A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



VERNEY. Azure a 

 cross argent -with fvt 

 pierced mole ft gules there- 

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of mortgagees. His heir was his brother Thomas, 

 who came of age in that year, 40 and probably recovered 

 the manor. Another Thomas de Stonor, presumably 

 his heir, together with his wife Joan, sold it in 

 14.69 M to Sir Ralph Verney and others. Sir Ralph, 

 who died in 1478, was seised of lands and tenements 

 in Bierton, but it is probable that he had settled the 

 manor on his second son, another Sir Ralph Verney. 6 * 

 The latter died seised of the 

 manor and had settled it on 

 John Cheyne " and others to 

 hold, to the use of his wife 

 Eleanor for her life, and then 

 to the use of John Verney 

 his son and his issue. John 

 died before 1549," leaving a 

 daughter Mary as his heir. 

 His widow Dorothy entered 

 the manor on his death, and 

 a long lawsuit " was brought 

 against her by Mary, who 

 had married Lewis Reynolds. 

 The result is not given, but 



in 1552 Dorothy Verney and Lewis Reynolds 

 sold the manor for ^236 to Leonard Chamber- 

 lain, Robert Woodiest, and William Howse." The 

 manor of Bierton-Stonors shortly afterwards passed 

 into the possession of John Bosse, who died in 1 5 5 8," 

 seised of lands called Stonors in Bierton. In the in- 

 quisition taken after his death it is impossible to dis- 

 cover if his property was called a manor or not. His 

 son Richard was his heir," and he held lands and 

 rent in Bierton in 1585." Some years later Sir 

 Edmund Verney made a claim for the lands of his 

 ancestors in Bierton, and sued Samuel Bosse and 

 Francis Howse. M Samuel was the son of Richard 

 Bosse, 61 and he held the manor of Bierton-Stonors at 

 the time of this lawsuit in I598. 6 * The result is not 

 given, but the plaintiff lost his case, since Samuel 

 Bosse continued in possession. He died seised of a 

 capital messuage 6 * in Bierton. John Bosse was his 

 son and heir, 64 but Bierton-Stonors was settled in 

 1614" by Samuel on his second son Thomas on his 

 marriage with Grace Butterfield. Thomas Bosse held 

 it in 1637 and died seised in the same year.' 6 His 

 heir does not appear, but the manor afterwards became 

 united with the manor of Waynford (q.v.), passing to 

 the family of Howse, possibly through the Temples. 67 

 It had passed to one of the Howse family before 

 1 6 70, 68 from which date the name of Waynford is 

 rarely used, their manor being called in that year the 

 manor of Bierton. 



William Waynford held land in Bierton during 

 the reign of Henry VI, 69 which was afterwards 

 known as ff^rNFORD'S Manor. On the accession 



of Edward IV Waynford forfeited his lands, having 

 been an active partisan of the Lancastrian party 

 during the Wars of the Roses. In consequence his 

 lands were granted in 1462 to Thomas Seyntleger for 

 life, 69a but in 1467 Sir Ralph Verney 70 obtained a 

 grant of them for himself and the heirs of his body, to 

 hold by military service. The grant consisted of 

 three messuages and 150 acres of land and meadow. 

 Waynford's Manor appears to have passed like Bierton- 

 Stonors to Ralph the younger son of the first Sir 

 Ralph Verney and then to his son and heir John. 71 

 On the death of this John Verney 7> his widow 

 Dorothy held Waynford's Manor, but it is also said to 

 have been sold by Sir Ralph Verney, presumably the 

 father of John, to Robert Woodlyfe, 7 * who immedi- 

 ately sold it to William Howse for no profit because 

 he found his title was defective. 74 There is, however, 

 considerable obscurity about the history of the Verney 

 lands in Bierton at this time, but William Howse 

 certainly seems to have obtained Waynford's Manor 

 before 1553." In that year he obtained a quitclaim 

 from Edmund Verney, 76 the direct descendant of the 

 eldest son of the first Sir Ralph Verney, 77 who was 

 also the heir of the younger branch of which the last 

 representative was Mary Reynolds. The brother and 

 heir of this Edmund Verney, himself Edmund by 

 name, 7 * attempted to recover Waynford's Manor at 

 the same time as Bierton-Stonors in 1598." Francis 

 Howse, the son of William Howse, held it at that 

 time * and retained it against Sir Edmund's attacks. 

 Thomas Howse of Bierton was summoned to make 

 proof of his arms and gentry in 1634," an< ^ was P re " 

 sumably a descendant of Fran- 

 cis. He was returned as a 

 papist and delinquent under 

 the Commonwealth, and his 

 estates in Bierton were seques- 

 tered. 81 He died before 1647, 

 when they were valued for 

 the Committee for Compound- 

 ing at 60 a year. 83 In 

 1 670" John Howse and his 

 wife Martha held the manor. 

 In 1697" their son and heir 

 was Finch Howse, and in 

 1756 John Temple Howse 

 and his wife Mary had suc- 

 ceeded to the manor. 8 * In 1 801 the manor of Bierton- 

 Stonors with Waynford was bought by the Marquis 

 of Buckingham, 87 afterwards Duke of Buckingham 

 and Chandos. It was sold with the greater part 

 of his property in the middle of the igth century, 

 but the name of the manor is now lost, and it 

 does not seem possible to identify the land which it 

 comprised. 



GRENVILLE, Duke of 

 Buckingham and Chan- 

 dos. Vert a cross argent 

 viith Jive roundels gules 

 thereon. 



60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 34. 

 Feet of F. Buckt. East. 9 Edw. IV. 

 62 Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. 

 " Ct. of Requests, bdle. iv, no. 3. 



64 Common Pleat, D. Enr. Eat. Z 

 Edw. VI, no. 8. 



65 Ct. of Requests, bdle. iv, no. 3. 



Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 5 Edw. VI. 



57 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxviii, 

 no. 4. 



* Ibid. 



69 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 27 Eliz. 



60 Exch. Dep. by Com. Mich. 40 &4I 

 Eliz. no. 14. 



'} Exch. Com. no. 460. 



68 Exch. Dep. by Com. Mich. 40*41 

 Eliz. no. 14. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dviii, no. 21. 



" Ibid. * Ibid. 



M Feet of F. Bucks. East. 13 Chas. I ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxv, no. 

 S6o. 



7 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 1 3 Chas. I. 



48 RecoT. R. East. 22 Chas. II. 



69 Cat. Pat. 1461-7, p. 77. 

 " Ibid. 



7 Ibid. 1467-77. P- 33- 

 7 1 Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. 

 7 Exch. Dep. by Com. Bucks. Mich. 

 40 & 41 Eliz. no. 14. 



3 22 



Ibid. Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. I Mary. 

 ? Ibid. 



7" Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. 

 T Ibid. 



7' Exch. Dep. by Com. Bucks. Mich. 

 40 Si 41 Eliz. no. 14. 

 Ikid. 



11 Ctl. S.P. Dam. 1634-5, p. 167. 

 *' Ctl. tfCtm.fir CemfotinJing, 68. 

 Ibid. 

 ** Recor. R. East. 22 Chas. II. 



85 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 9 Will. III. 



86 Ibid. Mil. 29 Geo. II. 



8 ? Lysons, Magne Brit, i, 510. 



