STONE HUNDRED 



answered for the whole manor in matters of feudal 

 incidence.* 4 His wife Lucy, after his death, probably 

 married Walter de Shobintone,** who also answered 

 for the whole fee in 1316.** In 1346 the tenants of 

 the half fee that Humphrey le Dun and John de 

 Waleys had held in demesne were Simon de St. Lys, a 

 minor in the king's wardship, Richard da Park, and 

 John de Middleton, the descendants of the four 

 heiresses of John le Waleys." Some years later, how- 

 ever, Nicholas Darches claimed a third of the manor 

 of Little Kimble from John atte Morhalle and John de 

 St. Lys, the latter being apparently the heir of Simon 

 de St. Lys." The exact claim of Nicholas is not given 

 in the pleadings, but he recovered seisin of the tene- 

 ments in question.** The history of the sub-tenants 

 of Little Kimble cannot be traced from this time, 

 owing probably to the subdivision of land among the 

 descendants of the co-heiresses of John le Waleys. 



Haifa knight's fee called BULBECKS MJNOR 

 in Little Kimble was held by the Bolebec family, 

 under the mesne lords of the whole fee.* Herbert 

 de Bolebec granted land in the parish to the abbey of 

 Mi-isen Jen in the 1 2th century," and after his death 

 his widow Alice succeeded him as the tenant of the 

 half fee." In a charter Gilbert is named as her son 

 and heir, 6 * but in 1254 another Herbert held the land.* 4 

 At his death, which took place before 1 266, he held the 

 manor of Kimble and onecarucateoflanj there, which 

 passed to Gilbert his brother and heir.* 6 The latter 

 died before 1 298," leaving a son named Henry." 



In 1 346 John de Bolebec and his tenants'* held 

 the manor, and he also con- 

 firmed the grants to Missen- 

 den made by his ancestors." 

 During the i;th century the 

 Hampdens obtained posses- 

 sion of the manor. Edmund 

 Hampden, the second son of 

 F.dmund Hampden of Great 

 I lampJcn," forfeited his lands 

 to Edward IV, amongst them 

 being a messuage, 60 acres of 

 land, 6 acres of wood, and 

 8 acres of meadow in Little 



Kimble, but the manor was probably held by the 

 elder branch of the family, and so was not forfeited 

 to the Yorkist king." 



Thomas Hampden of Great Hampden died seised of 

 the manor at the close of the I 5th century. He was 

 succeeded by his son " and grandson, both named 

 John ; the latter left two daughters, and Little Kimble 

 passed to Barbara the second." She married first 

 Edmund Smith, by whom she had a daughter 

 Anne, 74 the wife of William Paulet." Philippa, 



LITTLE KIMBLK 



the widow of the second John Hampden, married, 

 as her second husband, Sir Thomas Smyth, and in 

 1554 they quit-claimed the manor of Little Kimble 

 to William Paulet and his wife." Elizabeth Paulet, 

 their only daughter and heiress, married Oliver St. 

 John. 77 The manor was sold by St. John in 1609 

 to Robert Waller, 1 ' who again sold it to Edward Ser- 

 jeant for 1,850. The manor changed hands again 

 in 1626, when Richard Serjeant is said to have sold it, 

 under the name of ' Buli-ccks Manor,' to Richard 

 Brasey of Thame, co. Oxon.* The latter in his will, 

 proved in 1647, left the yearly revenue from lands 

 and wood and tenements in Little Kimb'.e to his wife 

 for her life. After her death they were to pass to 

 Richard Croke, the son of Anne, the daughter of the tes- 

 tator, for life, and to descend to his children." Richard 

 Croke and his son, another Richard, both held the 

 manor," which descended on the death of the latter 

 to his daughter Charlotte. She married William 

 Ledwell," and they held the manor of Little Kimble 

 in 1758.** The property passed on his death to 

 his heir-at-law, Ledwell of Cowley, co. Oxon.** In 

 1792 William Bridges Ledwell, his son, held the 

 manor,** and sold it to Scrope Bernard, after- 

 wards Sir Scrope Bernard Morland, bait. 87 The 

 manor was presumably bought at the same time 

 as Great Kimble by Sir George Russell, bart., and is 

 now in the hands of the trustees of Mr. Henry Frank- 

 land-Russel!-Astlcy, a minor.** 



In 1254 John le Waleys and Herbert de Bolebec 

 held the view of frankpledge in their manors/* 

 In 1617 James I granted to Edward Brudenell the 

 right to hold a view of frankpleJge twice a year in 

 Stoke Mandeville, Ellesborough, and Little Kimble,* 

 but in the i8th century a court leet and view were 

 claimed by the Gibsons." 



The church of ALL SAINTS is a 

 CHURCH small structure consisting of a chancel 

 1 8 ft. 6 in. by 1 4 ft., a nave 38 ft. 9 in. 

 by 1 5 ft. 4 in., and north and south porches, the latter 

 of which is used as a vestry. Until the middle of 

 the 1 3th century the church consisted of a chancel 

 narrower than the present one, and a nave of the same 

 size as that now existing, but at this date the present 

 chancel arch was inserted unsymmetrically and the- 

 chancel widened by rebuilding the south wall. It is 

 thus probable that the nave walls and the western half 

 at least of the north wall of the chancel are ot 

 13th-century date or earlier. 



The chancel has also been lengthened, but this may 

 have been done at a later date than the I 3th century. 

 At the beginning and middle of the 1 4th century 

 windows were inserted in the walls of nave and 

 chancel, and the porches were added, while in modern 



* FruJ. AiJi, i, 96. 



Feet of F. DIT. Cot. Mich. 7 Edw. II) 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. n Edw. HI (lit noi.), 

 no. 56 ; Ctl. Pat. 1517-50, p. 189. 



* t'fuJ. AUi, i, 1 1 J. 



" Ibid. lia. 



* Aiitc R. 1458, m. 16 d. 



Ibid. 



Tnu di Ntvill (Rec. Com), 1+5*. 



> Harl. MS. )688. 



" Ibid. ; Tata di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 



Harl. MS. 3688. 



"Hu*d. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 31. 



Col. if 1*1. f.m. Hn. Ill, no. 673. 



"Col. Chit, 1296-1301, p. 147. 



WAnct. D. (P.R.O.), C. 1509. 



** FtuJ. jli.li, i, in. 



" Harl. MS. 368*. 



" Lipicom b, Hiit. of Butkt. ii, 301. 



71 Cat. Pat. 1461-7, p. 473. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Srr 2), iiiii, no. 



47- 



'Lipicomb, Hill, tf Biuki. ii, 301. 



W Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Dir. Col. Mich. I 4 * 

 Phil, and Miry. 



Ibid. 



"CIoie, 10 Jaa, I, pt. 1 8, DO. 36. 



* Feet of F. Di. Cot. Trin. 6 Jis. L 

 1609. 



" Clote, 10 Jai. I, pt. 1 8, no. 36. 



305 



" I.ipicomb, Hill, if Buckt. ii, 351. 

 "P.C.C. WiU. 156, Fine*. 

 " Eich. Dep. bjr Com. Eait. 3 Will 

 and Mary, no. n. 



" Lipicomb, Hiti. of Biuki. ii, 351. 



* Ft of F. Dir. Cot. Hil. 31 Geo. II. 

 * Lipicomb, ///if. of Buck, ii, 3(1. 



* Recov. R. Eait. 3* Geo. III. 



" Feet of F. Bucki. Hil. 31 Geo III. 



" See Great Kimble. 



H*nd. R (Rec. Com), i, 31. 



*Pat. 14 Jai. I, pt. i. 



Feet of F. Bucka. Trin. 7 Will. Ill ; 

 Eait. 4 Anne ; Trin. 7 Geo. Ill ; Eait. 

 1 1 Geo. Ill | Di. Coi. Trio. 57 Geo. 

 III. 



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