AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



ASTON CLINTON 



1240-1." Her relationship to William de Clinton 

 does not appear ; but it seems probable that she was 

 his widow, and having been jointly seised with him, 

 held the whole manor for her life." She died in or 

 before 1 146," when she w succeeded by her son 

 William de Clinton, 1 * more usually called de Paris, 

 who did homage for the manor in 1247." About 

 1252 he alienated the manor of Aston Clinton to 

 William de Montagu for his homage and service." 

 The new tenant in 1 268 made an exchange with Philip 

 Basset and Lady Ella his wife," who obtained it for 

 their lives, holding by fealty and the yearly rental of 

 \J. Lady Ella, who was the daughter of William 

 Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, 10 and Countess of War- 

 wick in right of her first husband, survived Philip 

 Basset and held the manor till her death." William 

 de Montagu died in or before 1271, and his son and 

 heir Simon, who was a minor, surrendered all his 



MONTAGU. Argent 

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Nn ILL. Gulti a tal- 

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 goiony argent and axure. 



lands into the hands of the king." In 1290, how- 

 ever, he obtained a new charter from Edward I, 

 granting him the manor of Aston Clinton to hold in 

 fee-tail, and two years later the Countess of Warwick 

 was ordered by the king to do fealty and service to 

 Simon for the manor." The Montagus held the 

 manor without interruption until the death of Thomas 

 Montagu, Earl of Salisbury." He left an only 

 daughter and heiress Alice," who married Richard 

 Nevill, Earl of Warwick, 17 who was recognized as 

 Earl of Salisbury on the death of his father. 1 * He 

 and his wife granted the manor of Aston Clinton for 

 life to Richard Hertcombe," who died in 1435,' and 

 it reverted to the Earl and Countess." Their lands 

 passed to their son Richard Nevill, the king-maker," 

 and after his death at the battle of Barnet in 1471 

 his lands were divided between his two sons-in-law, 

 the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. Aston Clin- 

 ton must have been assigned to Clarence and his wife 

 Isabel, since it passed to their son Edward, Earl of 



Warwick," who was attainted and executed in 1499." 

 The manor remained in the hands of the Crown 

 until Margaret, the sister of the last Earl of Warwick, 

 was restored in lands and blood in 1513." She was 

 also created Countess of Salisbury ** and married Sir 

 Richard Pole. 47 She held the manor until 1539,** 

 when, falling under the suspicion of Henry VIII at 

 a possible heir to the throne, she was attainted and 

 executed two years later." Henry VIII retained 

 Aston Clinton in his own hands, but Edward VI 

 granted it to his sister, the Lady Miry, in 1 549.** 

 Soon after her accession to the throne, however, she 

 restored it" to Sir Thomas Hastings and his wife 

 Winifred, one of the granddaughters and heiresses 

 of the Countess of Salisbury. After the death of 

 Hastings " his widow married Sir Thomas Barring- 

 ton," who was in seisin of the manor of Aston Clin- 

 ton in 1579." The reversion of the manor was 

 granted by Elizabeth to Lord Burghley, Sir William 

 Mildmay, and Gilbert Gerrard," and by James I to 

 Sir Francis Barrington.* 4 The latter was the son of 

 Sir Thomas Barrington and his wife Winifred, and 

 afterwards succeeded them in the manor. In 1614 

 Sir Francis and his wife Joan obtained licence ** to 

 alienate the manor of Aston Clinton to Gilbert Ger- 

 rard," who married the daughter of Sir Francis 

 Barrington. 4 * 



The Gerrards held the manor without interrup- 

 tion 60 until Elizabeth, the heiress of Sir Charles 

 Gerrard, who died in 1701, married Warwick Lake." 

 The manor descended to her heirs," and in 1765 

 her grandson Gerard Lake, Baron Lake of Delhi, &c., 

 and of Aston Clinton, was lord of the manor. He 



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was raised to the peerage as a reward for distinguished 

 services in India during the Mahratta War. He had 

 previously served in Germany, France, and America, 

 and had been second in command of the forces in 

 the north of Ireland during the rebellion of 1797-8, 



n Aitizc R. 55, m. I. 



* Tetta dt Nrvill (Rec. Com.), 145*, 

 257*. 



'" Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, file 5, 

 no. I. 

 Ibid. 



* Excerfu i Rot. Fin. (Ree. Com.), ii, 5. 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. tint. Ill, file 18, 



no. 8. 



Feet of F. Dir. Co. Mich. 53 Hen. 

 III. 



* C.E.C. Cimfltte Peerage. 



" Col. tf Inf. Hen. Ill, 807 ; Feud. 

 Aidi, i, 85 ; P.R.O. Anct. D., A. 45. 



Col. oflnj. Hen. Ill, 807. 



* Chart. R. 18 Edw. I, no. 8], m. 18. 

 M Col. Pat. 1181-91, p. 479. 



* Fnd. Aidi, i, 113-!}. Chin. Inq. 



2 



p.m. 13 Edw. II, no. 31 5 ibid. 18 Edw. 

 Ill (lit no.), no. 39; ibid. 10 Ric. II, 

 no. 3? ; ibid, i Hen. V, no. 39, file 140. 



Ibid. 7 Hen. VI, no. 57. 



17 G.E.C. Ccmflite Peerage. 



n Ibid. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Hen. VI, 

 no. 57. 



' Cat. Pat. 1419-36, p. 13 ; Feet of F. 

 Buck*. Eait. 9 Hen. VI. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Hen. VI, no. 18. 



> Ibid. 



41 G.E.C Ctmflete Peerage, 



Ibid. 



44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. j), rrviii, 131. 



* G.E.C. Ccmflete Peerage. 



* Ibid. 7 Ibid. 



41 Pat. 1 PhiL and Mary ; Pat. 31 Eli/. 

 pt-3. 



3'3 



4t G.E.C. Comflra Peerage. 



10 Pat. i Edw. VI, pt. 5, m. 8. 



" Pit. i It i Phil, and Mary, pt. 5, 

 m. 31. 



Ibid. 



" G.E.C. Comfliti Baronetage. 



** Recov. R. Eait 11 Elix. 



u Pat. 31 Elix. pL J. 



* Pat. 11 Jaa. I, pt.. I j Cat. S.P. Dom. 

 1611-18, p. 148. 



w Pat. 1 1 J. I, pt. 39. 



Feet of P. Buck.. Mich, n Ja. I j 

 Recov. R. Mich. 11 Jit. I. 



* G.E.C. Cam f l,t, Baronetage. 



*> Recov. R. Trin. 10 Chai. II. 



11 G.E.C. Comflete Bartnettre. 

 " Ibid. 



** Recov. R. Mich. 6 Gco. HI. 



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