SELBORNE HUNDRED 



EAST TISTED 



iy charter of Henry III. 10 About 1305," or earlier, 

 Adam de Gurdon died seised of the manor of Tisted, 

 leaving a daughter and heir Joan, who in 1308 settled 

 the whole on herself for life with reversion to James 

 de Norton and his heirs. 11 For licence to enter the 

 manor James de Norton paid a fine of 5 marks to 

 the crown during the next year. 15 In March, 1316, 

 the manor was in his hands," and in the May of that 

 year he settled it upon himself and his second wife 

 Margaret and their heirs ; failing such it was to revert 

 to Thomas the son of James by his first wife Elizabeth. 15 

 James and Margaret had a son John 16 who died 

 before 1 346, when the manor passed into the hands 

 of Edmund de Kendale, Margaret's second husband, 17 

 in custody for John's son John, a minor, 18 who came 

 of age in 1360." This John only held the manor 

 for ten years, dying abroad, probably on active service 

 in the French wars in 1370, and leaving a son and 

 heir John only three years old. 10 Before 1424 the 

 latter conveyed the manor to trustees, who settled it 

 in that year on his son John and Joan his wife and 

 their heirs. 81 Richard Norton the son and heir of 

 John and Joan died seised of East Tisted in 1503, 

 leaving a son and heir Richard," who married 

 Elizabeth Rotherfield in 1495. He died in 1536, 

 leaving a son and heir John" who died before 1564, 

 in which year Anne his widow sought dower in East 

 Tisted against her son Richard. She stated that she 

 had been dispossessed by subtle practice between this 

 her son and his uncle, who ' when the said orator was 

 in great heaviness and sorrow for the death of her 

 late husband came to her and brought a deed of 

 release by which she should release unto the said 

 Richard all right of dower in the said lands . . . 

 while they swore to her that there was nothing in it 

 but a note or remembrancer of such lands as her late 

 husband held and nothing that would do her harm.' 

 Trusting to them she signed the deed and her son 

 seized the lands." He died in 1592 while his mother 

 Anne was still living, but the manor of East Tisted 

 was settled on Katherine his wife." Their son 

 Richard, who was knighted in i6io,* 6 succeeded to 

 the manor on the death of his mother before that 

 date, and held it until his death in 1612." The 



NORTON. l/ert a 

 lion or. 



manor then passed to his son Richard, who was 

 several times sheriff of Hampshire, and who was 

 created baronet in l622. 28 The Norton family were 

 staunch royalists and suffered heavily for their adher- 

 ence to Charles. In July, 1644, Sir Richard was 

 committed ' for maintaining the proceedings against 

 the Parliament and for doing many disservices.' He 

 was imprisoned in Lord Petre's 

 house, 29 but was by order of 

 the Committee for Prisoners dis- 

 charged in August, 1644, on 

 giving sufficient security. His 

 estates were valued at \ 5,000 

 a year, and on admission to 

 compound he was fined at 

 ^1,000.* This was reduced 

 to 500 in March, 1645. He 

 paid the fine, but died before 

 August of that year, leaving his 

 estate heavily charged, as his 



sons complained when they compounded for their own 

 and their father's delinquency on his death. They 

 stated that they had been in the king's army in Win- 

 chester garrison, and five days after its surrender had 

 taken an oath administered by the county committee. 

 They were now heavily burdened with their father's 

 debts and the necessity of paying their mother's joint- 

 ure, while Sir Richard the elder son had no other 

 estate, and John the younger only a lease of 15 a 

 year, now sequestered. In April, 1647, all proceed- 

 ings against them were stayed, since they had paid 

 jioo, the sum to which their fine had been reduced 

 in consideration of their poverty and their father's 

 fine." 



The estate was not taken out until May, 1661, 

 when, since Sir Richard had died in 1652 without male 

 issue, it descended in tail male to his brother John as 

 third baronet. In 1666 Sir John Norton settled the 

 manor of East Tisted on himself and Dame Dorothy 

 his wife and their heirs. 8J Sir John died in 1686 

 aged sixty-seven, and was buried in East Tisted church 

 under an elaborate monument erected ' by the piety of 

 his wife, Lady Dorothy.' M She, whom ' God blessed 

 with a prosperous life and an easy death,' * 4 survived 



10 Rat. Hund. (Rec. Com.) ii, 224. 



11 The last mention found of him so far 

 is in 1292-3 in an Inq. a. q. d. 20 Edw. I, 

 No. 130, by which it was found to be no 

 damage to the king that Adam dc Gurdon 

 should give 8 acres of land and a rent of 

 61. 8^</. in Oakhanger to the prior and 

 convent of Selborne, for the weal of his 

 own soul and that of his late wife Con- 

 stance. 



13 Inq. a.q.d. I Edw. II, No. 70 j Col. 



Pat. 1307-13. P- 133- 



18 Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 163. 



14 Feud. Aids, ii, 315. 



15 Cal. of Pat. 1313-17, p. 466. 



16 In the proving of age of the John de 

 Norton who inherited in 1360 he is called 

 John son of John and kinsman and heir 

 of James de Norton(Inq. p. m. 35 Edw. Ill 

 pt. i, No. 139), and in a later inquisition 

 of Margaret's mother, reversion of certain 

 lands in Surrey is made to John son of 

 John son of John de Norton son of Mar- 

 garet. [Inq. p. m. 45 Edw. Ill (wrongly 

 calendared under 40 EJw. III.), 1st Nos. 

 No. 4]. 



V De Bane. R. No. 286, m. 55. 

 18 Feud. Aids, ii, 333 ; Rot. Orig. (Rcc. 

 Com.), ii, 84. 



19 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. I, No. 

 139. 



Ibid. 44 Edw. Ill, No. 50. 



al Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 198. 



" Inq. p.m. 19 Hen. VII (Ser. 2), vol. 

 17, No. 49. 



*> Exch. Inq. p. m. 28 Hen. VIII (Ser. 

 2), file 988, No. 8. 



M Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 132, No. 17. 



25 Inq. p. m. 34 Eliz. pt. 1 (Ser. 2), No. 

 118. 



26 Hanti N. and Q. vi, 125. 

 "' W. & L. Inq. p. m. 



88 Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xlvii, App. j Pat. 

 130, 20 Jas. I, pt. 12, m. 19. 



39 Journ. of the House of Commons, 1 5 July, 

 1644. 



80 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, ii, 848. 



81 Ibid. 



M Deed penes Archibald Edward Scott of 

 Rotherfield Park. 



83 No man's virtues have been better 

 extolled than those of Sir John, both in 

 his memorial inscription and in the ser- 

 mon preached on his death by the rector 

 of East Tisted. 'Loyal to his king and 

 yet a studious preserver of the ancient 

 privileges of his country. . . . firm and 

 resolute always in upholding the estab- 



3 1 



lished church of England and yet not 

 factious against the right succession . . . 

 no sufferings could terrify him, no public 

 discontents could sour him, no private 

 hardships could bias him . . . He spent 

 his time and estate continually in the 

 country and scarce ever went to London 

 but to attend the Parliament. . . He 

 preferred his habitation here before all 

 the splendour and diversions of the city. 

 . . . Cheerful and friendly in his large 

 hospitality . . . and far from a hard land- 

 lord his land will never cry against him nor 

 the furrows thereof complain. . . The 

 only pomp in which he seemed to delight 

 was in walking constantly to the house of 

 God before a numerous and well-ordered 

 family.' (Papers in possession of Miss 

 Lempricre of Pelham.) 



84 Ibid. Miss Lcmpriere has an in- 

 teresting letter of 1662 to Lady Dorothy 

 from her sister-in-law in London, telling 

 her that she had made a required pur- 

 chase for her of 2 Ib. of Holland costing 131. 

 * I highly miss your good company here,' 

 she goes on to say, ' and the want of the 

 court and all the gallants make not the 

 towne seem soe naked to me as your 

 absence. . . .' 



