32 Southwick Court, CuMeridge, and Brook House. 



The note by Canon Jackson is as follows : " In Southwick, a 

 tithing of this parish, two carucates of land belonged A.D. 1274 

 to "William de Greyville or Greynville, who held under the Abbess 

 of Romsey. About A.D. 1294i, his son Adam de Greynville (there 

 was a justice in eyre of this name in 1267) attached to his house at 

 Southwick Court a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist. By 

 surrendering to the Rector of Bradley (at that time the Prebendary 

 of Edington) a ground called Alerleye, he obtained the right of 

 presenting to his chapel a chantry priest, who, in acknowledgment 

 of fealty, was to offer 2lbs. of wax in Bradley Church, every year 

 on the anniversary of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. In 

 1369 the Bishop of Sarum granted a licence for Mass to be said in 

 the private mansion house of Southwick. This chaplain, in after 

 times, was always instituted to his office by the Rectors of Edington 

 Monastery, to whom the church of Bradley then belonged.'' 



The manor of Southwick, and the advowson of the chapel at 

 Southwick Court, appear to have passed, about A.D. 1341, by the 

 heiress of Greynville or Greyville, to Humphrey Stafford, Knight, 

 grandfather of John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then by 

 Alice Stafford, an heiress, to Sir Edmund Cheney, of Brook-hall; 

 and by their heiress to Sir John Willoughby of Brook, c. 1430. 

 in 1483, during a temporary forfeiture, Southwick was given by 

 Richard III. to his favorite, Edward Ratcliffe ; but it was restored, 

 and in 1520 was sold by Robert Willoughby Lord Broke, to Sir 

 David Owen, a supposed son of Owen Tudor. In his will, 1529, 

 Sir David Owen mentions this manor and chantry. One portion 

 was sold by Henry Owen, to Sir Woolstan Dixie, Lord Mayor of 

 London, who by will, 1592, devised his lands here, worth £42 per 

 annum, to Christ's Hospital, Another portion was sold, 1566, by 

 John Owen, to Christopher Bayley, whose wife Matilda (Horton) 

 appears to have possessed one third of the manor in her own right. 

 She married Walter Bush, who held it for his life. Rebecca Bayley, 

 an heiress, grand-daughter of Christopher, married, first Henry 

 Long, of Whaddon, and secondly Henry Sherfield (who held it also 

 for life) . By another heiress, Rebecca, grand-daughter of Henry 

 Long, of Whaddon, it passed in marriage to Sir Philip Parker ; and 



