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left blank. The brass was evidently in the Abbey 

 Church. In the south aisle is a monument to William 

 liois, 1631. It has a broken pediment surmounted 

 by a figure of Time with his scythe over an arch 

 fantastically constructed of books. In the north 

 aisle is a monument to Dame Jane Walker, 1635, 

 some time the wife of Daniel Bonde of London and 

 later of Sir John Boys of Canterbury. 



The tower contains a sanctus in a small opening, 

 dated 1 78 2, and six bells: the treble dated 1692 ; the 

 second cast by Joseph Carter in 1603, and bearing his 

 mark ; the third dated 1640; the fourth cast by 

 Thomas Mean in 1824 ; the fifth by Ellis Knight 

 in 1623 ; and the sixth by Thomas Mean in 1840. 



The plate is modern and consists of two chalices, a 

 flagon, two standing patens, and a perforated spoon. 



The first book of the registers contains all entries 

 from 1694, baptisms and burials running to 1782 

 and marriages to 1753. A second book contains 

 burial in woollen with notes of the affidavits from 

 1678 to 1784 and a further continuation of burials to 

 1812. The third book contains baptisms from 1783 

 to 1809, and a fourth the same from 1809 to 1812, 

 and there is the first banns book of marriages from 

 175410 1786. 



The patronage of the church of 

 JDyOWSON St. Peter and St. Paul at Great Mis- 

 senden belonged to the lord of that 

 manor until it was given with its tithes by William de 

 Missenden to the abbey, which he founded there in 

 1 133."* The living was appropriated by the monas- 

 tery, a vicar being appointed by the abbot. 110 



At the Dissolution the advowson fell to the Crown, 

 and the vicarage was granted to Thomas Barnerdes, 

 one of the former monks, in lieu of a pension." 1 The 

 right of presentation was kept by the Crown until 

 about 1607, soon after which it seems to have been 

 granted to John Ramsey, Viscount Haddington, for in 

 1609 he sold it, together with the rectory, to William 

 Fleetwood."* The advowson and rectory then be- 

 came united, and have since followed the same descent, 

 until the death of John Oldham Oklh.im in 1822, 

 since when the advowson has been in the hands of his 

 trustees. 1 * 1 



The rectory of Great Missenden, which came into 

 the king's hands at the Dissolution, was in 1541 

 granted to Richard Greenway, a gentleman usher of 

 the Household, for a term of twenty-one years." 4 In 

 i 560 the reversion of the rectory at the end of that 

 term was granted to Richard Hampden, principal 

 clerk of the king's kitchen, for thirty years, and fell to 

 him late in 1561."* He, however, surrendered it 

 about 1578, when it was granted for life to Griffin 

 Hampden, and after his death to his daughters, Mary 

 and Ruth, for their lives. 1 " Mary, who subsequently 

 married James Russell, and her sister were both living 

 in 1597,'" but evidently died before 1606, for in 

 that year the rectory, which would revert to the 

 Crown at their death, was granted to John Ramsey, 



GREAT MISSENDEN 



Viscount Haddington. 1 * The latter sold it in 1609 

 to William Fleetwood,"* who died seised of it in 

 1 63 1, 1 " and in whose family it descended in the 

 same manner as Missenden Priory and Great Missen- 

 den Manor, 131 in which it has presumably become 

 merged. 



There are Baptist chapels at Great Missenden, 

 Lee Common, and at Hyde Heath, and a Primitive 

 Methodist chapel at Lee Common. 



In 1629 Nicholas Almond by deed 

 CHARITIES conveyed to trustees his messuage in 

 Thame now a house and shop, 2 Corn 

 Market, let at i 6 a year upon trust for the poor, 

 subject to the payment of 6/. 8V. for a sermon on the 

 Wednesday in Easter week. 



The charity is regulated by a scheme of 20 April 

 1 865, but the income has been absorbed in recent 

 years in repairs of the property. 



The charity of Dame Jane Boys, John Hampden, 

 and another, founded in 163;, consists of a house and 

 4 acres at Prestwood, and allotment land, producing 

 yearly 20 lit. \oJ. By an order of the Charity 

 Commissioners of 9 June 1896, made under the 

 Local Government Act, g'jth part of the net yearly 

 income was apportioned as the ecclesiastical branch. 

 In 1907 there was after repair and removal of the 

 monument of the foundress a balance in the hands of 

 the churchwardens of 2 l<)i. The net income of 

 the remainder of the charity was, under the title of the 

 Borough Charity, applied in apprenticeship premiums 

 and outfits. 



In 1 690 Thomas Gregory, by will proved in the 

 P.C.C. 29 March, gave 5 a year for poor house- 

 keepers not in receipt of parish relief. The annuity 

 is paid by the owner of Knives Farm, Hughenden. 

 The operation of the charity was in abeyance, and in 

 1 906 there was a balance in hand of 2 1 1 8*. 6J. 



In 1864 William Dent by deed gave a sum of 

 l,ooo consols fur educational purposes, the dividends 

 of which are duly applied. 



In 1888 Miss Jane Douglas, by will proved at 

 London 23 August, bequeathed to the vicar and 

 churchwardens a legacy, now represented by 

 327 I 5/. 2</. consols, with the official trustees, the 

 income to be distributed on 1 3 November in each 

 year among forty aged poor persons. The annual 

 dividend, amounting to 8 31. 8</., is applied in 

 charity tickets. 



In 1881 Abraham Watson, by will proved with a 

 codicil at London on 9 May, bequeathed .800 

 consols, the income, now amounting to 20 a year, 

 to be applied towards the support of the infant 

 schools. 



The same testator bequeathed to the vicar and 

 churchwardens of Great Missenden .180 consols, the 

 income now amounting to 4. loi. annually to be 

 distributed twice each year among the poor of the 

 hamlet. 



The sums of stock are held by the official trustees. 



Dugdale, Mm. i, ; 4 8 ; Harl. 3688. 

 ,' " yltr Eicl. (Rec. Com.), ir, 147. 

 > L. *J P. Hn. yill, xir (i), 161. 

 U* Feet of F. Buck*. Bait. 7 Jai. I. 

 CItrical Guidt ; Clrrg, Lut. 

 >" L. 1*4 P. Hen. ytll, i, 716 1 

 Pat. 10 Elix. pt. ri, m. 16. 



m Pat. 10 Elic. pt. ri, m. 16. 

 1* Ibid. 



"7 Feet of F. Buck*. Mich. ^ Eliz. 

 111 Pat. 4 Jai. I, pt. Tiii. 

 ' Feet of F. Buck*. Eait. 7 Jai. I. 

 140 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), ccccliir, 

 99- 



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

 88; Recor. R. Ducki. Mich. 1655, rot. 

 10 1 ; Init. Bki. (P.R.O.) ; Recov. R. 

 Bucki. Eait. I Jai. II, rot. 191 ; ibid. 

 Mich. 10 Anne, rot. c.8 | Feet of F. Eaal. 

 J Ceo. Ill } ibid. Trin. 13 Ceo. III. 



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