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Owners of Cottages 1708/1798

The following table lists the owners of cottages paying quit-rents. The information is taken from Table 55 of A C Chibnall's book "Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village ".

Number on Enclosure Map
Owner before 1708
Owner in 1708
Owner in 1796
16 William Scrivener Thomas Richards Richard Higgins
20 John Field Robert Babbington Thomas Tandy
25 - Edward Boddington Thomas Odell
26 Thomas Chibnall Richard Chibnall James Cave
28 James Brierly Thomas Osborne William Umney
32 Richard Hunt Ann Marshall Friends Meeting House
40 Henry Newall Robert Babington John Underwood
42 Samuel Cunningham Edward Cunningham Rose's Trustees
47 Mary Chapman Edward Gant William Davison
48 Henry Gravestock Robert Field Rose's Trustees
49 Edward Finnemore James Finnemore William Davison
50 Bartholomew Course Thomas Course, junior Rose's Trustees
51 Thomas Tyringham Thomas Richards Rose's Trustees
55 Edward Britnell Anne Lucas William Warr
92 Bartholomew Finnemore Thomas Clifton Elizabeth Slater
93 Edward Fisher John Fisher Samuel Boddington
94 Thomas Umney Thomas Umney Thomas Umney
96 Edward Norman Edward Norman Richard Shrieve
141 John Knight Mary Knight William Thompson
144 Thomas Knight Robert Knight Thomas Talbot
145 Bartholomew Course Thomas Course, junior Rose's Trustees
146 Christopher Wright Thomas Marshall Thomas Marshall
160 Joseph Tomalin Robert Babbington Mercers' Company
161 Thomas Roughhead William Roughhead Mercers' Company
165 Robert Knight Edward Hooton Samuel Greathead
166 John Knight Henry Knight James Simcoe
183 Henry Gravestock Robert Field Rose's Trustees
184 Andrew Clare Francis Clare Richard Clare
185 Edward Hooton John Hooton Thomas Platt
197 Thomas Harman John Ruddy --- Hosea
199 William White Thomas Clifton Thomas Tandy
200 John Field Robert Babbington John Brittain
201 Stephan Boswood William Boswood Thomas Odell

The following table lists the cottages standing on the Linford Manor waste. The information is taken from Table 56 of A C Chibnall's book "Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village ".

Number on Enclosure Map
1682
1796
220 Joseph Clare Thomas Riddy
221 Katherine Gant Richard Tandy
222 Alice Caxon, widow James Cave
223 Thomas Neach John Rose
226 Jacob Freeman Reuben Brittain
227 Alice Marks, widow John West
228 Richard Marks William Field
229 William Phillips Arthur Roe
230 John Cleyton
John Richardson
Elizabeth Smith, widow
Elizabeth Forster
Rose's trustees
Rose's trustees
Rose's trustees
Rose's trustees
231 William Ford Richard Tandy
232 Richard Ford William Davison

Note: the allocation of cottages for 1682 is in most cases arbitrary. They paid no rent to Linford Manor.

The following table lists the cottages standing on the Cave/FitzJohn Manor waste. The information is taken from Table 56 of A C Chibnall's book "Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village ".

Number on Enclosure Map
1708
1796
167 John Parratt
William Earby
Richard Williamson
Henry Hall
John Fisher
Public house of Thomas Meacher
168 Ann Marks
Charles Collis
John Deacon
Parish Officers
169 Ann Joice James Joice
170 Henry Burdwell Thomas Coleman
171 James Smith Richard Fazey
172 Hugh Clifton Thomas Saunders
173 Mary Webb Henry Ward
174 Robert Church Robert Coleman
175 Henry Freeman James Joice

A rent of 1s per annum was paid to the Cave/FitzJohn Manor.

The following table gives the number of households in Sherington in 1522-4, 1580, 1708 and 1796. The information is taken from Table 33 of A C Chibnall's book "Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village ".

 
1522-4
1580
1708**
1796
Rectory 1 1 1 1
Manor houses 2 2 1 1
Other houses 1* 1 1 11
Farms 17 23 26 16
Cottages 18 18 63 64
TOTAL 39 45 92 93

Note: * This is No 139 on the Enclosure Map
          ** A return by the rector c.1705 gives 120 families. Contemporary deeds show that many of the cottages and small tenant farms were then divided into two tenements.

Principal holders of land: 1312, 1400, 1460, 1580, 1650, 1700, 1750, 1797, 1862/1962

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