The Grange was a country house and estate at the village of Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire, England, in the United Kingdom. History The Grange developed from an estate first recorded in the possession of Missenden Abbey in 1224 and was valued at £12 in 1291. The estate was also known as the rectory or parsonage, and farmers were employed to act as bailiff and farm the estate, such as John Kynwoldmerssh in the early fifteenth century. The Grange was leased to William White and his wife Helen in 1484 for twenty-one years at a rent of £10 5s, however, in 1498, Edmund Brudenell, Lord of Brudenell Manor, purchased the remainder of the lease from Helen after her husband's death. Brudenell was taken to court by the abbey in 1501 and 1502 and charged with leaving several buildings in the estate in poor condition and taking equipment to his own property. In 1502, Brudenell owed the abbey £40 in arrears for the rent of the Grange, and was taken to court where his brother Robert arranged to pay the abbey £6 a year until £35 had been paid, but only £26 was paid. The estate was later leased to John Compton who is also known to have left the Grange in poor condition. Sir Robert Drury, Lord of Brudenell Manor, leased the Grange from the abbey, and purchased the estate, as well as the manors of Chalfont and of Hedgerley, for £594 in 1540 after the dissolution of Missenden Abbey. Sir Robert's son Robert inherited the Grange and his father's other properties in Buckinghamshire on his death in 1577, which was in turn bequeathed to his son Sir Henry on Robert's death in 1592. The house was inherited by Sir Henry's son William on his death in 1617 who sold the Grange to Henry Bulstrode in 1626, at which time the house was leased to Robert Duck at a rent of £25. Bulstrode sold the Grange to Sir Isaac Penington in 1637, and was granted to his son Isaac on his marriage to Mary Springett in 1654, who both took up residence in 1658. The house became a notable centre of the Religious Society of Friends and its founder George Fox visited in 1658. Thomas Ellwood became a Quaker after a visit to the Grange in December 1659, and Quaker meetings held at the house in 1660 and 1661 were