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QuiDHAMTON FFIRMARIu' IBID. 



In the manurance of "William Denbye, of errable 200 ac. 

 In pasture 80 ac., in medow x ac., in wood ground 44 ao. 



CAPELLA* IBID. 



In the manurance of Richard ffisher, gent., xxx ac., et valet 



pr. an. vli. and p. li. 

 In the manurance of ffirancis Palmes, gent.,* errable v yard 



land 140 ac., in pasture xx ac. 

 Allso in Ouerton, of pasture x ac., in medow vij ac., and of 



errable there vij ac. 



"William Hunte, of errable iiij yard land 120 ac., in medow iij ac. 

 It m comon of pasture to the said Denbye, Palmes, Hunte, and the 



Chappell, t in the south side and north side 250 ac. 



The Parsonage of OUERTON. 



In the manurance of Henry ffrancis, gent., in glebe vj, yarde 



lande 180 ac. 

 In the manurance of the said Henry, viij yard land 240 ac., viz., 



Jordayues ij, yard land, kerbyes ij, yard land, durbors j yard 



land, John ffrancklin iij yard land. 

 It in medow viij ac., in wood to the same ij ac., et valet pr. 



an. 80 li. 



* Of the ancient family of Palmes, of Naborne, co. York. The Francis 

 Palmes here mentioned, of Overton, was high sheriff of Hants in 1601, when 

 he received Qneen Elizabeth and her court on Silchester Heath, at the border 

 of the country, and conducted the royal party to Basing House, then the 

 princely seat of the Marquis of Winchester, where her majesty remained 

 thirteen days. The queen on leaving Basing made ten knichtw, amongst them 

 being Francis Palmes the sheriff, and Hambden Pan let. Francis Palmes and 

 Hambden Panlet were nearly allied through their wives, Mary and Anne, the 

 daughters and co-heiresses of Stephen Hodnell, chamberlain to Queen Mary, 

 by Margaret his wife, daughter to Thomas Atkyns, Esq. After Stephen's 

 death Margaret became the wife of Sir Richard I^ewkenor. Mary, wife to 

 Francis Palmes died 25 March, 1595, aged 37. This Francis Palmes was heir 

 to Francis Corby or Corbet. It is said that on the occasion of the visit of 

 Queen Elizabeth to Basing as on other progresses, there was an immense 

 company of scullions and other inferior officers of the royal household in her 

 train, who were by the common people jocularly termed the black guard ; 

 to which various allusions occur in old writers. In all appearance, the term 

 of reproach which has become so common in modern times, dates its origin 

 from this popular jest. 



t There was at this time a Free Chapel attached to the manor of 

 Quidhampton. 



\ The name of Henry Francis occurs in the " Narratives of the Reforma- 

 tion," Cam. Soc. in a dialogue between (iar<iin>r, Bishop of Winchester and 

 John Philnot, the martyr, son of Sir Peter Philpot, of Compton, near Win- 

 Chester. May this not have been the Henry Francis, who at this time held 

 the parsonage of Overton under the Bishop of Winchester T 



