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THE ANCIENT AND MODEEN
HISTORY OF TURVILLE,
IN THE
COUNTY OF BUCKS.

SHEWING THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE— St. ALBAN'S MANOR
NOW CHIEFLY HELD BY
STAFFORD O'BRIEN HOARE Esq, J.P, D.L.,
HIGH SHERIFF FOB BUCKS, 1893-4.
Al'o history ok TURVILLE— COURT MANOR,
WITH THE
CHURCH and ADVOWSON.
Notes on Amy Bobsart and Hee Family.
Pedigrees, Wills, Charters, Deeds, early Landowners
within the Parish, and miscellaneous evidences.
Curious Genealogical Bleedings of the various Ancient
and Modern Holders oe the Soil.
The whole poshing a Valuable and Interesting
HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Compiled from Legal Records, approved Historians, Peerages,
Baronetcies, Visitations, Parish Registers, Monumental and
other Inscriptions, Family Muniments of Title, and other
Authentic Sources, by
HENRY W. ALDRED,
Genealogical Writer and' 'Record Besearcher.

He travels, and expatiates as the Bee
From Flow'r to Flow'r — so he from Land to Land ;
The Manners, Customs, Policy of all,
Pay Contribution to the Store he gleans ;
He sucks Intelligence in every Clime,
And spreads the Honey of his deep Research
At his Return — a rich Repast for me. — Cowper.

1894.
Privately Printed for HENRY W. ALDRED,
At his Residence, Dover Terrace, 1S1, Coldharbour Lane,
Camberwell, in the County of Surrey.

ADVERTISEMENT.

TO those who possess the History of the Hundred op
Desborough and Deanery of Wycombe, by the late Bev.
Thomas Langley, the present History of Turville will be
found of especial Interest, and without any Disparagement to
Langley's account of Turville, I think that it will be found
in my Work, I have added to the Advantage of the Foundation
so ably laid down by that Gentleman.
THE BIOGEAPHT of that Historian, who was called
away at an early Age, will be found in another place, with
some Notes of Interest regarding his Family.
TO my Subscribers I must offer my Thanks, and trust
they will all deal as mercifully with my Imperfections as
possible, and take the History for the good parts that remain.
MY only object has been to be as accurate as possible in
compiling and to endeavour to get neighbouring Landowners
to follow in the good purpose of recording the History of their
Parishes in a similar manner, with a view of getting a more
Complete, and certainly a more Accurate, General History of
the County written at some future time.
IT is only by getting more full and accurate Parochial
Histories, that a County History can be authentically com
piled, at a comparatively small Expense.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once pass'd by impel the mill.— Trench.
HENBY W. ALDEED,
Genealogical Writer and Becord Besearcher.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER :—
What is a Town and Manor — Situation of Parish of
Turville— Description from Maps ahd Printed Books —
Statistics — Descriptions of Manors and Lands in Turville
— Ancient History — Genealogical and Biographical Notes
AS TO ORIGIN OF NAME :—
Turville Etymology — Families — Various Remarks.
TURVILLE— ST. ALBAN'S MANOR : —
Mercian History — Etymology of Manor — Foundation of
St. Alban's Abbey in Herts — Gifts of Land in and Church
of Turville to Abbey — Abbots of St. Albans pre-Norman-
period — Saxon and Danish History — Norman Period —
Abbots from Norman Conquest to 1260 — Turville Church
during Roger de Norton's Beign as 24th Abbot — Hiss
Victory over Lady of Turville-Court-Manor, Archbishop
of Canterbury, and Bishop of Lincoln — Abbots from 1291
to Dissolution of Monasteries — Surrender of Turville-St.
Albans Manor with Bectory and Advowson of Turville to
Henry VIIL- — Grants of same to Subjects — Descent of
the Manor, Advowson and Bectory to time of the Com
monwealth—Genealogical Notes of the Families of
D'Oyly, Harman, Dormer, Chamberlaine, Edmondes,
Williams, Gage, &c. — State of Turville during 17th Cen
tury — Descent of Manor from time of Lady Gage to time
of purchase by Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., J. P., D.L.,
— The Mansion History — Notes on Amy Bobsart and the

Earls of Leicester — Lord Lyndhurst, his Life and Resid
ence at Turville Park — Shelley the Poet — and Miscellan
eous Gleanings and Evidences, including those relating to
Turville Lands and Bents, held by House of Medmenham.
FREE WABBEN AND LAND IN TURVILLE:—
Badlesmere Family History — Their Connection with
Royalty — Descent of Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., J.P.,
D.L., from the Ancient Lords of Turville Court, the
Badlesmeres, the Earls of Gloucester and Hertford, and
from Alfred the Great, King of England— Genealogical
History of many Illustrious Families.
HOARE FAMILY : —
Descent of Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., J.P., D.L., of
Turville Park, from Sir Eichard Hoare, Lord Mayor pf
London — Supposed Origin of the Hoares of Stourhead
and Annabell — Important Notes of the Branches in
London and Ireland before presumed Migration from
Devonshire — and Miscellaneous Notes.
¦O'BRIEN FAMILY:—
Descent of Family from Ancient Kings of Ireland — Notes
as to Ancestors of Stafford O'Brien, maternal grandfather
of Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq.
BAMSDEN FAMILY:—
The Baronets of Byrom and Longley Hall, Co York 
Their connection with Eoyal and Noble Houses  Their
Origin — Ancestors of Mrs. Stafford O'Brien-Hoare— Arms
— Family History — and Miscellaneous Notes.
EARLY MISCELLANEOUS NOTES :—
Early Family Names in Turville— Holdings & Evidences.

TUEVILLE-COUBT MANOE :—
Crown Lands — Early Norman Descent — Held by Crown,
and Eoyal Descendants — Descent through the Clares,
Morteyns, Butlers, Williams, D'Oylys, to 1800— Eoyal
Pedigrees — Pedigrees of the Lords and Ladies — Extracts
from Ancient Charters, Deeds, and Wills — History of the
Litigation over the Manor by the D'Oyly Family —
History of the Descent of the Advowson and Bectory of
the Church.
LANGLEY, HISTOEIAN OF TUEVILLE :—
Biography of Bev. Thomas Langley — The Langleys of
Great Marlow, where the Historian was born — Gleanings
from Family Wills — Historian, Member of AncientFamily
of Great Marlow.

the history of turville.
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

" Procrastination is the thief of time ;
Year after year it steals, till all are fled."— Young.
To trace descent of Lands and Families necessarily dis
closes much History of bygone Ages, dwelling more or less on
National Interests, disclosing many Particulars that would
otherwise remain unearthed.
By the name of a Manor divers Towns may pass, and by
the name of a Town a Manor may pass, and although a Town
be decayed, so as no Houses remained, yet it was still a Town
in Law, if it had, or once had, a Church and Celebration of
Divine Services, Sacraments, and Burials.
The Parish of Turville is in the Union, County Court _
and Eural Deanery of Wycombe, in Archdeaconary of Bucks,
Diocese of Oxford, in Hundred of Desborough, in Southern
Division and on Borders of Bucks, bounded N. by Ipstone, E.
by Fingest, S. by Fawley, and W. by Oxfordshire, 6 miles
N.W. from Marlow, 7 miles N. from Henley-on-Thames, and
8J miles S.W . from High Wycombe.
In a Map of 1720 by Eobert Morden.in Magna Brittania,
it is called Turfill, and same Work says Turfield is in Hundred
of Desborough, Deanery of High Wycombe, Living Valued at
£9:9: 2J, Bev. Bic. Morgan being then Incumbent.
The Beauties of England and Wales says that Turville or
Turfield, consisted of Two Manors, the Parish consisted of
nearly 2,000 acres, disposed into Arable, Pasture, and Wood-
Land ; Lipscomb giving same acreage, of which 1,200 were
Arable, 400 Wood-land, and 300 Meadow and Pasture ; but
Lewis's Topographical History gives the acreage as 2,275, of
which 120 were Common or Waste-Land; while the Beturn
for 1831 gives 2,570.
A Map in 1813 to Lyson's Magna Brittania, shews Tur
ville, Turville Heath, and Turville Park ; in Sydney Hall's
Map of Bucks, published in 1853, the Parish is called Turfield,

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. (
this last Map is bound up in the Buckingham Becords in the
British Museum Library.
The Map to Langley's History is probably the best one
extant, for it is most exhaustively compiled, defines various
Mansion Houses and Estates in Turville, and neighbouring
Parishes, it is interesting beyond description. In his time
(1797) there were 16 Farm-Houses, 45 Cottages, and 276
Inhabitants. In 1801 there were 72 Inhabited Houses ; in
1821, 84 such Houses occupied by 85 Families and 2 uninhab
ited Houses ; in 1831, 92 Inhabited Houses occupied by 101
Families, and 11 Uninhabited Houses, one in course of con
struction ; in 1871, 95 Inhabited Houses, with 2 Uninhabited
Houses ; while in 1881, there were 92 Inhabited Houses,
occupied by 95 Families, and 8 Uninhabited Houses.
From six Beturns the Gross Population of Turville is given.
a.d. 1801. a.d. 1811. a.d. 1821. a.d. 1831. a.d. 1871. a.d. 1881.
376. 382. 362. 442. 456. 423.
The Begisters of Turville commence in 1582.
Turville- St, Albans Manor represented Church and
Lands given to Abbey of St. Albans, by Nigellus de Merstone
and Egfrid, Son of Offa, remaining vested in the Abbey until
dissolution of Monasteries, when same reverted to the Crown,
who granted to subjects for value.
Other Holdings in Turville, passed on the Dissolution,
from the Abbey of Medmenham, to the Crown, who likewise
conveyed. Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., now holds Turville Park
and Estate, the principal portion of the once called Manor of
Turville-St. Albans, the Church, Bectory and Advowson being
after the Dissolution conveyed apart from the Manor.
None of the Ancient Grants of Lands from William I and
his Sons, to their followers, being in existence, the Grants of
Turville cannot therefore be noted, but during first century
after Norman Conquest, every Lord of a Manor held of the
Crown, was deemed a Baron and his Manor a Barony.

8 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
Anciently Barons included all the Nobility of England, because
all Noblemen were Barons, but temp HeDry III. they lost
appellation of Baron, becoming then mere Lords of Manors.
Altho' Gauls and Britons had their slaves, bondmen,
servants or dependents, all Landed Property was possessed
independently of any superior, without that tyranny, oppression
and robbery introduced by Norman3 into their Feudal System,
when not an inch of Land could be held unless mediately or
immediately under the King, and vassals and villeins, who had
been deprived of their own Lands by Norman Lords, had to
till same as dependents. For the Aborigines allowed no
person to live in condition of slavery, or to hold any private
possession, all things were like one universal patrimony, being
undivided and common to all, men obeying faith and honesty,
without law, and feared no punishment, because no Civil
Societies were then yet established, the wide Earth being but
one Common Field. In 1649 the middle and lower sort of men,
in the Chiltern Hundred of Desborough, calling themselves
well-affected, asserted in their Declaration that they had
waited 8 years for their just rights and freedoms to be re
medied, alleging they were in a position of slavery, at the
mercy of tyrants, so that even the old Conquest of William
the Norman was then revived again, that there was no Justice
to be had for the meaner and poor people, many undone,
ready to famish and starve, while all their Petitions to Par
liament were slighted and disregarded. What with the Civil
Wars in this part of the Country and Beligious Controversies,
Turville did not then appear as a happy part even in the 17th
Century. Of Ancient History much is told, but Strabo says the
forests of Britons were their Cities, for when they enclosed a
place with felled tree3, they built within it houses of a frail
sort and hovels for their cattle. Now Julius Caesar, who
conquered here between 55-58 b.c, then wrote his Book of
Commentaries, describing this Bealm, the land, people, mile-

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 9
age in every direction, quantity, rivers, &c, he says Britons
added for defence of their towns a mound and ditch. I might
trespass by adding the Graphic Picture painted of Britons by
another Writer, who says their dwellings were formed by
pillars of the forests, rooted in the earth, and enclosed by inter
woven branches, which but imperfectly served to shelter them
during hours of repose, from conflicts of the elements, they
subsisted chiefly by hunting, and their cattle grazed upon
pastures unencumbered by any artificial divisions, which a
state of cultivation never failed to produce. Undoubtedly on
first invasion of England, this country was merely a wilder
ness, being an unexplored country, and desolate of people, but
I will not venture to state who first invaded England, although
Julius Csesar thought the invaders were the people of Gallia,
who could reach here in a few hours, who desired to have
knowledge of a country so fair, so pleasant, and so fertile, as
England is said to have then been.
Turville-Court Manor undoubtedly represented the
Demesne-Lands of Turville, held by the crown, and which
passed in time of William the Norman to a Baron, who had
been a faithful follower of his King, Lord and Master.
The Church of Turville, an ancient Structure, was laid
claim to in 13th century by the Lady of Turville-Court Manor,
but the proceedings conclusively proved that same vested
legally in Abbey of St. Albans, to whom it had been given by
Nigellus de Merstone, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury
or the Bishop of Lincoln had no control over same. In those
times much conflict existed between the lay-landowners and
the Church, however the value of the proceedings for purposes
of title cannot be overestimated.
Eobert Pitcher, returned in 1873 as holding land in
Turville, came of an ancient Family holding land here. Wm,
Pitcher of Wormesley, was father of John P., of Turville, who
by Cicely (Alnet) his wife, was father of John P., of Turville,
who by Anne his wife, daughter of Wm. Newbury, of Great

10 the history oe turville.
Marlow, had Thomas P., Alneger of London, living 1634, who
had by Mary his wife, daughter of John Pinwell of London,
two daughters, Martha and Ann, In 10. J. I., John P., Maria
his wife, John P., their s. and h. appt., with others, passed
lands in Turville to Tho. Cannon and John Benham ; and in
18. J.I., John P., his said wife and son, passed other lands
in Turville to Sir John Dormer, whose family often occur in
the history. Eools Charity now secured on Turville land producing
£8 yearly, as well as Mrs. Butliu's bequest, appear in the C.C.
Reports. Rev. Ric. Wallace Deane, who was presented in 1861
as vicar here, was returned in 1873, as holding 191 acres in
Turville, probably the Glebe Lands. He was son of Ric.
Deane, of Reading, was of Exeter College, Matriculated 20, 4,
1837 aged 16, B.A., 1841, M.A. 1846, he resigned in 1874 and
was afterwards of 6, Victoria Park, Dover.
The Carter Family, were ancient holders of land in Tur
ville, in temp Charles I, the name was Bavening alias Carter,
of whom there were Simon, Eichard, John, Elizabeth and
Maria. Many particulars of the family are to be found.
In the 1873 Eeturn other Turville holders of land appear,
viz., John Eixon, senior and junior, and Miss Tempero, bene
factress to the Church.
Eev. Chas. Cuthbert, M.A., presented 1732, presumably
son of Chas. Cuthbert, of Kington, Hereford, was of Christ
church, Matriculated 21 Feb. 1717, aged 18, B.A., 1721, M.A.
1723. Bev. Howell Powell, A.B., presented 1770, was son of
Eev. David Powell, of Mothvey, Carmarthen, clerk, was of
Jesus College, matriculated 15 Dec. 1758, aged 21, B.A., 1762
died 15 Dec. 1793.
Eev. Geo. Scobell, D.D., presented 1812, was son of
Eev. Geo. Pender Scobell, of Penzance, Cornwall, clerk, was of
Balliol College, Matriculated 4 July, 1792, aged 17, B.A. 1796,

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 11
M.A., 1800, B. & D.D., 1810, Rector of Brattlehy, Lincoln,
1803, Master of Henley Grammar School, died 7 Sept. 1837
at Turville, aged 62.
Bev. Edward Scobell, M.A., presented 9th Sept. 1873,
was son of Peter Edward Scobell, of Bodmin, Cornwall, gent,
was of Balliol College, Matriculated 14 May, 1801 aged 16,
B.A., from Magdelen College, 1814, M.A., 1827 ; Incumbent
of St. Peter's, Vere Street, London, 1831, died in Blandford
Street, Portman Square, 9 June, 1860, aged 75.
Voters for Turfield cum Ipstones 4-5 Ap., 1722.
Hy. Bolls, Eic. Watson, John Wright,

'r Ipstc

John Messenger,
James Clarke, \ 1Pstone
Francis Mason, (Ipstone Henley) .
John Whiteing, (Weston).
Wm. Simons, John Gunn, Wm. Pitcher,
Wm, Tovey, Fras. Tovey, Fras. Stiles,
John West, Peter Tovey, (Stokenchurch).

I with much paine, expense of time and cost,
Many heapes of worne Recordes have turn'd and tost,
To make those names alive againe appeare,
Which in oblivion well nigh buried were ;
That so your children may avoid the jarres
Which might arise about their Auncesters:
And that the living might those Titles see,
With which their Names and Houses honour'd bee.
Ralph Brooke, Esq., Yorke Herauld, "To Posteritie."
HENEY. W, ALDEED,
Genealogical Writer and Becord Besearcher.

12 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.

AS TO OEIGIN OF NAME.

To pretend to give a definite derivation of Turville would
be too egotistical on my part. The family of Turville anciently
held land in Weston-Turville, Bucks, from whence they took
their name, while some holders of land in Turville also took
their name from the soil. It was common for landowners to be
called after the name of the Parish in which they held land,
and it is well known that a person holding land in several
Parishes, was differently and variously described in ancient
Records, as Johu de Turville, or John de Hameldene, or John
de Henle, in the document passing his particular holding, and
yet refer to one and the same person.
The family of Turville is frequently mentioned in the
early Eecords, and undoubtedly an authentic Pedigree can be
compiled from time of the Norman Conquest.
A family of Turville held lands in counties Warwick and
Leicester, and had a Seat at Normanton-Turville, in Leices
tershire ; as well as Helmedon, Northants. But all the
Turvilles did not spring from one common ancestor, but from
distinct ones, and in different counties.
The Turf — Tyrf— Therf— Tirf, &c, means turf or grass
land, while field — feid — fold — veld, &c, signifies a plain open
country, the cause of which many Writers have raised differ
ent reasons for. The variations in F and V is well known, sfy
in Fauxhall and Vauxhall, Surrey ; and Foxham and Voxham,
Wilts. The title of the Abbey Manor of Turville clearly
proves the name was known in the Saxon Period, while the
feid being used for ville, would imply that the latter did not
stand for a village, town or city, as many might think it did.

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 13

THE MANOE OF TUEVILLE-ST. ALBANS,
With History ofthe Church and Advowson, formerly Appendants to this Manor.

" There points thy muse to stranger's eye,
The Graves of those that cannot die. — Young

The present county of Bucks was inhabited originally by
the Cassii or Cattieuchlani ; in the Eoman Division included
in the province of Beittannia Superior, and afterwards in
Flavia-C^jsariensis ; while under the Saxon Heptarchy under
the Sovereignty of Kings of Mercia ; and when Saxon Div
isions became united, it was afterwards comprised within
Danish- Jurisdiction. But between Offa and Alfred lay the
disputed honour of having divided the land into counties,
altho' Dugdale fixes the division (about 800) by Egbert.
The Etymology arose through Manor and Church being
given, as hereafter shewn, to Abbey of St. Albans in Herts,
and prior thereto same undoubtedly formed general portion of
Pariah. Early Eulers of Mercia — or Middle Anglia — performed
savage Eites in Temples of Thor and Woden, but gradually
Saxon colonists became converted to Christianity ; and tyrants,
even in the midst of greatness, were smitten with remorse,
abhorring pleasures and dignities, obtained by guilt, abdicating
crowns, seeking to atone for offences by cruel penances and
incessant prayers. The Churches and Ecclesiastics in Mercia,
in the Anglo-Saxon period, were evidently fewer than in any
other kingdom under the Heptarchy. It was a King of
Mercia, who made war on a King of Kent, ravishing his
kingdom, destroying his Churches and Monasteries, including

14 THE history of tdrville.
the Episcopal See of Eochester.
Passing over early Eulers of Mercia, one comes to reign
of King Offa, who succeeded Ethelbald in 755. Offa having
killed Ethelbert, King of East Angles, and taken possession of
his Kingdom, wishing to atone for cruel crime, gave 10th of
his goods to the Church, building Abbey of St. Albans, and
dying 794.
Dugdale records that at a place called Holmhurst, near
ancient City of Verulam, known after in Saxon times by name
of Verlamcestor, or Watlingceaster, Offa, King of Mercia, a.d.,
793, founded a noble Abbey for 100 Benedictine Monks, to
honour of St. Alban, proto-martyr among first Britons, who
suffered here.
It was one of the principal Abbies in England, the Abbots
having precedence of all other Abbots.
St. Alban was born at Verulam, now St. Albans, in third
century, after serving in Eoman Army, resettled there as a
citizen, becoming converted to Christianity, thro' Amphilabus
the Monk, suffering for his Eeligion, in the persecution under
Dioclesian, a.d., 303, and among Historians who record his
Life, are Tanner and Bede, who give interesting accounts
thereof. The Porch at west end of St. Alban's Church, opens by a
high pointed Arch, above which are shields bearing Arms,
" Three Crowns," of King Offa, Founder of the Abbey, and
Arms of the Abbey, which are now the Borough Arms.
On King Offa's death, he was succeeded by his son,.
JSgfrith, who had ruled jointly with his father for some years
previously. He, in 796, granted land in Turville, Bucks, to
Abbey of St. Albans, and in Charter passing same to this
Abbey, he is called Ecgfrith, being identical with Egfrid and
Egferth, son of King Offa, and lies buried at St. Albans.
Matthew Paris, a Monk of Order of Benedictine, at St.
Albans in 13th Century, and Historian of English affairs from
Wm. I to 43, H. Ill, sets out the Charter in which the

THE history of turville. 15
Parcels appear as " terram x manensium nomine Thyrefeld,"
Langley gives them as "terram decern manensium, while
Dugdale has " ten manses in Thyrefeld."
But this grant of land by Ecgfrith, did not comprise the
entire premises which constituted the Manor of Turville-St.
Albans, for Nigellus de Merstone, gave the Church of Tyre-
field to Abbey of St. Alban's as follows : "Nigellus de Merstone,
dedit hiuc ecclesice pro salute anime ecclesium de Tyrefelde per-
petuojure posssidendam," which was confirmed to this Abbey by
two Charters, which passed by Henry III and Eichard I, the
Parcels in each being given as " ecclesias de Thirefeld."
The Merstones, as will be seen in title to Turville-Court,
intermarried into the Morteyne Family, connected otherwise
with them and interested in the soil of the Parish.
In 1225 such a gift was enacted to be utterly void, and
to accrue to the Lord of the Fee, the Act not being retros
pective ; and among the witnesses, who subscribed to the due
enforcement thereof, being the Abbot of St. Albans, and
Gilbert de Clare, Earl Gloucester and Hertford. This Act
was confirmed by Edward I in 25th of his reign. At dissolution
of Monasteries this was the only Church of the name then
surrendered, as having belonged to Abbey of St. Albans, and
stated as being in Bucks.
Previous to Norman Conquest, the following were Abbots
of St. Albans, having supreme control over all churches, lands
&c, of the Abbey, and were Lords of Turville-St. Albans
Manor, which comprised both gift of Church and land as
above. i. Willigod, 1st Abbot, ob. 794.
ii. Eadric, 2nd Abbot.
iii. Vulsig or Ulsin, 3rd Abbot,
iv. Vulnuth, 4th Abbot.
v. Eadfrith, 5th Abbot.
vi. Ulsinus or Ulsig, 6th Abbot.

16 the history of turville.
vii. Aelfric, 7th Abbot, ob. 16th Nov. 1005, buried at
Abingdon.
viii Ealdred, 8th Abbot.
ix. Eadmer, 9th Abbot.
x. Leofric, 10th Abbot.
xi. Aelfric II, 11th Abbot.
xii. Leofstan, 12th Abbot.
Although England, under the Saxon Heptarchy, was
divided into different kingdoms, the country was, for most
part, subject to one king alone, who was entitled Bex Gentis
Anglorum, or King of the English Nation ; but in 877, the
kingdom of Mercia fell into the already merged kingdoms,
forming only one Kingdom. Mercia is said to have contained
before the Danish wars more than 30,000 hides, and to have
been that portion of Burghred's kingdom, which, upon its
division by the Danes, was committed as a Tributory Eoyalty
to Ceolwulph, King of Mercia, in 874, three years after the
Danes had defeated the Saxons ; probably on terms made be
tween the Danes, and Alfred, the Saxon King, whose brother
Ethelred, they had killed in 871.
In 1016, while Edmund II was reigning, he being last sole
Saxon Monarch of England since 827, the kingdom became
divided, after Danish and Saxon wars, between him and
Canute the Dane, remaining so until 1041, when Edward the
Confessor became sole Monarch of England, he dying 5 Jan.
1066, naming William of Normandy, a military commander
and civil ruler, who was distantly related to him, his heir.
Nothing but tyranny, oppression, and robbery was
introduced by the Normans into the Feudal System, that not
an inch of land could be held unless mediately or immediately
under tlt-e king. The violent depositions of the Abbots after the
battle of Hastings, and intrusion of Ecclesiastical adventurers
from the continent into their places, were so excessive and
cruel, that even the voices of pious Norman Divines were
raised against such a violation of the constitution of the

the history of turville. 17
church. William the Norman, on death of Abbot Fretheric,
held Abbey of St. Albans, destroying the woods and impov
erishing the men, which confiscation Abbot Paul somewhat
redeemed in his reign.
After the Conquest the Abbots, who previously held
their lands free from secular services, were charged with
military service, and became tenants-in-chief per Baronium.
The great Ecclesiastics formed portion of parliament, from
Wm. I to Hen. Ill, including great Abbots, which service in
those days was considered somewhat burthensome. Gilbert,
Earl Gloucester, who held Demesne Lands in Turville, sold to
Robert, 18th Abbot, Advowson of Luton Church, &c, with
lands held by Wm. Cbamberlaine, whose family were ancient
holders in Turville.
The Abbots of St. Albans, from conquest to 1260, were
as follows : —
i. Fretheric, 13th Abbot.
ii Paul, 14th Abbot, began to rule 1077, ob. 3 Nov.
5 Wm. II.
iii. Eichard de Albini, 15th Abbot, began to rule 1097.
iv. Geoffrey de Gorham, 16th Abbot, began to rule
1119, ob. 25 Feb. 1146.
v. Ealph de Gobion, 17th Abbot, began to rule 1146,
ob. July L151.
vi. Eobert de Gorham, 18th Abbot, began tp rule 1151,
ob. Nov. 1166.
vii. Simond or Symon, 19th Abbot, began to rule 1167,
ob. 1183.
viii. Warren de Cambridge, 20th Abbot, began to rule
1183, ob. 1195.
ix. John de Cella, 21st Abbot, began to rule 1195.
x. Wm. de Trumpington, 22nd Abbot, began to rule
1214, cb. 1235.
xi. John de Hertford, 23rd Abbot, began to rule 1235*
ob. 1260.

18 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
On his death, Roger de Norton, 24th Abbot, began to rule
in 1260, dying 1290. He was Impleaded, in 1276, by
Constance Morteyn, (widow respectively of Bernard Bruce,
and Robert Morteyn,) as to Advowson of church of Tyrefeud.
The Instrument says "implacitavit Constantia de Morteyn dom-
ina et hares villce deTyrefeud," and " super advocatione ccclcsica
ejusdem villce," whereupon a Writ enjoining enquiry was dir
ected, as to right of presentation to said church, but Constance
Morteyn afterwards withdrew her demand. The Writ,
dated 29th Sept, 4, Ed. I, acknowledged right of presentation
to said church to be vested in Abbot of St. Albans.
In 1275, Edward I had caused an act to be passed into law
providing for peace of church and realm, and not overcharging
of religious houses ; which was in augmentation of act passed
1225, which made the church free, her whole rights and liber
ties inviolable, the patrons of Abbies, having the King's
Charters of England of Advowsons or having old tenure or
possession in same, to have custody of churches when void, as
it had been accustomed theretofore. The above enquiry
undoubtedly arose through the Act passed in 1276, providing
— interalia — what churches belonged to the Lords' Gifts, with
their value, &c.
Archbishop of Canterbury in 1277, charged Abbot and
Convent of St. Albans with contumacy, for not attending his
•convocation in Church of Wycombe, the Abbot not recognising
the Archbishop's prerogative to enquire into Abbot's title to
hold Church of Tyrefeud, "Ecclesia de Tyrefeud."
There appears to have been a legal fight betweed them,
but shortly afterwards the Archbishop being at Hatfield, his
Grace was invited by the Abbot to St. Albans, when the
Archbishop became reconciled to exemption claimed by the
Abbot to attend said convocation, and then confirmed Abbot
and Convent of St. Albans in possession of their churches and
privileges. His Grace undoubtedly set up pretended right as
being Primate and Metropolitan of all England.

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 19
Again Roger de Norton had to contest right of Abbot and
Convent of St. Albans, of not appearing at Synod of Bishop of
Lincoln, who caused Church of Tirefeud to be sequestered ;
when John de Clere was excommunicated by Abbot of St.
Albans for not removing sequestration, the excommunication
was officially declared null, but in subsequent litigation it was
held, by all courts, that Abbot of St. Albans had right to
excommunicate. Bucks was then included in See of Lincoln.
These proceedings all tend to prove that title to Church
and Rectory of Turville legally vested in Abbot and Convent
of St. Albans, until surrendered to Henry VIII.
The remaining Abbots of St. Albans were : —
John de Berkhamsted, 25th Abbot, began to rule
1291, ob. 15 Nov. 1301.
John de Maryns, 26th Abbot, began to rule 1302, ob
24 Feb. 1308.
Hugh de Eversden, 27tb Abbot, began to rule 1308,
ob. 1326.
Eic. de Wallingford, 28th Abbot, began to rule
1326, ob. 10 June, 1334.
v. Michael de Mentmore, 29th Abbot, began to rule
1335.
vi. Tho. de la Mare, 30th Abbot, began to rule 1349,
ob. 1 Sept. 1396.
vii. John de la Moote, 31st Abbot, began to rule 1396,
ob. 1400.
viii. Wm. Heyworth, 32nd Abbot, began to rule 1401.
ix. John Whethamsted, 33rd Abbot, began to rule
1402, resigned 26 Nov. 1440, rechosen on Abbot
Stoke's death, ob. 20 Jan. 1464.
x. Juhn Stoke, 34th Abbot, began to rule 1440, ob.
1451.
xi. Wm. Alban, 35th Abbot, began to rule 1464, ob..
1476.
xii. Wm. Wallingford, 36th Abbot, began to rule 1476,.
ob. 8 Aug. 1184.

20 the history of turville.
xiii. Thomas Eamryge, 37th Abbot, began to rule 1492.
xiv. Thomas Wolsey, 38th Abbot, began to rule 1521,
ob. 1530.
xv. Eobert Catton, 39th Abbot, began to rule 1530, ob.
1538.
The fortieth and last Abbot, was Eichard Boreham, alias
de Stevenache, S.T.B., appointed as it is supposed, with no
other view than to make peaceable surrender of the Monastical
lands and. revenues to the crown, which he did by surrender
on 5th Dec. 1539.
The Manor of the Church and Eectory is said to have
extended over Village, Eectory and Glebe Lands of Turville.
The minister's accounts for 35 H.VIII, relating to Monastery of
St. Albans, has only one entry of Tyrfeld, and records : — " Com,'
Buck' — Manerium de Tyrfeld cum B 'cor' — Firma — £3 : 6 : 8."
It is clear therefore that the Lands and Church before men
tioned represented a Manor as above recorded.
It is not until grant to Edmund Harman, 37, H. VIII. that
the entire premises w'ere known, but 35, H. VIII, John
Mershe and Xpher Edmonds, both of London, gents, on 6 Oct.
had licence of Farm of Eectory and Advowson of Church of
Tirfelde in Bucks, when in possession of Thomas Boyston, at
£3 : 6 : 8 per annum, which rental appears to have formed
annual value in particulars of premises to Edmund Harman.
On 28th April, 37, Henry VIII, is dated request to
purchase by Edmund Harman, Esq., and the particulars
annexed thereto, state that the Manor and Parsonage in
Therefield, in county of Bucks, parcel of late possessions of
then lately dissolved Monastery of St. Albans, by yearly value
of 66s. 8d. ; were said to be from any of the king's houses,
whereunto his highness had any access and repair 7 miles ;
from any parks, forests and chases 6 miles ; they being no
parcel of any other Manor ; nor did not exceed clear yearly
value of 66s. 8d. ; and that the king had no more lands within
Thyrrcfelde aforesaid, belonging to then lately dissolved Monas-

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 21
t'ery of St. Albans. The trees growing about situations of said
Manor and Parsonage, and lands appertaining thereto, would
barely satisfy for timber to repair houses, standing upon
same, and for stack for hedgeboote to repair and maintain
hedges about the said lands, same being valued at £2. On
26th May then instant Edmund Harman had licence of same
premises from the king. He was of the King's Privy Chamber,
and of Teynton, s and h of Eobert Harman, of Ipswich, (s and
h of Paul H, of Ipswich, s of Peter H, of the Stilyardj, by
Joan Hewick, of London, his wife ; his arms "Three Curry
combs" were quartered, with three others, on his monument
in Burford Church, he dying 1569, having m Agnes Sylvester,
of Burford, hence his migration there.
This purchase has been confused with Sir Edward
Chamberlaine, of Sherborne, Kt, but presently will be found
conveyance of Turville land by direct descendant of Sir
Edward, who was descended from Robert and Constance
Morteyn, and Bartholomew Badlesmere, ancient holders of
Turville land, and his family were undoubtedly interested in
the soil from an early period ; but he had died some time
before grant to Edmund Harman, viz., on 10 Sept. 1543, aged
63, being buried at Woodstock, described on monument in
church there, as Lieutenant of Queen's Manor of Woodstock,
whereon his Arms are blended with those of Mortaine. I
cannot find that Henry VIII, granted him any Turville land,
although his son, Sir Leonard — who died at Guernsey, where
he was Captain 3 Eliz., and was buried, had grant of land
elsewhere. It is clear however, that these persons had some
interest in Turville, held until conveyed by Lady Gage.
The whole Parish of Turville, excepting perhap3 some
small holdings, was in hands of Henry VIII. Turville Court
Manor was held of the Crown in Chief, the Badlesmeres'
lands had become inherited by the Crown by descent, and
Turville-St. Alban's Manor had been confiscated from St.
Alban's Abbey by Henry VIII. The whole lands of parish

22 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
had become intermixed and regranted by the Crown to
subjects. Turville-St. Alban's Manor then became sub-divided
after grant to Edmund Harman, when conveyed to Sir Michael
Dormer, the Advowson and Rectory of the church being con
veyed apart from the Manor. It is therefore necessary to
look at this period into Title of Parish held by the Crown.
Whether Edmund Harman was trustee for Sir Michael
Dormer and Chamberlaine family is not clear, but in same
year as Edmund Harman had grant, Sir Michael Dormer
inherited Manor, while latter's nephew, Sir Robert Dormer,
and Sir Leonard Chamberlaine married two sisters, whose
brother John Newdigate, was uncle by marriage, of the wife
of above Xpher Edmonds.
Turville-St. Alban's Manor, eventually vested in Sir
Eobert Dormer's descendant, Sir Robert Dormer, first Earl
Carnarvon; and other lands, portion of that original Manor,
vested eventually in Lady Gage, direct descendant of Sir
Leonard Chamberlaine.
On 16 Sept. 37, H. VIII, particulars of Advowson and
Eectory of Church of Turville were made at request of Sir
John Williams, Kt., Xpher Edmonds and William Eaynsford,
Esq., of which the king granted license to them. In same
year Sir John Williams had particulars of same premises on
his request alone, the king granting him his license. The
other two were probably his trustees, of whom Xpher Edmonds
survived, who with John Mershe had grant 35, H. VIII.
Sir John Williams, was a Knight 31, H. VIII, created
Lord Williams, of Thame, by summons 2 Ap. 1554, by Queen
Mary, died without male issue 19 Oct. 1553, according to
some writers, at Ludlow Castle and buried at Thame, but
according to Stow in Parish Church of St. Alphage, in Crip-
plegate Ward, London. He was Lord Chamberlain of the
Household, Master of the King's Jewels, and son of Sir John

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 23
Williams, of Barfiald (maternal representative of ancient family
of Perceval, Lords of Corevill, in Somersetshire, a branch of
Baronial House of Lovel and Holland,) by Elizabeth his wife,
dau of Bic. Moore, of Burfield, Esq., whose other dau Isabella
Moore, m Johu D'Oyly, of Grenfield, Bucks, Esq., whose
grandson John D'Oyly, had conveyance of Manor and Bectory
of Church of Tyrfeld, Bucks.
John, Lord Williams of Thame, m (1) Elizabeth, d and
coh of Thomas Bledlow, Esq., widow of Andrew Edmonds,
Esq., of Temple Cressing, Essex, and (2) Margery, dau. of
Thomas, Lord WeDtworth, (who rem. to Sir Wm. Drury, Lord
Justice and Governor of Ireland), and left at his decease : —
i. Isabel, m Sir Eic Wenman, Kt. Sheriff Oxf. 5 Eliz, whose
son Sir Eichard, succeeded to Thame Park, in right of
mother, whose son, another Sir Eichard, became Baron
Wenman, of Kilmainham, and Viscount Wenman of
Tuam.
ii. Margery, (who was chief mourner at Amy Eobsart's
funeral), m Hy. Norreys, created Lord Norreys, of
Eycote, Oxford, by Q. Eliz., be inherited from wife Manor
of Eycote, (which was held formerly by the Englefields
and the Quartermains,) where he was buried, and his
monument is in Westm'r Abbey. Their son, Francis,
Lord Norreys, became Earl Berkshire and Viscount
Thame, but left an only child, Elizabeth, who m Edward
Wray, Esq., of Glentworth, Line, Groom of Bedchamber
to Charles I, and by her had an only child, Bridget, who
in respectively Edward, son of Edward, Earl of Dorset
(ancestor of Barons Sackville and Earls De-la- Warr,) and
Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl Lindsey, (ancestor of Earls
Abingdon,) whose daughter Mary, m Chas. Dormer, Earl
Carnarvon.
The 1st Earl Lindsey, (from whom Stafford O'Brien-
Hoare, Esq., is lineally descended through the Hon. Louisa
Elizabeth Noel,) claimed in right of mother, Mary, dau of

24 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
John Vere, Earl Oxford, and aunt and heiress of whole blood
of Hy. 18th Earl ; the Earldom of Oxford, Barony of Badles-
mere, (see later on), and office of Lord-Great-Chamberlain of
England. The Church of St Mary in Turville, was undoubtedly of
some antiquity, altho' Doomsday is silent thereon. Nigellus
de Merstone gave it to St. Alban's Abbey, Constance Morteyn
laid claim thereto in 1276-7, and same was surrendered to
Henry VIII at the dissolution. It is said to have been built
in Norman style, with Norman Font, Langley calling it an
ancient structure, his description varying from that given by
Kelly, who says the church contains many monumental in
scriptions, mostly printed by Langley. The Church Bells are
set out in the Buckinghamshire Bccords, shewing four Bells,
but in Langley's time there were only three, while Langley,
in his History, gives particulars of the living, not necessary to
be repeated here, excepting as to following corrections : —
1462, June 19, Tho. Lee, had gift of Turfield after death of
Tho. Upstone.
1465, Dec. 4, Tho. Shawe, presented to Tyrfield after death of
Tho. Lee.
1481, Nov. 30, John Wilson, presented on resignation of Tho.
Shawe.
1181, Dec. 14, John Eoteley, presented to Tirefeld after John
Wilson.
The Church was beautified in 1722, while Eev. James
Clarke, (who is in voter's list 1722,) was Vicar, and Messrs.
Wright and Eools were churchwardens. A terrier in 1680
shews the vicarage house as then consisting of hall, parlour,
buttery, and three chambers ; 2 barns, stable, hovel, garden,
and yard ; three closes and 3 acres of woodland, in all 34
acres, to which was added 6 acres more of land, purchased
with money left by the Eev. Francis Edmonds, Eector of
Fingest in 1729.
Sir Michael Dormer who inherited Manor of Turville-

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 25
St. Albans, was Sheriff of London 1529, Lord Mayor 1541,
and died 19th Sept. 1543, three days after above grant of
Advowson and Eectory of Church of Turville to Sir John
Williams ; was son of Geoffrey Dormer, a wool stapler of
Calais, Lord of Baldingfcon's Manor in Thame, who resided at
West Wycombe, having considerably increased his Landed
Estates on marriage with Ursula, d and h of Bartholomew
Collingridge, by Alice his wife, d and h of Ealph Arundel,
grandson of Wm. Arundel, son of John, Baron Maltravers. He
was described in will, (which I suspect was executed before
purchase of Manor and not republished), of 17 Sept. proved 2
Oct. 1545, as Knight, Alderman and Mercer of London, to be
buried in churchyard of St. Lawrence in the Jewry, London,
(to which church and parish he was a great benefactor, and
Where Mercers — who were generally merchants — kept their
shop3 and lived, as immortalised by John Lydgate, a Monk of
Bury, in his ballad of London Lackpenny), where Elizabeth
(Davye) his late wife lieth buried, or at discretion of executors,
Stow says his monument was in church there, while Strype
says it was outside thereof, beneath the porch. He m (2)
Katherine, d of Tho. Dullam, of London, who survived, being
his executrix with son, John, who had nearly all father's
London Estate, was of Thame and Steeple-Barton, citizen
and Mercer of London, as successor to father's business, and
whose dau, Eliz., m Anthony Lisle, of Wootten, I of Wight.
The Inq. P.M., of Sir Michael Dormer, was taken at
Chalfont St. Peters, 14 Nov. 37 H. VIII, shewing he died
seized — interalia — of Turville Manor, which had not been
disposed of by his Will, leaving Thomas Dormer, his s and hh
aged 40 years, who was of Armouth Hill in Burfield, and of
Yarnton, Esq., and had by Isabelle, his wife, d of Eic. Crispe,
of Cobscott, Oxon, Esq., (whose d Anne, was second wife to
Peter Dormer, and s Xpher Crispe, m Ellen, d of said Peter
by his first wife), an only child, Isabelle, wife of John Stampe
of Compton, Berks, who as Isabelle Stampe, had Adminis-

26 the history of turville.
tration, cum grandfather's Will annexed, granted her 22 Dec.
1584. This Thomas Dormer, described as of Burfield, Berks,
Esq., made his Will, 21 Nov. 1549, proved 10 May, L550,
whereby he gave all real and personal estate, including dwell
ing-house at Armouth Hill, to dau Isabelle, called in one place
-eldest child altho' he mentioned no other, to her absolutely,
-confiding her care to his brothers William and Walter,
(executors), and Ambrose (overseer), not desiring wife to have
-custody of her, fearing that she that would deceive the father in
his lifetime, would deceive the child after his decease, if wife
did obtain her custody or disputed Will, then brothers to
inherit property, mostly in Berks and none in Turville.
Sir Michael Dormer had, 30 H. VIII, mortgage of
Turville-Court, with Eobert Eedman, stationer, of London,
from John Butler, who redeemed and sold to Sir John
Williams. He had also rent in Turville, valued 12 July, 32
H. VIII, and also in King's Book, at 15/4, of which the
King's Licence was granted to Sir Michael, and his said
nephew, Sir- Eobert Dormer, (who inherited uncle's Lincoln-
-shire Estates), the same premises lately belonging to then
dissolved Monastery of Dedineham alias Medmenhatn, passing
¦under Sir Michael's Will as lands and tenements in Tyrfylde,
Bucks, lately belonging to House of Medmenham, (Medued-
nam,) entailed successively on sons, Geoffrey, Wm., John and
Ambrose and lawful heirs-male of respective bodies ; for
default, then to them and lawful heirs of respective bodies ;
for default, then to dau Joan, wife of Anthony Stapulton,
{testator's overseer, and occupier with said wife of testator's
house and garden in Fulham), and lawful heirs-male of her
body, with ultimate remainder to right heirs of those sons,
¦Geoffrey, Wm., John and Ambrose, forever, subject to interest
therein of testator's wife. On Nov. 13, 1 Ed. VI, the Kino-
licensed the premises — the trusts being fully set out. The
Priory of Dedineham alias Medmenham, held, 13 Ed. I, 2
hides, (240 acres) of land in Turville, at hands of trustees —

the history of turville. 27
John de Donruge (or Dunrugge) and Wm. de Hameldene.
No Manor passed under Sir Michael's Will as " Turville"
but he devised all lands and tenements in Turville (Turfelde),
excepting those in Turville already devised, together with
Manors of G. and L. Milton and Ascott, Oxon, successively
on sons, Ambrose, John, Geoffrey and Wm., and lawful heirs-
male of respective bodies, for default, successively on those
sons, and lawful heirs of respective bodies ; for default- to said
dau Joan Stapulton, and lawful heirs-male of her body, with
ultimate remainder to own said sons and their right heirs for
ever ; subject to annuities to wife, Katherine, and son Walter
Dormer, of Steeple-Barton.
Ambrose Dormer, first remainder-man in Turville lands
and tenements, was of Great Milton, and Ascott House in
Little Milton, (a property which eventually vested in his
brother William's descendant), buried at G.M., 23 June, 1566,
aged 43, Will proved 5 Aug. following. He m in 1556, Jane,
d and co-hr of James Bury, (by Amye, his wife, d of Tho.
Lovett, of Ashwell, Esq., whose d Bridget Lovett, m Gabriel
Dormer, of Lee Grange ; from William Lovett, bro to said
Thomas, descended Lawrence Lovett, who m Eliz., d and co-
hr of Sir Eeginald Williams, of Burfield, elder brother of John,
Lord Williams, of Thame), Lord of Hampton-Poyle, in which
Ambrose took life interest after Mr. Bury's death, and
Ambrose's wife took a fee tail on Ambrose's death. She
afterwards m Wm. Hawtrey, of the Chequers in Ellesboro'
when she settled Hampton-Poyle to certain uses, her Will
proved 26 Oct. 1594. They had several children, those sur
viving parents were, (1) Sir Michael, Kt.; of Ascott House :
(2) Ambrose who d. s. p. ; and (3) Winifred, wife respectively
to (a) Sir William Hawtrey, Kt., of the Chequers, whose
sister Dorothy m Winifred's brother Sir Michael, and who
were children of Wm. Hawtrey, who m Jane Dormer (nee
Bury,) by his first wife, and (b) John Pigott, of Ellesboro',
Bar-at-Law, half brother to Earl of Kent.

28 the history of turville.
Sir Michael Dormer, tbe grandson, d. s. p. buried at
Great Milton, 24 Sept. 1624, Will proved by his kinsman Sir
John Dormer, of Dorton, 30 Oct. 1624, when Hampton-Poyle
passed to daus and co-hr s of his sister Winifred, (who d 1614),
and after partition and several assurances in the law, part was
alienated to John West of London, gent, passing to son, John
West, whose first cousins, John West Pocock and Mary
Pocock, were children of Mrs. Pocock, sister to John West,
senior. Eichard West bought land in Turville, and the Wests
of London, Berks and Bucks were related, one of whom, Tho.
West, of Wallingford, Berks, m Elizabeth, d of John Stampe,
of Newnam, Oxon, of same family as above John Stampe,
husband of Isabelle, only child of Thomas Dormer. This Sir
Michael commanded in the Netherlands under Eobert Dudley,
Earl Leicester, K.G., who d 4 Sept. 1588, favourite subject of
Q. Eliz., and husband of Amy Eobsart, Countess of Dudley, of
romantic memory, (who m in the presence of the King, at
Sheen, 4 June, 1550, d Sunday, 8 Sept. 1560, buried at St.
Mary's Church, Oxford), dau of Sir John Eobsart, who d
1554, by Elizabeth, dau of John Scott, of Camberwell, Surrey
and widow of Eoger Appleyard, of Braken-Ash, Norfolk,
whose collaterals settled at Almondbury, Yorks, contempor
aneously with the Eamsdens. This Earl Leicester's sister,
Mary, dau of John Dudley, K.G.,Barou LTslc, Earl Warwick
and Duke of Northumberland, m Sir Henry Sidney, K.G. who
d 5 May, 1586, whose 2nd son, Sir Eobert Sidney, K.G., who
d 13 July, 1626, was created by J.L, Lord Penshurst, Viscount
L'Isle, and Earl Leicester, and whose family eventually
inherited Turville Park and Estate, besides intermarrying
with the Dormers, of Ethorpe and Wing, who inherited
Turville-St. Alban's Manor, and being eventually heirs of
above Eobert Dudley and his brother Ambrose, late Earls
of Warwick and Leicester.
Geoffrey Dormer, remainderman in Turville lands and
tenements, was of Farthinghoe, Northants, Esq., whose s and

the history of turville. 29
h, Wm. D. in Easter, 35 Eliz,, brought in King's Bench, Writ
of Error, upon judgment given in Writ of Entry in the Post,
upon which Common Eecovery was had in Common Pleas,
concerning Manor of Farthinghoe.
Wm. Dormer, his brother, another like remainderman,
was of Thame, and Lord of Dorton, Esq., whose son, Sir John,
obtained large possessions from King James in Bucks, during
lives of his son, Sir Eobert of Dorton, and latter's two sons,
John and Michael, who were all dead in 1640-1, when Eobert,
afterwards Knighted, s and h of Sir Eobert, (sheriff of Oxon
1628) petitioned the King for renewal of patent of same premises.
Sir Eobert the elder or his son, Sir Eobert, presented to
Church of Turville 20 May, 1640, as patron. Sir Eobert the
son was of Dorton, and Ascott House in G. Milton, Oxon, made
his Will 27 Sept. 1645, proved (with codicils), 13 Aug. 1649,
by son Eobert, (whose brother Wm. D, and mother, Margaret
D, are also mentioned,) an infant 1645, but of full age 1649,
as the executors appointed during his minority, viz., testator's
brother, Wm. Dormer, of Templeton, Berks ; his brother (so
called), Richard Winwood, of Ditton Park, Berks, and Dray
ton, Bucks ; and Thomas Lane, of Inner Temple, Esquires,
did not act. Testator desired to be buried in Parish Church
of G. Milton, as near as possible to his late well beloved wife
Maria, but no Turville lands passed under his Will. In 18,
J. I., Sir John Dormer, obtained property in Turville from the
Pitcher family, and was executor of his kinsman, Sir Michael
Dormer, of Milton. The above executor, Robert Dormer, of
Dorton, m. Catherine, (sister to Elizabeth, who m Baptist
Noel, Viscount Campden, ancestor of Hon. Louisa Eliz. Noel,
paternal grandmother of Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq.,) d of
said Montagu, 2nd Earl Lindsey.
Turville-St. Albans Manor is found vested eventually
in descendant of Sir Michael Dormer's nephew, Sir Eobert
Dormer, only son and exor of Wm. Dormer, of West Wycombe,
(who was buried in chancel there in 1506, before image of St.

30 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
Lawrence), by Anne, d of Sir John Launcelyn, a French
Knight. Sir Eobert was Lord of the Manor of Wing, Bucks,
High Sheriff temp Henry VIII, from whom he acquired part
possessions of then lately dissolved Monastery of St. Albans.
He m Jane, d of John Newdigate, the King's sergeant to
H. VIII, this lady was refused by Queen Eliz., to return to
England to collect her rents ; her brother John, w~as great
ttncle of Dorothy Lidcott, who m Xpher Edmonds ; while her
sister Dorothy in Sir Leonard Chamberlaine, of Sherborne.
Lady Dormer d at Louvain 1571, b in Chapel of Carthusians
there under marble tomb, raised over her remains by the
Duchess of Feria, her granddaughter. Sir Eobert Dormer
made his Will 20 June, proved 20 Oct. 1552, dying 8 July,
1552, being buried at Wing, but under his Will no Turville
lands passed by name.
His eld. son and successor, Sir Wm. D, was of Ethorpe,
Bucks, M.P. for Bucks 6 H. VIII, d 17 May, 1575, buried at
Wing; by his 1st wife Mary, (who d 1542,) dau of Sir Wm.
Sidney, (who acquired Penshurst Place, and ancestor of Earls
Leicester), he had : —
(i) Thomas, •)
(2) William, j Dormer> who both died young.
(3) Anne, m Sir Wm. Hungerford.
(4) Jane, maid of honour to Q. Mary, b at Heythorp, Oxon, 6 Jan.
1538, m Don Gomez Suarey, Count Feria, on 29 Dec. 1558,
she d at Madrid, 13 Jan. 1612, buried at Monastery of St
Clara, Zefra.
Sir William Dormer, m (2) Dorothy, d of Anthony Catesby,
of Whiston, Northants, and had : —
(1) Sir Robert, son and heir, of whom afterwards.
(2) Richard, \
1 \ 17 - • ,- Dormer.
(3) Francis, )
(4) Catherine, m John, second Lord St. John, of Bletshoe, she d
23 March, 1614, buried in St. Michael's Chapel, West'r
Abbey.

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 31
(5) Mary, m (1) Anthony, Viscount Montagu, half bro. to Eliz.,
wife of Sir Robert, ist Baron Dormer, and (2) Sir Edw.
Uvedale, Kt.
(6) Margaret, m Sir Hy. Constable, Kt. of Burton Constable,
father of Hy. ist Viscount Dunbar.
Sir Eobert Dormer, s and h, was of Ethorpe, Kt., and
Bt., keeper of Eoyal Hawks, Falcons, &c, styled Master
Falconer to the King, which office, an ancient one of great
account, was granted him and his successors, holden by Grand
Sergeanty, created 30 June, 1615, Baron Dormer, of Wing ;
Knighted 1591, created a Baronet 10 June, 1615, d 8 Nov.
1616, I.P.M. taken at Aylesbury, 19 Jan, 1617, Will made 16
Nov. proved 5 Dec. 1616, directing to be buried in Parish
Church of Wing, near bodies of father and grandfather, no
lands in Turville passed under his Will. Thomas Morgan,
writing from Paris, 28 Sept. 1603, to King James, said the
Dormers in Bucks were of an ancient House, shewing con
nection with Earls Pembroke and Southampton, and Lords
Montagu, St. John and Harrington, that Sir Eobert was heir
of that House, and brother to Duchess of Feria, from whom
the writer had lately received letters, he asking the king to
honour Sir Eobert with the title of an Earl, as Sir Eobert
was able to bear the honour. Baron Dormer m Eliz., d of
Anthony Browne, Viscount Montagu, by Magdalen, his wife, d
to Wm. Lord Dacres, of Gillesland. By her, (whose Will was
proved 1631), his Lordship had : —
(i) Sir William, of whom afterwards.
•(2) Anthony, of Grove Parle, Warwick.
(3) Robert, of Peterley, Bucks, ancestor of Barons Dormer.
(4) Elizabeth m Henry Huddleston, Esq.,
<5) Magdalen (Mary according to some,) m Sir John Curson, Bt. of
Water Perry, Oxon, descended from same common
ancestor as Noble Houses of Howe and Scarsdale. Water
Perry devolved on Lord Te3-nham, who assumed surname
of Curson,
ifi) Catherine, m Sir John Carril, Kt.

32 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
Sir Wm. Dormer, predeceased father in Oct. 1616, as
shewn in latter's Will, he having m Alice, d of Sir Wm.
Molyneux, Kt. and Bt., of Sefton, Lane, ancestor of Earls
Sefton. She was a Papist Becusant, in 1641, when an extent
of her lands was taken, tho Clerk of the Pipe reporting she
had not been convicted of Eecusancy ; she resided at Ethorpe,
and in 1653 her grandson Charles, Earl Carnarvon, begged to
enjoy her estates in Bucks, she having died 2 July, 1650,
three years before. Towards the end of 1642, the Plate taken
by Col. Browne, belonging to her was ordered to be coined,
but the Cabinet of Jewels, (which Earl Carnarvon's Lady
pretended to be her's) were delivered to her father, Earl
Pembroke, to be forthcoming in case they be not his daughter's.
Col. Browne had then taken one waggon load of Plate, and
three waggons more with provisions of good value, belonging
to Lord Carnarvon's mother, the Lady Dormer. Sir Wm.
Dormer, by his said wife, had : —
{i) Robert, of whom afterwards.
(2) William,
?3) Richard, Who all three died young.
(4) Francis, .
(5) Elizabeth, in Edward Somerset, Lord Herbert of Ragland,
afterwards Marquis of Worcester, springing frrm same
common ancestor as extinct Noble Houses of Pembroke,
Huntingdon and Torrington, and extant ones of Carnarvon,
Pembroke and Powis. Ancestor of Marquis Beaufort.
Robert Dormer, who succeeded grandfather as heir,
aged 6 years, 1616, created 2 Aug. 1628, Viscount Ascott,
Bucks, and Earl of Carnarvon, styled Master Falconer to the
King, Lord Lieutenant of Bucks, 1641, was a General of
Horse, under Marquis Hertford of the Western Army, beino
a person absolutely valiant and loyal, took arms for Charles I
against the rebels, and had the hard fate of being treacherously
slain in first Battle of Newbury, 20 Sept. 1643, being buried
in St. Jesus' College Chapel, Oxon, but remains subsequently

THE IIISTORY 07 TURVILLE, 33
reburied at Echorp near Aylesbury. He m 27 Feb. 1625,
Anna Sophia, d of his guardian, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl
Pembroke, and 1st Earl Montgomery, son of Hy. Herbert, 2nd
Earl Pembroke, by Mary his Countess, d of Sir Henry Sidney,
K.G., brother of Sir Eobert Sidney, K.G., 1st Earl Leicester.
Tho Earl, by his said Countess, (who d at Oxford 3 June,
1613), had an only son: — ¦
Charles, Earl Carnarvon, b 25 Oct., bap 26 Nov., 1632, at
St. Benet's, Paulds Wharf, London, who m (1) Elizabeth,
(who 1:1 1653, d 30 July, and bur at Wing 7 Aug., 176S), d of
Arthur, Lord Capel, ancestor of Earls Essex, and had: —
(.<) Charles, \
....... ¦ who both died young.
(0) \\ lluam, )
(c) Elizabeth, m Philip, second Earl Chesterfield, (V.f
existing Noble Houses of Chesterfield, Harrington, and
Stanhope), grandparents of Philip Dormer, tho cele
brated Earl, Chesterfield.
(if) Isabella, m Charles Coote, Earl Mountrath, now
represented by Baronets of Ballyfin.
(i-l Anna Sophia, d until 1 Feb., 1694-5, aged 22, buried
at Wing.
He m (2) Mary, (b 1655, at Campden House, Kensington),
d of said Montague Bertie, 2nd Earl Lindsey, but had by
her no issue, ho d 29 Nov., 1709, b at Ascot, Bucks, when
Earldom and Viscounty expired.
In 1621, Sep. 6, Eobert, Earl Carnarvon, then Eobert
Dormer, Lord Dormer, was Lord of Turville-St. -Albans
Manor, and held his Court. The Bucks Committee regarding
recusants, reported in 1013 that he held his Estates in Bucks
us tenant for life, bat in 1653 tine proceedings were wit
txL.inl, for his son Charles, Earl Carnarvon, ought to have
enjoyed Grandmother's Estates, if these facts had been then
provable. Lady Carnarvon and Wm. Hoare provided for
blankets and clothing for poor of Wing, now arising from rent
of a six-acre held at Burcot.
It will bo observed hereafter that in 1653 conveyance;
was made of Turville property outside of the Dormers, stated

34 THE HISTORY OF TUUVILLE.
by Langley, to have held the Manor, or part thereof, until
the usurpation. But what with civil wars around Turville,
conflicts between Boyalists and Parliament, and oppressive
laws regarding religion, Turville was then very disturbed,
lands difficult to identity, records very deficient, for the poor
pleaded they were grounded by the Lords of the Manor,
lawyers and others ; their rights, freedom, and liberties taken
away; justice bought for filthy lucre, that they had no legal
redress of grievances, Parliament disregarding their petitions
for redress, that horrors of feudal laws, tyranny, oppression,
and robbery of Normans had revived once again in their
midst. If history errs not, the whole place, wTith surrounding
neighbourhoods, was entirely out of cultivation, poor crushed
by rich, rich by the Crown, and the Crown by Parliament,
that the hand of every man was raised against each other, the
strongest standing while the weakest fell, might overcoming
right, whereby injustice held the balance of the scales.
Justice should reign on every shore,
Should balance the scales in Courts of Law,
Find a welcome at every door,
And be fairly shar'd by rich and poor. II. W. Aldrcd.
Mr. Langley learnt that Turville-St. -Albans Manor was
divided into six shares, that Mr. Shelley had only one share
thereof, the D'oyly family had a share, as proved by the Court
Bolls, which passed to Osborn.
Sir Leonard Chamberlaine, son of Sir Edward, (supposed
purchaser of St. Albans Turville Manor, according to Langley &
Sheahan from the Crown, or Edmond Harman) m Dorothy,
d of said John Newdigate, and had — besides a dau, Cecily,
wife of Fras. Stonor, of Stonor, H.-S. 35 Eliz. — a son John O,
of Sherborne, who by Eliz., his wife, was father of Sir John
C, of Sherborne, who by Eliz., his wife, d and h of Thos.
JJourichicr, had John O, of Sherborne Castle, who by
Katherine, his wife, d of Fras. Plowden, of Plowden, had : —

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 35
(I.) Mary, m Sir Thomas Gage, of Firle Place, Sussex, Bart., who
d 2 July, 1654, and Sir Hy. Goring, of Burton, Bart.,
(lineal descendant of Sir Thomas, Baron Camoys, so
created by Ric. II.), who d 1674, she dying May 1683,
buried at Burton, whose d and /(, Anne Goring m Ric.
Biddulph, of Biddulph Castle, Stafford, and through her
was conveyed to that family the co-hcirship of Barony of
Camoys, eventually terminated in favour of her descendant,
Thomas Stonor, Esq.
(II.) Elizabeth, m John Nevill, Sth Baron Abergavenny, who d
1660 s. p., his lordship's youngest sister, Eliz., m Thos.
Stonor, of Stonor, gt. -grandson of above, Fras. Stonor by
Cecily, (Chamberlaine) his wife, ancestors of BaronsC amoys
Sir Thomas Gage, and Mary (Chamberlaine), his wife,
conveyed — during period of Sir Thomas' Eecusancy — in Easter
1653, 4 mess., 1 cott., 4 gardens, 3 orchards, 170.1 land, 25a
pasture, 108a wood, 23/3 rent, with common of pasture for all
manner of cattle, with appurts in Turfeld, alias Turvile, alias
Turvile-Court, Bucks, unto Hugh Spencer and Sampson Toovye,
gents, in trust for Hugh Spencer, ia fee simple, who, with Jane
his wife, in Hilary 1653, passed portion of same premises, to
John Ovey, of Gicnville, Watlington, Oxon, in fee simple, viz. z.
1 mess., 2 orchards, 150a land, 20.i pasture, 80a wood, 20a
furze and heath probably of tho 108a of wood) 23/3 rent,
and common of pasture for all manner of cattle, with appurts,
in same place by similar description. Jane Ovey, his d and
Jt,, m Timothy Perry, of Wormington Place, Glo'stersb.,
born 1661, d 1735, aged 74, buried with wife— who d 1707,
aged 39 — at Turville.
Thkkk remained vested in Hugh Spencer, 3 mess., I cott.,
4 gardens, 1 orchard, 20a land, 5« pasture, and 8a wood.
The Toovycs were copyholders in Turville, and on 6 Sept.,
1621, when Eobert, Baron Dormer, was Lord, the jury
presented death of Geo. Toovye, as having died seized of
certain copyholds holden of Turville-St. -Albans Manor. Ia
1722 Wm., Fras., and Teter Tovey were voters for Turville

36 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
cum Ipstone. The registers, insciiptions, and legal records
give proof of the family's long residence in and about Turville-
On an inscription in Penshurst Church is mention of a
Hugh Spencer, as grandfather of Gilbert Spencer, late of
Bed-Lease House there, who died 4 May, 1709, aged 80.
Our Hugh Spencer may have been of the Gentle House of
Spencers, of St. Albans and Penshurst respectively, who
recorded their pedigree at the Herts Visitation, or of the
Melton-Mowbray Stock, in which family many Hughs occur.
Weedon Perry, only survg. s of Timothy and Jane
Perry, m Eliz., d and co-hr of Wm. Barnesly, of Urslcy Park,
Hereford ; he was buried at Turville 1720, aged 28, with wife,
who d 1729, aged 29. Thomas Perry died at his house in
Turville, 15 Dec, 1724, bur at Hambledon by his Niece and
Executrix, G.A.N. Coventry, according to Mural Monument
there. The Perry family had long been resident at Turville,
as evidenced by a pedigree to 1649.
Elizabeth Perry, only dau of Timothy and Jane Perry,
m Jacob Preston, of Beeston, Norfolk, and London, Merchant,
who had grant of Arms, whose family is represented by the
Earl of Buckinghamshire, and originally came from Preston,
Suffolk, settled afterwards at Old Buckenham and Bceston-
St. -Lawrence, the Baronets of latter place, descending through
female line, and who use the Patronymic of Prestou.
Weedon Perry having pre-deceased father, his son,
William, of Wormington, and Penshurst Place, Kent, suc
ceeded grandfather, Timothy, in 1735, becoming H.-S. for
Bucks 1741, dyiDg 1757. Thomas, Weedcn's brother, d 1738,
aged 20.
This Wm. Perry, Lord Lieut, of Eadnorsh., 1751,
described as of Turville Heath, Esq., m Elizabeth Sidney, d
and coh of Hon. Thomas Sidney, by Mary, his wife, (sister of
Anne, wife of Philip Sidney, Sth Earl Leicester), d and coh of
Sir Eobert Beeves, Bart., of Thwaite, Suffolk, by Margaret, his
wife, </ of Sir Itic. Ouslow, Bart., of West Clayden, Surrey ;

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 37
and their M.-S. were made 4-5 Aug., 1738, whereby Turville
Park Estate, was settled to certain uses therein expressed.
On 21 July, 1753, Horace Walpole, in writing to Sir Thomas
Mann, speaks very disrespectfully of Mr. Wm. Perry ; but in
a letter to Eichard Bentley, Esq., in Aug., 1752, gives a
graphic account of Mr. Perry's seat at Penshurst, where Mr.
Perry mostly resided, he letting Turville Park, where Sir
Henry Nelthorpe, the 5th Bart., resided.
Col. The Hon. Thos. Sidney, of Eanworth, d 27 Jan.,
1728-29, bur at Penshurst, with wife Mary (Beeves), and thiee
brothers Philip, John, and Jocelyn, respectively, Sth, 6th, and
7th Earls Leicester, who died respectively, 24 July, 1705,
27 Sep., 1737, and 7 July, 1743. Mrs. Wm. Perry became
Lady LTsle, a Title in Fee by Summons, as d and h of
Col. Hon. Thomas Sidney, third son of Eobert Sidney, 4th
Earl Leicester, (by Eliz., his wife, d of John, Earl Bridgwater),
whose other sons, 5th, 6th, and 7th Earls, had all died
without legitimate issue, and she and husband procured the
King's Sign Manual, 4 Mar., 1752, to use, bear and enjoy.
Surname and Arms of Sidney only.
The 7th Earl Leicester had vi Eliz. Thomas, and she-
had a son, John Sidney, whose legitimacy stood on a Bock,.
otherwise he would have been acknowledged as Sth Earl
Leicester. Earl Jocelyn made his Will 29 Juno, 1743, devising
Estates to natural dau, Anne Sidney, (who had much litigation-
with Lady LTsle and her sister), and heirs of her Body, with
remainder to heirs of John, then late Earl Bridgwater. It is
said that owing to controversies between parents, that this
John Sidney, was disinherited by Father ; was of Court Lodge,
Yaldiu", Kent, assumed Earldom of Leicester, to which he
believed himself entitled, but owing to his religion and
straitened circumstances failed to Petition Crown for Writ of
Summons, and also failed, in attempt, to recover Sidney
Estate, through being uuable to prove any better Title than
shewn by Tenant in Possession.

38 the history of turville.
The inscriptions in Penshurst Church to memory of Sth,
Oth, and 7th Earls Leicester and to Col. Hon. Thos. Sidney
and Mary his wife, were placed there in 1713 by Lady LTsle
and sister, Mary, wife of Sir Brownlow Sherard, Bt., of
Lopthorp and Newton Halls, in memory of their Parents
and three deceased Peer Uncles. John 6th Earl is stated
to be heir of brother Sth Earl ; that 6th Earl d unm, his niece
Eliz. Sidney, d and co-hr of his brother, Hon. Thos. Sidney,
became, with sister also named, his co-heiress and co-legal
representative ; and that 7th Earl d. s. p., when Eliz., wife of
Wm. Perry, ^of Turville Park, in Bucks, was his co-heiress,
with sister also named.
Wm. Sidney, formerly Perry, son of said Wm. Perry and
Eliz., Lady LTsle, d 1740, bur in family vault at Turville; his
only surviving brother, Hon. Algernon Sidney, d unm, and
intestate in Sep., 1768, Administration to bis Estate being
granted 26 July, 1769, to his Mother, who is described on
his inscription at Turville as co-heiress of Ambrose and
Eobert, the late famous Earls of Warwick and Leicester, both
sons of John Sutton de Dudley, late Duke of Northumberland,
and she at same time administered to her dau, Hon. Mary
Sidney, who with her two sisters, Jane and Anne, d unm,
leaving two other sisters only, Frances, who in Mr. Poictiers,
and Elizabeth Jane Sidney, who was b 22 Dec, 1741, d at
Turville Park, buried at Penshurst on 17 May, 1781, and
succeeded, as only surviving sister and heiress, to Turville
Park Estate, which became subject to trusts of her settlement,
of 9-10 Aug., 1769, on marriage at St. James' Westminster,
with Bysshc Shelley, Est]., (grandfather, by first wife, of the
Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley), of Castle Goring, created a,
Baronet 3 March, 1S06, and called in some of the deeds, also
of Hambledon and Turville Parle, Bucks ; to deed in 179G
relating to Eectory of Eanworth, Norfolk, Bysshe Shelley
{who was party with Timothy Shelley and others) was
described as late of Turville-Park, then of Goring Park,

THE HrSTORY OF TURVILLE. 39
Esquire. The eldest son of this Union was created a
Baronet, and having assumed the additional surname and
arms of Sidney, became Sir John Shelley-Sidney, Bart., heir and
representative maternally of the Beaumonts and Beauchamps,
ancient Earls of Warwick ; and the Dudleys and Sidneys,
Earls of Leicester, and ancestor of Baron de LTsle and
Dudley. The following four children of Sir Bysshe, and Mrs.
Eli?. Jane Shelley, were born at Turville Park, Philip, Eobert,
Algernon Bysshe, and Eliz. Jane Caroline, wife of Eev. Joseph
Harris, Vicar of Turville ; while their two sons, Percy John
Borlace and Algernon Bysshe died there.
It is said that a curious coincidence of the Doctrine
which holds hereditary transmission, though often interrupted
during intervening generations, of mental as well as physical
resemblance, occurs in fact of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the
Poet, being in the Maternal line a descendant of the
Sidneys. By deeds of 6-7 June, 1796, and other assurances in the
law, Thomas Butlin, of Broad Street, London, Silkman,
purchased " from the Shelley family " Turville Park, where he
resided. He was born at Foloshill, near Coventry, in 1745,
but his family came from Northants, d at Denmark Hill,
Camberwell, 29 Oct., 1817, aged 72, and Ann, his wife, d at
Bath, 2 Jan., 1§24, aged 75, she being a member of the
Gloucestershire Family of Tombs. She by Will gave £50
to purchase stove for Parish Ch. at Turville, and £50 for
investment, the income to provide coals and fuel for same for
ever. The Arms of Thomas Butlin, at Turville, were Argent,
thrc, crescents gules, being similar to those of Buttevaillainc,
placed over Crowche Monument in St. Dunstan-in-tbe-West
Church, London. Under her husband's Will, of 22 Sep.,
1813, proved 26 Nov., 1817, she had life interest in Turvillo
Park and Estate, her eldest son, Thomas, having d at
Kennington, 12 May, 1813. aged 39, the Premises passed on

40 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
her death to son, John Butlin, of Broad Street, London, and
Westfield House, Ealing, (who m at St. Andrew's, Plymouth,
to Mary Mackrill, spinster), and his issue male or female in
Fee, with contingent like remainders to Testator's sons, the
Eev. Wm. B., of Trin. Coll., Camb., Eedruth, and Falmouth,
who d unm at Coventry, 15 Jan., 1848, and Hy. B., Esq ,
who lived and died at Cheltenham, where his widow, Mary
Ann B., d 30 March, 1850, by whom he had no issue.
Thomas Butliu's other children were: — M. M. B., m
25 Oct., 1809, Mary Ann, d of Hugh Gibson, Esq.,
of Watling Street; Jane B., who d unm at Cheltenham,
7 April, 1822 ; and Ann B., who became Mrs, Stather,
and whose daughter, Mrs. Johnson, went to America.
In some deeds, Lord Bellew is stated to have tenanted the
Mansion House at Turville Park, which by local Historians,
has been described as a respectable and large Mansion, also as
an ancient and picturesque building, built by Wm. Perry, of
Wormington and Penshurst, having had many additions built
at various times, standing on an eminence, about a mile from
Village of Turville, commanding extensive views of surround
ing country, being in a Deer Park extending to confines of
county. Charles Francois Du-Perier Do-Mooriez tenanted
Turville Park, for a few years, where he wrote his own Memoirs
and other literary works. Hew&s the celebrated French General,
born at Cambray 25 Jan., 1739, made England his last home,
being received here by the Government with generous hospitality,
living at Little Ealing, an outlying cluster of houses, between
Great Ealing and Brentford, but Mr. Thompson Cooper, F.S.A.,
is in error in stating he died there, for he died at Turville Park,
as proved by contemporaneous records, at 25 minutes past
two, on 14 March, 1S23, aged 85, after an illness, unaccom
panied with pain, following a rapid physical decline, being
buried at Henley close by, where Monument, with Latin
Inscription, was erected to his Memory, by his friend, John

the history of turville. 41
Bowring, his literary Legatee. John Butlin d 24 Mar., 1851,
aged 75, made his Will 29 Sep., 1850, whereby he devised
fee of Premises to son John Eose Butlin, of Bernard Street,
Eussell Square, who was bap at Whitchurch, Oxon, 8 Mar.,
1829, and d in June, 1865, on condition he leased same to
Baron Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of England, although
Testator had only apparently taken life interest in Turville
Park under Father's Will.
John Butlin's yog children were : Fras. Eoe B., Esq., of
Longwood, 47, Hamilton Eoad, Ealing, born at Turville Park,
20 Feb., 1835; Frances Emma B.,born at Kensington, 13 June,
1836 ; Charles and Mary B., who both d at Turville Park ;
and Eliz. Belcher B., born at Kensington, 14 Jan., 1839,
and d at Westfield House, 19 June, 1813, buried at Ealinf,
Baron Lyndhurst had been in tenancy of Turville Park from
Christmas 1840, his sister writing 28 Feb., 1841, said she and
her brother came to Turville Park in the coldest weather at
Christmas last, the House — of which a long lease was taken —
was unfurnished, being a very good one, with about 60 acres
of land, not then in very good order, but next summer would
bo beautiful; being in Buckinghamshire, six miles from
Henley-on-Thames, and eleven miles from a Eailway Station;
which made it very convenient as they could go from one
House to the other within three hours. In April following
she says they had hitherto seen Turville Park under great
disadvantage, but in summer it must be a beautiful situation,
and their nearest neighbour was between two and three miles
from them, while in September following she wrote they were
just comfortably settled at Turville, having 100 sheep, four
cows, and about 80 head of poultry, so that they were great
Farmers, and they all liked the place very much. From other
letters down to 1854, it appeared Lord Lyndhurst, while his
family were at Turville Park, used to run down from London
on Saturdays, after the rising of the Courts, there to dinner,
returning on Monday mornings in time for the Courts, which

42 the history of turville.
little holidays, one is told, conduced very materially to his
health, enabling him to go through with his hard work,
during which periods, and the long vacations, he was very
much occupied in improving the Gardens, and busy with his
Farm. That Sarah, (meaning bis eldest daughter, Sarah
Eliz., afterwards wife of Sir Hy. John Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt.),
had established a school for poor children who were too far
from Village to attend one there. His Lordship died 11 Oct.,.
1863, when some lines appeared of which I give the concluding
verse ; —
How many liuks break with his closing life,
And bid us count the few gray heads that stand ;
Land-marks of that half-century of strife,
Whose hard-won Conquests have enriched our Land.
The Bouteviliens were of Norman Origin, the name has
undergone, as Lower tells us, the following degradations :
Butvelin, Butwilliam, & Butlin. Sir William Boutevileiu,
Butellyn, &c, founder of Pigwell Abbey, dedicated to honor
of Virgin Mary, for Cistercian Monks, at end of Stephen or
beginning of Henry II., held Lordship of Cotesbrook,
North'ton, until Wm. Butvyleyn, Esq., d. s. p., when same
passed to his cousins and co-heirs, in the children of the
sisters of his father, Eobert Butvyleyn, Esq., who d 9 H.V.
Francis Butvelin, alias Butlin, of Hollowell, gent, d 14 Sep.,
1680, and Mr. John Butlin, of Hollowell, was buried 29 March,
1682, both at Guilsboro'. The family is found at Eavensthorp,
where are buried, among others whose names cannot now be
discerned (excepting in the Eegisters) as several slabs are
obliterated, the following: John B. d 24 Dec, 1663; John B.
d 11 Aug., 1728, aged 90; John B. d 21 Aug., 1797, aged 67;
Mary, his wife, d 4 Sept., 1800, aged 74 — arms: A bar beiw.
.3 crescents ; and also at Whilton, Eliz., w of Mr. John B., A
11 Dec, 1674 — arms : A chev. betw. 3 decresccnts; Eliz., d of
John and Eliz. B., d I678, aged 16 ; Thos., s of Wm. Langton
B., and Frances, his w, d £5 Mar., 1740, aged 9 ; Wm. Langton

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 43
B. d 6 May, 1741, aged 41, and Francos B., his w, d 1759,
aged 52 — arms: 3 crescents impaling fess surmounted by a
bend. The Eose Family resided at Wliilton, and the Langtons
at Eavensthorp, at both placos the name is written Butlin.
In reign of E.I., Butevileyn occurs in Somersetshire, and
Sir Eobert Buteveleyn, as appears from a deed, had an interest
in rents in Wycombe, Bucks, acquired on his marriage. John
Butlin, of Gt. Brington, Northants, had a son Eev. Wm. B.,
b 1755, B.A. 1778, M.A. 1780, for 58 years perpetual curate
of Eoade, and 49 years same of Hartwell, he d 1340, aged 85 ;
his son, Eev. Wm. B., was b 1789, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1811,
and vicar of St. Sepulchre, Northants ; ho m 1823, when of
Blisworth, Caroline, d of T. Butcher, Esq., of Northampton ;
at Eoade, d 14 Aug., 1853, Martha, yog d of the late Eev. W.
Butlin, vicar there. Eev. W. Butlin resigned Cooknoe Eectory,
Northants, in December, 1812. Mr. Joseph Butlin, Master
of Free School and Landlord of Star and Garter Inn, Watford,
Northants, d 14 Sep., 1808. At Braunston, Northants, resided
Geo. Allen Butlin, of Eoyal Dragoons, who m at Clifton-upon-
Dunsmore, 23 Nov., 1866, Lydia Maria, eld d of Eev. S.
Newall, M.A , Vicar of C.-upon-D. James Butlin, Esq., of
Westfield Ho., Warwick, m at Grantham. 20 May, 1840, Lucy,
o d of Eev. J. G. Thompson, of White Soothing. James, eld
s of James Butlin, of Eugby, gent, was b 1851, B.A. 1871,
M.A. 1880. Chas. Butlin, of Eugby, banker, d at Leamington,
29 Sep., 1843, bis widow, Lydia Butlin, m at St. Geo. Han.
Sq., 5 Aug., 1847, Barwell Ewins Bennett, Esq., of Marston
Ho., Northampton. I am preparing a pedigree of this old
and respected Norman Family.
Mr. John EocE Butlin (who had a 3on born in Bernard
St., 2 March, 1959), alienated Turville Park Estate, to Mr. ('.
Garner Eichardson, of Whitehayos, Burton, Christchurch,
Hants ; who conveyed to Mr. C. Scholefield, of Aukerwycke,
Wraisburg; who granted to Stafford O'Brien-Hoare Esq., J. P.,
D.L., High-Sheriff for Bucks 1S93-4, who resides at Turville

44 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
Park, and who, as proprietor thereof, has the side Chapel or
private Aisle, in St. Mary's Church — said by Kelly to be a
small building of stone in the Norman style, with chancel,
nave, north transept, south porch, an ivy-clad tower built of
flint, and to which church Mr. O'Brien-Hoare presented the
Organ — at Turville exclusively as his own, same containing
his own family pew — a square one, with curtains, fire place,
and table in it — and servants' pews. The well in Turville
Park is dated 1308.
Henry W. Aldked,
Gimalogkjl Writir <£>• Ricord Researcher.

BADLESMEEES-HOLDEES OF FEEE-WAEEEN AND
LAND IN TUEVILLE.

The grant of free-warren from the Crown vested in grantee
right to appoint warrener to preserve game who was justified
by ancient usage in killing dogs, cats, and vermin, and giving
grantee property in such wild animals, or inferior species of
game, deemed to be beasts of warren, such as hares, roe, and
rabbits; and fowls of warren such as pheasants, partridges, quail,
rail, woodcock, heme, mallard, Sic, grouse being held not to be
birds of warren. The grantee had sole and exclusive right to kill
game, within limits granted, ou preventing others from killing
it ; he was only a royal game-keeper, not a trespasser if he
went ou other persons property, over which grant extended,
but in trespass against game-keeper of Lord of Manor, he
had to prove right of entry by production of grant of free-
warren (which he must be in due exercise of) from the Crown.
Looking at grant of Abbey Manor to Edmond Harman, which
-stated that Manor was 6 miles from any parks, forests, and
chases, while trees would barely satisfy for timber to repair
as therein stated, it appears that Turville was merely a clear
open country as its name would imply. The non-exercise of
free-warren in Turville by grantee, undoubtedly, gave pre-

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 45
rogative right to kill game, beasts, and fowls of warren, to
vest in respective Lords of Turville.
Bartholomew, Baron De Badlesmere, of Leeds Castle,
Kent, called le Biche, was s and It, of Gosceliuus B., aged 26,
on father's death 29 E. I., had grant of Free- Warren and one
carucate of land in Turville. He was captured in Arms at
Buroughbridge, attainted of Treason, hanged, drawn, and
quartered at Canterbury 1322 : his head set upon a pole at
Burgate. He m Margaret, d and co-hr of Tho. [third s of
Tho. second] s of Eic de Clare. 6th Earl Hertford and 2nd
Glo'ster, she 1 E. III., petitioned for recovery of husband's
Laud in Turville, and had been with him and children
imprisoned in the Tower, when released after his execution
she entered Abbey of Nuns of Order of St. Clare, called the
Minories, without Aldgate in suburbs of London, having
obtained such Lands and Manors as were settled on husband
and herself for lives and his heirs in fee, or settled for
her Dowry, the other Lands being retained by the Crown.
Her I.P.M. taken 5 E. III. They had issue :—
(I.) Giles, Baron Badlesmere, s and h, aged 15, 1328 ; had seisen
to above settled lands and partly restored to father's
inheritance 1333 ; d. s. p. 1337 ; seised interalia — of lands in
Turville, leaving four sisters, co-heiresses; I.P.M. takeu
13 E. III.; he in, Eliz., d of Wm. Montacute, ist Earl
Salisbury 1336, King of Man, and Earl Marshall. She rem
Hugh le Dispenser, (who d 23 E. III.), and Guy, Lord Bryan,
of Tor Bryan, Devon, great Military Commander against
the Scots, &c, temp E. III.; King's Valet 1330; Gov.
of St. Briavell's Castle and Warden of Forest of Dean
1341; K.G. 1349, d 17 Aug., 1390; buried under Tomb in
Tewkesbury Church.
(II.) Elizabeth B. made Will 31 May, 135C, desiring to be buried
in Choir cf Friars' Preachers, London ; aged 25, 1338 ; ct
9 June, 137S; buried before high altar in old Church of
Black Friars, near Ludgate, London ; she 711 Edmund
Mortimer, Knighted at Coronation of E. III. ; never
succeeded as Earl March, but summoned to Parliament as

46 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE
Lord Mortimer 20 Nov., 1331 ; d at Stanton Lacy, 26
Jan., 1332, buried at Wigmore. His descendant Edmond,
Earl March, m Lady Anne Plantaganet, (bap. at Elthani
16 Aug., 29 E. III.), ancestors of Princess Aune, (sister of
E. IV. and R. III.), whose d, Anne St. Leger, m Sir Geo.
Manners, Lord Roos, (ancestor of Dukes and Earls of
Rutland), whose descendant, Lady Dorothy Manners 1:1
Baptist Noel, third Earl Gainsboro', from whom descended
Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., a descendant of de Clares
and Badlesmeres. Eliz. Badlesmere afterwards in Wm.
de Bohun, created Earl Northampton 1337; 5th s of
Humphrey de Bohun (4th Earl Hereford and Essex and
High Constable of England), by Princess Elizabeth, 7th d
of E. I., ancestors of Dukes of Ormonde. Earl Northamp
ton was King's Lieut, and Capt. Gen. in Brittany 1342 ;
Gov. of Lochmaben Castle 1343 ; Commander at Cressy
1346 ; d 13 Sep., 1360 ; interred in Walden Abbey, on
north-side of Presbytery, his d and co-hrs, vi::., Eleanor in
Thos., Duke Glo'ster, and Mary, to Hy., Earl Derby,
afterwards Henry IV. Eliz., Countess Northampton's
representation merged in the Crown temp E. IV.
(III.) Maud B. m (1) Robert Fitz- Paine, and (2) John de Vere, 7th
Earl Oxford and Sth Lord Great Chamberlain, who d
before Walls of Rheims 24 Jan., 1360, seized of larg<>
Landed Possessions in Bucks. Robert Bertie, ist Earl
Lindsey, ancestor of Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., claimed
in right of mother — interalia — the Barony of Badlesmere.
Margaret, d of this Earl and Countess Oxford, in (1) Hv.,
Lord Beaumont (who d 1369), (2) Sir Nic. Louvaine, of
Burstowe, Kt., who made his Will 20 Sep., 1375, desiring
to be buried in Penshurst Ch., or in Abbey of uur Lady ot
Grace by Tower of London; and (3) Sir John Devereux,
Steward of Royal Household, with whom she was buried
under raised Tomb, near altar of Grey Friars' Church,
London. Sir Nic. Louvaine, had by his first wife,
Margaret, 1/ of John Beresford, Citizen of London, widow
of Sir John Pulteney, Kt., a dau, Margaret, wliu 111 Sir Ric.
Chamberlaine, who settled at Sherborne, and had a j
and h, Ric. C, ¦who by Sibilla, d of Ric. Fowler, was lather

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 47
of Sir Edward C, ancestor of Mary C, wife to Sirs Thos.
Gage and Hy. Goring. Sir Ric. C, husband of Margaret
Louvaine, was s of Sir Ric. C, by Joan, his wife, d of Sir
John Reynes, of Reyncs, and grandson of Sir John C, by
Joan Morteyn shewn hereafter. Margt. Louvaine, wife to
Sir Ric. C, was widow of Sir Philip St. Clerc, of Aldham»
St.-Clere, in Ightham, father of Thomas, of Aston Clinton,
Bucks, whose d Eliz. or Eleanor, m Sir Thos. Gage, of
Burstowc, where he inherited large estates, and at
Penshurst and in Bucks, being ancestor of Sir Thos. Gage,
who m Mary Chamberlaine.
(IV.) Margaret B., m Sir John Tiptoft, alias Tibetob, 2nd Baron 5
summoned to Parliament 1335-66 ; Gov. of Berwick upon
Tweed 20 E. III.; acquired on marriage large Landed
Property, d 1367. Their s Roger, bro and h to John, their
s and h, was 21 in 36 E. III., having been born at
Nettlestod, Suffolk, on Feast of St. Barnabus the Apostle^
15 E. III.
(V.) Margery B., m Tho. Arundel, presumably yog s of Ralph A.,
by Jane his wife, d and h of Michael Trerice. She m (2)
Wm. Lord Ros, of Hamelake, (who d 17 E. III.), from
whom descended the Lords Ros, whose heir-general,
Thomas Manners, was created Earl Rutland, 18 June,
15-5- Like leaves on trees the life of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground,
SllEXSTONIT.

HOAEE-O'BEIEN-EAMSDEN.

" The Gaudy Deckings of the Earth,
Do every Spring receive new Birth ;
But Life when fled has no return,
In Vain we sigh, in Vain we Mourn."
(Extract from Epitaph in Stow Bardolph Church.)
Stafford O'Bkien-Hoake, Esq., is descended from Sir
Eichard Hoare, KnigJit, (from whom the Baronets of Stourhead

48 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
descend), through his eldest son, Eichard Hoare, Esq. Mr.
Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, is grandson of : —
Wm. Hy. Hoare, of Broomfield-House, Battersea, and
Mileham Grove, Esq., b 2 March, 1776, d 18 Sep., 1819,
having m 10 Feb., 1807, the Hon. Louisa Elizabeth Noel,
lineally descended from Alfred the Great, King of England;
likewise from the Kings of Scotland as being descended from
the Morteyns and Badlcsmcres ; and she was dau cf Sir
Gerard Noel, formerly Edioards, of Exton Park, Eutland,
(who inherited tho 6th Earl of Gainsborough's Estates and
assumed surname of Noel only, in lieu of Edwards, by sign-
manual in 1780), by Lady Diana Middleton, Baroness Barham
in her own right, as d and h of Sir Charles Barham, Baron
Barham, of Barham-Court and Teston, Kent; she died 6 Ap.,
1816, and had a son :—
Gerard Noel Hoare, of 27, Gloucester-Place, Hyde
Park, Esq., b 5 May, 1811, Mag. for Middx., formerly of
E.N., served in battle of Naverino, 20 Oct., 1827 ; m 11
March, 1834, his cousin Sophia Lilias yog dau of Stafford
O'Brien, of Blatherwycke, Northants, Esq., (descended
through Hy. O'Brien, of Stone Hall, Co-Clare, who d 15 Jan.,
1722-3, by Susannah, his wife, d and co-hr of Wm. Stafford,
Esq., of Blatherwycke, from the ancient Kings of Ireland), by
the Hon. Emma Noal, his wife, sister of the above Hon. Louisa
Elizabeth Noel. Their son : —
Stafford O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., of Turville-Park, Bucks,
J.P., D.L. for Bucks, High Sheriff for Bucks 1893-4, was b
23 Feb., 1843, m 19 Ap., 1876, Frances Matilda Anne, dau of
Bev. Chas. Hy. Eamsden, (by Mary his wife, second dau of
Bev. Hy. Hamilton Beamish, of Mount-Beamish, Ireland), of
Carlton, descended from an old Yorkshire Family — of which
Sir John Win. Bamsdcn, Bart., of Byroni, Yorks, is the Head,
and who m 2 Aug., 1865, Lady Helen Guendolen, yog dan of
the Most Noble, E die ard Adolphus, 12th Duke of Somerset,
K.G. — Mr. and Mrs. Stafford O'Jlrieu-Hoarc, have issue, an
only dau and heiress : — ¦

the history of turville. 49
Lilias Frances Matilda Stafford O'Brien-Hoare,
born 29 Feb., 1880.
Another race the following spring supplies,
They fall successive and successive rise. — Shenstone.
The Baronetcies, until after 1878, did not contend that
the Baronets ot Annabelle were collaterals of the Stourhead
Baronets, or that either were in any way connected with
Devonshire, merely stating that a Henry Hoare, was father
of Sir E, Hoare, Kt., and starting the Annabelle family with
Major Edward and Lieut. Abraham Hoare, who were in
Ireland in 1649.
The Crucial Point with the Stourhead Branch is the
clear identity of above Henry Hoare, who it is alleged came
from Walton, Bucks, and settled in St. Botolphs, Aldersgate,
as a Banker, but this requires legal confirmation. For in
1581, a date anterior to above alleged migration, John Hoare
was citizen and banker of London. The Hoares were in
Smithfield, in Clerkenwell, in 16th Century, and I have
reason to believe earlier, when Wm. Hoare had lands and
tenements in Long Lane there, reversion of which, after
death of his wife Agnes he specifically devised. In 1537-8,
Bic. Hoare was citizen of London, being owner of good ship
" Valentine '' df London ; on 1 Jan., 1622-3 Henry Hoare m at
St. Antholin's, London, Joan Barber, by whom he had : (1)
Mary, bap. 1 Ap., 1627, buried 28 May, 1630, and (2) Abraham,
bap. 12 Oct., 1631. On 1 Nov., 1665, Joan, wife of Abraham
Hoare, was buried at St. Mary Aldermary, London; Abraham
being a common name in the Hoares of Clerkenwell, who first
appear in the Eegisters there in 1653 down to modern time. A
curious Inscription at Hayes, Kent, concludes thus : —
" Full XVIII. yeeres a rector heere he was, and then John Hoare
Unwedd, deceast one thousand yeeres fyve hundred eightie fower,
The XI. daie of Februarie,
When he had lyv'd LX. score and three."
In Ireland the Hoares can be traced from time of the

50 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
Normans, and a family lived in Co-Cork at least 150 years
before the alleged migration. James Hoare was an exporter
to Ireland 1577, and 1588 was citizen of and held land in
¦Cork. The description of gentleman is given to various
members, many held Ligh appointments, and landed estates
were called after the name of the family. I do not contend
that all of the name in Ireland sprang from one common
ancestor. For the benefit of the Baronet families, their numerous
descendants, and every one of the name, I have collected
records from every conceivable source, which I am preparing
for the Press. So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away
Shenstone.
Mrs. Stafford O'Brien-Hoare is lineally descended
from Robert Ramsclen Esq., of Osberton, Notts, who served as
an officer in the Army in Flanders, being present at battles
of Dittengcn and Fontenoy, who m Elizabeth, d and h of
John Smyth, of Heath, near Wakefield, and had an eldest
s and h : —
Eobert Eamsden Esq., of Carlton Hall, Notts, who m
Elizabeth, d of Charles Appleby, of Barton, near Barrow,
Lincoln, widow of Abel Smith, of Wilford, brother of Bobert,
iirst Lord Carrington, and had an eld. s : —
Eobert Eamsden, Esq., of Carltou, J.P., High Sheriff
1837, who m Frances Matilda, doiJohnPlumptre, of Fredville,
Kent, Esq., and had interalia: —
Eev. Charles Henry Eamsden, second son, who m
.Mary, second dau of Bev. Henry Hamilton- Beamish, of
Mount Beamish, Ireland, and had interalia : —
Frances Matilda Anne Eamsden, wife to Stafford
O'Brien-Hoare, Esq., of Turville-Park.
The above Eobert Eamsden, of Osberton, was 4th son
-of Sir Wm. Eamsden, 2nd Baronet, (of Byrom and Lougley

the history of turville. 51
Hall,) whose eldest great-grandson, John Charles Eamsden,
Esq., (of Buckden in Arncliffa and Newby Hall ii Topcliffe.)
had d in lifetime of father, Sir John, 4th Baronet, having m
Isabella, yog dau of Thomas, 1st Baron Dundas of Aske,
father of first Earl Zetland, by Lady Charlotte, his wife, d
of Wm. ,3rd Earl Fitz- William in Ireland, by his Countess,
Anne, d and co-hr of Thoma3 Watson Wentworth, Marquess
of Eockingham, great-grandson of Lewis Watson, 1st Lord
Eockingham, by Lady Eleanor, his wife, d of Sir Geo.
Manners, Kt., of Haddon, great-grandson of George Manners,
Lord Eoos of Hamelake, by Lady Anne, his wife, d and h of
Sir Thomas St -Leger, Kt., by Anne, his wife, Duchess of
Exeter, sister of Ed. IV. £ Etc. III., and d of Eic. Plantaganet,
Duke of York, Protector of England, great-grandson of Ed. Ill;
whose son Edmund Plantaganet, Duke of York and Earl of
Cambridge, was baptised by Abbot, of St. Albans.
By which Marriage, said J. C. Eamsden, Esq , became
allied to the Illustrious-Houses of Eutland, Hainault, Castile,
March, Westmoreland, Strafford, Winchilsea and Nottingham ;
and gentle families of Paston, Vernon, Pierrepoint and Proby.
The Family intermarried into the Noble-Houses of
Headfort, Strafford, Irwin, Ducie, Ellenborough, Hawke, and
Muncaster, besides into many respectable gentle families of
Yorkshire and elsewhere.
The Eamsdens are supposed to have descended from
the Eamsdens of Crawstone, in township of Gretland, where
they continued to reside, as evidenced from several Inscrip
tions to their memory. In Eland Chapel their Arms are
painted on an escutcheon, as well as in a MS. Pedigree at
New Grange and elsewhere, but in Collin's Peerage the Earns*
Heads are said to have been erased.
Wm. Eamsden, Esq., who resided at Longley-Hall,
purchased at the dissolution of Monasteries, considerable
Possessions, and having no Issue, his younger brother, John,
Succeeded to his immense Landed Property, and he and his

52 the history of turville.
eldest male line have resided at Longley-Hall since 1580, an
Estate which passed from the Wood Family, which ended in
Females, one of the co-heiresses having m the above William
.s and h of Eobert Eamsden, Esq., of Elland, Progenitor of
Sir John Eamsden, of Byrom and Longley-Hall, who was
created a Baronet, by Patent, 30 Nov., 1689, and m Elizabeth,
2nd dau of John, Viscount Lonsdale, and sister and co-heiress
of her brother Hy., 3rd Visct. Lonsdale.
This John Eamsden — heir of brother William the
Purchaser— had, in 1585, Arms assigned to him, having
allusion to the Wood Family, and his own name, which had
then become Eamsden instead of the old style " Eomysden,"
but the Coat Armour in Guillim is said to have been granted
him by Wm. Flower, Norroy, in 1575, he died 3 July, 1591*
being buried at Almondbury, in which Parish Longley-Hall is
situated. This Eldest Grandson, Sir John Eamsden, (grandfather
of the first Baronet,) w-as Colonel in service of Charles I.,
having been previously (12 Aug., 1619) Knighted at Notting
ham, was Sheriff of Yorks 1636, Eepreseuted Pomfret in
Parliament 1628 and 1640, being taken Prisoner in Selby
Fight 1644, Committed to Tower for High Treason 31 May ;
Eeleased 14 Aug. following; died in Newark Castle, and
buried in Newark Parish Church 27 March, 1646, having m
Margaret, dau of Peter Frecheville, of Stavely, Co-Derby,
whose Posterity eventually became Eepresentatives of John,
Lord Frecheville. I am engaged on a Pedigree of the
Eamsdens previous to the reformation, shewing the earliest
entry to be found in the Eecords of the name.

EAELY MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
In 2-3 E. I. in the suits of Eic. Folyot against Hy. de
Brully ; and of Hy. de Brully and Katherine, his wife, against
Eic. Folyot, concerning tenements, messuage, and land in
Turville, (Tyrrefeud, Turefeud, Tirefeld), Bucks, the Justices

the history of turville. 53
then named, were appointed to take assize of novel disscisen*
{a remedy for recovery when disseised or dispossessed),
assize of mort d'ancestor, (a writ that lay when a stranger
abated on freeholds after death of one's predecessor in title),
and to take a Jury.
M. 2, E. II., fine passed between Ealph and Eobert
Kenebelle, of Tyrfeld, of messuage and land there.
51, E. III., fine passed between Thomas and Drugon
Barentyn, Wm. Dethick, John de Corbrig, Eeg. de Grey
(probably son of Eeg., Lord Grey, of Euthin), and Eliz., his
wife, of Woodland and Eents in Tirfield.
T. 6, E. II., fine passed between John Salveyn, Agnes
his wife, Wm. Brully, and Agnes, his wife, of toft, rent, &c.
in Tirefeld ; Langley mentions a charter he perused concern
ing the Salveyns.
10, H. IV., Eichard Sewell, of Tirfield, party to deed.
T. 7, H. VI., fine passed between Eic. Hardwell, Wm.
Bulstrode, Edm. Brudenell, Eic. Hertelpole, Joan his wife,
and John Foulmer, of Heggele, concerning messuage, land and
Eent in Tyrfeld.
The Copes of Hanwell mentioned in the Turville-Court
Title, were descended through an old Bucks family, who were
also of Denshanger in Northants. John Cope, who was bom
temp E. III., was twice Sheriff and five times Knight in
Parliament, his property was settled under charter of 12 Dec,
2, H. V., in trust for Johanne his wife and remainder to his
right heirs, his I.P.M. was taken 2, H. V., his feoffees being
John Longeville, John Warrewyck, and Eobert Spenser, the
King granting Iris license to him and them. In 1393 a fine
passed from John Neweuham to John Cope and wife, and
their heir, as heirs of the Hansteads, of Hanstead Manor
in Adstock, Bucks, which Joan Cope held for life as her
jointure and died in 1436. Their s and h John O, was born
1399, aged 18, in 1417, when his father died, and he d s. p>-
in 1435, when his brother, Stephen C, was his heir, and

54 the history of turville.
succeeded on mother's death to Hanstead Manor, as s and h
then aged 24. Stephen Cope, as appears from his I.P.M., d
20 July, 23, H. VI., leaving John Cope, s and h aged 10 on 8
July, 23, H. VI., and seised of Haddestocke Manor with
appurts and other lands in Bucks. Stephen Cope's line ended
in a female in his great granddaughter, Anne Cope, who m
(1) Wm. Lovett, of Astwell, and (2) John Heneage, of Towse.
Through Stephen Cope's brother, Wm. Cope, who m Anne, d
of Wm. Gossage, of Spratton, sprang Wm. Cope, Cofferer to
H. VII., who d 7 Ap., 1513, ancestor of the Copes of
Bedhampton, (from whom sprang the Copes of Marden, Wilts),
the Copes of Hanwell and Cannons Ashby, from whom (as
shewn in a large Pedigree I have compiled) sprang numerous
descendants settled in many places.

TUEVILLE-CODET-MANOE.

With History of the Church and Advowson, Appendants to this Manor.

Last o'er the Urn the sacred Earth they spread,
And rais'd the Tomb, memorial of the Dead. — Homer.
When William the Norman settled here he conferred
Estates of those Saxon Thanes, who fell at Hastings, on his
principal Followers, as Feuds held of him by Fealty, Homage,
and Military Services; the Grantees being English Nobles,
who were either territorial or territorial and official ; the King
was still considered in some sense, the Proprietor, and was
called the Lord Paramount, the lands not being given freely,
but for services to be performed, and if broken the King had
his right to escheats, but the Baron of old was like a King with
in his little territory. They were generally Lords of Manors,
King John's Magna Charta proving all Lords of Manors cr
Barons holding in chief, were bound to attend the King's
Court, but temp H. III., they were particularly summoned by
writ. The loss of ancient Grants of Wm. I. and his Sons,

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE, 55
together with silence of Doomsday, makes it impossible to
prove for certain to whom these Demesnes were granted on
the Norman Invasion.
I venture to think this Manor may have been part
possessions of Algar, Earl Mercia, who being disinherited,
because, unlike other original Saxon Owners who were
allowed to retain their Estates under the Norman feudal
system, he had not sworn to be faithful to the Conqueror as
his Lord, when same was granted to Queen Maud by Wm. I.,
it descending, by consent of the Crown, on her death to son,.
Henry I., who passed same in honour of Gloucester to natural
son, Eobert of Mellent, created Earl Glo'ster on marriage
with Mabel, eld dau of Eobert Fitzhamon, (grantee of same
Honor from Wm. I.), and dying 1147 was succeeded by
son, Wm., Earl Glo'ster, who d leaving daughters only, who
were : —
(i) Isabelle, second wife to King John, created Earl Glo'ster by
brother, King Richard, and was divorced, she re-marrying
Geoffry Mandeville, Earl Essex, who became Earl Glo'ster.
(2) Mabel, whose s Americ, after Geoffry's death, became Earl
Glo'ster.
(3) Amey m Gilbert de Clare, created Earl Glos'ter 1217. He had
Scutage, 7 H. III., of all tenants by Military Service in
Bucks, where he was in possession of Hambledon and
other neighbouring Parishes, Manors, Advowsons, Right?,
Privileges, and Emoluments, held of the Crown in Chief.
He died in 1230.
Qceen Maud, or Matilda, was dau of Baldwin V., Count
of Flanders, 6th iii descent from Alfred the Great, ancestor of
Margaret wife of Malcolm III., King of Scotland, father of
Matilda, first wife to Henry I., and also ancestor of the Bruces,
who intermarried with the Clares and Morteyns.
In 39 H. III., an Iuq. was taken before the Justice
Itinerant for Bucks, enquiring — interalia — into particulars of
Holdings in Tyrifeld, when nothing was then known, save that
Eichard, Lord Earl Glo'ster, s of above Gilbert, 1st Earl,

56 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE
after service on him of a Writ of Eight, to which he appeared,
and while the case was suhjudicc, held, by his Bailiff, an
enquiry at Marlow, (holden also of the Honor of Gloucester),
concerning right touching said Writ, acting on bis own
authority as if in contempt of the King, in whose Shire Court
the cause was then pending.
Eichard, 2nd Earl Glo'ster, had thus laid claim to
demesne Lands in Turville, which somewhat confirms my
contention that Turville demesnes were held of the Honor of
Gloucester, dying July 1262, when his son, Gilbert, became
3rd Earl, and m Joan of Arc, who afterwards married Ealph
Monthermer, created Earl Glo'ster and Hertford, during
minority of his step-son, Gilbert, s of Gilbert, 3rd Earl Glo'ster,
and said Joan his %vife, ancestress of Sir Hy. Norreys, Lord
Norreys, who in Margaret, d and co-hr of Sir John, Lord
Williams, of Thame, represented by Jephson-Norreys Baronets ;
and also ancestress of extinct Noble House of Montague, and
extant ones of Manchester, Eokeby, and Sandwich.
Isabelle de Clare, sister of Eichard, Earl Glo'ster, m
(1244) Eobert Bruce, Lord of Annandale, descended from the
before named Malcolm HI., King of Scotland, and whose s,
Bernard Bruce, (brother of Eobert Bruce, Lord of Annandale
and Earl Cannock, who m (1271) Margaret, Countess of Car-
rick), was Lord of Connington and Exton, and d in August,
1266, having m Constance, who survived, and m Eobert
Morteyn, who d 27 E. I.
In 15 H. III., after death of 1st Earl Glo'ster, there was
respite of Plaint between Eeginald Basset, Agues his w-ife
(probably a de Clare), and Isabelle dc Tyrefeld, (also probably
a de Clare), concerning Customs, &c, in Tyrefeld Lawrence de
Tyrefeld, being attorney for said Isabelle against said Eeginald
and Agnes. In Mich., 32 H. III., a fine passed between
Eadus de Merstone and Isabelle de Thircfcld of land in
Thirefeld, Bucks, Nigellus de Merstone had given the church
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the Family had an Interest in Soil here. Later on John da
Tirefeld had, under Will made 14 Feb., 1348, of Wm. Palmer,
blader, Testator's Granary at Henle (on Thames), subject to
said John, paying Id. every Sunday for six years, to a poor
person, and afterwards six marks to a Chaplain, in Parish Ch.
of St. Mildred-the-Virgin, London, where Testator was buried
in 1356, as shewn by Monument to his Memory, which formerly
stood in that Church, he being benefactor thereto.
The above Bernard Bruce's line ends in Jane Bruce, wife
of Sir Nic. Green, whose d and h, Joan Green, m Sir
Thomas Culpeper, whose d and h Catherine C, of Exton, m
Sir John Harington, whose descendant Sir John H, was
heir-general of only Cadet Branch of the Eoyal Bruces, and
in Lucy, d of Sir Wm. Sidney, of Penshurst; through his d
Elizabeth Harington, by her husband, Sir Edw. Montague,
of Boughton, are represented the Noble Houses of Montague,
Manchester, Sandwich, Feversham, Monson and Sondes,
besides Cholmeley Baronets.
Langley was in error in presuming Constance Morteyn
was second wife to Wm. Morteyn, who predeceased his only
wife, Joan, d and co-hr of Philip Marmion and of her mother,
-Joan, d and co-hr of Hugh Kilpec, Lord of Kilpec. Joan
Morteyn d 13 Aug., 1295, her I.P.M. was held at Pulverbatch
31 Aug., 1295, proving she d. s. p. ; ber father had d 5 Dec,
1291, his I.P.M. was taken at Shrewsbury 14 Jan., 1292, she
being called eld dau, aged 36, widow of Wm. Morteyn, who
had d 11 E. I., without issue of his body by said Joan his
wife, when his Possessions passed, subject to her life interest
therein, to his next heir, Eoger, son of Eoger Morteyn, who had
completed his full age of 21 years 12 E. I. Agatha was the
wife of Constance Morteyn's son, Bernard Bruce, and an
Agatha de Brus sued Eoger Morteyn.
Constance Morteyn's son, Bernard Bruce, fZ in Nov.,
1300, and his I.P.M. was taken in May, 1319, when it was
found that he had held Exton Manor of the gift of his mother,

58 THdE HISTORY OF TURVILLE
Constance Morteyn, frequently called, in ancient records,
Lady Constance Morteyn, widow of Lord Bernard Bruce,
confirmed as his wife in Old Bruce Pedigree, and as wife of
Eobert Morteyn in old Morteyn Pedigree.
From the Proceedings, which Constance Morteyn
brought against St. Alban's Abbey, it is clear she was Lady
of Turville Court in 1276. As (on page 18) she claimed
Church in Turville as her right, but withdrew her demand,
proving the Abbey's right to same, which so continued until the
dissolution. The Eectory, therefore, belonged to the Abbey,
the Abbots being rectors of the parish, and their nominees,
Vicars. Thus the Abbots received the tithes and profits.
leaving cure of souls to some poor priest as Vicar or deputy,
until statutes of 15 E. II. and 4 H. IV., which provided that
Vicars should be sufficiently endowed where any Eectory was
thus appropriated. Thus the Eectory together with advowson
of Vicarage belonged to the Abbey until the dissolution, when
same became severed from St. Alban's Manor by H. VIIL,
and regranted ; the patrons being, undoubtedly, the landowners
in, sometimes called inhabitants of, Turville.
In 1254 when the Norwich Taxation of first fruits and
tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices was made, the Eectory of
Turville was assessed at 12 marks and Vicarage at 5 marks,
which was confirmed in valuation cf Pope Nicholas IV. in
1291, a basis which formed the valuation down to the dissolu
tion. In 14-15 E. III. the assessment of Ninths in Turville
made by John ate Wcstevdc, Eobert ate Eovthcndc, Mathew ate
Wyndgate, Thomas Underwode, John Duolcschnc, and John
le Swcyn, were returned at 12 marks, but they allowed a
considerable abatement and account was rendered only for
7 marks for reasons they advanced, the parish suffering
severely (like Bucks generally) through greater portion of tho
land being unproductive and uncultivated, scarcity of sheep
and Limbs, severity of Winter and mildew which damaged
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THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 59
the living was returned at £9 9s. 9£d., and clear yearly value
at £20, being discharged from first fruits and tenths, since
when the income has varied in amount. The Inhabitants of
Turville have been patrons since the reformation until 1794,
when Bishop of Lincoln appears to have presented to, at
least, 1833, the Bishop being called patron in that year
(Gorton). In 1813 the Eectory was in severalties together
with advowson of Vicarage (Lysons), in 1843 the patrons
were the Proprietors of land in Turville (Pari. Gaz.), while in
1849 the patron was Joseph Bailey, Esq , and above Pro
prietors were Impropriators (Lewis), and is now (1894) iu
alternate gifts of various persons. Thus it is we find the
various Lords of Turville acting frequently as patrons since
the reformation. In 9 E. II. Constance Morteyn granted this Manor to her
son Eustace, who is so-called in said old Morteyn Pedigree,
and in same year Bartholomew Badlesmere had grant of
free-warren in Turville. In right window of Turville Ch.,
Langley shews Arms of Morteyn as existing.
This Eustace Morteyn, Lord of Turville-Court, had a
brother, John, father of John M., who m Joan d and h of
Eic Ekeney, of Ekeney, whose issue were : —
(i) Sir John M, who had apparently an only child : — John M,
whose I.P.M., was taken 3, R. II.
(2) Thomas M, whose wife's xtian name was Margaret.
<3) Edmund M, a clerk, whose wife was Alice Merstone, which
shews some inkling to the Merstones being at Turville ;
Ric. Merstone was attorney, with Tho. Morteyn, for Jol n
Morteyn, when he went beyond the seas in 1331-2.
(4) Joane M, who ;;; Sir John Chamberlaine, whose descendants
have been shewn to 1653.
(5) Alice M, who m  Williamson of I-Iender-Lovcll, oh. %.p. as
the Pedigree says.
(6) Lucia M, m Sir John Gifford, lit.
The above Eustace Morteyn, Lord of Turville-Court, had
two sons :—

60 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
(i) Eustace M, Lord of Turville-Court, whose son, Thomas, was
Lord in 1352, d without heirs-male in 1361, when his wife,
Margaret, had possession till her decease.
(2) Roger M, appears not to have inherited, having died while
possessed by elder male line, but his son Richard, succeeded
on death of his cousin's widow, Margaret. Richard d 1395,
when his son, William, became Lord and granted lease of
Manor in 1406 to John Morteyn, in trust for Lessor's
daughter, Joan, who eventually m Alan Boteler, of Bad
minton, they jointly holding same in 1412, according to
evidence adduced by Mr. Langley.
The Botelers were seated at Badminton for over 400
years, one Ealph Pincerna having adopted Boteler as his
surname temp H. I., from his office of Butler to Eobert, Earl
of Mellent and Leicester, being called le Butiler. The Eev.
John Butler, a clergyman in Northants, and an esteemed
antiquary, contended Eichard I., Duke of Normandy, had a
son, Eichard, Earl Clare, cupbearer to William the Conqueror,
which Earl Clare's two youngest sons, Eobert and Eichard,
took surname of Bouteillers from their office. This Earl Clare
was undoubtedly identical with Eichard Fitz-Gilbert, created
Earl Clare in 1087, ancestor of above Earls of Glo'ster.
From Ealph descended Alan Boteler, who in Joan
Morteyn. Alan was introduced as a christian name by-
Thomas B., whose wife was a relative of Edmond Fitz-Alan,
Earl of Arundel, (of an ancient family closely connected with
history of St. Alban's Abbey), who had guardianship of
Thomas' son, Alan Boteler, first so-named in family, and
under age at father's death.
This Alan had a s and h, Sir Alan Boteler, who had a
S and h, Sir Thomas, father of Sir Ealph, father of Sir John
(High Sheriff " Glouc" 1472), whose 5 and /;. John Boteler,
died seised of Turville as hereafter shewn, being High-Sheriff
" Glouc." 1504. Ealph Boteler, Lord Sudeley, who presented
at Great Marlow 1448, was descended from Ealph Pincerna,
alias lc Butiler. Turville was a possession of the Crown until

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 61
quite modern times, and continued to be so-held by the Botelers
until same passed to Sir John, Lord Williams, of Thame. As
late as 1647 it was returned to Committee for Compounding,.
that no Eeal Estate had been discovered in Bucks, belonging
to Alan Boteler, a delinquent. In 2 J. I., the King was
informed that divers Manors and Lands were entailed to
Gilbert Clare, Earl Glo'ster, which he claimed as heir of
Gilbert's body, inheritable to said Manors and Lands, some of
which he, and others his royal progenitors, had granted to
divers subjects.
John Boteler, alias Butler, of Badminton, Esq., High
Sheriff (Glouc.) 1604, m Eliz., d of John Langston, of Cau'field,
Bucks; d 7 Jan., 16, H. VIIL ; I.P.M. taken at Whitechurch,
Bucks, 31 Aug., 16-17, H. VIIL, shewing he d seised—
interalia — of Manor of Turfyld, Bucks, leaving grandson, John
Butler, aged 14 and more, he being s and h of Eadus Butler,
gent, deceased, (s and h, apparent of said John Butler, his
father), by Susan, d of Tho. Baynham, of Clowerwall.
John Butler, the grandson, m Silvester, d of John
Guise, of Elmore, Glouc ; and he, described as of Badmynton,
Esq., mortgaged Manor of Turville, together with Lands,
Hereditaments, and Premises appertaining thereto, by deeds-
17-18 Oct. and 2 Feb., 30, H. VIIL, to Sir Michael Dormer,
Alderman of London, and Eobert Eedman, of the sign of the
George, by St. Dunstan Church, within Temple Bar, in Fleet
Street, London, Stationer, same being subsequently redeemed
and conveyed in 1546, to Sir John Williams, Kt., of Burfield,
afterwards Lord Williams, of Thame, a fine passing in Hilary
37 H. VIIL, of Manor of Turfield, with appurtenances, also
14 mess., 300a land, 40a meadow, 300a pasture, 40a wood,
100a furze, and heath, 100s. Eent, with appurtenances
there, inheritance thereof passing to Sir John Williams and
his heirs. On 18 July, 36, H. VIIL, Sir John Williams and John
D'Oyly, Esq., requested to purchase of the King certain

62 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
piemites iu Turville, (particulars of which were said to be,
but a:e not now annexed), being of clear yearly value of
£33 7s. lid , tenth not deducted, request being signed by
John D'Oyly alone.
Sir. John Williams conveyed Manor and Eectory, with
other premises, in Turville, I. E. VI., to John D'Oyly, (of a
family who, Mr. Bayley says, possessed property at Turville
since temp H. IV.), who 3 E. VI. is recorded as holding same.
He was grandson of John D'Oyly, of Ewden and Grenland
House, a famous soldier in Franco, who was great-nephew of
John D'Oyly, the priest, who was educated at Merton Coll., and
was vicar of Great Wolford and Turville, having afterwards
taken the Cowl, becoming a Monk professed.
John D'Oyly, (purchaser I. E. VI.), was of Grenland
Ho. and Gray's Inn, and son of Thomas D'Oyly, of Marlow,
with whom he purchased Chiselhampton. His mother was
Alice Curson, heiress of same family as extant Noble Houses
of Howe, Scarsdale and Teynham ; he in Frances, sister and
co-heiress of Sir Xpher Edmonds, of Lewknor, Kt., who, Mr.
Bayley says, were children of Andrew Edmonds, whose
widow m Sir John, Lord Williams, of Thame.
John D'Oyly d 30 Nov., 1569, aged 54, made his Wilt
14 Nov., 1569, proved 23 May, 1572, desiring to be buried in
Hambledon Ch., and his s and h, Eobert, succeeded to Turville,
a Manor held ofthe Crown in Chief, as found by the Jurors on
his Inquisition taken at Wendover 17 Ap., 1570, when they
found Eobert, was s and h, aged 28.
Eobert D'Oyly was of Grenland Ho., Knighted by Q.
Eliz., 1576, killed by pestilence at black assizes at Oxford,
buried in D'Oyly's dormitory at Hambledon 29 July, 1577.
!.p:M. taken 20 Eliz.; his wife was Eliz., d of Sir Nic. Bacon,
Kt., of Bacon Ho., (formerly called Shelley Ho.), in Aldersgate
Ward, London, and of Eedgrave, Suffolk, Lord-keeper of Great
Seal under Q. Eliz., and ancestor of extant house of Baronets,
•of that name. Under bis Mar. Sett. Eobert D'Oyly's wife had

the history of turville. 63
Turville Manor in jointure, besides inheriting under husband's
Will, which she proved, all his disposable property. She d at
Grenland Ho. in May, 1621, buried at Henley, where an
Inscription existed to her memory. She re-married (1) Sir
Hy. Neville, of Billingbeare, who was patron oE Turville Ch.,
1532, being, according to Mr. Bayley, brother of Edward, 5th
Lord Abergavenny, and ancestor of Lord Braybrooke, by his
first wife, Eliz., only c and h of Sir John Gresham ; and (2)
Sir Wm. Periam, of Little Fulford, L.C.B. Exchq.
Sir Eobert D'Oyly having d. s. p., he was succeeded on
Lady Periam's death, by brother, John D'Oyly, of Chisel-
hampton, who m Ursula Cope, sister of first Baronet of
Hanwell, cofferer to James I.
In Oct., 1604, John D'Oyly settled reversion of the
property, on his second son, JohD, whom Burke (extinct and
dormant Baronetcies) omits. This son, John D'Oyly, was bap
at Stadhampton in March, 1575, was of Gray's Inn 1605, m
at St. Dunstan-in-West, London, 11 Feb., 1C06, Lucy sister of
Sir Oliver Nicholas, (trustee with his mother and her brother,
Oliver St. John, of Turville-Court Manor), of Westminster,
and d of Eobert Nicholas, of Manningtree, Wilts, Esq., by
Jaue, his wife, d of Nic. St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze, (grand
son of Sir John St. John, first cousin to H. VII.), and sister
of Oliver St. John, Visct. Grandison, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
John D'Oyly settled at Aldbourne, Wilts, becoming ancestor
of a numerous family, and he by anti-nuptial settlement, in
Feb., 1603, covenanted to settle Turville-Court Manor to the
above trustees in trust for his heirs in strict entail, which
Manor was afterwards released therefrom, being sold and
conveyed by him to his bro.-in-law, Edw. Goddard, of
Englesham, (who had m Priscilla D'Oyly, John's sister), his
elder brother, Tho. G., of Swindon, and Sir Tho. Hinton, Kt.,.
(whose relatives, Tho. and Eic H., had m two sisters, Anne
and Jane Goddard, great-aunts of Tho. and Edw. G.)
They all three in Dec, 1621, conveyed the Manor, with

64 the history of turville.
share in advowson, to Eobert D'Oyl}', of Hambledon, who
was bap there 20 Oct., 1594, who in May, 1622, sued above
Vendors and Grantors, and Kinsman, Sir Cope D'Oyly, Kt.,
(elder brother of John D'Oyly, who in Miss Nicholas), of
Chiselhampton, arising out of covenant for quiet enjoyment
and delivery of title deeds ; which suit was amicably arranged
on fine being levied in Mich., 1623, whereby Sir Cope D'Oyly
(then an Esquire), his brother, John D'Oyly, gent, and latter's
wife, Lucy (Nicholas), granted the inheritance of Manor of
Turfield, alias Turvile, alias Turvile Court and premises to
Eobert D'Oyly and his heirs, John Chamberlaine joining,
probably as trustee. The fine passed besides the Manor,
2 mes3., 2 . . . , 2 orchards, 240a land, 40a meadow, 240a
wood, 100a furze, and heath, 40s. rent, with pasture of
common for all manner of cattle, with appurts there. This
¦did not include all the premises which had passed to Sir John
Williams when the Manor was conveyed to him. Eobert
D'Oyly having got the fee properly vested according to his
•own satisfaction, went to reside at the old Manor house about
1630, which, getting out of repair by neglect of prior-holders,
he caused same to be razed, building thereon in 1635 a plain
respectable edifice in its place, without any pretence to beauty,
being situated on an eminence commanding a fine sylvan view
¦of Turville Village. The Heralds did not record his marriage
in their visitation 1634, but he is presumed to have married
about 1616, Eliz. Laud, of Archbishop Laud's family. He d
11 July, 1653, aged 59, bur at Turville, an inscription recording
the fact. His wife, Elizabeth, administered to his effects.
His sons, Wm. and Eobert, mentioned in visitation, were
both baptised at Hambledon, Sep., 1618, and Dec, 1624, they
d. s. p. in father's lifetime.
Hy. D'Oyly, Eobert's eldest survg. s and h was bap at
Hambledon, June 1627, m (1652) Mary, d of John Millingate,
of the Grange Dumer, Hants, gent. He succeeded to Turville
-Court on father's death, the Manor and Lands in Turville,.

THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE. 65
being subject to his M.S. of 25 May, 1652, which provided —
interalia — that if he left an only d and h, which event
happened, the premises were to descend to the next heir male
of his father, oh payment of £2000, to Henry's d and h. He
lived at Turville-Court until his death in June, 1664, when the
property passed to his widow, partly for her jointure, she
residing there, re-marrying to Tho. Coates, of Beading,
(ancestor undoubtedly, according to Mr. Bayley, of Historian
of Beading), she d May, 1701.
During Lifetime of the widow and child of Henry
D'Oyly, (whose only s and h, bap 1658, and bur 1659 at
Turville, predeceased him), they had litigation with Henry's
mother and his brothers, John, Laud, Thomas, and William
D'Oyly, who laid claim to Turville-Court under proviso in
Henry's settlement ; but Henry's widow having got John
D'Oyly, son and next heir male of Eobert D'Oyly, to release
(by deed in 1665) all his claim estate and interest under the
said deed, she and her daughter succeeded in retaining the
Manorial Property, although Laud D'Oyly, by Will, made a
devise of all his interest, which was apparently very remote,
in the property to his kinsman, John D'Oyly.
Mrs. Eobert D'Oyly d at Turville 1675, her eldest son,
John, administering to her effects in Jan., 1676, he d.s.p. in
April, 1676, his brother, Thomas, proving his will. On John's
death, Laud, his next brother, bap at Turville, May 1634,
attempted to assert his right to Turville as next heir male of his
father, which litigation lasted till 1701, William and Thomas,
his brothers, both filed Bills. The family, as Mr. Bayley
asserts, having held property at Turville since time of Henry
IV., it was only natural the widow and sons of Eobert D'Oyly,
seeked to retain possession of their father's inheritance, but
the release by John D'Oyly, was an effectual legal bar for
ever to all their claims under proviso in Henry's settlement.
Mary D'Oyly, only survg. d and h of Henry D'Oyly, was
bap at Turville in Oct., 1660, aged 3 at father's death, she

66 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE
succeeded to Turville on mother's death, under remainder in
father's settlement, which passed the premises to his issue
female in default of his issue male, which event happened.
She m (1) Xpher Smith, of Middle Temple and New Windsor,
Esq., who d. s. p. by her, in 1692 ; (2) in 1693, to Hon. Wm.
Alex, s of Hy., 4th Earl Stirling ; and (3) in 1703, Eic. Pocock,
of Market Isley, Esq., who d Ap., 1724, aged 67, bur at Tur
ville, where an inscription describes him as Lord of Turville,
and that his wife d Ap., 1719, aged 59, being also bur there.
Eic. Pocock was Patron of Turville, with Fras. Style and
Nath. Carter, in 1721.
The Manor passed in 1712 to their son, Eoger, who
married a d and coh of Wm. Barnesley, Esq., of Ursley Park,
Hereford, where Eoger was buried.
Eoger's s and h, William, inherited and d 1747, when
William's son d non-juris, and the executor of William's
widow, who d at London, 1 Aug., 1749, passed the Manor by
sale to ; —
John Osborn, Sheriff for Bucks, 1759, who presented
with Messrs. Ovey and Carter, in 1770, and whose son : —
John Osborn, of Turville Court, succeeded him.
On 2 Feb., 1724, Fras. Stiles, gent, (with Fras. Blandy,
gentj, was party to M-S of his brother-in-Law, Tho. Ovey, (s
of E°bert Ovey), of Henley, and Jane his wife, who had three
children Tho,, Eic, and Jane Ovey, all infants when their
father died, he desiring to be buried in leaden coffin in vault
in Henley Ch., same to be kept up for ever, out of charge on
messuage in Northfield — end in Henley, but he had no Turville
lands. In a fine of 17 J.I., I find North-end specifically men
tioned apart from Turville. Among holders of land in Turville
in 17th century, not before mentioned, are Co(a)les, Chandler,
Herbert, Hester, Jennyngs, Powell, Janes, Clarke, Kene,
Cornish, Atkinson, Field, &c some holding considerable quant
ities, not now easily identified, but the families are. In 1582,
Sept., 19, Eic, s of Tho. Haynes, of Turville, Bucks, hus-

THE history of turville. 67
bandman, became apprenticed to David Maxted, citizen and
stationer of London. I am told that the outlying portion of
the Stonor Estate, recently sold, does not embrace any of the
Turville Parish, in fact no portion of it (as I am told) is within
6 miles of Turville. Mr. Eic. Ovey, of Badgmore, Henley, is
s of the late Mr. Eic. Ovey, of Northfield Ho., Henley, and 4
Avenue Eoad, London, was b 1856, J.P. for Oxon., and m
(1877), Clara, d of J. J. Broadbent, of Gt. Horton Ho., near
Bradford, Yorks. The Eev. St. John Priest, in his general
survey of agriculture of Bucks, shews Turville had 30a meadow,
30a pasture, 1040a arable, 12a glebe, 300a waste, in all 1412a;
no names of proprietors are shewn, nor any enclosure act ;
there were 8 farmhouses and 51 cottages, farms averaging
from 50 to 400 acres ; parish tithe free, and poor rates 8/6 in
the pound. Wm. Dormer, (son of Sir Eobert, who d 25 July,
1649), married a daughter of Edmund Waller, of Beaconsfield,
was H.S., Oxon., 1666, built a very noble house at Ascot, in
Milton, which was burnt down before completion 9 Oct., 1662,
d 23 Sep., 1633, and buried at Milton.
Messrs. John Francis Butlin, (b 1 Jan., 1853), and Philip
Massu Butlin, (b 2 March, 1859), both of Birmingham,
solicitors, are sons of Mr. John Eose Butlin, grandson of
Thomas Butlin, Esq., who purchased Turville Park from the
Shelley Family.

LANGLEY, HISTOEIAN OF TUEVILLE.
Though from us he is now gone
According to God's will ;
Though his absence we do mourn
Yet he is with us still. — H. W. Aldred.
The Eev. Thomas Langley, Historian of Desborough
Hundred and Deanery of Wycombe, was only son of Tho. L.,
of Great Marlow, gent, by Mary, d of John Higginson, was &
at G.M., 10 May, bap there 8 June, 1769, entered Eton Coll.,
1780, matriculated from Hertford Coll., 17 May, 1767, when

68 the history of turville.
18, B.A., 1791, M.A., 1794 : curate of Bradenham and Taplow;
Eector of Winston from 2 Oct., 1800, to his death (unmarried)
28 [30] July, 1801, aged 32; bur in Family Vault at G.M., 5
Aug., 1801, where an Inscription records the fact.
He was descended from an ancient Family settled at
Great Marlow. In 1643, John, Thomas and Wm. L., were
assessed respectfully in £10, £20, and £5, by committee at G.
M., for their attachment to tbe royal cause. Tho. L., of
G.M., yeoman, held land and buried in ch. there, also lands
late parcel of dissolved nunnery of Little Marlow, made Will
22-8-1644, Codicil 10-1-1649, both proved 19-4-1650; dau
Anne, (extrix.) w of Nic. Perry, parents of Tho., Jane, Marie,
Susan and Anne P. ; four infant grdchrn, Tho., John, Wm.,
and Marie L., apparently chrn of s, Tho. L. ; John, s of bro.
Eic. L., deced. ; bro-in-law John Gibbons; sister Hathorne;
poor of Marlow and servants ; John Perry, of L.M., gent; wits .
John Furnace, Ambrose Bennett, John Gorst, John Gibbons,
Nich. Perry, Susan Perry ; a second grant to Maria Kempe^
alias Langley, w of Wm. K. John L., of G.M., m at Turville,
July 1652, to Jane D'Oyly, who was bap) at Hambledon, Oct.,
1620, and who as Mr. Bayley says, were undoubtedly ancestors
of the Historian of Desboro' Hundred. Eic. L., of G.M.,
yeoman, made Will 10-7-1672, proved 8-1-1673, recited lease,
19-6-1671, of dwelling bouse there to son-in-law, Philip
Harvey, of Stratford Langton, Essex, Glover, for 21 years ;
sons, Wm., (Exor.) and Joseph L. ; wife, Sarah L., Extrix. ;
dau Margaret w of Philip Harvey ; poor of G.M.; wits : John
Ship wash, Sam Ashbolt, (overseer) and Wm. Kempe, (over
seer). Admon granted 27-8-1678, to Goods, &c, of Eic. L.
late of London, and G.M., bach, deced., to nat. and lawful
sister, Joanna L. Two Admons granted 14 June, and 24 July,
1679, to Goods, &c, of Tho. L., of G.M., deced., to Tho.
Willmott and Tho. Barker, creditors, (revoked) ; and Marie
L., nat. and lawful dau.
Admon granted 30-6-1710, to gocds, Sec, of Eic. L., late

the history of turville. 69
of ship " Lenox," bach., deced., to Marie Perry, alias Langley,
w of Geo. P., of Marlow, as nat. and lawful mother. Eic.
L., of G.M., Locksmith, made Will 23-8-1712, proved 25-8
1713 ; wife Anne L., extrix. ; sons, John, Joseph, Mathew and
Wm. L., (exor.) ; son (deced.) Eic. L., and his chrn., Mary,
Eic. and Wm. L.; dau Mary w of John Cocks ; dau Eliz.
Blewe wo, and her two chrn.; dau Anne Gamier, deced., and
her dau Anne G.\ daurs Margt. and Sarah ; dwellg. ho., near
Oxford Lane, occupied by Deborah Biggs, wo., (witness with
Tho. Hobbs and Tho. Langley), and Mich. Goddard. Tho.
L., of Chapel-end, G.M., sawyer, had premises there, made
Will 10-8-1723, proved 28-3-1726 ; Martha Neagers, (extrix.
with Mary Eead), of G.M., and her son G. N. ; wits. Ann
Rowland, Eliz. Davis, Wm. Allen. Geo. L., of Leadenhall
Market, poulterer, made Will 29 Jan., proved 14-8-1752 ; ad
cum test 22-11-1754 ; wife Mary, extrix. (who also made Will
apptg. Eliz. Gurney, extrix.); bro Tho. L., of G.M. ; sisters
Sarah L., and Susanna, w of Geo. Oxland, of G.M. ; Tho. s of
bro Tho. L. ; trustees Wm. Stockley, of Crutched Friars,
bricklayer, and Wm. Moher, of Leadenhall Market, poulterer;
wits : Mary Cackett, Jane Moody, Eic. Eeamark, Foster
Powell. In Will of Cecill Langley, alias Fiennes, of Stretton
Grandsom, co-heiress of Nath., 4th Visct. Saye and Sele, (who
d umn 1710), widow of Sir Eic. Langley, Kt. (d 1678) ,and
Wm. Fiennes, late of S.G., Esq., deced., and dau of Hon.
Frances Fiennes, by Andrew Ellis, Esq., she mentions —
interalia — Goddam- Isabella, d of Isaac Gamier, of Pall Mall,
Westminster, the eminent Apothecary, and of Ellinor his
wife, see Will of Eic. L., of G.M., Locksmith.
Will of Historian made 8 Feb. 1794, proved 9 Oct.
1801. Just a century ago the Eev. Thomas Langley, wrote his
account of Turville, published about two years later. It is my
pleasant duty to now conclude my account of Turville, founded
on the history traced by Mr. Langley, in whose industry I

70 THE HISTORY OF TURVILLE.
have found a pleasure in admiring, knowing full well it is more
easy to pull down, than to build a house. One word of praise
is due to Mr. Wm. D'Oyly-Bayley, a solicitor, who wrote the
history of the D'Oyly family, which work I have carefully
compared with my own notes. I sincerely trust my own
endeavours to give a faithful account of Turville will meet
with the full approval of my subscribers.
HENEY W. ALDEED,
Genealogical Writer and Eecord Besearcher.
181, Coldharbour Lane,
Camberwell, London, S.E.

Addenda — The Baron Camoys is descended from Sir Richard
Folyot, who in 2-3 E. I. was party to suit concerning property ia
Turville, and who d 27 E. I., through his great grand-daughter,
Margery, d and co-hr of Sir Ric. F., co-heir of her grandmother
Margery, widow of Sir Jordan F. (who d 27 E. I., aged 50), and of
her brother, Ric. F. ; she being wife of Sir John Camoys, ancestor of
the Barons Camo3's. Sir Hy. Brully and Katherine his wife, the
other parties to same suit, were Lord and Lady of Waterstoke, with
advowson of church, Oxon; and Wm. Brully, 6 R. II., party to fine,
was their lineal descendant. Ric. Voulmere or Foulmere, and Joan,
his wife, d of John Salveyn and Agnes, his wife, from whom they
had, in 1396, 40s rent out of Johu and Agnes' Turville estate, were
probably ancestors of John Foulmer, party to fine 7 H. VI. Wm.
Bulstrode, (born chopiuden) and Edmund Brudenell, (ancestor of
Earls Cardigan), parties to last fine, were sons of Agnes, d of
Robert Bulstrode, of Hugeley Bulstrode, by her husbands, Wm.
Brudenell, of Hugeley, (where arms of Brudenell and Bulstrode
were impaled in church window), and John Chopinden ; — the
Hertwells and Hardwells being allied by marriage with the Brude-
nells. Edmund Harman was mentioned in and witnessed, with
Robert Hewicke and others, Will of Henry VIII. ; the family held
land in Tunslall and Rendlesham, Suffolk ; Warwickshire ; Crayford,
Chelsfield, Cudham and Farnborow, Kent; Frimley, Surrey; East
Greensted, Lewes and Southover, Sussex ; and Tottenham and
Fulham, Middlesex ; the Harmans appeared in Ireland 1552 in
person of Gerrard Harman; Nicholas Harman 1589-1613 occurs;
1597, Richard Harman ; 1610, Sir Wm. Harman ; and 1625, Martin
Haiman, and the family is now resident there; the genealogical
records of the family are very complete. Wm., Walter, Geoffrey,
John, Martyn, Humphrey, and Ambrose, sons of Sir Michael
Dormer, of London, Merchant of the Staple of Calais, are men
tioned in Will of Cecile, the Marchioness of Dorset, Lady Haryngton
and Bonvyll, of 6 May, 1527.

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INDEX, [compiled by the Editor],

CORRECTIONS.
Page n, Line 4, from top— read 1837 for 1873.
,. 15. » 8, „ „ „ huic for hiuc.
„ 18, „ 8, „ bottom — read between for betweed.
,, 28, „ 16, „ top — read Lady for Countess of.
.. 52, ,. 17. .. .. >. His f°r This.

Turville generally.
„ 17th Centy. 8-33-34.
„ Abbey Manor, 3-4-7
13 to 44-58.
„ extent, 20-21-67.
„ Court Manor, 5-9-
26-53 to 67.
„ Bells, 24.
„ Buildings, 7-67.
„ Charities, 10-39.
,, Church, 7-9-15, 18 to
20-24-25-29-44-56- 53-59-
„ Crown Lands, 5 to 9
18-20 to 23,-44-45,
55 to 67.
„ Court, 64.
„ Early Entries, 4-52
to 54-70.
„ Etymology, 3-12.

Arundel, 25-47-60.
Badlesmere, 21-24,
48, 59-
Boteler, 26-60-61.
Bruce, 18, 55 to 58.
Brudenell, 53-70.
Brully, 52-53-70.
Bulstrode, 53-70.
Bury. 25-27.

44 to

TURVILLE.
Turville Family, 12-56-57
„ Free-warren, 4-44-
45-59-
„ Glebe, 10-24.
„ Heath, 6-36.
,, Inhabitants, 7-66.
,, Lands, 4-6-10-25 to
29, 52 to 56-61-64-
66-67-70.
Living, 58-59.
Maps, 6-7.
Ninths, 58.
Old Manor Ho. 64.
Organ, 44.
Park 6-7-28, 37 to 44
50-67.
„ Parish, 3, 6 to 9, 21-
22-26-27-28-33-34- 52-53-58-67.
PEDIGREES.
Butler, 26-60-61.
Butlin, 10, 39 to 43, 67.
Camoys, 35-70.
Carnarvon, 22-32-33.
Chamberlaine, 17.21-22-
3° 34-35-46-47-59-
64.
Chopinden, 70.
Clare, 15-17-55-56-60-61.

Turville Parsonage, 20.
„ Patrons, 29-58-59-
63-67.
„ Rectors, 15 to 20, 58
„ Rectory, 7, 18 to 25
58-59-62-64.
„ Registers, 7.
„ Rents, 26-35-53-61-
64.
„ Return, 6.
„ School, 42.
,, Valuation, 58-59.
„ Vicarage, 58-59.
„ „ House, 24.
,, Vicars, 10-11-24-58-
62.
„ Village, 7-18-20-40-
42-44.
„ Voters, 11.
„ Well, 44.
Cope, 53-54-63-64.
Crispe, 25.
Dormer, 10, 22 to 35, 61-
67-70.
D'Oyly, 23-34, 61 to 68,
701
Dudley, 28-29.
Folyot, 52-70.
Foulmer, 53-70.

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Gage, 21-22-35-47.
Gloucester, i7-45"46"55-
56-60-61-63.
Goddard, 63-69.
¦Goring, 35.
Harman, 20 to 22, 34-44-
70.
Hawtrey, 27.
Hertford, 15-32-45-56.
Hinton, 63.
Hoare, 4-23-29-33, 43 to
50.
Jephson Norreys, 55.
Langley, 67 to 70.
Leicester, 28-30-33, 36 to
39, 60.
Xindsey, 23-29-33-46.
L'Isle, 25-28-37-39.
Louvaine, 46-47.
Lovett, 27-54.
Maltravers, 25.
Manners, 46-47-51.
March, 45-46-51.

PEDIGREES, Continued.
Marmion, 57.
Merstone, 7-9-15-24-56-59
Morteyn, 15-18-21-24-48
55 to 60.
Neville, 35-63.
Newdigate, 22-30-34.
Nicholas, 63-64.
Noel, 23-29-46-48.
Norreys, 23-26.
O'Brien. 4-47-48.
Osborn, 34-66.
Ovey, 35-66-67.
Perry, 35 to 40, 68-69.
Pitcher, 9 to 11, 29.
Plantaganet, 46-51.
Pocock, 28-66.
Preston, 36.
Ramsden, 4-28-47-48-50
5T-52.
Reeves, 36-37.
Robsart, 23-28.
Roos, 46-47-51.
Rutland. 46-47-51.

St. Clere, 47.
St. John, 30-31-63-67.
Salveyn, 53-70.
Scobell, 10-11.
Shelley, 34-38-39-62-67.
Sidney, 28-30-33-36 to 39,
57-
Stafford, 48.
Stampe, 25-28.
Stiles, 17-66.
Stoner, 34-35-67.
Sudeley, 60.
Tombs, 39.
Toovey, 11-35-36.
Turville, 12-56-57.
Vere, 24-46.
Voulmer, 53-70.
Wenman, 23.
West, 11-28.
Williams, 22-23-25-27-55-
61-62-64.
Wray, 23.

In searching the Legal Records I have necessarily had
occasion to peruse and annotate many Manuscripts of
various parishes in Bucks, outside of Turville proper, for
Turville entries ; these Manuscripts consequently disclose
much desired Genealogical and Topographical matter, prob
ably only known to myself, relating not only to nearly the
whole of the important Hundred of Desborough, but
generally to many parishes, hamlets, and villages in other
Hundreds in Bucks. I have therefore within easy reach a
whole heap of valuable information, that should prove of
especial interest and benefit to the student of Genealogy
and Topography of the whole county of Bucks.

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