A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



ing whortleberries and the making of brooms of 

 the heath were the chief industries. 8 



BRJMSHOTTwzshddof Edward 

 MANORS the Confessor as an alod by two free- 

 men, unnamed, and at the time of the 

 Domesday Survey was held of the Conqueror by 

 Edward of Salisbury. William Maudit (Maldoit) of 

 Hartley Mauditt (Harlege) claimed one hide of the 

 land there. 3 In 1 1 94 mention is made of a John 

 de Bremesete, 4 and in the following century John 

 de Brembilsite held a knight's fee in Bramshott 

 by old enfeoffment of the Earl of Salisbury who 

 held of the king in chief. 6 The Earl of Lincoln 

 who was husband of the daughter and heir of 

 the Earl of Salisbury held the vill of Brambel- 

 shute in I3l6. 8 William de Bramshott (Brembel- 

 shute) held one fee there (it is not stated of whom) 

 in 1346.' John de Bremshott presented to the 

 church in 1367, 1379 and I38z. 8 William de 

 Bramshott held there one fee (it is not stated of 

 whom) in 1428 and 1431 ; 9 at the latter date he 

 is described as ' of the Isle of Wight,' and his 

 holding as the ' manor ' of Bramshott. 



In 1451 John Bramschote held the manor of 

 Miles Windsor as of his manor of Stanwell in 

 Middlesex. 10 He married Katherine daughter of 

 Sir John Pelham u and left as his heirs two daughters, 

 namely, Elizabeth, who in 1481 was wife of John 

 Dudley, who died in 1498, and Margaret, who 

 was the wife of Sir John Pakenham and died in 

 I485- 12 These ladies inherited moieties of the 

 manor, Elizabeth's passing to her son Edmund 

 Dudley, who was attainted, and Margaret's to her 

 son Edmund Pakenham, who inherited and who 

 was six and more at his mother's death in 1485. 

 His moiety was held of Lady Worcester as of her 

 manor of Alton. 13 Edmund, who became Sir 

 Edmund Pakenham, stated by his will, 14 dated 

 9 July, 1528, that subject to a life interest of 

 his wife Katherine, he had settled his Hampshire 

 property on his daughter Elizabeth on her mar- 

 riage with Sir Edmund 

 Mervyn. In 1550 the entire 

 manor was in the possession 

 of the latter and his wife, 

 who settled it by fine on 

 their son and heir Henry 

 Mervyn on his marriage with 

 Edith Windsor. 15 Sir Ed- 

 mund died in I553, 16 and 

 Henry Mervyn's son and 

 heir Edmund dealt with the 

 manor by fine in IJ85. 17 

 In 1605 he left it to his 



MERVYN. Sable three 

 leopards party gold and 

 silver. 



wife Anne, daughter of William Jephson of 

 Froyle, and this lady held courts for the manor in 

 1605 and i6c>9. 18 In 1610 Henry Mervyn con- 

 veyed the manor to John Hooke, 18 who in 1611 

 held a court for the manor. 80 He married Barbara 

 Rous, a granddaughter of Sir Edmund Mervyn. 

 Henry Hooke, their son and heir, 21 held his 

 first court there in i6i6, 2a and was still in 

 possession in l625- 23 John Hooke his son, who 

 died in 1685, held a court in l647. 24 He was 

 possibly succeeded by his son Henry, but in 1656 

 John Hooke appears to have conveyed the manor 

 to Arthur Bold and John Bold. 25 In 1 69 1 the 

 manor passed to John Whitehead, gent., who held 

 his court there in 1 7 n 26 and dealt with the manor 

 by fine in 1 71 2, 2T as did Richard Whitehead, gent., 

 in I742, 28 and from him the manorial rights passed 

 to Sarah, one of his co-heirs, who married the Rev. 

 Jonathan Dennis, rector of Bramshott. Their son, 

 Whitehead Dennis, sold the manorial rights in 1814 

 to Nicholas Kent, 29 whose sister Sophia inherited 

 them from him in 1826. She married Thomas 

 Butler of Downlands in Bramshott, and their 

 grandson, Robert C. Butler, is the present lord of 

 the manor. 



The ancient manor house is now called Old 

 Place, or Church farm, and is occupied as a farm- 

 house ; it is situated to the south-west of the 

 churchyard, and still preserves its fifteenth cen- 

 tury mullioned windows in the ground floor rooms 

 and the oak timbers of the original hall in the 

 roof. From the sixteenth century to the nine- 

 teenth Bramshott Place was the manor house. 

 Since 1814 Downlands has been the residence of 

 the manorial owners. 



LUDSHOTT, Lidesette (xi. cent.) ; Ledessete 

 (xiii. cent.) ; Ludeshote (xiv. cent.) ; Ludshute (xv. 

 cent.), another manor in Bramshott parish, was held 

 of the Confessor as an alod by Alwin, and, after 

 the Conquest, by Hugh de Port. 30 In 1312 Thomas 

 Paynel acknowledged the manor to be the right 

 of William de St. John, who granted it to the said 

 Thomas for life. 31 After this the descent of the 

 manor followed that of Chawton (q.v.) till the 

 sixteenth century. In August, 1577, Richard 

 Knight, gentleman (who did not die seized of 

 Chawton manor), died seized of the manor of 

 Ludshott, leaving a son and heir Robert, then 

 aged thirty-two. 32 Robert settled the manor on 

 his wife Constance and son Richard on I Decem- 

 ber, 1603. Richard died 6 January, 1616-7, 

 leaving an infant son Robert his heir, Robert the 

 grandfather being then alive. 33 



In 1638 Andrew Wall acquired the manor of 



Gents. Mag. 1795, pt. n, 993-4. 

 V.C.H. Hants, i. 487. 

 Cur. Reg. R. 6 Rich. I. m. 1 6d. 

 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Corn.),!. 231. 

 Feud. Aids, ii. 315. * Ibid. ii. 333. 

 Hants Rec. Soc. Wykeham's Reg. 

 i. 5, 104, 133. 



' Feud. Aids, ii. 357, 363. 



10 Inq. p.m. 30 Hen. VI. No. n. 



" Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 22 Hen. 

 VI. 



11 Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. IV. No. 54, and 

 Exch. Mr. 2, File 962, No. 13. 



13 Ibid. er. 2, vol. 2, No. 42, & 78, 

 No. 46. 



14 P.C.C. Wills, Porche. 36. 



15 Notes of Fines, Div. Cos.. Hil.7 & 4 

 Edw. VI. 



' P.C.C. Wills, Taske, 20. 



17 Feet of F. Hants, East. 27 Eliz. 



18 Add. Chart. 24,820. 



19 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 7 las. I. 

 !0 Add. Chart 24,821. 



21 Misc. Inq. ser. 2, pt. 13, No. 52. 

 " Add. Chart. 24,822. 

 18 Ibid. 24,823. 



492 



" Ibid. 



85 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 1656. 



M Add Chart. 24,824. 



87 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 i Anne. 



88 Ibid. East. 15 Geo. II. 



89 Most of the copyholds had then 

 been enfranchised. 



90 V.C.H. Hants, i. 482. 



31 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Edw. II. No. 



54- 

 88 Inq. p.m. Chan. ser. 2, vol. 183, 



No. 49. 

 88 Ibid. W. & L. bdle. 29, No. 196. 



