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Rh Bardney Abbey to the London Charterhouse. Ivinghoe was granted by the bishop of Winchester to the monastery of Ashridge ; Bledlow, which had belonged to the monks of Grestain and passed from them to the king, was appropriated in 1413 to the College of St. Stephen, Westminster. Three churches in this county were granted by King Edward III. to his new foundation in connexion with St. George's Chapel, Windsor ; Datchet, which had been given to him in 1341 by St. Alban's Abbey ; Wyrardisbury with the chapel of Langley Marish, which had come to him from Gloucester Abbey ; and Iver. The canons of Windsor also obtained the church of North Marston by exchange, from the canons of Dunstable. All the churches newly appropriated during these two centuries had vicarages ordained at the same time ; the Bishop's own church at Wooburn had a perpetual vicar's portion assigned for the first time in 1337, but the vicarage of the prebendal church of Buckingham was not ordained till 1445.

A few parochial chapels for the use of hamlets remote from the parish church were built during the fourteenth century ; but some which are mentioned for the first time in the records of this period may well have been in existence earlier. Thus the chapel of Aston in Ivinghoe, re-endowed in 1340, had certainly been standing for some time ; the chapel of Dagnall in Edlesborough was probably at first a memorial chapel, built by Henry Spigurnel at the end of the thirteenth century ; the chapels of Ditton in Stoke Poges, Fulmer in Datchet, Weston Underwood in Olney, all mentioned early in the fourteenth century, were probably built some time before : it is uncertain whether the chapel of Colnbrook was built or re-built in 1345, and there is the