A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



the inside of the west wall. In 1827 John 

 Monkhouse, rector of Bramshott, left a consider- 

 able sum, representing nearly all he possessed, for 

 the education of the children of respectable parents 

 in the parish. The will was disputed by the next 

 of kin, and probate was not granted until 1841, 

 when the trustees of the will, the provost and 

 scholars of Queen's College, Oxford, purchased 

 ground near the church, upon which school build- 

 ings, which bear the date 1845, were erected, 

 and children educated free of charge, an endow- 

 ment of 73 14;. <)J. being provided. A school 

 was subsequently built at the hamlet of Conford 

 out of the same trust. In 1871 Sir William Erie 

 conveyed land on the London road adjoining Lip- 

 hook for the erection of a school for that part of 



the parish, to be managed by the rector, church- 

 wardens and subscribers. 



Anthony Vallor, at his death in 1608, left to 

 the poor of Bramshott l 2t. yearly out of his 

 land at Kingsley for bread at Christmas. In re- 

 sponse to the Government inquiry in 1786 the 

 minister and churchwardens reported that even 

 the memory of this bequest had died out in the 

 parish. Another charity which has for long dis- 

 appeared was a bequest of 10 by Thomas Collins 

 in 1627, and there are now no parochial chanties 

 existing. 



There are National Schools at Conford and 

 Hammer, and a Roman Catholic school at Fair- 

 grove, founded in 1871. 



CHAWTON 



Celtone (xi. cent.), Chalvedone (xiii. cent.), 1 

 Chauton (xiv. cent.). 



The village is situated in a broad, wooded valley, 

 one of the sources of the river Wey, and is watered 

 by land springs called ' lavants.' These, in wet 

 seasons, run at the foot of the churchyard. Hops 

 are largely cultivated in the neighbourhood. 



The road from London to Gosport passes 

 through the parish and forms the western boundary 

 of a park in which are situated, amidst elms and 

 beeches, the parish church and Chawton House 

 closely adjoining. The coach road from London 

 to Winchester branches off from the Gosport road 

 in the centre of the village. There is a working 

 men's club, near the village pond, formed at a 

 house once occupied by Miss Jane Austen. In 

 Chawton Park, to the north of the Winchester 

 road, are banks of earth which apparently divided 

 the two ancient parks. 2 The whole of the parish 

 is owned by Montagu George Knight, D.L., J.P., 

 who is lord of the manor. There were formerly 

 two roads leading from Chawton to Winchester, 

 the upper adjoining the High Beeches in Chawton 

 Park, along which there is still a right of way, and 

 the lower, or Shrove Road, which forms the present 

 main road. ' Four Marks ' is a spot on the latter 

 road where an old stone marks the junction of the 

 boundaries of the parishes of Chawton, Faringdon, 

 Medstead and Ropley. 



The manor of Chawton, in the 

 M4NOR time of the Confessor, was held of the 

 king as an alod by Oda, styled in the 

 Sussex survey, Oda de Wincestre. Though ap- 

 parently an Englishman he heads the list of 

 Hampshire thanes of the Conqueror, who granted 



SAINT JOHN. Silver 

 chief pulet 'with two 



to him other lands in Hampshire, but took 

 Chawton from him and granted it to Hugh de 

 Port. 3 In 1167 John de 

 Port was owner of Chawton. 4 

 The manor remained in 

 the family of Port till the 

 thirteenth century, when 

 William son of Adam de 

 Port and Mabel de Aureval, 

 heiress, through her mother, 

 of Roger de St. John, took 

 the name of St. John. 5 It 

 continued in the St. John 



family 6 until the year , - r . 



' , ,-, , , ' moleti gala upon the chief. 



1355, when Edmund, son 



and heir of Hugh St. John, dying a minor, 7 it 

 passed as the portion of Margaret his sister, wife 

 of John de St. Philibert ; 8 

 she, two years later, giving 

 it to her sister Isabel the 

 wife of Luke de Poynings. 9 

 It remained with the Poyn- 

 ings till the death of Thomas 

 Poynings in 1429, when it 

 passed to his grandson John 

 Bonville, son and heir of his 

 daughter Joan, who married 

 a Bonville. 10 John Bonville 

 died 24 August, 1494," to 

 whose daughter and co-heir, 

 Florence, wife of Sir Humphrey Fulford, knight, 

 Chawton was conveyed, with remainder to her 

 sister Elizabeth. 13 On Florence (who afterwards 

 married Lord Fitzwarren) dying issueless, it passed 

 to her sister Elizabeth, wife of Lord De la Warr. 13 



SAINT PHILIBIRT. 

 Bendy silver and azure. 



1 Selborne Priory Charters, Hants 

 Record Soc. i. 3. 



2 Two parks are mentioned in 1337. 

 Inq. p.m. II Edw. III. 1st nos. No. 

 49- 



3 V.C.H. Hants i. 482. Chawton is 

 placed in Neteham hundred in Domes- 

 day ; before 1334. it formed part of 

 Alton hundred (Lay Subsidy, 173-5). 



4 Pipe Roll for 1167. 



B Paper by J. H. Round in the Gene- 

 alogist, xiv. 1-13. 



a Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I. No. 88 ; 30 

 Edw. I. No. 36 ; 3 Edw. III. 1st nos. 

 No. 67; ii Edw. III. ist nos. No. 49. 



7 Inq. p.m. 29 Edw. III. 1st nos. 

 No. 55. 



8 Ibid. 



B Ibid. 31 Edw. III. 2nd nos. No. 

 32- 



496 



10 Ibid. 7 Hen. VI. No. 69. 



Ibid. Chan. ser. , vol. 10, 

 No. 94. See also claim made by John 

 Paulet in 1503 setting out the descent 

 in more detail. De Banco Roll, Mich. 



15 Hen. VII. roll 515. 

 " Ibid. 



13 Inq. p.m. Chan. ser. 2, vol. 41, 

 No. 48 ; Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 



1 6 Hen. VIII. 



