Aston Bury

Aston Bury manor belonged to the monks of St Mary, Reading when it was seized by the Crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and leased to Sir Philip Boteler of Watton-at-Stone, (High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1533 and 1540). The manor belonged to Sir Henry Cason, of Aston Bury, Birthdate: circa 1600, Death: after April 18, 1649. The manor then descended in the Boteler family until John Palmer Boteler sold it to Sir Thomas Rumbold. It then passed through various hands to Captain William Edward Freeman O'Brien, who sold it in 1907 to Mr. Vernon A. Malcolmson. Malcolmson died in 1948 and his son sold the house to Paul Petrocokino, a leading Member of Moral Re-Armament. In 1973…