STONE HUNDRED 



square scalloped base, the stem being moulded and 

 the rim and base of the bowl richly ornamented with 

 foliage. 



The nave roof is of 15th-century date, low in 

 pitch, and of the king-post type with cusped tracery 

 in the spandrels. The other roofs are practically 

 modern. There is a I jth-century altar table and a 

 good chest (in the vestry) with mediaeval ironwork. 



The modern fittings of the chancel are good. A 

 curious and unusual feature is the use of Doulton 

 ware for the reading-desk and low chancel screen. 



The tower contains a ring of six bells, the treble 

 and second cast by G. Mean in 1860, the third and 

 fourth by Henry Knight in 1587, and inscribed re- 

 spectively, ' Gloria in Excelsis Deo,' and ' Ave Maria 

 Gracia Plena.' The fifth and tenor were cast by 

 Mears & Stainbank in 1897. 



The communion plate is modern. The first book 

 of the registers contains all entries from 1701, 

 baptisms and burials running to 1 802, and marriages 

 to 1754. Marriages are continued in a separate 

 book from 1754 to 1812, and baptisms and burials 

 in a third book from 1803 to 1812. 



The church of Great Kimble was 

 JDfOirSON granted by Giffard Palefridus in the 

 1 2th century to the abbot and con- 

 vent of Missenden. 1 " The grant was confirmed some 



LITTLE KIMBLE 



years later by Hugh de Bolebec, the mesne lord of the 

 fee, at the request of three of his men, Hugh of 

 Kimble, Richard Fitz Ncel, and Humphrey de 

 Kimble."* In this confirmation the grant is of 

 the church of St. Nicholas of Kimble, the invoca- 

 tion being the same as at the present day. The 

 rectory was impropriated and the vicarage was 

 ordained before or during the episcopate of Hugh 

 of Wells (I209-34)." 1 After the Dissolution, the 

 rectory and advowson of the church were granted 

 to Sir Richard Dormer with the manor belonging to 

 Missenden Abbey." 4 



William Dormer sold the reversion of the rectory 

 and advowson and the appendant tithes in 1579-80 

 to Griffith Hampden, 10 and the owners of the Great 

 Hampden estates have held them till the present day,"* 

 the Earl of Buckinghamshire being the patron of the 

 living. 



There is a small mission church at Marsh. 



The Poor's Land consists of 

 CHARITIES 4 a. o r. 1 3 p. in the parish of Elles- 

 borough, and an allotment in Box 

 Field containing 3 r. 14 p. awarded under the Inclo- 

 sure Act, 1803. In 1905 the sum of 5 9/. id. was 

 received as rent, of which / 4 \s. 6d. was distributed 

 in bread to thirteen recipients, and i \i. 8</. in 

 money to seven widows. 



LITTLE KIMBLE 



Chenebelle (xi cent.) ; Parva Kynbelle (xiv cent.) ; 

 Little Kymbell (xv cent.). 



The parish of Little Kimble lies on the north- 

 western face of the Chiltern Hills. The hills are 

 well wooded. There is a small lake in the grounds 

 of Ladymede House, out of which runs a stream 

 called Bonny Brook. It flows to the north through 

 Little Kimble village to the hamlet of Marsh. 



The height of the land varies between 300 ft. and 

 500 ft. above the ordnance datum. 1 The subsoil in 

 the hills is Chalk, and in the lower lands Upper 

 Greensand. The occupation of the people is entirely 

 agricultural ; arable and pasture farming is carried on, 

 234 acres being arable land and 311 acres permanent 

 grass.' The village lies on the road from High Wy- 

 combe to Aylesbury, and there is a railway station 

 to the south of the village on the Great Western 

 Railway. The parish was inclosed under an Act 

 of Parliament for inclosing the common fields of 

 Great and Little Kimble and Ellesborough. The 

 award was given on 2 May 1805.' 



Little Kimble has now been amalgamated with 

 Great Kimble parish, by a Local Government Order of 

 25 March 1885. 



In the time of King Edward the Con- 

 M4NQRS fessor one of hit thegns named Brictric 

 held the manor of LITTLE KIMBLE.* 

 After the Norman Conquest, however, it was granted 

 to Turstin son of Rolf, who held it at the time of 

 the Domesday Survey.' For more than a century 



the name of the lord of the manor is completely lost, 

 but presumably in the 1 2th century it was held by 

 James de Newmarket, who died before 1215, leav- 

 ing two daughters and heiresses, Isabel and Hawisia.* 

 Of these, Isabel was married to Ralph Russel, whose 

 father, John Russel, had custody of her father's lands, 7 

 and Hawisia, first to John de Botreaux " and secondly 

 to Nicholas de Mods.' Both the Russels and the 

 de Moels claimed the overlordship of Little Kimble, 

 and it is impossible to disentangle their respective 

 shares of the inheritance. Early in the I3th century 

 Ralph Russel was overlord of half a knight's fee in 

 Little Kimble, held of ' the heir and fee of [Hard]wyk,* 

 and another half fee there also belonged to Hardwick. 10 

 In 1284-6 James Russel held the overlordship of 

 part of Little Kimble jointly with Roger de Moels, 

 and, together with the townships of Hardwick and 

 Wedon, it formed one fee." 



On his death, Robert Russel, the son of the Ralph 

 Russel already mentioned, was found to have held the 

 overlordship of the manor of Little Kimble, which 

 was reckoned as one fee, apart from Hardwick." In 

 1 302-3 William, brother and heir of Robert Russel, 

 with John de Moels, held the three townships as one 

 fee, Little Kimble being held in demesne by a sub- 

 tenant, according to the inquisition made for Cottes- 

 low Hundred," but under the hundred of Stone he 

 appears to have been the overlord of one fee in Little 

 Kimble alone." In 1 346 Edmund Russel held this 

 fee ;" he was the son of a Robert Russel, and died 



111 HrU MS. 3688. 

 " Ibid. 



f.C.H. Buck. !, 184, n. i. 

 L. and P. Htn. Vlll, ivi, 379 (12). 

 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 6019. 

 See Gt. Hampden; P.R.O. Int Bkt. 

 1660; 1663, 1677, 1683, 1751, 1785. 



In 1708 the Sub-dean of Lincoln pre- 

 sented. 



1 Ord. SUIT. 



' Inf. from Bd. of Agric. (190$). 



* Common fitcloiure Avt&rdi. 



r.C.H. Bueki. i, i6 7 a. Ibid. 



' Rot. Lit. Clou. (Rec. Com.), i, 134*. 



303 



7 Ibid. 348*, 648*. 



Ibid. 348*. Ibid. 6*3*. 



Ttiu di Nevitt (Rec. Com.), 245*. 



f,ud. Aidi, i, 78. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. z8. 



" F,ud. AiJt, i, 101. 



>< Ibid. 96. "Ibid. in. 



