A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



WOODSTOCK. The arms 

 of England ivitb a silver 

 border. 



of Kent. 29 Edmund of Woodstock was attainted 

 in 1330, when the manor was forfeited to the 

 Crown, 30 and in 1 33 1 it was 

 granted by Edward III. to 

 Margaret, the earl's widow. 31 

 John, Earl of Kent, son of 

 Edmund of Woodstock and 

 Margaret, died seized of the 

 manor in 1352, leaving as 

 his heir his sister Joan, the 

 ' Fair maid of Kent,' then 

 the wife of Sir Thomas 

 Holland, 32 and afterwards 

 married to Edward the Black 

 Prince. The manor however 

 appears to have been settled 



as dower upon Elizabeth, widow of John, Earl of 

 Kent, who died in 1411, so that Joan, who died 

 in 1385, never possessed it. 

 On the death of Elizabeth it 

 passed to the heirs of Ed- 

 mund, Earl of Kent, who 

 died an infant in 1 3 33, eldest 

 son of Edmund of Wood- 

 stock and elder brother of 

 Joan the fair maid of Kent. 

 These heirs were the then 

 surviving heirs of Thomas 

 Holand, Earl of Kent, son 



of Joan, namely Edmund, 

 i i /* i /-T->I 



Earl of March, son of Eleanor 

 the elder, daughter of the 

 same Thomas, Joan, Margaret, Eleanor the younger 

 and Elizabeth, sisters of the same Eleanor the 

 elder. 33 By the deed of partition Alton fell to the 

 eldest of the surviving sisters, Joan, then the wife 

 of Edmund, Duke of York. 31 

 Joan died without issue in 

 1434, leaving as her heirs 

 Richard, Duke of York, her 

 great nephew, Sir Henry 

 Grey, Lord Powys,andRalph, 

 Earl of Westmorland, her 

 nephews, and Margaret, 

 Duchess of Clarence, and 

 Eleanor, Countess of Salis- 

 bury, her sisters, and Joyce, 



r re' T . T- e i_ TIPTOFT. Silver a 



wife of Sir John Tiptoft, her sMre , n i/ed _ 

 niece. By the partition 



among these heirs Alton went to Richard, Duke of 

 York, Sir Henry Grey and Joyce Tiptoft, the two 

 former being the grandchildren and the last the 

 daughter of Eleanor the elder, sister of Joan who 

 last held the manor. By a subsequent division, 

 the manor, hundred, and town of Alton were 



divided between the said Sir Henry Grey and 

 Joyce Tiptoft, Grey taking half the rents of the 

 manor and the profits of the 

 hundred, and Joyce taking 

 the other half of the rents, 

 the ' Guildhall,' the sheriff's 

 tourn and the profits of the 

 manorial court. 35 



The Grey moiety passed 

 through Sir Richard Grey, 

 son and heir of Sir Henry, 38 

 to John Grey, Lord Powys, 

 his son and heir, 37 and from 

 him to John Grey, Lord 

 Powys, his son and heir, 38 

 and from him to Edward 



GREY or POWYS. Gules 

 a lion gold -with a harder 

 of gold engrailed. 



SUTTON. Gold a lion 

 green with a forked tail. 



Grey, Lord Powys, his son and heir, who died 

 without issue in I55z, 39 and who in 1532 sold his 

 moiety to Sir Andrew Windsor, 40 from whose son, in 

 I55l,it was purchased by Henry, Earl of Arundel. 41 

 The Tiptoft moiety seems to have passed to 

 Elizabeth, widow of Joyce's son John, Earl of 

 Worcester, beheaded and attainted in 1470. She 

 was afterwards the wife of 

 Sir William Stanley." After 

 her death the moiety passed 

 to Edward Sutton, Lord 

 Dudley, a grandson of Joyce, 

 sister of the said Earl of Wor- 

 cester, who himself appears 

 to have been styled Earl of 

 Worcester. 43 It is probable 

 that this Edward, Lord 



Dudley, about the year 



7 ' . ' 



1520, sold the property to 



William, Earl of Arundel, 44 

 who is described as owner of the entire manor in 

 I54O. 45 This description must however be in- 

 accurate, as one moiety was, as we have seen, ac- 

 quired by Henry, Earl of 

 Arundel, in 1 5 5 i . In 1 5 53 

 this Henry obtained from 

 Queen Mary a grant of the 

 return of writs, pleas of the 

 Crown, etc. in all his lord- 

 ships, manors, etc., including 

 Alton and the hundred of 

 Alton. 48 



In 1 5 70 the earl con- 

 veyed the entire manor to 

 Sir John White. 47 His son 

 and heir, Robert White, died 

 seized of it in 1599, leaving, as his co- heirs, Ellen, 

 wife of Sir Richard Tichborne, and Mary, wife 

 of Sir Richard's brother Walter. 48 The manor was 



TICHBORNI. Vair a 

 bief gold. 



29 Chart R. 1 3 Edw. II. No. 20, and i 

 Edw. III. No. Si. 



30 Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. III. No. 38. 



31 Pat. 5 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 30. 



31 Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. III. it Nos. 

 No. 54. 



13 Ibid. 12 Hen. IV. No. 35. 

 34 Ibid. 12 Hen. VI. No. 43. 

 ** Tower Mite. R. 3-25. 

 M Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. IV. No. 35. 

 Ibid. ter. 2, x. 18. 

 38 Ibid. er. 2, xvii. 70. 



39 Ibid. icr. 2, xviii. 62, 82. 



40 Feet of F. Hants Trin. 24 Hen. 

 VIII. 



41 Pat. 4 Edw. VI. pt. 7, m. 10, and 

 Mem. R. L.T.R. Hil. 5 Edw. VI. 

 roll 14, where the sale i stated to have 

 been made by Sir William Windsor. 



13 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, i. 4, and ii. 42. 



43 Ibid. iii. in ; iv. 26, and xi. 121. 



44 In 1520 Lord Dudley conveyed hii 

 possessions in Alton to W. and J. Muck- 

 low and others (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 



476 



12 Hen. VIII.). In the Inq. on Law- 

 rence Wadham, 1535, Binsted Popham 

 is stated to be held of the Earl of 

 Arundel and Lord Windsor. Inq. p.m. 

 ser. 2, 56, 92. 



L.T.R. Mem. R. 32 Hen. VIII. 

 Recorda, Trin. R. 9. 



* Pat. I Mary, pt. 2. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 12*13 

 Eliz. 



* 8 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, cclvii. 31 & 90. 



