260 Fittleton and Hackleston : 



same farm called the " Porcionitry " theretofore also parcel of the 

 possessions of the said Sir Edward Darell, were purchsaed by the 

 said Thomas Jay of Thomas Emmerson, Esq. and William Bennett, 

 Gentleman. 



[The Darell estate appears to have been in the Crown in the 

 31st year of Queen Elizabeth.] 



The will of Thomas Jay is dated the 25th of April, 1623. 



He died seized of the purchased lands and also of the Manor of 

 Combe in the parish of Enford. 



He gave the capital house and estate at Haxton, and the tithes 

 called " Porcionitry " to his son Benjamin Jay of Haxton, and the 

 estate in Fittleton and the Manor of Combe to his son Thomas, 

 afterwards Sir Thomas Jay, Kt. of London. Fittleton subsequently 

 became the property of the Rev. Dr. Henry Edes of Chichester, 

 and afterwards of John Briggs of the same place. Gentleman, in 

 right of his wife Mary Edes. They in the year 1721 sold the 

 advowson of Fittleton to Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1734 

 the rest of the Fittleton estate was purchased of them or their 

 representatives by Thomas Beach, Esq. 



The capital messuage and farm of Haxton was, it is supposed, 

 purchased by Henry Clark, Esq., who died in the year 1712, and 

 subsequently by Abraham Gapper of Wincanton, Esq., Serjeant- 

 at-Law, whose grandson William Gapper, Esq., in the year 1803, 

 sold the same to John Perkins, Esq. of London, of whose coheiress 

 it was purchased by the late Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, 

 in 1847. 



In the year 1626 another portion of the manor and estate of 

 Haxton, containing about 411 acres, was purchased of Sir John 

 Brune, Kt., by Sir Richard Grubham, Kt. of Wishford, from whom 

 it descended to John Howe the 4th and last Lord Chedworth, of 

 whose devisees it was purchased by Michael Hicks Beach, Esq. in 

 1806 with lands in Netheravon parish. The several estates so 

 acquired by the Beach family as above mentioned, are now the 

 property of Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bart., M.P., who 

 is the owner of nearly the entire parish and tithing, and who is 

 descended from the ancient family of "Hicks" of Beverstone 



