AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



HULCOTT 



reserved on the lease, namely 14 13*. 4</., to Richard 

 Greenway, gentleman usher of the King's Chamber.** 

 He held the m.inor at his death in 1551-2, leaving 

 his son Anthony, a minor, as his heir." Anthony 

 Greenway sold the manor in 1571 to John Fountain 

 and his son Thomas." They held jointly till the 

 death of John, from which time Thomas held it 

 alone." On his death in 1 623 he was succeeded by 

 his nephew, another Thomas Fountain." The manor 

 was again sold in 1639" to William Klmcs, Thomas 

 Elmes, and Thomas Wy.ni ; the last-named seems to 

 have obtained seisin of the manor, and a quitclaim 

 was made in 1652 to him by Thomas and Mary 

 Fountain and Alice Fountain, widow." Twenty 

 years later" Thomas Westerne and George Wyan 

 sold the manor to Timothy Neale and his wife Anne. 

 The Neales held the manor till 1741, when John 

 Neale and his wife, together with Thomas Hanbury 

 and William Neale, sold it to Sir John Fortescue 

 Aland, justice of Common Pleas." In 1746, on 

 retiring from the bench, he was created Baron For- 

 tescue of Credan in the peerage of Ireland." He 

 died in the same year, and his son Dormer Fortescue 

 Aland, the second baron, inherited the manor, but died 

 unmarried in 1781." By his will, dated 27 March 

 i 779, he left it to Dame Anne Tynte to hold for 

 life, then to John Parkhurst in fee-tail male, and then 

 in default to John George Parkhurst, also in fee-tail 

 male, with certain remainders and limitations. 40 Dame 

 Anne Tynte was the widow of Sir Charles Kemys 

 Tynte, the grandson of Grace Fortescue, a cousin of 

 the first Lord Fortescue of Credan." Dormer Park- 

 hurst was one of the executors of the first baron's 

 will," and the devisees in remainder in the second 

 Lord Fortescue's will were probably his heirs. John 

 Parkhurst died during the lifetime of Dame Anne, 

 and on her death in 1798 the manor of Hulcott 

 came into possession of John George Parkhurst. 44 

 The latter had to pay an annuity of joo to one 

 John Purling, 4 * and he had already granted away his 

 reversionary interest in Hulcott to Robert Walpole to 

 secure the better payment of the annuity. 4 * In 1 794 

 the annuity was 1,350 in arrears, 4 ' and Parkhurst 

 had other debts. 48 Various arrangements were made, 

 and Walpole agreed to convey the manor to John 

 Purling. 4 * Finally it was put up for sale by public 

 auction, 50 and was bought by John Baker, 41 who was 

 lord of the manor in 1813." Hulcott was purchased 

 in the middle of the 1 9th century by Baron Lionel 

 de Rothschild," and Mr. Leopold de Rothschild is 

 now lord of the manor. 



A mill is first mentioned at Hulcott in 1322." 

 The Fountains in the reign of Queen Elizabeth held 

 a water-mill,** which is again mentioned while the 

 Neales held the manor." In 1652 a windmill is 



mentioned as well as the water-mill, and was quit- 

 claimed with the manor to Thomas Wyan.* 7 



William le Graunt claimed to hold the view of 

 frankpledge and the assize of bread and ale before 

 the justices in 1276, but it is not clear whether he 

 made his claim for Hulcott or only for land in Aylcs- 

 bury." He held a free fishery in 1281, which is 

 again mentioned in a document of 1672." 



The church of ALL SJ1NTS has a 



CHURCH chancel 22ft. 9 in. by 1 2 ft. 6 in., nave 



3 2 ft. 6 in. by 1 4 ft. 3 in. with north 



porch, and south aisle 14 ft. wide. Over the west end 



of the nave is a wooden belfry. 



There are no details earlier than the 1 4th century, 

 but the walling of the nave is probably older than this 

 date. The chancel has a marked deviation to the 

 north, and seems to have been rebuilt in the first half 

 of the 14th century, its north wall being set outside 

 the line of that of an older chancel, while itt south 

 wall is in part on the older foundations. A south 

 transept chapel was added to the nave about 1 3 30, and 

 this was thrown into a south aisle early in the 1 6th 

 century, its east and south walls being apparently 

 rebuilt in the process. A second bay was added to 

 the south arcade, but the western part of the south 

 wall of the nave was left in position, with a window 

 in it as it now appears. 



The bell-turret is difficult to date, its timbers being 

 for the most part rough; it may be 15th-century 

 work, and is set rather irregularly across the west end 

 of the nave, resting on four large posts. 



The east window has a 14th-century rear-arch 

 and jambs, with shafts and roughly cut heads serv- 

 ing as capitals ; the tracery, of two cinquefoiled 

 lights with a sexfoil over, is an insertion of c. 1420. 

 On either side are plain image brackets, half-octagonal 

 in plan. The eastern part of the north wall is 

 blank, but near the west end is a narrow doorway 

 with chamfered jambs and segmental head, having 

 a label with large dripstones carved as grotesque 

 beasts' heads. West of it is a small square-headed 

 light, perhaps coeval with it. In the south wall is 

 a piscina with a roughly trefoiled head, and to the 

 west of it a window of two cinquefoiled lights with 

 a quatrefoil over, good work of c. 13 30, with moulded 

 inner and outer jambs and head. The rest of the 

 south wall is blank. 



The chancel arch is of two orders chamfered on the 

 east with double ogee moulds on the west ; the 

 responds are half-octagonal with moulded capitals and 

 bases c. 1 340. 



The nave has a large north window of late 15th- 

 century date, of three cinquefoiled lights, and a 14th- 

 century north doorway with a moulded label under a 

 plain stone porch which may be of I jth-century date. 



"Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 14) 

 L. tmd P. Hen. fill, sir (l), 1056 (47). 



M Chin. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), *cr, 4. 



11 Feet of F. Buck*. Eatt. ind Trin. 

 13 Eli*.; Recor. R. Eatt. 1] Eliz. The 

 leiee of th manor, Benedict Lee, wat 

 then dead ; hit widow Joan married 

 Michael Harcourt, and theie were panics 

 to the tale bjr Anthony Greenway. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlri, 119. 



* Ibid, ccccus, 1(7. 



" Recor. R. Hil. 14 Chat. I. 



M Feet of F. Buckt. Mich. 16152. 



M Ibid. Trin. 14 Chat. II ; Recor. R. 

 Mich. 6 Ceo. I. 



* ; Feet of F. Buckt. Trin. 14*15 

 Geo. II. 



" G.E.C. Comflttt Pttraffi Diet. Nat. 

 Biag. i, 116. 



" G.E.C. dm f leu Peerage. 



40 Lord Clermont, Life, Worki, and 

 Family Hiit. of Sir John Fortune, ii | 

 Recor. R. Trin. 42 Geo. III. 



41 Lord Clermont, Life, fftrh, and 

 Family Hiit. of Sir yobn Fortetcue, ii, 51. 



Ibid. 68. 



u Recov. R. Trin. 4* Geo. III. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 



1 1bid. 



Ibid. East. 58 Geo. III. 



Ibid. Trin. 42 Ceo. III. 



* Ibid. 



>> Feet of F. Buck*. Hil. 39 Geo. III. 



** Lyiont, Magna Brit, i, 582-3. 



* Sheahan, Hiit. ami Tofof. tf Such. 

 163. 



* Feet of F. Mich. 16 Edw. II. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvi, 119; 

 Recov. R. Hil. 14 Chat. I. 



* Recor. R. Mich. 6 Geo. I. 



*' Feet of F. Buckt. Mich. 1652. 



" HunJ. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 47 ( Attrev. 

 Plat. (Rec. Com.), 274. 



H Feet of F. Buckt. Trin. 24 Chat. II. 



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