PASSENHAM, (Northamptonshire) or PASHAM, on the Ouse, opposite to Stony-Stratford, is said to be the place, where the
Saxon K. Edward put a garrison, to guard the passage over that r. against the Danes from Northampton. It was in later
times the manor and seat of the Banasters, of whom Sir Robert built its neat Ch. in 1626 at his own cost. By the marriage
of his daughter to William Ld. Maynard of Essex, it is come into this family. Here is a mf. of bonelace.