A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



the crossing. The nearest station is Stoke Mande- 

 ville, on the Metropolitan Extension Railway, about 

 l miles away. A Roman amphora and other objects 

 were discovered in the rectory garden. The parish 

 was inclosed by Act of Parliament, the award bearing 

 the date 5 July l8oo. s The manor-house is the 

 residence of Mr. T. C. H. Hedderwick. 



In the time of the Confessor* 

 MANORS WESTON TURVILLE was held in four 

 parts. Earl Leofwine held 9^ hides of 

 land himself, and two of his men held \\ hides ; z 

 hides were held by a man of Earl Tosti ; Godric the 

 sheriff held 3^ hides as one manor, and two of his 

 men held another 3^ hides, making a total of 20 

 hides. After the Norman Conquest 5 Weston Tur- 

 ville belonged to the lands of the Bishop of Bayeux, 

 and the earlier division into four parts was obliterated. 

 After the forfeiture of the bishop, Weston Turville 

 was presumably granted to one of the Counts of 

 Meulan, Earls of Leicester, and in this way became 

 part of the honour of Leicester. 6 Simon de Montfort 

 as Earl of Leicester 7 held it early in the 1 3th century, 

 but after his death the earldom was granted to Edmund 

 of Lancaster, the second son of Henry III.* The 

 latter died seised of three knights' fees 9 in Weston 

 Turville. From his time the honour of Leicester 

 was held by the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster, so that 

 Weston Turville became part of the Duchy of Lan- 

 caster. 10 Under the Inclosure Act of 1 798 a piece of 

 ground, rather more than half an acre in extent, was 

 allotted to the Duchy of Lancaster. It was to equal 

 one-twelfth of the common and waste lands and 

 grounds as a ' compensation for all rights and interest 

 of his said Majesty as Lord of the Manor.' This 

 \ acre was sold shortly before 1862 to Mr. John 

 Eldridge of Weston Turville. The paramount lord- 

 ship presumably passed with it, but apparently no 

 homage had been done to the duchy from any of the 

 manors in Weston Turville since the inclosure of the 

 common fields." The Earl of Leicester in the I3th 

 century held the pleas of namio vetito and the view of 

 frankpledge in Weston Turville. In 1254 the rights 

 were said to have belonged to the overlord of the 

 manor since the Conquest, except for a time when 

 the honour of Leicester was in the hands of the king. 18 

 This presumably refers to the time just before Simon 

 de Montfort was made Earl of Leicester. 



In the reign of Edward I the lords of the honour 

 also claimed to have the return of writs in the manor 

 of Weston Turville. 13 



The Bishop of Bayeux '* had subinfeudated all his 

 land in Weston Turville in 1086. One hide was 

 held by the Bishop of Lisieux, and the remainder of 

 the land was in the hands of Roger, who may have 

 been the Roger from whom the Bolebecs traced their 

 descent in the female line. His son was named 

 Anketill, and Roger son of Anketill was said to be in 

 seisin 15 of the manor of Weston Turville in the time 



TUBVILLE. Gules 

 three cheverons vair. 



of Henry I. Roger's daughter Isabella married a 

 Bolebec, and through this marriage his descendant 

 Herbert de Bolebec claimed the manor in I2I2. 16 

 Whether his family ever held it in right of Isabella is 

 not clear, but at the time of his claim the Turvilles 

 were in seisin. How they became possessed of it is 

 also lost in obscurity, but they 

 may have obtained it through 

 another daughter and heiress 

 of Roger son of Anketill. 

 William de Turville held the 

 manor in the reign of King 

 John, 17 and in I 206 he granted 

 it for the term of thirteen 

 years to Geoffrey Fitz Piers, 

 Earl of Essex. William de 

 Turville was succeeded by his 

 son William, who had, how- 

 ever, died before 1222, appa- 

 rently leaving no children." His heirs were Cecilia 

 the wife of Reginald or Roger de Croft, Isabella 

 the wife of Walhamet le Poure, and Petronilla the 

 wife of Simon de Crewelton or Turville, who were 

 presumably his sisters. 19 The manor of Weston 

 Turville was divided between Cecilia and Petro- 

 nilla, but the land was divided amongst the 

 three heiresses, 20 who seem each to have held one 

 fee." The moiety of the manor assigned to Petro- 

 nilla obtained the name of WESTON MOLTNS. 

 Simon de Crewelton seems to have assumed the 

 name of his wife's family and to have transmitted 

 it to his descendants. In 1236 he and Petronilla 

 obtained a quitclaim 21 from Gilbert de Bolebec of 

 his claim to Weston Turville. They were succeeded 

 by William de Turville before 1278," and he in 

 turn was succeeded by Nicholas de Turville before 

 1 296-7." William was sheriff of Bedfordshire and 

 Buckinghamshire in 1288 and I29I, 25 and Nicholas 

 in I293. 26 The latter granted the manor to Hugh 

 de Turpleton in 1329," but before 1 333-4 it had 

 passed to Sir John de Molyns.' 3 Walter son of 

 Hugh de Turpleton quitclaimed it to Sir John and 

 his wife Gille and their son John in 1 338-9." The 

 new tenants had obtained a pardon from the king, 30 

 shortly after entering in the manor, of all debts and 

 arrears of farms due at the Exchequer from William 

 and Nicholas de Turville, contracted during the time 

 of their shrievalty. Sir John de Molyns held the 

 manor in 1 346. He enfeoffed his son John de 

 Molyns and his wife Joan for themselves and the 

 heirs of their bodies, with remainder to William the 

 brother of the feoffee.* 1 John de Molyns the younger 

 predeceased his father, 82 but his widow Joan, who 

 afterwards married Sir Michael Poyninges, held the 

 manor till her death in 1369." She had no children 

 by her first husband, and it passed, according to the 

 settlement by Sir John de Molyns, to William de 

 Molyns. The latter died in 1380-1," and the 



Com. Incl. Awards. 



y.C.H. Bucks, i, 234*. 



Ibid. 



Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 245*. 



Ibid. 



Feud Aids, i, 86. 



'Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 5i{4). 



10 Ibid. 4 Ric. II, no. 38. 



11 Sheahan, Hist, and Tofog. of Bucks. 

 214. 



" Hund. R, (Rcc. Com.), i, 20. 

 13 Ibid, i, 44. 



" V.C.H. Bucks, i, 234*. 



" Cur. Reg. R. 55, m. 8. 



Ibid. 



'7 Cart. Antiq. R. Z. 34. 



18 Cur. Reg. R. 81, m. 8 ; Maitland, 

 Bracfon's Note Bk. ii, no. 203. 



" Ibid. 



10 Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 245*. 



n Feud. Aids, i, 86. 



M Feet of F. Buck.. Trin. 20 Hen. III. 



*> Ibid. Mich. 6 Edw. I ; Feud. Aids, 

 i, 86. 



366 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw.I, no. 51 (i). 

 84 List of Sheriffs, P.R.O. M Ibid. 



* Cal. Close, 1327-30, p. 524; Feet 

 of F. Bucks. Trin. 3 Edw. III. 



28 Chart. R. 7 Edw. Ill, m. I, no. 3 ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1330-4, p. 493. 



29 Feet of F. Bucks. Mil. 12 Edw. III. 



80 Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 119. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. z 

 (ist nos.), no. 15. 



81 Ibid. " Ibid. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ric. II, no. 38. 



