Moulsoe / Moleshou / Mouleshou / Moleshov / Moullesso / Moulshoe / Moulso / Muleshou / Muselo

There is an entry for Moulsoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9142/moulsoe/] [accessed 24 February 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) quotes Willis' dating of the church towards the end of Edward III's reign [1327-1377], and notes: "The font is ancient and octagonal". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The present building has probably been developed from a 12th-century church [...] In 1885–90 the chancel and porch were rebuilt and the church restored [...] The font has a modern bowl on a 14th-century octagonal stem, which is moulded at the top and has large rounded stops at the bottom." [NB: Sheahan may have seen the original font before the late-1880s' renovation; the modern bowl noted in the VCH may date from that renovation -- we have no information on the whereabouts of the older one, although at the time of the RCHM survey both, the medieval and the 19th-century fonts appear to have been around]. An entry in the Newport Pagnell Parish site [www.npparish.org.uk/Blog/moulsoe.html] [accessed 24 February 2016] mentions "a fourteenth-century octagonal font stem" in the Mulsoe church.