Hello everyone, this is another posting hoping to find information about people who owned land in Great Horwood in the 15th and 16th centuries but didn't live there. This time I am asking about Geoffrey CAMPYON, who held land in Great Horwood between 1521 and 1538. He inherited 2 messuages and 2 virgates of copyhold land (about 70 acres) from Richard MORRIS when the latter died in 1521. The relationship between the two men is not stated. No other Morris or Campion appears in the Great Horwood records in the 15th or 16th centuries, so it is likely that neither was resident in the manor. It isn't clear exactly when he ceased to own the properties. In 1532 he surrendered them both to a local Great Horwood man, John Machin, but that surrender may have been in the nature of a mortgage, since Machin returned the properties to Campion in 1536. In 1537 and 1538 he appears from the records to have surrendered both properties twice, to three or possibly four different men (the first purchaser, a John VANS who doesn't appear in the Great Horwood records on any other occasion, was perhaps his trustee), and it isn't entirely what was going on, but certainly by the end of 1538 he had divested himself of all interest in both properties and never appears in the Great Horwood records again. From the nature of the documentary refrences to him it seems clear that he wasn't resident in Great Horwood, but I have no idea who he was or where he lived. He was not assessed in the 1522 Muster, 1524/5 Lay Subsidy or 1535 Muster in either Great Horwood or any of the parishes adjacent to it. The 1522 Muster Roll for the entire county contains just one reference to a Geoffrey Campion, a man who had goods worth 13s 4d in Great Kimble, so if that was not him then he may have come from outside Bucks (though the muster does list other Campions in Emberton/Petsoe, Ravenstone, Wolverton, Dorton and Long Crendon). So if anyone knows anything at all about a Geoffrey Campion who was living in the 1520s and 1530s, anywhere in or near Buckinghamshire (perhaps in London or Oxford?), I would be very grateful to hear of it. And of course if he is anyone's ancestor then I'll be happy to supply what information I have about him from the Great Horwood records in return. Thanks very much, Matt Tompkins Centre for English Local History University of Leicester 5 Salisbury Road Leicester LE1 7QR