A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



Towards the close of the reign of 

 JDPOJfSON Henry II Gervase Paganell, then 

 lord of Dudley honour, granted to 

 the priory of Sandwell, in Staffordshire, as much of 

 the church of Ellesborough as appertained to his 

 honour.* 29 In 1398 the prior and convent obtained 

 leave to impropriate their half of the church, 830 and 

 on the death or resignation of the rector then holding 

 the benefice, to serve it by a secular priest or by one 

 of the monks of Sandwell. In the 1 5th century a 

 lease of the advowson and half the rectory nl was held 

 under the priory by Henry Danvers, William Danvers, 

 and Joan Selwood in turn."' In I 5 24, however, the 

 house was dissolved, and no vicarage is mentioned 

 amongst Its possessions,* 35 but only the advowson of 

 the rectory of Ellesborough and tenements there, and 

 in 1535 the benefice is described as a rectory.* 34 The 

 priory of Sandwell was amongst the religious houses 

 dissolved and granted to Cardinal Wolsey for the 

 endowment of his new college at Oxford,* 35 and the 

 advowson and half the rectory of Ellesborough were in 

 consequence given to Cardinal College.' 36 When 

 Wolsey fell from the king's favour his foundation was 

 deprived of many of its possessions ; those in Elles- 

 borough passed by an exchange, made in 1531 by 

 Henry VIII, to the Carthusian Priory of Sheen.* 37 

 After the dissolution of Sheen in I 5 39, 138 the advow- 

 son of the church of Ellesborough was granted to 

 William Sewster, who, however, very shortly obtained 

 leave to alienate it to William Gardiner and his wife 

 Anne.* 39 Gardiner died seised of the advowson in 

 I558,' 10 but his son and heir John Gardiner sold it to 

 Roland Beresford.' 41 The advowson changed hands 

 from this time with great rapidity, passing from 

 Beresford to Henry Newman in 1599-1600,"'* and 

 from Newman to Thomas Weedon in 1 620.'" 

 Weedon held it at his death in 1624.,'" but his 

 brother and heir William sold it to Robert Wallis, 

 clerk, ten years later.*" His family still held the 

 advowson in I725,* 44a but before 1728 it had passed in- 

 to the possession of Joseph Wells of Aston Clinton." 4 

 He died in 1732, and the advowson passed to his son 

 the Rev. Joseph Wells, who was still the patron of 

 the living in i8i3.' 45a In the previous year he had 

 sold the advowson to Sir Robert Greenhill Russell, 

 presumably reserving to himself the next presenta- 

 tion. !4S It is now in the hands of the Frankland- 

 Russell-Astleys. The moiety of the rectory granted 

 to the prior of Sandwell by Gervase Paganell was 

 held with the advowson until the sale of the latter to 

 Sir Robert Greenhill Russell ; Joseph Wells appears 

 to have retained the rectorial estate in his own hands. 

 Allotments were made under the Inclosure Act of 

 1803 for the glebe rights of common and the great 

 and small tithes. On the death of the Rev. Joseph 



Wells in 1818, the allotment passed to his widow, 

 with remainder to her son Fleetwood Wells. The 

 lords of the honour of Wolverton probably granted 

 their half of the church of Ellesborough to their sub- 

 tenants, with the manor of Grove. William Brito 

 presented to the church in the reign of Henry II,"' 

 and his heirs Richard de Seyton and his wife Alice 

 claimed the advowson in 1276 against the Prior of 

 Sandwell.* 48 The plaintiffs lost their case, not, how- 

 ever, because they had no right to the advowson, but 

 because their moiety of the church was not vacant at 

 the time. When Thomas de Seyton granted the 

 manor of Grove to John, Archbishop of York, and 

 others in I446," 9 the advowson of the church of 

 Ellesborough was also alienated. 130 The Verneys were 

 enfeoffed of the advowson, 251 but it seems probable 

 that the right to present to the church of Ellesborough 

 was not claimed by their successors the Eggletons. 

 From the 1 7th century certainly the patrons of the 

 other moiety alone have presented to the benefice. 

 Lands in Ellesborough were given for lights in the 

 church, and they were valued, after the dissolution of 

 chantries by Edward VI, at 7/. yearly/ 5 ' There is 

 a Baptist chapel at Chalkshire, which was built in 



I873- 



Dame Elizabeth Dodd's Charity for 

 CHARITIES almspeople and pensioners, founded by 

 will bearing date 2 March 1720, and 

 the subsidiary endowments are regulated by scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners of 28 July 1885, as 

 varied by a scheme of 1 1 April 1899. The trust 

 estate consists of 36 a. I r. 15 p. in Great Kimble, let 

 at ^75 a year, and 5 acres of pasture land in Ayles- 

 bury, let at 16 a year, and 2,456 l^j. zd. India 

 3 per cent. Stock, with the Official Trustees, the 

 rents and dividends making a gross income of 



In 1 907 the four inmates received 5*. a week and 

 2 each in clothing, and 6s. a week was paid to four 

 out-pensioners. 



The Poors' Allotment consists of 45 acres or there- 

 abouts of scrub land allotted to the poor for fuel 

 on the inclosure. The sporting rights are let at 

 ^lo a year, which is the only income, and is, after 

 payment of rates, &c., distributed among the non- 

 ratepayers. In 1907, 2/. was given to seventy-one 

 persons. 



The charity of Dame Louisa Anne Frankland 

 Russell founded by will, proved 1871, is regulated 

 by scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 4 January 

 1878 as modified by scheme of 3 July 1885. The 

 trust fund consists of .218 12s. loj. consols, with 

 the Official Trustees, producing yearly 5 9*. \d. t 

 which is added to the funds of the coal and clothing 

 clubs, containing in 1907 fifty-nine members. 



a>> Dugdalc, Man. iv, 90. 



*" Cal. of Papal Letters, v, 263. 



481 DC Banco R. East. Hen. VII, m. 



377 d - 



282 Ct. of Requests, bdle. I, no. 5 ; 

 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 235, no. 41 ; 

 ibid. bdle. 1 60, no. 9. 



288 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), Ixxvi, no. J. 



*" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 249. 



2"5 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, iv (i), 650, 

 697. 



236 Ibid. 1913 (i), 1167 (i) ; ibid. (2), 

 4001 (2), (3), 5117 (i)} Pat. 17 Hen. 

 VIII, pt. i, m. 38 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 

 Mich. 18 Hen. VIII. 



*7 L. and P. Hen. VIII, v, 403 : vi, 299 

 (ix). 



188 Dugdale, Man. vi, 30. 



" Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. iii ; L. and P. 

 Hen. yill, xix (2), 166 (82). 



410 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxviii, no. 3. 



* 1 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 35 Eliz. 



"I Ibid. Hil. 42 Eliz. 



<" a Ibid. Mich. 17 Jas. I. 



248 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxx, 

 no. 90. 



*" Feet of F. Buck. Trin. 10 Chas. I; 

 Common Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 10 Chas. I, 

 m. 9. 



2 Feet of F. Bucks. Hil. 12 Chas. I ; 



338 



Trin. 34 Chas. II ; Trin. 36 Chas. II ; 

 P.R.O. Inst. Bks. 1665, 1686, 1722 ; Feet 

 of F. Bucks. Mich. I Jas. II; Mich. 

 12 Geo. I. 



245 Lysons, Magna Brit, i, 555. 



* ta P.R.O. Inst. Bks. 1 745, 1749, 1804; 

 Lysons, Magna Brit, i, 555. 



246 Sheahan, Hist, and Tofog. of Bucks. 



122. 



* De Banco R. 15, m. 26. " 48 Ibid. 

 * Feet of F. Bucks. East. 24 Hen. VI ; 

 B.M. Add. Chart. 7383. 



m Recov. R. Trin. 21 Hen. VIII. 

 251 Exch. Inq. p.m. 25, no. 12. 

 152 Chant. Cert. Bucks. 5, no. 67. 



