46 LITTLR BRICKHILL. BUCKING HAMS HIRE. [KBLLY's 2Jth, r644. There is a record of the vicars of this Duke of Buckingham, killed a.t Northampton, 27 July, parish from the year 1'227 to r8go. The living is a 1460, Sir Henry Marney kt. 1st baron Marney, d. 24 titular vicarage, net yearly value £r6o, in the gift May, 1523, William Carey, Sir Thomas Neville Abdy of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1906 by the hart. d. 20 July, r877, Sir Charles Duncombe kt. d. Rev. Louis J ones B. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. 17II, Sir William Rose, Lord Strathnairn and Admiral This village was formerly the first place in the county at Douglas. The manorial rights have ceased; the wb.ich the judges arrived on going the Norfolk circuit, present owner of the manor is Lieut.-Col. Alexander and from 1433 to r638 the a.ssizes and genexal gaol Finlay. The Duke of Bedford K.G. and Sir Ever<J,rd deliveries for Bucks were held here on aooount of its P. D. Pauncefort-Duncombe hart. of Brickhill Manor, beirug the nearsst spot in Buck..s to the metropolis, with also have property in the parish. The situation of this a good road and accommodation for man and horse ; in village on the highest part of the Brickhills Cfr. Saxton's map af 1574, it is marked as an assize town, Briehelle) and adjoining the Woburn plantations is and election as well at~ othsr county meetings were a.l!ro picturesque and eminently healthy. The soil for the convened here. There are charities of £5 for educational most part is light on the hill and heavier below; sub. purposes, the Church and Poor Charity of £23 ros. i1 soil, clay and red sand. The chief crops are wheat, divided between the provi.!!ion of coal for the poor and the oats, beans and barley. The area is 1,365 acres; church expenses, the Poor Allotment Charity of £r6 assessable value, £1,528; the population in 1901 was yearly, is also for coals, Penrose's of £3 for blankets, and 278 . .Aibdy's of £8 ss. for bread and education for the poor; Post & T. 0. & E. D. Offi.ce.-Mrs. Jane Ingram, most of these charities are derived from money invest-ed sub-postmistress. Letters through Bletchley arrive at in Consols, the results of the sales of land and house1 6.55 a.m. & r p.m.; post leaves at 7·45 a.m. & 1.5 left by benefactors; the vicar and churchwarden11, Lt.­ & 6.25 p.m. We€k days; ro.45 a.m. sundays. Great Colonel A. Finlay and Messrs W. J. Franklin, W. Betts Brickhill is the nearest money order office and J. Woods are the trustees. The history of the Elementary School, built in 1847, by the National Society manor dates from the rzth century, it having belonged on glebe land, enlarged in 1887, & again in 1893 & r8g8, to the Giffard family, Earls of Buckingham in n64. for roo children; average attendance, 75 ; Miss Mary Amongst the names of the owners appear Humphrey, Berrill, mistress; Miss Sarah Berrill, assistant mistress • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Haddon John, George & Dragon P.H Biallo-Blotzky Mrs. Sultanpore house Betts William, farmer Howes George, head gardener to (]rresterrnall Mrs Eversden Joseph, Green Man P.H Lieut. -Col. Finlay Finlay Lieut.-Col. Alexander J.P. The Franklin ~ralter JQhn, farmer Mead John, Bull inn Manor house Frost Alford, gamekeeper & bailiff to Watson Edward, farmer White Mrs Lieut.-Col. Finlay Woods John, insurance agent :BRILL is a parish and ancient town, and now a large which are chalybeate, and have be-en successful in the village, situated on a. hill nearly 700 feet in height, 7' I cure of various complaints. The manor was once part miles north-west irom Thame, 12 north-ea.;;t from of the ancient demesnes of the Crown; and the Palace, Oxford, Bi south-east from Bicester and 13! west from remains of which are still standing, was said to have Aylesbury, in the Northern division of the county, been a favourite residence of King Edward the Con­ hundred and petty sessional division of Ashendon, I fessor. King John spent his Christmas here in 1205, union and county court district of Thame, rural deanery 1 and Henry II. and Henry Ill. also held their courts of Waddesdon, archdeaconry of Buckingham and dio- : here. The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher bart. cese of Oxford. The town is seated near the Oxford P.C., C.Jl., M.P. of Dorton, who is lord of the manor, boNier of the county. There is a tramway (the and Earl Temple are thB principal landowners. The Oxford and Aylesbury), with a terminus one mile soil is various; subsoil, various. 'l'he land is prin­ north from this place, passing through Waddesdon cipally used for pasture. The area is 2,939 acres; rate­ Road siding, Wesoott, Wotton station and Wood siding, able value, £5,031; the population in rgor was 1,2o6. to the Metropolitan Extension railway at Quainton rT "ttl Lo d · · t h 1 t h '' il ..,_ . - h . · · '..ul e n on IS a piC uresque am e au a m e souw B 0 ad s t a t1on 8 m1 1es nort -east, passengers can JOm f B lUl. · :'n· kl ·n 0 or leave the tramway at any of these sidings or sta- ram ri ] • mg 0 a ey. tions: tramcars run four times daily each way. The Post, M. 0. & rr:- 0., '!· M. 0., E. D., P. P .•. S. B. & A. & church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of stone, in I. Offi.ce.-M1ss Al1ce Green, sub-po:;tm1stress. Let- the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, ters arr~ve through Thame at 6.55 a.m. & 12.40 consisting of chancel, restored in 1883, at a cost of £250, P·JJ?-·; dispatched at _10 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; sundays, nave, south porch and a. plain and low western tower arrtve 7.40 a.m. & dispatched 5· I5 p. m. Telegrams of Perpendicular date with a small lead-covered spire through Aylesbury and containing 6 bells, a sanctus bell and a large COUNTY MAG]STRATE.S FOR THE ASHENDON chiming clock, placed 22 Dec. r894, at the cost of Mr. T. H. Seargeant, of London: at the east end of the PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. north aisle there is an Early English window ; and Aubrey-F1etcher The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry bart. P.C., C.B., there are also two Norman doorways: the font consists M.P. Dorton house, Tharne of an octagonal basin on a hexagonal base: an addition Dodwell Herbert esq. The Manor, Long Crendon, Thame was made on the north side of the church in 1838, Goldsmid Septirnus ~sq. Manor farm, Brill, Thame when the old Saxon wall on that side was removed: Griffin James Whitehouse esq. Towersey manor, Thame painted figures on both sides of the chancel arch, which Higgins-Bernard Francis Tyringham- esq. Chearsley Hill had been plastered over to preserve them from house, Aylesbury destruction by the Puritans at the time of the Civil Lear Herbert Nelson esq. Brill houss, Thame War, have recently been exposed to view : the church Pigott Rear-Admiral Willia.m Harvey, Doddershall was restored in r88g-rgo1 at a cost of £2,ooo: the house, Aylesbury Saxon wall on the south side has been removed and a Skinner Alfred Ernest esq. Grendon hall, Ayleebury new south aisle corresponding hl the north bui1t: all the Clerk to the Magistrates, Edward Henry Thomii.S Few­ old features of the church have been retained: there are son Small M.A. Town hall, Buckingham 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1569. The living is a vicarage, united with Boarstall, joint net yearly Petty Se·ssions for the division are held at the Police value [200, with residence, in the gift of the Rt. Hon. court, Brill, at 1.1 a.m. on mondays monthly & special Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher hart. P.C., C.B., M.J?. and !lessions for hearing indictable offences under the held since 1902 by the Rev. John Riley M.A: of Queens' "Poaching Prevention Act," every monday. The fol­ College, Cambridge. Here is a Omgregational chapel, lowing are the places included in the Petty Sessional built in r841, and seating 350 persons; there is also a Division : Ashendon, Boarstall, Brill, Ohilton, Dorton, Wealeyan chapel, built in 1841, with sittings for 140, Grendon Underwood, Ickford, Kingswood, Long Cren­ don, Ludgershall, Oakley, Shab bington, W otton and a Congregational chapel at Little London, built in Underwood, Woodham, WorminghaU 1847 and seating r5o. There are four almshouae11 en­ dowed by Ahce Carter in 1591. A sum of [300 a year, Police Station, Allan Swains, inspector, & 2 constables derived froni the rental of a farm at Boarsotall, is dis­ tribut:OO year1~ t{) the poor of Brill and Oakley ; also PL.ACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services. Lewis's charity ()f £8 ; Pym's free school charity is for .All Saints' Parish Church, Rev. John Riley M.A. vicar ; the education of ro ,children; Sir John Aubrey's charity Rev. Frederick William Collis M.A. curate; 8 & !I £s an endowment of §oo a year on behalf of the National a..m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; daily services, 8.30 a.m. & &chools; Hart's cha.rit): is for apprenticing poor ooys. 4·30 p.m In the :immediate neigll\bourhood of the town, at the Congregational, Brill, Rev.