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A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xivxvi cent.). Bletchley, which includes the hamlet of Water Eaton and until 188191 also included part of the … 1735. 179 There is a corn-mill at Water Eaton now. At the British Museum there are Court Rolls for the manor of Eaton … 198 Henry VI gave the priory and most of its lands to New College, Oxford, in 1441, 199 and at the Dissolution an …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Boarstall (xvi cent.). Boarstall contains 3,078 acres, of which 6 are water, on a soil of gravel and stiff blue clay and subsoil of Corallian and … representing the 8 acres of 'woode ground' owned by Oriel College in 1586, 9 and Old and New Arngrove Farms, once part …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bellebrikhulle (xiii cent.). This parish, the northernmost of the three Brickhills, covers about 1,848 acres. Of these … in Buckinghamshire, with which it was bestowed on Eton College in 1444. 102 A grant of free warren in 1292 to Henry … From 1841 to 1892 the living was in the gift of Queens' College, Cambridge 138; Mr. R. Knight was patron from 1893 to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… which are devoted to agriculture, with the exception of about one-sixth. 1 The soil is light clay, the subsoil … bestowed by the cardinal as the manor of BRADWELL on the college founded by him at Oxford. 91 After the cardinal's … was granted by the king to Cardinal Wolsey for his college at Oxford, 141 Anne St. Leger, daughter and co-heir …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xii-xiii cent.); Catesfield (xviii cent.). The parish of Caversfield, although entirely detached, was included in the county of Buckingham until the 19 th century, when, by Acts of 1832 … son, Robert Bullock-Marsham, D.C.L., warden of Merton College, who held until his death in 1880. 89 His son Charles …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Chechele (xiv cent.). This parish covers 2,070 acres, of which about 70 acres are woodland and the remainder is … was granted to Cardinal Wolsey for the endowment of his college at Oxford. 21 After the fall of Wolsey Chicheley was resumed by the Crown and granted to the college refounded as Henry the Eighth's College in September …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… above ordnance datum. The Bedford and Northampton branch of the Midland railway crosses the north of the parish. The … as holding in his own right, and also as lessee of Queen's College, Oxford. 129 He died at Leamington in 1865, 130 … in the estate appears to have been acquired by Queen's College, Oxford. 131 Wake. Or two bars gules with three …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Durton (xiii cent.). This parish contains 1,477 acres, of which 122 are arable land and 1,108 permanent grass. 1 The land, of which the surface is clay on a subsoil of Kimmeridge Clay … of Elizabeth, to the Warden and scholars of St. Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford. 70 There does not seem to be …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Ambretone (xi cent.); Embirtone (xiv cent.). The parish of Emberton is well watered by the Ouse and its tributaries. … Petisho, Pottesho, xiii cent.), the property of Lincoln College, Oxford, and formerly a separate parish, but now … End, besides two houses in the grounds belonging to the college, all known as Petsoe. 2 Between Petsoe Manor and the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xv cent.); Foxcott, Foscott (xvi cent.). The parish of Foscott or Foxcott covers 718 acres, of which 501 are permanent grass, 157 arable and 47 woods or … his wife Isabel and her heirs for conveyance to All Souls College, Oxford. 26 Possibly Isabel was the daughter and heir …