AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



Hoping through Christ he will provide 

 For my soul w lh thyne in heaven to abide 

 And I your father Edmund Brudcnell 

 Untill the resurection with the will dwell 

 And so adew my sweet lambs three 

 Untill in heaven I shall you see 

 Such is my hope of Richard my son 

 Whose body licth buried in King's Button. 



There are five bells, the treble and second by Ellis 

 Knight, 1633, the third of 1730, the fourth of 1659, 

 an early work of the younger Henry Knight, and 

 the tenor by Ellis Knight, 1636. 



A plated set of communion vessels is in use ; 

 other stiver plate exists but cannot, it is alleged, be 

 found. 



The registers are said to be lost. 



The chapel of Stoke Mandeville 

 JDPOfPSON was originally appendant to the pre- 

 bendal church of Aylesbury, together 

 with the chapelries of Bierton, Buckland, and Quar- 

 rendon. 1 " In 1266 "* the four chapels were granted 

 by the Bishop of Lincoln to the Dean and Chapter of 

 Lincoln, and in 1294"' a vicarage was instituted of 

 Bierton Church, with the chapels of Stoke Mandeville, 

 Buckland, and Quarrendon. A separate chaplain was 

 to be found by the vicar of Bierton to serve the chapel 

 of Stoke Mandeville, 1 " the altar dues being worth 

 7 marks a year. In 1858 the chapels of Stoke 

 Mandeville and Buckland '" were separated from 

 Bierton, and formed separate benefices. The Dean 

 and Chapter of Lincoln are still patrons of the living, 

 which is now a vicarage. The rectorial estate has 

 belonged since 1 294 to the dean and chapter. 

 It was leased by them in the 1 8th century to the 

 governors of Christ's Hospital, London, who held 

 it in 1813 and 1862.'" The rectorial estate became 

 the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 

 I870. 1 "* 



A detached portion of Stoke Mandeville parish, at 

 Prestwood, was amalgamated in 1852"* with parts of 

 Hughenden and Great Missenden parishes, and as- 

 signed to the Consolidated Chapelry of Prestwood, 

 which forms a separate ecclesiastical parish. The 

 living is a vicarage, of which Mr. C. D. Disraeli 

 is the patron. The church of the Holy Trinity 

 was built shortly before the formation of the parish, 



WESTON TURVILLE 



and was consecrated in 1849. It was enlarged 

 in 1885. 



There is a Wesleyan chapel in Stoke Mandeville, 

 built in 1818. 



George Shaw,"* who was curate of Stoke Man- 

 deville and Buckland in 1774, attained consider- 

 able fame as a naturalist in the i8th century. 

 He was the younger son of the Rev. Timothy Shaw, 

 the vicar of Bierton, and was born in 1751, and as a 

 boy showed his love for natural history. He was 

 ordained deacon in 1774, but afterwards abandoned 

 the Church as a profession, to study medicine at 

 Edinburgh. He then went to Oxford as botanical 

 lecturer. He took part in 1788 in the founding of 

 the Linnaean Society in London, where he had prac- 

 tised for a year, and became one of the vice-presidents 

 of the society. In 1791 Shaw was appointed assistant- 

 keeper of the natural history section of the British 

 Museum, and was keeper from 1807 till his death in 

 1813. He was an indefatigable worker, and the writer 

 of many scientific papers and books. 



In 1726 John Jackson, for carry- 

 CH4RITIES ing out the desire of his late father, 

 Thomas Jackson, by deed settled a 

 yearly rent-charge of i for providing 120 twopenny 

 loaves of good wholesome bread for the poor on 

 Easter Day. The rent-charge is paid out of three cot- 

 tages situated near the Bull Inn. 



Charity of Annabella Ligo, founded by indenture 

 of 1 5 October 1733, consists of 3 roods in this parish, 

 let at z a year. In 1907 45 poor persons received 

 gifts of bread in respect of these charities. 



Unknown donor In the Parliamentary returns of 

 1786, a yearly sum of i io/. was stated to be dis- 

 tributed to the poor of this parish, who also had a 

 right to forty days' thrashing of wheat, barley, and 

 bean straw. In respect of this charity, the sum of 

 5 a year was formerly paid by the Governors of 

 Christ's Hospital under a lease from the Dean and 

 Chapter of Lincoln of the rectorial estate of this 

 parish, which became the property of the Ecclesi- 

 astical Commissioners in 1870. 



The charge was redeemed by the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners in 1880 by the transfer to the official 

 trustees of .167 new 3 per cent, stock, now consols, 

 now producing yearly 4 3*. 4^., which is distributed 

 in gifts of money. 



WESTON TURVILLE 



Weston, xi cent. ; Weston Tnrville, xiii cent. 



The parish of Weston Turville contains 2,323} 

 acres of land, 1 of which rather more than 1 ,070 are 

 arable, the rest, with the exception of about 7^ acres of 

 wood, being laid down in permanent pasture.' The 

 subsoil is Gault, Upper Greensand, and Chalk, the 

 surface being variable, either loam or day. The 

 population is occupied in agriculture and duck breed- 

 ing. A little straw-plait is still made, but the indus- 

 try is gradually dying out. The parish is well 

 watered by various streams running north, one of 

 which supplies the water for the mill. There are 



moats at the Manor House, Manor Farm at West End, 

 and near Broughton Farm. The Wendover branch 

 of the Grand Junction Canal crosses the parish, and 

 there is a large reservoir belonging to the Canal 

 Company in the extreme south. The land lies for 

 the most part between 200 ft. and 300 ft. above the 

 Ordnance datum, and the village stands 300 ft. above 

 the same datum. The Akeman Street, which runs 

 from Aylesbury to Tring, and the main road from 

 Aylesbury to Wendover, which follows the line of 

 the Lower Icknield Way for part of its course, cross 

 the parish, and the village of Weston Turville lies at 



Cal. PH. 1313-17, p. 304. 

 i" Ibid. 



ul Line. Epii. Reg. Bp. Sutton't Init. 

 ut Rte. of Bucki. i, 233-45. 



10 Sheahan,//!!/. tnd Tofog.ofBucti. 1 09. 

 114 Ljrioni, Mtna Brit, i, 6 3 5 ; Shcahan, 

 Hiit. and To fog. of But la. 199. 



uu Cf. Chiritici of Stoke MandeYille. 



365 



* Lund. Can. 9 April 1851 (1019). 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. li, 436. 



1 Ord Surv. 



1 Inf. supplied bjr Bd. of Agric. (190;). 



