AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



BUCKLAND 



death at the Kittle of H.irnet in 1471, his lands 

 were seized by Edward IV, and were divided between 

 the earl's two sons-in-law, the Duke* of Clarence and 

 Gloucester, the brothers of the king." The Despenser 

 lands passed to Clarence, the claims of the Countess 

 of Warwick being entirely passed over. After the 

 accession of Henry VII, they were restored to her by 

 an Act of Parliament of 1487, but she immediately 

 rcgranted them to the Crown. 4 * In this grant the 

 manor of Buckland is named, and it remained in the 

 hand* of the Crown until the reign of Queen Mary." 

 Henry VIII, however, granted a lease of the demesne 

 lands and another tenement in the manor to Thomas 

 Green way in 1522** for twenty-one years, a second 

 lease for twenty-one years being drawn up in 1535" 

 to Thomas and his son Richard, when the same lands 

 were described as parcel of the lands of the late Earl 

 of Warwick. The manor of Buckland was granted 

 by Queen Mary" to Sir Anthony Browne, Lord 

 Montagu," whose daughter Elizabeth married Robert 

 Dormer, first Lord Dormer. It was given to the 

 latter in 1584," and his direct male descendants held 

 it until the death of Charles Dormer second Earl of 

 Carnarvon in 1 709," with perhaps a short interval 

 during the Civil War." Robert, the first Earl of 

 Carnarvon, was killed at the first battle of Newbury," 

 fighting on the Royalist side, and possibly his lands were 

 confiscated. Charles, his son, seems to have made an 

 assignment of the m.mor in 1653," but possibly his 

 relationship to Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke and 

 Montgomery, 4 * an influential Parliamentarian, and a 

 party in this assignment, enabled the Earl of Carnar- 

 von* to recover his lands. His daughter and co- 



DODO 

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DORMER. 



lil'tti or tnd a chief or 

 with a Jtmi-lion table 

 therein. 



STANMOTI. Quarterly 

 irminl tad gulil. 



heiress Elizabeth married Philip Stanhope Earl of 

 Chesterfield," who held the manor in 1717." The 

 fifth Earl of Chesterfield held it in 1 8 1 3, but after 

 his death, during the minority of his son and heir, it 

 was sold by the trustees under the direction of the 

 Court of Chancery* 4 to George Hassall of Chole*- 

 bury. The latter died in 1821, and ' is said to hive 

 bequeathed, by will, his estates in this county to John 

 Atkinson, and others, solicitors, in London.' ** The 



manor has since passed into the hands of Mr. Peter 

 Parott who is the present lord of the manor. 



In I 308 ** John de Cromwell and his wife obtained 

 a grant of free warren for ever in all their demesne 

 lands of Buckland. This was also held by their suc- 

 cessors the Dcspensers ** and Robert Lord Dormer 

 obtained a new grant of free warren, and also of free 

 park in Buckland from James I." 



The right to hold a view of frankpledge in the 

 manor of Buckland is not mentioned until the 14th 

 century. Idonea de Leyburn, the widow of John de 

 Cromwell, held a view twice a year at Michaelmas 

 and Hockday,** but presumably her ancestors had also 

 held it for their tenants in Buckland. The Despensers '* 

 held the view in the I 5th century, and in the grant 

 of the manor to Sir Anthony Browne, Lord Mon- 

 tagu," he obtained all the privileges that the pre- 

 vious lords of Buckland had exercised. The view 

 of frankpledge was alto held by the Dormers in the 

 1 7th century. 



No mill is mentioned in Buckland in Domesday 

 Book, nor in later surveys of the manor, and there is 

 no mill there at the present day. 



The church of ALL SAINTS consists 

 CHURCH of a chancel 22ft. by 15 ft., a north 

 vestry, a nave 36 ft. 6 in. long and of a 

 mean width of 19 ft., a north aisle 8 ft. 6 in. wide, 

 and a western tower. The church has been so many 

 times restored as to have been practically rebuilt. The 

 north arcade of the nave is of mid-i 3th-century date, 

 and the chancel and west tower retain evidence 

 of work of the same period, but the architectural 

 history of the building is effectually obscured by the 

 modern work. The nave is irregular, being 1 4 in. 

 wider at the west th.in at the east, and the centre 

 line of the tower is a little to the north of that of the 

 nave. 



The east window of the chancel is modern and of 

 three trefoiled lights with tracery of early 14th-century 

 style over, and in both the north and south walls of 

 the chancel is a modern window of two uncuspcd 

 lights with a quatrefoil over. West of the window 

 in the north wall is a 13th-century arch opening to 

 the vestry. In the south wall at the east is a 15th- 

 century piscina with a trefoiled head, and at the west 

 a single lancet very much restored but originally of 

 1 3th-century date. Between the two window* in 

 this wall is a small modern priest's door. The chan- 

 cel arch is of an obtuse two-centred form, and on the 

 east has one plain chamfer, while on the west it is of two 

 chamfered orders ; its date it doubtful, and perhaps 

 late. The jambs are square and on the west have a 

 square-edged string-course on the springing line, 

 which probably carried the back beam of the rood- 

 loft, and may belong to the time when the loit was 

 set up. 



'-" Diet. Ntt. Bitf. !, 196. 

 Matiritli for Rtign of Htm. FII, 

 (Rolit Ser.), ii, 141. 



L. tnd P. Hn. nit, i, 896 j iii, 779 



('5). 



* Ibid, iii, 1x97 (it) ; Pat. 14 Hen. 

 VIII, ft. ii. 



" L. tnJ P. Hn. fill, viii, 961 (9). 



" Rot. Orif . i * a I'hil. and Marr, 

 pt. iii, R. 63. 



* G.E.C. Camflftt Pttraft. 



M Feet of F. Buckt. Eatt. 16 Eliz. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclviii, no. 

 99 ; ibid. no. 102 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 



2 



Trin. 8 Chat. I ; RrcoT. R. Trin. 8 

 Chat. I ; Chan. Inq. p.m. Mite. (Ser. ii), 

 dxiimi, pt. 31, no. 105; C.E.C. Ccmfleti 

 tetrift. 



M Pat. 34 Eliz. pt. IT, m. 21. Queen 

 Elizabeth (ranted the manor of Buckland 

 in 1 591 to William Tipper and Robert 

 Dawe, who were, however, only tithing 

 grinteet. 



' Diet. Ntt. Biof. IT. 



M RI-CUT. R. Mil. 1653 i Feet ofF. Dir. 

 Co. Mich. 1653. 



" G.E.C. Cimflrtt Ptertp. 



" Ct Horienden. 



329 



11 G.E.C. Camflflt Peerigt. 



" Recor. R. Eait. 3 Geo. II. 



** I.ytont, Magna Brit, i, $30. 



" I.i| tcomb, Hiit. ofBucki. ii, 1 17. 



"Ibid. 



** Chart R. 1 Edw. II, m. 14, no. JO. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ric. II, no. xi. 



"Pat. 14 Jai. I, pt. 1 1, no. 12. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. Ill (lit noO, 

 no. 66. 



7Ibid. 4 Ric. II.no. xi. 



71 Rot. Ori(. pt. iii, I ft a PhiL and 

 Marjr.R.63. 



J Feet ot F. Dir. Co. Trin. 8 Chai. I. 



4* 



