ALTON HUNDRED 



ALTON 



thus again divided into moieties. A few years 

 later Walter and Mary conveyed their moiety to 

 Richard and Ellen. 49 In 1604 the two brothers 

 and their wives conveyed the entire manor by fine to 

 Sir Richard Weston, 60 possibly for the purposes of 

 a trust, as Sir Richard Tichborne was in possession 

 in i6io. 51 For some reason, probably an assur- 

 ance of title, he took from the Crown, in 1617, 

 a fresh grant of the manor and hundred, with 

 very full general words. 62 



Sir Richard Tichborne's heir was Amphyllis, 

 who in 1619 married Lawrence Hyde, son and 

 heir of Sir Lawrence Hyde, bart. Alton West- 

 brook must have been part 

 of the marriage settlement, 

 for she died, in 1632, seized 

 of the manor and hundred, 

 though her husband survived 

 until 1657. She left a son, 

 Robert Hyde, an infant, and 

 three daughters who became 

 co-heirs. 63 Thomas Chaffin 

 of Chettle, Dorset, married 

 Amphyllis, the eldest, and in HYD. Azure a cbe-ve- 



1653 the manor of Alton ron^and three lozenges of 



Westbrook was in his posses- ' 

 sion. 64 On 9 Oct. 1655, Amphyllis Chaffin, widow 

 of Thomas, conveyed the hundred and manor of 

 Alton, probably in trust. 65 From May to Nov. 

 1 660, Bamfield Chaffin appears as lord of the manor, 66 

 but in the latter month and up to 1675 Thomas 



Chaffin held the manor, 

 possession of the Chaffins till 

 1746, when an Act of Par- 

 liament was obtained author- 

 izing the sale of the lands of 

 George Chaffin, M.P., in 

 Hants and Surrey. 68 



In 1752 the manor was 

 held by the Right Honble. 

 Henry Bilson-Legge under 

 the settlement made on his 

 marriage with Mary, Baron- 

 ess Stawell, and was inherited 



67 It remained in the 



BILSON-LEGGE. Azure 

 barfs bead, silver, for 



by Henry, second Lord Sta- LEGGI, quartered -with 



*?" " "! r "" f artej 



ivito a po 



well, their only son, whose 



' 



_ , i 'ujiiu a gulden pottttprtirtotf. 



only daughter Mary married havin !ta t k r and , O f 

 John, second Lord Sherborne, green, for BILSON. 

 whose grandson Henry John 



Dutton, J.P., of Hinton House, Hinton Ampner, is 

 the present lord of the manor. 



There pertained to the manor of Alton West- 

 brook a nine days' fair, commencing on Whitsun 

 eve. 69 This fair was granted by Edward II. to 



R. Hil. 45 Eliz. 



Edmund of Woodstock, 80 and is now held on the 

 green called 'the Butts' before mentioned, where it 

 was moved from the High 

 Street and market place a 

 few years since. 



The lord had free warren 

 and a water mill and fulling 

 mill ; a ' horse mill ' is 

 mentioned in l6o2. 81 



The profits of the three 

 weeks' court were, in 1434, 

 1 3/. beyond the expenses of 

 the steward and bailiff of the 

 manor. 



The Court Rolls for the 

 manor and hundred of Alton 



DUTTON. Quarterly 

 silver and gules, the gules 

 fretty gold. 



L.T.R. Mem. 

 Recorda, roll 22. 



80 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 2 Ja. I. 



81 Add. Chart. 27, 887. 



83 Pat. 15 Jas. I. pt. 1 6, No. 6. The 

 titles of William and Henry Earls of 

 Arundel, Sir John and Robert White, 

 and of Sir Richard Tichborne to the 

 lordship and hundred, were successively 

 called in question by the Crown, vide 

 L.T.R. Memo. R. Recorda, Trin. 32, 

 Hen. VIII. roll 9 ; Hil. 5, Edw. VI. 

 roll 14 ; Easter, 13 Eliz. roll 32 ; Mich. 

 20 Eliz. roll 78 ; Hil. 21 Eliz. roll 157; 



see also Hil. 



and Hil. 4; Eliz. roll 22 : 

 27 Eliz. precepta. 



83 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, 14 Chas. I. pt. 

 I, No. 199. 



8* Rent rolls in the possession of the 

 present lord of the manor. 



88 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 1655, 

 Deeds Enrolled, m. 3. 



8 Add. R. 27,887. 



87 Ibid. 27,895-98. 



88 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Deeds en- 

 rolled Easter 10 Geo. II. m. i, and Act 

 of Parl. 21 Geo. II. c. 18. 



89 Inq. p.m. 12 Hen. VI. No. 43. 



exist at the British 

 Museum from the reign of Edward III. to the 

 seventeenth century in fairly complete sequence 62 ; 

 from 1740 the rolls are in the possession of the 

 lord of the manor. 



The manor house of Alton Westbrook is tra- 

 ditionally connected with a site at the western end 

 of the High Street, on which a house called 

 ' Westbrook House ' now stands. 



There were in Alton parish the following manors, 

 or reputed manors, held of the manor of Alton 

 Westbrook : Anstey, Trenchants or Washdells, 

 Thedden and Chauntsingers. 



y/A f ST^(Hanstige,xi. cent., Anesti and Anstigh, 

 xiv. cent.) gives name to a tithing about a mile 

 and a half north-east of the town of Alton. Queen 

 Edith held it, and at the time of Domesday it 

 was in the king's hands. 



In 1275 the abbot of Battle acquired land in 

 Anstey, 63 and in 12 84 William de Anstey, called 

 ' de Bcllo,' gave his tenement 

 of Anstey to Battle Abbey. 64 

 Leases of it, describing it as a 

 manor, were frequently made 

 by the Abbey, and courts 

 were held. 65 The lessees were 

 bound to entertain the ab- 

 bot's receiver and steward 

 twice yearly. 66 



Land within the ' liberty 

 of Anstey ' held of abbot of 

 Battle is mentioned in 

 1383." 



On the suppression of 

 Battle Abbey the manor of 

 Anstey was granted to 

 Thomas White, clerk of the 

 Crown, Agnes his wife and 

 their heirs. 68 Thomas White died seized of it in 



60 Charter R. 14 Edw. II. No. 15. 



81 Exch. Dep. 44-45 Eliz. Mich. 37. 



82 Add. R. 27,665-78, and 27,765- 

 932. 



S3 Feet of F. Hants, 3 Edw. I. No. 1 7. 



64 Battle Abbey Chartulary, Liber 

 Regius de Bello. fo. 55 edit. Camden Soc. 



S Inq. ad. q. d. 6 Edw. II. No. 5 ; Pat. 

 6 Edw. I. pt. I, m. 1 8 ; Pat. 8 Edw. II. 

 pt. I, m. 3, 15 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 46, 

 and Court R., P.R.O. 201, 1-4. 



88 Anc. D. P.R.O., D. 492. 



87 Pat. 6 Rich. II. p. I, m. 4, 5. 



08 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII. pt. 9, m. 25. 



WHITI. Six pieces 

 azure and gold 'with a 

 lion's bead erased gules be- 

 tween tivo roundels silver 

 in the chief and a like 

 roundel between two of the 

 like lions' heads in the foot, 

 each roundel having two 

 waves of green. 



477 



