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The Tything of WOODHAYE. 



Edward Longman * holdeth the manor there in ffarme by estima- 

 con vij yard land, wherof in pasture 1 ac., in medow xxx ac., the 

 rest in errable : and heer is to be noted that within this tything 

 of Woodhay ther is to euery yard land Ix ac. : and allso that the 

 ffarmer hath wood allowed him for his ffewell and not otherwise, 

 and is charged with the payment of wheate vij buh. 



Mr. Edward Goddard t holdeth viij yard land and 1 ac. of purpos- 

 ture, and hath in pasture Ixxx ac., in medow xxx ac., in wood 

 xl ac., the reste in errable, and charged with wheate vij buh. 



William Rumbold holdeth the parsonage, and hath in gleebe lands 

 xvij ac. errable, and holdeth of the Lord halfe a yard land 

 wherof in medow v ac., in wood vj ac., the reste in errable, more 

 he holdeth in purposture xxiij ac., and is charged with wheat 

 vj buh. 



John Whittear : holdeth in errable, xlviij ac., in medow xx ac.,in 

 pasture xxxiij ac., in wood xx, and is charged with wheate ij buh. 



* The Longman family has been connected with North Hants for several 

 centuries. The first mention we find of the name is in a Subsidy Roll, under 

 Woodcott, of Edward III., 1327. For many generatioas they held property 

 as proprietors or occupiers at Week in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, and the 

 surrounding neighbourhood. In the churchyard of Bourne there are many 

 monuments commemorating successive members of this fine old yeoman family, 

 whose births, marriages, and deaths are recorded in the parish registers from 

 age to age with a regularity which might cause envy to some man of brief 

 pedigree, anxious to extend the line of his ancestry. The last male represen- 

 tative of the Longmans at St. Mary Bourne was the highly esteemed and 

 benevolent owner of Wadwick or Warwick, a hamlet in the parish. An 

 inscription under the Tower of the Parish Church records that the chandelier 

 in the centre aisle of the church was the gift of Mr. John Longman, gent., of 

 Apsley Farm, in the parish of Hurstbourne Priors, in the year 1807. 



f Edward Goddard, of Stargrove. This family was one of considerable 

 position and influence at the time, and possessed a large property at Woodhay, 

 which has passed into other hands. At Stargrove, after the second battle of 

 Newbury, the then owner, John Goddard, received at his house Oliver Crom- 



jreserved 

 Toodhay, 



... .he being 



the last remaining member of that branch of the Goddards. In 1655 Mr. 

 Vincent Goddard, of this family, was a Commissioner under Cromwell for the 

 county of Berks. In East Woodhay Church there is a handsome momum-nt 

 to Edward Goddard, son of William Goddard, of Stargrove, by Elizabeth his 

 wife, daughter of John D'Oyley, Esq., "an eminent and honourable family in 

 the county of Oxford." Edward Goddard, the son, marriod Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Edward Goddard, Esq., of Ogbonrne St. Andrew, Wilts, and died 

 17 Oct., 1724. On the monument are full-sized figures of himself and wife. 



J John Whittear. This name, like many others, varies very much in its 

 spelling. The Whitears were an old respectable, and ancient yeoman family, 

 fast becoming extinct in Hampshire at the present time. The yeomen descen- 

 dant* of the Whitears are or were the owners of many manors and broad lands 

 around Winchester and the neighbourhood. There are many gravestones in 

 Alresford Church in memory of members of the Whitear family. 



