A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



of Sir John it appears, however, that he bought the 

 manor from John Stavely, but that he put his daugh- 

 ter Alice, 1 " together with William Welshe and John 

 Gelly, in seisin. Sir John Baldwin's lands " 5 were in- 

 herited by his two grandsons and co-heirs, Thomas 

 Pakington and John Burlace, 186 and at the division of 

 his lands between them Broughton Parva came to 

 Thomas Pakington." 7 His descendants held the manor 

 until 1 80 1, 188 when Sir John Pakington sold it to 

 the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. 129 On the 

 sale of the duke's lands it was bought by Mr. 

 Tindal, 130 at the same time as the manor of Bierton, 

 and is now in the hands of the trustees of the late 

 Mr. John Parker. 



In 1616-17 James I 111 granted the manor of 

 Broughton Parva to Richard Goodwin and Hugh 

 Dashfield, their heirs and assigns, for 110 and the 

 rent of I z marks a year. They may, however, have 

 been fishing grantees, since they never had seisin of the 

 manor, which was held at that time by the Paking- 

 tons, a rental of whose tenants exists for the year 

 1627.'" 



The Earl of Lancaster 183 granted the manor of 

 Broughton Parva to Robert de Holand and his wife 

 in fee-tail. Matilda held it 134 by the service of pay- 

 ing one rose a year to the Earl of Lancaster, but the 

 military service from half a knight's fee was also due 

 to the king, and was performed by her son Thomas 

 de Holand. 1 " 



Sir William Level and William Tresham, 136 how- 

 ever, are said to have held the manor of John New- 

 port, and Tresham paid the rent of I Ib. of cummin. 

 Alice the widow of William Stavely l37 held of the 

 king as of the duchy of Lancaster by fealty and the 

 rent of I ^d. a year. By the time of Sir Thomas 

 Pakington, who died in 1 57 1, 138 the tenure was un- 

 known, and presumably all payment of rent to the 

 duchy had ceased during the many changes of owner- 

 ship in the 1 5th century. 



The Pakingtons held the view of frankpledge " 9 in 

 Broughton Parva all the time that the manor was 

 in their possession. 140 In 1772 Ul a free fishery there 

 is also mentioned. 



In the first half of the 1 2th century various aliena- 

 tions were made of lands in Broughton to the abbey 

 of Missenden, which afterwards formed the manor of 

 BROUGHTON MAGNA or ABBOTS, BROUGH- 

 TON. Hugh de Gurney granted his whole tene- 

 ment to Missenden u> with the consent of his wife 

 Milicent and his son Hugh. He held of Robert 

 Maunsel, who made an agreement with the canons as 

 to the service due from the tenement, and the Count 

 of Boulogne confirmed both grants. The manor of 

 Abbot's Broughton was held by the abbey until its 



dissolution in I538. 143 Three years later the king 

 granted it to Sir John Baldwin, 144 from whom it de- 

 scended, like Broughton Parva, to Thomas Pakington, 

 and was held by his descendants during the 1 7th 

 century. In 1665-6 Sir John Pakington, bart., and 

 his wife Dorothy 14S granted a lease of the manor to 

 John Backwell for ninety-nine years, for the rent of 

 one grain of pepper, in return for 200. Various 

 assignments of this lease appear to have been made ; 

 in 1670'" William Reeve and his wife Sarah, to- 

 gether with Edward Backwell, quitclaimed the manor 

 to Thomas Bowdler for 240, but in the next year I4 ' 

 they sold the manor and farm to Henry Johnson. 

 The latter also seems to have obtained the manor 

 from Sir John Pakington 148 and his son and heir, 

 another John Pakington. Its subsequent history is 

 obscure, but it seems to have afterwards come into 

 the possession of William Meade. 149 He sold it 

 in 1721 2 1=0 to the trustees of Aylesbury Grammar 

 School, who bought the manor of Abbot's Broughton )5 ' 

 with part of the money given in 1 7 1 4 by Mr. Henry 

 Philips for the re-endowment of the school. The 

 trustees held it in i8i3, 15> and are the lords of the 

 manor at the present day. 



The manor of Abbot's Broughton was held by the 

 abbey of Missenden in frankalmoign, apparently in 

 chief of the king. 153 Sir John Baldwin, however, held 

 it as one-tenth of a knight's fee, and paid a yearly rent 



The abbot and canons of Missenden obtained a 

 grant 1M of free warren in their demesne lands in 

 Broughton in 13012, which was confirmed by 

 Henry VI. 156 The abbot also held a view of frank- 

 pledge in 1254,'" and paid 121. for hidage from 

 Broughton and Hulcott, which then formed one 

 township. 



A mill is mentioned at Broughton in Domesday 

 Book," 8 being then worth los a year, and a water- 

 mill is mentioned in an extent of the manor of 

 Broughton Parva in I296. 1 " The abbey of Missen- 

 den held a mill in Broughton, 180 which was granted to 

 it before 1330. In 17212 a mill is mentioned 161 in 

 connexion with the manor of Abbot's Broughton. 



In the time of Edward the Confessor one hide and 

 three virgates of land in BORTONE was held by two 

 sokemen, 16 ' one a man of Alwin Varus and the other 

 of Earl Leofwine. This has been identified with 

 Bierton in the Domesday Survey, 163 but from its post- 

 Conquest history it seems more probable that the land 

 lay in Broughton. In 1086 it was held by the 

 Bishop of Bayeux, who had subinfeudated it to a 

 tenant named Roger. 164 As overlord and tenant the 

 bishop and Roger also held Weston Turville and Bed- 

 grave, 165 and it seems most probable that this land 



144 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxiii, no. 7. 



116 Ibid, clvi, no. I. 



1M Feet of F. Bucks. East. 5 Edw. VI. 



11? Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxviii, 

 no. 69. 



1M Recov. R. Mich. 1 5 Chas. I ; Feet of 

 F. Bucks. East. 4 Will, and Mary ; ibid. 

 Trin. 7 Geo. I ; Recov. R.East. 32 Geo.II j 

 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 13 Geo. III. 



lat Lysons, Magn* Brit, i, 510. 



130 Sheahan, Hist. *nd Tafog. of Bucks. 

 95, 103. 



181 Pat. 14 Jas. I, pt. z. 



1M Cott. MS. I, 4. 



" Cat. Clou, 1327-30, p. 248. 



184 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. II (pt i), 

 no. 58. 



185 Feud. Aids, i, 124. 

 188 Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Hen. VI, no. 

 28 } ibid. 34 Hen. VI, no. 10. 



18 7 Ibid. (Ser. 2), xix, no. 64. 



188 Ibid. (Ser. 2), clvi, no. 1. 



189 Cott. MS. I, 4. 



' Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 7 Geo. I j 

 ibid. Mich. 13 Geo. III. 



141 Ibid. 



' Had. MS. 3688. 



141 Valor Eccl. iv, 246 j L. and P. Hn. 

 A7/7, xvi, 779(8). ' Ibid. 



145 Feet of F. Bucks. Hit. 17 & 18 

 Chas. II. 



" Ibid. Hil. 22 & 23 Chas. II. 



14 < Close, 24 Chas. II, pt. I, m. 9. 



148 Recov. R. Trin. 25 Chas. II. 



324 



"> Feet of F. Bucks. Hil. 8 Geo. I. 



l*> Ibid. 



161 Lysons, Magna Brit, i, 510. 



1M Ibid. 



' M Harl. MS. 3688 ; Feud. Aid!, i, 1 125 

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



ls< Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxiii, no. 7. 



lss Chart R. 30 Edw. I, no. 95, m. 5, 

 no. 32. 



151 Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 344. 



15 7 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



l y.C.H.Bucks.'\, 252*. 



lw Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 51*1. 



Harl. MS. 3688. 



"l Feet of F. Bucks. Hil. 8 Geo. I. 



" Ibid. 



1( > 4 Ibid. 



i Ibid. 



