A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The customs of the manor of Hartley Mauditt 

 are set out in the two surveys already mentioned. 

 Hartley Wood is described as ' a common wood ' 

 containing by estimation 100 acres. There had, 

 in 1591. been great sales of wood by which the 

 inhabitants had been impoverished in their supply 

 of timber for repairs. The manorial court was 

 kept at the 'farmhouse,' i.e. the house of the 

 farmers of the manor. In the survey of 1591 it 

 was presented that ' the common coroner and 

 clerk of the market executes his office within this 

 parish,' but whether ' rightfully ' the jury did not 

 know. The nearest market town was Alton, three 

 miles distant. 20 



There are no manorial records in the possession 

 of the present owner of the manor, nor do they 

 occur amongst the Duchy of Lancaster docu- 

 ments. 



C4NDOFERS, now a farmhouse, lies to the 

 south-east of the parish. At one time it possessed 

 the additional name of Brians, and Isabel, widow 

 of Walter atte Berghe, died seized, in 1369, of a 

 carucate of land in ' Hertele Candcvere,' held of 

 the Duchy of Lancaster, and left a son and heir, 

 John, then aged eleven. Hugh Tyrell, Isabel's 

 second husband, had, in 1380, occupied these 

 lands since her death. 21 John's wife was Christine, 

 and she died in 1396 seized of 'a messuage and 

 divers lands in Hartley Mauditt,' leaving a son 

 and heir, John atte Berghe, aged eighteen. 22 



The manor of Candovers 

 and Brians was acquired in 

 1562 of Nicholas Lussher 

 and Mary his wife byThomas 

 Twyne of Shaldon as ' the 

 manor ' of Candovers and 

 Brians, 23 and the following 

 year the purchaser died seized 

 of it, when it was held of 

 the queen as of her manor 



of Hartley Mauditt. The 



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property had been settled, , , , ,, . , J 



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on its acquisition byThomas stars !aHein the c bj e f : a 



Twyne, upon one of his crcicent gules for difference. 



younger children, Oliver. 24 



This Oliver, or a person of the same name, 



dealt with the manor on several occasions 25 



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between the date last mentioned and 1617, when 

 John Major acquired possession. 26 He died 

 seized of it in 1630 described as a 'capital mes- 

 suage ' held of Dr. Nicholas Styward as of his 

 manor of Hartley Mauditt. 27 Richard Major was 

 John's son and heir, then aged twenty -four, 

 and he immediately disposed of the property to 

 Thomas Burditt, 28 who died seized thereof in 

 1633, leaving a brother and heir, Richard, then 

 aged nineteen. 29 The subsequent history of the 

 property has not been discovered. 



The church of Hartley Mauditt 

 CHURCH stands in the fields, away from any 

 village or buildings. It consists of a 

 small square-ended chancel, which probably re- 

 places one which was apsidal and attached to the 

 existing Norman nave. The chancel is of early 

 thirteenth century work, and retains its old high- 

 pitched roof and one of its lancet windows on the 

 south side. The east window is a two-light 

 traceried example of about 1350. That to the 

 south of the altar is a little later, and also of two 

 lights with the sill cut down to form a seat. East 

 of it is a drain with deep square bowl. On the 

 north side of the chancel is a small modern vestry. 

 The chancel arch is plain and low, semicircular 

 in form, with jamb shafts towards the nave. In the 

 north wall of the nave, towards the east, is one of 

 the old windows, a broad and squat Norman light 

 with plain splay. The other window on this side 

 of two lights is modern, as is also the west window, 

 which is copied from the east window. The 

 south wall has one of the original windows, with a 

 two-light window of about 1320 on the east and 

 a restored fourteenth century lancet on the west of 

 it. The south doorway is a rich example of tran- 

 sitional Norman work of about 1 1 90, having an 

 ornate pointed arch of two orders with dog-toothed 

 label carried by jamb shafts. The church contains 

 no old fittings except the fine octagonal font which 

 has traceried and flowered panels of early fifteenth 

 century date. The nave roof is modern. In the 

 chancel floor are some good early tiles, one of 

 which has a pair of fishes, another a lion passant, 

 and a third a two-headed eagle. There is also on 

 the chancel walls an alabaster tablet, gorgeous with 

 heraldry, to Frances Baker, 1633, another monu- 



ward as the ditch and hedge leadeth 

 along by Week Common to Haukes 

 Grove Corner, and so as the hedge 

 leadeth to the west corner of Hallowell 

 Close, which divideth this manor and 

 the tithing of Norton. From the said 

 corner north westward by another hedge 

 to the nnrthmost corner of Brodeclose 

 to the highway which leadeth between 

 the manor of Norton and the said 

 manor, and so overthwart the highway 

 westward by another hedge to the 

 south corner of a close called Pillcroft, 

 and so from thence northward to the 

 south corner of a close called Ash Acre. 

 There thence westward by another hedge 

 nd ditch to the Greystone Corner and 

 there thence, southward by another hedge 

 and highway, which leadeth from Som- 

 borne to Alton, to Connycroft Style. 

 From thence westward by another hedge 

 to the south corner of South Field. 



From thence northward by another 

 hedge unto Woodmead, parcel of the 

 demesnes of the manor of Hartley. 

 From thence westward to the west cor- 

 ner of Broadmead which divideth the 

 said manor and the tithing of Farring- 

 don. There thence following the same 

 hedge northward to Barlie Bridge and 

 from thence to the same hedge north- 

 ward to the west corner of Oxlease, 

 dividing this manor and the tithing of 

 Alton. There thence by the same hedge 

 and ditch eastward to the north corner 

 of Merriotts Grove which divideth the 

 said manor and the manor of World- 

 ham. From thence south eastward by 

 another hedge and ditch overthwart the 

 highway to the east corner of Cande- 

 mers (Candevers ?) Field at a style there, 

 and from thence eastward by the same 

 hedge and ditch to Worldham Oak 

 where it first began.' 



510 



20 The customs of the manor as to 

 fines on admission, etc., were frequently 

 in dispute in the Duchy Court ; vide 

 Calendar to Duchy of Lancaster Plead- 

 ings (Ducatus Lancastrise), 3 vols. 

 passim. 



21 Inq. p.m. 3 Rich. II. No. 66. 



22 Ibid. 20 Rich. II. No. 13. 



23 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 4 Eliz. 



24 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, Exchq. file 1,002, 

 No. 9. 



SB Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 25 Eliz. 

 and Close, 31 Eliz. pt. n deed Oliver 

 Twyne to Robert Howland. 



26 Notes of Fines, Hants, East. 14 

 James I. 



27 Misc. Inq. p.m. ser. 2, pt. 18, No. 

 26. Dr. Styward had acquired the chief 

 manor before 1614; see p. 509. 



28 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 5 Chas. I. 



29 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, 9 Chas. I. pt. 2, 

 No. 11. 



