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Sic ppicietf dcf.' On another plate is a shield of 

 arms : Two bends and a chief with a fleur de lis 

 between two roses dimidiated, quartering quarterly I 

 and 4, Party bendwise a crosslet, 2 and 3, On a cross 

 five lozenges, the whole impaling a trellis. This is 

 perhaps a memorial of a Fermor marriage. 



The tower contains four bells, cast by John Briant 

 of Hertford in 1814. 



The church plate comprises a covered cup of 1 569, 

 the foot of which was remade in the 1 7th century ; 

 an unmarked standing paten and a salver of 18th- 

 century date and a ewer of 1830. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms 

 from 1663 to 1718, marriages from 1607 to 17*4, 

 with a gap between 1639 and 1654, and burials 

 from 1606 to 1773, with notes of affidavits of burials 

 in woollen from 1678. The second book contains 

 baptisms from 1729 to 1757, marriages from 1744 

 to 1757 with a gap between 1751 and 1754, after 

 which date the entries are in the form of the 1754 

 printed book, and burials between 1729 to 1770. 

 The third book contains marriages with banns between 

 1760 and 1812 ; and the fourth baptisms from 1763, 

 and burials from 1783, both running to 1812. 



The church of Halton, like that 

 4DVOWSON of Monks Risborough, belonged to 

 the deanery of Risborough, in the 

 exempt jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury." 

 The exempt jurisdiction was abolished in 1 841," and 

 Halton, like Monks Risborough, is now in the diocese 

 of Oxford. The church of Halton presumably came 

 into the possession of the monastery of Christchurch, 

 Canterbury, as early as the manor, but it is not defi- 

 nitely mentioned till the 1 3th century. After the 

 separation of the monastic and episcopal possessions it 

 passed to the archbishops," who held the advowson of 

 the church until the reign of Henry VIII." Arch- 

 bishop Cranmer surrendered it" with the ratification 

 of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to the king, 

 and Henry VIII granted it in 1565-6 to Sir 

 Edward North and his wife Alice. Edward VI ap- 

 pears to have made reparation for the loss of the 

 advowson of Halton Rectory to the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury," but it was itself never recovered. Sir 

 Edward North sold it in 1 548-9 n to Henry Brad- 

 shawe, and from him it passed to the Fermors. In 

 1667 the advowson was quitclaimed by Henry and 

 Richard Fermor to Henry and Francis Harris and the 

 heirs of Henry," and the latter probably presented in 



1678. John Harris was the new rector, and in a list 

 of rectors :l he is said to have been presented by 

 Francis Harris, and admitted by Archbishop Sancroft, 

 but owing presumably to some confusion the arch- 

 bishop is said elsewhere to have collated to the rectory 

 himself in that year." The right to present to the 

 rectory passed for the next time to William Wilmer, 

 who exercised his right in 1685." Some years pre- 

 viously, however, in 1678," Richard Fermor had 

 granted a lease of the advowson for 99 years, and the 

 lessee, Ambrose Holbech, presented to the rectory 

 twice in 1691. The Fermors recovered possession 

 of the advowson before 1719,'' and it was sold with 

 the manor to Sir Francis Dashwood, and has since 

 then been in the possession of the lord of the manor, 

 Mr. Alfred de Rothschild being the present patron of 

 the living. The rectors of Halton do not seem to 

 have been in any way distinguished like many of the 

 clergy in Buckinghamshire. Two of them indeed 

 seem to have had an unenviable reputation. In 1 3 1 8 " 

 Philip de Walton was accused with several others of 

 theft at Hulcott, and in the 1 7th century John 

 Larimer obtained a grant of pardon " for the man- 

 slaughter of ' Christopher Harper, his servant, who 

 was hurt through his passionate and indiscreet correc- 

 tion, but lived 9 months after.' 



In 1553, as appears from a Decree 

 CHARITIES of Commissioners for Charitable Uses, 

 1630, Mrs. Alix Bradshawein her will 

 gave out of her lands in Edlesborough and Dagnall 

 2O/. a year, of which 6/. SJ. was for the poor of 

 Halton. See under Wendover. The annuity is paid 

 by Earl Brownlow. 



The poor of this parish are entitled to a moiety of 

 the income of Mrs. Joan 1'radshaw's Charity in Wend- 

 over. In 1906 the sum of 16 121. 6J. was received 

 as the half share of the George Inn, Wendover. 



Widow Turpin's Charity consisted of a rent-charge 

 of 1 8/. payable out of a close called Turpin's Spring, 

 in this parish, which is distributed in bread at the 

 church porch on St. Thomas's Day. An annuity of 1 

 is paid by Mr. A. C. de Rothschild. 



Edmund Lambert, M.D., by will dated 1st Octo- 

 ber 1866, administration of which was granted 

 5 February 1878, left a sum of ordinary stock of the 

 Great Western Railway, now represented by 100 

 like stock, the dividends to be applied for the benefit 

 of the poor. The stock, together with a sum of 

 I ii. \d. consols, is held by the Official Trustees, pro- 

 ducing in 1907 5 7/. 6J. 



The incomes of these charities are administered to- 

 gether. In 1906 18 was distributed in money, 5 

 in blankets, and i in bread. 



Cf. Monkt Riiborough. Ibid. 



Ctl. Pat. 1 131-47, p. 199. 

 14 fa/or Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 249. 

 Pit. 37 Hen. VIII, pt. 14. 

 " Ibid. 



Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. i, m. 16. 

 7 Feet of F. Buck*. Hil. i Edw. VI; 

 Ent. a Edw. VI. 



1 Feet of F. Bucka. Mich. 19 Chai. II. 

 '* Lipicomb, Hiit. of Bucki. ii, 119. 

 7* P.R.O. Intl. Bki. 1678. 

 ' Ibid. 1685. 



7> Notes of F. Bucki. Hil. 30 & 31 

 Chai. II. 



7* P.R.O. In.t. Bki. 1691. 

 tf Recov. R. Hil. 6 Ceo. I. 



"* Cloae, 7 Geo. I, pt. 18, no. 21. 



? Recov. R. Trin. 26 Geo. Ill ; Intt. 



Bki. (P.R.O.), 1736, I755,>765. '85. 

 1826; Shcahan, Hut. and Tofog. of Bucki. 

 138. 



10 Cal.Pat. 1317-11, p. IOO. 



n Ctl. S.P. Dam. 1667, p. 459. 



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