Summary: Account book of sequestered estates in Buckinghamshire. 245 ff. Including:...

Summary: Account book of sequestered estates in Buckinghamshire. 245 ff. Including:

1) Contemporary contents page (ff.5-30).

2) The profits of three courts held at the manors of Latimer and Chesham by Mr Gosnold on 19 and 21 April 1645 (f.39).

3) Order made at the sequestration committee held on 4 June 1645 concerning the lands, rights and fifth part of Lady Borlase [Alice Bancks] (f.51).

4) Record of a deed drawn up between John Farmer and Sir Peter Temple (f.78).

5) Order made at the sequestration committee held on 3 October 1646 regarding the estate of John Farmer (f.79).

6) Order made by the sequestration committee regarding the estate of John Brinckhurst (f.80).

7) Order made by the sequestration committee held on 15 July 1646 that £30 from the sequestered estates of Sir John Borleigh and Gabriel Hipsley should be used for the maintenance of the church of Cholesbury (f.153).

8) Note regarding the rights the heirs of Sir Walter Tredway, one of whom 'is said to be a professed Nun beyond the sea' (f.193).

9) The profits from a court baron held on 22 April 1645 at the manor of Chesham Leicester by George Gosnold (f. 235).

10) List of papers given to the committee of accounts with the account book (f. 238).

Sequestrator: William Russell.

Place: The three Chiltern hundreds [Stoke Hundred; Desborough Hundred; Burnham Hundred], Buckinghamshire.

Estate owners: Earl of Devon [Sir William Courtney, de jure 5th Earl of Devon, 1st Baronet]; Sir John Borlase; George Penruddocke, esquire; John Farmer, esquire; Mr Belson; Thomas Bigg; John Brinckhurst; Robert Binge; Christ Church College, Oxford; Balliol College, Oxford; All Souls College, Oxford; Dean and Chapter of Chichester; Brasenose College, Oxford; Lord Chandos [George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos]; Merton College, Oxford; Sir Robert Cooke; John Dinham; Robert Dormer, esquire; George Goodricke; Matthew Griffish [Griffiths]; Dean of Gloucester [William Brough]; Dr Gyles [Giles]; Ann Horne; Mr Worsopp; Mr Brumstill; John Harris; Sir Richard Hubbard; Francis Handford; Gabriel Hipsley, esquire; Andrew King; Sir Thomas Leigh; Sir Edward Manfield [Mansfield]; Richard Newington; Lord Powis [Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis]; William Peters; Thomas Parke; Thomas Almond; Dr Roberts; William Stoner; Mr Valence; Lord Vaux [Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden]; Mrs Wast; Dean and Prebend of Winchester; Dean and Canons of Windsor; Mr Yates; Robert Mellish, esquire; Bishop of Winchester [Walter Curle]; Thomas Ashfield, esquire; Lady Ashfield.

Tenants: 352 named tenants including Sir John Parsons; George Longe, esquire; James Necton, esquire; Thomas Archdale, esquire; Thomas Stole, esquire; Richard Berringer, gentleman; Robert Style, gentleman; Thomas Chapman, gentleman; Thomas Turner, gentleman; Walter Carey, gentleman; William Stiles, gentleman; Richard Batchelor [Bachelor], minister of Wradesbury [Wraysbury]; Lady [Elizabeth] Hatton; and 28 other women of which 18 are widows.

Places mentioned: Latimer; Chesham; Little Marlow; Wooburn; Medmemham; High Wycombe; Manor of Bassetsbury [High Wycombe]; Great Marlow; 'Epstone'; Hambleden; Beconsfield [Beaconsfield]; Saunderton; Langley Morrish [Langley Marish]; Upton; Fulmer; Manor of Farnham Royal; Farnham [Farnham Common]; Seare Greene [Seer Green]; West Wicombe [West Wycombe]; Marlow; Agmondesham [Amersham]; Wyrasdesbury [Wraysbury]; Manor of Leighton [Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire]; Taplow; Hitcham; Colebrooke [Colnbrook, Berkshire]; Fauley [Fawley]; Stoke Poges; Datchet [Berkshire]; Eaton [Eton, Berkshire]; Radnage; Burnham; Morton; Manor of Chesham Leicester [Chesham].

State Papers Online reference: SP 28: Vol. 205, Part 1 County Committees: Sequestration Accounts and Papers: Beds-Bucks.

Note.

Note: Original booklet remounted for conservation. Text on original cover illegible due to fading.