THE AYLESBURYS AND BALDwiNs of co. BUcks. —Can any of your readers inform me whether the Aylesburys and Baldwins of co. Bucks belong to the same family In a note to the first volume of Hume's History of England, temp. Hen. II., it is recited that “John Baldwin held the manor of Oterarsfee in Ayles. bury of the king in socage by the service of finding litter for the king's bed, viz., in summer grass or herbs and two grey geese, and in winter straw and three eels, thrice in the year, provided the king should come thrice in the year to Aylesbury.” Hume cites as his authority Madox, Bar. Ang., 247, but the following Latin record, which is there printed in full, shows that the John Baldwin in question flourished during the reign of Henry VII. : “Buk. Johannes Baldwyn frater et haeres Ricardi Baldwyn dat domino Regi vis, viiid., de relevio suo, pro quodam manerio in Aylesbury vocato Oterarsfee, ac uno messuagio, xlv acris terra et decem acris prati, cum pertinentiis in Aylesbury praedicta, quae de Domino Rege tenentur in socagio, per servitium inveniendi literam ad lectum Domini Regis ac stramen et herbam ad ornandum hospitium Domini Regis, ter in anno, si totiens apud Aylesbury praedictam venerit videlicet in aestate herbam ob causam praedictam et duas Gantas et in yeme stramen et tres anguillas: Ita quod sex Gantae vel novem anguillae, essent in anno, si Rex ter in anno illuc venerit, sicut idem Johannes recognovit et sicut continetur alibi in his Memorandis, videlicet inter Recorda de hoc termino Rotulo ix. Et unde scrutatis Rotulis pro Rege, &c. Compertum est in memorandis de anno xviii Domini E. nuper Regis Angliae primi, videlicet inter Fines de termino Sancti Michaelis quod Willielmus filius Willielmi haeres Ricardi de Aylesbury simili modo oneratus fuit de relevio suo pro terra praedicta (Mich. Fines 7 Hen. VII. Rot. 3, b.)." From this John Baldwin, “brother and heir of Richard,” descended, in the fourth generation (through Sylvester, Henry and Sylvester), Sylvester Baldwin, of Aston Clinton, co. Bucks, who emigrated to New England in 1635, with wife Sarah (Bryan), sons Richard and John, and four daughters. The manor of Oterarsfee appears to have been in the possession of the Aylesbury family for many generations. By an inquest post-mortem, taken 7 Edw. I. (1279), it is recited that “Willielmus filius Roberti ‘de Aylesbyr.’” held one messuage and three virgates of land in co. Bucks upon the service of finding litter for the king's bed, &c.; and that William, son of the aforesaid William, is the next heir, and is twenty-one years of age and more (1 Cal. Gen. 281). An inquisition, noted in Lipscombe's History of County Bucks as taken in 1323, recites that Robert Fitz Richard, son of William de Aylesbury, “who died in 1278,” was seized of the same messuage, and that Richard, son of the said Robert, was his son and of full age.
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