A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



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Chidiock Paulet. 11 Sir Thomas died in 1566 

 seized of it, leaving Henry White his son and heir, 

 aged thirty-four years and 

 more." Sir Richard White 

 died seized of it in i6i3. 13 

 By a fine in Hilary term 

 1615-6 Samuel Backhouse 

 and Elizabeth his wife con- 

 veyed the manor to Florence 

 Henshaw, widow, Benjamin 

 Henshaw and another, prob- 

 ably in settlement on marri- 

 age of John Backhouse their B A c * , " s " . Par 9 



. , it azure and fold salttrevvtse 



son with Florence daughter witb a J^ re ermjm _ 

 of Benjamin Henshaw. 14 



After this the property passed to the families of 

 Hyde and Chaffin. 



In 1713 George Chaffin was lord of the manor, 16 

 and in 1746 an Act was 

 obtained for the sale of his 

 lands in Hants and Surrey 

 to discharge his debts. The 

 Kingsley property came into 

 the possession of the Stawell 

 family, and was held by 

 Henry, the last Lord Stawell, 

 who died in 1820. Mary, 

 his daughter and heir, mar- 

 ried John, second Lord Sher- CHAFFIN. Gula a tal- 

 borne, and. on a division of htfaxant gold end a chief 



, r . . ermine. 



her property, Kingsley came 



to their son, John Thomas Button, 16 whose son 

 Henry John Button of Hinton Ampner is the 

 present lord of the manor. 



No details as to the manorial rights in Kingsley 

 have been discovered. Queen Elizabeth granted 

 or intended to grant to Samuel Backhouse, 

 lord of the manor, free warren in his lands called 

 Oxney, or Oxney grounds, abutting on Oxney 

 Moor. 17 An Enclosure Act for Kingsley was 

 passed in 1777. 



In Kingsley parish were two other manors or 

 reputed manors LODE PLACE, of which men- 

 tion has been already made, and M4RSH or 

 MARSHES. Ivo de la Lode is mentioned as pay- 

 ing a rent to Kingsley in I 3O5, 18 and Peter atte 

 Mersshe as doing the same in I3o8. 19 It was 

 probably of one of these holdings that Simon de 

 Heyes died seized in 1 362. 20 In a rental of Kings- 

 ley made in 1398-9 Richard Holt appears as 

 tenant of le Mershe, and though Lode Place is 

 not named, rent was paid by John atte Lode. 21 

 A Richard Holt died seized of a messuage, etc., 

 in Kingsley, probably Marshe, in 1458, leaving 

 two daughters as his co-heirs : Christine, who 

 married Sir Edward Berkeley, 32 and Elizabeth. 23 

 The Kingsley property was enjoyed by Richard's 



widow Joan, for her life, and it is not clear to 

 which of her daughters it passed on her death, 

 or if it was divided. Christine Berkeley had a 

 daughter Lora, who became Countess of Ormond. 

 Elizabeth Holt married John Pounde. Lora and 

 Elizabeth were found to be heirs of Joan Holt 

 (who, after Richard Holt's death, had married 

 Constantine Darrell) at her death in 1495.2* 



Both Lode and Marsh are referred to in 1562 

 as having been held by John Fitzwilliam, who 

 had purchased them of (or received them in ex- 

 change from) Thomas, Lord Sandys, Viscount 

 Montagu, Lord Windsor and Sir Ralph Lyster. 

 Fitzwilliam is stated to have sold them, on I June, 

 1561, to Richard Springham. Fitzwilliam died 

 in London on 17 June, 1562, leaving a son and 

 heir William, then aged fifteen. 25 Notwithstand- 

 ing this alleged sale, ' Fitzwilliams' (no Christian 

 name is given) was according to a rental of the 

 end of the sixteenth century tenant of Lode 

 Place. Marsh Place is named in this rental, but its 

 tenant is not mentioned. 26 Bespite the statement 

 in the inquisition on Fitzwilliam above mentioned, 

 Springham appears to have acquired the manor 

 of Marsh of Richard Caryll in 1567," and the 

 following year Nicholas Backhouse acquired three 

 parts of it of Richard Caryll and a fourth part of 

 William Burd and his wife. 28 In 1653 Sir John 

 Backhouse paid a quit rent for the ' manor ' of 

 Lode, and Robert Harding for ' his manor house 

 and lands called Marshes.' 28 In 1775 Sir Simeon 

 Stuart of Hartley Mauditt possessed Lode Place, 

 and Peniston Fairmeadow was tenant of ' Marsh 

 farm.' 30 



Lode manor house still stands, and is now a 

 farmhouse. It is stated that Henry VIII., when 

 Prince of Wales, was so often there that he earned 

 for himself the title of ' Harry of Lode.' 81 

 Marshes manor house stood, within living 

 memory, in the low ground at the bottom of 

 Marsh Lane. 



The parish church of All Saints', 

 CHURCH consisting of a chancel, nave, south 

 porch and north vestry, is a modern 

 structure built in 1876 on a commanding site to 

 the east of the village. The old church, dedica- 

 ted in honour of St. Nicholas, now used as a 

 mortuary chapel, is some distance away to the 

 west. It is little better than a brick barn with a 

 tiled roof and south porch, and a shingled bell 

 turret over the western gable. In the south wall 

 is a tablet inscribed ' w. KING j. OSBORN Church 

 Wardens 1778," which probably gives the date of 

 rebuilding. The east wall is all that is left of 

 the older church. It is of clunch, plastered, and 

 contains a window of two trefoiled lights with 

 a cinquefoiled circle in the head, of a date 



11 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 3 Eliz. 

 ia Inq. p.m. ser. 2, 9 Eliz. No. 9. 

 " Ibid. II Jas. I. ser. 2, bdle. 18, 



No. 221. 



4 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 13 Jas. I. 



14 E*ch. Dep. 1 2 Anne, Trin. No. 3 

 or 13. 



18 Information from the pretent 

 owner. 



17 Draft of letters patent, undated ; 

 Add. Chart. 27,972. 



18 Ibid. 27,957. 19 U>'d. *7>964- 



20 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III. 1st pt. No. 

 101. 



21 Add. Chart. 27,820. 



22 See Westcote in Binsted. 



13 Inq. p.m. 38 Hen. VI. No. 32. 

 24 Ibid. er. 2, vol. ii. No. 121. 



516 



25 Ibid. ser. 2, vol. 140, No. 179. 

 28 Add. Chart. 27,893. 



27 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 9 & 10 

 Eliz. 



28 Ibid. Mich. 10 & II Eliz. 



28 Document in possession of the pre- 

 sent lord of the manor. 

 3 Ibid. 

 31 Hants Field Club Papers, No. . 



