ALTON HUNDRED 



GREATHAM 



1577) it was in the possession of a William 



Faukener who then conveyed it to Richard Cooke 



and Nicholas Freeland. 20 



Richard Freeland died seized 



of it in 1608, having settled 



it upon his wife Elizabeth 



for life, with remainder to 



their son John, then aged 



thirty. 21 John died in 1610 



and left a daughter and heir 



Elizabeth, who married Sir 



Richard Caryll of Harting 



and died in i6}2. 22 A 



monument to her memory 



was erected by her kinsman, 



John Love, who in 1633 



conveyed the manor to Thomas Cowper. 23 This 



FREELAND. Silver a 

 cbe-veron table ermined 

 vjitb silver between three 

 moleti gules. 



as I286. 25 A series of extents of the manor taken 

 between this date and I324 28 show considerable 

 changes in its condition : in 1286 there were sixty- 

 eight acres of arable land ; in 1 292, forty acres ; 

 in 1304, fifty acres; and in 1324, sixty-two 

 acres. The amount of meadow was two acres in 

 1286, three in 1292, two in 1 304 and but one 

 in 1324 ; in this last named year there was how- 

 ever ' a several pasture.' The amount of wood is 

 described in 1286 as three acres and in 13243$ 

 seven acres. There were twenty-four free tenants 

 in 1286, sixteen in 1304 and thirty-two in 1324. 

 The grange and cattle shed were in 1 304 described 

 as covered with straw and in a decayed state. 



LE COURT or LEE COURT (xvii. cent.), 

 a modern residence, was built about 1865, on the 

 site of the ancient manor house of Greatham 



>' n ' 'V' ; ' w , J'V'TS, 



2K^ailm^ 





RUINS OF THE OLD CHURCH. 



was probably for the purposes of a trust, for we 

 find members of the Love 

 family presenting to the 

 living from 1661 to 1754, 

 when Susannah Love pre- 

 sented. In 1785 the pre- 

 sentation was made by Su- 

 sannah Beckford, widow. 2 * 



The subsequent descent 

 of the manor has not been 

 discovered. The present 



Silver three 

 with three 



martlets gules in the chief. 

 A manor house Or capital The martlets are sometime* 



messuage is mentioned as early totmnd *'* 



. T-, >-, r T CARYLL. 



owner is F. Coryton, of Liss t 



Place. 



Some time prior to 1610 the site, farm and 

 demesne of this manor, called ' Lc Court,' had be- 

 come separated from the manor and were then 

 conveyed by Sir John Webb to James Percey, 

 who in 1613 conveyed the property to William 

 Chase and Thomas his son and heir. 27 In 1638 it 

 was dealt with by Thomas Chase, 28 and in 1646 

 settled by him and Christine his wife upon their 

 son Thomas. 29 i 



A holding called THELE in Greatham is men- 

 tioned as the property of the Windsors as early as 

 1390, and Miles Windsor died seized of it (de- 

 scri bed as a messuage and 40 acres of land) in 1 4 5 2 . 30 

 By a fine levied in 1714 Spencer Cowper acquired 

 the ' manor ' of Thele of R. Kynnesman and his 



20 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 19 Eliz. P.R.O. Composition Books. 



M Inq. p.m. ser. 2. W. & L. bdle. 2, 25 Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. I. No. 16. 



No. 217. 28 Ibid- '4 Edw. I. No. 16 ; 20 



22 Monumental inscription in Great- Edw. I. No. 20 ; 32 Edw. I. No. 64; 



ham Church. 

 23 Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Chas. I. 



and 17 Edw. II. No. 39. 

 27 Chan. Proc. Jas. I. C. 76, 3. 



507 



28 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 14 Chas. I. 



29 Ibid. Trin. 22 Chas. I. 



30 Inq. p.m. 13 Rich. II. No. 32; 

 22 Rich. II. No. 52 ; and 30 Hen. VI. 

 No. n. 



