ME MORIAL S

W ES TC TT B A R T O N O ,

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REV . JENNE R R A AL M. A. M SH L, ,

L ORD F TH E O JIA ‘VOR .

L OND ON H N R S S EL L S MIT H J O U , ' R E 3 & S O H O S Q U A .

TO THE

PARISHIONERS O F WESTCOTT BARTO N

THI S ATTEMPT To

COLLECT THE RECORDS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE

AND ITS P P VILLAGE EO LE ,

To ELUCIDATE CERTAIN INCIDENTAL MATTERS BY A COMPILATION

M TH T C T S TH SP CT S BJ CTS FRO AU EN I WRI ER ON EIR RE E IVE U E ,

IS INSCRIBED B Y

THE AU THOR .

8 2 990 0 ' F e are h o se un es when in harmo nious s ain s l d t t , tr , Th e rustic po et praised his n ative plain s ; NO Sh e her s no w in smo o h al erna e erse p d , t t t v , ’ ’ r rse Their co untry s beauty o r their nymphs ehea .

Crabbe V lla e Bo ok i i g , NT NTS TAB L E O F CO E .

Motto .

Introduction .

ll ag e —S i s of the Vi o l of the Pari h , and of the Name

H P C A . II .

h s s S e The Churc and Eccle ia tical tat , and the Church Bells.

H P . C A III .

— t ss — s The Wake and Feast S . Edward Confe or Cou e cration of the Ch urch and valuation of the Living

CHAP . IV .

List of Rectors and Patrons

H P . C A . V

Monuments

H P . C A . VI The Parochial School

H P . C A . VII ’ P e uestS — Cha1it L i s m Charitable l . y and , and Poo Allot ent B OF O S TA LE C NTENT .

H P . C A VIII . ’ The Parish Registers and O fficer s Book s

H P . C A IX .

Th e Inclosure Act and the Award

The Manor and other E states

H P . C A . XI — Brief Notices of the Chief Proprietors of 18 6 7- 8 The s Names of the others and their re pective Properties.

CHAP . XII .

Roads and Highways

CHAP . XIII .

The New Bridges

H P . C A XIV.

The Land Tax and other Property Taxes

SC LL S B V T MI E ANEOU O SER A ION S.

M S FA ILY OF BU WELL .

M SH FA ILY OF MAR ALL .

PP D 1 Iv . V111 IX . A EN IX , II, III, , V VI, VII, VII, , , X PREFACE .

’ f UPO N the appearance in 18 6 6 O Mr. Wing s Annals of the o I Bart ns, almost resolved to abandon an intention I had

formed, and which I was engaged in carrying out, viz . , that

O f Memor ials o Westco tt B ar ton . collecting f I have, how

ever, been induced to proceed with my plan, and I now Of submit the collection to the reader. Names books and

documents referred to are inserted where it is requisite , and a simple transcript Of the language Of the authorities is given in some places as most conducive to an accurate

- ac uaintance with the subject matter . There is much in q ’ common with Mr. Wing s statements, but any information ” which has been Obtained primarily from The Annals is

ac knowledged by the insertion Of (W. W. ) in the text . The Author expresses his thanks to many persons who

have contributed information for the Memorials, but espe h . t c iall . e y to the Rev Edmund L Lockyer, rector, the Rev. Of f h l Es Of Edward Marshall, Sand ord, and Henry C urchi l, q , rm Of Deddington, for pe itting a free perusal documents and deeds in their possession ; to the Dean and Canons of Christ Church for the examination Of the chartularies of

O f C . W. the Abbeys seney and Eynsham to H Hewlett,

Es Of . . q , London, and Mr H Turner, of Oxford, for copies Es Of W. Of and searches sundry records and to Wing , q , A Of Of . Steeple ston , for the use his Annals the Bartons It remains only to add that the ill ustration Of the church o Of is from a phot graph by T . Collinson, Oxford , kindly lent d f to be repro uced for this book by the recto r O the parish . B INTRODUCTI N O .

NO l V l ittle illage , says a writer in the Cornhil Magazine , 11 “ . . 7 Vol III . , p , is too small or too remote to be utterly worthless to itself ; and by respecting its own individual al r r v ue, it takes the su est cou se to become generally

. W r respected hereve a road has been cut, a tree planted , and smoke has climbed from the meanest cottages wherever f man may have been born , have suf ered, and have died, there is much that ought never to be buried and forgotten . The Of origin , the progress, or even the decay such a place, its hi Old daily life , its dimly remembered wort es , its traditions, Old its songs, its hopes and its fears, its j oys and its sorrows, f ” are all worthy O historical preservation . m I l Animated by the sa e spirit, have endeavoured to col ect those matters of Parochial interest in which all classes of our l vil age have a share, and which are scattered about in private papers, parish documents, and public records, and have been handed do wn by word of mouth from rude r forefathers to thei more enlightened posterity. MEMORIALS OF WESTCOTT BARTON .

A CH PTER I .

U A O O F THE V A O O OF THE S IT TI N ILL GE AND ETYM L GY NAME .

O f W u O f W THE Parish estcott Barton, in the H ndred ootton f Of “e e Of and Union dstock, is intersected by one those little valleys O f which there are a succession between VVO O dsto ck li v Gl m e and Banbury, ferti zed by the ri ulets y or Enis , and m Sw ere and So tbro o k hi Do e , and , and Oke , , on w ch have ill Of W kham W risen up the v ages y , Barford, orton, Sandford , m W Barton, Kiddington, Gly pton , and ootton it is thus in t ur a district having an ex remely undulated and varied s face , ’ and being surrounded by a number of gentlemen s seats, with n O f n hl the woods and pla tations Ble heim , Ditc ey, Kiddington, N A Glympton , Heythrop , Great Tew, orth ston, Kirtlington , Blechin do n S g , Rousham , and Tackley, is ituated near and amidst as much pleasant scenery as is to be found ordinarily

in any part Of the Coun ty Of Oxford . It lies on the turnpike E road leading from Bicester to nstone , about three miles and three- quarters from the Heyford statio n ° o n the Oxford Of W il w and Birmingham branch the Great estern Ra ay, and about midway between Heyford and Enstone as one j ourneys N w from east to west towards Chipping orton , hich is distant S ix eight miles . The market town of Deddington lies miles t Of lVO O dsto ck to the nor h , and that is a similar distance to O f the south . The village has a few houses forming part the r O f Libe ty Middle Barton , a hamlet belonging to the parish — Of B a Great or Steeple arton , lying to the north e st, and a

- few als o at the south west extremity . All these are built on Of e v O f the right side the turnpik road , and ha e most them B 2 2 MEMO RIALS O F

m been encroach ents thereon , while there are two isolated groups of tenements erected on detached pieces of land i i l belong ng to the parish , situated in the v l age and liberty

of Middle Barton . There is also one small outlying farm and homestead called Horsehay ” on sandy way towards D unstew the - l ; and rectory farm house , with its bui dings , t l has an independen position by itse f on the Worton road,

a lias Herdswa o . y , towards the w od The greater proportion of the cottages have been built near the stream called the m ll mil Do e , which rises on Showe Farm , about three es to N the north of Chipping orton, in the parish of Swerford ,

and which , after meandering through the meadows of the ri intermediate pa shes , joins its waters with those of the

Gl m e W . y at or near Hordley Farm, in the parish of ootton The stream is better known by the familiar appellation of “ ” B ar to n B r o o k , and has been long in estimation as an Oxford

. A shire trout stream ll the superior houses, and the cottages ’ vu for the most part , are on the northern bank of this ri let. Among those on the southern are the remains of what was i l ” in ancient times the M l . The premises adj oin the Mag Of 1796 dalen College allotment , which was leased to James

Parsons , and there may be seen in the outhouse of a cottage ll - the wall for carrying the wheel and the mi head . The

- mill pool is cultivated as a garden and orchard, and the bed of the stream for supplying the w ater is still traceable for a

short distance in the next meadow . The only spring now existing which apparently might have been intercepted for in r its water has a copious flow ordina y seasons, but ceases P to run in very dry summers . The inscription “E 1701 is

engraved on a stone in the front wall of the cottage . There h Of are t ree clusters of cottages on the west the farm , near al five - the church , but it may be c culated that sixths of the ll occupiers in the vi age reside in the main quarter . The soil of the village is chiefly stonebrash— otherwise known as the surface of the great oolite formation— and marked ’ towards the so uth on the map of the Ordnance Geological

N . O . . Survey of Great Britain ( lxv S W. Banbury) as white

- l . limestone , highly fossi iferous On the north and north east Of it begins to partake of the character the red loam . In the B 3 WESTCO TT ARTO N . valley of the Dom e there is a strip of alluvial pasture and a few spots in the parish are of a miscellaneous nature . The fossils commonly to be met with are of the marine shell

fish kind, the more conspicuous being Terebratula, smooth - - r shell shape stones, with a hole mark at the end, th ough which the creature put forth its arms to lay hold of the Rh nco nell a obj ect of its search y , streaked ditto , with a beak- like end Ostrea oyster Mytilus muscle Echinus urchin ; Astrea coral . The deposit thus indicates the dis triet to have been in remote ages the bed of an inland sea . From the manifestly desirable Situation for the business N of a primitive life , and from the orman character of archi t in tec ure yet existing the church of known antiquity, we have reason for believing that this locality has been selected as a favourite abode and place of occupation for more than m dr . eight hun ed years The Do e has been, till very recent m w ti es, a stream flo ing with a larger and more regular supply of water than it does at the present . l But as artificial , as wel as natural causes, have altered the face of the country, and humidity has been diminished n w by the cutti g down of oods and the draining of uplands, h w the resources ave been interrupted, and the river has d in died down, like many others under similar circumstances , into a mere brook . - two ll f There are thirty towns and v’i ages in dif erent parts of England , called Barton (Brooke s Gazetteer, art . Barton) . ’ ’ a 178 6 In Chambers and Rees Cyclop edia, , the word Barton is described as used in the west of England for the demesne lands of a manor, also for the manor house , and in some fo ld ards & c places for outhouses, y , . Kennett, in his Paro

An u . I. . 3 7 chial tiq ities , Vol , p , says the name Berton did sto re lace : signify a granary or p of corn as Berton by St . ’ n Martin s in Ca terbury, the granary of the monks of St . V V est ate m Austin , and g Court , nigh the sa e city, before called Berton de Westgate , and for which reason , he says, f n I do not find this name a fixed to any principal tow s, but to those farm and mansion houses that were in the posses

. I sion of the monks, and by them assigned to that use n ’ l B t many parts of England the rickyard was cal ed the ar on, 4 MEM O RIALS OF

the that is, the inclosure for bear, or crop which the land ” 2 d cd . . d . u bears (Wor s and Places, by Rev Isaac Taylor, , AS L nd l . 18 65 . e . CO , Camb , Macmil an and , , p for ” m to n l tun ti me the ter ination , which was original y or , ’

V ersti an s R . 2 95 in g estitution of Decayed Intelligence , p , 2 wh To wne . 16 8 Lond , , this reason is given y the word SO n came into frequent use amo g us, Our ancestors , for a purpose of defence, would c st a ditch and a strong hedge about their houses, and the houses so environed about with tunes or hedges got the name O f tunes annexed to them .

Moreover, when necessity, by reason of wars and troubles, caused whole themes— an ancient word for which we have l a — now substituted vi l ges, from the French to be with such did tunes environed about, these enclosed places thereby a Tunes To wnes t ke the name of , afterwards pronounced , and so gave cause that all places that contained but some number Of ten ements in a nearnesse together got the name ” O f To wnes as vulgarly as we yet unto this day call them . In Domesday Book it is Spelt B er tone any difference in the manner of spelling between the original name and the entry in that book may be accounted for in this W hen the survey was made , Saxon commissioners were employed to a scertain the particulars Of the respective estates and properties, and when they gave in their report N to the orman scribes, the latter seldom troubled them selves as to the orthography Of the places of which the ff account was delivered in , but they received o hand the information which the Saxon supplied , and characterized it m after their own peculiar ode , purposely depraving and contracting the Saxon words to gratify the ambition Of the l Conqueror, whose desire was to see the French anguage , as well as the French arms, predominant in the island . A different cause is working in our day to the destruction of

o ur viz. what remains of original tongue, , the frequent and easy intercourse we have now established between one town and another, and our intermixture with foreign people, and foreigners associating with ourselves . Much of the language of the country people is still , however, hardly intelligible to K S ee . I. . 8 . 8 O d 18 18 ennett, Paroch Antiq , Vol , p , xfor , . WESTCO TT BARTON . 5

m those who live in the metropolis and other i portant cities , and the Obscure neglected hamlet w ill be the last stronghold of the Saxon tongue .

From what has been said , we may come to the conclusion that this settlement must be considered as having acquired the name of B ar to n from its being originally an estate and w residence of a lord of a manor, or if other ise, from the Osene A Religious, and probably those of y bbey at Oxford, who had a large interest in having a sto replace for corn here . Four manors seem to have grown out of the lordship Of t ( Sharshull Barton , for there are now Bar on Ede, or , or Sessw ells d , Great or Steeple Barton , Barton Mid le , and

Barton Westcott , the subj ect of our record . This latter has ff been at various times di erently described . Thus it is found C n to be styled , in the Bull of Pope Honorius, in the se ey 1 2 . 6 0 2 1 Chartulary, fol , of the year , Parva Barton in the Nevill 12 16— 13 06 - 7 Testa de of the date , in the reigns of

I. ll . II . . W Hen I and Ed , referring to the Fee of i iam de tco t r n . l . Of 2 nd n IVes e B a to . Kay es, In the Abbrev P acit i . I. s Of Ed , Edmund Count of Cornwall found to be seized

W to n . N est B ar I 12 2 Taxati P . 9 o . a holding in n , at the , B r t t r I the name returned is a o n P arva ( L i tle B a to n) . n al . In i . 13 2 2 16 I . C u s , Ed I , the endar q Post Mortem has an B ar to ne Ma na Mano r Extent 13 5 1- 5 2 entry of g , and in , I B r o Mano r Ext 4 2 1 . 2 6 . . a t n ent. 5 3 6 Ed II , In , Hen t W I . 2 15 escot VII , the Valor Ecclesias icus gives it, at p , as 1 it l r 2 1 L i l B a to n. 5 B ar to n . 15 7 , and at p From to the present time the Oxford Registers have the uniform entry illare Westco te. V of In the , or View of the Townes of l i E . 16 5 5 ngland, by Sir H Spe man, a l st printed in folio in , it is entered as Westco tt B ar to n and as the Act of Parlia 1795 the ment of , for purposes of the inclosure , has adopted m this manner of spelling , it would seem to be the ost appro priate way in all our writings henceforth to make use of the word West with the terminal Co tt. The meaning of Co t or Co te at the end Of the names O f places is from the Saxon— a ’ W o tta e D iet . est C g (Johnson s ) speaks for itself. The

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site , then, here determines the distinction, and the popular a mode would come to speak of the little habit tion , with its West B ar to n rickyard and lands of the manor on the , to be

Westco tt or Westcott B ar ton .

R CHAPTE II .

TH E HU S S S C RCH AND ECCLE IA TICAL TATE.

d in - As regar s the church, Westcott Barton is the Diocese and Archdeaconr y of Oxford and Ruridecanal Deanery of W O f oodstock , the interior dimensions the sacred edifice now ale . Co nfesso r bearing dedication to St Edward, King and , and O f s n consisting tower, with pinnacle at the a gles, nave , l chancel, south aisle , and porch, are as fol ow Length and breadth Of the tower which is at the VVest 11 7 6 end of the nave feet by feet inches . 4 0 Height of the tower to the battlement feet . Of h 3 7 Length the nave to the c ancel step inches . Of i ll 14 Breadth d tto , to base of pi ars Length of Chancel 2 1 Breadth of ditto 12 Span of chancel arch 8 Length of South aisle 3 6 Of Breadth ditto , from base of pillars to 5 6

its lls Porch which has a stone seat on both sides within wa , and the remains of a Stoop for holy water outside, on the ll di south face of the east wa and a sun al in the gabel, dated

16 2 3 . 6 6 6 Length and breadth feet by feet inches . The helfrey is approached by a door from within— the number of windows are seven in the church and five in the chancel . ’” P eo There are two doors of entrance, one the p le s ’ Ect n s s s 1 o r 754 . The au u , WESTOOTT BARTO N . 7

“ ’” Recto r s through the south aisle , the other the in the

. chancel ’ An account of the building is given in Parker s Architec r u tu al Guide to the Ch rches in the neighbourhood of Oxford, and it has not received any addition since the publication of " 4 I i s No rm an that book in 18 6 . t presents spec men of the f

- N i . Transition orman , and Perpend cular styles of Architecture The arches of the aisle are part Of the buil din g of the twelfth t r Of t be cen u y . The tower and later parts the fif eenth, or ginning Of the sixteenth. 18 5 5 - 18 5 6 at The work of restoration was effected in , a £92 7 £2 00 cost of , of which was a loan from the Public in works Commissioners, to be repaid twenty years by twenty yearly instalments for principal and interest secured upon the Church- rates of the parish was provided for the restoration of the chancel by the patron was a donation from the Church Building Societies the amount of the Offertory and collection after the re - opening festival servicesj‘ and remainder was a subscription by the

s . rector and his family, his friend and neighbours This Church had fallen like so many other country churches into a very unbeseeming state . The tower arch had become blocked up with a Singing a l r — g l e y and back boarding the font had been . displaced against the west pier of the arch which divides the nave from re the aisle, and was found, when the repairs occasioned its w moval, to have had laid upside do n for its pediment the hi head stone of a coffin of the thirteenth century, w ch was supposed origin ally to have occupied a position under the

arcade for a tomb in the wall of the aisle , and which is now u h — set out to view as a relic in the Ch rc yard . The reading a desk f ced the west, and together with the pulpit stood just Of — s within the nave on the south the chancel screen . Pew

s hearin ii . is s il n t A tone, g date i i , to be een bu t into the tower be eath he s its s ea tern parapet, evidently with a View to pre ervation .

1 T 2 nd Of r he account of the celebration wh’ich took place on the Janua y 18 56 was ll s s O f 5th , fu y reported in Jack on x ord Journal of the of that month 8 MEMO RIALS o r there were in the chancel as well as the body of the chur ch of every size and character and state of dilapidation— an un even and unsightly pavement completed the meanness of the aspect, with a broken screen and a flat and plastered il suffi ceiling, and stonework defaced and mut ated yet with

cient indications remaining to tell of its former worthier state, and to be a guide to the architect in what he was required to — dO . . . The work was entrusted to Mr E Street, the diocesan i Of din Architect, and Messrs . Frankl n Ded gton, were the builders employed to carry the plans out . The prominent featur es of its present state are the tower recess thrown open — to the nave ; the Norman font remounted re adorned and placed immediately on the left of the door of entrance the arch in the aisle which, was thrown probably over the tomb Old of the founder, or some benefactor, displayed the pulpit of wood refitted and put up with steps Of stone in the north corner Of the nave by the chancel arch the chancel furnished in oak and made suitable for the use of the officiating ministers ; the screen repaired and reco lo m‘ed in gold and i Of red, and green and blue ; a un formity uninclosed seats of stained deal, a few of the original oak ones being pre in served the aisle to the west end ; a pavement of black, ff i Of red, and buff Sta ordshire tiles and a h gh pitched roof open timber work ; the east window of the chancel filled r with stained glass by Hardman , representing in the cent e and the i Of s the Crucifixion , on left side the Bear ng the Cros , and on the right , the Deposition ; the north and south w indows also of the chancel having colour ed glass the west o 18 6 7 wind w under the tower, replaced with stained glass in ’ il I by the patron s fam y, n memory of Henrietta Seagrave, — . h prepared by the Rev H . Us er, Curate of Oddington, an r amateur stainer of glass, who also painted the no th and south windows of the chancel— the subj ects in this window are the types of the Old Testament viz . , Isaac bearing the wood Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness— and ’ Joseph at the pit s mouth . The communion plate belonging to the church consists of l 15 72 one cha ice and cover of silver with the date , inscribed thereon one chalice of silver, the gift of the rector, E . L .

‘ IO MEMO RIALS O F and their position and mode Of hanging does not seem to have been altered since they were first put up . From Mr . ’ " L ukis acco untf they may be taken to be of the same age

as the tower, if not earlier, and to have escaped the spoliation which he mentions to have been so rife in England during

5 0. the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, p . He tells us at 2 4 ull l p . , that it is not probable that the f whee was em 16 77 ployed much before the year , and that before that period bells were moved by means of a short piece of wood lf fixed at right angles to the stock , or by a ha wheel which 15 2 7 ll was in use in , and is sti to be met with in Dorset D umchidco ck shire at , Devon at Westcote Barton , Oxon , ’ r where there are th ee, and at the church of St . Saviour s , in ” “ l Guernsey. It is very seldom , he says, that bel s of the

fifteenth century have dates upon them , but bells of the ”

S 3 1. ixteenth century are very frequently dated, p .

ER CHAPT III .

— T W R O S O — S WAKE FEAST S . ED A D C NFE S R CO N ECRATIO N OF IT V U S U A O . THE CH RCH , AND AL TI N

The Church wake and feast is held on the first Sunday after the eleventh day O f October ; the calendar of our Prayer book marks the thirteenth as the festival of the 1st da translation of King Edward , the y on which his relics were removed to the new Shr ine which Henr y the third caused to be erected for them in Westminster Abbey the the day of consecration and dedication of the church was church the customary yearly festival, and Wheatly says, From the days of Constantine these commemorations were n constantly made once a year, and solem ized with great l pomp , and confluence of people the solemnity usua ly last ing eight days together ; such a custom was observed in

f s — O R . L e M . P . . A A. S J . . An account Church Bell , by ev C uki , . , . H

L O 18 57 . Parker, ondon and xford, 11 WESTCO TT BARTON .

2 8 th . . England till the year of K Henry VIII , when by a decree of convocation confirmed by that king , the Feast of Dedication was ordered to be celebrated in all places on one and the same day, viz . , on the first Sunday in October . Whether that feast be continued now in any parts of the l Ob kingdom I cannot tell as for the wakes, which are stil r in l ll se ved many country vil ages, and genera y upon the next ’ Sunday that follows the Saint s day whose name the church bears, I take them to be the remains of the old church holydays, which were feasts kept in memory of the saints to whose honour the churches were dedicated, and who were therefore call ed the patrons of the churches . For though all churches were dedicated to none but God , as appears by the grammatical construction of the word church , which sig ’ nifies nothing else but the Lord s house yet at their co nse cration they were generally di stinguished by the name of some angel or saint chiefly that the people by frequently mentioning them , might be incited to imitate the virtues for which they had been eminent, and also that those Holy Saints themselves might by that means be kept in rem embe rance .

St . Edward was the youngest of the sons of the Saxon

King Ethelred . He was born at Islip , and brought up in W n France, and was crowned king at i chester on Easter day 104 2 4 oth a e — ul ir , about the year of his g His pec iarly v tuous character exhibited throughout a reign of twenty years O b tained for him the venerable title of Saint, and with the u adjunct of Confessor to his name , conferred upon him abo t

Al I . ac a century after his death by Pope exander II , in kno wledgm ent of the services which he had rendered that E foreign Potentate, he is distinguished from the two dwards

S t. Edw r d h r a t e o n o . Ed who preceded him as C f ess St . E ll ward was regarded as the Patron Saint of ngland , ti in the thirteenth century, St . George supplanted him in the

- affections of the people . Twenty one churches are said to be dedicated in England to his nam ef l' It is necessary here

W . 90 O . 18 02 heatley ’on the Common Prayer, p , xford Ed . S ee Speed s History of England : he Calendar of the Anglican Church 1 1 Old l s s O 8 5 . 1 8 49. xford , Holy token of , pub i hed by Cha Mozley, London, l 2 MEMO RIALS o r to notice that from the ancient chartulary of Eynesham MO

naster A N . 1 . y (see ppendix o , fol xxxix) , the original church O f VVestco tt Barton would appear to have been dedicated to E m d fift - five St . d un , to whom y churches in this country are “ w kno n to be dedicated f these, however, are chiefly to be fo nnd N k an d C ambrid eshire in orfolk, Suffol , g , called East / f/ fi Edwagd f n . A glia, of which province was fi teenth king I have not been able to trace out the time and occasion when as the patron saint of Westcott Barton he was changed for E at St . dward but I conceive it was either the consecration

of the church in the thirteenth century, or perhaps at a later the re - date , opening of the church after it had been enlarged

or partially rebuilt . St Edward having been born in the

county of Oxford , and being a great supporter of monastic 116 3 institutions the translation also of his relics in , hav

ing given impulse to the devotions of the people, would probably be a more worthy O bj ect of admir ation to the E nesham Abbot and Convent of y , to whom the advowson Of by the donation Alexander de Barton, had come to belong , the w as than former saint, in whose historythere not anything Of striking to them local or circumstantial interest . The con secration of the church in all probability took place if it were — c 12 3 8 2 2 - 2 3 III not already conse rated either in , , Henry , when there was “ a solemn dedication of many churches in the O f diocese of Lincoln , and particularly in the county Oxford by Gro sthead W ll w Robert , Bishop of Lincoln, and i iam Bre er, Bishop of or in the same year as that of the adj oin — 3 2 I. 12 7 1. . . ing parish of Sandford, , Ed 1 when the bishop

of Cloyne , acting for the bishop of Lincoln , in whose diocese x n the county of O ford was the comprehended, made a cir

cuit for the purpose of consecrating churches in these parts . At that time it probably too became possessed of the house d 1 . 1 . 3 4 and glebe lands, for accor ing to Kennett, Vol , p , N0 church coul d be legally consecrated without such al lotment of house and glebe generally made by the Lord of the Of Manor, who thereby became patron the church , other persons at the time of dedication Often contributed small

‘ 2 . O 1 1 . . . 1 . 3 1 . 18 8 . Kennett, Par Antiq Vol , p Ed xford , 5 39 . it Ih. p . WESTCOTT BARTO N . 13

i Of a port ons ground, which is the reason why, in m ny parishes , the glebe is not only distant from the manor but lies in ” n remote divided portions . The be efice is a rectory with ‘ m f cure of souls , a species of prefer ent con erring upon its ” P arso n owner the title of , or as it may otherwise be described the defender Of the rights of the church in P r op r id ” P erso na r , the enti e revenues of the living are thus retained him dif for their original uses in , and in this respect it fers from ”" V ni v an ancient icarage, as a vicar is a mi ster deputed to ser e recto ris in vice , and has only a portion of the ecclesiastical emoluments which his superior may have assigned to him for his services . Thus the former has the great and small tithes, andthe latter generally onlythe small, with the glebe and house of residence the patronage of the church, or right of presenta o o ccurrenc Of ti n to the rectory upon the y a vacancy, was i 11 4 0- 1 I 8 3 3 . I given prev ous to the year , Henry , by Alexander de Barton to the Abbey of Eynesham rl‘ After the O f n dissolution that monastery, it appears agai to have fallen “ by purchase into the hands of the Lord of the Manors, and again to have been alienated from the manor about the year 1600 , and since that date it has frequently been transferred from one possessor to another it is now the patronage of the Rev. John Young Seagrave, son of the late rector S . Y. a 12 92 —3 2 2 —2 I . T x 3 . . i N a at o . Se grave In , Ed , in the , P ic .

4 s . £ 6 . 8 d r the value is stated to be § By the Thesaurus Re . l in 175 4 tu Ecc , by John Ecton , , it is re rned as worth £ 7 ’ Of 75 in the King s books, and as having a certified value £ ,

/ sub ect to 14 . as i j a charge of s for yearly tenths, and be ng Of in the p atronage the Duke of Marlborough . This would seem to be an error if, however, it were for any time in his W possession , it had been restored to the family of elchman before a right of presentation occurred to his Grace . By the f 1 4 O 8 6 . Clergy List (Rev Mavor, and Thomas Coles, patrons) £ 179 the value was sent in at , with a house and upon the

s S ss 18 68 s By an act of the la t e ion of the unreformed Parliament of , thi title of Vicar has been extended to Perpetual Curates and all other beneficed Clergy not being Rectors. ‘ i 1 N O . Append x , . i N O . . Appendix , xii Appendix , No i . 14 MEMO RIALS OF same authority ; te n years later it appears to be worth

£2 3 0 per annum . The gross rental of the rectory according a 18 68 l to the Poor Rate ssessment of , January st, is settled

£3 5 4 6S . at , with a residence The rectorial buildings in formerly stood in the close to the east , bound g the u ch rchyard, they were of a very inferior character . The n house was too mean for the reside ce of the rector . In the

18 3 8 . . to their year , the rector, S Y Seagrave removed them . new present site , and at a considerable cost built a manse ,

& c . with Offices, yards , stables, , and laid out the pleasure

s . ground , gardens, and plantations

CHAPTER IV .

LIST O F RECTO RS AND PATRONS .

b . In the rant o the Chur ch to E nsham Ab e . g f y y, fol xxxv 1 1 r . N 1 . Pb . 8 0. i See Appendix o , c Mart n Temp Alexander de Barton .

r D o dsw r th M 1 . . t A ch. Ox . o S . 0 Ro . 7 , Vol , an xix ” d E esham E . 12 2 n . y 5 Abbas de y p ad ccl de par Barton , a a it fi e dem . salv Tho m as de Barton Capell an . Vicari su in

E Of xtracts from the Lincoln Registers Institutions , by the

inc ln. ri inal r . r i . n H a l. MS B t Bishop of L o O g i L atin . 5 — 4 r P a va . Mas. 6 9 0 6 95 . B a rto n

12 2 8 . Walter de St Edmund, Subdeacon , presented to the

Church of Little Barton (because Alexander, the last Of B enefices Rector, received with the cure of souls)

by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham . 12 3 2 R ur ichard de Eston, Subdeacon , presented to the Ch ch of Little Barton by the Abbot and Convent of Eyn e

Sham . 12 5 0 a P o umera e M ster William de y , Subdeacon, present d to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot and E n ham Convent of y es . B WESTCOTT AB TO N . I5

l de Fo 16 Ka . Jan Robert la merey, Subdeacon, pre sented by the Abbot and Convent Of Eynesham to a a a the Church of Little B rton , vac nt by the de th of m r Master William de P o e ey . N Clanefield 2 3 l Au t . 1 99 Ca . g icholas de Capellan . pre sented to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot E nesham and Convent of y , vacant by the death of

R P o m ere . obt . de la y NVilliam 13 14 15 Cal . Apr. de Aynho presented by the Of E n esham Abbot and Convent y , vacant by the

death Of Nicholas . l W l E nho 11 Ka . . Jun i liam de y , Rector of Barton a A Of P rva, of the Patronage of the bbot and Convent ’ E n esham W ll m Wel m o t y , exchanged with i ia y , Vicar

Ho rnden . of , London diocese

17 Kal . . Mai Peter de Barton, Clerk , presented by Brother John Abbot and the Convent of Eyn esham Of Sir to the Church Barton, vacant by the death of B o le ll Alan de we .

’ ti n l r o m th l in th B Addi o a f e Ro ls e ritish Museum .

15 04 2 0 . . . August Master Thomas Halle , M A , Priest, pre sented by the Abbot and Convent of Eyn esham to Westcot the Church of Barton, otherwise called Little

Barton , by the death of Master Richard Smith . Reg.

W h B . . illiam Smyt , p of Lincoln

15 13 3 . April Sir Robert Fenton , Chaplain, presented by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to the Church W a of estcote, otherwise Little Barton , by the de th of

l . li R . Master Thomas Hal e eg Wil am Smyth .

h V l c Fr om t e a er Ec lesiasticus.

1534 D ru o nus R . g Fever, ector

ns r m the Re isters o th i o r Institutio f o g f e B shop f Oxf o d . l/V stcot ar t e e B o n.

. l 15 5 A 13 . W W W Ra ns 7 ug i liam ebb , presented by illiam y ll Of W co t. ford , y 16 ‘ MEMO RIA LS O F

C h 15 6 6 6 . July William owp er, presented by Jo n Cupper

on the death of William Webb . " 4 P o ll fi June 1 . John y ‘

R Gre so n . 13 . i Sept . ichard g lli . 5 . Sept Thomas Belcher, presented by Wi am Bel m f . . O cher, sen , Steeple Aston, yeo an

Co ckson . . 16 0 . 12 . 8 Oct Edward , M A , presented by Henry f Co ckso n O . , Clerk , on the death Thomas Belcher

m . . 2 0. ll May Wi iam Welch an , M A , presented by John t E Welchman, of Dodford, Gen , on the death of dward

Co ckso n .

2 6 . . . O ct . John Blake , M A , presented by John Welch

Of lli . man, Brackley, on the death of Wi am Welchman A n 6 . B . . Ju e John Seagrave, , presented by Constance and William Welchman and Samuel Seagrave on the

cession of John Blake .

l . m r . A 2 0. May Wil ia Fa ebrother, M , presented by hn Edward Seagrave on the death of Jo Seagrave .

E . . 2 1. Sept . dward Seagrave , M A , presented by John Welchman and Susannah Seagrave on the cession of

William Farebrother .

12 . B . A. 18 05 . e Dec Edward Seagrave , , present d on the A h E M . deat of dward Seagrave,

6 . lli m May John Seagrave , presented by Wi a Mavor

and others on the death of E dward Seagrave . l 7. him June Samue Young Seagrave, presented by o u h self the death of Jo n Seagrave . dm 3 . E March und Leopold Lockyer, presented by Of Henrietta Segrave, executrix of the will Samuel Young Segrave on the death of Samuel Young Sea

grave .

’ s n s n s s s s su 1 The e two ame are not fou d in the Bi hop Regi ter , but are p plied from a Volume in the Record Office containin g the names of persons co m — s s . i. 1556 1660 s is s pounding for fir t fruit , vol , , in which al o een the entry of

W l 1556 O ct . 3 1 is ss a l i i liam Cupper, , , who doubtle identic l with rector Wi l am Cow}: both on account of a connexion which might not unnaturally s s s s be looked for in uch ca e between the patron and pre entee, and the time s s n s s which had ju t elap ed for the payment i to the exchequer of the fir t fruit , w as i which requ red to be made within three months after the induction . He i i s s s s s 33 . al o the ame with Will am Cow , mentioned in the Annal , p .

18 MEMO RI ALS O F

’ The Serpent s Head Broken ; and the grand design

agains t the true Spirit , and to destroy the true

di . Christian religion in erecting Q uakerism , scovered Being a vindication of Q uakerism dissected and laid dl open against the frivolous, i e, and causeless cavils i of John Wh ting, a principal pillar of that Anti ”— o . heretical . 8 v christian , , and diabolical sect , Lond ,

1 0 l 2 8 0 Bo dl . . . 7 8 , pamph et , , Lib Cat

CHAPTER V.

MONU MENTS.

E nf m m m I HAV not i or ation of more than two onu ents, h Of the 13th which , with the exception of the arc ed tomb O f h hi century in the wall the south aisle, and of t ose w ch ,

. a . 172 0 with it , were noticed by Dr R wlinson, c , have been first — erected within the church . The the inscription on — r which is given below is a mu al tablet in black marble, three feet and six inches in height by two feet in width,

surmounted by the crest and coat of arms of the family,

engraved and painted with its metals and colours . It is now placed against the south wall in the tower its original S w as l ite on the wa l of the south aisle, to the east of the f door, and its removal to its present situation was ef ected

during the repairs of 18 5 6 . The other was also a mural

tablet of black marble, and occupied a position on the north

ll l . wa , near where the pu pit now is This was removed at

‘ the same time as the former, and is supposed to have been laid in its entirety beneath the pavement just below where

it had been previously put up . It was to the memory Of an

infant of the Taylor family, who owned the Park Place l estate . The entry of the buria is thus made in the parish W l register Sarah , the daughter of il iam Taylor, Gent of 4 1st 1 6 . . 7 Charlbury, Dec , The tiles of memorial in the Six chancel, on black marble, inches square, one inscribed W ESTCO TT BARTO N . 19

16 8 0 ' T Thomas Belcher, Rector, the other, 1 Edward Co ckso n 1711 i , Rector, , are also of the date of the repa rs of 1 8 5 6 . The original stones wer e deposited under the new pavement . Others, over the graves of those buried in the the chancel or in church, have disappeared beyond the Of n nh W memory any livi g i abitant of estcott Barton . In the churchyard , on the south of the chancel, is an ancient 14 u Six Six altar tomb of the th cent ry, feet inches in length by two feet nine inches in width, with quatrefoil panelling n i at the ends , the sides bei g of modern ashlar work, pla n . S two Six m Upon the lab is a recess , feet inches in length , fro fi inscri which it is evident a brass plate of a gure, with an p tion, has been carried away. There was a similar one about

five feet further to the west, the upper portion of which, i n 18 5 6 being ruins in , was removed, and the gravel path i way was made to go over the base and pl nth , which remain in u sit under the surface . There is not any other tomb li l ll cal ng for particu ar notice . Ti within the last few years, Of the gravestones were the ordinary debased character, not bearing upon them any Specially Christian emblems . A few have lately been ne w introduced more demonstrative of the great truths of Christianity. The earliest stones of memorial are to the memory of members of the families of t E ll Buswell , Bathe , Steward, Cas le , vans, Martin, Ho is, r d a C Dand i ge, Hall, Co l or oles, Wells, Lankford, Parsons, Gibberd , which are all here inserted in order as they r are buried. The fi st dates back no farther than they 1 9 6 9 . In the present century there are stones bearing W l v dn the names of est, Chi ton, Crook, Jar is , Gar er, Seagrave, n i ni Ma n ng, Colegrove, Salmon, K bbs, Marshall

IN MEMORY OF J H B S G T O N U WELL, EN , WH O DEPARTED THIS L IFE

PT I1TH 1768 D 71 Y S. S . E , , AGE EAR A LS O O F EL Z B TH F E I A E , WI OF M H B R. J S O N U WELL, WH O DEPARTED THIS L IFE J 2 3 RD 1767 UNE , ,

AGED 69 Y EARS . 2 0 M EM O RIALS OF

The coat of arms on ' the monument is— Argent five fusils ’ in Gules Fess between three Bear s heads, erased Gules, h muzzled Or . The arms impaled are t ose granted to the A O f . . name Gardner, of Stoke sh , Co Suffolk (Encyc Herald , ’ Burke) . For a crest, a Bear s Head , as in the coat . i Dr. Rawlinson v sited this parish in the earlier part of the r w 2 13 last centu y, and the follo ing is recorded in Vol . I I . p . O f his manuscript collections for Oxfordshire, preserved in the Bodl eian Library

WEST O TE B A N O RTO .

the ] t st st e t s is t s In chance , on a whi e free one grave on , in capi al , hi in scription H IC J AC ET MATTHE US WRIGHT MEDICUS ET CH IRU RG U S OMNI V IRTUTE ET PIETATE EGREGIU S UXORI (DUM V IV EB AT) CH ARISSIMU S P IL IIS REL ICTIS V ICIMIs AD MOD U M B EN l G NU S AMICO RU M DESIDERIUM ET DOLOR OSSA B J US H IC TENET SARCOPHAGUS ANIMA O

O n t k the f t s is t s insc ri ano her, near and li e ormer, in capi al , hi p tion HERE LIETH THE BODY O F ELI ZABET H LATE WIFE OF MATTHEW WRIGHT WHO DECEASED M CH 19 AR TH A D . 1672 E T T S AE 42 A U .

Iii one O f the north w indow s o f the body o f the church

‘ QBrate pro aua mill m fi rin : at ro ans g u u ti ux i g p g t s : t h s.

In ano ther of th e north windows

ana Slobis B allots e x : t n glob u i s. ts ar erita ci M g .

O n the s t s is t ou h ide an ancien arch . W S E TCO TT BARTO N . 2 1

CHAPTER VI .

PARO CHIAL SCHOO L .

A S i CHO O L has ex sted here for about forty years . It was

first established under the private management of Mr. A nthony Jepson , who conducted it for a period of twenty 1 3 6 - nine years . In 8 it became transferred into a week day the and Sunday school, under patronage and support of the

Rector, Rev. S . Y. Seagrave . Master Jepson was succeeded his in 18 5 2 in Office by Miss Thompson, who was appointed

as teacher by the Rev. Edmund L . Lockyer. She died in 18 6 1 McCOll , and Miss , the present schoolmistress, was I chosen to supply her place . t is a mixed school, and is a held in a cott ge, which is rented by the rector for the

purpose. The expenses attending it are met by a small l weekly payment on the part of the chi dren, by private l subscriptions, and by a special co lection at the church f m of ertory at Christ as . The ages of the scholars on the 1s t 18 68 a . of January, , v ried from two years to ten

ER CHAPT VII .

B B U S S AN D CHARITA LE EQ E T CHARITY LAND .

B w i l A TA LE of benefactions, of h ch the fol owing is a copy, hung up formerly within the church

N or wo o d " Mr . , long since an inhabitant of Westcott

Barton , bequeathed a legacy of ten pounds to the poor of

the said parish , the interest thereof to be distributed yearly

at Christmas . r For d W M . , many years since an inhabitant of estcott

Barton, bequeathed also a legacy of ten pounds to the poor 2 2 MEMO RIALS O F

r of the said parish , the interest thereof to be dist ibuted

yearly at Easter in bread . Af r w ll O f . Edmund B us e , Westcott Barton, bequeathed

the . five pounds, interest to be applied as above l W Mr . Ro be rt B uswe l , an inhabitant of estcott Barton , A 5th 1703 who died ugust , , bequeathed also a legacy of

ten pounds to the poor of the said parish , the interest di f l thereof to be stributed yearly hal at Easter, ha f at — Christmas in bread .

. l 14 Af r J ohn B uswe l N . , of orth Aston, who died Jan , 172 5 , bequeathed also a legacy of five pounds to the poor

of the said parish , the interest thereof to be distributed at hr C istmas in bread .

r R b l nh . M . o er t B uswel un , j , an i abitant of Westcott 0 . 3 Barton, son of the above Robert Buswell , who died Jan , 173 Of Of 3, bequeathed also a legacy ten pounds to the poor di the said parish , the interest thereof to be stributed yearly

at Christmas and Easter in money or bread . ”" The ground called the H am in Middl e Barton w as pur chased with the above sums for the use of the poor of

Westcott Barton for ever . O f O f The deed conveyance the land, consisting of one 13 th acre or thereabouts, in trust for the overseers, is dated 14th A 175 0. and of pril, It bears an indorsement that the purchase—money mentioned in the within written indenture was given to the poor of Westcott Barton by the several

persons mentioned . The produce thereof to be distributed to the poor of Westcott Barton as is in the several will s Of the

- above named persons, reference being thereunto had, may ” appears. The articles of agreement for the sale and purchase of the

freehold are preserved with the writings . An account of this charity may be seen in the report of the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities in 18 2 4 18 2 5 and , and ordered by the House of Commons to be 2 6th n 18 2 5 . pri ted on the of May,

s w is Thi land , called in the a ard the Holm Meadow, charged under the s - m s Act of Inclo ure with two half yearly pay ent to the Duke of Marlborough, w s rt i n shilh n s o ner of the tithe of Middle Ba on , amounting the whole to two g a year. WESTCOTT BARTO N . 2 3

i The close is there n stated to be let to Edward Townsend , r as yearly tenant, at the rent of fou pounds, which is laid out in the purchase of bread, and distributed among the poor at Christmas and Easter. On the last occasion , at that - i date , there were forty one famil es who partook of it, each having one loaf. It is only necessary to add that the land is let now t 18 6 8 Sto ckfo rd (Eas er, ) to Thomas for three years, at the Of yearly rent, payable in advance , four pounds fifteen shil lings and at the last distribution this enabled the trustees v u - le av s —five to gi e two fo r pound e to thirty families .

’ TH E P A o o R s LLO TMENT FOR FU EL .

The origin of this charity i s gi ven In the extracts from W the Inclosure Award . The estcott Barton portion appears to have been set out, and the rent distributed in accord ance with the terms of the Act of Parliament down to 18 3 5 18 5 0 the year , from which date to the year much irregularity and mismanagement in the mode of letting W this plot was found to be going on . hen the Rev.

Edmund L . Lockyer succeeded to the rectory, and became consequently a trustee, an inquiry was instituted, which l resu ted in an opportune reformation , and a plan being adopted more in accordance with the due execution O f the trust ; and it was arranged to let the land to the poor of the parish in the first instance , if such were found w ll i ing to take it, in quantities not exceeding one quarter S of an acre , and at a rent amounting to seven hillings and S ixpence the lot, the rents at the end of the year to be S l spent in the purchase of coal, which hould be equal y dis W Of tributed at the cottages in estcott Barton, the tenants which had been one clear year in occupation of the premises By this means the poor were supposed to obtain a double ’ l dl advantage not on y the rent as lan ords , but the tenants Th profits also . e rent Of the land at the last audit ( 18 6 8 ) enabled the trustees to effect a distribution of eight hundred to weight of coal each cottage entitled to receive it. The management of the trust has of late years been conducted 2 4 MEMO RIALS O F

“ in O by the rector, conjunction with the parish fficers, a mode of proceeding considered permissible under the Statute 2 4 2 1 W . l . . 8 32 . ill IV , ch , dated st June, An application having now been made to the Charity W Commissioners of England and ales, with reference to the appointment of new trustees in the place of the original

ones deceased, a scheme has been furnished which, bearing 15th 18 69 date June the , , is to rule the charity, vesting the real property of the same in the Official Trustee of Charity n La ds in trust for the charity , and appointing trustees to in R Of act in the administration of it , j o tly with the ector

Westcott Barton and the Vicar of Steeple Barton, the pre sent trustees . After the payment Of the outgoings and expenses of management, the commissioners order the balance to be divided annually into two equal moieties, one of which is to be paid to the Westcott Barton members O f the trust; and the other to those appointed for Middl e

Barton, and the money is to be applied by the respective trustees to the benefit O f the most deserving and necessitous Of inhabitants the respective parishes and liberty, either in v winter clothing or fuel, to indi iduals, or in aid of clothing u S l or f el club funds, as hal seem most advantageous to them

. Is in the opinion of the trustees The land now (Michaelmas, 18 69 let In all ) lots, at five shillings a chain , free of rates

and taxes . The new Trustees are— For Westcott Barton The Rector R ll and Churchwardens of the Parish , the ev. Jenner Marsha ,

. i dl clerk Henry Cole, baker For M d e Barton The Vicar and W Churchwardens of Steeple Barton, Alexander illiam Es m . Mr. l . Hall, q Wi lia Wing

2 6 MEMO RIALS O F

The following extracts are a few more worthy of notice O n 2 5th 165 6 the of June , , Peter, the son of John Bowen, * n mi ister, and Elizabeth , his wife , was baptized . 15 6 6 2 9th Of o The day August, was J hn Hanwell baptized

at home , and buried the same day. 1608 al Of There is the expression, unusu in later times, Old “ Gadwyffe Old Gadwyffe O tfield dyed and was 1 buried 2 day of August . ' 1 1 w ff ‘— fl 6 0 Old Gad y e Tapsill 1633 Old G o o dwy e Hirst. No rw d 13th O f 16 12 Mr. John o o e dyed and was buried day Aprilrl' 16 4 9 ll l Wi iam Be cher, the son of Thomas Belcher, and l i 15 th E izabeth, his w fe, was buried the day of Feb ruar 16 4 9 2 3 y , in the year of our Lord , being years

of age, and was buried in the chancel . ’ 165 4 u in Joana, the wife of Thomas florde , b ried our r 9th Of u parish chu ch upon the day Febr ary, in the r 1 yea of our Lord 65 4 . She was buried in our

Chur ch . 164 0 R P ichard Gregson , some years arson of this parish , 2 was buried here 8 th of March . 16 6 8 2 1 r Thomas Belcher, buried the day of Janua y, who

dyed at the Burnt House at Steeple Barton , and was ” h r h buried in our chancel of Westcott Barton C u c . 16 42 J N and Cornelius, the son of ohn ewman , Mary, his r 4th N wife, ch istened the of ovember, being a souldier ” for the King . j; 168 0 R Thomas Belcher, ector of this parish, was buried

Oct . 14th. In the autumn of the year 176 4 a fatal epidemic seems l n to have prevai ed in the village, for, from the begin ing of di a July to the end of that year, there were the extraor n ry S O f w number of ixteen burials, which six ere of members of n the Buswell family . The average of burials for the te

was s s . 17. Mr . Bowen the Commonwealth Mini ter poken of at p

' r o de 1 Mr. John N o wo was probably the donor of the charity (p . s 20 il s 2 3rd 1 The battle of Edgehill, di tant about m e , occurred on the of

O . is N w as in ctober It probable, therefore, that John ewman engaged that s fli fight, and urvived the con ct . B 2 7 WESTCOTT ARTO N .

h i previous years was less than t ree , and of christen ngs ll less than four. The year fo owing this great mortality, the i christen ngs rose to eight, and the average of the next ten

Of i . was in excess the prev ous ’ B l ‘ 1795 John uswell, common y called Black Jack, was ” buried March 2 2 nd. Persons in the earliest times were called by a single

name , but, as population increased, they began to acquire an l Of i additional one , which was usual y that the ndividual ’ bearer s place of abode, or the business he pursued, or some

peculiarity in his character. This seems to be the latest

. . 4 4 9 mode , and a common one, for Mr Jordan remarks, at p

of his Parochial History of Enstone, that, when families

were numerous, it had become either necessary or customary to attach a soubriquet to the name of those who had received n the same christian names, in order to disti guish them from Of one another thus in a family the name of Boulton, this had been done in order to distinguish several John Boultons”

that they had amongst them, and so we find these entries — In n 1605 the E stone registers , Thomas Boulton, son of 1 606 . black John , was buried xxii of February Philip l w Bou ton, son of blacke John Bolton and Elizabeth his ife

was baptized the iiii of March . 18 12 The register of marriages down to , is extremely 15 6 1 defective , the first entry is in the year , the entries in 1705 the second volume commence with the year , and end w 175 3 - ith , and during this period there were forty six l weddings, of which on y ten were of parties, one or the other

o r both belongin g to this parish . From some cause prevalent ne w u at the time, which the marriage act probably bro ght to

a termination, persons in those days would resort to the hi neighbouring churches for t s rite rather than to their own . The order of surnames as they made their appearance for the first time in the parish taken from these registers may u not be witho t interest to those connected with the parish . I n the following tables the first column Of figures shows the year in which the name is entered for the first time in the register of baptisms; the second column of figures shows when it appears the last time among the baptisms ; and the third CO lum n S hows the date of the latest entryin the register ofburials. 2 8 MEMORIALS O F

1722 18 10

16 17 1607

} 1603 1640

168 2 1726

1642 164 4 1643 1663 BURIAL ENTRIE S OF NAMES NOT IN TH S T H S T E LI OF C RI ENINGS .

1562 C olyns Keye 1578 Stone 158 4 Rippingall 1597 Parsons Bolt Wilder 16 12 No rwo o de and 2 5 16 14 Cumber 1620 Harrington and 44 1622 Lambert

1677 1658 IVESTCOTT BA 2 9 RTON .

2 ND V O L .

1698 Bathe Bave 1730 1754 1699 Stringer 1701 Vicars 1720 1742 Vigere 1702 Simons 18 65 18 65 Lee 1708 Dandridge 1709 Sande rs 1710 Walmsley Wells Petty 1716 H ugheys 17 17 Berry Asbisto n 1720 Skeysbro o k 172 2 Holier Rimel Ryman 1723 Prat 172 6 Pool 172 8 1729 8 1730 Castle 1731 Watson Savin gs 1732 B agnel 18 67 18 64 1735 Skeeley 1737 Eldridge 1738 Lewin 18 36 1839 Luin D ufii 1772 178 4 D uffield 18 06 18 45 1740 Hedges 1752 18 25 Jones Egl estone 18 64 18 40 174 1 Tann er Bedding 174 3 S alo w ay 1758 1793 18 63 18 5 2 1745 Beader, a Traveller Wo od enton 1747 Ash Nash 18 27 18 15 Naish 1752 Mitchell 18 4 5 18 33 175 4 Taylor MEMO RIA L S OF

18 28 Faul kner Crook Haynes BURIAL ENTRIE S OF NAME S NOT IN THE Abraham L S T H T 18 29 I OF C RIS ENINGS . Tayler 18 30 Hawkin s 168 0 Hicks 1740 Evans of Her 18 3 1 Cro ss s ss ham , E ex Penn 168 1 Shepherd 1743 Tayler a Webb and 8 5 Traveller 18 32 Heydon 168 5 Bu sby of 1744 18 33 Tustain Bedford 6 1 Grafton 18 35 Wheeler Baker 1746 Dad Mill s 168 4 Batchelor 174 8 Cooper Clark T 1701 Hanwell a 1750 Bone s ravel J ephson Traveller ler Jepson Blower of Pryor 18 36 Johnson London 18 37 Zekel 1709 Berriman 1754 Hadlard 18 38 P yman 1717 Field 1765 Toms Foster 172 1 Co lcot 1767 Cupper Wren 172 6 Kery of 1769 Turner 18 39 S almon Enstone 18 40 Manni ng 173 1 Hartwell 1797 Williams 18 42 Baker 4 1 Vest 1737 Foul kes 18 01 Gibson 18 48 Ehil ’S 18 09 Wootton G illdha 18 49 Gerard Mold Mole 3RD D 4TH S 18 51 S AN VOL . impkin s ' ‘ D avis a l ravell er Y eatman Davi s S towe Hawkes 18 52 Hiro ns Gardiner 18 54 Nicke ls Wilkins 18 55 Rose Edwards 18 58 Cole Morgan Tyrrell 18 59 G rim sbery 18 17 Lowe 18 60 Cato

The B usw ells wh o f o m is da e a ea in th e Re i s e s are in no wa re r th t pp r g t r , y la ed to the f mil o f the s me n ame fo rmerl o f the M o t a y a y an r. W ESTCO TT BARTON . 3 1

18 60 Beesley 18 28 Bartlett Whitlock and 36 Marshall 18 64 18 64 18 33 Ward Cleaver 18 35 Warner Macfarlain e 18 38 Huggins 18 40 Seagrave 18 6 2 P reedy and 5 8 18 63 Allen 18 4 1 Greenway 18 66 Humphries 18 4 3 Hebborn 18 45 Burbo ro ugh BURIAL ENTRIES OF NAME S NOT IN 18 4 9 Long 1 THE LIST OF CHRISTENINGS . and 6 Coggins 18 5 1 Houn slow 18 53 Fawdery 18 54 Lacey 18 61 Thomson and 64

’ In the Chur chwarden s acco unt bo ok which dates onl y 2 0 178 3 18 2 4 from May , , is found written on the cover, , ’ 1 10 Os. 1d . £ Mr Powel s contract for new roofing the church , sold the Old lead for £ 91 Other entries within the 0 1 2 0 . 3 8 book are Oct , , paid for beer for getting the Bel

4 . W. n s. dow , , Young , Churchwarden

Of . h Disbursements John Reeve and Thos West, Churc

18 2 4 . N n at wardens, ew roofi g the Church and expenses

d . £ 115 63 . 5 tending, 18 11 18 3 4 Between the years and , are entries at various

times of charges for the destruction of Sparrows, amounting

w 95 4 3d . 4 0 in the hole to dozen, at a dozen, and also of

Hedgehogs at 4d . a piece . The rest are O f the ordinary character for the services and

common repairs of the church . The P ar ish B o oks contain entries of collections in church l “ Briefs 16 8 1 174 4 Of for bearing date from the year to , these 2 2 173 8 there is an entry, October , , for a certified loss by l D unstew hai storm at and Deddington , of and in S l i upwards, when there was collected church one hi l ng ,

— : — A Brief Tent a letter . Letters patent granted by the Sovereign for col u s e s s s. le ting of charitable benevolence to poor fferer , by fire or other ca ualtie — ’ — ’ Bailey s Diet Queen s letters have been the latest form of Royal Licence — s s B su ss s s for collection in Churche oth have now been pre ed for ome year , — s s . . . 4 2 . s the fir t by tat Geo IV , ch . The latter in t e reign of the pre ent Sovereign . 3 2 MEM O RIALS O F

l a f sh ll ’ and by vo unt ry subscriptions, fi teen i ings and tenpence During the Sixty- three years which intervened between 168 1 174 4 h r and , there were read no less t an two hund ed

- and seventy three of these Briefs , and the collections on each

occasion were very small, and sometimes there was not any thing collected apparently the more distant the calamity

the less sympathy was evinced for it, fires and inundations

near Oxford seem to have excited the deeper, and inundations

more than fires . The money collected upon the Briefs in the Church did not at any one time amount to five ll h S . t e 172 2 hi ings It is stated in these books, that in year , 2 8 th March , was buried Thomas Dandridge , on which occa ll sion Mrs . Dandridge gave ten shi ings for a funeral hi t and at t s ime the Mill was probably in existence , for there is an entry to the effect that John Buswell at the Mill ’ f — ” owed one year s Easter of ering four pence . ’ Amo n the Co nstables disbursements 174 0 18 15 g from to , the payments of Marshalsea money frequently occur there are also these entries 5 w Ne w 1 4 2 . d 7 Os. 9 . Dec , John Bro n for Town Gun 10 G un 1 8 , Paid Thomas King for Powder 174 7 1 0 March , For Watch Bill 174 9 June 7 Paid John Parsons for the use of a Slead for dr awing the great stones from the Pound to mend Westcott Barton 3 0 Bridge ’ 1760 July 7 For the use of John Parsons Gun 2 6 176 6 July 2 0 Paid John Brown for stocking the

1 n New 176 8 No v. Paid Parso s for a pair of Stocks 12 6 April 17 Paid John Parsons for half the charge of a new gate at the Pound 0 — Marshalsea Mm eg Under this title there was included

Funeral sermons u sed to be very general in England I kn ow no where is s s W m that it retained at pre ent, except upon Portland I land, here the ini ster ” ’ s s h as g s . i s half a uinea for ev’ery ermon he preache Brand Popular Antiquit e , 1 4 1 s f s . L . 8 . O . ii . 171 T s was vol , p Knight Ed ond he fir t edit’ion thi work - - S ee s s 1777. s printed at Newca tle upon Tyne in the editor adverti ement .

3 4 MEMO RIALS O F

E IX CHAPT R .

THE INCLO SU RE ACT AND THE AWARD .

The Title of the Act of Parliament under which the Parish was inclosed is as follows An Act for dividing and inclosing the open and common s fields, common meadows, common pa tures, waste and other commonable lands and grounds within the Parish and W Precincts of estcott Barton , and within the Liberty and dl Precincts of Mid e Barton , in the Parish of Steeple Barton, 5 Of 3 5 179 . in the County Oxford , George iii , A il 2 1 796 . The award is dated pr , — r a N o te . The Inclosu e of the lands of Westcott B rton under one and the same Act with those of Middle Barton the belonging to Parish of Steeple Barton , was rendered necessary by their intermixture a circumstance which in some places is found to exist, and which is accounted for in by Blackstone , his Commentaries on the Laws of England,

13 . 1 . 1 Vol . , Sect He says , The division of the kingdom into parishes happened by degrees ; it seems pretty clear and certain that the boundaries of parishes were originally ascertained by those of a Manor or Manors ; Since it very seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more O parishes than one , though there are ften many manors in h l one parish . The Lords as C ristianity spread itse f began h e to build c urches on their own demesnes, or wast s, to accommodate their tenants in one or two adj oining lordships, and in order to have divine service regularly performed n therein , obliged all their tena ts to appropriate their tithes to n the maintenance of the one officiati g minister, instead of leaving them at liberty to distribute them among the clergy l Of Of the diocese in genera , and this tract land the tithes whereof were so appropriated, formed a distinct parish, which will well enough account for the frequent intermixture of parishes one with another . But if the lord had a parcel of ff land detached from the main of his estate , but not su ered a to form a parish of itself, it was natur l for him to endow B 3 5 WESTCO TT ARTON . his newly erected church with the tithes of those disj ointed lands especially if no church was then built in any lord ” ship adj oining those outlying parcels . The award is engrossed in two parts according to the act one being deposited for public inspection and perusal upon the payment of one shilling in the office of the clerk o f the in n peace the other contained two tin cases, one holdi g the award , the other the map or plan with reference thereto , is in custody of the Rector of Westcott Barton for the inspec tion and perusal Of the proprietors interested in the in closure . It all is seen by the said act that Rents , Services, Courts, Of Perquisites Courts, and Profits of Courts, and all other Royalties and Privileges belonging to the manors Of Middle W Barton and estcott Barton , other than such commonable Rights as are compensated for under the award by allot ments Of land are preserved as whole and intact to the lords of the respective manors as if the act had not passed . r S Ce tain pecialities of the award are, that the feed and pasture o f the public roads are allotted to the proprietors whose allotments adj oin the roads respectively to the centre as as thereof, far the allotments extend along the said roads, and that for the common repair s of the roads in the inter m a d N all ixed parishes, line is rawn from orth to South, and the roads lying to the West of this rec ited line or boundary are to be kept in repair by the owners and occupiers of the Of W parish estcott Barton , and all on the east by those of

Middle Barton . It is also seen that the rector of Westcott Barton in right o t i of his rect ry is allot ed as a full satisfaction for t thes , certain shares of land as equal in value to one fifth part of the and o ne arable , j ninth part of the pasture land (the ground set out for roads and quarries having been first deducted) and that the remainder of the parish is thus for ever exonerated from the payment of tithe (Mortuaries Easter Offerings and

Surplice Fees due to the Rector being excepted . ) After reciting that “ the poor residing within the parish and precincts of Westcott Barton and the liberty and pre cinete of Middle Barton had from time immemorial used 3 6 MEMO RIALS OF and exercised the liberty of cutting furze and other fuel growing within and upon certain parts of the said common able lands by the said Act intended to be divided and inclosed to be spent and consumed by them in their dwelling- houses in Westcott Barton and Middle Barton s aforesaid, and not el ewhere, and that the said proprietors, being desirous that some provision might be made for the said poor people as a satisfaction for the privil ege SO enj oyed by them as aforesaid, it is in and by the said Act enacted that the Commissioners should, and they are hereby required to set out and allot unto and for the Duke of ill Marlborough , Francis Page, Edward Taylor, W iam Taylor, ll W Bran win Samuel Churchill, Wi iam eston , Thomas g , the R Of W t ector estcott Barton, and the Vicar of Steeple Bar on, l for the time being, such p ot or plots of land, parcel of the lands and grounds by the said Act intended to be inclosed S u as hould, in the j dgment of the said Commissioners, be thought a proper satisfaction for such liberty SO exercised a such by the said poor as aforesaid, and that from and fter allotment or allotments should be made in satisfaction as l aforesaid, all iberty and right of cutting furze and other afo resaid sho uld fuel as cease , and that the said Trustees, r ul their hei s, and successors , sho d stand and be seized of such land so to be allotted in satisfaction as aforesaid upon trust from time to time to let the same for any term or term of years not exceeding twenty- one years for the best and most improved rent that could be gotten for the same , and t lay out the clear rents, issues, and profits thereof, af er the costs and charges attending the execution of the powers by in S the said Act reposed them hould be satisfied, in the purchase of coals and other fuel for the use of the poor of dl Westcott Barton and Mid e Barton aforesaid, and should cause the same to be distributed amongst the poor on the twenty- fourth day of December yearly for ever in such pro portions as the said Trustees o r any person or persons to be deputed for that purpose by them Should think fit and ” reasonable . Of The Commissioners, in pursuance the said Act, did therefore set out two pieces of land, the one as recited in W B 3 7 ESTCOTT ARTO N .

ul 40 h l the sched e , p . , the ot er a piece adj oining in the iberty

dl 2 2 . 1 R . 1 . Of . 5 of Mid e Barton, consisting A , , P By reference to the first schedule of the award specifyin g the several sums Of money to be ann ually paid by the pro rieto rs s s p of messuage , tenements, gardens, orchard , and u d ancient inclos res, who were not entitled to lan s or com mo n rights in the lands and grounds by the said A ct directed to be divided and inclosed sufficient to make compensation m for the tithes thereof, eight tene ents are seen to be sub e - j cted to two half yearly paym ents to the Rev. Edward R Seagrave, ector of Westcott Barton , amounting in the whole to five shillings and eightpence a year. By refer t o l t ence the second schedu e, it appears tha the total ex penses of the inclosure of Westcott Barton and Middl e 48 d ar . 3 . B ton amounted to , which gives an average

l £1 5 S . a acrera e of rather ess than per cre, the j oint g being 2 re e ds 2 3 di 5 2 m o de acres and perches, inclu ng acres and 11 perches allotted for stone pits and 5 1 acres and 11 ds perches for roa , as is stated upon the map or plan made by surve er l the y of the inc osure, and accompanying the copy of the award deposited in the parish of Westcott Barton .

The Allo tments with refer ence to

M H CH P . . . P . S ES . . . A UEL C UR ILL, Q A R A R

O ne moiety of the manor farm in fee . 1 O ne moiety of the manor allotment 2 First allotment 171 Second di tto 172 hir k an an T d ditto, ta en in exch ge for bal ce s home tead ’ 173 Allotment for calves close

Old Incloswrcs. 3 Homestead and meadow 4 Malt-house and close 193 Northward twenty acres 194 Southward twenty acres 127 3 2 4

he manor or lives One moiety of t f . 7 One moiety of the manor farm 9 First allotment 8 Second di tto 3 8 MEMORIALS O F

5 House and garden 6 Meadow and cottages 53 1 37

L M E S . WIL IA TAYLOR, Q 176 First allotment 12 S econd ditto

Old In losures c .

159 s s 9 2 3 Home tead, meadow, and clo e 8 -158

. . T MR W WE S ON . 177 First allotment 30 Second ditto

Old Inclosures. 144 Homestead and close 155 s s s Hou e, malthou e, and clo e 157 Pittice meadow ’ 161 House and Grafton s clo se

F B H DUKE O MARL OROUG . 18 6 Fir st All otment 34 3 6 ah ri 192 s s Mr . Par onage clo e, t e in exchange of Seagrave

H E S . JO N WALKER , Q 37 Allotment 22 1 34

Old Inclosures. 145 Homestead and close 2 3 2

. . BRANGWIN MR F . 6 1 Allotment 20 2 1 20 2

H M S R TT T O A c E s. 174 Allotment 3 2 2 2

ld I sures O nclo . 156 House and close 163 Cottage and garden

JOHN HOLLI S . 5 9 All otment 2 3 2 9

ld I l sures O nc o . 148 Cottage and garden ' S B 3 9 WE TCOTT ARTO N .

. H T C No JO N PA RI K. 68 First allotment

71 1 20

THOMAS BODDINGTON . 4 3 Allotment 1 11 ’ r Old Inclosu es. h 120 S o s S . ’Barn, Clo e , taken in Exchange of Rurchi ll 3 16 12 1 ll In h Of Mi Pike, taken Exc ange the Marlborough 1 1 1 33

' TRUSTEES OF SANDFORD POOR . 1 2 2 1 67 Allotment . 3 2 3 2 1 D D BB E WAR MO S. l 3 2 15 70 A lotment. 3 2 15

JAMES PARSONS . 1 33

2 2 3

RICHARD HUGHE S .

Old Inclosures.

147 House and Garden 3 8

WILLIAM LUING . 22 All otment 1 30 1 30

R D RD S . EV . E WA EAGRAVE 16 Allotment for Glebe Land 14 First Allotment for Tithes 34 S econd , ditto 15 r s l k Duke of Marlbo ough , econd a lotment ta en 2 3 26

Old Inclosures.

158 Homestead 2 3 2 6 209 3 2 ‘ 4 0 MEMO RIALS OF

N . . P o POOR A . R . , 32 All otment

H JO N PARSONS. 149 Cottage 149*Cottage and Garden

PARI SH OFFICERS .

ANN M SI ONS . 6 Cottage and Garden

H T T . C IL ON, 146 Cottage and Garden

TH V S JONA AN JAR I .

154 G O a Cottage, arden , and rch rd

NN L N D A A GFOR . 162 Cottage and Garden

STONE PITS IN WESTCO TT BARTON .

R D OA S. In Westcott Barton and Middle Barton

CHAPTER x

THE ‘ MANOR AND ESTATES .

WESTCOTT BARTO N is not particularised by name in Domes It m 1st da . ld the the 2 y Book wou see that, in survey of

4 2 MEMORIALS OF

- N e 132 7 8 2 E . III ames of rat payers in the year , d , are * given in the Appendix . n The Lordship of Barton, i cluding portions of it which a have acquired distinctive titles, is found after this d te in il the possession of members of the fam y of John de St . John L a eham n L o ve n s 13 5 1 de , + till it passed i to that of the y in g ’ 14 from the L o veyn s it went to the St . Clere s in 07 ; and about the middl e of the 15th century the manor of Barton ds St. John, or Great Barton, was in the han of William Chamberla ne R y ,.t son and heir of ichard Chamberlayne, who

l Cl . was son and heir of Margaret, wife of Phi ip Saint are It seems to have remained in this family for about one 5th 35th hundred years, when a licence, dated of May, year

. I 15 4 3 of Hen VII , , was granted to Sir Edward Chamber l a his f ayne, Leonard Ch mberlayne, and Dorothy, wi e, for Nud ate the alienation of the manor to John yg , father to m R . the said Dorothy, and ichard Cripps It may be assu ed that this was procured only for the purpose of effecting some

settlement or family arrangement . I I 4 m 2 1st O ct 3 8 . 15 6 , Hen V I , , Leonard Cha berlayne O t and John Blundell btained, with o her parcels of the revenues belongin g to the late cathedral church of Christ x Osene and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in O ford Abbey of y , lately dissolved the advowson of the Church§ of Great al Barton as so all rents, services of customary tenants, and t l customary lands in Barton Odo, Great Bar on , Midd e Of i Barton , and Westcote, to hold the same the k ng and his ’ successors in chief by the service of a 4 0th part of a knight s

d . 5 6s. 8 . fee, amounting to by the year "

8 . Appendix No . ” " E s l Co . R d . S ee s S . 1 al o Account of andford , by ev Mar hal , Parker and , s O . 18 66 s . xford, Lond , , where are drawn out the particular of ’the de cent at pp 14 15 s in ni s S . 11 , , with reference to the pedigree Man ng and Bray urvey, vol , — 22 5 . p . 3

14 55 . s 34 . . I Judgment given in an Exchequer uit, Hen VI ,

was n s s . 1209 The Church of Great Barton given to the Ca on of C eney , c ,

in 12 2 8 St . 10 11 . and K John ; and Roger de John confirmed the gift of it, — his e See S . 11. which father had mad the Account of andford, p

ce Taken from Particulars of Grants in the Augmentation Ofii . W O ESTC TT BARTON . 4 3

t 2 7 15 32 2 4 By letters patent, bearing da e September , , II R R Hen . VI , the King had granted to the ight everend G o d n Father in , John Lord Bishop of Lincol , and others & c all his . (int . manor, , with their appurtenances, in

Steeple Barton, Co . Oxon , which were forfeited to the Crown by the attainder of Thomas Lord Cardinal Wolsey, to hold r n to them and their hei s , to’the use of the Dean a d Canons in of King Henry the Eighth s College Oxford . t On the erection of Bishoprics, af er the suppression of the Osene w as 15 42 Abbeys, y made, in , the Cathedral Church ri I nl n of Ch st and the Blessed Virgin Mary. t o y conti ued ’ m 15 4 6 so , however, for a short ti e, for in the King s College f in 15 2 5 in Ox ord , which had been founded by Wolsey , and i and II called Card nal College , was refounded by Henry V I . ’ 15 3 2 in , under the name of King s College, was turned into r the Cathedral Chu ch and the Episcopal See, translated from A O sene . y, with the possessions of that bbey 14th 15th During this period, embracing parts of the and

centuries , the names of some other landowners and persons who had from time to time become seized with an interest in the manors were 2 2 — N * In 13 icolas at Putte . 13 2 4— Busseb e elco m r n Johannes y de W beg e e . — - 13 5 G aWill us de Sharshull , t — 5 . N 13 7 Rich Page de ether Worton . 1 143 6 Johannes Aston -1 — 14 3 8 Henricus VVilfo rde et Johannes Francke Cleri cusrl‘ 14 5 1— Johanna Legh -l 145 7— bSir - John Dynham , Knight 1who held the ( Sharshill manors of Barton Ede , otherwise Ro wlesham D ernfo rd Barton , , and , and also

i l n ui . P . M. . 2 2 a end I s . . 69 8 1. C . q , vol , pp , ' 4 5 I . 20 35 . 1 1 2 2 I . . 73 8 6 50 79. 1 Ditto, vol . , pp , vol iv , pp , , , ’

hul . S t f 0 r s 1 . K. a Wi lliam de Sha e l s S a 33 s . , Co a ford, King erje nt, ; Ju t B — ’ 5 0 F ss s . 504 K 13 . . . . 1333 . . . Ch B o Judge of England, vol iii , p W m Share shull 111. 2 4 Ed . illia de had licence from the King to exchange w the s O sen e s S O ith Canon of y certain land in Tewe Parva , andford, and xford, ” R wl sh m — n 2 4 Mo ast . . . 9 o e a D u d . i s . v . for other at Barton , Endon , and g , vol , p m ni ht ss s th S o f s 14 i b Sir J ohn D nha K e 36 . y , g , a i ted at iege Calai in He d ed his 14 5 7 36 . V I Sir in , Hen , leaving Joanna wife, daughter and heir of Richard MEMO RIALS OF

l i sundry messuages, ands, and woods w thin Ste ull ut those manors , and p Aston Manor Wo desto k de Honore de e. th In uis. 6 N . 1 . 15 5 8 By an q post mortem , ov , Eliz , , John

Blundell is found to be seized (int . als . ) Of the manor Of dl r R Great Barton, with lands in Mid e Ba ton , also the ectory

and Advowson of Great Barton . hi s l l 15 5 7 he By will , dated st Apri , , left the same to his if e w e for her life, and aft r her death to his five daughters

and their heirs , the said manor and rectory being worth

d . . 2 . l £ 79 1 s 1 . of money and lb of pepper per annum The Of u Of estate was held the Q een the Manor of Woodstock, by the suit and view of Frankpledge, twice a year, and the

d. S 4 . 13s. rent of , called head ilver, at Michaelmas yearly The daughters and heirs of the said John Blundell were E z ‘ li abeth , wife of Edward Hogan Mary, wife of Gerard h m C An n . n C a ne s roker Theodora , , and Susanna Justi ian p y C ll afterwards married Theodora Thomas orde married Ann , R who died without issue ichard Freston married Susanna, l who died without issue iving, but having had issue . Richard ’ l urt sie d An let rr was tenant pour e co e g e e . ”" - Upon a suit of partition 2 1 Eliz . l 5 78 9 promoted by R V ichard Freston , the rectory and icarage of Steeple Bar ’ was in fif ton divided fifths and Ann s th part in thirds , E C us viz. , to dward and Elizabeth Hogan , Mary roker , J tinian and Theodora Champneys and the said Justinian and S Theodora had for their part, the ite of the Manor of Great

Barton with other parcel s of land . This portion was conveyed

Arcubus s him and n m his so n who s de , urviving , John Dy ha , and heir, al o became l s 4 s s s 1 55 . was a Knight, and di tingui hed him e f at Calai in Elizabeth Fitzwalter his l i s 17 . V II 1501 his s s s wife , but dying without ma e he r Hen , , i ter and their s s i his s s s Sir repre entative nherited e tate , one of the e being John Arundell , s n i his so n Sir T s s . Knight, o’f homa Aru dell, Kn ght, by Katherine, third i ter D u dal e s . i. . 5 15 . g ’Baronetage, vol , p - i . 4 5 L . s s s . s . 7 6 . ip comb’ Hi t of Buck , vol , pp llin so n s S s s . . . 362 . C o omer et hire , vol ii , p ’ s . 1660 . 209. Baker Chronicle, fol , , p

g is 2 6 . I . 4 s It a reed for law, in Hen VII , fol , that if a manor de cend to s so three coparcener , and they make partition that each of them have part of s s s the deme ne and part of the ervice , that every one of them hat’h a manor, and that each o ne of them shall have a Court - S ee Burton s Leicester

2 91. s . . 162 . hire, fol , Lond , , p W S O E TC TT BARTO N . 5

1714 Of R h ns C in , by the representatives ic ard Hawki , itizen Of h and Grocer London , ( aving in the mean time passed * r th ough other: hands) to Francis Page, of the Inner Es Temple , q , who in the year following, obtained by purchase certain of the lands and titheS' I' which had been E E assigned to dward Hogan and lizabeth his wife . 172 1 Of in In , the estate Gerard Croker was the possession l of Mi es Parker, and in the same year the tithes of Middle o Bart n were sold to the Duke of Marlborough , who thus became j oint- patron of the Vicarage of Steeple Barton with Es Of Sir Francis Page and Joseph Taylor, q , owner another t of the shares of the manor and tithes of Grea Barton . ’ ' The Duke of Marlborough s interest in Great Barton (albeit the appurtenant shar e of the advowson has not passed 4 Welbo re . 5 W . W p . ) was transferred to Henry , Viscount l 0th Of 1792 Clifden, who on the March, , married Lady

Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of George, fourth Duke of ’ Marlborough. The Duke s estate at Westcott Barton and

dl . . 1777 Mid e Barton, purchased of Mr Loggin , c , was sold to the said Viscount Clifden in 18 11. 1st 2 nd 174 0 r and August , , the estate at Ba ton of the Kni h ' w as Hon . Sir Francis Page, g t conveyed in trust for a Es . Francis Bourne , q , son of his niece Is bella, Mr Bourne l 18 03 eventual y took the name of Page , and died in ; the t R B Elmsle C proper y then passed to ichard ourne, of y astle ,

i . Worcestersh re, brother of the aforesaid Francis Richard did not take the name of Page, having previously assumed that of Charlett .

F s g s so n R N s ranci Pa e , econd of th’e everend ichola Page, Vicar of Blox was s S l 715— ham, knighted and made King erjeant, Baron of the Exchequer, — ’ 1718 s s 172 7 . s Ju tice of the King Bench, He lie buried in a chapel on the s north side of Steeple Asto n Church . Ancient monument of this chapel which

MSS . O s acco rdin f 9. W no longer exi t, were to the Anthony ood, recumbent effi ies s s L s g repre enting ome of t e Dinham family, who were formerly ord of

M s. one of ’the anor ’ . 143 s ss s . . s S Fo Judge of England, vol iii , p Wing Antiq and Hi t . of teeple

s 18 4 5 . A ton , ' 18 47 s s 1796- 7 1 In , the tithe not dealt with by the inclo ure of , were com muted and apportioned upon the estates of Henry Hall Viscount Clifden

W W n . . W. w . s as John Painter and illiam i g ( W , p Thi latter being kno n Whistlo w m B ran wins Far , once the property of the g and formerly in the s po session or occupation Of Robert Dormer . 4 6 MEMO RIALS OF

18 04 E ll m tu In , this state was sold to Wi ia S rgess Bourne, 4 W w Es m 18 6 . . q , (fro whom in , ) it was purchased by the Es nr ll . late He y Ha , q , of Barton Abbey 173 2 his Mr. Taylor, who died in , left estate in Steeple

Barton , Middle Barton, and Westcott, to John, the son of his brother Edward and from John it passed to his only son E 179 dward Taylor, of Steeple Aston , who at his death in left hi s Barton as well as his Steeple Aston property to Es n N Mary, daughter of John Lock, q , of Chippi g orton , She Es - o u— and married William Mister, q , of Shipston Stour, this property then came to be sold the latter has thus passed Of L echm ere t into the possession the family , and the Bar on no w into the family of Painter, of Mixbury this is held in h two moieties, Mr . Josep Painter having the House and ds an . Manor allotment with other l , and Mr Thomas Painter ’ the remainder. The Painters who succeeded to Mr. Taylor s n dl d ma orial rights in Mid e Barton, succeede also to his share o ur of the advowson f the Parsonage , which has lately been p f chased of them by the Duke O Marlborough . ( Ede The Manor House and Estate at Barton , otherwise ’ Sessw ell s Barton , probably came into the Dormer family Es through the marriage of Geoffrey Dormer, q , of Chearsley w l Of Co llin rid e Es ith Ursu a, daughter Bartholomew g g , q ,

To w erse A . i of y, who had married an rundell Ursula was he r n al A ge er of rundell (Sir Thomas) who married Katharine , co - n one of the daughters and heiresses of Sir John Dy ham . ’

4 . . 1 . 77 See Lipscomb s Bucks, Vol , p il This house , now styled Barton Abbey, was bu t by 2 m 15 4 . John Dormer, c . But before any years elapsed it Of n passed by sale into the family Sheldo , of Worcestershire ,

Mr . Ralph Sheldon made great alterations within the house — l B d . . 16 78 79. . 8 4 5 5 . o in (Wood, MS Lib ) At the com m encement of the present century, it was in the possession

E . . th O f ill Will an s W. e W iam , q ( W ) who about year 18 2 2 ll Es , sold his property at Barton to Wi iam Hall, q , of l . . Es Oxford , Grandfather of the present A W Hal , q . Co tt f ell Es C . e Dormer, q , of Rousham , holds occasional a a urte courts for the manor of Steeple B rton, with its pp nances . WESTCOTT BARTO N . 4 7

15 5 8 Previous to the death of John Blundell in , who , as has been stated, had acquired the Manor of Great Barton , that W known as Little or estcott Barton, had passed on as a distinct Lordship or Manor. It is seen by a deed dated 3 4 III 15 4 2 Of Sto nesfield Henry V , , that Robert Beckingham , , G t r P udlico t en , son and hei of Richard Beckingham of , Es q , and Eleanor his wife , did demise the Manor or Hall W a of estcott Barton, with its lands, tenements, and p r t pu tenances to John Cupper, Gen , for a term of twenty — one years It is probable that this Manor came into the family of Beckingham through the marriage of the above named Richard, with Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Sir r Of Robert Harcou t , Knight the body to King Henry VII , whose only son John died unmarried Sir Robert was standard bearer at the battle of Bosworth field his tomb is to be seen in the Church of Stanton Harcourt . The Har courts with much probability became originally possessed of V a Sir H rt V i the estate by the marri g e of Richard arcou , of ill 2 5 14 8 6 w tham , Berks, (whose w was proved October , ) ith u c o — Edith , one of the three da ghters and heiresses of Thomas * I St . Clere . t appears from the pedigree drawn up by Lips in i had comb his history of Buckinghamsh re , that this family the Sharshull s w ho an early connexion with , were interested in Barton : Sir Richard Harcourt who died without male to 13 5 1 issue previous the year , and whose brother Thomas Of was a direct ancestor the great Sir Robert , having married W Sharshull Katherine daughter of S’ir illiam , Knight, one of i 111 the justices of the King s Bench in the t me of Edward . I 15 4 9 4 Ed. V v In , , Simon Parret con eyed to the Presi O f l dent (Owen Oglethorpe) and Fellows Magdalen Co lege , W n - Oxford, three acres of arable land in estcott Barto f In 15 5 7 sic , John Coper ( in the Record) purchased the advowson of the parsonage of Westco tt Barton from the l Crown, the same , it wou d seem , having been granted with other the possessions of the Abbots and Monks Of Ensham and O seney to Wolsey by Hen . VIII . for the endowment of his College at Oxford , which subsequently formed parcel ’ S ee icho ll s s s . . . . 17. N Leice ter hire, Vol iv Part i p ‘ 1 S ee N O . . Appendix, ix 4 8 MEMO RIAL s o r ’ of the King s foundation of the Cathedral Church of Christ i and and the Blessed Virg n Mary , after the resignation of 15 4 5 the Dean and Canons thereof in , being surrendered , "6 again became the property of the Crown . 16 2 5 1 By a deed of relief dated , Charles I , it appears that upon an inquisition after the death of Richard Cupper, the 11th 15 8 0 it was found that John Cupper, on of June, , 2 3rd of Elizabeth , had conveyed to the use of Richard Cup

& c . per and his heirs for ever the Manor, , and the advowson of the Church of Westcott Barton ; that Richard Cupper 2 5th n 15 8 2 died in the year of the reign of Q uee Elizabeth , , leaving a daughter and so lo heiress of the age of eight months

& . & c . c and sixteen days that the manor , , , were held of the late Q ueen in her right of the Duchy of Lancaster by military ’ n o t service , but by what part of a knight s fee it did appear. in uisitio n it By another q had been seen that John Hayes, n N Ge tleman, of Maiden ewton , Dorset, had married Eliza her beth in her minority, and that through he had become

. W possessed of the Manor, etc , of estcott Barton, with the advowson of the Church . 16 12 9th 1st In , of James , John Hayes conveyed the rt manor, etc . , to John Ma in of Wilcot ; the advowson and right of presentation to the church had at this period been alienated from the manor. 2 162 4 2 nd I. n In , James , the manor, with its lands, te e e i ments, and appurtenanc s, was assigned by John Mart n to F Richard ford, who seems to have disposed of it during his 163 14 I i l 8 . ifetime , he died , Charles About th s time l the Buswel family came to reside in Westcott Barton , being possessed of almost the entire parish besides the manor .

At the commencement of the eighteenth century, Thomas r d Dand i ge, of Tackley, Gentleman , is found to have acquired the farm , now known as Park Place, formerly in the occupa tio n pa of Richard Eford . 1772 1795 Between and , part of the estate of the Bus wells was sold to Mr. Weston ; this is now the interest in

W A . . Es estcott Barton of W Hall , q , and another part ,

Horsehay Farm came into the possession of Mr. John Patrick .

S ee N Appendix, o . x .

5 0 MEMO RIALS O F

l Es A w ho l late Henry Ha l, q , of Barton bbey, at a sa e by 18 5 5 public auction in , purchased the same belonging to the ll No rtham Reverend Wi iam Harding, Vicar of Sulgrave , p hir to ns e . m This estate at the time of the inclosure , for ed

the chief allotment and old inclosure of Mr . W . Weston.

He is proprietor of 178 acres . H enr Geo r e A ar Ellis d y g g , Viscount and Baron Clif en, lk . P I of Gowran , Co Ki enny, in the eerage of reland born 2 d A 18 63 2 oth 6 n 18 6 . ugust , succeeded February, He is

propri etor of 72 acres . Thomas Gr eenawa Cutslo w y , Yeoman of , in the parish of

W . olvercot , purchased Horsehay farm of J Patrick, a miller 1 4 8 0. of Cassington , about the year The possessor of this

farm at the time of the inclosure was John Patrick . He is

proprietor of 71acres . The other proprieto rs are

John Walker Robert Ryman House Thomas Painter Henry Cole House and Bake House “ ” m l s Ja es Hore Hal Co . Fox Public Hou e M S S s s s & c . amuel im on ary Hayne Malt Hou e, Mary Haynes S olomon Jarvi s Cottages Mary Ann Luing John Savery Ditto Jam es Parson s George Baker Ditto We stcott Barton Poor 13 Mary Fowler Ditto Tru stees of } James Parsons Ditto Sandford Poor 3 Thomas Brain Di tto Trustees of Elizabeth Reeve Ditto

s. Rep of W . Taylor Ditto

s s 1796 s The e at the inclo ure in , were allotted to them in lieu of four acre of s s s W s land, di per ed in the open field of e tcott Barton , which were bought in 175 6 W i s rt s fo r sum w the year , of ill am Mead and Ann Robe the of t enty s w is s n ound , hich tated to be the remai der of the money bequeathed by’ s u S ee ri phomas Gile for the se of the poor of andford . S Cha ty Com missioners

R 4 . 42 18 2 3 . eport, , p

f r The bailif of the Hund ed Court, formerly collected for n the Duke of Marlborough, as Lord Paramount, four shilli gs n u l i per an m , si ver money, wh ch was charged upon certain d W lan s in estcott Barton , and essoign money at the rate of two pence a head for suit and service in lieu of attendance r tlie inhabi at Cou ts , has occasionally been demanded of tants . 1 WESTCOTT BARTO N .

CHAPTER XII.

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS .

O U G l Y N , in his Genera Survey of the Agriculture of Oxford A shire , published for the consideration of the Board of gri in 18 13 32 4 I culture the year , writes at page remember e the roads of Oxfordshire forty years ago , when th y were in a condition formidable to the bones of all who travelled on

- wheels . At that period the cross roads were impassable but h with real danger. A noble c ange has taken place , but r o generally by tu npikes , which cr ss the country in every

i . are d rection The parish roads are greatly improved, but ” still capable of much more . The turnpikes are very good . The A 1793—4 n ct of Parliament was obtained in for , maki g the road which passes from Enstone through Westcott

Barton to Bicester . Previous to its formation , the way

- field . seems to have been little , if at all , better than a road The river Dorne was crossed by means of a ford at the in south of Westcott Green . I have been told by an old

. 18 6 6 habitant (W Bolton) , who died in , at the advanced a e 8 6 g of , and who was a carter in his youth , and had often gone to market with corn , that none but those who had seen them could have any notion of the deep and dangerous condition of these ways . Here in Barton, such was the ll state of the road through the vi age , that the farmers did not attempt to convey their corn to Oxford Market by the ’ HO cro ft s N direct way of p Holt Inn , nor to Chipping orton Ga in well by that through g g and Church Enstone, but in the first case preferred taking a more easy and firmer course

across the open fields by the now Barton Leys Farm, and

- in the direction called the Beeches , to the tenth mile stone n A - on the Oxford , Deddi gton , and dderbury turnpike road ; here they left for the night the waggon with its load , the n O ff earl horses bei g taken and brought home they then , y 5 2 MEMO R IALS O F

rt the next morning , sta ed again to draw the corn the rest of the j ourney to the market , whence they returned on the third day . In the latter case , they went by the way of N orton Gap , leaving Radford on the left , to the twelfth milestone on the IVo o dsto ck and Chipping Norton turnpike road and none but those who had been with a team would believe (the same person thus expressed himself to fi me) the dif culties of the j ourneys . The wheels , he said, were frequently in ruts to the very nave , and dragged li witho ut revolving . The punishment to the horses by fal ng and floundering, the carter with whip and voice urging them on the breaking of the harness by constant straining i and irregular j erking , and the njury to the waggon by wear d and tear, adde considerably to the annual expense of farm

. A r ing s a contrast to this now, about one hund ed years later, the order is quite reversed . The parish roads are

u . good, the turnpikes a so rce of complaint This difference t lr must chiefly be attribu ed to the introduction of rai oads, which connect the market and commercial town s throughout w the country, and have ithdrawn to themselves the passenger O ld and goods traffic , rendered the roads less necessary for general purposes, and limited their use very much to merely m local . The highways have , from an early date , been ade i and maintained by a charge on the parochial rates, wh ch have varied according to the circumstan ces of the neighbour ru im hood through which they were const cted, and their provement has been of late greatly stimulated by the w 2 2 . 1. 5 6 . 6 High ay Act , and Vict ch The turnpikes, on the other hand , have been made and maintained by the m trustees or commissioners, who have, fro time to time, obtained powers under Acts of Parliament to borrow money for the purpose of putting certain highways into a more useful e l stat , and to levy tol s on horses, cattle, and carriages passing al m f ong the to keep them e ficient, to pay the interest of the debt and the salaries and expenses of the officers of manage

- . v ment From the abo e mentioned causes, the tolls on many m roads have greatly di inished, and the surveyors can, with f l nl i di ficu ty, o y provide for the commonest repa rs upon them , l i e and for rendering them passable . for the ighter veh cl s 5 3 WESTCOTT BARTO N . even which the modern wants of society have made requi n site . A state o f thi gs has thus come about which is leading to further legislation, and which may, ere long, result in the ’ total abolition Of turnpike- gates and the burden of the roads i maintenance being thrown again in part, if not ent rely, upon li - the common liabi ty of the rate paying, and not the travel l ing public .

CHAPTER XIII .

T H E N E W B R I D G E s

IN the spring Of 18 6 7 a subscription was raised in the neighbour hood for the pur pose of buildin g a bridge Of sufficient width for carriages to pass to and fro over the m Do e at the bottom of Pound Lane , the ford being very inconvenient for the increased public traffic and travelling along the Worton and Deddington road . That styled in ” 175 5 the parish books Westcott Bridge, and stated in to have been repaired with the “ great stones dra wn from the ”

P . 3 2 ound, p , one of which measured no less than nine feet in length , three feet in breadth , and ten inches in depth, f nl su ficed for foot passengers o y, though on extreme occa sions it could be used as a bridl e way. The bridge was m - com enced in July of the above named year, and was com l eted £ 12 1. p within six weeks, at a cost of about It consists of one arch, the span being eight feet wide by four deep .

O . The stone was btained from a field adjoining, on the west

Mr . James Hopcroft, of Deddington, was the contractor and Mr builder. It was erected under the superintendence of . rv Peter Bennett, the district su eyor of highways, and was ’

Jan . 4 thus reported upon in Jackson s Oxford Journal of , — 18 68 Oxfordshire Epiphany Q uarter Sessions County Bridges— The county surveyor’s certificate that a new public bridge between Middle and Westcott Barton has been erected 5 4 MEMO RIALS OF

to his satisfaction having been read, the bridge was declared ’ a County Bridge . In the autumn of 18 6 8 another bridge over the same — stream , on the Bicester and Enstone turnpike road , was

' Old rebuilt at the expense of the county , the bridge having become unsafe . The stone for this bridge was Obtained from the same pit as the former. Mr. John Fisher, county sur

ve o r a . l y , was the rchitect, and W Grimsley, of Midd e Barton ,

m £95 . the contractor for the sa e, at

A E IV CH PT R X .

O R TH E LAND TA x AND O THER PR PE TY TAXES .

TH E land - tax on Westcott Barton amounts to a total of 2 9 2 d . 4 1 £ 0 S . £ , which comprises the sums of assessed and 2 d 0 1 s 10 . d £ 0 . exonerated , and assesse and not exonerated in hi The disproportion observable t s tax, levied upon various places, arises from the more improved and increasing value m of land in so e counties and parishes over others . The assessment is a fixed charge of one Shilling in the pound on 2 the valuation of the estates taken in the year 16 9 . It has frequently been the subj ect of legislation , with a view prin ci all co n p y to encourage its redemption ; but, all things sidered be , it does not seem that it would to the advantage * o f nl the landowner, u ess he contemplated building exten sivel y, whatever pecuniary inducements might be held out S ul f u to him to do so , that he ho d ef ect any f rther redemption o f the charge . As regards the assessment of property in the parish for other taxable purposes, that for the Union relief of the poor, and the maintenance of highways is ( 18 6 8 ) and as the - l regards Poor rates , while , by the returns to Par iament

S ee - m L L L s 2 d i di . S t. t Handy book of Property aw, by ord eonard , ed , E n 5 d 18 8 . 60. and Lon , , p 5 WESTCO TT BARTO N .

4 d. n 8 . 8 as stated by You g , the average of the county was ’

18 03 . in the pound in (Young s Survey, p the rate of 4 s d W n . 1 . estcott Barto for that year was only , the total

- money raised by Poor rates within the year ending Easter, 14 1 03 n s. 4d . 8 £ 7 8 . , bei g (p and the rent of land being os 18 01 2 an acre . The population at the census of was 4 18 . The total money raised by order of the Union Board 18 6 5 of Guardians within the year ending Michaelmas, , was

- £ 13 3 6s. 3 d 5 , including the County rate demand of

4 s. d £33 8 . The census of 18 6 1 returned the parish as 3 2 0 . consisting of persons Under the new Valuation Act, the average rent of land to farm with b uildings in Westcott

Barton at the date 18 6 5 appears to be 3 0s. 9d. an acre ; A the g’ross estimated rental of the parish , seven ri years average charged upon the pa sh , and ending Lady 18 6 hi 8 106 18 . day, , amounted to £ s , w ch includes the ’ - Highway rate . A seven years average charged for the - 4d. County rate at the same date was £3 1 9s. The Cattle Plague demand upon the parish (which itself was not visited

2 . by the plague) was £3 8 s. 6d

CE E E MIS LLAN OUS OBS RVATIONS .

U K l C s N t B C LAND, in his vo ume entitled uriositie of a ural 18 6 4 5 . 6 65 d History, London , , pp , , says I have hear of

a species of British rat that has become nearly extin ct . Mr . l Blick, of Islip, informs me that, some years ago, he wel l reco lects seeing in Leicestershire and N o rthampto nshire a

- small species of black water rat, shaped like a mole, with a l t ong body and shor legs, and a short , thick head , but this

rat is now very rare . The fishermen report that the common — has l water rat killed them . It is reported that they are stil t be t ds found in Bar on Brook , near Woo tock, in Oxford '

sfii re. 18 5 9 In the month of March , , a mole of a peculiar — ll l n — colour fa ow, inc ini g to white was caught in Westcott 5 6 MEMO RIALS OF

Old Mead, near Sandford Hedge . Jesse, in his Gleanings ” N - in atural History, relates an anecdote of a mole catcher — having once shown him a white , or rather a cream coloured G mole , which he had caught near the Robin Hood ate in ” “ R . ichmond Park These variations, he says, in the Of colour the mole are extraordinary, and I have never yet seen them noticed by any one who has published remarks ”

. 13 5 13 6 on the animal (pp , , London, A tract of land in this and the adj oining parish of

Sandford, which was formerly wet and swampy, and much * i m o r Sn e o . frequented by snipes , bears the name of p It extends from the left of the turnpike- road leading from

E R l . Barton to nstone, as far as the adford Fie d The cultivation of the land consequent upon the inclosure of the p arish has rendered it useless as feeding ground for i has . these b rds, and it of late years been entirely forsaken l l The field retains now the name on y, without the s ightest sni m r appearance of a p e o o . ’ A field in Barton , called Friar s Scrubbs , serves to keep in remembrance the former connection of the district with

a Religious House .

F F A M I L Y O B U S W E L L.

l l The fami y of Buswell who for about a century and a ha f, resided in Westcott Barton have entirely disappeared from

the parish , leaving the remains of between forty and fifty of h re their members deposited in the C urchyard . It is now R R presented by the everend William Buswell, ector of E l Widford, ssex he is son of John Buswell, of Oxford , So i

cito r 18 2 4 . B o seville , who was buried here in William , High f 5 0 “ O 16 . Sheriff Oxfordshire, 1 was of this family He was C l x of Wadham ol ege in the University of O ford, and was 1 3 3 0 6 0 . 6 . created Doctor of Law, June , , Ch I Wood in

’ s nitem re R S . o . s s MS S A piece of ground in the pari h, called awlin on , c . B dl L 1720 o . . , ib ’ ' s L s L S f s O s f 1 Davenport ord ieutenant and High heri f of xford hire, rom 108 6 to 18 68 .

5 8 MEM ORIALS O F

N l R l Ralph and icho as , sprang two branches, the elder a ph dl and migrated to Ar ey, this branch became extinct , about the middle of the last century ; the property there was

sold and now belongs to Mrs . Ann Hind the younger Ni

cholas was settled at Enstone, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century his great grandson Nicholas was living 173 5 Of there, who in married Esther, the niece Joseph f Taylor, of Sand ord , owner of one of the portions of the

manor and advowson of Great Barton, she was sister to 174 6 William Taylor, who in purchased the estate of the

Dandridge family at Barton . Their grandson Edward married w r t ice, first Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Chu chill , who suc c eeded Busw ell s m ano r o f W Barto n she the in the estcott , died — dl . m without issue secon y Mary Anne, daughter of Dr Ja es

Burton , Canon of Christ Church , and Rector of Over Wor ton and Lower Worton . The issue of this marriage was three sons and two daughters ; the eldest son Edward , is owner of the family estates at Enstone and Sandford, is a widower and has issue— the second is the author of these s he 18 5 2 Memorial , married in , Elizabeth Kelson, eldest Sto thert daughter of John , of Bathwick, of the family of

Sto thert Car en N . B . s of g , By her he has i sue 1 1 . 2 6 8 6 Jenner Guest, b March ,

2 . E . 1 18 63 Francis den, b July ,

8 4 . m . o 18 1 6 N v. 10. John Morti er, b August , , d

Elizabeth Sto thert .

Mary Anne Burton . E leanor Katharine .

Alice Susanna . APPE ND IX .

NO . 1. ’ — POPE NICHOLAS TAXATION OF THE LIVING NO NARU M INQ U ISITIONES ’ — L TI IN THE ING S KS PENS I NS ND P O RCIO N S I THE VA UA ON K BOO — O A N ABBEY S OF EY N ES H AM AND C S ENEY GRANTS OF LAND To O S EN EY RAN T TH D WS D DS To EY NESH G s OF E A VO ON AN OF LAN AM.

- x i s. N Ta at o . 0 12 2 . 9 3 . 31. Eccle P ’icolai , , p L D io c esis incoln . D ecan atus Wo de sto ck de . ’ ’ ’ Archidi aco natus O L S . . ’ ’ ' ’xon incoln pirit Ecclia de Bart on Parva deduct pens ’ ’ ‘ s s Egnesham ar Pen Abb i de in c dem ’ ’ B en eficia Eccléastica ad x m r c et i nfra taxat quor po ssessores s ben eficiati 4 1 aliunde non unt , p . . ’O ’ A’rchid ’xon . ’ Wo desto ck . Ecclia va s 5 4 6 . de p Barton deduct pen £ 8 d.

Scacc — N m In uisitio nes r . . R s o naru . 132 1 q in Cu ia Temp egi Edward III 7 377.

D e canat. Wo desto ck 1 38 . de ’ , p . Barton P va. ’ ’‘ ’ mi bz o r li S d Ecclia p och ejusdfii cu o suis p éo nibz taxat ad iiii vi viii cujus ’ ’ ’ d ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ non predi ct assed ad liiiS iiii o et no plus p in quis jurat predict q gleb cu ’ ' ' ’ ’ ’ s d ’ et al xx viii o iiii n e e s ibIdirI ut i u a l & c fen dec val unt d c t cat l ar .

s s s 2 6 . . 15 4 Valor Eccle ia ticu Hen VIII 3 .

W s n . . 1 . 8 3 . e tcote Barto , vol ii , p ' i i u r m D rugo nus Fever . Rector binet Re cto r a s a valet p an s . d . ’ ’ ’' mis bl ac et alii s s r anm cOibus mibu deci o s . o s vii . o b q In tr p"ent p anni vii x . ’’ SEW b cI vii . x . vii . o ’' — c is E o e Arch no r m m U In resolu . . et . vii b q p p . o nde ant Lincoln eju x ’’ S a m . . o b a ’ ’ x vii et rem ’clar a S Dec p xiii .

* E nesham s l b . . . 2 11. s y Mona tery, , vol ii , p Anthony Dun tone, Abbot . i s s F s O s . Pen ion and orc’ion in xford h re in o l n In the Dioc of L c e . In the p ishe churche of Litill Barton

ham M n a r a te to t M ar was o n e for B en e i n e M o nk s E nes o ste e S . b Ethelmar y y , d dic d y , f u d d d cti y o w w r firm it 10 5 B s o o o l ar o f C rn al . n a o n e 0 . o bert B e h f n n was a be ne E l l Ki g Ed d c d R lu t, i p Li c a r I s re en ues we re a e at £ 421 163 . 1d . f cto . t v v lu d A PPENDIX .

’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ D e canat O O et 2 15 , p . . xon in Com x’on’ ’ E’pi Lin’coln Dioc ’ * In O Mo nasterii O s . . . . Abb te . de ney com P D C Joh ne Burton, ibm B O do nis arton , Barton Magna ,

Med ll e t Wesco t . 2 1 7. y Barton, , p

s. d . ’ ’ ’ ” I R ddit tenenc custum l anm Valet n e p x . v ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ . . . F Recto rie et asc et s ni xxviii x v irma ’ terr prat p pa tur ’d c hl . in d n tur Ibm sic di rmss JO Hanwell p e .

U In . ’ ’ nde P p et rep s ’ ’ ’ ’ m Perpetua Elemo sin di str inter paup es poch per an o ’ ’ ’ ’ m D ecim solut Abbat et Convent C o l cestr anh Imp pm ex coni o smOe ’ ’ ’ ’ m D eifzinisolut Colleg de Eto n pro terr m Middel BartonP an ex c ompCe Et Cl i valet are xxvii . x. v . The Tithes p ayable to the Abbot and Convent of Co lchester were given by Eudo S S t s i l i u s ewer, or teward, in the Cour of W l iam Conq , Will am R fu , and King

s was St. Henry the Fir t. He founder of the Abbey dedicated to John in the 1 s s In s t year 096 . The e tithe compo ition became the proper y of the Dean and s r in Chapter of Chri t Chu ch and , hav g reverted to the Crown, formed part of the grant by King Henry the Eighth to Leonard Chamberlain and John Blun l o f ’ s s G er s S de l , the rector and premi e of reat Barton , oth wi e teeple Barton , Odo M dle s e h s Barton , y Barton, and We tcot , wit the exception of the repri e to the College of Eton . The Charge to Eto n Co llege has relation to an arrangement with the Abbot and Convent of C seney concerning two parts of the tithes of the Lordship of Robert Ar sie in Little Barton for the payment instead thereof of ten shillings i s C s annually to the Pr ory of Cogge , near Witney, by the Abbey of eney, which claim ed the tithes for the Church of Great Barton against the Abbot and Con Of E s m N w as vent i ca p in ormandy . The Priory an alien cell founded by the s P s Manasser s s i s monk of i cam , to whom de Ar ie, re erving to h m elf the Lord s h ad iven t r s Wi s s s hip, g e Chu ch of Cogge , th certain land and tithe in diver

Se e ost. ss s s. n place ( p ) After the di olution of the foreign cell , He ry S i n s ro ected his s the ixth, pur uance of a plan j by father, made Cogoge a part , ” of the demesnes with which he en owed his Coll ege of Eton . I Thi e payment from Barton has now been extinguished .

PRIORY OF COGGE S .

A Manasser Arsic s Fiscam ( renewal of a grant of to the Abbot and Monk of p , and a gift of two garb s of tithe at Barton . )

11 Num . .

Ma rii s D . s d sh . a nasse . u . vi Alia cart eju dem Ar ie ( g . Mona , vol , p N 44 Cart ae es MS . 20 . 105 . Antiqu ( . ( In Bibl . Harl . , fol n rn ti n i Man asserus s ren o vavit cartam s Anno ab i ca a o e M ci i . Ar ie uam quam prius Fiscan enSI Eccleswe fecerat de rebus 8 1118 coram Domi no Wi llielm o

n M n as e i ate to St M ar was o n e fo r B a ks Can o n s b o bert so s ey o ery, d d c d . y , f u d d l c y , n o f O ’ t — ’ R n e re a e at 755 18 s. 6d S e e s H sto r o f n an B Its re e s we £ . e o e 1139. 9 Nig l d il y, v u v lu d p d i y E gl d , , a f s resse b H h 6 2 C at o e o e o s H o ses mo t s . ( xxi . . 1074 fo l . 1 3 ; en . , p , l gu R ligi u u ly upp d y K VIII

E ars a . 58 62 . n n o v . M h S ee o o f Sa r b Re . t Acc u t df d , y ll , pp , ’ s 4 3 a so e e H n e h R v D r le o n J R mith . nn S ee sto r o f W t b t e e . . . S 72 t s 1 i y i y, y Gi , L d , p ; l K t n o l i 110 ro e . t v . . . Fa A i q , p APPENDIX . 6 1

et s et ho minibus s s No vembris Abbate tertio, Monachi eju dem , tertio nona apud Coges et ibi tunc concessit do m um suum de Cogi e et e cclesiam inde faciendam et eccliam i sius as et terrarn , p Vill , cum terra ad eam pertinente ad duas earness et bo scum ad ardendum et ad omnia opera monachorum et viri dariu s m . B s o fnnia uum Dedit ad erton dua garbas. Haec dedit volente et c o nsentiente uxo a e filii re su t s s s. s s & c Manasseri . S i. S , ui Te te ignum ignum filii e Roberti eju .

cclesia Windesor in e . E Collegiata de Eton ( juxta com Buckingham) . xii Num . .

dicti S exti s Carta Henrici de dotation s eju dem . D u d t . es . . 1436 . g Mon , vol vi , p

A COMPOSITION BETWEEN THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF O SENEY AND THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF EIS CAMP CONCERNING TITHE S IN LITTLE A T B R ON .

O sene C ss ss s h (From the y hartulary in the po e ion of the Dean and Canon of O .

Oh O . , xford )

M nach . 1x. Com o sitio no s et o o s Fiscam Fol lix . b . p inter de po decimis e de in Parva B rtona.

u s E n O mnibus Christi fidelib s pre sens scriptum inspecturis. Abba y esham l t m n m it rn m D n . a No verit et eca us O xon S u e in Domi o se p e a . universitas s n o s i as as susce isse ve tra mandatum Dom ni Pap in b e verba p . s E isco us s us servo rum dilectis filiis E nesham Honoriu p p erv Dei Abbati y . S Fride d t Salutem t s . e s Priori anctae wy e e Decano Oxon . Linc . Dioc Apo toli n i n m D ilecti filii s t Co nventus senei s cam be ed ctio e . Abba e O ordini Sancti Augu sti nobis co nquerendo m o n strarun t n o d cum Abbas et C o nventus de

s S B enedicti et Wi o rn . e t Lyra ordini ancti quidam a ii Hereford , g , Dioc Lin de o u s S decimis et s aliis i eisdem . l e di creti n coln Dioc . uper rebu njuriant q o i st s s s e s co nvo catis i s audiatis ve re per Apo tolica cripta mandamu , quat nu part bu causam et appellation e remota fine debito terminetis quod decreveritis per Eccl ias m firmit r er ri s s fuerint m censuram es tica e O bs va . Te te autem qui no i nati si se gratia odio vel timore subtraxerin t per censuram eandem app ell atio n e ati rit ti erhib r si s s cessante co g s ve a testimonium p e e . Quod non omne hii e xe uendis o tueritis intercesse s ni chilo minus exe uantur q p , duo ve trum ea q .

m P ntifi tu s n . . b s iii . D ece o ca Dat Lateran j non . no tri anno qui to Harum igitur aucto ritate literarum Abbas et C o nventus O senei per procura torem in p resentia nostra co n stituti duas partes decimarum Dominici Roberti Arsie in Parva B arto na asserebant de jure communi ad eccle siam suam de s iscam o s etebant Magna Bartoua pertinere, qua ab Abbate de F p in tanter p . Qui per pro cur ato rem videlicet Rogerum tunc temp o ris Prio rem de Coges coram nobis co mp aruerat Cum igitur idem procurator ad to tam causam m o tam super dictis decimis inter preedi cto s Abbates et C o nventus datus literas ro curato rias s exhibuisset in s co ntinabatur p coram nobi in judicio , quibu quod Abbas e t C o nventus de Fiscamp o ratum essent h avituri quicqm d in p raedicta s e isset a s u s al teratio n es s s lis cau a g , t ndem po t m lta commune inter parte amica biliter In h un c modum co nquievit videlicet uod p redictus procurator bbatis ’ q A e t Co nventus Fiscam o et Co nventui O seneia redictas m s de p . Abbati de p deci a ad perpetuam firmam concessit e t e o sde m in c o rp o ralem po ssessionem induxit pro decem solidos stirlingo rum singulis annis apud Oseneiam Priori de Coges so l endis Si ad festum Sancti Michaelis sive infra O ctabas eju sdem v . non 6 2 APPENDIX .

alique decimarum pertinens ad dictam co mp o sitionem venerit alteri parti in N o s com o siti m enam vig ti so lido rum p erso lvet. igitur hanc p one ratam pa n e x u be tes aucto ritat domini Papas eam du im s co nfirm are . In cujus rei per p etuam memoriam literis pro curato riis Abbatis et C o nventus Fiscampi traditis Abbati e t Co nventui O senei un a cum sigill o Priorie de Coges Priore de Sanctae Frideswyde ad to tam causam literato rie excusato sigilla no stra app o suimus

s te stibus & c. Hii ,

T T - C S L D To S BB A GRAN OF TWEN Y FIVE A RE OF AN C ENEY A EY, B H M D Y T O AS HY E .

(From the Cseney chartulary in the po ssession of the Dean and Canons of

r s u O . Ch i t Ch rch, xford )

d t e tk o t Hy a e W s e Barton . m s Carta Tho ee de Hyds de XXV Acri .

Sciant presente s et futuri quod ego Thomas de H yda dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea co n firmavi Deo et ecclesie S ancte Marie de O sen ei e t d e ‘ mino Ricardo abbati et can o nicis ibidem Deo servientibus viginti quinque acras terre arabilis cum omnibus suis p ertinentiis in campi s de Westk o te Bar

et el em o sinam . in ton , in puram perpetuam Quatuor duo decem acre jacent m i s ue a ellatur B rer ur lon * e t In m ca po aqu lonari cilicet in cultura q pp f g, ca po s l s Ramedune s s d uo dece m s e t au tra i uper tre cultura que continent acra , unam m t rram t acra Mo les B rech e . e in y , juxta Petri de Bartoua Tenendum habendum dictis ecclesie et cano nicis et corum successo ribus bene et in pace h bere et ‘ niete in p ascui s e t pasturi s cum libero intro itu e t exi tu per to tuin campum de k t to ss e t et h eredibus s e t s West o e B ar n a in perpetuum . Conce i pro me mei mei assignatis quod di c ti abbas e t canoni ci et eo rum succe sso res quieti slut in per etuum o m nim o dis r sectis auxrlio tall a iis scuta irs et i b s p de cu ie , , g , g , de omn u Et s et exactio nibus e t dem andis in perpetuum. ego Thoma heredes mei et assignati predictas viginti quinque acras cum omnibus p e rtinen tiis suis dictis abbati e t cano nicis et c orum succe ssio nibus contra omnes chris tiano s et judaeo s w arantizabim us acquie tabimus et defendemus ut puram et perpetuam ele m o si n o str Et ut a m ea et co n c essio sit et stabilis in er e nam am . h ec donatio rata p p

s l a o sui s test us & c . s . tuum huic cripto igi lum meum pp Hii ,

— i A CONFIRMATION OF THE S AM E i b d.

fi ati estk te s (Co n rm o Petri de W o Bartoua de eadem donation . )

No ve rint un iversi quod ego Petrus de Westk o te B arto na concessi pro me et h eredibus meis e t meis assignatis e t hac presenti carta mea c o n firmavi Deo et ecclesie san cte Marie de O sen ei et cano niCIs in ea Deo servien tibus do natio nem quam eis fecit Thom as de Hyda de terris e t tenem entis que sunt de fe o do meo u m et dictis s et can o nicis in Westko te Barto a . Tenendu habendum eccle ie in puram et perpetuam el em o sinam sicuti carte quas h aben t de feo fam e nto ple i s t s rei s s o s a o su . niu estantur. In cuju te timonium huic cript igillum meum pp s testibus & c Hii , .

J uer B r f lo n . M Q y o c m g . ( ) APPENDI X . 6 3

’ T P O NE C B H L E FRE — Ib d . A GRAN O A RE Y JO N . z

o hannis L Fre Barto na (Carta J e de Parva de una Acra . )

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Johannes Le Fre de Westko te Barto na dedi concessi et hac presenti carta m ea c o n firmavi Deo e t ecclesie Bancte Marie de O senei e t cano nicis in c a Deo ser vie utibus un am acram terr e arabili s in m We stk o te m s s s ertinenciis ue ca po de Bartoua , cum o nibu ui p quidem acra

acet vo catur D oddendenes elde. et abendum dicti s j in cultura que , fi Tenendum ecclesie et cano nicis in pur am e t perpetuam elem o sin am cum libero intro itu e t k t B rt Et e xitu per totum campum de We st o e a o na. ego Johann es et heredes mei et mei assignati dictam acram cum p er tin e nciis p refatis eccle sie et c ano nicis contra omnes Christiano s e t J udeo s w arantizabimus acquietabimus et defende m us ut puram et perpetuam ele m o sinam no stram et ut h ee c mea do nacio et con s it et stabilis s s i i ces io rata s in perpetuum huic cripto ig llum meum appo su . ibus & c s test . Hii ,

T O F TH C B O H L E FEE — A GRAN ANO ER A RE Y J N Ibid.

nnis Fr e (Carta J oha Le de alia Acra . ) O mnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scri ptum pervenerit Johannes Le N o verit s Fre de Parva Bartoua salute m in Domino . univer itas vestra me de di sse con cessisse et hac cart a mea co nfirm asse Deo et beate Marie st fratri Will elmo de Sutton p ermissio n s divina Abbati de O se nei et cano nicis eju sdem servientibus acram m es arabilis s loci ibidem Deo unam terre , cum omnibu p e rtine nciis suis in campis de Parva Barto napro sal ute anime mee e t anim arum ante cessorum m eo rum cuj us una dimidia acra jace t ex parte orientali del Sandi l i Wey versus D un estywa juxta terr am Willie m G efrey et alia dimidia acra * t e o dem m i Wowelonde uxta terram s Willielmi jace in ca po v delicet in , j eju dem fr u e t illam acram ertin encris s s G e ey . Habend m tenendum cum p ui in puram m e t perpetuam el em o sinam pro anima mea et ani abus antec esso rum me o r um Et s ct s m ei di ctam acram in perpetuum . ego Johanne herede terre cum perti

W. di ti n en ciis suis Deo et beate Marie et dicto Abbati ac c s cano nicis waran bim us et defen demus s s tizabim us acquieta contra omne mortale in perpetuum . ' Et ut h eec mea do nacio con cessio et carte hujus c o nfirm acio rate e t stabiles e t m inconcusse in perpetuum p ermaneant hanc c arta sigilli mei impressio n s cor

us te stibus & c . ro bo ravi. H , s n is circa 12 0 The date of thi gra t 7 .

A GRANT OF THE ADVOWS ON OF BARTO N CHURCH To EY N ESH AM BB B L D D B ARTO N A . A EY, Y A EXAN ER E

(From the Ey nesh a m Chartulary in the possession of the D ean and

f h . O . Canons o O . Ch xford )

De eccle sia de Bertona.

i Notum sit omnibus ad quo s presens ce rtam p ervener t quod ego Alexander de B Willielm us m s s et s Ineus dedl mus et co ncessrmus s ertona, fil meu here mona terio

‘ n ; z Wo de o nde Q e / . G4 APPENDIX .

S ancte Mari e de Egnesham pro salute anim arum mearum et omnium paren tium n o stro rum in perpetuam el em o sinam eccl esiam de Bertona cum omni bus p ertinen ciis suis liberam et quietam ab omni consuetudine e t exaccio ne seculari assensu et si i re sb teri s s erso n s con lio Mart ni p y eju dem eccle ie p .

H us testibus— Wi llielm o — Go defro resb tero Malet p y . — l r scri to re . H umfrido r Wa te o p de Be tona .

S ancto o hanne . fili fi Ricardo de J Henrico o Ranul .

GRANT OF A MEADOW CALLED MU NECHEMED BY H L Y A D T — I bid. E S E BER ONA .

bo F0] xxxvii uo dam in . . De prato q villa de Bertona N 135 o .

U niversis sancte s s filiis H el as ds t salutem sciatis matri eccle ie , y Ber ona , m e reddi disse et co nfirmasse Deo e t ecclesie S ancte Marie de Egnesham st s s m di citur Munechem ed In V ll l monachi eju dem loci pratu unum quod a. de s s do na erat Et v . D un c Bertona, quod pater meu Eudo illi quondam ego e is illud co ncede cum quo dam add i tamento in superiori p arts eju sde m prati quare volo et h ere dibus meis mando st p reci pio quatenus hanc e lemo sm am solids e t videlicet pratum , cum incremento prefati monachi ( meo qui ets st libere ab sque omni servici o et seculari consuetudine in perp etuui n o ssid ant p e .

h n h m — s testibus Archidiacan o B ucc i a . Ni ero Presb t ero Hii David de g g y . — fi i s . f l o illielm Roberto de Pre ton Radul o W i.

T MO RH EY ’S D B D D T GRAN OF LAN Y ALEXAN ER E BER ON .

111o hei — id (Carta Alexandri de Bertona de terra de r . Ib . )

Fol . xxxix S s s a i 142 . No . ciant tam pre ente qu m futur quod ego Alexander de Bertona dedi concessi ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Berton terram illam de Mo rh ei que fuit L inarium uxo ri s m es sicut fossa de novo facta co mprehendit in el em o sin am h beram st s et calum nia perpetuam quietam ab omni ervicio p , pre s testibus sent s VVilli elm o filio meo et annuente . Hii . G . Priore de Egue — — Esto na. n i S s . sham et Vin ce t o acri ta Alano de Gilberto fratre ejus.

T H CH L D B L D D E T GRAN OF C UR AN Y A EXAN ER BER ON . (De terra Ecclie de Berton . )

xxi Fol . x x

S tam s s r d 14 3 . No . ciant pre ente quam futu i q ego Alexander de l em o s nam Bertona dedi e t concessi in perpetuam e i . s is n a havrn i (The re t wanti g , the p ge g been mut lated )

6 6 APPENDIX .

above th e town s ; th e other two upon a meers that is between the farm peeces. n s shuttin e reats By Kiddi gton feild , one acre g ’upon a g pitt att the s co mmo nl is s s outh end called the Par on pitt .

the s i s In feild beh nd Barnell , ix acre , viz

2 Tow Iyings between s the farm s p se cs of Westcott and a Meadow s n s the s M co mmo nl is ground be’lo ging to farm of iddle Barton, l s ca led Jaie hole . 7 S even acres north and by south above th e farms p secs and shutting up to the topp o f f osthi ll . 3 th e the t w ns the side s l s In feild above o on north , three acre which y f rm secs ss st s a s . above cro e gapp ea and by we t, next unto the p i In all xxxiii acres of t llage . — Medan One medow platt behinds Barnell bearin e co mmonlis o ne loads of hai s and bounded in by Barnell he gs and the two farms a groun d s of Westcott and Mi ddl e B rto n . m latfo rde s comm o nlis Another edow platt above tone , bearing three or four cockes of hais and lyin gs betw eens Richards Boulds of Midl e R h d Barton and ic ar s Hopkins of Westcott . ev l— S era An orchard s and a clo ses adjo in inge to th e parsonage house .

R CH D S I AR GREG ON ,

i i . Rector, b d

G s his m ark s. Andrew T ib ,

his m arks. Richard X Cumber, l hi s mark Wil m s. . x Hall, i John G lbert. John Cowper.

N 2 o . .

A true and perfect accompt of the ju st valour of the Rectory of Westcott s s O its s Barton alia Little Barton , in theCounty and Dioce e of xon , with all profit and appurtenances exhibited by the Minister and Churchwarden s of this said O 0 D ni 5 . S ecdi 2 . . 1 . . R . s . A . . . . 7 67 Pari h , Dec R R C l i Anno

s 0d . In primis two small yard Land of Glebe £10 00 . cl o se the H o use s be Item, a unto and Home tall longing th e s 35 Item , Great tithe of yard Land and a half th e s s th e s i Item, mall tithe of a d land s s O t s s s O r Item, the Par onage Hou e, u hou e , Yard , s s i chard , and Garden , which hav ng never in our memory been sett we know not how to value . In all £5 1 90 0 O ut of which must be deducted for our customary an a y 5 00 0 dinner, nu ll E D APP N IX . 6 7

And for dues to the Parish in entertainment every i the Easter. The wh ch being deducted out of f s sum s value R a ore aid , the ju t of our ectory am o untsth to £44 00 0

Witness our hands WILLIAM MARTIN ROBERT B U SEL L E Churchwardens.

bl‘i9 1110 10 2 1 1675 . s We believe thi to be a true account. TTL TO SB AL STO N LI E N O . THOS . CHAMBERLAYNE .

9th 18 05 . Extract from a Terrier taken the day of June, N the . . T s s B he Pari hioner uphold and repair Church an—d Churchyard s th e a . are s ss Fence , and the Rector Ch ncel In the Church a che t thenece ary books and vestments for the proper and decent celebration of di vine worship and s a ilver cup and cover. — as u . l s Y un . s Wm . M on, C rate Wilm Hol i , John oung, J , Churchwarden .

N A P P E D I X .

N . o III .

M SD O . S V . 10 6 . DO E AY B OK UR EY OF WILL CONQ . 8

— — O s . E i B i xford hire VII Terra p a o censis.

’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Wadard et et acr B r t n N e o a. T . c ’ten i hid dim vi t re in ’ ra iii car ’ in’ dfiio cfi s Hfit ii . i ii so l ii ’car i erno car Ibi mol n V al uit et v acr prati . ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Adam hid N o dfiio et s ui ten x in ’in iii’i car i’x er i sol et ix acI mol n de x prati . ’ ‘ ’ l t xi i li lib . V a ui b . modo xx

fl a t /2M 68 APPENDIX .

Ro erii XXIX Terra g de Iveri . ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ R Rovesham st in B er ton e Iii s Will s . t et r ten de in hid dim virg t re ii ae . ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ i ii st iii s i st vi T ra e st . u . Hu ’ vi car N c’in d io car ’ e ni n’ill i cu viii bord t l uit Iii acr . V a 0 s iii car . Ibi viii prati lib modo olid .

’ T E i L isiac n si VIII . erra p e s. ’ i ’ ’ ’ B erton e st Ro tro c so Ib s . Ide E i . c p ten de unt v hide T ra viii car . N in ’ " ’ ’ ’ ill 1 ss u Hfi t aI . d Iii t r ui st i bo Id . c u s aci i . io car v’ ’x cu i ii ’ ’ v Ibi cli ’ p ati l di m V aluit li b H as ras s 1 ent st . . L va Pa tura qr g lat vii t tenuit e in sic vo luit.

T H D TH ND TH D T S A S . TENAN IN C IEF UN ER E KING, EIR UN ER TENAN

B ish do his o o B a eu v. i x. O p f , Accompanied half brother William of Nor

1066 in his i s . th e s w as mandy in , exped tion again t England After conque t he w m s L o rdshi s thirt - tw o w w in O remunerated ith nu erou p , y of hich ere xford h1re m usticiari us n a o fiics wa s . 1668 h s w as J s ss , ade A gli e, in which he a o c1ate d Wi u G ran tm esnil w s w w as d u R th ’H gh de , ho e i’fe a a ghter of oger de r s i and WIlli am Fitzo sbsrn th e s . u raa Ive y, Conqueror great coun ellor Q p aliis omnibus co nquesto rsm sxcitavit ad Angliam excidium sxercitusqii e ejus ” — ’ — t r a m n s . 1 24 1 7 . 65 . e ti m xit sl a s . du . S . partem p work , fol Lond , p Catalog Marss ll ca . Ang .

Ro er de [ver w as so n s s N OIm and g y of William de Ivery, who held e tate in y . s w as W l w 1th Oile s He al o a follower of i liam, and agreed Robert de y to hare s R fo r his s s w as i fortune together . obert good ervice rewarded with the g ft s s s six co unties i of Hoke Norton , and diver other manor and land in , of wh ch s B eckl s n ear O be Barton and Chipping Norton , with a chief eat at y , xford , th e n w w as n conveyed agreeably to arra gement , hich no uncommon one amo g w aIIi o rS s i m s s B ai o n w as fi i st the in tho e t e , to Roger de Ivery , who e y called ft r s St WaleI v was a e w ai d . Barony of I ery, and changed for the name of y upon i ts aler . grant to Reginald St . W y

B isho us man I s s H er f islebert O S t . s o L isieuv v. G p f , , had in Wilt , Dor et, , Buck , f x .

IVadard s S s s , undertenant at the urvey held land in Kent, urrey, Wilt , Dor et, O xf s r — h s has s i s , Warwick, and Lincoln hi e obtained pecial not ce in the picture i of the B a eux tapestry .

O xf. Adam w as u n H ertf. nderte ant in Kent , ,

' Vi Wi llie n S ss S n s s IVilts P llelmus. l i as . In Kent, u ex , urrey, Ha t , Berk , , Dor

t xf G lo uc . S n H rtf. s O o . . se s s o Co rnw . e , omer et, , , , Buck , , , Wor , Camb , n rtham S ff Sh ro s s R L ei e st w . s o . c W Hu t , N p , , ar ick, ta , p , Che ter, inter ip . S ufi L c ss . . s . s and Mer ey , Derb , Notting , York , in , E ex , Norf , Re tr o — In O s a xford hire only .

’ ’ ’ ’ e u d B n nn n s H s o r o f n lan l is S e D ale s aro a e e ett s P aro c i . S ee g g K A t q p d i t y E g d , E l e e ra r k G n l Int o ducti o n to Do mesday Bo o . APPENDIX . 69

APPENDIX .

No . IV . — THE BLACK BOOK O R THE EXCHEQ UER HEN . II . i L N i . . s Scaccari O 1728 . 177. iber iger Parvu , xford, , vol , p

Carta Manasseri Arsic de feo dis suis. d n i O o n . de Berto tenuit tempore R H . militis et Humfridus filius e us feodum i j tenet .

* Ar8 i c. The Arsics are stated to have been descended from the old Saxon Earls or ” Aldermen of O xford . th e s Odo s B aieux i l s his After di grace of , Bi hop of , K ng Wil iam di tributed s s i s s t w as i i e tate to certa n knight , and among tho e who ob ained a portion W ll am

s Manasser th e s. his de Ar ie, father of , head of the Barony of Cogge Robert, s a 17 was s B s hi s ss ss s de cend nt in th John, among the ’rebelliou aron , and po e ion

O s s s s. U the his in xford hire were eized into the King hand pon reconciliation , s 1 hi i s s 3 . . s . land were re tored , and in Hen III he had d charge

K S D D D THE B O O . . OF FIEF , HENRY III AN E WAR I

F o do rum S Testa de Nevill sive Liber e in Curia caccarii Temp . Hen . III . and Ed . I . ’ ’ N rum s m li O et s s omina eo qui tenent feod i taria in com xon de quibu ip i tenent. ’ ’

s. 102 . Feod Will i de Kayne P . ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ l n s r s s Hugo P ey ne te in We tcote Ba ton f uniu m de f eju dem Will i .

in Re s . 1 t nent ur 03 . P soda que e capite de g . P ’ ’ Hund de Wotton . — ’ ’ ’ s Pay nsl i s We tcote Barto’n Hugo ten in W’arda feod un u milit in eadem de Will o de Kaynes st idem Will s tenet in capite de Regs eiu n im a hida terre in P arva Tiwa.

e P eynel and Kayn s. ’ P e nel Pa nel P a anel see D u dals s F th e y , y , g , g or an account of ’ family of or Collin so n s S s s . . . 390 . 1791 s Baronage and ’ omer et hire , vol ii , p , Ed , under Hunt i s s s s s . p ll , al o Lip comb Hi tory of Buckingham hire P n elles s s s s The ay were Lord of the Ca tell , and gave their name to the town of Newport Pagnell .

' H n 1 D u B ar vo l . i 538 f e 7 . Se e D r. es sto r o Gil i y Wit y, p g , , p 70 APPENDIX .

’ the s s s see s s N t For an account of Keyne , Kayne , or Cahaigne , al o Baker or h - i 55 . 18 20 30. n s s s am to nshire . . 3 p , vol , , Ed They were ow er of large e tate hi W s o rtham t n hir s s o rssts re o s e . a in Glouce ter hire , , ilt hire , and N p R lph, s n Caine to ss ur amed De , came into England with the Conqueror , and had i ue , R the s s W . two on , alph and illiam Ralph obtained Fee of Tarent, and William s his had, at the urvey, according to Dugdale in Baronage , Barton, in Hertford

S N s . r s hire , and Flore, in orthampton hire The fo mer would eem to be in error s his s ss was n o f for O xford hire . He or immediate ucce or enfeoffed with certai ss ss s the B s B aieux O n e his the forfeite d or sequestrated po e ion of i hop of . of

s s the 6 . . 12 2 1 de cendant in fourth generation , William , died Hen III , , leaving l P ne l. Sh L s a e 7 . 1 a widow, ettice, who married , econdly, Ralph y died Ed

1278 .

N APPE DIX . N 0. VI . B ST CT P L EAs ED A RA OF , . I . Ab re atio Placi r m b vi o u 18 6. i , p . ’ ’ Pl i dO c ta R s t suo & c . R R s s Edw . II coram D no eg Concilio , , Anno egni egi ’ ’ ’ ’ s T . Se c. ss s si s Co r nub et al ss ermino P’a ch Anno ’ A i a Edmund come d’i Sim o nem fil Guido nis s r sue Mane rave ue srtinet lib um ’ de com pa tu e in g q p ad em Warmedescumb & e c . 3 s . ten in , Rot in dor o & ’ ss s c. Westbarto n . R s . O . 5 in A i a, , pro tenement in xon ot dor o E r w dmund Earl of Co n all.

randso n was the son Edmund Earl of Cornwall , of King John, and heir of n R s hi s n r Richard Ki g of the oman , elder brother, Henry, havi g been mu dered as was his e s s in Italy he on way hom from the Holy War . He ucceeded to s a s um s s s O s u large e t te and n erou advow on in xford hire . A freq ent place of si h w t re dence to him and is father as the capital seat of the Honour of S .

Waler O . Rsul s y at Beckley, near xford He built and endowed y Abbey , at N O sene s s s s orth y , for a Mona tery of Ci tercian Monk , to offer perpetual prayer i I His O ct 2 . the s h s . 1 1300 2 8 9 . for oul of father death occurred . , , and Ed , Ashru s s in at the Convent of gg , Buck , which he had founded

APPENDIX . N o . VII . D D R r D D HUN RE OLLS o E WAR I . R n red rum 12 Hu d o 8 . I 7 7 I . otuli , Ed, I , vol ’O ’ ’ ’ Com xon . Hund de Wotton .

B a na P arva rto . 8 53 . , p ’ ’ ’ ’ P etras ole Barton tenet in eadem villa feod uni milit de R o berto de Rennes

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xt.) a nn e s P i . n vo l i in lOC lS . E cted fi o m K e tt a o c A tiq . APPENDIX . 71

’ ’ et Ro bert ii s m Regs T et idem ’ de do ino ’ in cap’ite de feod ’ arent tenet in’ domi n carrucat as st ssct s s s ico ii’ terr ’ hund’red de ’Wotton de tribu eptim in tre co mi tat septirn st duos advent ad per ann .

Villan i. ’ ’ J ohannes l H enr i vir atam as eo dem vilena i fi tenet mam ’ g terr de in g o pro 8 d d et vi e t hydag v1 R et wardsil ve r ii ’ per annum ad per annum domino egi st a o erabitur st talli abitur st redim et uero s s s vo luntate m p m ni . ob q p uo ’ad do i Thomas B ihun the Watere eo de m I vir at as eo dem tenet de mam g ’terr modo . Wi llelmns H al en e o dem unai n vir at a e o dem y . p tenet de g ’terr e modo Radul hus Wastel e o dem vir at ae e o dem g . p ’ tenet de unam ’terr modo Willelmus de B lechesdon e o dem u vir at as eo dem tenet de nam g ’terr modo. H u o B allio l ds eo dem vir at e a e o dem g g . tenet unam ’t rr e modo Thom as de Glan ville eo dem vir at as s ’ tenet de unam g ter’r oden modo. Reginaldus de B arton tenet de eo dem dimidiam virgat te rras pro xvd per o erabitur et talliabitur st re dimet uero s s s volun tatem p p . annum uo ad ’ domini H awys Spi rt tenet de se dem dim idiam virgat terree pro xvd per o e rabitur st talliabitur st redim et uero s s s vo luntatem mi i annum p p uo ad do n .

L iberi . ’ ’ J ohannes fit Willelmi de B ar ton u hydam as ’ tenet n’am ’terr pro una libra pipe ris et h da d w ardsilver st s e x1CL per annum y g xii ’ ob ent ’g Idem J ohannes un vir at a et heredibus Tho mas tenet am g terr e ’dim de de la P utts st s reddit iiiiS et vid e t idem Johanne Petro de Barton er annum’ ’tenet’ ds dictis h eredibus s a vd et s s T a s iiii acra terr e pro ’ herede di ti om e fac ect cur dicti o ban ne st scutag i xxxd st R P’etri pro dicto J d cto Petro domino egi d a h da ix wardsilver R . y g q domino eg’i Ricardas de Scodam tenet ii virgat tsrras et tres acras tsrras de eo dem pro 11 ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ d so l per annum st sect hundred de Wo tton st hydag vi wardsil ver qa scu ’ d tag xx . ’ ’ Thomas l Gal ridi eo dem vir at es s et fi f tenet de unam’ g terr pro iii per annum ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ l J sect cur sue st sect hundred de Wo tton st hydag vi< wardsil ver q a scutag

XXd . ’ ’ Walterns B rabesun n virgat e predicto T es fil Galfridi tenet u am terr ’e de hom ’ st idem Thomas de predicto Petro pro iii so l eidem Tho m as redd per annum ’ ’ d d et ciro te carum st so xx ' st hydag vi et wardSIlver (18 et s una’m par ’ ’ntag duo Wo tton . advent ad hund’red de ’ ’ Wille lmus l J ohannis virgat e Magistro s ’ fi tenet unam’ terr e de Ho pital Jeru salem pro iiiiS e t facit duos advent per annum apud G o ssfo rd et sade m vir ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ gat terrrae so lebat esse gyldabil ad hundred de PVo tton e t so lebat dare hydag ’ V i d et wardsilve r st hevssilver mi R et so l e bat s s ’ ’ ’ do no egi duo advent ad duo m agu hundred de Wotton st subtaitr per eundem Magistrum sed quo wa

n eseitur. ranto ’ ’ U na virgat terrae descend tribus sororibus que tenent de e o dem Petro st red ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ dunt eidem iiiiSI et ssct cur sue et sect hundred ds Wo tton st hydag vid st ward il a s ver q domino . ’ ’ d Willelmus de Mannowers ds ls Espicer O i . ’ tene’t Will o xon pro ’ per annum st pro hydag vid st idem Will Is Espicer reddit Petro de Barton unam libram en s PII . ’ P etrus de Mo lendin m o l endinum et s a eo dem ’ tene’t unum’ ’ quatuor acra ter’r e de ’ so l et st s ad i u n Petro p’ro x vi galin fac duo advent per annum n ag hu dred de IVo tt r o i . ’ ’ J ohannes B urg dimidiam virgat es eo dem xud an ’ tenet ’ ’terr de ’ pro’ per’ num et hydag i i i d et duo s advent ad Iiiagn hundred de Wo tton et scutag xd 7 2 APPENDIX .

' ’ Willelmus te Espicer tenet unum co tag cum tribu s acris terras et Iii e dieta tem terrae Walteri B rabesun pro xvid sidem Waltero reddendos per annum st ’ d ’ d idem Walterus reddit dicto Petro pro scutag vi st ad hydag ii " ' ’ Willelm us de L edwelle c o tag et as ds l tene’t unum unam rodam terr Wi lelmo ds Mann o w ers e t idem Will s reddit dicto Petro Imam ro sam per annum st ’ ’‘ ’ s L sdw slle reddit s viiid et scutag idem Will de ’ idem Petro de Barton ad iiidl a h da id st q st ad y g domino Regi .

APPENDIX

T S B S D To D D GRAN OF A U I Y E WAR III .

- 132 7 8 2 . . s s w as in , Ed III , a lay ub idy granted to the King, and collected th e Hundr ed of Wootton by Richard de Eadbusburg and John ls following were names of taxpayers and the several amounts paid

IVest B artone.

Sibillias de Barton Robert de Barton John ds Aula W illiam ad Mo lend Nicholas l s Mayster Al exander Glanville John L y e John Annste s John Per on’ Robert ls G n t l s C s John ’ook Robert G ut

W. . 19 2 1 1 (W . , pp ,

’ 4 7 APPENDIX .

N APPE DIX .

N O . X .

' EXTRACT FROM PARTICULAR S FOR G RAN TS ON WHICH THE CROWN GRANTS OF O S T C D TH L D S D D —R C D TH M NA I AN O ER AN WERE FOUN E . E OR S IN E AU G O MENTATION FFICE .

l made s s A R s A Particu ar on a reque t to purcha e by John p ichard , dated 2 4th 3 4 l 155 7 st May, and Phi ip and Mary, , of the Rectory of We cote Barton — s Oxon . We tcote Barton Rectory by the year is of the clear yearly value of £7 0 0 The l 0th thereof 0 14 0 S H M S L u di ( igned) T O A ARGA , Dep ty Au tor. — ’ . i s s s s s Memorandum The K ng and Queen Maje tie have no land , rent , or s the sai To wns s tenement in d of We tcote Barton . H H MS i Examined by me, JO N T O ON, Aud tor. With the following endorsement 6th 1557 so n s s s July, of the Pa’r onage of We tcote Barton, old to s s 14 Rated for at two year purcha e, amounted to £ . H H M . S John Coper By me, JO N T O ON . — NOTE The original grant to which this statement refers has not been as s to 6th 15 66 found but John Cupper pre ented th’e rectory on July , , though another patron appears from the bi shop s registers to have presented to the

s . 12 1557 s s rectory upon the in titution of William Webb , Aug , , it eem that the f s s s ormer had ecured the advow on from the Crown , and by ome arrangement di s s s which I have not been able to cover, the fir t pre entation after the sale was w as Ra nsfo rd VV ll co tt allowed to the latter, who John y , of y .

R N NS COR ECTIO S AND ADDITIO .

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12 a ter add . s his s 7) , f Great Barton Mr Taylor purcha ed hare from s i s a Edw Mrs. . . Jame , of F nmere , the repre ent tive of and Eliz Se S r . e R . . s Hogan Account of andfo d, by ev E Mar hall, p . 2 2 and A denda . )

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