A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



named Sturtlemead, and a messuage called Great In- 

 hams. 3 In 1 60 1 messuages called Palmers and Hoi- 

 gate are mentioned. 4 In 1611 we have mention 

 of a messuage called ' Teaselies ' or ' Theselies.' 5 



hides and other lands and a mill in Binsted, then 

 held of the king in chief.* Though there is no 

 actual proof of the fact it may be presumed that the 

 manor remained in the Popham family for a con- 



BINSTED WVCK. 

 (From a sketch taken before the addition of the tower.) 



In the time of the Confessor the 

 MANORS manor of BINSTED, afterwards 

 known as BINSTED POPH4M, 

 was held by Boda as an alod of the king, but 

 after the Conquest it was 

 held under the Bishop of 

 Bayeux by Hugh de Port, 

 his vassal, 8 who, in addition 

 to his own extensive posses- 

 sions as tenant in chief in 

 England under the Con- 

 queror, farmed the bishop's 

 many holdings in Hamp- 

 shire. 



Henry I. granted by char- 

 ter to Richard son of Thur- 

 stan all the land of Binsted 

 to hold of him in chief. 7 

 From this Richard it eventually descended to 

 Robert de Popham, living in iz68, 8 who in 1250 

 was found to be son of Gilbert de Popham and 

 heir to the ' manor ' of Binsted, and aged twenty- 

 five years. Gilbert de Popham had in 1225 done 

 homage, as heir of his mother Agnes, for three 



WICKHAM. Ermine a 

 border engrailed gules 

 with molett of gold. 



siderable period, as we find that in 1418, Henry 

 Popham died seized of it, then described as held 

 of others than the king, but of whom or by what 

 service it was not known. 10 This uncertainty 

 of tenure is probably to be accounted for by the 

 fact of complications in the descent of the chief 

 manor of Alton at the period (q.v.). 



Henry Popham's heir was his son Stephen, who 

 was of age in 1418. Stephen died in 1445, and it 

 was found by inquisition that the manor of Binsted 

 was held by him of Sir Henry Grey, knight, as 

 of his manor of Alton, by fealty and an annual 

 rent of 3/. \d. The manor was worth yearly 

 beyond reprises 201. Stephen had enfeoffed certain 

 persons with the property, and left four daughters 

 and co-heirs : Elizabeth the elder, aged eighteen, the 

 wife of John Wadham ; Margery, aged ten ; Eliza- 

 beth the younger, aged six ; and Alice, aged one. 11 

 The feoffees appear to have permitted Sir John 

 Popham, a kinsman, to occupy the manor during 

 his life, and on his death in 1464 the above-named 

 daughters of Stephen, then all married, were found 

 to be his heirs. 12 Binsted Popham passed to the 

 eldest daughter Elizabeth, who married Sir John 



3 Cloie, 28 Eliz. pt. 9, Deed, Lord 

 Windsor to Edmund Marvyn. 



* Ibid. 43 Eli/,., P t. ii. Deed 

 Redynghurit to Savage. 



6 Add. Chart. 8,503 and 8,504. 

 V.C.H. Hants, i. 486. 

 * Cur. Reg. R. No. 184, roll 4. 

 8 Ibid. 



484 



9 Fine R. 9 Hen. III. m. 5. 

 1 Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. V. No. 36. 

 11 Ibid. 24 Hen. VI. No. 18. 

 " Ibid. 3 Edw. IV. No. 7. 



