AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



STOKE MANDEVILLE 



Bishop of Lincoln, and his heir appears to have been 

 called Roger, since at the close of the 12th century a 

 William son of Roger held one fee in Stoke Mande- 

 ville." This William may be identified with the 

 William de Eynsford who made a grant of one virgate 

 of land in Stoke in 1 199." At his death, which took 

 place before 1*31," he held the 'manor of Stoke,' 

 which was delivered by the king's escheators to the 

 Bishop of Lincoln during the minority of the heir, 

 another William de Eynsford, 14 who presumably was 

 seised of this part of Stoke when he came of age. He 

 seems to have left two daughters " as his heirs, one of 

 whom married Nicholas de Cryel and the other William 

 Heringaud." The heiress of William Heringaud was 

 Christiana, the wife of William de Kirkeby," and she 

 appears to have inherited the moiety of the manor of 

 Stoke Mandeville. A certain Agnes daughter of Robert 

 de la Lese of Eynsford had some right in it, however, 

 since in 1 282 "she quitclaimed it to both Nicholas 

 son of Nicholas de Cryel and to William de Kirkeby 

 and Christiana. In 1301 or 1302," William de 

 Kirkeby died seised of this moiety of the manor, held 

 in right of his wife and she held it alone in I 302-3.*' 

 In 1 309," however, she granted her moiety of the 

 manor to William Inge. During her life she was to 

 hold it of him at the rent of 10 a year," the rever- 

 sion being to William and his heirs, to hold of Chris- 

 tiana and her heirs. William Inge granted the moiety 

 to his daughter Joan on her marriage with Eudo la 

 Zouche.* 3 Eudo died in 1 326," and Joan claimed 

 the manor as part of her own inheritance. She after- 

 wards married Sir William Moton,' 4 who held half a 

 knight's fee in Stoke Mandeville in 1 346." Another 

 Sir William Moton, probably his grandson, died seised 

 in 1393" of a manor in Stoke Mandeville called 

 OLDBURT MJNOR" which may probably be iden- 

 tified with the ' moiety of the manor of Stoke Mande- 

 ville,' leaving a son Robert as his heir, a minor at his 

 father's death. 



Robert Moton obtained seisin of the manor," but it 

 was claimed by K William la Zotache of 'Totteneys,' 

 the grandson of Eudo la Zouche and Joan. William 

 based his claim on the original grant by William Inge 

 which was made to Eudo and Joan " and the heirs of 

 their bodies, so that her heir by Sir William Moton 

 had no right in the manor. The suit was protracted 

 since Robert Moton was abroad on the king's service ** 

 in 1402, but William la Zouche was apparently suc- 

 cessful, as he held the manor of Stoke Mandeville in 

 1409." In that year he granted it to Henry, Bishop 



of Winchester, Hugh Mortimer, Robert Isham, and 

 John Neubold. From these feoffees this manor must 

 shortly have passed to Henry Brudenell, a younger son 

 of William Erud:nell of Aynho." By his will, dated 

 22 Jan. 1430-1, he left the manor of Oldbury to his 

 third son Robert, 54 from whom descended the Brude- 

 nells of Stoke Mandeville. 1 * Robert was succeeded by 

 his son John Brudenell, who died in 1533," but the 

 manor is not mentioned among the lands held at his 

 death." 



His grandson Francis," however, died seised of the 

 manor of Oldbury, 40 and it passed to his son and 

 grandson, both called Edmund. Both Francis and 

 Edmund his son held the manor of Oldbury, 4 ' 

 and another manor in the parish called NEWBURT 

 (q.v.), names which had disappeared by 1813," 

 and it seems probable that the two moieties of the 

 manor of Stoke Mandeville were united. In various 

 settlements made by the Brudenells the 'manor of 

 Stoke Mandeville ' a is the name used apparently for 

 the same property which had been included under 

 Newbury and Oldbury. Edmund Brudenell the 

 grandson of Francis, together with Joyce his wife, quit- 

 claimed the manor in 1628 M to Christopher Parkins 

 and his heirs, but this may only have been a settlement. 

 Lipscomb 44 gives 1639 as the date of the sale by 

 Edmund Brudenell to Thomas Harborne. 



In 1712" Thomas Jackson was said by the same 

 historian to have been in possession of Stoke Mande- 

 ville and he died there in 1723. He was possibly 

 succeeded by his son John, who endowed a 

 charity in the parish. 46 * In 1745, however, John 

 Smith held the manor and obtained a quitclaim 

 from Henry Eggleton and Dorothy his wife." It 

 seems probable that he may have been succeeded by 

 William Wiseman Clarke, whose grandmother Eliza- 

 beth was a daughter of another John Smith, possibly 

 his father. 4 * William Wiseman Clarke, the great- 

 grandson of Elizabeth, held the manor of Stoke M.in- 

 deville in the latter part of the 1 8th century, 4 ' and in 

 1790 * he sold it to Charles Lucas of Aylesbury, who 

 was lord of the manor in 1813." His daughter held 

 it in 1 862," and it is now the property of Mr. Edward 

 Lucas. 



The other fee in Stoke Mandeville was held of the 

 Bishop of Lincoln at the close of the 1 3th century, by 

 Geoffrey de Mandeville in dower of his wife. In 1 254," 

 however, he was said to hold the whole of Stoke, but 

 this is probably due to an omission, since the other 

 moiety was held separately and directly from the 



u Tnu di NtviU (Rec. Com.), 145*. 

 **Ahbrcv. Plae. (Rec. Com.), 23. 

 11 Cat. Clou, 1 227-31, p. 564. 

 14 Ibid. 1231-4, p. 112. 

 u Ibid. 1272-9, p. 23. 

 flu. Ji Qua War. (Rec. Com.), 258*. 

 "7 Feud. AiJi, i, 86. 



Feet of F. Dir. Co. Eait. 10 Edw. I, 

 not. 42, 43, 45. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, no. 31. 

 *> Ftud. AiJi, i, 98. 

 " Feet of F. Buclu. Mich. 3 Edw. II. 

 >* Ibid. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. II, no. 31. 

 " Ibid. 



* De Banco R. Trin. 6 Edw. II, m. 

 147 d. ; Feet of F. Buck*. Trin. I Edw. 

 III. 



* FiuJ. Aidi, i, 123. 



* Nicholli, Hill, and Antij. if Ltiei. 

 i*, pt. 2, p. 870. The Mcond William 



Moton it omitted in the pedigree in Viiit. 

 of Norn. (Harl. Soc. iv), 128, 129. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II (pt. i), 

 no. 21. 



* Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 175. 



10 De Banco R. 570, m. 268 d. ; ibid, 

 m. 442 d. 



11 Ibid. 



* Cal. Pat. 1401-;, p. 175. 



" Chin. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 46. 



* Collint, fttragt ofEngl. (ed. Brydget), 

 iii, 488. 



Ibid. 



* I' nit. ofBueb. 1566 (ed. Metcalfe). 

 7 Esch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 29, no. 4. 



M Lipicomb, Hiit. of Bucki. ii, 447. 

 Pedigree of Brudenell from Cardigan 

 MSS. 



" According to the fiiit. of Bueki. 

 1566, Francit wat the greit-grandion of 

 thit John Brudenell. 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser 2), cclrxxiv, no. 

 100. 



41 Feet of F. Bucki. Eatt. 8 Jat. I ; ibid. 

 Trin. 16 Jat. I ; Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. 

 dxzi, pt. 25, no. 127. 



4 > l.yioni, Ma fun Brit, i, 635. 



* Feet of F. Bucki. Eait, 4 Chat. I ; 

 Recov. R. Eait. 4 Chat. I. 



44 Feet of F. Bucki. Eatt. 4 Chat. I ; 

 Recor. R. Eait 4 Chat. I. 



4t Hiit. of Bucki. ii, 448. 



Ibid. 449. 



*. Cf. Charitiet of Stoke Mandeville. 



*~> Feet of F. Bucki. Eait. 18 Geo. II. 



48 Burke, Commoner!, i, 1 10. 



41 Lytont, Magna Brit, i, 635 ; Burke, 

 Commoner i t i, 1 1 o. 



H Lytont, lot. cit. 



" Ibid. 



M Sheahan, To fog. of Bucki. 197. 



Hand. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



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