A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



leaving no direct heirs." The descendants of his 

 sister Sybil claimed some of his lands in Notting- 

 hamshire, but neither they nor the descendants of 

 William Russel seem to have laid any claim to Little 

 Kimble. 17 In 1486, however, a manor in Litt'.e 

 Kimble was said to be held of the heirs of Edmund 

 Russel. 18 



The Moels rarely claimed the whole of Little 

 Kimble. In 12 84-6 "and 1302-3 Roger de Moels 

 and John de Moels * were joint overlords with the 

 Russels. John de Moels died seised before 1310 of 

 half the hamlet of Kimble ; " his grandson, however, 

 another John, held the overlordship of one knight's 

 fee in Kimble at the time of his death." He left two 

 daughters, the elder of whom inherited Little Kimble 

 in 1338." She was the wife of Sir Thomas Courte- 

 nay," and their daughter and heiress Muriel married 

 John Dinham. 15 Shortly after this the sub-tenancy of 

 part of Little Kimble appears to have lapsed, and thus 



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MOELS. Argent two 

 bars gules with three 

 roundels gules in the chief. 



/. 



DINHAM. Gules a 

 ise indented ermine. 



the Dinhams, who succeeded the Moels, became the 

 tenants in demesne of their manor. 



Sir John Dinham died in 14578 seised of the 

 manors of Eythorpe, Crendwell, and Little Kimble, 

 held of Edward, Prince of Wales, as of the honour of 

 Wallingford, by right of inheritance of Joan his wife, 

 who survived him. 16 His wife was the heiress of the 

 Darches family," who had held the two first-named 

 manors, and probably part of Little Kimble, 29 as sub- 

 tenants, but presumably Sir John's right in the manor 

 came also through his great-grandmother, Muriel de 

 Moels. 



He was succeeded by his son John, Lord Dinham, 

 who died leaving his four sisters and their children as 

 his heirs.* 9 In the inquisition on his lands, however, 

 he was said to be seised only of tenements in Little 

 Kimble, 10 but his heirs afterwards appear to have held 

 portions of the manor. These heirs were his sisters, 

 Lady Elizabeth Fitzwarren, a widow, who afterwards 

 married Sir Thomas Brandon, and Lady Joan Zouche, 

 and his nephews, Sir Edmund Carew and Sir John 

 Arundel, sons of his sisters Margaret and Katherine 



respectively." Elizabeth died seised of a fourth part 

 of the manor in 1516, leaving John Bouchier as her 

 son and heir. 31 Lord Zouche and his wife Anne also 

 held a fourth part in 1 53 1, 33 and one of the co- 

 parceners apparently sold a share to Sir William 

 Compton. 84 His grandson Henry, Lord Compton, 

 conveyed this to Ralph Redman, William Hawtrey, 

 and Richard Hollyman, 35 who very shortly afterwards 

 acquired the share of the Arundels as well. 36 



Nothing more is known of the manor for the next 

 hundred years, but at the close of the iyth century it 

 was apparently held by the family of Gibson. In 

 1692 there was a lawsuit between Thomas Gibson, 

 sen., and others v. Richard Croke concerning rights 

 of free warren in Little Kimble. It was asserted on 

 this occasion that Croke was lord of the manor, and 

 that it had belonged to his father before him. 37 The 

 manor here referred to is probably Bulbecks (q.v.), 

 but the suit would seem to show that the Gibsons 

 already had some interest in the parish, and in 1696 

 Thomas Gibson, sen., and his wife Mary, and Thomas 

 Gibson, jun., and his wife Frances, appear in a 

 deed concerning tenements in Little Kimble and a 

 court-leet and view of frankpledge to be held within 

 the manor of Little Kimble.* 8 Thomas Gibson, jun., 

 apparently left no male heirs, and the manor passed 

 to Mary and Elizabeth Gibson, who held it in I739. 39 

 Elizabeth apparently married Thomas Hill and held 

 a moiety of the manor in 1767,' and Mary married 

 Robert Smith." They held the manor jointly 

 in 1771," but after their death their property was 

 divided. In 1817 a moiety of the manor was held 

 by Sir James Fellowes and his wife Elizabeth in her 

 right/ 3 



In 1086 a sub-tenant named Albert held Little 

 Kimble of Turstin son of Rolf." Very shortly after 

 its acquisition by the Russels and the de Moels, Hum- 

 phrey le Dun appears as the sub-tenant of a knight's 

 fee in Little Kimble. Half of this he held in demesne 

 and half as a mesne lord. 45 He paid scutage, however, 

 for the whole fee in I235- 46 He died before 1246,*' 

 and left an only daughter Margaret, who was a minor 

 in the king's wardship. 48 In 1254 John le Waleys 

 held Little Kimble, having probably acquired it by 

 marriage with the heiress of Humphrey le Dun. 4 ' 

 John died between 1283 and I289, 60 leaving four 

 heiresses by his wife Margery and a son John by another 

 wife. 61 Little Kimble was divided among the daugh- 

 ters, 6 * so that it seems certain that it was the inheri- 

 tance of their mother, who may thus be identified as 

 the daughter of Humphrey le Dun. Of her daughters, 

 Isabel married Simon de St. Lys, Agnes married John 

 de Middleton, Lucy married Adam de Kyngesham (or 

 Kyngesmede), and the fourth daughter married John 

 du Park. 6 * Adam de Kyngesham appears to have 



16 De Banco R. 517, m. 299. 



W Ibid. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), luciii, no. 47. 



Feud. Aids, i, 78. 



*> Ibid. 101. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. II, no. 36. 



M Ibid, ii Edw. Ill (ist not.), no. 56. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 



85 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



46 Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. VI, no. 39. 



* G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. II, no. 18; 

 ibid. 2 Ric. II, no. 57 ; Assize R. 1458, 

 m. 26 d. 



29 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), XT, no. 58. 



Ibid. 



81 Ibid. 



* a Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxi, no. 

 21. 



88 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 

 23 Hen. VIII. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxiii, no. 9. 



85 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 18 Eliz. 

 88 Ibid. Hil. 19 Eliz. 



" Exch. Dep. by Com. East. 3 Will, 

 and Maty, no. II. 



88 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 7 Will. Ill ; 

 ibid. East. 4 Anne. 



89 Ibid. Trin. 13 Geo. II. 



40 Ibid. 7 Geo. III. 



41 Ibid. East. 1 1 Geo. III. 



304 



Ibid. 



48 Ibid. Div. Cos. Trin. 57 Geo. III. 



y.C.H. Bucks. \, 267,1. 



48 Testa di Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 245. 



Ibid. 259. 



4 ' Excerpt. cRot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), 1,454. 



48 Assize R. 56, m. 21. 



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



60 Cal. of Inq . p.m. Hen. Ill, no. 673 ; 

 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 281-2 ; CaL 

 of Close, 1279-88, p. 241. 



" Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 281-2. 



" Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. 17 Edw. I ;. 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 28 ; Feud. 

 Aids, i, 96. 



Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 281-2. 



