HAMPDEN.
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HAMPDEN.
The following relation is given in the additions to Camden's Britannia, co. Bucks, p. 318. Tradition says the Black Prince, who held Hartwell, had large possessions at Prince's Risborough, where they show part of a wall of his palace, and a field where his horses were turned called Prince's Field, and repeat these lines on a supposed quarrel between him and one of the family of Hampden:
Hamden of Hamden did foregoe
The manors of Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe,
For striking the Black Prince a blow.