A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



BoTILtER. Guilt a 



feat cheeky argent and 

 sable between tix cross- 

 lets or. 



before 1296," when his land was held by his heirs, 

 his two daughters Ella and Isabel. The former 

 married William le Botiller of Wem, 7 ' and her sister 

 may perhaps be identified with Isabel the wife of 

 John de Hulles, who, jointly with her husband, 

 granted the manor of Weston Turville to Ella widow 

 of Walter de Hopton. 77 This perhaps was a settle- 

 ment of the inheritance of 

 the two sisters, since Ella may 

 have been married to Walter 

 de Hopton before her mar- 

 riage with William le Botiller. 

 It is, moreover, certain that 

 this moiety of the manor of 

 Weston Turville was not sub- 

 divided at this time, but passed 

 to Ella and her heirs. Ed- 

 mund le Botiller held one 

 knight's fee in I346, 79 and 

 after his death it passed to his 

 brother Edward. 79 He also 

 died without direct heirs in 



I376, 80 and the moiety of the manor of Weston 

 Butlers was subdivided among his four sisters or their 

 heirs. 81 Dionisia, the eldest, was alive at the time 

 of her brother's death, and was the wife of Hugh 

 de Cokesey. 81 The next sister Ida married William 

 Trusselof Odiham, but she had predeceased her brother, 

 and her purparty came to her daughter Margaret, 63 

 the wife of Fulk de Pembrugge. 84 In 1383 Fulk and 

 Margaret granted their quarter of Weston Butlers to 

 Walter de Cokesey the son and heir of Dionisia, 85 so 

 that her descendants became possessed of a half. An- 

 other Walter de Cokesey died seised in 1 4O7, 86 leaving 

 Hugh his son and heir, aged three. 87 The latter died, 

 and the moiety of the manor passed to his sister Joice, 89 

 whose husband was John Greville of Camden. 89 Their 

 son Sir John Greville died seised probably in 1467" 

 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who assumed the 

 name of Cokesey. He seems to have died in 1 49 8-9,* 

 and was succeeded by his cousins Elizabeth and Mar- 

 gery, the daughters of Thomas Huddington and the 

 descendants of Cecily, a sister of Joice Cokesey. In 

 1500* Elizabeth was the wife of Robert Russel, and 

 Margery of Robert Winter, and they sold their moiety 

 of Weston Butlers in that year to Sir Reginald Bray 

 for 120." Elizabeth afterwards married as her 

 second husband Sir Edward Stanley, and gave a further 

 quitclaim to Sir Reginald Bray. 94 The latter died in 

 i 503, and his niece Margaret, 95 who had married Wil- 

 liam Sandys, Lord Sandys, 96 inherited the greater part 



of his lands. 97 A dispute arose between them and 

 Edmund Bray, a nephew of Sir Reginald, as to the 

 partition of Sir Reginald's lands, but in 15103 settle- 

 ment was made through the mediation of the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury and others, and the manor of 

 Weston Turville was granted to Edmund. 98 He 

 seems to have sold it to Sir Peter Vavasour, Edmund 

 Windsor, and John Ede in 1529," and ten years Liter 

 Sir Andrew Windsor, Lord Windsor, was the lord of 

 the manor, 100 which was united by him to the manor 

 of Weston Molyns. 



The third sister of Edward le Botiller, Alice, 

 married Nicholas de Longville. 101 She did not survive 

 her brother, and her son Nicholas de Longville suc- 

 ceeded in I376 102 to a fourth part of the manor of 

 Weston Butlers. A third Nicholas de Longville, her 

 grandson, held this part of the manor in I4o6. 103 

 Probably his share may be identified with the fourth 

 part of the manor afterwards known as Whaplode's 

 part. What Whaplode this was is unknown. A 

 William Whaplode died presumably during the reign 

 of Henry VI, since an inquisition on his lands was 

 made in I448. 1M The finding was, however, that he 

 held no land in Buckinghamshire, and that neither 

 the date of his death nor his heir could be ascertained. 

 A man of the same name had been an escheator in 

 the county in the reign of Henry V. 105 Whaplode's 

 part, however, came to Sir Edmund Hampden, the 

 second son of Edmund Hampden 1M of Great Hamp- 

 den, and a vigorous Lancastrian partisan. He was 

 attainted on the accession of Edward IV, 107 and his 

 lands were forfeited. The king granted Whaplode's 

 part for life to Richard and Thomas Croft in l^6^, m 

 and in 1467-8 their lands were specially exempted 

 from the Act of Resumption of that date. 109 On the 

 expiration of the grant this part of the manor seems to 

 have remained in the hands of the Crown. Possibly 

 it may be identified with a manor that Charles I held 

 belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1650 it 

 was taken into the hands of the commissioners for the 

 sale of the honours, manor, and lands belonging to 

 the king and queen. 110 



Ankaretta the fourth sister of Edward le Botiller 

 married John Lestrange of Blakemere, and her great- 

 granddaughter Elizabeth Lestrange obtained her 

 fourth share of the manor of Weston Butlers on the 

 death of Edward in I376, 111 but being still a minor 

 it was taken into the hands of the king. 111 Consider- 

 able confusion seems to have existed as to Elizabeth's 

 true name, sometimes Joan 1IS and sometimes Elizabeth 

 being given ; but the latter seems to be correct. 11 * 



7 5 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 



De Banco R. 308, m. 348. 

 77 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 33 Edw. I. 

 7 Feud. Aids, i, 124. 

 ~ 9 De Banco R. 461, m. 59. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (it 

 nos.), no. 17. 



81 Ibid. 82 ibi d . 

 Ibid. 



84 Plea R. (Chester), 105, m. 3 d. 



84 Feet of F. Bucks. East. 6 Ric. II. 



a* Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. IV, file 57. 



"7 Ibid. 



83 Harl. Soc. Publ. xjcii, 425. 



8 Ibid. 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no. 72 

 (file 556). 



81 Herald and Geneal. vi, 656. In the 

 pedigree of the family Thomas is given as 

 Walter, but this is probably a mistake, 



since his heirs are the same as those of 

 Sir Thomas Cokesey in the sale of the 

 manor. 



w Feet of F. Bucks. East. 1 5 Hen. 

 VII; De Banco R. East. 15 Hen. VII, 

 m. 115; Hist. AfSS. Com. Rep. Various, 

 ii, 298. 



Ibid. 



M Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 17 Hen. 

 VII ; De Banco R. Trin. 17 Hen. VII, 

 m. 21 d. 



94 Miscell. Gen. et Herald, (new ser.), i, 

 62. " Ibid. 



W Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 2 Hen. 

 VIII. 



Close, 2 Hen. VIII, no. 30. 



99 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 21 Hen. 

 VIII. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixi, no. 25. 



101 Ibid. 49 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 



l 2 Ibid. 



> Coram Rege R. Mich. 8 Hen. IV, 

 m. 106. 



104 Chan. Inq. p.m. 26 Hen. VI, no. 



! 



05 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), iv, 319*. 

 106 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, no. 43. 

 W Ibid. 



108 Cat. Pat. 1461-7, p. 473. 

 " Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), v, 589*. 



110 P.R.O. Parl. Surv. Bucks. 1649- 

 56, no. 20. 



111 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (lit 

 nos.), no. 17. 



118 Abbre-u. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 



337 



u Ibid. 



3 68 



. . 



114 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 17; De Banco R. Hil. Edw. Ill, 

 m. 59 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 

 131 ; Fine R. 180, m. 21, I Ric. II, pt. 

 2 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, no. 60. 



