100 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



The Tything of FFACCOMBE. 



The ffarme in the occupacon of Mr. Reade,* 150 ac., in the 

 comon fieldes, and ffiftie acres errable in seuerall, iij ac., of 

 meade ground, 110 ac. of Copis ground, the wood, the Lords, 

 the herbage John Helliers until it be vij yeares owld, and then 

 it is comon. 



* The Reades of Faccomb were people of note here in the 16lh and 17th 

 centuries, and allied to the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, the Windebanks. and other 

 historic houses. On a fine brass, set in alabaster, formerly in the old Church at 

 Faccombe, is the following inscription : " Heare lyeth ye body of Anne Reade, 

 ye deare wife of Henry Reade, Esq., one of ye daughters of Sir Thomas 

 Windebank, knight, Clarke of ye Signet to the late Queen Elizabeth, and to 

 King James that now is. She was begotten of ye body of Frances Dymmocke, 

 his wife, one of ye daughters of Sir Edward Dymmocke, of Scrivelsby, in ye 

 county of Lincolne, Knight Champion to ye said Queen Elizabeth, and her 

 successors, by the tenure of his landes. She departed this life to rest with her 

 Saviour Christ, 17th day of June, 1624, in ye 53rd yeare of her age, and left 

 behind her issues of her body, living, two sones and three daughters, Margret, 

 Mildred, and An." Sir Edward Dymoke officiated as Champion at the 

 Coronation of Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. A.lice Reade, 

 wife of Robert Reade, gent., of Linkenholt, was buried in the chancel of the 

 old Church, Oct., 1596. The family of Dymoke still retains its singular office 

 of Champion, which it derives from the baronial house of Marmyon, with the 

 feudal manor of Scrivelsby, to which the championship is attached. Of this 

 family Henry Reade sat for Andover in the Parliament of 1588, and 

 John Reade, b. 1579, was a Scholar of Winchester College. Thomas 

 Reade, of Linkenholt, b. 1606, was a Scholar and Fellow of New College, 

 D.C.L., Advocate of Arches Court, Principal Magdalen Hall, 1643. He 

 fought for the king, and died in the Charterhouse 1669. Robert Reade, b. at 

 Faccombe, 1642, Scholar, and Fellow of New College, succeeded to the Faccombe 

 property in 1668. On a marble Tablet formerly in the Chancel of the ancient 

 Church of St. Michael, Faccombe, now destroyed, was the following in- 

 scription : 



M. S. 



SVB CERTA RESVMENDI SPE 



MORTALITATIS SVAE EXUVIUS 



HENRICVS READE ARMIGER ANDREWS F. 



QVI 

 CVM DEO PRINCIPI PATRICE LONGVM ET FIDELITER 



INSERVIISSET 

 PER AESTVOSVM HVNC VITJE OCEANVM 



VARIIS ACTVS TEMPESTATIBVS 



ANNO SVPRA OCTOGESIMVM PRIMO 



CLIMACTERICO SVO MAGNO 



PORTVM DEMVM INTRAVIT 



QVARTO APRIL 



MDCXLVII. 



FRANCISCVS READE FILIVS ET EUERES 



PIETATIS ET OFFICII ERGO 



MOER. MOES. POS. 



The sword an Andrea Ferrara, and helmet said to have been worn in the 

 wars, by this unbending and chivalrous cavalier, were formerly suspended over 

 this monument, but were removed when the old Church was pulled down. 



