AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



was fined 60. lw He died in 1435,"* leaving three 

 daughters, the eldest of whom was then thirteen years 

 old. In the partition of his lands the manor was 

 assigned to Eleanor, the second daughter, who married 

 John Gage. 104 They held it jointly till the death of 

 Eleanor, and then John held it for life. 10 * He died 

 in l4fj6, M and was succeeded by his son William 

 Gage and grandson Sir John Gage. 1 " The latter, 

 together with his wife Philippa and Edmund and 

 John Gage, sold the manor of Aston Chiverey in 

 1532 to Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, Reginald 

 Pole, clerk, and others, 10 " and from this time it was 

 held with the manor of Aston Clinton lo * (q.v.). 



Another manor, known as VJCHES M4XOR, in 

 Aston Clinton, appears to have been held by Richard 

 de Turri in the early part 

 of the 1 3th century. He 

 obtained licence to build a 

 chapel in his land in Aston 

 from Bishop Grosteste (1235- 

 53)." He died before 1 27 1, 

 but his manor did not pass to 

 his son and heir Richard, but 

 to Richard de la Vache. 111 

 The latter obtained a quit- 

 claim from the younger de 

 Turri, who acknowledged the 

 manor to be the right of 

 Richard de la Vache. 1 " There 

 were suits between them as to land and messuages 111 in 

 Aston Clinton, but Richard de la Vache remained in 

 undisturbed possession of the manor. 114 Before 1 302-3 

 he was succeeded by Matthew de la Vache, 11 * who 

 was followed by another Richard de la Vache, 1 " his 

 son. The latter obtained a grant of free warren in 

 his demesne lands in Aston Clinton in 1364..'" He 

 was succeeded by his son Philip de la Vache, who was 

 certified of full age in 1 37 1. 1 " Philip was made a 

 knight of the Garter, receiving the honour after 

 February 1 398-9."* He was keeper of the royal park 

 at Chiltern Langley," and was a knight of the shire 

 in the Parliament of I387-" 1 He married Elizabeth 

 daughter of Sir Lewis Clifford, ln and various settle- 

 ments were made of Vaches Manor which appears 

 to have been held by a John de la Vache and his 

 wife Elizabeth for life. 1 * 1 Philip also granted it to 

 several feoffees, presumably to the use, after his own 

 death, of his wife and heir. 1 * 4 Sir Philip de la Vache 

 died in 1407 or 1408,'" and his widow held the 

 m.inor for life in 1410 ;"* she enfeoffed John Kirk- 

 ham and his wife Anna to hold during her life. After 



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ASTON CLINTON 



her death Kirkh.im refused to give up the manor to 

 the feoffees of Sir Philip, represented by John Buktoft, 

 and a lawsuit ensued, the result of which does not 

 appear. 1 " The heir of Philip dc la Vache is said to 

 have been his daughter Blanche,"* the first wife of 

 Richard Grey de Wilton, who certainly obtained 

 Vaches Manor."* He had a further claim on it, 

 since his grandmother had been Matilda, the sister of 

 Matthew de la Vache." He granted the manor UI 

 to Richard Henbarowe, John Clubbewell, and Richard 

 Koppe, but some years afterwards, in i^2, ta the last- 

 named feoffee regranted it to Richard and his second 

 wife Margaret in fee-tail. Reginald Grey was the 

 son and heir of Richard, 1 * but Margaret held the 

 manor for her life." 4 Edmund, Lord Grey de Wilton, 

 and his wife Florence held it in 1506,"* but in that 

 year they sold it to Thomas Craford, William Lynne, 

 Nicholas Shelton, Richard Lee, and the heirs of 

 Shelton. Vaches Manor afterwards passed to John 

 Colet, Dean of St. Paul's,"* and formed part of the 

 endowment of St. Paul's School." 7 The trustees of 

 the school, the Mercers Company of London, still 

 own Vaches Farm in Aston Clinton. 



At the close of the 1 2th century the manor of 

 DUNDRIDGE was held by Henry de Crokesley of 

 William de Clinton. 1 " Henry granted land with 

 the consent of his heir from his tenement in Dun- 

 dridge to the abbey of Missenden in the time of 

 Robert de Braybroc, who was under-sherifF of the 

 county in 1197 and 1199 and sheriff in 1204 and 

 1205."" The grant was confirmed by William de 

 Crokesley, the nephew and heir of Henry, when in 

 possession of Dundridge, and also by a Roger and a 

 second Henry de Crokesley. 1 * The manor was after- 

 wards held by Richard de Crokesley in the 1 3th 

 century, '" certainly between 12401 "' and 1286.'** 

 After the grant of Aston Clinton Manor by Wil- 

 liam de Paris to William de Montagu, Richard de 

 Crokesley brought an action in lz6l 10 against the 

 latter, to recover reasonable estover in a wood at 

 Aston, appertaining to his manor of Dundridge. 

 John de Crokesley is mentioned in I275, IU but 

 whether he ever held the manor does not appear. 

 Shortly afterwards the subtenancy must have lapsed, 

 since William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, died 

 seised, c. 1320,"* of lands and messuages at Dun- 

 dridge, and in a survey of the manor made in the 

 reign of Edward III, 147 Crokesley's land is mentioned 

 among the free tenements held of Isabella de Montagu. 

 Thomas, Earl of Salisbury, died seised of the manor 

 of Dundridge in 1428, '** and it was held with the 



101 Cal. Pat. 14219, p. 352. 



1M Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 56. 



>" Ibid. 15 Edw. IV, no. 16. 



1" Ibid. 



> Ibid. 



' Ibid. (Ser. l), siii, 105. 



" L. and P. He*, fill, T, 909 (xi). 



IM Feet of F. Bucki. EaiL 24 Hen. 

 VIII. 



110 Line. Epi. Reg. ; Bp. Groitcitr'i 

 Init. 



"i Feet of F. Buck.. Mich. 55 Hen. 

 III. 



> Ibid. 



Ibid. Ea.t. 8 Edw. I. 



u Ibid, Trin. 1 1 Edw. I. 



> u Feud. AiJi, i, 91. 



Feet of F. Bucki. Trin. I 3 Edw. III. 



' Chart. R. 37 Edw. Ill, no. 155, 

 m.4. 



111 Chan. Inq. p.m. 44 Edw. Ill (lit 

 not.), no. 82. 



Shaw, Knigtu of Engl. 



Cat. Pal. 1405-8, p. 441. 



Kit. ofMemb. of Par 1. 



la G.E.C. Comfltu Pitragi ; Collins, 

 Pteragi (ed. Brydgei), vii, ill. 



" Feet of F. Bucki. Eatt. z Ric. II ; 

 ibid. 10 Ric. II ; ibid. Diy. Co. zz Ric. II ; 

 ibid. 5 Hen. IV. 



IH De Banco R. no. 571, m. $zod. ; 

 Cloie, 12 Hen. IV, m. 38. 



"Shaw, Knigkn of Engl. ; Col. Pat. 

 1405 8, p. 442. 



> Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 1 1 Hen. 

 IV. 



"W Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 7, no. 204. 



Mi G.E.C Comfliu Petragt. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Hen. VI, 

 no. 23. 



3'5 



" De Banco R. Mich. 22 Hen. VI, 

 m. 408. 



U1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Hen. VI, no. 23. 



U1 Ibid. " Ibid. 



Feet of F. DiT. Co. Trin. 26 

 Hen. VI. 



Ibid. Trin. 21 Hen. VII. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), MY, 160. 



W Ibid. 



> Harl. MS. 3688. 



P.R.O. Liu ofSlurifft. 



" Harl. MS. 3688. 

 Tau dt NtvilKRcc. Com.), 254*. 



'" Aiaize R. 5 5, m. 3d. 



14 feud. Aidi, i, 85. 



M* Awiie R. 58. 



> Feet of F. Buck*. Trin. 3 Edw. I. 



"* Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. II, no. 31. 



"' (P.R.O.) Rentalt and Sur. no. 72. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Hen. VI, no. 57. 



