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Volume 3. 1705–1712 Buckinghamshire Sessions Records County of Buckingham CALENDER to the SESSIONS RECORDS VOLUME III. 1705 to 1712 AND APPENDIX, 1647 Edited by WILLIAM LE HARDY, M.C., F.S.A. GEOFFREY LI. RECKITT, M.C., F.S.A. AYLESBURY: Published by Guy R. Crouch, LL.B., Clerk of the Peace, County Hall. 1939 COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS AND COUNTY COUNCIL. [All Rights Reserved] Printed by HUNT, BARNARD & CO. LTD., AYLESBURY. CONTENTS PAGE Preface . vii-xxxxii Calendar to the Sessions Records, 1705 TO 1712 . 1-305 Appendix i, (a) Justices of the Peace, (B) Sheriffs, 1705 to 1712 306-308 Appendix ii, Document at Doddershall, 1647 . 309-316 Appendix III, Addenda to Volume II . 317-325 Appendix IV, Writs of venire facias and capias ad respondendum, 1705 to 1712 . 326-334 Appendix V, Register of Gamekeepers, 1707 to 1712. 335-345 Appendix VI, Steeple Claydon Highway Rate, 1710 . 346 Appendix VII, Dinton Poor Rate, 1711 . 347-349 Index . 350-427 PREFACE Those who believe that the value of a work of this nature lies in its completeness must suffer a disappointment in the fact that it is now nearly three years since the publication of the last volume of the calendar, and with those who hold such an opinion we have much sympathy and offer our apologies to them. This delay has been caused mainly by the discovery, during the preparation of the work, that many of the documents which go to make up a Sessions Roll had become misplaced. It was thus necessary to examine and arrange all the rolls for a period long after the date when this calendar was likely to end, in order to ensure that all records covering the period would be brought together and noted in the calendar. While this work took a considerable time, it is hoped that it has facilitated the production of future volumes, as the rolls are now in order up to the year 1720. The confusion in the sorting of these is best exemplified by reference to Appendix III to this calendar [pp. 317-325], where the information relating to matters referred to in Volume II, and found filed in later Sessions Rolls, has been fully set out. Reprints of this appendix have been made, and will be supplied to those in possession of Volume II on application to the Clerk of the Peace. Since the publication of the last volume, the county has (in May, 1938) appointed a permanent County Archivist, and has converted the old cells and rooms in the basement of the County Hall into a record room large enough to house all the records now in the custody of the county authorities. During the transference of the documents to these new quarters the archivist has already unearthed some records not mentioned in the old manuscript indices, the contents of which will be incorporated in future volumes of the calendar. A completely ___________________________________ viii PREFACE new and comprehensive catalogue of all the records, which will make them far more accessible to students, is to be compiled. Among the recent discoveries have been a series of Test Rolls, recording the names of persons who took the statutory oaths, and lists of Catholics and dissenters; they begin in 1696. It will be noticed that many of such names appear in the calendar forming the present volume. There is, perhaps, small chance that any of the earlier Sessions records will now be discovered, but from a totally different source a draft Sessions Book, dealing with the Easter Session, 1647, has come to light and the information it contains has been incorporated in Appendix II to the present volume [pp. 309-316]. This book was found by Mr. George Eland, F.S.A., among the collection of manuscripts in the possession of Lady Pigott-Brown at Doddershall, and has been extracted and printed by her permission. It records the “Actes of the Generall Quarter Sessions” held at Buckingham on the 29 April, 1647. Sir Richard Pigott, who was one of the eight justices present on that occasion, took an active part in county administration during the Commonwealth. He had been appointed Deputy- Lieutenant in 1642, and had served as sheriff in 1644-5. The other justices named are Sir Thomas Saunders of Amersham, Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Castle Thorpe, Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood, Anthony Radcliffe of Chalfont St. Giles, William Wheeler of Datchet, John Lawe, and Sir John Parsons of Boveney, who married the heiress of Sir John Kidderminster, the founder of the almshouses and the church library at Langley Marish. The contents of this book are set out in approximately the same orderly manner as those later Sessions Books with which these calendars deal, and show that the system of recording the business at Quarter Sessions had already been regularized. The record is mainly important for the reference it supplies to the Governor of “Bowstall” and to the payment of £2. 10s. to Joseph Bradlye towards the losses he sustained in having his house and goods burnt by “the Parliament souldiers when they beseiged Borstall” [pp. 312 and 314]. Boarstall had changed hands several times, but was finally held by the Parliamentary forces from June, 1646, onwards. ___________________________________ PREFACE ix John Frayter of Quainton was also compensated for his losses by fire, but there is nothing in the entry to indicate that these were caused by the civil wars. Towns within five miles of Buckingham had failed to subscribe towards the relief of the inhabitants of Buckingham, which had been visited with the plague, and it was ordered that the full penalties of the law should be imposed upon them if they continued in their neglect [p. 315]. John Walbanck, the Clerk of the Peace, and Christopher Perkins, gentleman, the deputy clerk, were respectively fined 100 marks and 40 marks for their failure to attend the court [p. 315]. William Houghton, a clerk in holy orders, was bound over to keep the peace [p. 313]. Appendix I to this volume gives a complete list of Justices of the Peace who are mentioned in the calendar, together with the names of the High Sheriffs. Appendix IV gives a list of all persons whose names appear in the writs of venire facias and capias ad respondendum. These writs are found in the Sessions Rolls, though some of them are missing. As all the names contained in these writs have appeared elsewhere, either in the Sessions Books or Sessions Rolls, it was thought more convenient to give them in full for one year and then to tabulate them, and thus avoid reprinting the same names many times in the body of the calendar. The Register of Gamekeepers appears for the first time (Appendix V) and extracts from this book for the period covered by the calendar have been tabulated for convenience sake. The main value of this list is that one is able to learn the names of many manors in the county and of the persons who held them. Among the owners are found many well- known persons: e.g. Sir John Chester, 4th baronet, who rebuilt Chicheley Hall; Bernard Gardiner, subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, who held Long Crendon; William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven, a Scottish peer who sat as a member of Parliament for the county from 1698 to 1702 and was Lord Lieutenant; Edward Henry Lee of Quarrendon, Bucks, and Ditchley, co. Oxford, and his mother, Elizabeth, later the widow of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey; Edward Lee was created Earl of Lichfield in 1674, after his marriage to the ___________________________________ x PREFACE illegitimate daughter of Charles II by Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland; Sir Robert Throckmorton, who partially rebuilt the mansion at Weston Underwood and was a great benefactor to that parish and to Coughton, co. Warwick; Maurice, 2nd Baron Haversham, who had been wounded at the siege of Namur; Frances, widow of James, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and daughter of Simon Bennet of Beachampton; Mary, widow of the 3rd Earl of Northampton, and daughter of the 3rd Viscount Campden; Scroop, Earl, and subsequently Duke, of Bridgewater, who was Lord Lieutenant of the county and married Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough; Henry Petty, Lord Shelburne, who was subsequently M.P. for Great Marlow and Chipping Wycombe; Thomas, 1st Marquis of Wharton, who had been M.P. for Wendover and later for the county, and Lord Lieutenant in 1702 until dismissed from that office on the accession of Queen Anne; Sir Edward Longueville, a zealous Catholic and supporter of the cause of James II, who was killed by a fall from his horse at Bicester Races in 1718; the trustees of a charity left by Dr. Richard Busby, the headmaster of Westminster School; and the Master of Ewelme Hospital in Oxfordshire [pp. 335-345]. Appendix VI contains the names of ratepayers in the parish of Steeple Claydon in 1710, and Appendix VII gives a similar list of inhabitants of Dinton. These lists have been inserted in this form with the object of interfering as little as possible with the layout of the calendar. The calendar opens in the middle of the War of the Spanish Succession and a year before the triumph of Marlborough at Ramillies, and covers the victories of Oudenarde and Malplaquet, and various other minor ones over the French in Flanders and the Spaniards in Spain, which resulted in the Treaty of Utrecht a year after the close of this calendar. An address to Queen Anne was drawn up by the Lord Lieutenant, the justices, and many others, congratulating her on the victory of her forces at Ramillies “under un- parrelled Conduct and Bravery of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough and of Your Majesties other renowned Generalls the Earle of Peterborough and the Earle of Galloway.” It viewed with satisfaction the Queen's “wysdome in the Choyce of your present Ministers and Generalls under whome ___________________________________ PREFACE xi the exorbitant Power of France has been soe visibly reduced and the Antient Honor of England soe Gloriously advanced” [pp.
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