ALTON HUNDRED 



CHAWTON 



In 1554 Lord de la Warr died and left it to his 



half-brother Leonard West, who sold it in 1555 



to Thomas Arundel ot Ew- 



hurst. Thomas Arundel died 



seized of it in 1568," and 



left his son and heir Wil- 



liam, who sold it in 1578 



to Nicholas Knight, 15 whose 



family had been lessees of 



the manor house since 1 524, 



and owners of the site of 



the manor since I5yi. 18 



From 1578 the manor 

 remained in the Knight 

 family 17 till 1679, when Sir 

 Richard Knight left it to Richard Martin, son of 



POYNINGS. Barry gold 

 ' rt tb " ba " n 



name of Knight. He was grandfather of Mr. 

 Montagu George Knight, the present owner. 18 



In 1252 free warren was granted to Robert de 

 St. John in his demesne of 

 Chawton. 19 Assize of bread 

 and ale, and right of gallows, 

 pillory and tumbrell were 

 allowed to John de St. John, 

 son of the said Robert, in 

 I28o. 20 It was then stated 

 that the old gallows and pil- 

 lory had fallen down and that 

 the tumbrell was worn out, 

 and that upon it being re- , Fu " D - SUvtr a 

 ported that St. John's an- '*"""" *"'"' 

 cestors had, from all time, had these privileges, 



CHAWTON HOUSE. 

 (From an old picture in the possession of Montagu G. Knight, D.I,., J.P.) 



his cousin Michael Martin. Richard Martin took 

 the name of Knight on suc- 

 ceeding to the property, as 

 did his brother Christopher 

 on succeeding him. Chris- 

 topher dying issueless the 

 manor passed to his sister 

 Elizabeth, who died in 1737, 

 also issueless, and left it to 

 Thomas Brodnax, a cousin. 

 He assumed the name of 



Knight and was succeeded 



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by his son Thomas, who died /, ,y/ wr . 



issueless in 1 794, leaving it to 



Edward Austen, a cousin, who thereupon took the 



the sheriff was ordered to allow him to replace 

 them. 



An extent of the manor 

 in 1320 states that it con- 

 sisted of a capital messuage 

 with a garden and other 

 easements of the court worth 

 yearly io/. ; four carucates 

 of land each containing 100 

 acres ; 95 acres 21 of wood ; 

 4 acres of meadow and a 

 several pasture. There were 

 eight free tenants, seven cus- 

 tomary tenants, each holding 

 1 6 acres of land and doing certain services in 



WEST. Silver a dance 

 Me. 



14 Inq. p.m. 10 Eliz. No. 26. 



on his brothers and their issue (Common 3 Chas. I.; ibid. Trin. 12 Geo. I.; 



Information furnished by the pre- Pleas Deeds enrolled East. 40 Eliz. m. 17). ibid. East. 30 Geo. II. ; and information 



sent lord of the manor. Feet of P. 

 Hants, Trin. 20 Eliz. and Close, 20 

 Eliz. pt. 12. 



18 Information of the present lord of 

 the manor from documents in his custody. 



7 Settlement in 1 5 98 by John Knight 



II 



18 Inq. p.m. Chan. ser. 2, vol. 204, supplied by present lord of the manor. 



No. 113 ; 19 Jas. I. ser. 2, vol. 33, No. 19 Vascon, Patent and Charter Roll, 



86 ; 3 Chas. I. ser. 2, pt. i, No. 108 j 37-38, Hen. III. p. i, m. 18. 



15 Chas. I. ser. 2, pt. 2, No. 116 ; 18 20 Assize Roll, No. 783, roll }6J. 



Chas. I. ser. 2, pt. 2, No. 50 ; Feet of 21 The reading of the number is un- 



F. Div. Cos. Trin. 40 Eliz. ; ibid. Hil. certain. 



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