DIRECTORY.] BUCKING HAl\ISHIRE. SLAPTON. 151 there is also a very fine marble monument in the south aisle Iassessable value, £1,392 ; the population of the township in to Thomas Stafford esq. of Tattenhoe, founder of the alms- 1901 was 166. houses here, who died in 1607 : the church w~ ~estored in Post, T. 0. & E. D. 0.-Mrs. Henry Shouler, sub-postmistress. 188.8-90, at a. cost of £1,997, and affor~. 30~ Sittmgs. The I..etters arrive from . Box: cleared at 7.35 a..m. register dates from ~he ye.ar 1652. The hvmg I'l ~ recto~y, net & 6.20 p.m. & sundays at 9 a. m. Postal orders are issued yearly ~alue £255, rncluding 2~2 acres of gleb~ With residence, here but not paid. The nearest money order office is at m the gtft of the Rev. E. A. M1lne, and held smce 1901 by the Lou~hton Rev. J oseph Robertson Vincent. There are almshouses for three poor men or women, founded by Thomas Stafford esq. . , a hamlet to Shenley ~hurch End is of Tattenhoe. Shenley House, the property and residence s1tuated .on a. green, three-quarters of .a mile ~outh from of William Duncan esq. is a handsome mansion of stone, Shenl~y, m the hundred of .co~tesloe, umon o~ Wmslow and pleasantly situated near the church, and approached through Buckmgham county court distriCt .. T~e area 18 1,658 acres ; an avenue of lime trees. The chief landowners are William rateable value, £1,405; the populatwn m190l was 186. Selby-Lowndes esq. of Whaddon Hall, William George Grim- Wall Letter Box at Shenley Brook End, cleared at 6.50 a.m. & wood esq. and Charles Morrell esq. of Milton Hill, Berks, 5.20 p.m. ; sundays at 9.25 a.m the trustees of the late Mr. W. Battams and the rector in Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1869, for llO children; right of his glebe. The soil is alluvial and clay; subsoil, average attendance. 80; it is the property of & is lent stone and clay. The land is mostly pasture, with some by the rector for school purposes only to the Shenley & wheat, oats, barley and beans. The area is 1,662 acres; Loughton School Board; John Henry Whitworth, master . Bateman Thomas, farmer Emerson Jane (Mrs.), Crown inn & butcher- Hedges John, farmer, Shenley grange Fountaine John, farmer Duncan William, Shenley house J enkins Ern est, milk dealer Grace Thomas, farmer Morris Misses Perry Alfred, shopkeeper Hooten .John, farmer Smith Alfred Shoulder Henry (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Knight Thomas, farmer Vincent Rev. Joseph Robertson (rector), post office Ormond ::\Iary Sophia (Mrs.), farmer,. · Rectory Dovecote Barrett George, farmer & overseer, SHENLEY BROOK END. Ormond Stanley, farmer M:anor farm Caple William, shopkeeper Wilks Thomas, farmer, Lodge farm •

SHERINGTON in Domesday "Seritone," is a parish tings. The register dates from the year 1698. T~~ living and village on the road from to Olney and is a rectory, net income £270, with residence and 17 acres of separated from Lathbmy and Newport Pagnell by the river glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1898 Ouse which is crossed by a bridge of five arches, 2 miles north bv the Rev. Richard Freeborn Mallam M.A. of Christ Church,. from Newport Pagnell station on the and Newport Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel seating 200 and a Pagnell branch of the London and North Western railway Wesleyan chapel. Fuller's charity of £5 yearly is distribut{ld and 3 south from Olney station on the Bedford and N orthamp­ as follows, viz. : £1 for a sermon ; 5s. each to the church­ ton branch of the Midland railway and 11 west from Bedford, wardens and 26 half-crowns to the poor. George Alfred U. in theN orthern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional Nelson esq. is lord of the manor; and Roger William Giffard division, union and county court district of Newport Pagnell, esq. of Trevethoe, Lelant, Cornwall, is the principal archdeaconry of , rural deanery of Newport landowner. The Mercers' Company of the City of London also Pagnell and . The church of St. Laud the have land here. The soil is varions ; subsoil, limestone and Martyr, seated on an eminence, is an edifice of stone chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and roots. in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried The area is 1,7!l9 acres of land and 6 of water; assessable nave of three bays, aisles, south porch with parvise, and a value, £1,762; the population in 1901 was 548. central tower containing 5 bells and a clock : the nave arcades Parish Clerk, Joel Attwood. have circular pillars on the north and octagonal on the south Post Office.-Miss Ellen J,, Feasey, sub-postmistress. Letters­ side, in both cases with moulded capitals; the tower is good arrive from Newport Pagnell at 6 a. m. & 12 p.m. ; dispatched Perpendicular, and there is a fine west window of five lights at 9.25 a. m. & 7.10 p.m. ; sundays, box closed at ll.4() of the same date ; the east window is Decoraten, others are a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The Perpendicular ; in the church is a shield of white metal with nearest money order & telegraph office is at Newport Pagnell, the arms of Catesby, being all that remains of a brass to a 2 miles distant civilian and his wife and children, with a marginal inscription, c. 1510; other brasses are recorded to Robert Yonge and Ada Elementary School, built in 1872, at a cost of £900, for 105 his wife, 1517; and to Richard Mareot, 1491: the church children; average attendance about 75; William Powell~ was restored in 1870 at a cost of £1,200, and affords 300 sit. master; Miss Hillyard, infants' mistress

Eldridge Mrs Field Frederick John, maltster & farmer Lawes Edward, White Hart P.H Estcourt Sydney, lodge Field ,John, grazier Line Edward Charles, carpenter Mallam Rev. Rchd. Freeborn M.A. Rectry Fleet George, horse dealer & butcher Line Frederick, beer retailer Rogers l\Irs Gardner Henry (exors. of), farmers Looms William, shoe maker Starer Mrs Graves Willia.m J. farmer, Water lane Lucas Isaiah, farmer Tompkins Mrs. Sherington bridge Groom William, blacksmith ~Iynard \V alter, farmer, Yew Tree farm Wilmer Mrs. Ash cottage Harding Daniel, farmer Oldham & Co. non-intoxicating ale brewers­ Hickson William Thos. butcher & grocer Oldham Owen, baker COMMERCIAL. Hine George James, wheelwright & Powell Waiter, Swan P.H Boone Fred.erick, shopkeeper coach builder Rose George, matting maker Emerson Robert, boot maker Jefferson Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Rose Henry George, carpenter & builder Feasey David, corn merchant & poor Joyce Sarah (Mrs.), Crown & Castle P.H. Rush Samuel, carpenter & hurdlt> maker rate collector & grazier Simcoe John H. farmer, Powells farm

SLAPTON (anciently ~lepetone) is a village and parish transferred the patronage in 1720 for £630 to Christ Church,. on the river Ouse and Bedfordshire border, 2 miles north- Oxford. One of the rectors, John Kempe, who resigned west from Cheddington Junction on the main line of the the living in 1407, was Bishop of Rochester, 1419; Chichester,. London and North Western railway and 3! south from Leigh- 1421 ; London, 1422; Archbishop of York, 1426 and Arch­ ton Buzza.rd, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of bishop of Canterbury, 1452; he died in 1454. The Wesleyan Cottesloe, petty sessional division of Linslade, union and chapel, built in 1817, will seat 170 persons. A charity left county court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of by Sir Thomas Knyghton, consists of property of the yearly Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. value of £66 6s. and is for the repair of two tenements under The Grand Junction canal passes on the west. The church one roof, called the" Town House"; a sum of 16s. Id. called of the Holy Cross is a building of stone in the Early English ''head silver," is due to the lord of the manor for defraying style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an em- the expenses of labourers' funerals ; the residue being dis­ battled western tower containing 5 bells, 2 of which were tributed on the Monday before old Christmas day among all recast, the whole rehung and the tower restored in 1889 : the poor of the parish, in sums varying from ls. to 8s. accor:ling the font dates from the 13th century and there are brasses to to the size of the families, but a. new scheme for this charity Reginald Manser, dated 1462; James Tornay, yeoman-at- has been lately drawn up by the Charit.y Commissioners. arms to King Henry VIII. 1519; and to Sir Thomas Knyghton, Slapton formerly belonged to the Benedictine Convent of 1522: the church was restored in 1878 and 1889 at a total cost SS. Mary and Ethelburga. at Berchinges (Barking), in the of £1,800, and affords 120 sittings. The register dates from county of Essex, and was aroyalmanorinthetime of Edward the year 1653. The living is a rectory, net yearly value, VI. and Elizabeth; it aft{lrwards p8B8ed to Thomas Rowe, derived from 190 acres of glebe, £160, with residence, in the subsequently to .J. Theed, and in 1724 became the property gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1901 by the of Scroope, lst Duke of Bridgewater. Earl Brownlow r.c. who Rev. Thomas William Tidmarsh M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. is lord of the manor. the Earl of Rosehery K.G., P.C. and Lady The advowson of the church was separated from the manor in Wantage, of Lockinge Park, Berks, are the. principal land- 1720 and purchaaed by James, lst Duke of Chandos, who • owruu:s. The soil is clay; sub!ioil, clay. The chief crops arc