A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



a fly-leaf, ' This Register Book was gathered out 

 of certain old papers and herein new written for 

 the great advantage of the parish by Henry Moss, 

 Curate. Feb. 10, 1683.' From 1762 to 1845 

 Kingsley marriages were performed at Binsted. 



The church plate consists of a silver chalice 

 with hall mark of 1576 and a silver paten, appar- 

 ently older, but which has the same date inscribed 

 on it. There are also a silver paten inscribed 

 ' Kingsley parish 1721,' a silver chalice and paten 



(Victorian) inscribed as the gift of the Rev. 

 Reginald Button, and a glass flagon with silver 

 band, handle and top presented by the same donor. 

 The National Church of England Schools were 

 built in 1850 on land given and conveyed by 

 Lord Sherborne. The school buildings, with 

 master's house, cost 354. Since then they have 

 been enlarged on two occasions. The Secondary 

 Schools were built in 1876 at the expense of the 

 Misses Lushington. 



EAST WORLDHAM 



Werildeham, Wardham (xi. cent.), Wirldham 

 (xii. cent.), Verildham (xiii. cent.), Verilham and 

 Werldham (xiv. cent.), Wardelham (xvi. cent.). 



The village is situated at an elevation of 500 

 feet above the sea on the edge of a malm rock 

 terrace which has the chalk of Alton on the west 

 and slopes abruptly down to the gault adjoining 

 Kingsley on the east. It lies in the centre of the 

 parish where the road from Alton to Kingsley and 

 a road from Binsted to Selborne intersect. The 

 parish church of St. Nicholas stands a little to the 

 east of the village. On the east side of the parish 

 two brooks flow down into the Slea, and on the 

 west two others flow down to the Caker stream to- 

 wards Alton. 



Lodge Hill or King John's Hill, the traditional 

 site of a hunting lodge of the king of that name, 

 is an almost isolated eminence situated in the south- 

 east of the parish, on the verge of Woolmer Forest, 

 which formerly ' extended to the ditch of Wardel- 

 ham park.' * The Itinerary of King John shows 

 that he was twice at Worldham in the year I ZO4- 2 



Among other place names mentioned in records 

 relating to the parish are Butlege in ll<)<); 3 

 meadows called Reynaldesmor and Kenmede in 

 the thirteenth century ; 4 and wood and pasture 

 called Bynswood in 162^.^ 



In Domesday WQRLDHAM was 

 M4NOR held as an alod by Alwin of the Confes- 

 sor, and under the heading of the lands 

 of the Conqueror's thegns * it is described as held 

 by Godwin in the time of King Edward. At the 

 time of the survey it was held by Geoffrey the 

 Marshal. He appears to have held it by serjeanty, 7 

 and his successors in the property certainly held it 

 by the service of bearing the marshal's rod in the 

 king's household throughout the year. 



Robert de Venuz, the heir and probably the 

 son of Geoffrey the Marshal, 8 whose family name 

 was Venuz, claimed jointly with William de 

 Hastings, the chief marshalship of the king's court, 

 and we learn that Gilbert the marshal of Henry I. 

 recovered that office from him. 9 In 1 1 90 William 



de Venuz owed to the Crown a large sum for 

 the forestership of Alice Holt Forest and the mar- 

 shalship, 10 and in 1 197 Robert de Venuz paid a 

 fine for having his father's lands and forestership. 11 

 Probably the same Robert 13 is mentioned in 1219, 

 whilst later in Henry III.'s reign a Robert de 

 Venuz is mentioned as holding Worldham by being 

 marshal, 'which office William I. had given to 

 Geoffrey the Marshal.' 13 Later again John de 

 Venuz is named as holding Worldham by the 

 same tenure. 14 John de Venuz, probably grand- 

 son of Robert de Venuz last mentioned, 15 died in 

 1 260 holding Worldham of the king in chief by ser- 

 jeanty, but the nature of the serjeanty is not stated. 

 He left a son and heir John, then aged between 

 six and seven. 18 The manor is again described as 

 held by the service of being marshal in 1306 when 

 its possessor was John de Venuz, then aged over 

 forty. 17 This John de Venuz intended to settle the 

 manor on his son Richard, but apparently the deed 

 was never executed. In 1286 he conveyed it to 

 Thomas le Marshal, who immediately reconveyed 

 it to him and Margery his wife for life with re- 

 version to the same Thomas and his heirs. 18 This 

 settlement was the cause of much litigation. In 

 1319 Richard Venuz died, when the jurors to the 

 inquisition taken after his death returned that he 

 held no lands of the king in chief. 19 In 1326 

 however another inquisition was taken, by which 

 it was stated that he died seized of the manor of 

 East Worldham. 20 Richard's father John died 

 about 1325, when Margery his wife continued in 

 possession. John son of John de Venuz ejected 

 Margery from the manor, but she afterwards re- 

 covered it. At her death John le Marshal of 

 Bovingdon, possibly son of Thomas le Marshal, 

 and Constance his wife entered into possession 

 until John de Venuz the son disseized them. 21 

 This John de Venuz died seized of the manor in 

 1327, leaving, it is stated, his daughter Amice his 

 heir, aged five years. 22 The finding of this in- 

 quisition seems to have been inaccurate, for in 

 July, 1327, the escheator was ordered to assign 



1 White's Selborne, i. 22. 



* Hardy'i Introd. to Pat. Rolls for 

 John. 



3 Feet of F. Hants, i John. 

 Anc. D. (P.R.O.) A 3231. 

 8 Exch. Dep. 22 Jas. I. East. 5. 

 V.C.H. Hants, i. 510 and note. 

 7 Ibid. i. 430. Ibid. 431. 



Charter R. I John, pt. ii. m. 13. 



10 Pipe Roll. 11 Ibid. 



12 Cur. Reg. R. No. 67 m. 4. 

 3 Testa de Nevill, p. 235. 



14 Ibid. p. 236, and Assize R. 778, m. 

 43. John de Venuz held his land in 

 Worldham and Notice by the serjeanty 

 of being marshal in the king's house ; 

 now he pays for that ierjeanty 1001. a 

 year at the Exchequer. 



518 



i* Close, 8 Edw. III. m. 8. 



t6 Inq. p.m. 44 Henry III. No. 7. 



Ibid. 34 Edw. I. No. 175. 



18 Close, 3 Edw. III. m. 15 & II. 



19 Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II. No. I. 



20 Ibid. 19 Edw. II. No. 57. 



21 Close, 3 Edw. III. m. 15 & II. 



22 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. II. No. 28. 



