SELBORNE HUNDRED 



life of the parish in the years following. A sparrow 

 club evidently existed quite early, since in the first year 

 of the accounts there is an entry of js. f)d. paid for 

 thirty-one dozen sparrows, and like entries follow in 

 every year. For forty years or more a certain William 

 Chitty, who seems to have been the village idiot, was 

 clothed, and fed, and shaved. In one year (1763) 

 they gave him ' skins for the pockets of his coat ' be- 

 sides his ordinary clothes, and in another year (1771) 

 made him a 'hop surplice.' He died in 1781, for 

 there comes an entry ' Paid Mr. Wilmott for 3 gals of 

 beer when Chitty was bored and shaving Chitty e,s. o.' 

 In 1763, in spite of the triumph of Lord Bute's 

 peace policy in the preceding year, is an entry ' Paid 

 for Hirein a substitute in the Militia 4 14. 6,' and 

 again in 1765 'Paid for substitute for Warren and 

 expences 2. 13. 5.' The first idea of an organized 

 system of housing the poor comes in 1771 with the 

 entry ' Spent at Vestry about a poor house is. 6d.' In 

 the next year is the ' Account of Arthur Kelsey and 

 Thomas Fames, disbursments for Tisted poor house 

 1772.' The house was built for about 6<), 10 

 was given by Winchester College, 15 by Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, the timber by Thomas Norton 

 Paulet, lord of the manor, 10 los. was advanced 

 out of the year's accounts, and Widow Fames lent 

 j33 on note of hand. In 1780 the house had to be 

 mended and thatched. These are but a few typical 

 entries, but they serve perhaps to show something of 

 the parish life in the eighteenth century. 



The advowson of the church was 

 ADVQW&ON always held by the lords of the manor 

 of Rotherfield 6 * (q.v.), passing from 

 the Rotherfield family to the Norton in 1495, and 

 from the Nortons to the Paulets in 1687. From the 

 Paulets it passed to the Scotts, 63 and is held at the 



EAST TISTED 



present day by Archibald E. Scott, the lord of the 

 manor. 6 * 



On the confiscation of Adam de Rotherfield's lands 

 for felony about 1234, when the advowson of East 

 Tisted was granted in reversion to Robert Walerond, 66 

 the latter evidently leased the same to the abbot of 

 Hyde, since in 1263 the abbot had dealings concern- 

 ing the advowson with Adam de Plugenet, 66 nephew 

 of Robert, to whom Robert himself leased the advow- 

 son in 1 266. 67 It was afterwards alienated to William 

 de Lyndhurst, 68 and from that time was appendant to 

 the manor of Rotherfield. John son of John de 

 Rotherfield, while a minor, presented one Ralph 

 Rande to the church, 69 and a presentation made by 

 his son, John de Rotherfield, is recorded in 1387. 

 (i) The Rev. Philip Valois, rector, 

 CHARITIES who died in 1 760, gave to the incum- 

 bents of East Tisted and five other 

 parishes 300 secured on the tolls of the turnpike 

 between Basingstoke and Winchester, the annual in- 

 terest to be paid to a master and a mistress for teach- 

 ing children of this parish, the boys to read and 

 write, and the girls to read, write, and sew. The 

 legacy is represented by ^376 15*. 8^. consols held 

 by the official trustees of charitable funds." 



(ii) The Rev. John Williams, rector, who died in 

 1822, gave 400 consols to the incumbents of East 

 Tisted, Newton Valence, Colemore, Faringdon, and 

 Chawton, in trust for the benefit of the charity school 

 of East Tisted, subject to the condition that, in default 

 of a regular school, the benefit might be claimed suc- 

 cessively by each of the four other parishes. This 

 trust fund consists of 354 \zs. qd. consols also held 

 by the official trustees. 7 * 



The incomes of these charities are expended in the 

 general maintenance of the national school. 



" See Inq. p. m. 45 Edw. Ill, No. 84. 



" Deeds fena Mr. A. E. Scott. 



M Ibid. 



85 See manor of Rotherfield. 



w Feet of F. Hants, 47 Hen. Ill, Case 

 204, File 10, No. 57. 



7 Feet of F. Div. Cos. 50 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 3. 



88 Inq. p. m. 45 Edw. Ill (znd Nos.), 

 No. 84. Ibid. 



70 Winton. Efis. Reg. Wykeham (Hants 

 Rec. Soc.), i, 164. 



7 1 Charity Com. Ref. xii, 529. 7" Ibid. 



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