Description: Account book of the sequestered estates in Buckinghamshire. 257 ff....

Description: Account book of the sequestered estates in Buckinghamshire. 257 ff. Including:

1) Contemporary contents page (ff.11-36).

2) Order made at the committee held 21 March 1644 concerning Lady Farmer (f.37).

3) Order made at the committee held 22 April 1645 concerning Lady Farmer (f.38).

4) Order made in parliament on 18 September 1646 upon the petition of Luce Petre, wife of William Petre, and daughter of Lady Farmer, a 'Lunatick' [lunatic], that the dispute between her and others regarding Lady Farmer's land should be heard in parliament and that in the mean time Lady Farmer and her estate 'shall remain free from molestation as in the Case of a Lunatick the Law doth provide' (f.57).

5) The profits from three courts held at the manor of Aylesbury by George Gosnold between 17 April 1645 - 2 April 1646 (ff. 125-35).

6) The profits of the three courts held at the manors of Haddenham and Cuddington between 4 June and 27 July 1645 (ff.205-224).

7) List of papers given to the committee of accounts with the account book (f.251).

Sequestrator: Sir William Russell.

Place: Hundred of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Estate Owners: Lady Farmer; Mr Dinham [Sir John Denham]; Robert Dormer, esquire; Sir John Packington [Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet]; Thomas Ashfield; Henry Brampton; Parson Bell; Thomas Bryan; Bartholomew Baldwin; Sir Robert Crooke [Croke]; Balliol College, Oxford; Mr Canthrell, minister; Anthony Dormer; Lady Mary Dormer; William Fitzherbert; Sir Richard Levingstone [Livingstone]; John Howes; John Hore; William Hitchcock, gentleman; Alexander Jennings; Rowland Langland; Ralph Love; Dean and Chapter of Lincoln; Dr Hackett; Mr Norris; Ellen Randall; Elizabeth Randall; Anne Randall; William Stoner, esquire; Sir Henry Spiller; Mr Withers; George Meeden; Sir Walter Pye.

Tenants: 269 named tenants including the earl of Carnarvon [Robert Dormer, 2nd Baron Dormer, Viscount Ascott]; Sir Richard Farmer; Sir Henry Leigh; and 17 women of which 14 are widows.

Places mentioned: Aylesbury; Wendover; Halton; Horsenden; 'Elmer'; Risborow [Princes Risborough]; Saunderton; Peterly [Peterley]; Broughton; 'Abbotts Broughton'; Beirton; Weston Turvile [Turville]; Weston; Edlesborowe [Ellesborough]; Misenden Magna [Great Missenden]; Aston Clynton [Clinton]; Kimbell Parva [Little Kimble]; Upton in Dinton; Bledlow; Wendover Deane [Dean]; Stokmandesile [Stoke Mandeville]; Cuddington; Walton in Aylesbury; Mounks Risborough [Monks Risborough]; Haddenham; Buckland; Dinton.

State Papers Online Reference: SP 28: Vol. 205, Part 2 County Committees: Sequestration Accounts and Papers: Beds-Bucks.

Note.

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