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Butterfield, Rev. Edward

Rector of Middle Claydon 1658

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12-465
Sent by ed Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1654/04/08
Notes: (from Buckingham) addressed to “his honoured friend”
13-111
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1654/10/02
Queries: PAGE 64
13-080
Sent by Ed Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1654/10/22
Notes: * nb being used as a mediator between srv and J aris over the enclosure of claydon
16-092
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1656/06/26
Notes: New parsonage at standstill because of a lack of bricks
15-395
Sent by E Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1657/09/10
15-542
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1658/02/07
Notes: 1657/8
15-548
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1658/02/14
Notes: 1657/8
16-013
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1658/04/19
Notes: About EV and Mall Eure
16-047
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1658/05/24
16-253
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/01/03
Notes: 1658/9
16-258
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/01/10
Notes: 1658/9
16-259
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/01/10
Notes: 1658/9
16-264
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/01/17
Notes: 1658/9 Squabble over Stokes' will
16-382
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/05/09
16-394
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/05/23
Notes: “Trading is dead and most men are full of fears” State affairs
16-407
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/05/29
16-408
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/05/29
16-553
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/11/28
16-588
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1659/12/25
17-215
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/05/04
Notes: Says MC rejoiced for King
17-223
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/05/14
Notes: * About preventing 'young Butcher' marrying
17-226
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/05/21
Notes: * About T Challenor taking fines @ SC
17-234
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/06/04
Notes: Butchers marriage off. Was to have been married in winslow
17-238
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/06/11
17-365
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/12/10
Notes: Col Will Smyth acting at St Claydon
17-372
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/12/17
Notes: St Claydon land and later, it on fire (presumably is re let at back)
17-382
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1660/12/24
Notes: Harry Scott wants to be SRV's coachman
17-543
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/06/08
17-551
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/06/17
17-555
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/06/24
Notes: * Claydon parish affairs. Butcher no preent charge to parish, but will not easily quit the place. Recent duel fought between Benson and John Roades with rapiers. John Roades refuses to fight. EB 'now judge you whether you had not need take up ye Commission to keep ye peace'
17-577
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/08/15
Notes: * Butterfield (parson) has been approaching Mary Abell with idea of match with EV. Other suiters and 'for ought I can learne is resolved to marry where she thinks she may live happy. . . ' Abell seems to have died, Richard Abell (Cousin) is trying to get her. Mother and Daughter being advised Dr Sir Robert Wiseman, a grave discreet gent and Mr Gaell, Mr Abell's brother in law
18-034
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/11/16
Notes: On marriage. Abells v kind and open in it and v much for it ,as are tenants?
18-036
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/11/18
Notes: * Particular of estate: Mary Abell said she had £350 pa now, and £900 pa in reversion. She insists on being of age before marriage and has told Edmund Verney that.
18-044
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1661/11/25
18-072
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/01/04
Notes: 1661/2
18-119
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/02/24
Notes: 1661/2 Aboutlost Abell estate deeds. “you had no meeting about a treaty yet”
18-132
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/03/03
Notes: 1661/2
18-222
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/04/05
18-185
Sent by E B Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/04/21
Notes: * leasing negotiations for Knowl Hill as 17/04 HH
18-206
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/04/28
18-207
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/04/28
18-228
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/10
Notes: Borrowing £50 from mrs Abell because SRV has paid him. To be paid on return in London
Queries: PAGE 136
18-231
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/11
Notes: * EB says EV at EC. HH takes advice from EB. Complexities of settling small debt on time.
18-233
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/12
18-239
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/17
18-253
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/26
Notes: Telling him to get marriage over quickly
18-254
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/05/26
Notes: Act for regulating Common fields??
18-269
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/02
Notes: * Notes of money [cash] 'never was such general outcry of ye scarcity of it in my remembrance'
18-274
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/09
18-277
Sent by E B Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/09
18-289
Sent by E B Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/16
Notes: Evidence of quarrel between EV and SRV holding up marriage
18-290
Sent by E B Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/16
18-295
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/23
Notes: Wood stealers @ MC
18-303
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/06/29
18-311
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/07/07
18-318
Sent by E B Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/07/13
Notes: * 'You and I and Mrs Roades have 60 hearths, ye rest of the parish not fifty'.
18-325
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/07/21
18-480
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1662/12/29
Notes: £110 pa for the Knowl Hill – Thomas Miller
18-513
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/02/02
Notes: 1662/3
18-516
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/02/02
Notes: * 1662/3 new tenant Latham at Middle Claydon has sold all his land and reversions of land , but still owes £30, and he has no stock. Recommends srv gives him notice.
18-521
Sent by eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/02/09
Notes: 1662/3 Steeple Claydon man has sold up all his land and stocks and now work is enter SRV's service
18-532
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/02/16
Notes: 1662/3
18-538
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/02/23
Notes: * 1662/3 on the match between Butcher and his Mrs 'who owne another now in publique. Much pressure to stop it. 'Y poore wench is afrayd if she put him off she shall never have another.'
18-548
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/03/02
Notes: * 1662/3 Butcher has heard rumours srv is re-marrying, sees this as helping his plans, asking if srv will have him shipped off to the plantations as a vagrant.
18-549
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/03/02
Notes: 1662/3
18-559
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/03/09
Notes: 1662/3
19-027
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/04/26
Notes: * Butcher threatens secret marriage again and says his partner is pregnant. Miller behind with rent, blames it on enclosure.
19-270
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/04/26
19-030
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/04/29
19-034
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/05/06
19-035
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/05/11
Notes: Stephen Chalk, EV's bailiff, dead, and suggests HH should take over interim.
19-037
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/05/11
Notes: * Of Sir William Smyth: very prosperous and ambitious, and will do whatever he can to get hold of title to Steeple Claydon. On Stephen Chalk (E Claydon bailiff) will with bequests of £270 but assets of only £189-5-4
19-045
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/05/18
Notes: * Beefe is alwayes deere at this time betweene grass and hay especially after such hard winters, '
19-269
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/05/18
Notes: * ' I hate this rack rent, tis worse than usury'
19-268
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/06/01
Notes: * His review of Stephen Chalk's accounts for Abell estates, finds rents in East Claydon very similar to srv's but that grazing land in Hertfordshire produces more than in Bucks.
19-069
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/06/08
19-085
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/06/22
Notes: Hoveden[?] bargain in EC for sale. EB suggests Abell sells Hertfordshire land to buy it. MV pregnant.
Queries: Hoveden?
19-095
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/06/29
19-101
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/07/04
19-266
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/07/13
Notes: * Says tenants trying EV's temper and not paying rents: suggests one exemplary action.
19-267
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/07/15
Notes: * Says tenants trying EV's temper and not paying rents: suggests one exemplary action.
19-209
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/07
Notes: (1) Illegitimate child due in village; (2) Roades ill.
19-211
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/07?
Notes: * Agnes King about to marry and wants to let out her copyholding for a lease for years conditional on her life. EB thinks prospective tenant acceptable.
Queries: 1663/12/09 (Rx)
19-217
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/14
Notes: * On bastardy case - EB and Rose trying to prevent her being a charge on the parish. Of John Lea whom she claims is father 'I feare he is not innocent though perhaps not, ye true father. A very obscene strumpet she is of whom I doubt not but you have heard inough.' Duel between HV's servant and srv's gardiner. Pair pulled apart by Holmes. Two strangers appeared on East Claydon common and claiming the king had granted it to them.
19-218
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/14
19-226
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/21
Notes: * thinks claimants on Bottle Claydon common are 'projectors'
19-228
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/24
Notes: * On Rose's servant 'we are agree to have her conveighed privately away and if the child live we to pay one halfe of ye charge for its maintenance and ye wench and her father the other . Could mean many court proceedings and much cost.
19-229
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/24
Notes: Reckons the Commons claimant will be found at Patent Office.
19-232
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/28
19-233
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1663/12/28
Notes: * Squire Duncomb (at East Claydon?) keeps a great Christmas 'though he borrowed lately £1000 of Mrs Abell and Sir Robt Wiseman'
19-284
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/01/04
Notes: * Peter Hinton, tenant, has 3 boys and 1 wench, the 'biggest is prentised at London'. Reports factional fighting in Buckingham Corporation
19-314
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/02/01
Notes: * Berating him about his high rents so that only 'some alehouse Chapman that never meane to pay' would take them
19-328
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/02/15
19-331
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/02/22
19-339
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/02/29
Notes: Castigating EV for his bad business sense. Also Sir William Smyth's trials ?
19-352
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/03/07
19-356
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/03/14
19-360
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/03/14
Notes: Cannot return money because no London butchers at Leighton at the moment.
19-359
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/03/18
19-406
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/04/11
19-408
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/04/19
19-442
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/05/23
Notes: Suggests EV live in Twyford parsonage.
19-450
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/05/30
19-476
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/06/00
on 1664/06/28
20-029
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1664/12/10
Notes: acquittance for his wife's money (£39/10/- per annum)
20-158
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1665/05/22
Notes: * says his wife has written to her brother Hooker - JV later note in margin, Sir Wm Hooker a Grocer Almn and Ld Mayor of London ob. 1697
20-328
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1665/06/01
Notes: Acquittance for £19/15/-
20-326
Sent by E Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1665/06/05
20-476
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1666/01/00
on 1666/01/13
21-069
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1666/06/06
Notes: * man willing to take Widow Lee's son as an apprentice has come to see him. EB contributing, but SRV had promised £6 towards it.
21-082
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1666/06/11
21-309
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1666/12/17
Notes: * Thomas Miller of Claydon, tenant, had been 'in ye west buying sheep, and was at White Hart in Newbury, one Mr hendges, 'an Inkeeper there by trade a Cooper and a great timber. merchant' who has suggested he sells SRV's marked trees at Wasing, where Hedges knows srv's tenant. ALSO Jane Long 'came to mee for halfe a sheet of paper to write to her daughter in London. She would like daughter to come to Claydon, but EB says SRV will use settlement laws to prevent this
21-341
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1667/01/07
21-502
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1667/05/27
24-154
Sent by EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1671/01/02
Notes: Requesting help from SRV to get his son a place at Oxford.
26-137
Sent by Ed Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1672/07/25
Notes: receipt of £9 from John Stewkeley
27-176
Sent by Edmund Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1674/02/02
Notes: receipt for interest, Mr Coleman
27-330
Sent by Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1674/05/16
Notes: declaration of a bond from John Stewkeley the younger
28-458
Sent by Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from Claydon
on 1675/06/28
received at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
on 1675/06/30
Notes: chat; estate matters (corn, hay, Claydon)
28-471
Sent by Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1675/07/01
To Edmund Verney (Mun) Verney, Edmund [d.1688]
received at East Claydon
Notes: money matters (Lady Gardiner)
Queries: response on bottom from Edmund Verney
29-045
Sent by Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
on 1675/12/06
received at Holborn, London
on 1675/12/08
Notes: chat/religious matters (sent son to Oxford, taking of Orders, Dr Compton, Christchurch); money matters (London, owes 11 shillings to John Butterfield, and to cousin Freeman?, asks Mr Grosvenor to pay for him)
29-062
Sent by Edmund Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from Middle Claydon
on 1675/12/13
received at Holborn, London
on 1675/12/15
Notes: chat (the Dixons grow unruly and very scandalous, Sir John Busby bound over by parson Sharog of Gt Horwood to answer at assizes about a woman who miscarried and died, Mr Dayrell of Lampast not yet dead); religious matters (Bishop of Oxon, rector of Lincoln)
29-076
Sent by Edward Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
from Claydon
on 1675/12/20
received at London
on 1675/12/22
Notes: chat (still not recovered from illness, son ordained deacon at Oxon, Egerton, Mr Shirock, Sir John, parson Thursby, man excommunicated)

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12-464
on 1654/04/08
To Mr Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: asking him to dinner [ Butterfield future rector of Middle Claydon]
13-113
on 1654/10/02
To eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: Arranging for EB to mediate on mrs Aris idea
13-079
on 1654/10/22
To Ed Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
15-384
on 1657/09/03
To Mr Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: Memorandum re replacement Rector at Middle Claydon. Obviously SRV has selected Butterfield already – Notes about presentation under Commonwealth Laws
15-394
on 1657/09/12
To Mr Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: Told to see Sir O Bridgeman if can't get certificate accepted
15-553
on 1658/02/18
To eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: * 1657/8 'I confess my earnest desires to hasten the finishing of your house, that I might have more of your company and advice'.
17-225
on 1660/05/18
To EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
17-237
Sent by P Paxton Paxton, Peter
on 1660/06/09
To eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
18-031
on 1661/11/15
To EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: About marriage negotiations -details. Makes it clear Berkshire lands are for second son (JV). Tells Butterfield to butter up the Abells, suggests he helps them with their particular of their estate.
18-057
on 1661/12/13
To eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: * Letter containing terms for EV's marriage settlement: great detail
19-256
on 1663/12/03
To EB ?? Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: *
19-257
on 1663/12/10
To EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
19-258
on 1663/12/17
To EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward
19-393
on 1664/04/14
To EB ? Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: All about Mary [Abell] Verney's 'madness'
28-400
from London
on 1675/05/20
To Mr Butterfield Butterfield, Rev. Edward
Notes: money matters (sister Gardiner)
Queries: copy of letter
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