By John Broad
John extensive explores the increase and fall of the Verney family members of center Claydon, Buckinghamshire, demonstrating the family's upward thrust to wealth as prompted by means of a powerful dynastic significant. He unearths how the relatives controlled its estates to maximise source of revenue and used its wealth to remodel the Claydon villages and panorama, making a development of ''open'' and ''closed'' parishes. in accordance with the ambitious Verney relations archive with its plentiful correspondence, this publication will attract someone attracted to the English geographical region as a dynamic strength in English social, financial and demographic background.
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In the rising political tensions of 1639, when Buckinghamshire was at the forefront of opposition to Charles I’s money-raising expedients, he negotiated a deal. He exchanged one of his two Exchequer annuities of £200, and his salary of £182 as Knight Marshal, for a 21-year fixed term charge of £400 a year on the chief rent of the aulnage, an ancient tax on woollen cloth. 43 The aulnage annuity was potentially worth £8,400 and could either be used as security for his daughters’ marriage portions, or reserved for any debts or liabilities.
1 dated 16 February 1626. PRO SP39/18 no. 125 dated 25 November 1625. ClH 9/7 shows that in 1622 the tobacco Patent was run by a London merchant, Thomas Hanson, with Sir Edmund sharing the profits with two other men. Cf. CSPD 1619–23, p. 47, showing that the original rent was only £100 a year; CSPD 1619–23, p. 138 of April 1620 shows a continuing Crown interest in the income possibilities of tobacco taxation. PRO SP16/377 fo. 1, Petition of 1637 for enrolling London apprentices; other projects included Patents for supplying turf.
They pulled down houses to make settlements defensible at Oxford and Aylesbury while at 2 3 4 BL MS Egerton 2048, fo. 61. J. Broad, ‘Sir Ralph Verney and his estates 1630–96’, unpublished Oxford University DPhil thesis 1973; the clearest and most accurate account of military operations in these parts remains C. H. Firth, ‘A chronological survey of the Civil War in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire 1642–6’, Proceedings of the Oxfordshire Archaeological Society, new series 5 (1896–8), pp.
