342 Notes on Durrington. 
Philip, was born 1610. The second, Abraham, from whom the 
present head of the family is descended, in 1612. Edward Poore 
was fined £17 10s. for refusing knighthood on the accession of 
Charles I. He died in 1656, leaving his books “in my chamber at 
the Temple” to Philip, who was also of the Inner Temple, and a 
barrister, who succeeded him at Durrington: Abraham going to 
Milston, Edward to his father’s property at Ilton; and Thomas 
who was then at Oxford, in due time to a Somersetshire rectory. 
This Philip, the barrister, married Mary, daughter of Walter 
South, of Swalloweliffe, and died soon after his father in 1661; 
leaving another Philip, his only son, to succeed him. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter of J. Codrington, of Didmarton ; and when he 
died at the age of 54 he left two sons and eight daughters. His 
sons were Philip, who married Mary Harrison, of Amesbury: but 
she died 1716 and he in 1719. John never held the manor. 
Indeed Philip’s tenure of this West-end Manor ceased ‘the years 
before he died, and with him the long-continued lease to the Poores 
came to an end. His immediate successors for about twenty years 
were William Reeves, a Bulford yeoman, and his executors: then 
Thomas Gatehouse, a yeoman of Lower Wallop, and Thomas 
Dummers, of Cranbury. In 1755 Thomas Cabott, a merchant of 
Southampton, renewed the lease; but he was perhaps an agent for 
William Fowle of Jamaica, who re-built the manor house, in which 
different members of the Fowle Family have lived until now. But 
for several years past Winchester College has ceased to renew 
leases. 
So long as the lords held a court there was a“ View of Frankpledge.” 
lst. We present our customs: one life in possession, and two 
lives in reversion, and no more; a widow in possession and two 
lives in reversion, and no more. 
2nd. We present executors to hold the executors’ year from the 
death of the tenant until the Michaelmas following. 
3rd. We present that it has been and now is customary in this 
manor after the death of a tenant in possession for the next life in 
reversion to have the preference of filling up the last life. 
4th. We present the death of 
