ALTON HUNDRED 



HOLYBOURNE 



Hayward was his son and heir, then aged three 

 years. 13 In 1532 William Hayward conveyed the 

 manors in trust to Lord Montagu and others. 14 

 In 1553 Sir Richard Lyster died seized of the 

 same property, held of the Earl of Arundel, as of 

 his manor of Alton. Richard Lyster, grandson of 

 Sir Richard (viz. son of his son Michael, deceased), 

 was his heir, and then aged twenty years and nine 

 months. 10 In 1579 Michael Lyster and Elizabeth 

 his wife sold the manors to Robert White and 

 Mary his wife, 18 and twenty years later Robert 

 White of Aldershot died seized of them, leaving 

 two daughters and co-heirs, Ellen, or Helen, wife 



parish, has however been sold, and is now owned 

 by Sir C. J. Hubert Miller, bart., of Froyle. 



NE4TH4M, Neteham (xi. cent.), Nietham (xii. 

 cent.), was before the Conquest held by the Confes- 

 sor, and at the time of the Domesday Survey by 

 the Conqueror. 20 King Stephen gave it to 

 Waverley Abbey in 1 1 47- 21 The gift was confirmed 

 in 1293 by Henry III. 



At the suppression of Waverley Abbey the manor 

 of Neatham was granted on 28 July, 1536, by 

 Henry VIII. to Sir William Fitzwilliam, 22 who 

 was shortly after created Earl of Southampton. 

 He, in 1539, settled it upon himself and his wife 



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THE MILL, NEATHAM. 



of Richard Tichborne and Mary wife of Walter 

 Tichborne, 17 who in 1604 conveyed them to Sir 

 Richard Weston and William Brocke probably for 

 the purpose of a settlement. 18 



Amphyllis, the only child of Richard Tich- 

 borne, married Laurence Hyde, son and heir of 

 Sir Laurence Hyde, bart., and in 1632 died seized 

 of the manors of Holybourne Eastbrook and West- 

 brook, Robert Hyde her son and heir being then 

 aged two years and eight months. 19 After this the 

 descent of Holybourne followed that of Alton 

 Westbrook (q.v.), and Henry John Button, J.P., 

 of Hinton-Ampner is now lord of the manor. 

 The manor farm, with the greater part of the 



for their lives, with remainder to his half-brother, 

 Sir Anthony Browne, 23 who died seized of the 

 property in I 5 JO, 24 and was succeeded by his son 

 Anthony, who in 1554 was created Viscount 

 Montagu. His grandson, in 1628, mortgaged the 

 manor to secure the payment of his debts before 

 24 April, i629- 26 He died in that year seized of 

 the manor, 26 and his son Francis sold it in 1633 

 to Peter Giffard. 27 John Giffard, his great- 

 grandson, left it by will in 1715 to his kinsman 

 and heir-at-law, Thomas Hawkins, who in 

 1730 sold it to Sir Bulstrode Peachey, who died 

 five years later, leaving it to his brother Sir John 

 Peachey, whose son and namesake in 1745 ex- 



p.m. ser. 2, vol. 3, No. in. 19 Inq. p.m. 14 Chas. I. ser. 2, 



of F. Hants, Mich. 24 Hen. No. 199. 



20 V.C.H. Hants, i. 450. 



13 Inq. 

 1* Feet 

 VIII. 

 18 Inq. p.m. Chan. ser. 2, vol. 124, 



No. 222. 



16 feet 

 1' Inq, 

 18 Feet 



of F. Hants.Mich. 21-2 Eliz. 

 . p.m. ser. 2, vol. 258, No. 31. 

 of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 2 Jas. I. 



pt. I, 25 Com. Pleas Recov. R. deeds enrol- 

 led Trin. 4 Chas. i, m. 7. It is note- 

 worthy in connection with the fact that 



21 Papal Confirmation, Lansd. Chart. Neatham formed part of the property 

 7 . of Waverley Abbey that the manor 



was conveyed with ' all chronicles, deeds, 



!2 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII. pt. 2, m. 9. 



23 Inq. p.m. ser. 2, Chan. vol. Ixx. No. 

 56. 



24 Ibid. vol. Ixxxix. No. 132. 



513 



28 Inq. p.m. 5 Chas. I. pt. 3, No. 80. 

 27 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 9 Chas. I. 



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