THE SOCIETY

THE SOCIETY 2001

In many respects the Society had a successful if Thorpe, who is also working on setting up a web• generally quiet year in 2001, but somewhat dis• site, in conjunction with Mr Robert Dixon of turbed by a relatively large number of changes of . its principal officers and the realignment of the The Society was also represented at the management of the museum. Family History Society Open Total membership at 31st December 2001 was Day in July at Grammar School, with 455 individuals of whom 16 are life members and Peter and Diana Gulland once again manning our there are 21 affiliated societies. This compares with stand. 457 members and 20 affiliated societies in 2000. Records of Bucks Vol 41 was available at the Sadly in March, Dr Arnold Baines, a Trustee, Vice AGM and again the Society would like to thank all President and long-standing member of Council the volunteers who assisted George Lamb in its dis• died. His obituary was included in the last issue of tribution, which considerably reduces our postal Records of Bucks. The Society also learned with costs. Sadly, Roger Bettridge was forced to give up regret of the deaths of Mr R. Glossop, Mr the editorship due to pressure of work. He was A.Woodward, Mr R.Lever, Mr J.Hawkins, Miss heavily involved in the transformation of the M.Hore, Mr P.S.Caudrey and Mrs E.K.Ayers. Record Office into the Centre for Buckinghamshire During 2001 Council met four times. Sarah Gray Studies. The Society was fortunate, however, in and Professor John Clarke joined in June, and obtaining the services of Professor John Clarke Edward Legg was re-elected Chairman. George from University to succeed him. Mike Lamb became the Vice-Chairman. Lindsey James Farley continues to assist, particularly with archae• resigned as Honorary Secretary on leaving the dis• ological matters. Diana Gulland also prepared and trict, although she did continue to help for some published the index to Records ofBucks Vols. 31 to time afterwards. In general, other members of the 40 which was distributed free to members. Sales of Council stepped it to assist the remainder of her the Maps book were still quite strong and there duties and particular thanks are due to Diana were steady sales of Monographs, offprints and Gulland for handling the post. Among matters con• microfiche. sidered during the year were the 'Unlocking A considerable number of changes took place at Buckinghamshire's Past' and the 'Bemwood the Museum during the year following the resigna• Ancient Hunting Forest' projects. tion of Oliver Green. Sarah Gray took over the day• The AGM in May was attended by 68 members to-day administration of the Museum under Julian and chaired by our President, Professor WR.Mead. Hunt. Pam Russell moved to take up a new post at In his inaugural address he dealt with the activities ; Jim Inglis, the Keeper of Archaeology of the Society during his year of office, interspers• & Social History, moved on to become Curator of ing these with personal reminiscences trawled from Archaeology at Bedford Museum, whilst Joanne his long association with the Society and the Hodgkins became the Biodiversity Officer for the Museum. National Trust and Alexandra MacCullough was In September the second Bucks Local History appointed Keeper of Art, Clothing and Textiles. Fair and Conference was held, at the University of Halton was also equipped with a new archaeologi• Buckingham, and was a great success. Approx• cal store complete with roller racking. The Family imately 175 people came to hear a range of excel• Fun Day on December 8th was well supported. lent speakers, and view exhibitions by many local George Lamb's contribution in organising Roman societies. The day was organised by Dr David board games was much appreciated. The Society 243

Lecture Series 2001 Outings 2001

31 March The Kedermister Vault at St May West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Mary's, Langley Marish. Julian and Anglesey Abbey Litten. June Stacey Hill Museum, Milton 20 October Mediaeval Roof Furniture. Barbara Keynes, and Chicheley Hall Hurman. July Ashdown House (National Trust) 10 November Development of the Railways in and Buscot Park Bucks. Edward Legg. August New Amersham Walk, Julian Hunt. 1 December Investigations at near October Church Crawl. Michael Hardy Aylesbury. Paul Everson of English Heritage. THE LIBRARY

ADDITIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S LIBRARY 2001

ALEXANDER, F. High Wycombe then and now: Union workhouse births and deaths 1858-1900. a colouring and activity book for children ... 2001. illustrated by Lorna Cassidy. 1991. EUREKA PARTNERSHIP. Olney and the hamlet BAILEY, M. Discovering a lost history. Bernwood ofWarrington 1821 census. 2001. Ancient Hunting Forest Project. 2001. EUREKA PARTNERSHIP. Thame Registration BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND Disrict marriage notice book 1837-1879. 2001. OXFORDSHIRE. No.3 of the R.A.C. County FARLEY, M. Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Road Maps and Guides, 1933? Buckinghamshire: results from some BRUSHE, J. Holy Trinity Wolverton, archaeological watching briefs. 2001. Buckinghamshire. 1998? FINMERE AND LITTLE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The millennium history ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES. ofFinmere (and Little Tingewick). 2001. "A Future for our past". Buckinghamshire GEE, E., compiler. A glossary of building terms Archaeological Management Plan adopted used in England from the Conquest to c.l550. October 2000. 1984. CHENEVIX TRENCH, C. Portrait of a patriot: a GIGGINS, B.L. A brief history ofValentin Ord biography of John Wilkes. 1962. and Nagle's Factory in Fenny Stratford. 1981. CHENEVIX TRENCH, J., transcriber. Penn GOODMAN, N. Eton College. Reprint 2000. Parish register. Volume 1: 1559- 1677; GREEN, M. and others. Penn & Tylers Green. Volume 2: Christenings 1677-1813; marriages 2001. 1677- 1753 and burials 1677- 1813. 1983. HANDBOOK FOR BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. COALES, J., compiler. Twelve generations: 1903. gleanings from the Coates family archives. 2000. HILL, M. Bradwell past and present. 1998. COCKER, M. A Brat remembers. The 41st and HOLBOROW, J. Fingest: stony ground. 1999. 42nd entries of Aircraft Apprentices March 1940 HUNT, J. and others. Index to probate records of to July 1943. No. 1 School ofTechnical Training the Archdeaconry Court of Buckingham Royal Air Force, Halton. 1989. 1483-1660 and the Buckinghamshire Pecu1iars COUNTRYSIDE PLANNING AND 1420-1660. Buckinghamshire Record Society, MANAGEMENT. The Hartwell Estate, 2001. Buckingham shire. JAMES, S. & MILLETT, M. Britons and Romans: Volume 1: A conservation Management Plan; advancing an archaeological agenda. 2001. Volume 2: Management plan for the enhancement KAYE, E. Missenden Abbey: a short history. of the Estate's heritage and natural environment. 1992. 2000. KELLY, G.J. & DODDS, C.P. : CUNNINGHAM, J. D. A history of Longwick. celebration of the Millennium. 2000. The parish ofLongwick-cum-Ilmer comprising LEGG, E. The Fenny Poppers. StMartin's Day Horsenden, Ilmer, Longwick, Meadle and Celebrations, Fenny Stratford. 2001. Owlswick. 2001. LEGG, E. List oflnrolment Books (Q/RX/11-10). MILLENNIUM COMMITTEE. [Enclosure awards and Turnpike conveyances Memories ofEdgcott in the 201h century. 2000. from the Quarter Sessions Books held in the EDWARDS, H. Sticks and stones. The life and Buckinghamashire Record Office]. 2001. times of a journeyman printer: Hertford, LEWINGTON, H. A young person's guide to the Dunstable, Cheltenham and Wolverton. 2001. history ofBierton, Broughton and . 2000. EUREKA PARTNERSHIP. Leighton Buzzard MANNING, A. Deborah's diary. A fragment by The Librmy 245 the author of 'Mary Powell'. (John Milton and SHEPHARD-THORN, E.R. and others. Geology Chalfont St.Giles). 1860. of the country around Leighton Buzzard. Memoir MAY, G. Harewood Downs (Little Chalfont). The for 1 :50,000 geological sheet 220 (Includes parts history of a Buckinghamshire farmhouse and of ofBucks.). 1994. its lands which became a golf course. 1988. SMITH, C. through the ages. 2000. MILTON KEYNES NATURAL HISTORY SPARKES, I.G. High Wycombe: a pictorial SOCIETY. Milton Keynes, more than concrete history. 1990. cows, real animals and plants too. Records STAREY, C.J.H. & VICCARS, P.G., eds. compiled by the Society for the years 1987-1999. Stokenchurch in perspective. Reprint 1992. 2000. TRUSTEES OF THE SIR JOHN MOON, N. The Chiltern Way. A 200km walk KEDERMINSTER'S LIBRARY. Sir John around the Chilterns. A guide to a new circular Kederminster's Library, Langley Marish. 1999. long-distance path through Bedfordshire, WEBB, C., compiler. National Index ofParish Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. Registers. A guide to Anglican, Roman Catholic 2000. and Nonconformist registers before 1837, together MUSPRATT, Rev. 0. Penn, Buckinghamshire. with information on Bishop's Transcripts, modern The English historical source of America's copies and Marriage Licences. Volume 9, part 3 birthplace. 1976. Buckinghamshire. 1992. NORRIS, J.P. The lost spring. From Whiteleafto WEIDMANN, G. Behind bars in Buckingham. Oxford's spires (Chilton). 1999. The story of the Old Gaol. 1998. PAYNTER, B. The grass widow and her cow. An WOODWARD, F. Oxfordshire parks. 2001. enchanting account of country life in wartime YOUNG ENTERPRISES SUCCESS. Britain. (Lawn House, Edgcott). 1997. School (Aylesbury) Commemorative book. 2001. PICKUP, D. Lest we forget. The men and woman commemorated on Aylesbury Town War In addition to the books listed above 80 smaller Memorial. 2000. items were added to stock. These ranged from POORMAN, P.K. The Royal Latin school, church guides to newspaper cuttings and extracts Buckingham. 2001. from journals. REED, A.J. At Southcourt School (Aylesbury) in the thirties. 2001. Diana Gulland ROWLANDS, S. Bridgefoot: a history of Hon. Librarian/Archivist Bridgefoot House (Iver). 2001. THE NATURAL HISTORY SECTION

SUMMARY OF FIELD VISITS AND LECTURES ORGANISED BY THE SECTION DURING 2001

6th January: Fungi in Bucks and Beds. Dr Derek the winter had moved away to less saturated Schafer, organiser for the Bucks Fungus Group, ground. A flock of around thirty Fielfare, however, presented an encyclopaedic talk to nineteen mem• were observed in a hedgerow as we left. bers. An introduction to fungus biology was given 3rd March: The Geology of Bucks - Shaping the courtesy of the button mushroom, which Derek Landscape. Around thirty members attended as Dr explained, represented only the 'fruit', the peren• Jill Eyers condensed 200 million years of geologi• nial part of the fungus being underground in the cal history into just over an hour. Jill described the form of thread-like hyphae. The importance of close link between the underlying geology and the habitat was emphasised through a range of wood• landscape we see today and outlined the largely land fungi to the brightly coloured waxcaps found marine processes that have led to the County's on unimproved grassland and the Scarlet Cater• combination of limestones, clays and chalk. Jill pillar Fungus, which only grows on dead caterpil• also noted that while these rocks were originally lars. The edibility of species was noted with a laid down in horizontal beds the movement of tec• prime example being the Penny Bun, probably tonic plates has 'crumpled' them. The most recent better known by its French and Italian names, Cep example of this occurred in the Tertiary era when and Porcini respectively. Although there are far less the Eurasian and African plates collided which, in poisonous species of fungi than there are poisonous addition to raising the Alps also tilted the chalk to plants, the highly dangerous Deathcap serves as a create the Chilterns. The important role of the reminder to the gastronomically inclined that in Anglian Ice Age on our landscape was covered, addition to a few tasty species there are a number from the shaping of valleys by glaciers to deposi• that will finish you off if your not careful. tion of sands and gravels and the occurrence of iso• 3rd February: Winter Bird Watch at Otmoor RSPB lated blocks of sarsen and puddingstone across the Reserve. Twelve members were greeted by bright County. sunshine, a biting wind and the reserve's assistant 7th April: The Annual General Meeting was fol• warden, Paul Eele. A replica of Cowley car plant lowed by a discussion on plants in winter. Nineteen was built here during the Second World War as a members gathered around tables to examine the decoy for enemy bombs, as evidenced by old shells assorted plant material brought along by Roy unearthed during engineering works to create the Maycock. These included a selection of tubers, reserve. These works comprised the creation of corms, rhizomes, bulbs and other roots of herba• balancing lakes and an extensive network of ceous plants and a number of twigs from woody ditches to provide the best conditions for both wild• plants. By means of close-up examination and fowl in the winter and breeding Redshank, Snipe Roy's commentary on their anatomy and develop• and Lapwing in the summer. Although the public ment we were able to explore the survival strategies are normally only allowed on the peripheral foot• evolved by different plants to cope with unfavour• paths, members were treated to a stroll through the able winter conitions .. centre of the reserve. On reaching the flooded area 5th May: The Walk round Iffley Meadow with at the far end it was possible to just make out Ediser Russell to see the Snake's-head Fritillarys Gadwell, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Wigeon and was unfortunately cancelled due to foot and mouth Mallard against a low westerly sun. Other species disease. included Grey Heron, Cormorant, Mute Swan and 301h June: Victoria Patterson's Wildflower Kestrel with a Peregrine also spotted by some. The Meadows, Radnage didn't produce the anticipated damp conditions, however, meant that large flocks show of orchids this year, however, a good turn out, of Lapwing and Golden Plover, usually present in fantastic weather and plenty of other things to look The Natural History Section 247

at more than made up for their absence. to Woodeaton Quarry (thanks to Earthline Ltd for Jlh July: Priestfield Arboretum. Merelene Davis, access). Here a range of bivalve and brachiopod Honorary Curator, welcomed a group of ten mem• fossils were found along with blackened rootlet bers to explore this tree collection at Little remains from prehistoric mangrove swamps. How Kingshill. Although the rain probably put some the County has changed. people off it actually enhanced the appearance of 61h October: Fungus foray round Aspley Heath some trees, notably the Giant Redwoods. Priestfield with Victor Scott was unfortunately cancelled. is predominantly a collection of conifers with J'rl November: Antarctica. The Section is enor• examples of over a hundred species and varieties. mously grateful for Louise Allcock who, at short These include examples of the world's tallest tree, notice after the unavoidable cancellation of Angela the Coast Redwood, the biggest tree, the Giant Colmer's 'Animals in Cave Art', presented mem• Redwood and the oldest, the Bristle-cone Pine. In bers with a professionally delivered and beautifully addition a number of interesting broad-leaved trees illustrated talk on Antarctica. were also found including the Zelkova planted by 8111 December: Parasitic and Saprophytic Plants. BAS members in 1999 during our last visit. Twelve members enjoyed Victor Scott's well-illus• 22nd September: Dinosaur footprints were the goal trated talk, which was given a festive feel through ofthe first stop of Michael Gate's full day geologi• the inclusion of Mistletoe. Victor used this species cal excursion. After a reasonable walk across the to illustrate semi-parasitic plants which have spe• barren landscape of Ardley Field Quarry (thanks to cially adapted roots to extract nutrients from their Viridor Waste Ltd for access) we came across a line host plants but retain fully functioning leaves capa• of very large water filled three-toed footprints in ble of photosynthesis. These were contrasted with the limestone floor. They are thought to be those of fully parasitic species such as broomrapes which Megalosaurus, the most common bipedal dinosaur tap into the roots of other plants and the rootless of the mid-Jurassic. A second set of tracks, dodders which attach themselves to the stems of rounder, larger and deeper, were made by a much their host. In both cases their leaves are reduced to larger four-legged dinosaur, most probably a inconspicuous, non-functioning scales. Sapro• Cetiosaur. Lunch at the Red Lion in Islip was fol• phytic plants were distinguished by virtue of lowed by a visit to the neighbouring churchyard to obtaining nourishment from decaying, rather than see the grave of the nineteenth century palaeontol• living organisms, usually in the form of leaf mould ogist, William Buckland. He is credited with the through mycorrhizal associations with fungi. first description of a recognised dinosaur fossil, Examples given included the leafless Bird's-nest, albeit before the term was coined, in his 'Notice on Ghost and Coralroot Orchids, all of which are the Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of found in shaded habitats in which photosynthesis Stonesfield' in 1824. The final stop of the day was would be difficult. BUCKINGHAMSIDRE COUNTY MUSEUM

ANNUAL REPORT 2001/2002

Buckinghamshire County Museum has had a very Scheme was submitted in December. Registration successful year with two major thematic exhibi• was confirmed in March 2002. tions attracting new visitors, and the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery continuing to attract large num• EXHIBITIONS bers of school parties and family groups. In September 2001, admission charges to the main The Museum offered visitors two major exhibi• Museum were withdrawn, resulting in a dramatic tions during the year. The ' Great Gardens Show' increase in numbers of visitors to the Church Street featured Eric Throssell's re-creation of the lost premises. The total for 2001-02, including 7 gardens of Hartwell House and included the John months of free access, topped 100,000, the first Piper drawings of Stowe, which have been time this figure has been achieved since 1995-6, acquired for the County Museum through the gov• when the Museum was reopened after its major ernment's Acceptance in Lieu of Inheritance Tax refurbishment. Plans to increase the capacity of the Scheme. The 'Leaves on the Line' exhibition cele• Museum Cafe were drawn up, but the project was brated the opening of the Metropolitan Railway to halted when architect's estimates of the building Aylesbury in 1892 and the ideal of living in costs were received. Further plans for the redisplay 'Metroland'. of the permanent exhibitions and the development of space for handling school parties have been pro• EDUCATION gressed. The decision to abolish entry charges to the main The Museum's Education Service to schools contin• Museum was made by Councillor Margaret Dewar, ues to be extremely popular, with taught sessions the Cabinet Member holding the Community now fully booked over a term in advance. During Services Portfolio in the modernised Buck• the year, 9,000 school children visited the Museum inghamshire County Council. In the new structure, in organised school parties. Following the success Bob Strong, the newly-appointed Head of of 'Stone, Paper, Scissors', an exhibition relating to Libraries and Heritage Service, reports directly to the maths, science and literacy curricula, another the Cabinet member. Heritage Manager, Julian curriculum-related exhibition, entitled 'The Hunt, has direct responsibility for the County Romans', was opened in the Temporary Exhibitions Museum and the new Centre for Buckinghamshire Gallery in January 2002. This has proved highly Studies. The Libraries and Heritage Management successful and has attracted many school parties in Team also includes the Curator of the County addition to those visiting the Roald Dahl Gallery. Museum, Sarah Gray and the County Archivist, Further successful 'Family Fun Days' were held in Roger Bettridge. June and December, which attracted 2,500 visitors. The Museum's Collections Team has been Special events for the October and February half• strengthened during the year and now includes term holidays were also very successful with most Brett Thorn, Keeper of Archaeology, Alexandra activities fully booked. MacCulloch, Keeper of Art, Clothing and Textiles, Mike Palmer, Keeper of Natural History and COLLECTIONS Catherine Weston, Keeper of Social History. The Collections Team works closely with the Education The Collections Team now comprises the Curator and Exhibitions Manager, David Erskine, in plan• of the County Museum, Sarah Gray, and four keep• ning the Museum's education and display pro• ers: Brett Thorn, Keeper of Archaeology; gramme. An application for Registration under Alexandra MacCulloch, Keeper of Art, Clothing Phase II of Resource's Museum Registration and Textiles; Mike Palmer, Keeper of Natural Buckinghamshire County Museum 249

History; and Catherine Weston, Keeper of Social has progressed and has been linked to an applica• History. tion by Milton Keynes for the status of a registered New mobile shelving has been installed to museum. These objects will remain at Halton for accommodate significant new deposits of material the foreseeable future and the valuable financial from the Eton Rowing Lake and the Maidenhead contribution of Milton Keynes Council to the oper• Flood Prevention Scheme ational costs of the Museum will continue. The Discussions have been held with English Nature Joint Arrangement under which this work is carried with a view to strengthening the Environmental out for Milton Keynes is likely to be renewed in Records Centre, also based at Halton, and the pos• 2003 along with a similar arrangement for the sible creation of a unit to co-ordinate Environ• accommodation of archives of Milton Keynes mental Record provision across Buckinghamshire, origin in the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The legal transfer to Milton Keynes Council of Julian Hunt those objects in the collections which were added Heritage Manager since 1957 and have a Milton Keynes provenance CENTRE FOR BUCJ(INGIIAMSHIRE STUDIES

REPORT FOR 2001/2002

The major event of the year was the opening of the and was funded with the assistance of a grant from new Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies in the Heritage Lottery Fund of £463,500. The build• February 2002. Based in the former County ing work itself took eight months, beginning in Record Office in the County Offices, Aylesbury, July 2001. The decision was taken to keep the the Centre continues to house the county archives Record Office open to the public for as long as and in addition the local and family history possible, but as the work progressed, more and resources previously held two floors above in the more records within the strongrooms became inac• Local Studies Library in the County Reference cessible and finally it was necessary to close the Library. Since many researchers need to use the Office for three months from 29 November 2001 resources of both service-points, the new arrange• until the opening of the new Centre. The Local ment should be more convenient but it also pro• Studies Library was also closed for the week pre• vides greatly enhanced facilities for researchers. ceding the opening in order to allow stock to be The Centre has a new ground-floor entrance off moved down to the Centre. Walton Street. All visitors enter through the Local Inevitably the building work caused consider• Studies reading room, which has seating for 44 able disruption both to our users and to staff and a researchers and, at the time of opening, 8 micro• considerable debt of thanks is owed to everyone film readers (including 5 reader-printers), 17 for their patience and forbearance. microfiche readers (including 2 reader-printers), 3 The Centre was officially opened on 23 computers for the use of family and local history February 2002 by Lord Cottesloe, a former Lord• CD-roms and databases, and People's Network Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, whose family computers providing internet access. To the right archives, the Fremantle MSS, have been held in of the entrance is the Archive Searchroom, for• the Record Office since 1967 and are of interna• merly the Record Office searchroom, which has tional significance. been slightly enlarged. The number of places for researchers has been increased from 16 to 22 and ACCESSIONS a new layout and larger tables give researchers more space, especially those looking at original Altogether 128 accessions were received in the maps and plans. The Centre has its own toilets, a Record Office in the calendar year 2001. A full coffee room, and a Learning Centre where groups list can be found in the appendix to the Annual can be received without disrupting other users, Report available from the Centre for Buck• thereby creating the potential for more work with inghamshire Studies and also on our website at schools, adult learning groups and local societies. www. buckscc.gov. uk/archives. For the first time, the Archive Searchroom is open As usual, the records came from a wide variety on Saturdays. of sources, both official and private, but the most Improving the strongroom accommodation for widely-travelled were without doubt five boxes of archives was another aim of the project. The five deeds from the Library of Congress, Washington existing strongrooms were refurbished and a new DC. These deeds form part of the collection of air-conditioning system was installed for regulat• William C. Wakefield, a book and manuscript ing temperature and relative humidity. In addition, dealer based in London and New York. The two adjoining rooms were converted into new Wakefield Collection was deposited in the Library strongrooms, with full fire protection and environ• of Congress in the 1930s, but its significance to mental controls, to give us space for future accru• British historians was not realized until the 1980s. als. The British Records Association secured the repa• The Centre is the fruit of many years' planning triation of the whole of the collection to the United Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies 251

Kingdom in 2000 and, on its arrival in this coun• transferred during the year include historical title try, it was given temporary storage at Hampshire deeds to a number of properties purchased in the Record Office, Winchester, where it was sorted by early 20th century, including farms in Haversham, geographical location and then despatched to the Singleborough, , , Thorn• appropriate archive repositories. borough and and property in Walton Two of the five boxes sent to Buckinghamshire Street, Aylesbury. Other County Council acces• relate to Beaconsfield, and in particular to the sions include mid-20th-century plans and a regis• Waller family of Hall Barn. The records include ter of smallholdings; plans of bridges in High title deeds, 1336-1718, a poor rate assessment for Wycombe, c.l895-1907; and photographs of vari• Beaconsfield for 1692-93, and the quietus roll ous bridges in the county dating from the 1950s to containing the accounts of Edmund Waller in his the 1980s. post of cofferer to the household of King George Slough Borough Council, via our colleagues in II, dated 1745. There are also a few items relating Berkshire Record Office, deposited the parish to Farmington in Gloucestershire, where the copies of the Colnbrook inclosure plan, Wallers had an estate. A third box contains deeds c.1809-1815, and the Langley Marish tithe plan, relating to properties in Coleshill, Amersham, 1845. 1616-1873, in particular referring to the The move of District Council Butterfield, Grove and Fowler families. The two into their new offices led to records of historical final boxes contain miscellaneous deeds for vari• interest being deposited in the archives. These ous places in Buckinghamshire, mainly 18th-19th include files on street-naming in the former century. Aylesbury, Buckingham and Wing Rural Districts, Another exciting acquisition was the purchase photographs of buildings in Aylesbury and else• of two large estate maps ofWhaddon Chase, made where dating from the 1950s to the 1970s, plan• for the Selby (later Selby Lowndes) family, who ning scheme maps of the mid-20th century, and owned the Chase. One map shows Whaddon Chase large-scale sewerage junction plans for Aylesbury, in 1791 and was made for William Selby, though it c.1889-1896. may be a 19th-century copy. The other map, dating Trust deeds of a number of Amersham charities from 1814, shows a wider area, including the were donated to the archives. These relate to Chase and lands in adjoining parishes, not long Tothill's Charity, 1637-1827 (also including 18th• after the estate had been inherited by Selby's son, century apprenticeship indentures), Sir William William Selby Lowndes. One interesting feature Drake's Almshouses, 1669-1771 (also including shown on this map is the strips of land belonging the statutes of 1676), and Edmund Waller's (or to Selby Lowndes in the open fields of Whaddon Bow Wood) Charity, 1709-1852, which owned parish, a few years before its enclosure. The Centre property in Wendover. for Buckinghamshire Studies is grateful to the School records deposited over the year comprise Buckinghamshire Record Society and the Francis a wide range of material. The log books of Coales Foundation, who each gave generous con• Ellesborough and schools (the latter tributions towards the purchase price of these in photocopy form only) cover the period from maps. their respective origins as Board Schools until the One of the largest accessions of the year came mid-20th century, by which time they had become from the Whitbread archives. It comprises the County Council schools under the 1902 Education records of two Buckinghamshire breweries: Act. The log books and other records of Thomas Wethered and Sons, Marlow, and Thomas Southcourt Junior and Infants School cover the Williams and Co., Wooburn. The Record Office whole period from its opening in 1926 to its clo• already held the title deeds of many of their former sure in 2001. From the 19th century there is a reg• pubs (D I 77), but the new accession includes ister of pupils at the Free School, Buckingham, records relating to business administration, partic• c.l803-1855 (including unsuccessful applicants) ularly for Wethereds, e.g. minutes, accounts and and from the private sector in the 20th century wages books, as well as photographs and more title minute books of Oakdene School, Beaconsfield, deeds. and memorabilia relating to the Farmhouse School Archives of Buckinghamshire County Council at Mayertorne Manor. 252 Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

The Public Record Office donated microfilms of period. The most popular of our catalogues has their holdings of the surviving Hearth Tax returns proved to be that of the Buckinghamshire Quarter for Buckinghamshire, which date from 1662 to Sessions records, which in January 2002 made the 1672. Some of the original documents are in a first of several appearances at the No. 1 spot in the poor condition and are not legible, but the films 'Top Forty' list of catalogues consulted on A2A. include returns relating to some or all parishes in the following hundreds: , Aylesbury, CATALOGUING AND CONSERVATION Buckingham, Burnham, Desborough, Newport and Stoke. Because of the pressures involving the building We purchased from the Public Record Office work, there was little time available for catalogu• three sets of microfiche of the 1901 census returns ing. Much effort was put into compiling stron• for Buckinghamshire in readiness for their release groom inventories, however, and in addition staff to an eager public on 2 January 2002. One set is were able to use the period of the Record Office available in the Local Studies reading room, closure to enter many existing catalogues into our another in High Wycombe Reference Library, and electronic database on CALM 2000, which by the the third set was divided between Buckingham and end of March 2002 held over 39,000 entries. Chesham Libraries. The returns are also available The Conservation Unit finally completed the at the Local Studies Library in Milton Keynes long-term project of repairing the marriage bonds Reference Library. and allegations of the archdeaconry of Buck• ingham. Altogether, there are 53 boxes in the col• lection, each containing 250-300 items. All of ACCESS TO ARCHIVES (A2A) WEBSITE them needed some sort of treatment - at the least The year saw the successful completion of 'From flattening and in many cases repair. As a result, Landlord to Labourer', a project organized by the many items of great importance to family histori• South-East Regional Archives Council for con• ans can now be safely consulted for the first time verting the catalogues of major collections of in many years. family and estate archives into electronic format and placing them on the A2A website, EVENTS www.a2a.pro.gov.uk. This project, which was awarded an HLF grant of £85,000, involved the In 2001 we launched a new outreach programme conversion of over 30,000 catalogue pages from 'Meet The Archivist'. Under this scheme, staff the participating repositories in the region. Over from the Centre visit a library or other suitable 3,000 pages of catalogues of family and estate venue around the county to advise members of the archives held in the Centre for Buckinghamshire public on archival matters. For example, we might Studies were supplied, including those of the be asked to suggest sources that would be useful Drake family of Shardeloes, the Dashwood, for particular lines of research or to help with read• Fremantle and Carrington families, and the ing and interpreting archival documents. During Uthwatts of Great Linford. the year, sessions were held at Milton Keynes, During this year, the A2A website has proved High Wycombe, Olney and Chesham. For security itself to be one ofthe most significant advances in reasons we are unable to take original archives English archives of recent years, enabling as it with us, so researchers may still need to visit the does freetext searches to be made of all the cata• Centre in person but we hope that the sessions will logues on the site. By the end of 2002 the website enable them to get the most from their visits. held over 4 million catalogue entries to records Our conservator prepared six exhibition boards held in over 200 record repositories and projects for a touring exhibition on Buckinghamshire and are already in preparation across the country to the Boer War, organized by the Buckinghamshire make significant additions. Military Museum Trust. Professor Ian Beckett In the first three months of 2002, there were compiled the exhibition using facsimiles of origi• 9,992 viewings of Centre for Buckinghamshire nal documents held at the Record Office and the Studies catalogues on the A2A website, constitut• official opening was held at Buckingham Gaol in ing 2. 7% of all catalogues viewed during this June 2001. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies 253

Items from the archives were loaned to the Museum, of the gardens at Hartwell of 1738; in County Museum for inclusion in temporary exhi• addition, our conservator made new mounts for bitions. Architects' plans of proposed houses in some of the Museum's engravings of Stowe by Metroland were shown in the 'Leaves on the Line' Jacques Rigaud. exhibition on railways. For the exhibition on gar• dens, we lent the account book of Sir Thomas Lee Roger Bettridge recording the payment to Balthasar Nebot for his County Archivist seven paintings, which now belong to the COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICE

REPORT FOR 2001

The year 2001 featured a continuing high level of High Wycombe, trial pitting demonstrated that the development-control casework and steady progress walls and floor sub-base of the Roman villa exca• on implementing the Buckinghamshire Archaeo• vated in 1954 survive within the Holywell swim• logical Management Plan, approved by the County ming pool. The remains have been preserved Council the previous year. The service received a in-situ beneath the new building whilst a geophys• total of 563 planning and conservation-related con• ical survey of the surrounding land has identified sultations of which 199 required a positive more buildings associated with the villa. response. The Sites and Monuments Record han• dled 112 consultations, continuing the upward SITES AND MONUMENTS RECORD trend begun the previous year. Sites and Monuments Record work focused on completing the audit commenced the previous year DEVELOPMENT CONTROL and an action plan for addressing the issues identi• The most significant results from development• fied. A major problem was the substantial data• related fieldwork were on the A41 inputting backlog that had built up since the Bypass where an Iron Age, Roman and Saxon set• mid-1990s. Work began on this task and the first tlement was excavated by RPS Consultants in inroads were made but it is estimated that it will advance of construction. The settlement straddled take 5 years sustained effort to bring the SMR up to the Lower Icknield Way but its route here does not date. A bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the seem to have been any earlier than medieval, the "Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past" project is in main axis of the settlement being instead along a preparation to enable public access to SMR infor• trackway which ran up towards the Chiltem scarp mation over the Internet. The intention is to submit where a small Saxon cemetery was found next to the bid in the summer of 2002 with a view to com• the Tring roundabout. The Cotswold Archaeo• mencing work the following year. A consultation logical Trust undertook the first phase of excava• amongst schools, parish councils and local history tion in advance of mineral extraction at The Lea, and archaeology societies demonstrated the high Denham, which has revealed a later prehistoric and level of support essential for success - the service Roman field system and the edge of an associated is grateful to everyone who took the time to Roman settlement. Further investigation will take respond and for the support of the Bucking• place over the next 5 years and a display will be set hamshire Archaeological Society. up at the Colne Valley Centre. Archaeological Services and Consultancy amply demonstrated the Whiteleaf hill value of small-scale field evaluation in a single trial December saw a major success with the approval trench in a garden at Rose Cottage, Penn. The of a Heritage Lottery grant for conservation works trench revealed a well preserved brick-built kiln of on Whiteleaf Hill, Princes Risborough. The bid 17th/18th century date which had apparently been had been prepared and submitted by the County used for the manufacture of roof tiles. A few of Council's Countryside Team with support from Penn's famous decorated floor tiles were also the County Archaeology Service and a project found, suggesting that a production site lay nearby. design prepared by Oxford Archaeology. It The kiln was in sufficiently good condition to jus• includes the stabilisation and cleaning of the tify preservation in-situ but unfortunately a plan• chalk-cut Whiteleaf Cross; re-excavation and ning inspector did not uphold this view and granted restoration of a Neolithic barrow above the cross consent subject to a condition requiring further and related research and community archaeology investigation. At the Rye Environment Centre, activities. Further information about the project is County Archaeological Service 255 available on- the County Council's web site at Sites and Monuments Record. Approval was there• http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/countryside/white• fore given for the appointment of a planning and leaf/index.htm. conservation archaeologist from April 2002, ini• tially on a three year contract, part-funded by English Heritage. This represents a major success EXPANSION PLANS and will be essential to both maintaining a high Last, but by no means least, after prolonged nego• quality professional service and delivering wider tiations English Heritage and the County Council benefits to local communities in terms of conserva• agreed U1at the County Archacologi.cal Service tion, access and outreach activities. required a third post to address th e increasing dcm

ELLIOTT VINEY D.S.O., M.B.E., M.A., T.D., J.P., D.L., F.S.A.

This obituary owes much to the two addresses given at the Memorial Service at Aylesbury on 30th October 2002, as well as to archives and recollec• tions from many sources.

Elliott Merriam Viney, for as long as many of us can recollect, a pillar of our Society, passed away on 9th August 2002 shortly before his 89th birth• day. Though in declining health for several months he was active until the end of July. The eldest of four sons of Colonel O.V Viney, he was born in Wendover Road, Aylesbury on 21st August 1913 and was educated at Oundle followed by University College, Oxford, where he read history and obtained his degree of Master of Arts. Upon coming down from Oxford, as was natural he went into the family printing firm of Hazell, Watson and Viney in Aylesbury. At about the same time he joined the Territorial Army in the Bucks Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckingham• shire Light Infantry, of which his father was Commanding Officer. Then in 1939 came the Second World War. At the beginning of 1940 the Battalion went to France and by the time of the German onslaught in May it was stationed at Hazebrouck, a small town close to Elliott Viney at Green End House, Rickford's Hill, the Belgian border. The Battalion put up a strong Aylesbury, reflecting an earlier portrait of William rearguard action which almost certainly prevented Rickford at the same window. the German army from reaching the coast sooner than it did, thus enabling the miraculous evacuation 20th September 1942 (received 2nd January from Dunkirk. The Bucks Battalion suffered severe 1943). 'You have probably gathered that we have casualties and by the time that they were compelled moved ...... It took a fortnight to pack up, but to surrender Elliott was in command, with the rank we hope everything will arrive, including my 63 of Acting Major at the age of 26; for this he was crates of library books; I have got most of my awarded the D.S.O. He spent the remainder of the heavy luggage. It was a delightful journey in war as a prisoner in Germany, being moved in 1942 lovely weather and we were only 24 hours in the to Oflag VIIB. train in great luxury - 2nd class coaches! I Whilst in Oflag VIIB he took over the editorship thoroughly enjoyed it. This camp is a great of the camp magazine 'Touchstone', ran the library change. There are three big blocks of three• and organised courses. During the war letters from storey buildings, each holding about 250. I am in him were printed in the house magazine of Hazell, one of these in a room of 16. A fourth block con• Watson & Viney and the following are some tains canteen, kitchen, chapel and (I hope) a extracts: library.' Obituaries 257

8th November 1942 (received 1st January reached a total of 6,620, a stupendous achievement. 1943). 'Why wasn't I taught to darn at school? It Another of his interests was music having a vast seems a grave omission. We unmarried ones here collection of records and discs; he was President of will make awfully good uncomplaining hus• the Aylesbury Orchestral Society from 1952 until bands, prepared to eat five courses off one plate 1968. After the war he returned to Hazell Watson & and make one shoe-polish last a week; and we'll Viney, becoming Chairman in 1967. The firm was never question a laundry bill, and even the ugli• eventually taken over and Elliott became a Director est ought to find a market when it is known he of the British Printing Corporation. can make a box of matches last a week, a pencil But it is as our Honorary Secretary and President six weeks, and a roll of lavatory paper six that we remember him. He held the first post for a months! All good practice for the New Order, quarter of a century, 1954-1979, then succeeding you see. In fact, I can now economise on every• the late Clive Rouse as President from 1979-1998; thing.' in addition he was Assistant Editor of Records of 19th November 1942 (received 1st January Bucks from 1947-1974. During the time that he 1943). 'We have had some exams here last week was Hon. Secretary the Society reached a new and there are plenty more coming off, but I have agreement with the County Council in 1957 not been able to organise any other educational whereby the latter leased the Society's buildings for work. The library has now all been released, so I a museum and took over its running; this was most hope to get started next week. It is no joke get• fortunate as very extensive and expensive repairs ting 12,000 books into one small room, and it had to be carried out between March 1989 and 25th looks rather like the Aylesbury Works library. October 1995, during which time the Society's Also, owing to the hand-cuffing, the S.B.O. uses buildings in Church Street were closed to the it as an office in the mornings. (Accompanying public. He was also a Library trustee. From 1958 this is a cartoon depicting Hitler and other min• Elliott organised the Society's outings (recorded as ions carrying piles ofbooks, some of which they totalling 182 by 1992), of which the annual 'Bucks are dropping, and the caption: 'Herr Viney must Church Crawl' was eagerly anticipated since he read a lot!') knew every church in the county intimately. he was very generous with his wide-ranging knowledge of For his gallant services whilst a Prisoner of War he the county, always being willing to provide answers was appointed an M.B.E. in 1946. Shortly after the to queries and to advise the enquirer. war he returned to Germany to serve on the Control In 1964 he had the privilege and honour to be Commission. Thereafter he kept up his regimental High Sheriff of the county, like his father before connections remaining in the Territorial Army until him, and subsequently published The Sheriffs of 1988, being President of the Bucks Battalion Old Buckinghamshire, a magisterial listing of the hold• Comrades Association from 1960; in due course ers of the office from the earliest days complete being awarded the Territorial Decoration. with biographies. From Who s Who we learn of In 1950 Elliott married Rosamund Pelly and they some of the panoply of his other interests and had two children, Diana and Louise. One of his bodies with which he was involved: elected a recreations was mountaineering and even when he Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) in was up at Oxford this was evident since he became 1966, Governor and Trustee, Museum of London, President of the Oxford University Mountaineering 1972-88; President of British Federation of Master Club being elected to the Alpine Club after 1945. Printers, 1972-73; Master of the Grocers' His tour de force was probably climbing Mont Company, 1970-71; County Director of Bucks St. Blanc and he spent many happy holidays climbing John Ambulance Association, 1953-55; President in North Wales, Lake District and Skye. Another of the Buckinghamshire Branch of the Council for activity was beagling, being Field Master of the the Protection of Rural England, 1990-93 and Old Berkeley Beagles from 1952 to 1975. Chairman 1976-90; Chairman of Bucks Record As is obvious from his time as a prisoner of war, Society for many years; Justice of the Peace, 1950; Elliott was a bibliophile and a great reader. In 1930 Deputy Lieutenant, 1952; Order of St. John, 1953. he commenced a record of books that he had read To these we can add that he was very supportive of and by May 2002 was able to say that it had the work of Patricia Fay, in setting up what was 258 Obituaries originally a Bucks Society but eventually became 1991. ' Buckinghamshire churches in the 1840's' national -The National Association of Decorative Vol. 33, 68-86 and Fine Art Societies. He was a member for 2003. Aylesbury Steeplechase .. this volume almost twenty-five years of The Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee to which he brought great Other published historical material includes: wisdom and scholarship, a founder trustee of the Bucks Historic Churches Trust and for many years 1965. The Sheriffs of Buckinghamshire; from the Chairman of the Inspection Committee, a trustee of eleventh century to the present day. Aylesbury The Bucks Clergy Charity, as well as churchwarden 1976. Old Aylesbury, with Pamela Nightingale. at Aylesbury for seventeen years and subsequently White Crescent Press, Luton. at for five years. 1985. Aylesbury Association for the Protection of Persons and Property 1785-1985. Peterhouse His publications in Records of Bucks include: Press, Wendover. 2000. Never Fear to Die: some epitaphs from Bucks 1972. 'The Buckinghamshire Lieutenancy.' Vol. 19 Churches . Privately printed. part 2, 113-140 2001. Literary Bucks; A talk by Elliott Viney. 1978 ' The Royal Arms in Buckinghamshire Peterhouse Press, Brill. Churches' Vol. 20, part 4, 553-562 2002 'Notes and Queries' The Chapels Society 1982 'Royal Arms in Buckinghamshire Churches' Newsletter 27, December 2002 [a note about EV's [addendum] Vol. 24, 181 grandfather (1851-1906) who was involved in 1988. 'A history of the Society: Part I, 1847-97' founding Hazell, Watson and Viney and was a Vol. 30, 170-177 deacon at Highbury Union Chapel] 1996. 'A history of the Society: part II 1897-1947, Vol. 38, 109-124 Requiescat in pace JC

JEFFREY DAVID HAWKINS

The following thoughts were provided by his friend He grew up in the 1930's when life on the farm was Don Levy. very hard. Nothing must be wasted or thrown away. He recycled before recycling was invented and then Jeffrey David Hawkins of Green Farm (I st recycled that which had already been recycled. It December 1921-16th December 2001) was the same with money. Wherever possible you kept it in the business. If you did not know how to Jeff is dead. He was 80 on December I st 2001 and do something then you went out and learnt. You did we went to a BAS meeting at Aylesbury Museum. not spend where you could avoid it, because that On the Sunday to a walk for fatmers who were was waste. Having farmed throughout the war taking part in a RSPB census at Otmoor. He was when you could lose land and home for not pro• happy. A fortnight later he was dead. Feeling ill on ducing to the utmost, he could not understand the the Wednesday and refusing help, he had driven throwaway society. himself to hospital where he died on the Sunday. Jill He went to Berkhamsted Grammar School, had asked me to prepare an address for the surprise which he did not enjoy, and Oaklands Farm party we were giving him at the Pitstone Society's Institute at St Albans which he did greatly. The war December meeting. Instead I am writing this. ended his formal education and he came back to Jeff's family came to Pitstone Green in 1808. work on the farm. Feeding people was important. They were leading figures in the parish, helping to Joining the Home Guard he was made dispatch build the chapel and serving as Overseers of the rider because he had a motor bike. There were Highways. Jeff inherited this tradition of service. many discussion groups to help increase food pro- Obituaries 259 duction and farming walks to exchange ideas. The crushed into cement. At the same time Jeff still had prototype under-floor grain drying bins still stand• to work the farm and he decided to try to reclaim ing at the farm were built by Jeff. Quarry 1 which people said could not be done. The WEA classes in the village, especially the Now it is to be factories but for many years it grew Greek Philosophy course led by the redoubtable good barley crops. Farming and the countryside Miss Cameron, were a great influence on him. was changing very rapidly and so much was being Woodcarving interested him and pottery at Pendley destroyed or thrown out and so we decided we must with Murray Fieldhouse, and he taught at evening save what we could and we used the loft at Vicarage classes for a time. Naturally he built his own wheel Farm as a store. David Wray wanted to hold a show and kiln. at Little Gaddesden which was very successful and I first met him in 1950 when a Young Farmers the BAS asked us to put on a display for them. Club went for a walk around Pitstone Green, and Jeff's pigs had gone, the loose boxes and Big Barn then at WEA meetings and farmers' talks, where he were empty and we took them over. We were quite took pages and pages of notes. When I was asked overwhelmed by the quantity of material we were to form a YFC in , I asked Jeff if he would collecting. help me and together for many years we ran a most Hugh Baddley asked us to help him make a film unusual YFC but we won the Efficiency Cup and and 'The Agrarian Revolution' was made. We also many awards, with kids, very few of whom had attended WEA classes on local history for many agricultural backgrounds. We raised money by years. The threat from developers in the country• growing vegetables where Windmill Close now side was increasing and Jeff played a leading role stands and carted the members all over the place. in the formation of the Chiltern Society and the Teenagers did not have their own transport then. Beacon Villages Society. He said he would shave The YFC decided they were interested in Local off his beard if the Cement Works ever went and to History and with John Allereton as Chairman, his surprise he had to, but it grew again because so formed a group to investigate the making of a few people recognised him without it. The Battle of parish. The first constitution said that one person the Tips was won. Pitstone church was made redun• over 25 should hold office, which Chris Gowing, dant and so we formed a committee to open it on the curator of Aylesbury Museum, thought a bit Sunday afternoons and to look after the interior. odd! The Young Farmers went out into the world Chairman Jeff: Secretary Keith Saunders. Jeff was and we took over. Can't remember if Jeff or Tom Chairman of the parish council for many years and Owen was Chairman but Keith Saunders was President of the Cricket Club. He also provided Secretary. storage for the club tractor and mowing machine, On a WEA outing to London, Jeff first men• trestles for the Horticultural Society, props for the tioned that he was thinking of forming a group to Dramatics. Wanting the museum, which the restore the windmill, which will be a lasting memo• Curator of the Reading Museum of Rural Life said rial and led to involvement with Lacey Green and was one of the most important collections in the Quainton mills. Then we acquired a lease of the country, to continue, he offered the buildings as a watermill as well. David Wray and David Goseltine gift to the Society. They were unable to accept and joined us. The Manshead Society of Dunstable, so Bob Morgan hammered out a 99 year lease at a who had been excavating in the quarry, gave up peppercorn rent. Now we must try to carry it on as there and we rescued what remained before it was he would have wished. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY (as at 31 December 2002)

President

Professor W. R. MEAD, FBA

Vice-Presidents

Capt. Sir THOMAS BARLOW BT, nsc, DL, RN (retd) Mrs. K. HAGERTY Commander The Lord COTTESLOE K.ST.J, JP, RN (retd) M.HART C. V. DAWES AMA D. C. MYNARD MIFA M. E. FARLEY FSA The Rt Hon. Sir TIMOTHY RAISON PC C. N. GOWING FMA Sir DENIS WRIGHT GCMG

Trustees

The Rt. Hon. Lord CARRINGTON KG. GCMG. CH, MC The Rt Hon. Sir TIMOTHY RAISON PC Two vacancies

Council Dr A. J. C. BALFOUR A. KIDD R. BETTRIDGE G. C. LAMB Mjr. M. C. J. DAVIS E. LEGG (Chairman) Ms. S. GRAY G. MARSHALL J. HUNT M.PALMER Ms. H. JONES Dr D. THORPE

Han. Secretary Han. Treasurer Mrs M. E. A. BROWN B. F. DAVIS CPFA Han. Editor Han. Archivist and Librarian Prof. JOHN CLARKE Mrs D. GULLAND MCLIP Han. Associate Editor Han. Newsletter Editor M.E.FARLEY F. LAING

Natural History Section

Chairman: Dr A. J. C. BALFOUR Han. Secretary: M. PALMER

Headquarters

THE COUNTY MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, AYLESBURY, BUCKS HP20 2QP Registered charity No. 310525 CONTENTS

The Aylesbury Steeplechase Elliott Viney, FSA ...... I Dr John Lee of Hartwell and his Swedish Journey 1807-1809 Professor W R. Mead, FBA ...... 9 The Excavation and Metallographical Analysis of a Bronze Age Sword recovered from lvinghoe Beacon G. Marshall, BSc, MIFA and P Northover, DPhil ...... 27 Iron Age Settlement at Cranborne Avenue, Westcroft, Milton Keynes S. Anthony, BA, PIFA ...... 39 A Romano-British Cremation Burial from Wellwick Farm, Wendover R. J. Zeepvat, BA, MIFA ...... 47 The Church in Anglo-Saxon Buckinghamshire c.650-c.11 00 Keith Bailey, MA, PhD ...... 61 Excavation of a Medieval Settlement, Late Saxon Features and a Bronze Age Cremation Cemetery at Laughton, Milton Keynes Jo Pine, BA, A/FA ...... 77 Open Field Enclosure and Village Shrinkage at Peter Gulland, BSc, DipTP ...... 127 John Mason: Anglican Millenarian and Friend of Dissenters Marilyn Lewis, BA ...... 143 The Portland Family and Bulstrode Park Audrey M. Baker, PhD, FSA ...... 159 \. Life in a Georgian Workhouse Jean Coppock ...... l 79 Aston Clinton Manor House: From Moated Site to Classical Mansion Diana Gulland, MCLIP ...... 195 Notes ...... 209 Archaeological Notes ...... 22 0 Reviews ...... 2. 4 The Society ...... , ...... 242 The Library ...... 244 The Natural History Section ...... ; ...... 246 Buckinghamshire County Museum ...... 248 Centre For Buckinghamshire Studies ...... 25 0 County Archaeological Service ...... 254 Obituaries ...... 256 Officers of the Society ...... 26 0

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