discipline, and promoted him to a benefice with cure of souls.[1]
The original endowment of the abbey in- cluded the demesne land at Great Missenden with other parcels of land in the counties of Buckingham, Oxford and Huntingdon, as well as the churches of Great Missenden, Great Kimble, Chalfont St. Peter, Weston Turville and its chapels, in Bucks ; Glatton and Aid- bury, Hunts ; Caversfield and Shiplake, Oxon ; Swynford, Radenhall and Porlaine.[2] The temporalia of the abbey in 1291[3] amounted to £60 5s. 5d., and included lands in Bucks, Oxon, Herts, and London ; the manor of Peterley was added not long after.[4]
In 1284 the abbot held only one knight's fee in Great Kimble with four acres besides [5] ; in 1302 [6] the same ; in 1316 half the vill of Broughton and Holcutt with one third of Great Kimble [7] ; in 1346 one fee in Great Kimble and a small part of Little Kimble.[8] The Valor Ecdesiasticus gives for this abbey a clear revenue of £261 14s. 6d., including the churches of Great Missenden, Great Kimble, Chalfont St. Peter, Caversfield, Shiplake and Glatton.[9] The Ministers' Accounts amount to £240 11s. 4½d., including the manors of Great Kimble, Hughenden, and Little Mis- senden.[10]
Abbots of Missenden
Daniel, [11] first abbot, occurs 1133 and 1145
Peter, [12] occurs about 1163
Adam, [13] occurs 1198 and 1206
William, [14] occurs 1217
Martin, [15] occurs 1219, deposed 1236
Robert, [16] elected 1236, resigned 1240
Roger of Gilsburgh, [17] elected 1240, occurs till 1248
Simon of London, [18] elected 1258, resigned
Geoffrey de Welpesle, [19] elected 1262, resigned 1268
William of London, [20] elected 1268, occurs till 1278
Matthew of Tring, [21] died 1306
Richard Marshall, [22] elected 1306, died 1323
Robert of Kimble, [23] elected 1323, resigned
William Delamere, [24]elected 1339, died
Henry of Buckingham, [25] elected 1340
John of Abingdon, [26] elected 1347, died 1348
William of Bradley, [27] elected 1348, resigned 1356
Ralf Marshall, [28] elected 1356, died 1374
William of Thenford, [29] elected 1374, died
John Marsh, [30] elected 1384, died 1398
Richard Meer, [31] elected 1398
Robert Risborough, [32] occurs 1448, deposed
Henry Honor [33] or Missenden, elected 1462, occurs till 1503
William Smith,[34] died 1521
William Honor, [35] elected 1521, died 1528
John Fox, [36] elected 1528, occurs 1535
John Otwell, [37] last abbot, surrendered 1538
Dark green, pointed oval seal of the twelfth century attached to a charter of Abbot Mar-tin and the convent of Missenden. [38] The impression is a very fine one, and represents the Blessed Virgin with crown seated on a throne with carved ends, in her lap the Holy Child with cruciform nimbus. In her right
- ↑ Lipscomb, History of Bucks[, i. 368. ' To John Slythurst, £8 for serving the cure at the Lee chapel ; or if he refuse it £5 6s. 8d.
- ↑ Charters of Confirmation, Harl. MS. 3688, ff. 178-191.
- ↑ Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.). In a roll amongst those of Bishop Lexington (Linc. Epis. Reg.), 1254-8, the whole valuation of the abbey, in spiritualities and temporalities, is stated at 44 js. only : which favours the conjecture of a fresh endowment by a second William of Missenden about 1293.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 3688, f. 34.
- ↑ Feud. Aids, i. 75, 85.
- ↑ Ibid. 96.
- ↑ Ibid. 112.
- ↑ Ibid. 122.
- ↑ Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 247.
- ↑ Dugdale, Man. vi. (2) 549.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 3688, ff. 18, 1794.
- ↑ Ibid. 178.
- ↑ Ibid. 178d : Feet of F. (Rec. Com.), 165, 219.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. v. 548.
- ↑ Feet of F. Bucks, 3 Hen. III. 24.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstete.
- ↑ <Ibid. ; and Feet of F. Bucks, 32 Hen. III. No. 36.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. ; and Close, 6 Edw. I. m. 2d.
- ↑ Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, 180.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 328d.
- ↑ Ibid. 355.
- ↑ Ibid. 358d.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Bek, 96.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 241.
- ↑ Ibid. 260.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, i. 435d.
- ↑ Ibid. 461.
- ↑ Ibid. ii. 425
- ↑ Sloane MS. 747, f. 4d.
- ↑ Ibid. f. 17.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Inst. Longland, 187.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. 195.
- ↑ L. and P. Henry VIII. xiii. (2) 1252.
- ↑ Add. Chart. 19910.
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