A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



1 907 annuities were given to twenty beneficiaries at a 

 cost of 431. 



Charities founded by Miss Charlotte Raine by 

 deeds of 1875 and 1876 : 



(a) For the distribution of flannel ; trust fund 

 157 Ijs. lid. consols, producing yearly 3 l8/. 8*/. 



(b) For soup and wine, &c. ; trust fund, .209 y. 

 consols, annual income $ 4*. \d., and 



(c) For repairs, &c., of church ; trust fund, 

 166 I3/. 4<^. consols, annual income 4 3/. \d. 



The several sums of stock are held by the official 

 trustees. 



In 1880 James Henry Bird, by deed, dated 

 7 December, declared the trusts of two houses in 

 Paddington, being Nos. 1 08 and no Church Street, 

 let on lease for a term of 79 years from Michaelmas 

 1842, at a yearly rental of l 9. 



The same donor by his will, proved in 1884, 

 bequeathed a legacy represented by .725 14*. 8</. 

 consols, with the official trustees. The annual rents 

 and dividends, amounting together to 36 5*. 8<^., to 

 be expended on the repair of a tablet in the church, or 

 maintaining the choir, bell-ringers, clerk, organist, for 



sermons in commemoration of donor and his wife, and 

 in necessaries to the poor. 



Educational Charities. In 1849 Mrs. Penelope 

 Hunt, by her will, proved in the P.C.C. 9 June, 

 bequeathed 100 to the trustees of the National and 

 Parochial School as part of the general income. 

 Trust fund, 109 consols, with the official trustees, 

 produces yearly 2 14*. 4^. 



Miss Lydia Bates' Charity. In 1868 a sum of 

 666 1 3J. 4^. consols, arising under the will of this 

 testatrix, was transferred to the official trustees, the 

 dividends to be applied as a permanent annual fund 

 for the education of boys and girls residing within the 

 parish. In 1898 the sum of ij<) l$s. 6J. stock 

 was sold out to provide 200 towards the erection of 

 new schools, the dividends on the remainder of the 

 stock being accumulated to replace amount sold out. 

 The amount with the official trustees is now 

 639 l"js. ()d. consols. 



The Holmer Green School consists of schoolhouse 

 and land in hand, and an endowment of 395 ijs. ^d. 

 consols, with the official trustees, set aside in 1846. 

 This school is in course of being enlarged. 



STOKE MANDEVILLE 



Stoches, xi cent ; Stoke by Aylesbury, Stoke 

 Maundevile, xiv cent. 



The parish of Stoke Mandeville lies in the Vale of 

 Aylesbury and now contains over 1,499 acres of land. 

 Until 1885 some land at Prestwood formed a detached 

 portion of the parish, but in that year it was attached 

 for civil purposes to Great and Little Hampden 

 parish. 1 This estate, lying close to Great Hampden, 

 belonged from early times to the Hampdens, Alexander 

 de Hampden in the I3th century granting common 

 of pasture at Prestwood to the abbey of Missenden. 1 

 It afterwards became famous as the particular piece of 

 land for which John Hampden refused to pay ship- 

 money. In 1863 a memorial was put up near Honor 

 End Farm, with the following inscription : ' For 

 these lands in Stoke Mandeville John Hampden was 

 assessed 201. ship-money, levied by command of the 

 king without authority of law, 4 August 1635. By 

 resisting this claim of the king in legal strife, he upheld 

 the rights of the people under the law and became 

 entitled to grateful remembrance. His work on earth 

 ended after the conflict in Chalgrove Field, the 1 8 June 

 1643. And he rests in Great Hampden Church.' 



The main part of the parish is very flat, the land ly- 

 ing for the most part about 300 ft. above the Ordnance 

 datum. 3 The greater part, particularly in the north, 

 is laid down in permanent grass, with about 497 acres 

 of arable land and no wood. 4 The subsoil is Gault 

 and Upper Greensand and the surface stiff wet clay. 

 It is well watered by a small tributary of the Thame 

 which runs through the parish from south-west to 

 north-east and flows close to the old church on the 

 east side, serving the ditches of a rectangular inclosure 

 near to the church and extending round the churchyard. 

 There are moats at Brook Farm and Moat Farm. 

 Two high roads pass through the parish, one from 



Aylesbury to Wendover, and the other from Aylesbury 

 to Princes Risborough. The latter passes through 

 the village of Stoke Mandeville. The Great Western 

 Railway and the Metropolitan Extension Railway, 

 which has a station at Stoke Mandeville, cross the 

 parish. Stoke Mandeville parish was inclosed by 

 Act of Parliament, the award being given on 1 3 

 December 1798.' 



The houses in the village are mostly of red brick, 

 one or two of the 1 8th century, and some thatched. 

 The old church lies on low ground three-quarters of 

 a mile south of the village and was for this reason 

 deserted, a new church being built in the village. 

 Stoke House, now a farm, is a pretty square 18th-cen- 

 tury building with parts of a moat on the west and 

 north sides lying between the village and the old church. 

 Stoke Grange to the north of the village, Hall End to 

 the west, and Whitethorne Farm, are outlying farms. 

 In the time of King Edward the 

 MANORS Confessor the manor of STOKE 

 MAKDEV1LLE was held by Bishop 

 Wulfwig 6 of Dorchester, and after the Norman 

 Conquest William I restored it to the episcopal see, 

 then held by his favourite Remigius. The grant 

 was confirmed to Lincoln by William Rufus, 7 and the 

 bishops remained the overlords of the manor till the 

 1 7th century. 8 At the time of the Domesday Survey, 9 

 however, the manor of Stoke Mandeville was appen- 

 dant to the church of Aylesbury, a prebend of 

 Lincoln Cathedral. 



At the close of the I2th century the manor was 

 held in two parts of the Bishop of Lincoln, each of 

 his tenants holding the fee of one knight. 



One moiety was in the hands of a Kentish family, 

 taking their name from Eynsford. In 1 1 66 10 a 

 William de Eynsford held six knights' fees of the 



1 Local Govt. Bd. Order 25 Mar. 1885. 

 Harl. MS. 3688. OrJ. Sur-v. 



4 Inf. from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 

 1 Com. Incl. Award. 



y.C.H. Buck,, i, 233*. 

 ' Dugdale, Mem. Angl. Hi, 270. 

 8 Testa de Nruill (Rec. Com.), 245* ; 

 Feud, Aids, i, 98 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 



360 



2), cclxxxiv, no. 100; ibid. Misc. dxxx, 

 4 Chas. I, pt. 25, no. 127. 



V.C.H. Buch. i, 233*. 



" Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 376. 



