Great Marlow Return. The House taking Notice, That, by the Book of Returns, there is a Return for the Borough of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks, in Manner following; viz. James Chase, Esquire,By one Indenture, first brought in by the Under-Sheriff, Fourth March. Sir Wm. Whitlock, Knight, James Chase, Esquire,By another Indenture added after by the High Sheriff, Eighteenth March. Ralph Bucknall, Esquire, And a Debate arising in the House, touching the said Return; The Question was put, That the said Return be a Double Return: And it passed in the Negative. Ordered, That the Indenture by which Mr. Bucknall is returned to serve as a Burgess for the said Borough of Great Marlow, be taken off the File. Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend this House, upon Monday Morning next, at Ten of the Clock, to give an Account concerning the said Return of Members to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 22 March 1690', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 348-50. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28989&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ******************************************************** MANORS The history of Bundish in the 17th century is not clear, but at the end of the century it was apparently in dual ownership. In 1681 Henry Herbert and his wife Anne conveyed half of the manor to Joseph and Thomas Cffley. (Footnote 86) In 1690 Sir William Boughton and his wife Mary, daughter of John Ramsey, alderman of the city of London, conveyed half the manor to Matthew and Robert Skinner. (Footnote 87) It may be that Lady Boughton and Anne Herbert were granddaughters of William Ramsey and had inherited Bundish as coheiresses of their father John Ramsey. Subsequently the manor came into the undivided ownership of John Lingard, common serjeant of the City of London, who died in 1729 leaving several daughters as coheiresses. (Footnote 88) In 1740 Elizabeth, Sarah, Anne, and Frances Lingard conveyed the manor to Samuel Brackley, merchant. (Footnote 89) In 1753 Sarah and Anne Lingard and Robert Chase and his wife Frances, daughter of John Lingard, conveyed it to Francis Capper. (Footnote 90) In 1775 the estate was still described as a manor. (Footnote 91) In all later documents and histories it was described merely as a farm. In 1840 the farm consisted of 166 acres of which 107 acres lay in Moreton and 59 acres in Shelley; at that time the estate was held by Thomas Chaplin, trustee of John Chaplin, deceased. (Footnote 92) From: 'Moreton: Manors', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 131-34. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15605&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.