AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



Bierton." Bierton was assigned to his widow Emma 

 to hold in dower, but his possessions were finally 

 divided among his four sisters or their heirs." Trie 

 manor of Bierton was assigned to Joan the wife of 

 Theobald le Botiller, and it has ever since been held 

 by her descendants or their successors as appendant to 

 the manor of Aylesbury (q.v.).' 4 The mano:s of 

 Aylesbury and Bicrton are at the present day in the 

 hands of the trustees of the late Mr. John Parker. 



Certain lands and rents in Bierton and Aylcsbury 

 were assigned to Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, 

 on the partition of Richard Fitz John's lands," and 

 these were afterwards known as the manor of BIER- 

 TON afia, BIERTON and HULCOTT. Richard 

 de Burgh received the reversion of 9$ virgates of land, 

 the suit and service of certain tenants in villeinage, 

 and rent to the amountof 10 01. <)\J., to fall tohim 

 on the death of t'mma the widow of Richard Fitz 

 John. He died before this reversion fell in, leaving 

 his son William as his heir." The latter was a minor, 

 and the king in 1333 committed his lands and rents 

 in Bierton to Elizabeth de Burgh to hold during the 

 young earl's minority." The latter died the next 

 year seised of rent in Bierton, which was held by his 

 widow in dower." His only daughter and heiress 

 Elizabeth was one year old at his death." She after- 

 wards married Lionel, Duke of Clarence, the third 

 son of Edward III." Their only daughter and heiress 

 Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March 

 and Ulster," who died seised of the manor of Whad- 

 don (part of the possessions of Richard Fitz John), 

 'with its members of Bierton and Amersham.'" His 

 heir Roger was a minor at the time of his father's 

 death. Roger was killed in I 398, and his son Ed- 

 mund died in 1424. 5." His possessions passed to 

 his nephew Richard Duke of York," and from him 

 descended to Edward IV. The manor of Bierton 

 was granted by the king in 1461 to his mother 

 Cecily Duchess of York, for life, in recompense for her 

 jointure." Richard III confirmed this grant," and 

 in 1492 the reversion of the manor was granted to 

 her granddaughter Elizabeth of York for her jointure 

 on her marriage with Henry VII." After her death 

 her sisters and co-heiresses, Katherine Courtenay, 

 Countess of Devon, and Anne Howard, claimed the 

 manor, but in 151 I * it was settled on Henry VIII 

 as the son and heir of Elizabeth. Katherine of Aragon 

 held lands and rents in Bicrton," and the manor was 

 granted in turn to Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, 

 and Katherine Howard." After the execution of the 

 last-named queen the manor of Bicrton remained in 

 the hands of the Crown until James I in 1603 

 granted it to Anne of Denmark as part of her dower." 

 After the death of the queen the manor was granted 



BIERTON 



to Sir Henry Hobarc and others" as trustees for 

 Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. Soon after his 

 accession to the throne it was released to the mayor 

 and citizens of London as security for a loan of 

 money, and was to be held at the accustomed rent. 

 In 1650 Thomas Greene bought this rent from the 

 trustees for the sale of the fee-farm rents, formerly 

 payable to the Crown." Six yean later he was said to 

 be a lunatic, but his heir was unknown, so that the rent 

 presumably again came into the hands of the Govern- 

 ment." After the Restoration, Sir Allan Appesley is 

 said by Lipscomb" to have conveyed the fee-farm 

 rent of 10 izi. %\J. issuing out of the manor of 

 Bicrton to Thomas Morlcy, who reconveycd it to 

 Timothy Neale in 1675." The same historian also 

 mentions a sale of the manor itself by Alexander Hawkins 

 to Timothy Neale," and the Neales certainly held the 

 manor of Biei ton some years later. John Neale was 

 seised in 1719, together with the manor of Hul- 

 cott (q.v.), and from this time these manors have 

 been held together, and are now in the possession of 

 Mr. Leopold de Rothschild. 



The family of Stonors held lands in Bicrton which 

 were afterwards called the manor of STONORS afiai 

 STONORS CROFT afiai BIERTON-STONORS. In 

 1325 John de Stonor and his 

 son Richard held lands in 

 Aylesbury, Walton, Bierton, 

 Hulcott, and Caldecott. 40 In 

 an inquisition taken in 1336" 

 it was found that John de 

 Stonor, after making certain 

 grants in mortmain, would 

 keep the manor of Bierton - 

 Stonors, from which he could 

 perform his foreign services. 

 He held it by military service 

 of the Earl of Ormond. He 

 died in 1354, >c ' sc d f lands 



and tenements in the township of Bierton. His son 

 and heir was John de Stonor, but in i 370 Edmund de 

 Stonor " granted an annual rent out of the manor to 

 the Bishop of Winchester. John de Stonor, son and heir 

 of Edmund, died" seised of rents in Bierton in 1389. 

 His brother and heir Ralph de Stonor granted the 

 manor of Bierton-Stonors to William Sutton of Cam- 

 den 4 * and others, but this was presumably only a 

 mortgage, 4 * since the manor was afterwards recovered 

 by the Stonors. Gilbert the son and heir of Ralph 

 de Stonor was a minor at the time of his father's 

 death," and he died while still in the king's wardship 

 in 1396." The manor of Bierton-Stonors is not 

 mentioned among his lands in an inquisition taken 

 in 14 16," so that it was probably still in the hands 



A/W 



STONOR. Aairt nut 

 ban danctlty or and a 

 ckitf argint. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 504. 



> Ibid. 



G.E.C. Cam f lilt Pitragi ; Col. Clou, 

 Jjo-l. P- 5'; ArcbanhfM, I, 935 

 L. and P. //.. rill, iT (2), 734 (14) ; 

 Feet oi F. Buckt. Trin. 30 Hen. VIII ; 

 ibid. Mich. < Jat. I. 



' Ctl. Clou, 1330-3, p. 501. 



" Ibid. >? Ibid. 



u Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Edw. Ill (lit 

 not,), no. 39 ; Ctl. Clou, 1333-7, p. 148. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Edw. Ill (lit 

 not.), no. 39. 



" G.E.C. Com f lilt Pitrap. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill (pi. i), 

 no. 13. 



" Ibid. 5 Ric. II, no. 43. 



* G.E.C. Comfliu Peeragi ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. 34 ; 3 Hen. VI, no. 

 3. * Ibid. 



M Ctl. Pat. 1461-7, p. 131. 

 " Pat. 1 Ric. Ill, pt. v. 



* Ptrl. K. (Rec. Com.), vi, 4634. 



Feet of F. Dir. Co. Mich. 3 Hen. 

 VIII. 



* L. ma P. Htm. rill, i, 1 5 5. 



* Ibid, avi, 107 (9) ; ibid, iv, 144(1); 

 Pat. 31 Urn. VIII, pi. 6. 



11 Pat. I J.H. I, pt. 10 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. i), cccvii, no. 93. 



" Pat. 17 Jai. I, pt. I. 



* Ibid. 4 Chat. I, pt. 35. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), Mite, dir, 

 no. 169. 



3 2I 



Ibid. 



" Ilia, ef Built, ii, 100. 



*> Cote, 17 Chai. II, pt. 17, no. 17. 



" Hnt.of Biaki. ii, 100. 



M RCCOT. R. Mich. 9 Geo. I. 



* Feet of F. Buckt. Mich. 19 Edw. II. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. Ill, no. 



4'- 



a Ibid. | Chan. Inq. p.m. iS Edw. Ill 

 (nt not.), no. 58. 



Clote, 44 Edw. Ill, m. 4, c. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 48. 



u Coram Rege R. Mich. 10 Ric. II, TV. 

 16, Rex. 



M Clow, 14 Ric. II, m. 38 d. 



4 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 34. 



Ibid. Ibid. 



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