New publication:
Winslow in 1556: The survey of the manor
BY DAVID NOY

The manor of Winslow, including Granborough and Little Horwood, was surveyed in 1556, probably to maximise revenue for the Crown. Winslow was in royal ownership after the dissolution of St Albans Abbey, and in 1556 had an absentee landlord who owed the Crown money and a resident bailiff. Then the surveyor Thomas Gedge came to call.

This book paints a picture of Winslow in 1556: its people, its properties, their occupations, their families and relationships, their petty crimes and long-term feuds. Putting together the 1556 Survey with other historical documents – wills, nventories, parish registers, legal records, David Noy develops a panorama of Winslow's economic, social and religious life in the mid-16th century.

With the text of the Survey itself, translated and published here for the first time.
160 pages, annotated and with indexes of People and Places.

£5 (plus £1 postage). SPECIAL OFFER: £1 off for Winslow History Project helpers and Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society members. You can order the book from BAS using this form, or it is available from David Noy, 16 McLernon Way, Winslow, email: d.noy @ btinternet.com, tel: 01296 711683. It will also be on sale at the book launch on 10 August: see below. And at Winslow Library, the Old Gaol and Buckingham Bookshop.

Inventory of Margaret Chinnal, 1641
Bankruptcy of John Turpin, 1813

Will of John Stutsberie, shoemaker, 1643 (proved 1647)
Inventory of John Snowe of Shipton, 1643 (presented 1645)
Will and Inventory of Dorothy Miller of Shipton, 1687/8
Will of William Eden, 1689
Mrs Spilsbury's drops (1796): William Turner of Winslow writes to the newspapers about his amazing cure
1798 Voluntary contributions for the war against France: A list of over 70 donors, including many women who don't get recorded in other lists
Additions to The George, Burnham family, Turnpike

Additions to William Lowndes' notebook
Will and inventory of Edward Stutsberie, shoemaker, 1629
Will and inventory of Ralph Udwyn, labourer, 1650
Administration of Richard Evans, 1651

Inventories of William Poole (parish clerk) and Alice Poole, 1637
Inventory of Richard Gurney, gardener, 1635

Will of Elizabeth Coxe, widow, 1623
Will of Joan Lownds, spinster, 1623
Will and inventory of Richard Snowe of Shipton, yeoman, 1636
Will and inventory of Martha Miller, widow, of Shipton, 1641
Will of Margaret Chinnal, widow, 1641
Additions to The Bull, The Windmill, Railway, Market Square

Inventory of John Chinnall, 1619: a miller
Will of Richard Gurney, gardener, 1635
Addition to Brook Hall: postcard sent to a pupil in 1910

Claydon and Winslow Cycling Club (1896)
Additions to Biggin, Railway
Inventory of Elizabeth Hogson, 1600
Inventory of Bernard Hogg, 1617

Winslow old customs (1902): a newspaper article about the pan bell and the Jack in the Green
Will of John Stevens of Granborough, 1633/4
Will and inventory of John Glenister, 1633 (proved 1634): he had been married 50 years

Inventory of Katherine Snow, widow, 1619
Overcrowding of the tramp ward at Winslow Workhouse, 1872

Will of Robert Mitchell of London, painter and stainer, 1695: he bequeathed premises in Winslow called the Red Bull
Administration of John Morris, dealer, 1747
Ezra Braggins, Silk Merchant and Draper (1844-1912) (by Ed Grimsdale) and his premises at 15 Market Square

Will of William Hardewicke, yeoman, 1610/11
Will of Robert Stevens, yeoman, 1651
Additions to Brook Hall; Ned Piggott 1879
Daniel Yeulett the carrier, 1844: A Tale of a Willing Old Nag with a Sting in its Tail (notes by Ed Grimsdale) + the Black Horse beerhouse / pub in Sheep Street

Will of John Marchall, 1457 (proved 1458)
Will of William Baker, 1456 (proved 1458)
Will of William Punteys of Shipton, 1474/5
Additions to Redfield
John Kelland, surgeon "of London" (1805-1886) : he married his employer's daughter but they spent most of their lives living apart

Inventory and obligation of Margaret Gyles, 1625/6
Rev. Alfred Preston, 1822-1882 (notes by Ed Grimsdale)
Winslow Workhouse: fox's adventure (1926)
More information about the Whichello family

Inventory of Alice Kyrby, 1617: widow of a weaver.
Accounts of the estate of Richard Stutsbury, 1625: the second of at least 3 generations of his family in business in Winslow as drapers / mercers.
Will and inventory of Richard Shelton, yeoman, 1625: a very prosperous farmer
Will and inventory of Paul Lancaster, joiner, 1626
Will and inventory of John Foster, baker, 1628: the owner of a "cake-print"
Will of Margaret Holiman, 1643 (proved 1650)
Will of Alice Seaton, widow, 1657/8: she became the 3rd wife of Hugh Seaton 6 weeks after his 2nd wife died. They seem to have been connected with The Bell.
Will of William Eden, yeoman, 1720 (proved 1721)

Will of John Stutsburie the elder, 1621: he left 10 children
Will of Thomas Graunt, yeoman, 1621
Will of John Burd, labourer, 1625: he left his bees to his daughters and their daughters

Additions to Cattle Market
Accounts of the estate of John Snowe, 1602, presented 10 years after his death
Will of Thomas Kirby, shoemaker, 1615
Will and inventory of Peter Warner, 1617/18

Additions to Workhouse
Opium prescription and growing at Winslow, c.1820-3
Rules for tenants, 1619
Will and inventory of Thomas Overing, 1622 (proved 1623)
House of Commons Select Committee on the Education of the Poor (1818)
New audio file: Brian Spatcher talking about Winslow Post Office in the 1960s

Accounts of the estate of William Davyes, 1588/9
Will of Thomas Robinson, yeoman, 1612
Will and Inventory of Richard Helie, husbandman, 1617
Will and inventory of Thomas Graunt alias Miller of Shipton, yeoman, 1635/6
Contributions for Ireland, 1642: list of 60 people who gave money towards the suppression of the revolt there
Will of William Hobbs, gentleman, 1770 (proved 1771)

Will and Inventory of John Taylor, 1616
Will of Robert Norman, 1617/18 (proved 1618/19)
Administration of Ann Gibbs, 1785

Advert for the Buckingham Old Stage-Coach, on which you could travel from the Three Pigeons at Winslow to London in one day (1767)
Thomas Hogson, accused of murder (1739)
Accounts of the estate of Alice Mychell, 1597
Accounts of the estate of Thomas Cowper, 1602 (10 years after his death)

1891 Buckingham By-election: meetings at Winslow, and a poem by W.N. Midgley
Poem by W.N. Midgley in memory of Mr Greaves of Western House, 1899
"The Landlords' Response to the Wail and Woe of the Tenant Farmers", poem by W.N. Midgley (1878)
Sales of The George, 1816, 1824 and 1876
A letter from South Africa about the Jameson Raid, 1896, sent by his brother to Samuel Roskelly, butler at Western House
Newspaper reports of the air crash, funerals of the victims, and inquest, 1943

Inventory of Hugh Stutsbery, 1609/10: his shop sold everything from cinnamon to shoehorns and playing cards to pickling oil
Will of Thomas Blake the elder, gentleman, 1761 (proved 1762): the owner of Blake House (now Tinkers Corner), Sheep Street
Wills of John Schrop and Andrew Hoges, 1504: the first reference to an organ in the church, and a bequest to a bridge at an unidentified Bishop's Mill
The great Winslow fire of 1933: Buckingham Advertiser report added

Will of Michael Norman, 1603/4
Will of John Schelton, 1498
Will of William Olyver, 1498/9

Will of John Orchard, 1459
Will of Joan Loksmyth, 1459/60
Will of Stephen Asshewell, 1460
Will of John Wayne, poulter, 1460/1: he ran a business between Winslow and Watford, and had a horse called Blackbay
Will of Isabel Arches, 1467
Note on court rolls from 1237-46

Inventory of Matthew Miller, 1614
Inventory of Thomas Tapping, 1616
Wills of William Baker and John Stasy, 1456 (proved 1457)