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Rh disputes also in 1279 about Datchet and Little Kimble. A year or so later, when Oliver Sutton became bishop of Lincoln, there was more trouble about Turville, because no proctor was sent to represent the church at the synod held at Aylesbury ; and the bishop ordered the sequestration of the fruits in consequence. The sequestration was only removed after an appeal to the Court of Arches.

The parochial chapels of this period seem to deserve a special notice, though they were probably not more numerous in Buckinghamshire than in other parts of the country. It is most likely that nearly all good sized hamlets had their own chapels, dependent on the parish church, and served thence by chaplains either daily or three times a week, according to the value of the endowment. At a time when frequent assistance at mass was considered to be a part of the ordinary Christian duty of all men, secular or religious, gentle or simple, the badness of the roads and the floods of winter would have been a serious hindrance both to the lord of the manor and his tenants, unless these chapels had been provided. Occasionally, as time went on, they were further endowed, and became either free chapels or parish churches ; if they were not re-endowed, they usually became unable to support a chaplain in the fourteenth century after the Great Pestilence.

The principal ones in this county were :

In the parish of Oakley : Brill, Boarstall and Edingrave ; in the parish of Haddenham : Cuddington and Kingsey ; in the parish of Aylesbury : Bierton, Buckland, Stoke Mandeville and Quarrendon ; in the parish of Chesham : Hundridge, Chesham Bois and Latimer ;