A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



defeating the French force that landed there. He 

 was commander-in-chief in India from 1 800 to 1805, 

 and won the battles of Delhi and Leswarzi in 1803. 

 He represented the borough of Aylesbury in Parlia- 

 ment from 1790 to 1802, although during part of the 

 time he was absent from England. He died in 1808, 

 and was succeeded in his titles by his two sons in 

 succession. 64 The third Viscount Lake died in 1848, 

 leaving two daughters as his heiresses, and all his titles 

 became extinct. The manorial rights in Aston Clin- 

 ton were extinguished by the Inclosure Act of 1814, 

 in return for several acres of land, but the estate was 

 in the possession of the Lakes till shortly after the 

 death of the last Lord Lake. In 1851 it was pur- 

 chased by Sir Anthony de Rothschild, bart., 65 and is 

 now held by his widow Louisa, Dowager Lady de 

 Rothschild. 



The manor of Aston Clinton was held by grand 

 serjeanty, but the exact service is differently described 

 at different times. In 1210-12 William de Clinton 

 held it by the serjeanty of the larderer. 66 Some years 

 later, however, Nicia de Clinton was bound to pro- 

 vide a Serjeant, with horse and arms to serve in the 

 king's army at her own cost for forty days. 6 ' The 

 different lords of the manor, however, and especially 

 the elder William de Clinton, 68 had alienated part of 

 the serjeanty without the king's consent." This 

 appears to have passed unnoticed, until many of 

 the services due from the serjeanties in Bedfordshire 

 and Buckinghamshire were commuted by Robert 

 Passelewe, 70 probably between 1246 and 1255." 

 William de Paris received over 15 a year for the 

 alienated land, but under the pressure of the royal 

 officials an agreement was made as between William 

 and his tenants. 71 The latter were to answer to him 

 for the third part of the value of his tenement, and 

 to pay in/, a year, which he paid to the king. 

 His own service, for the land that remained in his 

 own hands, was changed from serjeanty to the mili- 

 tary service due from one knight's fee. 74 The rent 

 from the tenants was paid through all the changes of 

 the lords of the manor. 75 It is mentioned in a rental, 

 made in the reign of Edward III, 76 and again when 

 the manor of Aston Chiverey (q.v.) was in the hands 

 of Henry VI. 77 The rent was finally purchased in 

 1671 7S from the trustees for the sale of the fee-farm 

 rents payable to the Crown by Sir Francis Gcrrard, 

 who then held the manor. The rents, however, had 

 then been settled or were about to be settled on the 

 queen for her life as part of her jointure, and there- 

 fore she was entitled to take the rents during her life, 

 the reversion being vested in Sir Francis. 79 



AUDLEY. Cults fretty 



A court leet, a court baron and view of frankpledge 

 were held for the manor. 80 



At the end of the izth century William de 

 Clinton alienated 40 librates of land, which after- 

 wards formed the manor of 4STON CHirERET, to 

 Reginald de Mohun in frank-marriage with Alice, 

 probably the daughter of William de Clinton. 81 

 After the death of Reginald Alice held the manor 

 herself, 61 but before 1215 she married Robert de 

 Beauchamp, 8 * and they held the manor jointly. 84 

 Between 1247 and 1261-2 the manor of Chiverey 

 was granted at ferm to James de Audley, who after- 

 wards became possessed of the 

 fee-simple. 85 Alice de Audley, 

 the widow of James de Audley, 

 or his son of the same name, 

 held the manor of Aston Chi- 

 verey in the 1 4th century. 

 She died in 1342, and was 

 succeeded by William de Aud- 

 ley, the grandson of James de 

 Audley." He claimed to hold 

 it by descent from the original 

 feoffees of William de Clin- 

 ton. 87 William de Audley 



settled the manor of Chiverey on himself, his wife 

 Joan, and their heirs. 88 He died in 1367, and his 

 widow held it till I382, 89 when it passed to Eliza- 

 beth the niece of William de Audley and daughter 

 of Thomas de Audley.* Elizabeth married John 

 Rose, an esquire of Richard II." She seems to 

 have predeceased her husband, 91 who held the 

 manor for life, according to a settlement made in 

 I387, 9S and by agreement with Philip St. Clair, 94 

 who seems to have been the heir of Elizabeth Rose. 

 His only relationship to Elizabeth was apparently 

 through the mother of William de Audley, who was 

 one of the sisters and co-heiresses of Edmund de Bere- 

 ford. 95 Another sister married John St. Clair the 

 grandfather of Philip. 96 Philip St. Clair never was 

 in seisin of the manor, since John Rose outlived 

 him. 97 The latter died in 1410, and Aston Chiverey 

 was seized into the king's hands during the minority 

 of John son and heir of Philip. 98 John died before 

 coming of age, 99 and the manor passed to his brother 

 Thomas, who twice in a very short time tried to 

 evade the rights of wardship of the king. In 1424 

 he was fined zoo for having married Margaret Hoo 

 without the king's consent, while he was still a ward 

 of Henry V, 100 and in 1425 "" he made a settlement 

 of the manor of Aston Chiverey with the intent to 

 defraud the king of the wardship of his heirs, and 



84 Diet. Nat. Biog.; G.E.C. Comflea 

 Peerage ; Ret. of M.emb. ofParl. 



65 Sheahan, Hist, and Tofog. of Bucks. 86. 



66 Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), 537. 



" Assize R. 55, m. 22 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. Hen. Ill, lilt 5, no. I. 



88 Assize R. 58, m. 17 d. 



69 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 254*. 



o Ibid. 



71 Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, file 5, no. 

 I ; ibid, file 18, no. 2. 



7" Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 254*. 



Ibid. 



7 Ibid. 



76 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



" P.R.O. Rentals and Surv. 72. 



7 " P.R.O. Ct. R. portf. 155, no. I. 



7 8 Close, 23 Chas. II, pt. 20, no. 10. 



" Ibid. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Hen. VI, no. 

 28. 



81 Assize R. 57, m. 8 d.; 58, m. 6 d. The 

 relationship of Alice to William de Mon- 

 tagu is omitted in the Assize R., but in a 

 rental of the reign of Edward III the grant 

 is said to have been made by William to 

 his son with his wife ; P.R.O. Rentali 

 and Surv. 72. 



82 Assize R. ;8, m. 6 d. ; Tata de Nevill 

 (Rec. Com.), 257*. 



88 Rot. Lit. Clam. (Rec. Com.), i, 235. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, file 5, 

 no. i. 



85 Assize R. 56, m. 17 ; 57, m. 8 d.; 

 58, m. 6d. 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. Ill (ut 

 nos.), no. 10. 



8 < P.R.O. Rentals and Surv. 72. 



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88 De Banco R. 352, m. 130 ; Feet of 

 F. Bucks. Mich. 21 Edw. Ill; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. I. 



89 Ibid. 6 Ric. II, no. 5. 



90 Ibid. 7 Ric. II, no. 8. 



Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 459 ; ibid. 

 1385-9, p. 223. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, no. 4. 

 98 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich, n Ric. II. 

 M Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 7, no. 211. 



95 De Banco R. East. 7 Hen. IV, m. 

 1 20. 



96 Ibid. Mich. 36 Edw. Ill, m. 268. 



7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. IV, no. 44. 



Ibid. 



94 Ibid, i Hen. VI, no. 30. 



100 Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 1 80. 



101 Close, 3 Hen. VI, m. 2 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. Trin. 5 Hen. VI. 



