• DIRECTORY.] 447 MIDDLE CLAYDON. (BUCKS.] William Jeudwine, M.A.., of St. John's College, Cambi-idge, Nationctl Sclwol, Miss Fanny Garnett, mistress iR the incumbent. There is a National school, erected about CARRIElt TO BEDFORD.-James Mapley, from Coles to 1851. The population in 1861 Wah 265; the acreage is1,G20. 'Red Lion,' monday, wednesday & saturday, retw·tling Parish Clerk, Henry Caul'!tin. same rlay Chester liajor C. }I. .J. P Cross John, farmer Whiting Henry, f~u·mer COMMERCIAJ~. :Fairey George, farmer Witney Felix, tailor Coales Francis farmer Field William, farmer Letters received through Newport Coles John, shopkeeper & blacksmith Riley J ames, farmer Pagnell, at which is the nearest money Cook Richard, farmer Sanderson Charles, Red Lion order office OHILTON is a small village and parish, in the hundred mented, and has l1is effigy in armour: a very excellent of Ashendon, union and county court district of Thame, organ has been placed in the church by the present vicar, rural deanery of Waddesden, archdeaconry of Buck- at a cost of 300 guineas: the choir and organist are sup­ ingham, and diocese of Oxford, 4 miles north from ported by him, as is also a parochial school, which is attendrd Thame, and 10 west from Aylesbury. The church of from all the adjacent parishes. The living is a vicarag~>, St. Mary is built in a Mixed style of architecture, value £G7, in the gift of Mrs. Ricketts, of Dorton; the and consists of nave, chancel, south aisle, south transept, Rev. George Chetwode, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, and porch; on the north side of the nave is a low square is the incumbent. 1\'Irs. Ricketts is lady of the manor, and tower and turret, in which are 3 bells: in the church are the principal landed proprietor. The population in 1861 wns some monuments and brasses of the family of the Crokes; 364; the acreag-e is 2,080. that of Sir John CrQke, who died in 1608, is much oma- Parish Cle1·k, John Varney. Chetwode Rev. George, Jl!.A., .r.p, Freeman Edwin, farmer Perkins Daniel, carpenter [vicar], Chilton house Harvey Richard, grocer Shrimp ton Ezra,schoolmastr.& organist Parrott Mr. William Jessop Stephen, farmer, Chilton grove Shrimpton John Kirby, farmer COMMERCIAL. Jessop William, farmer Letters arrive through Thame. at 7 Allnutt William, farmer, Homage Messer J ames, blacksmith a.m.; dispatched at Gp.m. The nearest Barry Thomas, farmer, Chilton grounds Mumford Richard, farmer,Chilton park money order office is at Brill Fletcher James, farmer Osborne Joseph, farmer, Court farm CHOULESBURY is a small parish, in the hundred of originally appended to Drayton Beaucl1amp." There Cottesloe, union of Aylesbury, county court district of Ches­ is a tolerably regular succession of rectors from 12-30 to llam, 4 miles north-west-by-north from Chesham, 4 from 1416, after which the rectory and vicarage seem to have been Trin~ railway station, and 5 from Berkhampstead. The swallowed up in the endowment of the Knights of St. J olm, church of St. Lawrence is built of dressed flint, and consists and the church has since been served py curates. Cholesbury of chancel, nave, and south porch, of good Early English obtained a very unenviable degree of notoriety under the work. The registers date from 1583. The living is a per­ old Poor Law. In 1833 its poor rates exceeded 30s. in the petual curacy, endowed with gt•eat and small tithes, gross pound, forced all the land out of cultivation, caused a value about £50, and in the patronage of the trustees of parochial bankruptcy, and for more than eighteen months }Ir. Neale; a lectureship 1s attached to the living, the poor of the parish were obliged to be supported by rates worth £130 per annum; the Rev. Henry Playsted Jeston, in aid-that is, rates levied on other parishes: it was re­ M.A., of Worcester College, Oxfurd, is the incumbent. The deemed from its degraded state of total pauperism by the parish of Cholesbury in the Doomsday Survey appears to Allotment System, and has continued ever since a flourishing have been included in Drayton Beauchamp, and in all little community. There is in the parish an ancient camp, probability became a separate parish shortly after, for, in and of its kind one of the most perfect in the kingdom ; 1091, Hamon, son of Shemfelin, and William Peveril gave although generally supposed Danish, its deep circular foss, Cholesbury to the Knights Templars; upon their suppres­ more than half a mile in circumference, with its high em­ sion it passed to the Knights of St. John, with whom it bankment amidl'lt dense woods, answers minutely Cresar's remained until the Dissolution, when, probably, Henry VIII. description of a British town-" Oppidum autem Britanni granted it to Sir John Baldwin, in whose family it vocant quum silvas impeditas vallo atque fossa munierunt, continued in the reign of James I. 'l'he Neals, it is likely, quo incnrsionis hostium vitandre cau!!a convenire consue­ JlUrchased it from the Beauchamps. In the 38th year of verunt." The population in 1861 was 105; the acreage Edward III., Cholesbury was called a hamlet of Drayton. is 176. This is in a grant from the King to Thomas Cheyne of the Parish Clerk, George Sills. manor of Drayton "with the l1amlets of Cholwaldesbury, Helpsthorp, 1\fassworth and Saunderdon." Cole in his 1\ISS., PosT OFFICE.-George Sills, sub-postmaster. Letters f'1•om which these facts are taken, observes, "the manor of arrive from 'fring at 7.:30 a. m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Chowlesbury, as well as the church was, as I conceive, The nearest money m·der office is at Tring Jeston Rev. Henry Playsted, M,A., J.P. Bishop Daniel, beer retailer Gomm George, farmer, Parot's farm Parkinsl)n James Benners, esq. J.P. Collier Lucy (Mrs.), farmer Sills George, farmer & parish cle1·k Brazier's end Dennis John, Maidenhead Wright Edward, farmer EAST CLAYDON and BOTOLPH CLAYDON Are two separate villag·es half a mile apart, forming one Perceval Laurence, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, is parish that of CLAYDON, 2~ miles south-west from Winslo·w, the curate in charge. Sir HaiTY Verney, Bart., is lord of and 7 south-east from Buckingham, in Ashendon hundred, the manor and sole landowner. The Parochial girls' and Winslow union, Buckingham county court district and infants' school, erected in 1844 by Sir H. Verney, Bart., is archdeaconry, rural deanery of Claydon, and diocese of at Botolph Claydon. Botolph House is a. well-built house, Oxford, The church of St. Mary, situate at East Claydon, occupied by A. Fraser, Esq. A charity of £5 every six years is an ancient fabric, with square tower and 5 bells. 'fhe to apprentice boys is paid by Sir H. Verney. The population living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Claydon Steeple, in 1861 was 385; the acreage is 2,160. joint annual value £300, in the gift of Sir Harry Verney, Parish Clerk, William Daniel. Bart., and held by the Rev. William Robert Fremantle, M,A,, rector of Middle Claydon and rural dean, and the Rev. Girls' ~ Infant School, Miss Susannah Walker, mistress East Claydon. Tompkins Robert, beer retailer, calf Fraser Alexander, land & estate agent, Laurence Rev. Perceval, M.A. [curate] dealer & carrier valuer & surveyor COl\-IMERCIAL. Letters throug·h Winslow Howard Charles, blacksmith Daniel William, carrier Botolph Cla~don. Judge J ames, farmer Harding John, wheelwright Fraser Alexander, esq. Botolph house Lacey J oseph, farmer Hinton John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Norman William, gardener Hirons Charles, farmer, Monkombfarm Butcher vVilliam, shoe maker Tomes John, farmer Parrott Benj. farmer, Sion Hill farm Cooper Henry, shopkeeper Letters through Winslow, The Stevens John, farmer Cross John, farmer nearest money order office is at Tomes William, farmer, Verney farm Curtis J oseph, farmer Steeple Claydon MIDDLE CLAYDON is a pleasant village and parish, hundred, Buckingham union, county court district and 6 miles west from Winslow, 6 south-east from Buckingham, archdeaconry, rural deanery of Claydon, qnrl diocese oi jnd J3 north-north-east froiiJ A.ylesblJ;ry, in A.shei).t}on O~fo;rd. The chtJrch of 411 Saints b a small neat 13truct,ure 1 32* .