A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



barn of Hawkley.*' From Sir William Bowyer the 

 advowson seems to have passed to the Glyd family, 

 one of whom, Michael Glyd, was vicar from 1628 to 

 1662, and his son Richard from 1662 to 1 697."' 

 James Glyd was patron from 1718 to 1761," in 

 which year he presented Richard Yalden to the vicar- 

 age. From 1785 to 1837 Edmund White was both 

 patron and vicar. 83 In 1838 Edward Auriel was 

 patron, 84 and presented his kinsman Edmund Auriel. 84 

 He sold it to Thomas Snow, who was vicar from 1842 

 to 1855." From the Snow family the patronage 

 passed by sale to the family of Mrs. A. N. C. 

 Maclachlan, who is patron at the present day. 



(i) Henry Knight of Faringdon, by 



CHARITIES will dated 1858, left 200 lands (held 



by the official trustees of charitable 



funds) for bread and fuel for the poor of Newton 



Valence." 



(ii) Michael Glyd, vicar of Newton Valence, according 

 to his memorial inscription in Newton Valence church, 

 by will dated 1735 left $o to purchase land, the 

 income of which should be distributed at the discretion 

 of the vicar on St. Thomas's Day to the poor of the 

 parish not receiving alms. The gift money was, how- 

 ever, evidently lost or squandered, since nothing but 

 the memorial inscription remains to mark its existence. 



EAST TISTED 



Ostede(xiicent.); Esttystede, Estistede, Thistede 

 (xiu and xiv cent.). 



The parish of East Tisted, containing about 2,648 

 acres of land, lies immediately south-west of Newton 

 Valence. The main part of the village is a group of 

 half a dozen modernized cottages on the east of the 

 high road leading from Alton to Gosport. They lie 

 well back from the road with front gardens stretching 

 up to a low stone wall which runs along in front of 

 the group. They originally stood on the other side 

 'f the road, within Rotherfield Park, but were re- 

 moved by Mr. James Scott when he bought the 

 Rotherfield estate. One of the cottages does service 

 as the village post-office, and another as the village 

 mn. Near the church and vicarage, which are on the 

 east side of the road north of the village, a road 

 branches east to Home Farm past two blocks of alms- 

 houses built and endowed for the aged poor by Thomas 

 and Septimus Scott in 1 879 and 1 893. Beyond Home 

 Jr_arm, where the road branches to the right to East 

 Tisted station and on to Monkey's Lodge Farm a 

 small spring rises which supplies the meagre village 

 pond. On the north side of the road are two or 

 three old cottages and several modern ones which 

 have sprung into existence since the building of the 

 railway station, opened on Whit-Monday, 1903 

 Rotherfield Park estate lies west of the village and 

 ills up the whole of that end of the parish. The 

 park itself covers about 300 acres, and in it on high 

 ground stands the manor house on the original site 

 Surrounding the park, especially on the north and 

 west, is well-wooded country Plash Wood on the 

 north and Dogford Wood and Winchester Wood on 

 the west reaching away almost to the outer boundary 

 of the parish. 



The soil is entirely chalk, except here and there in 

 the valleys where the subsoil is often gravel. Hence 

 the chief crops are ordinary cereals, but the fertility 

 of the ground is necessarily unfavourably affected by the 

 remarkable lack of water in the parish. With the ex- 

 ception of the spring that rises west of Home Farm 



there is no river, not even a rivulet, to break the 

 monotony of alternation of field and woodland. There 

 are 745 acres of arable land in the parish, 767 of pas- 

 ture, and 739 of woodland and plantations. 1 



The first mention of the manor 

 MJNQR of EJST TISTED does not come 

 until the early part of the thirteenth 

 century, when in 1206 King John ordered Geoffrey 

 FitzPeter to inquire whether certain lands in 

 'Dokefert," held by William Peche, belonged to the 

 demesne of Tisted which the king had granted to 

 Adam de Gurdon. 3 However, a hundred roll of a 

 later date states that half a knight's fee at Tisted and 

 Selborne, meaning the manor of East Tisted, which 

 was evidently comprised of lands in Tisted and 

 Selborne, was held of Adam de Gurdon by the grant 

 of King Richard to his father. 4 In 1218 6 a writ 

 directed to the sheriff of Hampshire ordering him to 

 seize the lands of Adam de Gurdon in Tisted and 

 f,?. J states that thev were held by Adam of 

 Wil ham de St. John. 6 This is difficult to explain, as 

 in all other cases it is said to be held of the king in 

 chief by grand serjeanty. On the death of the second 

 Adam de Gurdon before 12 August, 1231, the manor 

 reverted to the crown during the minority of his heir, 

 and Henry III granted the whole to Ralph Marshall 

 to hold during the royal pleasure, rendering ' what 

 Ameria the wife of Adam had rendered while the 

 lands were ,n her hands,' and saving to Ameria the 

 corn which had been sown in the lands.' In 1 2 

 the manor went as dower to Ameria until her eldest 

 son should be of age. 8 Adam, her son, the famous 

 supporter of Simon de Montfort, was of age and in 

 possession of the manor by 1254, and by an inquisi- 

 ^adqueddamnum taken in that year he was allowed 

 to hold his lands in Tisted and Selborne as half a 

 knights fee instead of by grand serjeanty. 9 On the 

 hundredroll for 1275 Adam de Gurdon is said to 

 hold half a knight's fee , 'Ostede' and Selborne of 

 the king m chief and to have the right of free chase 

 of wolves and hares both within and without the forest 



80 E*ch. Depos. Southants, 22 Tas I 

 No. 52. 



81 Parish Register. 

 M Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 



*> Warner, Hist, of HampMrt, ii, 217, 

 and Parish Register. 

 84 Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 

 84 Parish Register. 

 * Ibid. 

 vParl.P. 1873, vol. 51 



1 Statistics from the Board of Agricul- 

 ture (1905). 



This name survives in the modern Doe- 

 ford Wood. 



Rot. Litt. CW (Rec. Com.), i, 73 A, 

 ad dommicum nostrum de Tisted quod 

 dedimus Adamo de Gurdon servienti 

 nostro.' King John had granted twelire 

 Iibrates m Tisted and Selborne to Adam 

 Pipe R. 10 John. 



30 



4 Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 224. 



The first Adam de Gurdon was dead 

 before this time, evidently before 7 August 

 i a 14- Close R. ,6 John. See cL. 

 (New Ser.), iv, 2. 



'Rot. Clau,. (Rec. Com.) i, 350*. 



I E *" r P- ' R <"- F '"- (Rec. Com.), i, 2I 6. 

 Close, Ig Hen. Ill, * 



Hen. Ill, m . IQ . 



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9 laq. p. m. 38 Hen. Ill, No. 18. 



