court of 

 the honour of Peverel. 50 The bailiffs of the honour 

 held the pleas of replevin, the view of frankpledge, 

 and also had the return of writs within the manor. 



Feet of F. Bucks. East. 55 Hen. III. 



" Ibid. 



V Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 104 ; Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 

 1 6, no. 7; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlv, 

 no. 43. 



19 Ibid. (Ser. 2), Misc. dcccvii, 21 

 Chas. I, pt. 32 (101). 



" Feet of F. Bucks. East. 55 Hen. III. 

 19a Visitation of Bucks. 1566 (ed. Met- 

 calfe), 1 6. 



20 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. I Edw. I. 



M Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 418 ; Feud. 

 Aids, i, 75. 



33 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 44. 



38 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 14 Edw. I. 

 M Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. I, no. 17. 

 25 Ibid. 23 Edw. I, no. 20. 



*> Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 463. 



W Cal. Gen. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 614. 



88 Cal. Pat. 1324-7, p. 133; Abbrev. 

 Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 289 ; Feet of 

 F. Bucks. Mich. 19 Edw. II, no. n. 



39 Ibid. Mich. 19 Edw. I, no. 10. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 29 ; Feud. Aids, i, 122. 



l Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 104. 



83 Ibid. 15 Ric. II, no. i. 



"Harl.MS. 5867, Visit. of Bucks. 1566. 

 Sir Robert Luton 



Eleanor = Thos. Stokes 

 Thos. Shingleton = Agnes = Petite 

 Elizabeth = Ric. Hampden 



William Hampden 

 * Ibid. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. IV, no. 34. 

 88 Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 16, no. 7. 



8 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xlv, no. 43 ; 

 ibid. Ixiii, no. i. 



88 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 10 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Eliz. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clvi, no. 3 ; 

 W. & L. Inq. xiii, no. 117. 



296 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccclxxvi, no. 96 ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 31 Jas. I; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. Misc. dcccvii, 21 Chas. I, pt. 32, no. 

 101. 



41 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 12 Chas. II ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 12 Chas. II; Hil. 

 I & 2 Jas. II ; East. 23 Geo. II ; 

 Trin. 29 Geo. Ill ; Mich. 42 Geo. III. 



43 G.E.C. Complete Baronetage. 



48 Burke, Landed Gentry, 1 906. 44 Ibid. 



Red Bk.of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 109,^85; 

 Rot. de Fin. et Oblat. (Rec. Com.), 292. 



46 Feud. Aids, i, 75, 113, 122. 



4 ? Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxvi, 

 no. 96. 



48 Ibid. Misc. dcccvii, 21 Chas. I, pt. 32, 

 no. 101. 



49 Ibid. 33 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 104 ; 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 16, no. 7 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. xlv, no. 43 ; ibid, clvi, no. 3 ; 

 W. & L. Inq. xiii, no. 117 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxvi, no. 96 ; ibid. 

 Misc. dcccvii, 21 Chas. I, pt. 32, no. 101. 



50 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 31. 



