COMPOSITION. 



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DEANE. * 



The parson of Deane for the parsonage ij buh. 



William Eogers for his hould there - j huh. 



QUIDHAMTON. t 



William Denby for his ffarme there - v huh. 

 ASHE. $ 



The parsonage of Ashe for the parsonage 



there - ij buh. 



Richard Pile for the ffarme there - xij huh. 



Thomas Q-ardner for the Kinges Downe j buh. 



POLHAMPTON. 



William Ayliffe for the ffarme there iij bus. di. 

 Eoger Hunte for Nutsell iiij bus. di. 



John Treulouve for his hould there - i buh. 



James Browne for his hould there - i buh. 



viij buh. 



j qrter. 

 vij buh. 



i qrter. 

 v buh. 



* Deane. A village about 2 m. E. of Overton. The word Deane is Celtic 

 in its origin, and expresses any quiet or sequestered spot. (See Ashe). 



f Quidhampton. A tithing of Overton, on the north side of the valley. 

 The name is derived from the Cornish cuid a wood. Qu'ulham means the 

 "homestead by the wood." 



J Ashe. A small scattered parish about 2 m. E. of Whitchurch. The 

 manors of Ashe and Deane were purchased by the celebrated William of 

 Wykeham, about the latter part of the fourteenth century ; and they were 

 left by him to his sister Agnes, in the possession of whose descendants they 

 continued for some time the son taking the name of Wykeham. The next 

 female heir married Lord Saye and Sele, by the last of whom of that creation, 

 the manors were alienated ; and though they have often changed proprietors 

 since that time, they have never returned to the descendants of any relation 

 of Wykeham. In 1607 Sir James Deane endowed the almshonses he founded 

 at Basingstoke with a rent charge of 55 out of the manor or farm at Ashe. 

 The manor of Dean passed from Sir James Dean, knt., by the marriage of his 

 daughter or niece, t'-mn Car. 1, to John Harwood, Esq., whose family long 

 possessed it. 



Polhampton. A tithing of Overton parish. According to Kndborne, 

 this was one of the nine manors by the gift of which Alwyn testified his 

 gratitude at the demonstration of his innocence by Queen Emma's deliverance. 



whom John Waterman, born in 1625, married Elizabeth, daughter to Richard 

 Blandy, of Holt, of the ancient Berkshire family of this name, long settled at 

 Inglewood in the same parish. His son Blandy Waterman is mentioned in 

 the Herald's Visitation of Berks as aged 13 in 1665. The name is per]>ctnated 

 in "Waterman's Farm," near Holt Manor. Dorothy, dan. of John Water- 

 man, of Tangley, married Dorothy, dan. of John Hanker. Some notice of the 

 latter family will be found under Monks' Sherborne. It may be mentioned 

 that in Stevens' History of St. Mary Bourne, this Bradley is confused with a 

 Bradley Farm in that neighbourhood. 



