A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Innocents. The church was dedicated in 

 honour of St. John Baptist. The thirteenth 

 century seal of the priory represents that saint 

 carrying an Agnus Dei in his right hand, with 

 a monk kneeling before him, and the legend 

 Sigillii Prioris de Anede-welle. 



Only one of the grants in the Cartulaire de 

 Tiron mentions Andwell by name ; this 

 occurs in the charter of Roger de Port, circa 

 1150, by which he gave to his monks at 

 Andwell (Henedewella) the mill before their 

 gate with the land belonging to it, as freely 

 as he held it on the day of the gift. But 

 several of the papal confirmations of English 

 grants to Tiron, such as those of EugeniusIII. 

 (i 147) and Alexander III. (i 179), specify the 

 church or priory of Mapledurwell. As the 

 parish of Mapledurwell adjoined the extra- 

 parochial district of Andwell, and as Tiron 

 held land and served a chapel in that parish, 

 there can be no doubt that it is but an alias 

 for the priory of Andwell. 1 



In 1223 an agreement was come to between 

 Theobald, abbot of Tiron, representing the 

 cell of Andwell, and Alan Basset. The 

 abbot and convent released to Alan all claim 

 in Hookwood, and gave him land in the field 

 of the chapel at Mapledurwell, retaining a 

 third of the moor called Eastmoor. He 

 restored to them a way sufficient for a laden 

 horse to go along with his leader at the head 

 of his tillage toward the water of Mapledur- 

 well to the house of Andwell. 2 



Richard de Beaumont and James Pasquier, 

 who were priors in succession of the sister 

 priory of Hamble, were also priors of Andwell. 

 Probably Pasquier, who died whilst prior of 

 Hamble and who was instituted to that house 

 in March, 1345, on the resignation of Beau- 

 mont, exchanged priories with the latter. 

 The absence of all reference to the admission 

 of priors to Andwell throughout the episcopal 

 act books makes their succession doubtful. 



In 1274 the prior had in Up-Nately ten 

 tenants who held of him in villenage five 

 yardlands that formerly belonged to Basing- 

 stoke manor. In 1290 the holdings of the 

 prior of Andwell at Nately and Mapledurwell 

 were worth 2 per annum, whilst in his own 

 manor the rents, meadow and mill were 

 valued at 3 yearly. An extent and inven- 

 tory of the possessions of the priory taken in 

 1 294 show that within the precincts were a 

 messuage, garden and dovecot worth icw. 

 yearly, whilst the lands and other possessions 

 yielded a total of 6 14*. id. From free 

 tenants the prior received 4 &., and twenty- 



1 Round's Cal. Trench Documents, \. 358, 527. 

 " Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., A. 3242, 



one customary tenants who held three virgates 

 paid 48*. ; but deductions left a clear rental 

 of 431. 8^., so that the whole income of the 

 priory only came to ^8 171. iod. 3 The 

 inventory showed that the priory stock 

 included a horse worth a mark ; two cart- 

 horses, 8s. ; six plough-horses, 19*.; a mare and 

 foal, 6s. 8d. ; three colts, 6s. ; eighteen oxen, 

 1 08*. ; two cows, 7*. 6d. ; three better cows, 1 51. ; 

 three yearling bullocks, 2s. ; one heifer, 2s. 6d. ; 

 thirty-three sheep, 141. 2d. ; forty-two lambs, 

 2CW. ; twelve hogsteers, 8x. ; and twenty hogs, 

 2Os. ; yielding a total of 12 icw. 8d. The 

 dead stock was worth 29;. 4^., by far the 

 largest item being a brazen pot in the kitchen 

 at i6s. 8d. The seed-corn and crops were 

 valued at 12 I2s. y leaving the total value of 

 the inventory at 26 I2s.* 



It would seem that the priors of Andwell 

 were simply the nominees of the abbot of 

 Tiron, and were apparently removable at 

 pleasure. The distance of the controlling 

 force and the complete freedom from episcopal 

 supervision or even recognition, worked evilly 

 for the discipline of the house. The exactions 

 of the Crown during the reign of Edward III., 

 when there was war with France, in seizing 

 not only the apport or usual annual tribute to 

 the abbey of Tiron, but further sums under 

 the guise of securing the custody of the house 

 to the respective priors, were also a sore 

 burden. Eventually in May, 1368, Bishop 

 Wykeham sequestrated the priory of Andwell 

 (together with that of St. Cross, Isle of Wight) 

 for dilapidations. In the document securing 

 this, addressed to the archdeacon of Win- 

 chester and the warden of the college of St. 

 Elizabeth, the bishop comments severely on 

 the faults, negligences and carelessness of the 

 priors which had brought about the loss and 

 collapse of both the spiritual and temporal 

 affairs of the priory ; adding that the house 

 and buildings would soon be in irreparable 

 ruin unless some speedy remedy was pro- 

 vided. 



In 1385 the priory was in the hands of 

 Thomas Driffielde and Eleanor his wife, and 

 was returned as being of the annual value of 

 ,13 6s. Sd. f It was let to farm by the king's 

 treasurer in order to secure the apport. After 

 Richard came to the throne it was let to one 

 Thomas Thorpe for 10 a year, and in 

 December, 1387, John de Uvedale, sheriff of 

 Hampshire, and four others were appointed to 

 inquire touching waste and defects in the 



3 Add. MS. 6164, . 6, 7. 



4 Roll 22 Edw. I. P.R.O. ; Woodward's 

 Hampshire, iii. 283-4. 



8 Winton. Epis, Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 213. 



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