A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



death in 1 3 5 2 " he was succeeded by his grandson 

 William la Zouche of Harringworth, 40 who afterwards 

 gave the manor of Ellesborough to his second son 

 Thomas to hold in demesne for life." The latter died 



CAUNTLOW. Gules 

 three feurs-de-lis coming 

 out of leopards' heads re- 

 versed or. 



ZOUCHE. Gules bt- 

 taanfy and a quarter er- 

 mine. 



seised in 1404, and the manor reverted to his nephew 

 William la Zouche," the son of his elder brother 

 William. The reversion, however, had already been 

 granted by William la Zouche to Henry, Bishop of 

 Lincoln, and other feoffees in 1402," and William la 

 Zouche made a further release of his right in the 

 manor of Ellesborough to John Toly and William 

 Glen, clerks," two of the original feoffees. At his death, 

 however, in 1416, he was said to have enfeoffed Sir 

 William de Roos of Hamelake 45 and others, probably 

 another set of trustees, of the manor; but only Thomas, 

 Lord Berkeley, Thomas le Warr, and Robert Isham 

 survived at that date.'" William la Zouche left a 

 son William, in whose interest the feoffments had 

 probably been made. In 1430" the manor appears 

 to have been held by Thomas Bronus, clerk, Roger 

 Heron, clerk, Robert Chatheley, John Barton the 

 younger, and Thomas Compworth, but they then 

 conveyed it to John Cotesmore, John Cheyne, and 

 others." Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, 4 ' also released his right in the manor to the new 

 feoffees. These numerous enfeoffments seem to cover 

 a transfer of the manor between 1416 and 1430 from 

 the Zouche family to John Cheyne, who held it in 

 I432. 60 Shortly afterwards, however, Cheyne enfeoffed 

 Thomas Frowyk," Henry Frowyk, and William 

 Walton," who held the court of the manor in 1442." 

 Cheyne and his feoffees next released the manor to 

 John Hampden of Kimble 4 ' and Edward Brudenell 

 on condition that they enfeoffed John Brekenok " on 

 his payment of a sum of money to Cheyne. Breke- 

 nok failed to pay at the appointed date, 56 and Cheyne 

 tried to recover the manor from Hampden and 

 Brudenell, who refused to relinquish it.* 7 Brekenok 

 probably paid after a time and held the manor till 

 1458, when he and his wife quitclaimed it to John 



Heton, Edward Brudenell and others for 200." 

 Who was in actual seisin at this time is very doubt- 

 ful, but the manor shortly afterwards must have 

 passed to the Poles, since in 1479 Geoffrey Pole died 

 seised. 69 His son Richard, who married Margaret 

 daughter of the Duke of Clarence, inherited it. 

 Their son Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, a minor at 

 his father's death, 61 had livery of his lands in 1513," 

 but afterwards was attainted and executed, and his 

 possessions reverted to the Crown in 15 39-40." 

 Henry VIII sold the manor of Ellesborough to Sir 

 John Baldwin, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas," 

 for 623 iSj. 5^." From him it descended to one 

 of his two grandsons and heirs, Thomas Pakington, 

 the son of Ann Baldwin and Robert Pakington. 66 It 

 was held by the Pakingtons, his descendants, 67 until 

 it was bought in 1770 by Sir John Russell, who held 

 the manor of Chequers in Ellesborough. 68 The 

 Pakingtons claimed the paramount lordship in Elles- 

 borough in the 1 8th century, 69 but this claim was 

 abandoned when a farm in the parish was bought of 

 the Pakingtons by the Russell family. The manor of 



PAKINGTON. Party 

 cheveronivise table and 

 argent 'with three pierced 

 molets or in the chief and 

 three sheaves gules in the 

 foot. 



R-JSSZU.. Urgent a 

 lion gules and a thief 

 sable with three roses ar- 

 gent therein. 



Ellesborough is now held by the trustees of Mr. Frank- 

 land-Russell-Astley, who has inherited the estates of 

 the Russells. 70 



In the 1 3th century the manor of Ellesborough was 

 held for a tim- by a younger branch of the Caunt- 

 lows. The first William Cauntlow or his son and 

 heir, William, apparently subinfeudated Nicholas the 

 second son, 71 who was seised in 1254." William, 

 the son of Nicholas, succeeded him, but granted 

 the manor to his mother Eustachia and William 

 de Ros her second husband for life. 73 He, how- 

 ever, was re-enfeoffed jointly with his wife Eva 

 for their lives by Eustachia and her husband, 7 * 

 and held the manor at his death in I3o8. 75 It 

 then reverted to his mother and William de Ros 

 for life. William Cauntlow's heir 76 .was his son 

 another William, but the latter died childless, so 



** Col. Close, 1349-54, p. 416 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 51. 

 Ibid. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. IV, no. 17. 

 Ibid. 



Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 4 Hen. IV. 

 <4 Cal. of Anct. D., B. 1453. 

 <6 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 46. 

 < Ibid. 



*' Cal. af Anct. D., B. 1458. 

 Ibid. 



Close, 8 Hen. VI, m. 7. 

 K Cal. of Anct. D., B. 1456. 

 41 Ibid. " Ibid. 1457. 



* P.R.O. Ct. R. pt. 1 5 5, no. 1 1. 

 " Cal. of Anct. D., B. 1452. 



u Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 17, no. 151. 

 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 



Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 37 Hen. VI. 

 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. IV, no. II. 



60 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



61 Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 5, no. 3. 

 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, i, 4325. 



8 Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 33, no. 7 ; L, 

 and P. Hen. Vlll, xiv (i), 1354 (45). 



" Pat. 36 Hen. VIII.pt ix. 



L.and P. Hen. r///,xix(z), 166(37). 



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

 7; Visit, of Bucks. 1566 (ed. Metcalfe). 



87 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clvi, no. 

 I ; Feet of F. Bu.ks. Mich. 5 Jas. I; 

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



332 



69 ; Feet of F. Bucks. East. 4 Will, and 

 Mary; Trin. 7 Geo. I; Mich. 13 

 Geo. Ill ; G.E.C. Complete Baronetage. 



68 Lysons, Magna Brit, i, 555. 



Ibid. 10 Cf. manor of Chequers. 



7 1 Close, 1 5 Ric. II, m. 23 ; Hund. R. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



' a Cal. Inq. p.m. Edia. I, ii, 504. 



7 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 44 ; Ex- 

 cerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 349 j 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 29 & 30 

 Edw. I. 



' 4 Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. 80; Feud. 

 Aids, i, 98 ; Cal. Pat. 1301-7, p. 468. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. II, no. 51. 



~> Ibid. 



