Monument record 0949400000 - High Wycombe town

Robert [D'Oilly] holds Wycombe himself from his wife's holding. It answers for 10 hides. Land for 30 ploughs; in lordship 4 hides; 3 ploughs there. 40 villagers with 8 smallholders have 27 ploughs. 8 slaves and 4 boors; 6 mills at 75s a year; meadow for 3 ploughs, for the horses of the court, and for the villager's ploughs; woodland, 500 pigs. Total value £26; when acquired £10; before 1066 £12. Brictric held this manor from Queen Edith (B1).
NGR to centre of town (near church).
Conservation Areas designated in 1970, 1986, 1987 and 2006. See summaries (B2-8).
Historic towns characterisation project report (B9).
In 1086 the whole of Wycombe was attached to the fief of Robert Doyley, which, united to that of Miles Crispin, became later known as the honour of Wallingford. To this honour are subsequently found attached Bassets Bury Manor, Temple Wycombe Manor and the various minor estates in this parish. In addition to general rights of overlordship the honour also claimed rights in the borough, notably that of return of writs. Local courts of the honour, too, were held at Wycombe, and court rolls from the year 1422 to 1546 have been preserved, from which it appears that the bailiffs of the borough at these dates paid a 'certain' rent of 6s. 8d. to the honour.
There is no mention of Wycombe as a borough in Domesday, but, as in the case of its neighbour Marlow, a borough certainly existed here in the reign of Henry II, and an old tradition refers its formation to the reign of his grandfather. Burgage tenure certainly existed here before 1185, and traders were settled in the town in the 12th century. King John gave a moiety of the foreign vill or 'suburb' to Robert de Vipont and the other moiety with the whole of the borough to Alan Basset, and the conditions in the ordination of the vicarage by Bishop Hugh of Wells before 1221 show that the cloth industry was then firmly established in Wycombe. The mention of the tithe of teasels (used for finishing cloth) being of particular interest.
In 1558 the borough was granted a charter of incorporation, though, as is expressly stated, it had long enjoyed the rights of a corporate body. This charter was confirmed by Elizabeth 1 in 1598 (B10).
In 1226 final concord was agreed between the burgesses of Wycombe and Alan Basset, settling their grievances against him, with his grant of the borough in fee-farm. In 1237 confirmation of the foregoing was made by Henry II; similar confirmation by Edward I, made in 1285 (B11).