THE HUNDRED OF BUCKINGHAM
Containing The Parishes Of
Addington; Adstock; Akeley; Barton Hartshorn; Beachampton; Biddlesden; Caversfield (fn. 1) Chetwode; Edgcott; Foscott; Hillesden; Leckhampstead; Lillingstone Dayrell; Lillingstone Lovell; (fn. 2) Luffield Abbey; Maids' Moreton; Marsh Gibbon; Padbury; Preston Bissett; Radclive; Westbury; Shalstone; Steeple Claydon; Stowe; Thornborough; Thornton; Tingewick; Turweston; Twyford with Charndon; And Poundon; Water Stratford;
All the names given above are mentioned in the Domesday Survey, (fn. 3)
except Luffield Abbey and Poundon; the latter was probably included
under Charndon. Evershaw in Biddlesden, Dadford and Lamport in Stowe,
and a hide of land called Hasley were described separately in 1086. (fn. 4)
Buckingham Hundred comprises the three ancient hundreds of Stodfald,
Rovelai and Lamva, (fn. 5) which appear grouped as the three hundreds of
Buckingham in the later 13th century. (fn. 6) The hundred of Stodfald, assessed
in 1086 at 101 hides, (fn. 7) contained the parishes of Akeley, Biddlesden, Foscott,
Leckhampstead, Lillingstone Dayrell, Maids' Moreton, Radclive, Shalstone,
Stowe, Turweston, Water Stratford and Westbury. The hundred of Rovelai
was assessed in 1086 at 105 hides and included the parishes of Barton
Hartshorn, Beachampton, Caversfield, Chetwode, Edgcott, Hillesden, Preston
Bissett, Thornton and Tingewick. (fn. 8) The hidage of Lamva Hundred, under
which the parishes of Addington, Adstock, Marsh Gibbon, Padbury, Steeple
Claydon, Thornborough and Twyford were assessed in 1086, covered
122 hides. (fn. 9) Edgcott and Thornton were transferred later from Rovelai to
Lamva Hundred. (fn. 10)
In 1625 the royal hundreds of Buckingham (the old names surviving
as Stotford, Roulawe and Meanes) (fn. 11) were leased for three lives to Sir
Thomas Denton. (fn. 12) In 1651 the rents or certainty money were valued at
£23 1s. 1d. yearly; the general perquisites at £10. (fn. 13) These were claimed
by Edmund Denton of Hillesden, who did not, however, produce any proof
in support of his claim. (fn. 14) In 1661 a petition was made to the Crown for
the protection of the rights in this respect of his infant heir, Alexander
Denton. (fn. 15) In 1665 the Crown rents from the Buckingham hundreds were
granted in dower to Queen Katherine. (fn. 16)
In the middle of the 17th century the court leet was held at the usual
times and the ordinary court every three weeks at any convenient place in
the hundreds at the will of the lord or his steward. (fn. 17)
Index Map to the Hundred of Buckingham