A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



since remained. Mrs. Carrington was lady of the 

 manor until after 1899 ; Mr. George Carrington is 

 the present lord. 



The privilege of holding a fair on the eve and day 

 of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (14 and 

 1 5 August) was granted by Henry III to Joan de 

 Sandford, 80 and confirmed in 1367 to Thomas de 

 Missenden. 81 A fair is vaguely mentioned in the 

 grant of Netherbury to Sir Marmaduke Darrell.** 

 Later, fairs were held on Easter Tuesday and the 

 Monday after Michaelmas, but have been abolished 

 since 1883. 



A market to be held weekly on Tuesdays was 

 granted to Joan de Sandford together with the fair, 

 and follows the same descent. It does not now sur- 

 vive. 



View of frankpledge is mentioned in Great Missen- 

 den as early as I254- 63 It remained with the courts 

 leet in the possession of the overlords until the I ;th cen- 

 tury, 84 and was leased by them to the sub-tenants. In 

 the reign of Edward I the sub-tenants of both moieties 

 of Great Missenden claimed to hold the view to- 

 gether, paying ids. for it to the Earl of Gloucester. 

 They also held tourn twice a year ' without any ser- 

 vant of the king,' and had the right of gallows, pillory, 

 and tumbril. 84 



Free warren was granted to Henry Husee in his 

 moiety of Great Missenden in 127 1, 66 and was con- 

 firmed to Thomas de Missenden in I354. 8 ' 



A water-mill called Deep Mill, which is still in 

 existence, in the south of the parish, on the River 

 Misbourne, seems to have belonged, until the Dissolu- 

 tion, to Missenden Abbey. 88 It was granted in I 545 

 to Richard and Robert Taverner, 89 after which it 

 came into the possession of Anthony Nyxe, miller, 

 who sold it in 1584 to William Fleetwood, who died 

 seised of it in I594. 90 In 1610 it was granted to 

 David Fowles, who married a Fleetwood," but had 

 returned to William's grandson John Fleetwood before 

 l639, 9> after which it descended in that family with 

 the manor of Great Missenden. 93 A windmill is 

 mentioned in I773, 93a and is perhaps that now situ- 

 ated at Prestwood. 



The reputed manor of PETERLET or PETER- 

 LErSTONE (Peterlaia, xii cent.) belonged at an early 

 date to Missenden Abbey, and seems to have been 



given to that monastery by Hugh de Noers and his 

 son William in I I4i. 94 It remained in the possession 

 of the abbey until its dissolution,^ when it seems to 

 have been granted to Geoffrey Dormer. 96 It was held 

 of the king as of his manor of East Greenwich. 97 In 

 1551 Geoffrey conveyed it to Robert Woodliffe, 98 but 

 pos;ibly for a term of years only, or in mortgage, for 

 Robert Dormer, Geoffrey's grandson, 99 appears as lord 

 of the manor in 1580. In 1557 Robert Woodliffe 

 settled Peterley upon himself and Anne Drury, whom 

 he was about to marry. He died in 1593 and was 

 succeeded by his son Drew Woodliffe, 100 who in 1596 

 joined with his mother in conveying the manor back 

 to Sir Robert Dormer. 101 Sir Robert was created by 

 James I Baron Dormer of Wyng, and hereditary Chief 

 Avenor and keeper of the king's hawks. 10 * He died 

 in 1616, having settled his newly-built manor house 

 of Peterley on his wife Elizabeth for her life, with 

 reversion to his third son Robert, 103 who is referred to 

 as Robert Dormer of Peterley. 104 The latter died in 

 1656 and was succeeded by his son Charles, 105 and by 

 his grandson Charles in 1677. , m The last-named 

 Charles became Baron Dormer of Wyng upon the 

 death of his cousin Rowland Dormer in 171 2, 107 and 

 the manor of Peterley has since descended with that 

 barony, and is now the residence of the thirteenth 

 baron. 108 



The Abbot of Missenden obtained a grant of free 

 warren in Peterley in 1302, which was confirmed in 



I 4 26. 109 



The lyth-century house having been allowed to 

 fall into decay was completely destroyed and replaced 

 by a small building of no particular interest in the 

 first half of the igth century. 



The ABBEY OF GRE4T MISSENDEN for 

 Arroasian Canons was founded in 1133 by William 

 de Missenden, lord of that manor, who endowed it 

 with lands in the parish, including Potter Row (Pot- 

 terewe), Ballinger (Balenger), Kingshill (Kyngeshull), 

 Peterley, Prestwood, and Moretensend. 110 The ad- 

 vowson of the monastery remained in the hands of his 

 successors. 



Upon the dissolution of the monastery of Great 

 Missenden the site and lands belonging were granted 

 early in 1541 to Richard Greenway, a gentleman 

 usher of the king's household, for twenty-one years. 111 



8 Chart. R. 41 Edw. Ill, m. 3, no. 13. 

 81 Ibid. 



83 Pat. iz Jas. I, pt. v, no. 12. 



88 Rot. HunJ. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 ; 

 ibid. 1 1 Edw. II, no. 74 ; ibid. 21 Edw. 

 Ill (ist nos.), no. 59 ; ibid. 10 Ric. II, no. 

 38 ; ibid. 16 Ric. II (pt. i), no. 27 ; ibid. 

 22 Ric. II, no. 46 ; ibid. 4 Hen. IV, no. 



KPlac. Je Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 

 95 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. n Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 38. 



* 6 Col. Chart. 1257-1300, p. 176. 



' Chart. R. 28 Edw. Ill, m. 3, no. 



12. 



8 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xx (2), 496 



(7)- 



89 Ibid. 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxriii, 

 69. 



' Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. 35, no. I ; Lips- 

 comb, Hitt. of Bucks. 386, quoting Paro- 

 chial Reg. 



m Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxci, 

 88. 



83 Rccov. R. Bucks. East, i Jas. II, rot. 



191 ; Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 13 Geo. 

 III. Ibid. 



W Harl. 3688, foL i8A. He gave a 

 virgate of land in Peterleia held by Le- 

 venadus the Smith. 



* Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 344 ; Dngdalc, 

 Man. vi, 549. 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxiv, 



34- 



>' Ibid. Misc. 21 Chas. I, pt. 32, no. 

 105. 



93 Ibid. (Ser. 2), ccxxxiv, 34. 



M Genealogist, vii, 173 ; Recov. R. 

 Bucks. East. 22 Eliz. rot. 105. In 1574 

 there was a grant of Peterley to Anthony 

 Kynwelmershe and his heirs. Probably 

 he was a fishing grantee. Pat. 17 Eliz. 

 pt. xi, m. 5. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxiv, 

 34 ; Fine R. 35 Eliz. pt. i, no. 37. 



lul Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 38 & 39 

 Eliz. 



1" G.E.C. Compltte Peerage. 



108 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclviii, 



IO2. 



10< G.E.C. Complete Peerage. Robert 

 Earl of Carnarvon, grandson and heir of the 



350 



first Baron Dormer of Wyng, appears from 

 his inquisition in 1645 to have been seised 

 of the manor of Peterley, but this must 

 have been a false claim, for his uncle 

 Robert was still living, and was holding 

 the manor just before his death in 1656 ; 

 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 384, quoting 

 monumental inscription ; Feet of F. 

 Bucks. Trin. 1656. 



105 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



' Ibid. ; Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. J 

 Will, and Mary. 



I0 ' G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



108 Burke, Peerage, I 907. A so-called 

 manor of Peterley appears in the posses- 

 sion of William Fleetwood in 1684, and 

 in that of his descendants in 1763 and 

 1773. It was perhaps an error of expres- 

 ion arising from their holding lands in 

 Peterley ; Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 36 

 Chas. II ; ibid. East. 3 Gco. Ill ; ibid. 

 Trin. 1 3 Geo. III. 



109 Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 344. 



Harl. 3688; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 

 iv, 247 ; Dugdale, Afon. vi, 548. 



111 L. and P. Hen. I III, xvi, 726 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xcv, 4. 



