Weedon took to Wife Eliz

Daughter, and

Co-heirefs of Will Barnesley Efq! of
Ursley Park in the County of Hereford
and dying in 1720. In his 33 year is plac'd
below by his Widdow, who Departed
this Life, Aged 38. in the year 1729.

Thomas the second Son of Weedon Perry
Efq dy'd in his 20th year, in the
Year of our LORD 1738.

On the frieze, or panel above the shelf:-

In this Vault was depofited 1740

WILLIAM SIDNEY Son & Heir of WILL" PERRY Ef'q.
and of ELIZABETH his Wife, Grandaughter & Coheir
with her only Sifter Mary to S' Robert Sidney K!

Summoned to Parliament as La Sidney ÿ Ist of Will and
Mary, who was afterwards Earl of Leicester by Descent
& alfo Coheir to Ambrose & Robert the Late famous
Earls of Warwick & Leicester, both Sons of Iohn
Sutton de Dudley late Duke of Northumberland

On the edge of the shelf:

WILLIAM PERRY Buried at Cirencester was 2d fon of Chriftopher Perry, Efq": of Kenn in Com: Som: and was Father of Thomas Perry of Wormington

At the top of the monument, between two urns from which flames issue, is an achievement-at-arms :—

Azure, a fesse embattled argent between 3 pears or. PERRY. On an escutcheon of pretence, quarterly 1 and 4, vert, a bend sinister or; in dexter chief a mullet of 6 points of the last; 2 and 3, gules, 3 closed and clasped books or.

Crest: an arm armed and erect proper [broken, but see below], issuing out of a mural crown.

Burke's Encyclopædia of Heraldry (1844) gives the arms of Perry, of "Turville, co. Buckingham," as per chev. ar. and az. three mullets counterchanged. Several other coats of Perry are there given, including the coat on the monument, without any address of the bearer. A coat like 1 and 4, but with the bend dexter, is for Hayton (or Hinton); the bend is found either or, or argent, but not sinister.

There is a coat nearly resembling 2 and 3, but with different tinctures-viz. argent, 3 books closed gules, leaved, clasped, and garnished or. Paynter, of Sprole, Norfolk. Probably the arms are here to some extent misrepresented.

The same arms are blazoned in the south light of the west window of the aisle, where, however, the bend sinister and the mullet in the 1st and 4th quarters of the inescutcheon are argent, and the field below the bend in the 1st quarter is azure; but this is doubtless a mistake, possibly a substitute for the original vert triangle of glass. The crest is shown as an arm armed and erect proper, issuing from a mural crown, and holding a sword argent, pommeled and hilted or.

Underneath is the following imperfect motto:

[STAT LIBERTATE [P]arentum.

The barony of Sidney was claimed in May, 1782, by Elizabeth, widow of William Perry, Esq., daughter and eventually sole heir of Thomas Sidney, next brother of Jocelyn, last Earl of Leicester; but the House of Lords decided against the claim. But Mr. Aldred † states that Mrs. Wm. Perry became Lady L'Isle, a Title in Fee by Summons, as d. and h. of Col. Hon. Thomas Sidney," etc., and that "she and her husband procured the King's Sign Manual, 4 Mar., 1752, to use, bear and enjoy, Surname and Arms of Sidney only." This, however, appears to be totally unfounded.

There were apparently always two manors in this parish; most of the monuments and coats-of-arms refer to successive owners of one or other of them.

One of the manors-now represented by Turville Court-was in the family of Morteyne from the reign

*The Complete Peerage, by G. E. C[okayne, Clarenceux Kingat-Arms], Lipscomb, III. 630 (footnote).

The Ancient and Modern History of Turville, by Henry W. Aldred. Privately printed for the Author, 1894.

Langley (p. 387, footnote) states, from local information, that the manor and advowson were divided into six shares, but that there is some confusion in the accounts collected by him. Lysons says without hesitation: "There are two manors in this parish."

Lord of Manor of Turv.; bur. Market Ilsley, Berks, whence the family came; but Mr. Aldred states he was bur. at Ursley.

WILLIAM POCOCKE,

a Norwich factor; d. 1747.

d. in London, Aug. 1, 1749.

Only son (d. a minor).

JOHN O.,

of Turville; d. Devonshire Street, London, Jan. 28, 1799; bur. Turville, Feb. 4, in a vault on south-east side of chancel,

with his father.

of Edward I. until about 1406, when it passed by marriage with the heiress to Alan Botiler. In 1546 John Botiler (or Butler) passed a fine of this manor to Sir John Williams of Burfield, Thame; who in the same year conveyed it to John D'Oyley, of Greenland, Hambleden, and Gray's Inn; and from the D'Oyleys it passed in 1703, by marriage, to the Pocockes. In 1753, on the extinction of this line, it was purchased from the executors by Mr. John Osborn, a celebrated bookseller. From his son's widow it passed to Penn, and thence to Joseph Bailey, Esq., from whom it passed to his grandson, Sir John Russell Bailey, Bart. (now Lord Glanusk), who sold it (1901) to Thomas Hewett, Esq., of Grimsby. The pedigree opposite shows the history of this manor from its acquisition by the D'Oyleys, who are briefly traced from their entry into Bucks from the adjoining parish of Pishill in Oxfordshire.*

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The other manor, now represented by Turville Park, belonged (from the year 794) to the abbey of St. Alban's, and was granted by Henry VIII. to Edward Chamberleyne, who conveyed it to the Dormer family. At the Usurpation the manor was conveyed to a Mr. West, of Chepping Wycombe, by whom it was sold in 1653 to John Ovey, Esq., of Watlington, Oxon. It passed in marriage with his daughter Jane to Timothy Perry, Esq., of Wormington Place, Gloucestershire, but described in the Turville Register as "of St Antholins, London." His son having predeceased him, he was succeeded by his grandson William Perry,† who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Sidney, of Penshurst, brother of Jocelyn, Earl of Leicester. In 1796 his only surviving daughter, who was married to Bysshe Shelley, Esq., sold this estate to Thomas Butlin, Esq. The following pedigree shows the family of Perry so far as relates to Turville :

* In addition to the sources already mentioned, and the monuments in Hambleden Church, this pedigree has been corrected and amplified from the very excellent "Account of the House of D'Oyley," by Wm. D'Oyley Bayley, 1845.

+ Lipscomb (III. 630), and following him Aldred, says he was succeeded by his grandson William in 1735, but that must indicate the coming of age of the latter, as the Turville Register shows Timothy's death to have been in January, 1732.