50 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 

 COLDWALTHAM. * 



The parsonage there in the manuranee 



of the parson - 



James Rumboll for the ffarme there 

 John Twyne for his hould there - 

 Edward Bigges for his hould there 

 Eowland Gredge for his hould there 

 James Lamboll for his hould there 

 Gilbert Cobbe for his houlde there 

 Mawde Siluer for her hould there 

 Richard Brickledon for his hould there 

 John Bigges for his houlde there 

 Thomas Lamboll for his hould 

 Clapshowe Widow for her hould - 



* Cold Waltham. This place is marked on Kitchen's Map of Hampshire 

 as " Cold or North Waltham," within the hundred of Overton. One of the 

 ancient manors of the Bishops of Winchester. 



lord of Clifton, a place finely situated at the junction of the rivers Mersey and 

 Weaver. His ten children were borne him by Elizabeth Manners, daughter 

 of Thomas, Earl of Rutland, and his career was signalised not only by the 

 erection of the magnificent mansion he called relinguishing the old name of 

 Clifton "Rocksavage," but by serving his country seven times as sheriff, 

 and his county town three times as mayor. (Burroiv's Hist, of the Brocas 

 family J. It appears on the calendar of proceedings in the Court of Chancery 

 temp. 2 Elizabeth that Sir John Savage was living in 1595, and that he had 

 purchased considerable estates at Tadley and elsewhere in North Hants, which 

 his second son, Edward, claimed as heir in tail under settlement. Prof. 

 Burrows mentions that the Beaurepaire estates were settled on this Edward 

 Savage, who married a niece of Dame Elinor, (his stepmother), by half-blood, 

 if that term can be used by an illegitimate sister's child. The sister's name was 

 Katharine, daughter of Dame Elinor's mother. Her child, Polyxena was 

 her daughter by William le Grig or Grice, "of London, gentleman." In 

 1629-30 Sir Henry Wallop, the sheriff of Hampshire had a suit in the Star 

 Chamber with one Thomas Taylor, the then owner of Bradley manor in which 

 Sir John Savage is referred to as "the author of all this mischief." Sir 

 Kenelm Digby agreed to invest it "as his Majesty's farmer thereof." When 

 the sheriff went to take possession Mr. Taylor and his wife and sixteen 

 children refused to leave. They "resisted with hrearms, and the sheriff's 

 party answered with ordnance, and made approaches up to the door of the 

 house, but were ultimately obliged to retreat." Taylor then petitioned the 

 king, complaining that he was being "stripped out of his estate by the 

 oppression of Sir Kenelm Digby." Sir Kenelm also petitioned, stating that 

 Taylor had with him "a tumultuous body of sailors under the command 

 of a captain, who defended the house in a warlike manner for six or seven 

 hours, and killed one of the sheriff's men with a poisoned bullet." The result 

 of this dispute was that possessions was ultimately rendered to Sir Kenelm 

 Digby. The Savages inter-married with a family named Waterman of Tangley, 

 the Hurstbonrnes, Preston Candover, and other places in North Hants. In 

 the church of Preston Candover Church there is a brass to the Rev. Thomas 

 Waterman, who died in 1726. He was Vicar of this parish 59 years. A 

 branch of the family settled at Holt, in the parish of Kintbury, Berks, one of 



