A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



bell was added and a chiming clock erected in 

 1887 as a Victoria Jubilee memorial. 



The f ommunion plate consists of a silver paten 

 with inscription, recording its gift, in 1685 ; a 

 silver flagon, the gift of Henry Christmas, gentle- 

 man, of Stubb, in 1 703 ; a silver chalice (inscribed 

 ' Belonging to the parish of Binsted ') and a silver 

 paten, both hall-marked 1 790. 



The parish registers begin in 1653, and pre- 

 vious to 1812 consist of four volumes : i. 1 65 3-78 ; 

 ii. 1678-1813; iii. 1754-92; iv. 1793-1812. 

 The first register includes marriages during the Com- 

 monwealth by Justice Heighes of people from all parts 

 of the country between Odiham and Petersfield. 



The churchwardens' accounts begin in 1 664. 



Binsted was a chapelry of Alton Church, with 

 which it was granted by the Conqueror to Hyde 

 Abbey, Winchester (vide Alton). 



At the dissolution of the monasteries it was 

 granted by Henry VIII. with the church of Alton 

 to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, 97 who 

 have ever since held the patronage. 



The tithes of Binsted had been given to 

 Waverley Abbey and were granted, 98 on its disso- 

 lution, to Sir W. Fitzwilliam by Henry VIII. ; 

 they were commuted in 1841 as follows : Rec- 

 torial, Binsted, .761 ; Kingsley, 262 ; Vicarial, 

 Binsted, .345 ; Kingsley, i 14. Neteharh was 

 declared by the award to be free by prescription 

 from all vicarial tithe. In 1886 the hop tithe 

 was commuted at a rent-charge of ^298 for Bin- 

 sted and 38 for Kingsley. 



In 1854 Binsted and Kingsley were severed 

 from Alton vicarage, and constituted a separate 

 benefice under the patronage of the Dean and 

 Chapter of Winchester. 



In 1514 a lease of the rectory and glebe of 

 Kingsley and Binsted was granted by Hyde Abbey 

 to Ralph Heriet, vicar of Alton, and Walter 

 Hubberd, and at the dissolution this part of the 

 abbey's possessions was granted to the Dean and 

 Chapter of Winchester 'excepting only the house 

 and garden which from of old belong to the 

 stipendiary chaplains in the chapel of Binsted.' " 



In 1649 the glebe house and buildings, with 

 two gardens, a hop garden and an orchard, com- 

 prised 4^ acres ; the house is described as built of 

 timber and stone covered with tile and worth 6 

 i-}!. $d. a year, and there was a meadow of 2 

 acres called Church Close, and a small mead of 

 half an acre called the Chantry Close. 100 



In 1873, 6 acres I rood 22 poles of rectorial 

 glebe were given to the benefice as a site for a new 

 vicarage house. The present vicarage is near the 

 site of the older glebe house, the east gable of 

 which had a stone bearing the date 1640, but 

 several parts of the building having fallen into ruins 

 they were demolished with the consent of the pa- 

 trons and under a faculty from the bishop in 1885. 



There is a district church at Rowledge, and there 

 are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and unsectarian 

 chapels in the parish. 



The national school was built in 1874, on a 

 site given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at 

 a total cost of 1,178, which was raised by sub- 

 scription, and a house for the master was built in 

 1885. Binsted is entitled to send five free 

 scholars to Holybourne Grammar School. 



The charities for the relief of the poor consist of: 



(i.) Fielder' t Dole, mentioned in 1 68 5 101 as being 

 given by Alice Fielder 'unto the parishes of 

 Faringdon and Bensted,' and consisting of 2 to 

 be paid to ' frendles pore widdows ' of the said 

 parish yearly out of a messuage in Stedam, county 

 Sussex, called Croutch House. From 170999 

 reference is made to the distribution of Fielder's 

 Dole of i yearly at Lady Day in Binsted. 



(ii.) Woodjord's Charity. The |Rev. Samuel 

 Woodford, D.D., by his will dated 7 January, 

 1 700, having directed that land to the value of 40*. 

 yearly should be bought by his executrix and the in- 

 come given to poor widows frequenting the parish 

 church of Binsted, Ann Woodford, his daughter, in 

 1750, granted to the minister, churchwardens and 

 overseers of Binsted a rent-charge of 40*. out of 

 the enclosed ground called Rye Close, Binsted, to be 

 distributed at Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. 



(iii.) Schroder's Chanty. This was a bequest of 

 1,000 to the minister and churchwardens for 

 the time being of Binsted to be invested, and the 

 dividends applied for the benefit of the poor of 

 Binsted. In 1871 the vicar and churchwardens 

 purchased 976 1 8/. 8</. Consols, the income of 

 which has been applied as directed. 



The forest of ALICE //OLT(Alsiholt, xiii. cent. ; 

 Aisholt, xiv. cent. ; Ayles Holt, xviii. cent.) lies 

 at the eastern end of the parish of Binsted. The 

 soil is a strong loam and bears good turf and 

 large trees, whilst the adjoining forest of Wolmer 

 is ' a hungry, sandy, barren waste.' 102 The keeper- 

 ship of Alice Holt was connected in early times 

 with that of Wolmer Forest, and was generally held 

 with the manor of East Worldham (q.v.). During 

 the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Alice 

 Holt Forest supplied much timber for the navy. 

 In 1608 it contained 13,031 trees fit for ship- 

 building. After the seizure of Crown property 

 during the Civil War, surveys were made of these 

 forests of Alice Holt and Wolmer, from which we 

 learn that there were three ' lodges ' within the 

 forest which were habitations for the foresters, who 

 had enclosed to each lodge a park to the damage 

 of the inhabitants ; these parks were known as 

 Great Lodge Park, near the middle of the north 

 walk ; Old Close Park, in the Old Close walk ; 

 and Goose Green Park in Goose Green walk. 103 



In 1 777 three hundred loads of timber were felled 

 in the forest for the use of the navy ; a thousand 

 loads were felled in 1784, and five hundred in 1 788. 

 In 1783 it was found that 38,919 oab were 

 standing. The forest was stocked with deer until 

 about sixty years ago, when it was disafforested. 

 In 1857 forest land to the extent of 828 acres was 

 enclosed. 



" Pat. 33 Hen. VIII. pt. 9. m. 5. 19 Chas. II. 5 Mich. 20 Chas. II. East. 



Ibid. 28 Hen. VIII. pt. 2, m. 9. 23 Chas. II. ; and Hil. 26, 27 Chas. 

 The tithes were dealt with by fine from II. 



1667-74. Feet of F. Div. Cot. Mich. Ibid. 33 Hen VIII. pt. 9, m. 5. 



490 



100 Surv. of Ch. Liv. Commonwealth, 

 Lamb. Lib. 10 1 Wheeler Papers. 



102 White's Selborne, i. 25. 



103 Parl. Surv. Hants, Nos. 14, 15. 



