A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



cot, Hants, was given to the ancestor of one, Anthony Uvedale, lately 

 dead, for the safe keeping of the gaol, and that he was a recusant. He 

 bequeathed the inheritance of the gaol to his daughter's son, Anthony 

 Brewning, a minor of seven years of age, both of whose parents were 

 recusants. He suggests that as the child is a ward for this tenure, the 

 manor and its duties can be administered by the Crown till the lad comes 

 of age, even if the releasing of prisoners does not forfeit it to the queen's 

 hands. The bishop stated that the conveyance of this manor could be 

 readily found, as the maker and executor were two of his own officers. 

 With this communication he enclosed a number of examinations and 

 statements made before him as bishop or before Dr. Ridley as chancellor 

 of the diocese. Thomas Canterton, alias Grove, alias Steven, alias Bale, 

 stated he was a prisoner in Winchester gaol for religion, but was absent 

 by leave of Mr. W. Uvedale, returning every sessions and assizes. 

 Richard Brewning, Esq., and William Uvedale admitted releasing certain 

 poorer recusants to get their living, and prayed time to get them back. 

 Richard Joy, of East Meon, had been a recusant for twenty years and 

 most of that time a prisoner in Winchester gaol. Seven years ago he 

 obtained leave from Mr. Uvedale, deputy keeper of the gaol, to go to 

 his house at East Meon and has not since returned. Valentine Noyse, 

 under gaol keeper, gave evidence as to the details of Kenyon's escape, 

 stating that he never had any irons on him whilst in gaol. Andrew 

 Valence, who was in gaol as a debtor, deposed that baked venison and 

 fresh fish were often sent to Kenyon, and that he was allowed to see and 

 converse with whom he pleased. 1 The whole of these long depositions 

 show that there was a remarkable amount of sympathy with the recu- 

 sants at Winchester among almost all classes, which twenty years of 

 severe treatment had engendered rather than suppressed. 



In 1 60 1, Thomas Tichborne, of the well known Hampshire family, 

 was arrested, sent to London and executed at Tyburn for being a Roman 

 priest. In the same year his kinsman, Nicholas Tichborne, was also 

 executed at Tyburn for attempting to release Thomas. There was 

 scarcely a year of Elizabeth's reign that did not find one or another of 

 this staunchly Roman family either in Winchester gaol or in one of the 

 London prisons. Another Nicholas Tichborne, of Hartley Maudit, 

 died in Winchester gaol after nine years' imprisonment, in 1589.' 

 This Nicholas describes himself as the younger son of a younger son. 

 His father was Henry Tichborne of Owslebury, a younger brother of 

 Nicholas Tichborne of Tichborne, the grandfather of the first baronet. 

 Henry had at least ten children. Nicholas, who died in 1589 ; and 

 Peter, his brother, also spent much of his life in gaol together with 

 his son Chideoke. We believe that Thomas, the martyr priest, was 

 one of the sons of Nicholas (ob. 



1 Dom. State Papers, cclxxiii. 23 to 23 viii. A nearly full abstract is given in the printed calendar. 

 ' Abbot Gasquet's Essays (1897), pp. 3779. 



8 The pedigree with this large number of sons is much complicated (Visitation of Hants in 

 1576 and Harl. MSS. 1139, f. 21). 



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