74 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



Richard Wither, in medow - - - - vi ac. 

 Hugh Duffin, in pasture - - - - xij ac. 

 It comon of pasture - 500 ac. 



BOROUGH OF OUERTON. 



John Douce, sen.,* one yard land errable 



xxx ac. in medow iiij ac. 



John Magwicke,t di. yard land - - - xv ac. 

 William Lancaster, one yard land - xxx ac. 



ffrancis Palmes 

 William Ayliffe 



> Constables. 



The Hundred of EVENGER, 1575. 



WHITCHURCH. 



John Clarke holdeth the manor of Whitchurch, in ffarme and hath 

 by estimacon, x yard land, whereof in pasture xl ac., in medow 

 xx ac., in wood iiij ac., the rest in errable and is charged with 

 the payment of wheat, vij huh. 



Richard Brooke, | holdeth the parsonage there in ffarme and hath 

 in gleebe land, iij yard land, whereof in pasture viij ac., the rest 

 in errable. Also the same Richard hath within the pishe of 

 Whitchurch, ijj yard land whereof xx ac. is wood ground, the 

 the reste errable and is charged with the payment of wheat, 

 vj buh. 



* In a cause heard in the Court of Star Chamber, 7 Jac. I., 1609, between 

 John Patye, of Chieveley, Berks, Yeoman, plaintiff, and Francis Palmes, of 

 Overton, gent., Andrew Holdip, gent., and John Dowse, of Overton, gent., 

 defendants, the names of the following persons appear in the depositions : 

 Simon Holdip, Parson of Ashe and Deane, Richard Money, of East Woodhay, 

 gent., William Mayne, of Ashe, yeoman, and George Ayliffe, of Southington, 

 yeoman, Thomas Twyne, of Overton, yeoman, and Richard Pococke, of Shaw- 

 cuin-Donnington, yeoman. The depositions were taken at the " Lyon " Inn, 

 Newbury, before Nicholas Fuller, Esq., counsellor of Gray's Inn, who lived at 

 the old mansion of Chamberhouse, in the parish of Thatcham, in the church of 

 which place he is commemorated by a handsome monument. 



f The Madgwicks were long settled at Dummer. Henry Madgwick of this 

 place, born in 1592, was a scholar and fellow of New College, B.C.L., and 

 Rector of Allington, Wilts ; and another Henry Madgwick, L.L.B., was 

 admitted Fellow of Winchester College, 11 August, 1618. 



J There is a brass now affixed on the wall at the end of the south aisle of 

 Whitchurch Church with effigies of this Richard Brooke and his wife, with the 

 following quaint inscription : 



Pietatis opus. 



This graue of grief e hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth, 

 The bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, Hampton south, 

 And Elizabeth his wedded wife twice twentie yeares and one 

 Sweete Jesus hath their soules in heaven, ye ground, flesh, skin, and bone. 



