ALTON HUNDRED HARTLEY MAUDITT 



of the Maudits till the death, without issue, of 

 William Maudit, Earl of Warwick, in I 267, and 

 was held of the Crown by the service of being 

 Chamberlain of the Exchequer. In the year 



THE ROUND HOUSE. 



above mentioned the manor was inherited by 

 William de Beauchamp, William Maudit's nephew, 

 who became Earl of Warwick. 7 



The manor was given by William dc Beauchamp 

 to his daughter Isabel on her 

 marriage with Sir Patrick de 

 Chaworth, who died seized 

 of it in 1283, then described 

 as held of the Earl of War- 

 wick in chief and by him 

 of the king by the service 

 of being Chamberlain of the 

 Exchequer. Maud de Cha- 

 worth, then an infant, was 

 found to be daughter and 

 heir of Sir Patrick and 

 Isabel. 8 She, in !2 9 8, be- f 



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came the wife of Henry, Earl 



of Lancaster, 9 who died in 1 3 4 5 , l and who was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Henry, created Duke of Lancaster 

 in 1351. He died in 1361 seized of the manor of 



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Hartley Mauditt, and left as his co- heirs his daughters, 

 Maud (who died the following year) and Blanche, 

 wife of John of Gaunt, who became Duke of Lan- 

 caster. 11 His son and heir ascended the throne as 

 Henry IV. and the manor thereupon remained in 

 the Crown as parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster 

 till l6o3, la when the fee was granted to Sir Edward 

 Blount and Joseph Earth, their heirs and assigns 

 for ever. 13 



In 1614 Dr. Nicholas Styward had 'recently 

 purchased ' the manor of whom it is not stated u 

 and in 1634 died seized thereof, leaving a 

 grandson and heir, Nicholas, then in his sixteenth 

 year. 15 He, in 1645, compounded for his estates 

 in Hampshire and elsewhere. 18 On the restoration 

 he was created a baronet. 



The manor remained in his descendants (who 

 appear to have spelled their 

 name as Stuart) till the end 

 of the eighteenth century, 

 when it was sold by Sir 

 Simeon Stuart. It then be- 

 came the property of the 

 Stawells and followed the 

 descent of Alton Westbrook 

 (q.v.) till it came to Henry 

 John Dutton who is now 

 lord of the manor. 



An extent of the manor, 

 made in 1283, mentions a 

 capital messuage and garden and a small vivary, 

 300 acres of arable land, 20 acres of meadow, 

 a wood of which the pasturage was common, 

 and a small grange. There were then nine 

 free tenants, four customary, fourteen cottars, and 

 certain other cottars qui frequenter removentury 



From a survey taken in 1 5 5 2 we learn that there 

 was within the manor a quarry of freestone, and 

 that the common contained 100 acres 'well-set 

 with fair oaks' of a hundred years' growth. 18 



In 1571 the site and demesnes of the manor 

 were described as a house, with a barn, stable, 'and 

 other necessary rooms ' and a garden and orchard. 19 

 The manor house was, according to tradition, 

 pulled down at the end of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury by Henry, last Lord Stawell. It has never 

 been rebuilt, and only the foundations of it, near 

 the church, now remain. 



STUART. Silver a lion 

 gules -with a ragged baston 

 raid. 



1 PipeR. for 1 130 and 1196 ; Close, 

 17 John, pt. I, m. 16; Feet of F. Hants, 

 3 Hen. III. No. 34; Assize R. Nos. 775, 

 778, m. 43; and Inqs. p.m. 41 Hen. 

 III. No. 21, and 52 Hen. III. No. 17. 

 In 1273 the manor is described as held 

 by the Earl of Warwick by the serjeanty 

 of finding at the Exchequer one baron 

 and one clerk (Assize R. 780). See also 

 article by Mr. J. Horace Round on 

 ' Mauduit of Hartley Mauduit ' in the 

 Ancestor of April, 1903, p. 207. 



8 Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. I. No. 35. 



Complete Peerage, v. 6. 



10 Ibid. 



11 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III. pt. i, No. 

 122. 



11 Whilst in the Duchy of Lancaster 

 the manor was almost continually in 

 lease (vide Duchy of Lane. Registers of 

 Grants and Enrolment of Leases). 



13 Pat. I Jas. I. pt. 10, m. 12. 

 1* Chan. Proc. Jas. I. SS. 33, 52. 



15 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, 9 Chas. I. pt. 3, 

 No. 1 8. 



16 Cal. to Papers of Committee for 

 Compounding, p. 980. 



17 Inq. p.m. ii Edw. I. No. 35. 



18 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. 108. 



19 Ibid. 1 1 6. The boundaries of 

 the manor, which are probably copied 

 from an earlier survey, were then 

 described as follows : 'The boundary 

 of the said manor beginneth on the 

 north part thereof at Worldham Oak 

 and from thence eastward along the high- 

 way to an ash standing on Paglcs Green 

 which divideth this manor and the njanor 

 of Wardleham. There hence eastward as 

 the watercourse or lake leadeth to the 

 nether end of Pagles Green. From 

 thence along as the ditch and water 



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leadeth to Maudit Gate. There thence 

 south eastward as the same ditch and 

 water leadeth to the corner of Binds- 

 worth which divideth the said manor 

 and the forest of Abistholt (sic). From 

 thence as the same ditch and water 

 leadeth to Hatch Land's corner which 

 divideth the manor and two parcels of 

 ground, the one called Doggates on the 

 east, and the other called Oakhanger, 

 on the south east. From thence south 

 along by another hedge overthwarting 

 the highway to Longclose Hedge, and 

 so leading southward by the same hedge 

 to the brook or river which divideth 

 the manor of Okehanger and the said 

 manor. There thence following the 

 same river south-westward to the south 

 corner of Hartley Wood which divideth 

 this manor from the priory of Selborne. 

 From the said corner somewhat west- 



