STONE HUNDRED 



1 562," but four years later William Serjeant, sen., 

 held Fenel's Grove.* 4 He alienated parts of the 

 manor during his life a third to John Stampe and 

 Isabel his wife in I 5945," and two-thirds to his son 

 William and his wife Elizabeth." This William, 

 however, seems to have held the whole manor, but 

 alienated it in 1626 to Edward Symeon and others.* 7 

 These were probably trustees for some settlement 

 made by John Hampden, who married Elizabeth, the 

 daughter and heiress of Edward Symeon.** Four years 

 later William Serjeant died seised of lands and tene- 

 ments in Great and Little Kimble, but not of this 

 manor." By 1653 it was held by Richard Hampden, 

 the son of John Hampden the patriot ; IO he also held 

 the other manors in Great Kimble, and the manor 

 of Fenel's Grove from this time was held with Uptons 

 Manor (q.v.). 



In 1284 Walter de Upton held his fee, afterwards 

 known as UPTONS MANOR, in Great Kimble 101 

 alone, but in 1302-3 he held it jointly with Hugh 

 the Marshal, 1 and the manor apparently was divided 

 from this time ; but whether Hugh was a tenant of 

 Walter de Upton, or whether they both held of the 

 Earls of Oxford, does not appear. 



Walter de Upton died between 1316 and i^^6, m 

 and John de Upton his heir died in his lifetime, 

 leaving a daughter Joan, 104 whose husband Roger 

 Blome held the fee in 1 346. 101 His son John Blome 

 died in 1 349, but according to the inquisition made 

 on his death, he only held lands and tenements in 

 Great Kimble of the Earl of Oxford. 10 * His daughter 

 and heiress Matilda l07 married William Noble. 108 She 

 died in 1377,"" and William held her lands till his 

 death," when they passed to the descendants of Amice, 

 sister of John de Upton, 1 " who had married one 

 of the Hampdens of Great Hampden. The Uptons* 

 land in Great Kimble descended to her great-grandson 

 John Hampden. 11 ' Richard, the eldest son of John 

 Hampden, married Elizabeth Shingleton, the heiress of 

 the Lutons, and thus obtained the manor of Hartwell, 1 ' 1 

 and in consequence the land in Great Kimble passed 

 to his younger brother Thomas, who died seised of 

 the 'manor of Great Kimble' in 1485.'" Richard 

 Hampden, his son and heir, held the manor, and also 

 died seised in 1527, leaving two daughters, Ethelreda 

 or Audrey and Sybil."* The manor of Great Kimble 

 was left to the elder daughter Audrey, who had first 

 married William Hampden of Dunton, a member of 

 another branch of the family, and secondly Griffin 

 Richards."* The latter held the manor for life with 

 succession to Audrey and her heirs by William Hamp- 

 den, her late husband. 117 This settlement was made 

 1537."* John Hampden, the second son of 



GREAT KIMBLE 



Audrey, inherited the Kimble estates, and died 

 seised of the manor in 1558."' The Hampdens held 

 the manor until 1725-6, when Richard Hampden of 

 Great Hampden, having incurred debts to the Crown, 

 was, under Act of Parliament, forced to sell his four 

 manors in Great Kimble, Uptons being the principal 

 manor. 110 The trustees sold them in 1730 by public 

 auction to Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 

 who left the manor of Great Kimble by will to her 

 grandson John Spencer. 1 " His son John Spencer, 

 first Earl Spencer, succeeded him, but sold it in 1803 

 to a Mr. Richford, who conveyed it the same year to 

 Scrope Bernard, afterwards Sir Scrope Bernard Mor- 

 land, but."* The latter held it at his death in 1830, 

 but it was shortly sold to Sir George Russell, bart., m 

 and at the present day it is in the hands of the 



ASTLEY. Awirt a 

 (inyuefoil ermine in a bor 

 der engrailed or. 



ROIIILL. Argent 

 lion gulei and a chief tabli 

 vfitk three rout argent 

 therein. 



in 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. z), cmiv, no. 



189. 



' Feet of F. Buck* Hil. 37 Elii. i 

 E nt. 41 Elii. 



Mbid. Bucki. Hil. 37 Elii. 



* Ibid. Eait. 43 Elii. 



7 Ibid. Coi. Undef. Eait. 2 Chat. I. 



" Out. Nat. Biof. zxiv, 254. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. z), ccclvi, no. 



49- 



00 Recov. R. Mich. 1653. 



101 Feud. Aids, i, 75. 



"> Ibid, i, 96. 



101 Ibid, i, 1 13, izz. 



104 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. IV, no. 1 3. 



" Feud. Aidi, i, i zz. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (itt 

 ooi.}, no. 4Z. 



FlANtLAND. A~ure 



a dolphin or and a chief 

 or with two sail: res gules 

 therein. 



trustees of his descendant, Mr. Henry Frankland- 

 Russell-Astley, a minor." 4 



Ralph the Marshal held the manor of MARSHALS 

 in Great Kimble in 1290,"* and in 1302-3 Hugh 

 the Marshal appears as a sub-tenant of part of the fee 

 that Walter de Uptone had previously answered for 

 alone. 1 " In 1 346 his land had passed to Thomas 

 Marshal. 117 Sir Michael Dormer held the manor of 

 Marshals in the 1 6th century, and on his death in 



w Ibid. 



Ibid, ii Hen. IV, no. 13. 

 Ibid. 



110 Ibid. i$ Ric, II (pt. i), no. 50. 



111 Ibid. 1 1 Hen. IV, no. 1 3. 



ut The exact deicent it difficult to 

 trace. In the Hampden pedigree (Lipt- 

 comb. Hist, of Bucks, ii, 302), Amice ii 

 aid to have married Richard Hampden, 

 younger ion of Sir Reginald Hampden. 

 In an inquitition (Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. 

 IV, no. 13), howerer, made in 1409, the 

 it laid to be the mother of Richard 

 Hampden ; her hutband mutt in thit cate 

 have been Reginald Hampden. The wife 

 of the latter in the pedigree quoted above 

 wat Nicola, daughter of John Grcnville, 



301 



but he may quite poiiibljr hare had two 

 wivet. 



" See Hartwell. 



ll< Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), i, no. 1 54. 



111 Eich. Inq. p.m. bdle. zc, no. 1 1. 



Ibid. 



W Feet of F. Bucki. Trin. and Mich. 

 Z9 Hen. VIII. 



" Ibid. 



" Kxch. Inq. p.m. bdle. ci, no. zi. 



> Prir. Act of Parl. I z Ceo. I. 



111 Lytont, M ana Brit, i, 588. 



Ibid. 



*" Sheahan, Hiit. and Tofog. of Bucks. 



"' Burke, Landed Gentry, 1906. 



' Feet of F. Bucki. Eait. ig Edw. I. 



" Feud. Aidi, i, 96. 



W Ibid. 111. 



