52 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



SOUTHANTON. * 



Henry ffrancis, gent., for the parsonage 

 the same Henry for land he houldeth there 

 John ffisher, gent., for the ffarme there 

 Richard Denbye for his hould there 

 John Gbdge for his hould there - 

 Richard Palmes, gent., for his lande 



NORRINGTON. f 



Rumboll Wadlowe for his ffarme there 



LAUERSTOCKE. J 



Gregory Mathew for the ffarme thare 

 the psone for the parsonage there 



TADLEYE. 



Reynold Hanington for that he holdeth 

 there - - 



Suma totall of wheat within 

 the hundred of Overton. 



j quarter. 



i qrter. 

 iij buh. 



jbuh.. 



ijqrs. 

 iiij buh. 



xv. qrters. wheat. 



ffor the payment of x lambes. 



BRADLEY. 



the ffarme there in the occupacon of S r - John Sauage 



Knight - - - iiijs. 



* Southanton. Now Southington, extending southward from the town of 

 Overton. Sonthington is now the residence of W. W. Portal, Esq. 



f Now Northington, a farm in the parish of Overton. 



j The Lavrochestock of Domesday, then held by the monks of St. Peter 

 at Hyde, Winchester, a picturesque parish in the Test Valley, about a mile 

 W. of Overton. The parish contains about 2,000 acres of land, nearly all the 

 property of Melville Portal, Esq., M. P. for North Hants, 18491857, of 

 Laverstoke House, a large and handsome mansion, in a well-wooded park. 

 The old mansion was built about 1600, and was taken down and rebuilt on a 

 larger scale in 1800, by Henry Portal, Esq., uncle of the present owner. The 

 Portals were one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Languedoc. 

 Being expelled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 

 consequence of their active participation in favour of the Protestant cause, 

 they took refuge in England, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, 

 and have ever since resided at Laverstoke, where, and in the adjacent parishes 

 of Overton, Freefolk, and Whitchurch, they have large estates, Here they 

 established a Paper Mill, at which all the Bank of England Note Paper has 

 been manufactured since 1719, but was previously carried on at Bare or Bere 

 Corn Mill in the parish of Freefolk Manor, which was built in 1710, by one of 

 the Portal family. Laverstoke Bank Note Paper Mills now belong to 

 Wyndham S. Portal, Esq., of Malshanger. 



Tadley. A scattered parish about 6 m. E. by N. of Kingsclere. Tadley 

 Place was the ancient seat of the Ludlows in Hampshire, and " Wyford " of 

 the Moores, a very old family in these parts. 



