SELBORNE HUNDRED 



SELBORNE 



PALMER, Earl of Sel- 

 borne. Argent rtuo bars 

 sable 'with three trefoils 

 argent thereon and a run- 

 ning greyhound sable in 

 the chief having a golden 

 collar. 



the boundaries of lands granted by Edward of Wessex 

 to Frithstan, bishop of Winchester. 12 ' In the reign of 

 Edward the Confessor Oakhanger was assessed at one 

 hide, and one vtrgate valued at 40^. was of royal 

 demesne and held of the king 

 by a certain Alwi. 123 At the 

 time of the Domesday Survey 

 Kdwin held it by purchase of 

 the king and Richard held it 

 of Edwin. 124 Who this Edwin 

 was is not clear, but during 

 the twelfth century the manor 

 was evidently held by a family 

 that took the surname of Oak- 

 hanger. Thus William de 

 Oakhanger was in possession in 

 Il67, 124 and in the reign of 

 Henry III, according to the 

 Testa de Nevill, a certain Gil- 

 bert de Oakhanger, probably 

 the son of William, held the 



manor of the king 'per venenam.' "* In 1250 

 James de Oakhanger, presumably the son of Gil- 

 bert, was lord of the manor, 127 and in 1279 his son 

 William 188 was given licence to enfeoff Thomas 

 Paynel of his manor of Oakhanger. 129 Thomas Paynel 

 died in 1313 seised of the same, 130 and from him 

 it passed to his son William, who died without issue 

 in 1317, leaving his brother John 131 as his heir. 

 John Paynel died in 1319, leaving his daughter Maud, 

 the wife of Nicholas de Upton, heir to two parts of 

 the manor, while Eva, the wife of Edward St. John, 

 and late the wife of his brother William Paynel, held 

 the third part in dower. 132 John Bernard and Ralph 

 de Bocking, as trustees for Maud and Nicholas de 

 Upton, received licence in 1320 to grant two parts of 

 the manor to Aymer de Valence and John de Hastings 

 and the heirs of the said John, and also to grant the 

 reversion of the remaining third part then held in 

 dower by Eva de St. John. 133 John de Hastings died 

 in 1325 seised of the two parts 

 of the manor, leaving his son 

 Laurence as heir. 134 Fourteen 

 years later Laurence de Hastings 

 obtained licence to enfeoffTho- 

 mas West of the two parts of 

 the manor, to hold the same in 

 chief with knights' fees, advow- 

 son of churches, and all liberties 

 pertaining. 135 Eva de St. John 

 died in 1354 seised of the third 

 part of the manor, which, in- 

 stead of reverting to the heirs 

 of John de Hastings, went to 



her kinsman and heir, Roger son of John de Shelve- 

 strode. 136 Evidently Roger, if he ever entered into 



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WEST, Lord De La 

 Warr. Argent a fesse 

 dancetty sable. 



possession of the third part of Oakhanger, granted 

 or sold it in 1355 to the Thomas West who 

 already held the other two parts, since in 1355 

 Thomas paid 5 marks to the king for licence to 

 acquire the third part. 137 Thomas West died in 1386 

 seised of the whole manor entailed by fine made in 

 Hilary term 1381-2 on himself and his wife Alice 

 and their heirs male. 138 In December of 1386 Alice, 

 his widow, received pardon for having together with 

 her husband alienated the manor for the purpose of 

 entailment above referred to. 139 She died seised of the 

 manor in August, 1395, leaving Thomas West her 

 son and heir, 140 who died seised of the same in April, 

 1406, leaving a son and heir Thomas. 141 The latter 

 died in September, 1416, leaving as heir his brother 

 Reginald, who was created Lord De La Warr in 1426 

 as heir of his uncle Thomas. 1 " In 1429 Reginald 

 Lord De La Warr leased the site of his manor of 

 Oakhanger for a term of twenty years at an annual 

 rent of I oos. to the prior and convent of Selborne, 141 

 and in 1453 his son and heir, Richard Lord De La 

 Warr, who succeeded his father in I45o, 144 made a 

 similar lease for nine years at an annual rent ot 

 1 1 3/. 4a'. 146 Perhaps the most interesting point about 

 these leases is that they give the boundaries of the 

 whole site of the manor, viz., between the water of 

 Tonford up to the chapel of Oakhanger, thence to 

 ' le Courthacche,' thence by the close of the tenants 

 of Oakhanger to the lane called ' Honnelane,' by the 

 said lane to the west end of Wrikesgrove and the 

 water of Tonford, thence between the close of Will 

 Cook and ' le Broke ' to ' la Redhacche,' thence by 

 the close of the prior to the watercourse of Tonford. 

 Besides the site of the manor the lord of Oakhanger 

 also leased to the prior all common in the forest of 

 Woolmer belonging to the manor, the fishery in 

 the pool of Oakhanger, and the hares, rents, and 

 services belonging to the manor. 146 In 1476 

 Richard Lord De La Warr died seised of the manor 

 of Oakhanger, leaving a son and heir Thomas, 147 who 

 died in 1525 leaving a son and heir, also Thomas. 148 

 The latter died without issue in 1554 seised of 'tene- 

 ments in Oakhanger, late parcel of the manor of 

 Oakhanger.' 149 Lady Jane Dudley, duchess of North- 

 umberland, the daughter of his sister Eleanor, was 

 his heir to these lands, which are described in the 

 inquisition on her death in 1555 as ' one acre in 

 Oakhanger held in chief for the hundredth part of a 

 knight's fee.' 15 Similarly in a Chancery proceeding of 

 the same date in which the will of Thomas Lord De 

 La Warr is quoted, one acre in Oakhanger, parcel of 

 the manor of Oakhanger, ' certainly divided and known 

 from the rest of the said manor by evidences which is 

 holden of the Queen's highness in chief,' is said to 

 have descended to Lady Jane, duchess of Northumber- 

 land, to go to her children at her death. 151 This 



Kemblc, Cod. Dipt, v, 178. 

 y.C.H. Hants, \, 504*. 

 4 V.C.H. Hants, i, 504*. 

 " 5 Fife R. 1167 (Pipe R. Soc.). 

 i' Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 235. 

 W Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 36. 



128 Ibid. 63. In 1272-3 Adam Gurdon 

 was giving to Selborne Piiory land he held 

 in Oakhanger of William de Oakhanger, 

 and which William held by serjeanty. 

 Ex inform. Mr. J. H, Round. 



129 Cal. Pat. 1292-1 301, p. 303. 

 180 Inq. p.m. 7 Edw. II, No. 34. 

 mi IbiJ. 10 EJw. II, No. 61. 



183 Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, No. 50. 

 188 Cal. Pat. 1317-21, p.415. 



184 Inq. p.m. 1 8 Edw. II, No. 83. 



185 Cal. Pat. 1338-40, p. 395. 



184 Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. Ill, No. 54. The 

 inquisition on her land in Hants is almost 

 impossible to read ; nothing can be de- 

 ciphered but the name of Eva, of Oak- 

 hanger, of Empshott, the other manor she 

 held in Selborne, and of her heir Roger. 



187 Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 239. 



188 Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, No. 52. 



189 Cal. Pat. 1385-9. n. 249. 



140 Inq. p. m. Ric. H, No. 49. 



141 Ibid. 7 Hen. IV, No. 26. 



I I 



142 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 

 148 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 no. 



144 Inq. p.m. 29 Hen. VI, No. 21. 



145 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 114. 



14 Ibid. no. 



147 Inq. p.m. 1 6 Edw. IV, No. 62. 



148 Ibid. 25 Hen. VIII, vol. 45, No. 

 100. 



149 Exch. Inq. p.m. i and 2 Phil, and 

 Mary, file 995, No. 3. 



"o Ibid. No. 14. 



151 Chanc. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 190, 

 No. 27. 



