ALTON HUNDRED 



BINSTED 



STRANGWAYS. Sable 

 nvo lions passant paly 

 silver and gules. 





Wadham, knight ; t3 and Sir Nicholas Wadham, 

 their son or descendant was seized of it and granted 

 it to his son Laurence, who 

 died seized thereof in 1521, 

 and whose heir was his 

 brother John. Presumably 

 this John Wadham alienated 

 half of the manor, as he, in 

 1577, died seized of only a 

 moiety of it, which moiety 

 descended to his son and heir 

 Nicholas Wadham, founder 

 of Wadham College, who in 

 1609 died seized thereof, 

 leaving as his heirs : John 

 Strangways, grandson of his 

 sister Joan ; Frances wife of Thomas White, 

 Elizabeth wife of Thomas Hamon, Ann wife of 

 Anthony Floyer, children 

 of his sister Margaret ; Ed- 

 ward Richards, grandchild 

 of the same Margaret ; and 

 Sir John Windham, son of 

 his sister Florence. Nicholas' 

 widow, Dorothy Wadham, 

 and a near kinsman, Edward 

 Wadham, had, in 1613, 

 occupied the moiety of the 

 manor since Nicholas' death ." 

 Between these heirs the 

 moiety of the manor of Bin- 

 sted Popham became divided, 

 and considerable complication 

 naturally occurred. 



In or about the year 1 6 1 1 suits as to the possession 

 of the property appear to have been pending, 15 and 

 between 1615 and 1621 the various heirs dealt by 

 fine with their portions. 18 It would seem that in 

 1 640 Sir John Windham was lord of the manor, 17 

 but whether of the whole manor or of the moiety 

 is not clear. After this date no evidence has been 

 found as to the descent of the manorial rights. 



Concerning the moiety of the manor which, as 

 shown above, was disposed of by John Wadham, 

 it would seem that it was dealt with by fine in 

 1 572, when William Perryam acquired it of Robert 

 Mallet, 18 and in 1590 and 1596 by Robert Brett 

 and Christine his wife, who at the latter date 

 sold it to Marcellus Rivers. 19 Ic is to be 

 remarked that in these dealings the property is 

 referred to as the manor not the moiety of 

 the manor of Binsted Popham, a description 

 obviously inaccurate, as one moiety was certainly 

 possessed by the Wadhams. In 1607 Marcellus 



FLOYER. Sable 

 cbeveron and three 

 rows of silver. 



in the descent 



Rivers seems to have been party to a division of 

 the manorial property with Nicholas Wadham. 20 



A manor of Binsted Popham was conveyed, 

 probably in trust, by Sir James Worsley, Bart., to 

 Giles Taylor in I749, 21 and in 1773 his son and 

 successor, Sir Richard Worsley, together with his 

 son and heir James, executed a disentailing deed 

 in regard to the manor of Binsted Popham and 

 River Hill farm in Binsted parish. 23 



Besides the manor of Binsted Popham there 

 was in Binsted parish a manor of BINSTED held 

 by a family named Bensted. In 1323 John de 

 Bensted died seized of a messuage and land in 

 ' Binsted-juxta-Alton ' which he held of Alton, and 

 left a son and heir Edmund, aged eleven. 23 In 

 1358 John de Bensted held a messuage, etc., in 

 Binsted of the heirs of John de Popham, as of his 

 manor of Popham (sic), and left a son and heir 

 John, aged five. 24 In 1375 it was found that this 

 messuage had come to the hands of the king by 

 the death of John de Bensted, senior, and the 

 minority of his son John. Edward Bensted was 

 brother and heir, of the younger John and was 

 then of age. 25 In 1471 Sir John de Bensted, 

 knight, was found by inquisition to have died seized 

 of the ' manor ' of Binsted described as held half 

 of the king and half of the Earl of Worcester as 

 of the manor of Alton. William was his son and 

 heir, then aged sixteen. 26 But, as appears by the 

 inquisition taken upon his son in 1486, he had 

 long before his death alienated the manor, 27 and 

 John White of South Warnborough died seized 

 of it 28 in 1469. Robert White was his son and 

 heir ; in the inquisition taken on his death the 

 manor of Binsted is not enumerated among his pos- 

 sessions, 29 but his son and heir, Sir Thomas White, 

 who died in 1566, owned the manor, 30 and 'Mr. 

 White ' appears as paying a rent of z6/. 9>d. a year 

 to the lord of Alton in a rental of which the date 

 is about i6oo. 31 



There was also in Binsted parish a manor of 

 BINSTED ST. CLARE. In 1201 Robert St. 

 Clare acquired of Humphrey St. Clare a virgate 

 of land in Binsted. 32 In 1335 John St. Clare died 

 seized of the 'manor ' of Binsted St. Clare, held by 

 him, conjointly with Alice his wife, who survived, 

 of Sir John Scures, knight. John St. Clare's son 

 and heir was John, then aged three. 33 Apparently 

 Queen Philippa had the wardship of this minor, as 

 in 1346 she held half a fee in Binsted, which John 

 St. Clare had held. 34 In 1391 Philip St. Clare 

 conveyed this manor to the Bishop of Winchester 

 and his successors. At the same time Sir Thomas 

 Wortyng and Isabel his wife, daughter and heir of 



M Feet of F. Div. Cot. File 75, No. 



7- 

 1* Inq. p.m. icr. z, Chan. 1 1 Jas. I. p. I, 



No. 56. 



IS Papers in the possession of the 

 Wheeler family at Wheatley. 



l Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 12 Jas. I. ; 

 Mich. 13 Jas. I.; and East. 18 Jas. I. 

 ind Comm. Pleas, Deeds Enrolled, East. 

 19 Jas. I. m. 5. 



" Will of Henry Wheeler, and papers 

 in the possession of the Wheeler family. 



18 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 14 Elii. 



1 Ibid. Div. Co. Hil. 32 Eliz., and 

 Mich. 38-9 Eliz., and Hants Mich. 38-9 

 Eliz. 



20 Papers in the possession of the 

 Wheeler family indenture of 10 Jan., 4 

 Jas. I. Wadham to Wheeler. 



21 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 22-3 

 Geo. II. 



22 Com. Pleas, Recov. R. Hil. 13, 

 Geo. III. Deeds enrolled m. 32. 



23 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II. No. 43. 



21 Ibid. 33 Edw. III. 2nd nos. No. 

 109. 



485 



25 Ibid. 50 Edw. III. 1st nos. No. 9. 



26 Ibid. 1 1 Edw. IV. No. 57. 



27 Ibid. Chan. ser. 2, vol. 23, No. 

 42. 



28 Ibid. 9 and 10 Edw. IV. No. 25. 



29 Ibid. ser. 2, vol. 27, No. 65. 



30 Ibid. vol. 145, No. 9. 



31 Add. Chart. 27,893. 



32 Feet of F. Hants, 2 John, No. 13. 



33 Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. III. ist nos. No. 

 48. 



3 * Feudal Aids, ii. 335. 



