SELBORNE HUNDRED 



All the woodwork of the roofs is modern, that of 

 the chancel being of different design from that of the 

 nave, and divided from it by an arched truss, resting 

 on stone corbels with short shafts. The wood fittings 

 are also modern. In the south wall of the chancel is 

 a pretty trefoiled piscina with moulded arch and 

 label, and a stone shelf. It is contemporary with the 

 chancel, but its drain, in the form of a shaft with leaf 

 capital, half buried in the wall, looks like an older 

 pillar piscina off. 1200 re-used. In 1812 a screen 

 between nave and chancel was taken down. It was 

 evidently in the nature of a framed partition, as its 

 destroyers were in doubt whether it could be taken 

 away without weakening the roof. 



The font is modern, but in the churchyard, west of 

 the south doorway, is an ancient circular bowl with 

 lead lining, which may be of the thirteenth century ; 

 and outside the blocked west doorway of the tower is 

 a dilapidated panelled shaft and bowl, the latter set 

 upside down on the shaft, belonging to a second 

 superseded font, not older than the end of the 

 eighteenth century. 



There is no ancient glass or wall painting. On 

 the north wall of the chancel is a small brass plate in 

 memory of Francis, son of Robert Johnson, who died 

 in 1616 aged z\ years. There are five bells, the 

 treble being of the fourteenth century, and specially 

 interesting from having an English inscription, as the 

 use of English on bells was very rare at the time. 

 It reads, ' Hal Mari ful of gras,' in Gothic capitals, 

 with a round stop between each word on' which 

 is the figure of a cock. On the waist are the 

 founder's initials, W. K. The second has ' Henri 

 Knight made mee 1620," and 'the third 'Let your 

 hope be in the Lord, 1623, E. K.' The initials 

 are those of Ellis Knight the founder. The fourth 

 bell was cast by Taylor of Loughborough in 1871, 

 and the tenor recast by John Warner & Sons of 

 London, 1880. 



The church plate consists of a chalice, paten, and 

 alms-dish of plain silver, hall marked and dated 1725, 

 and inscribed ' The gift of James Glyd gentleman, of 

 the parish of Newton.' 



The first book of the parish registers begins in 

 1538, and contains a rather irregular transcript of 

 births, weddings, and burials to 1667. Then comes 

 a transcript of the births, weddings, and burials be- 

 tween 1 543 and I 548. Following this is a continuation 

 of the registers from 1667 to 1 740; then another tran- 

 scriptfrom 1627 to i67O,andfrom 1686 to 1695. The 

 second book of burials and baptisms dates from 1 740 

 to 1811, and that of weddings from 1754 to 1812. 

 The Hawkley parish register of births, weddings, and 

 burials entered in one book from 1640 to 1797 is also 

 kept with those of Newton Valence, since the two 

 parishes were originally united, and the vicar of New- 

 ton and his curate between them served the two 

 churches. 



There is also a diary of Richard Yalden, vicar of 

 Newton Valence from 1761 to 1785. Itis styled 'A 

 journal of weather and other occurrences from Fe- 

 bruary 10, 1775.' This book is a diverting mixture of 



NEWTON VALENCE 



parish accounts and private accounts, public events and 

 personal experiences, vestry meetings and dinner parties. 

 The church existed at the time of 

 ADVOWSON the Domesday Survey, and was held 

 by Turstin son of Rolf who held the 

 manor. 64 It then passed with the manor to Robert 

 de Pont de 1'Arche, and was granted by him to 

 William de Valence. 66 In 1324 it was stated to be 

 in the king's hands ' by reason of the lands late be- 

 longing to Aymer de Valence tenant in chief being 

 in his hands.' 67 With the conveyance by Laurence 

 de Hastings of the manor of Newton (q.v.) to Thomas 

 West, the church as appendant to the manor went to 

 him also, but in 1364 the king granted licence to 

 William de Edington to obtain the church from 

 Thomas West, and to grant the same to the newly- 

 founded monastery of Edington. 68 Hence the church 

 was appropriated to that house with reservation of a 

 portion for one perpetual vicar and of an annual rent 

 of 5/. to the bishop, to the prior and chapter of the 

 cathedral church of Winchester, and \zd. to the 

 archdeacon. 69 The monastery held the church until 

 the dissolution. 70 In 1535 the king leased the advow- 

 son of the church of Newton Valence with the chapel 

 annexed " ' to Henry Goldsmith for the term of 

 30 years,"* but the perquisites and tithes under the 

 title of the ' rectory and church of Newton,' or ' the 

 rectory and church within Newton Valence,' were 

 held by the crown until 1544, when the king sold 

 them to Edward Elkington and Humphrey Metcalf. 73 

 However, at the expiration of the lease of the advow- 

 son to Henry Goldsmith the rectory and advowson 

 were evidently granted to the owner of the manor, 

 since in 1578 Thomas Pescod was holding both, and 

 granted the whole to his brother John, 74 whose heir 

 Nicholas in 1588 granted the advowson to Henry 

 Campion, to whom the manor passed at the same time, 76 

 and the rectorial tithes to William Wright of Kingsey 

 (Oxon). 76 In 1602 the queen leased the rectory with 

 the full complement of tithes and premises to John 

 Duffield for a term of twenty-one years, with a special 

 clause that John Duffield was to keep the chancel of 

 Newton Valence church in repair, with all the houses 

 and buildings adjoining. 77 In 1604, however, the 

 rectorial tithes were confirmed again to William 

 Wright, and later in the same year the advowson also 

 was granted to him. Henry Fleetwood sold the ad- 

 vowson and rectory to Sir William Bowyer, who sold 

 the same in 1614 to his second son Robert, who re- 

 granted the same to his mother, Lady Mary Bowyer, 

 afterwards Lady Mary Ley, under indenture to be 

 revoked if the said Robert returned safely from foreign 

 parts. 78 Lady Mary Ley died seised in 1620, and 

 the rectory and advowson evidently passed back to her 

 son Robert, who was holding the same in 1624, and 

 was forced in that year to make good his claim against 

 Henry Fleetwood, from whom his father, Sir William, 

 had bought the rectory. 79 In the depositions made 

 on behalf of the defendant Sir William was said to 

 have paid the plaintiff joo for the same, and was 

 liable for the repair of the chancel of the church of 

 Newton, and the chapel of Hawkley, and the tithe 



65 V.C.H. Hants, i, 4943. 



66 See manor of Newton Valence. 

 87 Cal. Pat. 1324-7, p. 23. 



68 Pat. 37 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 32. 



69 Lansd. MS. 442, fol. 237. 



~" yahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.) ii, 2. 



71 i.e. Hawkley. 



7 " Mins.Accts. 30-1 Hen. VIII, R.I46. 

 78 Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, 

 Box D, No. 23. 



74 Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. 6, m. 29. 

 76 Ibid. 33 Eliz. pt. 50, m. 21. 



29 



76 Ibid. 



77 Ibid. 44 Eliz. pt. 10, m. 23. 



78 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 18 Jas. I (Ser. 

 2), bdle. 30, No. 157. 



79 Exch. Depos. Southants, 22 las. I, 

 No. 52. 



