A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



manor of Aston Clinton "' until it passed into the 

 hands of Henry VIII on the attainder of Margaret, 

 Countess of Salisbury. In 154.4 the king sold the 

 manor of Dundridge to Sir John Baldwin, 150 who 

 died seised of the manor. 151 It then passed to his 

 grandson Sir Thomas Pakington, and in 1578 it 

 was sold by John Pakington to Henry and Richard 

 Baldwin. 152 Henry Baldwin obtained a grant of free 

 warren in his lands in Aston Clinton from James 1 1M 

 in 1620. Before 1628 154 the manor passed to Richard, 

 presumably the son of Henry Baldwin, and he settled 

 it on his wife Christian and his own heirs male, on 

 his brother Silvester, and the four sons of Silvester. 145 

 Richard died in l636, 156 and although his widow 

 survived him, 15r Dundridge seems to have come into 

 the possession of Henry Baldwin, his nephew. 15 * 

 Before 1670 it passed to Edward Baldwin, who sold 

 it to Thomas Baldwin. 159 Another Edward Baldwin 

 appears to have succeeded to the manor before i689, 1M 

 and his family held it till 1768, when Robert Monteith 

 Baldwin sold it to the father of Edward Darell, who 

 owned Dundridge in 1813. 161 His daughter Eliza- 

 beth married John Jeffrey, and her grandson, the 

 Rev. John Jeffrey, rector of Barnes, inherited it. 161 In 

 1900, on the death of Canon Jeffrey of Hawkhurst, 

 Kent, his trustees sold his estate at Dundridge. The 

 house and 150 acres of land are owned and occupied by 

 Mr. Robert T. Green ; about 130 acres were sold to 

 Mr. Frederick Butcher of Tring and the remaining 50 

 acres were purchased in three separate divisions. 1 ' 8 " 



The manor of Dundridge formed part of the 

 serjeanty of Aston Clinton, and like the main manor 

 its service was commuted by Robert Passelewe in the 

 reign of Henry III. 1 * The Crokesleys had, like the 

 lords of Aston Clinton, alienated part of their land, 

 and Richard de Crokcsley's tenants also answered by 

 agreement for a third part of his holding, 1 " paying 

 the annual rent of us. <)d. l>> This rent was bought 

 in 1671 by Sir Francis Gerrard at the same time that 

 he obtained the rent due from his own manor. 16 * 

 The service from the land retained by Richard de 

 Crokesley in his own hands was changed from ser- 

 jeanty to military service, and his whole fee answered 

 for the thirtieth part of a knight's fee. 167 In 1254 

 he paid half a mark yearly to the king, to be quit of 

 suit of court, and los. yearly for the right to hold the 

 view of frankpledgc for his tenants. 168 



Henry de Crokesley alienated part of his land in 

 Dundridge to the abbey of Missenden, with the 

 consent of William de Clinton. 1 " He granted them 

 ' 1 3 solidatae ' of land, with the tenants living there, 

 and a third part of his demesne land, excepting the 

 land previously granted to the chapel of St. Leo- 

 nard. 170 In 1254 the Abbot of Missenden was said 



to hold in chief of the king, paying i$s. a year by 

 an agreement with his tenants, 171 but previously he 

 had held of the serjeanty of William de Paris. 171 

 The possessions of the abbey were confirmed by the 

 Popes Innocent IV and Boniface IX, and rents and 

 services in Dundridge are mentioned. 173 The abbey 

 held the lands in Dundridge until the Dissolution. 

 In 1540 Henry VIII granted land in Aston Clinton 

 to Michael Dormer, that had formerly belonged to 

 the abbey of Missenden, 1 ' 4 but it is not said to be at 

 Dundridge, and four years later he gave two messuages 

 called Brunes and Brownes, respectively, and certain 

 demesne lands at Dundridge to Henry Bradshawe. 174 

 The tenement called Brownes passed into the hands 

 of John Ginger, yeoman, before 1607, when he sold 

 it to his son Michael for 300. 176 



The manor of MONTJOr in Aston Clinton was 

 held by the Montagus in demesne. Of its earlier 

 history there seems to be no record, but in 1 397 

 William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, died seised of 

 lands and tenements in Montjoy held of the king by 

 fealty. 177 He had granted them in fee to Sir William 

 Farendon, who obtained a regrant from the king on 

 the death of the earl. 1 "* The manor is mentioned 

 for the last time in an inquisition on the lands of 

 Edward Earl of Warwick, taken in 1 5 1 3 I79 some 

 years after his attainder. 



The manor of OKE was apparently in the parish 

 of Aston Clinton, but it is only mentioned twice in 

 the I4th and 1 5th centuries. John Rose and his 

 wife Elizabeth held the manors of Chiverey and Oke 

 in I389. 180 Thomas St. Clare also held the manor of 

 Oke in I424," 1 but it is not mentioned again in the 

 descent of the manor of Aston Chiverey. 



In Domesday Book there was one mill at Aston 

 Clinton of the yearly value of five ' ores ' of silver. 181 

 In the 1 3th century Robert son of Martin held the 

 mill, with land and wood, from William de Paris, 1 " 

 and a water-mill is mentioned as appurtenant to 

 the manor, when it was held by the Earls of Salis- 

 bury. 1 ' 4 In the first years of the 1 6th century, it 

 was in such a complete state of disrepair that no 

 tenant could be found to take it,' 85 but by 1520 this 

 had been remedied, and a new tenant was in pos- 

 session. 188 There is no water-mill in Aston Clinton 

 parish at the present day. 



The church of ST. MICHAEL 

 CHURCHES AND ALL ANGELS consists of a 

 chancel 346. gin. by 1 6 ft. 4 in., a 

 nave 5 1 ft. 8 in. by 176. 6 in., north and south 

 aisles, 7 ft. 6 in. and 8 ft. I in. wide respectively, a 

 west tower 13 ft. 5 in. by 12 ft. 2 in., and north and 

 south porches. The church probably consisted of 

 an aisleless nave and chancel up to the latter half of 



Feet of F. Bucks. East. 9 Hen. VI ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1429-36, p. 23 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 13 Hen. VI, no. 28 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), 

 xxviii, 1 3 1 (P.R.O.) ; Mins. Accts. 6-7 

 Hen. VII, no. 24. 



150 L. and P. Hen. fill, xix (i), 1035 

 (10). 



151 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxiii, 7. 

 1M Pat. 20 Eliz. pt. 5, m. 13; Feet of 



F. Bucks. Trin. 20 Eliz. ; Com. Pleas D. 

 Enr. Hil. 21 Eliz. 



168 Pat. 18 Jas. I, pt. 15. 



1M Recov. R. East. 3 Chas. I. ls6 Ibid. 



164 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxi, 

 31. "? Ibid. 



1M Fine R. 13 Chas. I, pt. 2, no. 50 ; 

 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 1 8 Chat. I. 



Feet of F. Bucks. East. 22 Chas. II. 



l Recov. R. Mich. I Will, and Mary. 



161 Lysons, Magna. Brit, i, 500. 



""G'ibbl, Hill, if Jylctburj, 316; 

 Burke, Landed Gentry (1906). 



1Ma From information kindly given by 

 Mr. Fredk. Bailey. 



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



1" Ibid. 



" 5 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



166 Close, 23 Chas. II, pt. 20, no. 10. 



147 Tata Je Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 254*. 



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



16 Ibid. '7 Harl. MS. 3688. 



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



^ a Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 254*. 



'' Cal. Papal Letters, v, 435. 



3 l6 



174 L.and P. Hen. VIII, xvi, 379 (2). 



175 Ibid, xix (2), 340 (14). 



176 Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. dxxx, 2 Chas. 

 I, pt. 25, no. 164. 



'"' Ibid. 20 Ric. II, no. 35. 



V Cal. Rot. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 239*. 



l ~* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxviii, 

 131. 



180 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. i 1 Ric. II. 



m Close, 3 Hen. VI, m. 2. 



W" V.C.H. Bucks, i, 2634. 



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



18< Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. II, no. 31; 

 ibid. 13 Hen. VI, no. 28. 



"5 (P.R.O.) Mins. Accts. Bucks. Hen. 

 VII, no. 24. 



186 Ibid. lo-n Hen. VIII, no. 132. 



