A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



MANORS 



At the time of the DomesJay been ascertained, but the following persons pre- 



Survey the manor of FROTLE sented to the living : William Salmon, in 1697; 



belonged to the abbey of St. Mary at Gauden Draper, in 1 706 ; Marian Draper, 



Winchester, 4 and it remained part of the possessions widow, and guardian of William Draper, her son 



f . . .*1 .!!. _ K . * ^TT'lt* T*\ 



of that nunnery till its dissolution in 1539.* In 

 1541 the king, for the sum of i, 505 ijs. \d., 

 and an annual rent of 4 

 ij/. 5</., granted the manor 

 to William Jephson, 6 in 

 whose descendants the pos- 

 session continued till i65z. 7 

 Four years later John Fiennes 

 was lord of the manor, 8 and 

 he, together with his brother 

 Robert, sold it in 1666, to 

 Samuel Gauden of Lincoln's 



Inn. 9 The descent from .. FltN , N / s - ** '*" 

 . . . . . item gold. 



this time till the manor 



became the property of the Miller family, at 



1733 ; Mary 



AN OLD TIMBERED COTTAGE IN THE VILLAGE. 

 the close of the eighteenth century, 10 has not He left a son and heir James, aged sixteen. 18 



in 1719 ; William Draper, in 

 Nicholas, ' this turn ' in 



1772 ; Johanna Logging, in 



1773 ; and Sir Thomas 

 Miller, in 1800." 



There was in the parish 

 another manor of FROTLE, 

 and it was held of the chief 

 manor. This property be- 

 longed, in 1363,10 Sir John 

 Brocas, 1 * and in 1378 was 

 settled in trust by Sir John's BKOCAS. Saklt a la- 

 son, Sir Bernard Brocas. 13 par J rampant goU. 

 In 1415 the property is described as 6 virgates of 

 land, and was in the tenure of William Brocas. 14 

 In 1 507 William Brocas died 

 seized of the ' manor ' of 

 Froyle, described as held of 

 the abbess of St. Mary's of 

 Winchester, leaving two 

 daughters as his co-heirs : 

 Anne aged eleven and Edith 

 aged nine. 18 In 1583 a 

 fraction of this manor be- 

 longed to Margery widow 

 .- of Francis Cotton. She was 

 a daughter and co-heir of 

 Sir Richard Pexall, and had 

 married, as her first husband, 

 Oliver Becket. By him she 

 left a son and heir John, 

 under ten years of age at the 

 time of her death. 16 



Considerable litigation fol- 

 lowed as to the possession of 

 this fraction, and the other 

 property of Sir Richard Pex- 

 all, and Sir John Jephson, lord 

 of the chief manor of Froyle, 

 is mentioned in the pro- 

 ceedings as having purchased 

 a fraction or fractions of the 

 sub-manor. 17 How correct 

 this assertion may be it is 

 difficult to say; but in 1631, 

 when, as we have seen, the 

 Jephsons were lords of the 

 chief manor, Sir Humphrey 

 May died seized of the entire 

 sub-manor, of whom held, 

 the jurors did not know. 



4 V.C.H. Hants, i. 4743. D m *rr > rh, , r~\. r 



Mint. Acct. 30-, Hen. VIII. No N'' IOO . L Add' cL?^ , P ** Ba "? v "' + 2 95, "here the or.gmal deed 



LOO. v,nar[. I7557* * 8 printed. 



Add. Chart. 17,577. 13 close, I Rich. II. m. 8. 



Com. Pleas, Deeds Enrolled (Recov. 1* Add. Chart. 17,511. 



R.),Trin. iSChas. II. roll 8d. 16 i nq . p . m . ,. 2 , Exch. file 961, 



Information given by Sir C. J. No. 9. 1 Ibid. Chan. vol. 200, No. 54. 



ibert Miller, bart. the present lord of " Chan. Proc. Eliz. SS. 15-55 i and 



the manor. j ame8 L M _ bdle _ 6> NOi I+ . and M i e . 



11 P.R.O. Composition Books, Win- 8, No. 1 5. 



Chester Diocese. 18 Inq . f , m , t ,. 2> C han. vol. 457, 



The Family of Brocas, by Montagu No. 107. 



502 



1 39, m. 65, etc. 



Pat. 3 3 Hen. VIII. pt. i. m. 3 5 ; and 

 Particulars for Grants, No. 646. The 

 original grant, with portion of the great 

 seal attached, is amongst the Add. 

 Chart, at the Brit. Mus. 17,601. 



7 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, Exch. File 990, 

 No. 8 j Feet of F. Hants, Easter, 41 

 Elir. ; Ibid. Easter, 13 Chas. I. j Inq. 



